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Apollo 11 is such a great documentary. They restored a lot of 70mm film and the clarity of the image is surreal.

It didn’t get screened in any cinemas where I live, but the bluray looks absolutely stunning. I wish they did a 4K release.

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I saw it in a theater. It was astounding. I bought the soundtrack. I find that when explaining what it is to other people, I have to take care to emphasize it is not the normal documentary format of: historical footage with narration, interview with participant, cut to more footage, cut back to different interview. It's a unique film because they were able to make a documentary with a "normal" film narrative entirely using real footage and no narration. I also think there's not many historical events one could do this with; most events don't have so much footage that you actually can construct a coherent narrative. (Consider: they have high quality footage of the crew getting to the rocket, going from different buildings to vans to suit prep.) And the 65mm footage is some of the highest quality film we have of 1969. Even the crowd footage is fascinating for that reason. It will certainly be nominated for a documentary Oscar.

It was such a great documentary, I saw it twice. A tiny detail I picked up the second time around-- they gave Collins, Armstrong and Aldrin cinematography credits.

This movie keeps sounding better and better, I’m so annoyed that it didn’t show in any theatres in my hemisphere of the planet. It was pretty much a USA only release. I really want to see it, enough to fly across my country to see it, that’s a crazy day trip and a story to tell, but not enough to fly to the other side of the planet, return flights from Australia to the USA is a rather expensive trip for a movie, probably close to ten times the cost of my worst case, a cross country flight to Sydney.

I saw a trailer for Apollo 11 last night when I was at a rerun of First Man at a local cinema - the release date in the UK is 28th June so perhaps where you are also has a similar release date.

I have the same thing with many, many filmfestival films. I'm glad that there are torrents for some of them, including Apollo 11. Would love to pay for streams of filmfestival films, but there aren't many.

For Apollo 11 thankfully, there are plenty of options here: https://www.uphe.com/movies/apollo-11-2019 Scroll down a bit to find the 'find out more' heading. I used the iTunes version.

https://www.tiff.net/events/apollo-11-4k

At least some places aired it as such, but a quick Google implies there are no current plans to release it in 4k. Shame really.

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