Apollo II (2019)

In conjunction with the 50th anniversary year of the first moon landing the new documentary Apollo 11 lets you experience the event on the big screen, and there is something to be said for that. Incorporating previously unseen footage and presenting events chronology using only period audio and video (no present day talking heads) it is a satisfying, some times stirring slice of history. Of all the things in the film I think what I responded to the most were the images of the crowds, average American's who traveled to Florida from all over so their children could witness history. You see them car camping on the cape, standing on motel balconies, or in a J.C. Penny parking lot, all in their period garb, sharing cokes, holding binoculars to their children's eyes, it's beautiful, more so even then the surface of the moon. ***1/2