- Director
- Todd Douglas Miller
- Actors
- Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins, Walter Cronkite
- Runtime
- 1 h 33 min
- Release Date
- 1 March 2019
- Genres
- Documentary, History
- Overview
- Apollo 11 is a film consisting solely of archival footage, including 70 mm film that was previously unreleased to the public, and does not feature narration or interviews. Made in 2019, the documentary film is edited, produced and directed by Todd Douglas Miller. It focuses on the 1969 Apollo 11 mission, the first spaceflight to land humans on the Moon. Miller's team used the facilities of Final Frame, a post-production firm in New York City, to make high-resolution digital scans of all available footage. Specialized climate-controlled vans were used to safely transport the archival material to and from the National Archives in Washington, DC. The production team cataloged over 11,000 hours of audio recordings and hundreds of hours of video. Among the audio recordings were 30-track tapes of voice recordings at every Mission Control station. Ben Feist, a Canadian software engineer, wrote software to improve the fidelity of the newly available audio. British archivist and film editor Stephen Slater, who had synchronized audio recordings with 16 mm Mission Control footage in earlier projects, performed the task of synchronizing the audio and film. The production team was able to identify "Mother Country", a song by folk musician John Stewart, in lunar module voice recordings. The song was subsequently featured in the film.
