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One Giant Leap

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Summary

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Apollo moon landings on 20 July 1969, BFI Southbank is collaborating with the Science Museum to host a season of documentaries, feature films, television and artworks focusing on the dream and reality of space travel, the Cold War space race and the American space programme of the 1960s and 1970s.

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One Giant Leap - Documentaries

TV Preview: Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11 + Q&A - Fri 3 July 8:45pm
The Planets: Moon + Stranger Than Fiction: The Truth Behind The Moon Landings - Mon 6 Jul 8.15pm
Was the Moon Landing Faked? - Sat 18 July, 1pm
For All Mankind - Sat 18 Jul 8.45pm/ Fri 24 Jul 6.10pm
Moonwalk One - Sun 19 July 6.20pm
In The Shadow of The Moon - Sun 19 Jul 8.45pm/ Sat 25 Jul 8.30pm/ Thu 30 Jul 5.50pm
Everyone's Gone To The Moon + Horizon: Beyond The Moon - Tue 21 Jul 6.20pm
Race to the Moon: Failure is Not an Option - Wed 22 Jul 6.20pm
American Experience: Race to the Moon - The Daring Adventure of Apollo 8 - Fri 24 Jul 8.30pm
The Red Stuff - Sat 25 Jul 1:50pm/ Mon 27 Jul 9pm
The Space Movie - Tue 28 Jul 6:20pm/ Wed 29 Jul 5:50pm
First on the Moon - Thu 30 Jul 8.40pm/ Fri 31 Jul 8.45pm

DFG Members get in for the member price of £7.60 (normally £9). PLUS we have three pairs of tickets to give away to DFG Members for a screening of their choice. Find out more on the DFG Community.

TV Preview: Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11 + Q&A
Fri 3 July 8:45pm
A fine new TV docu-fiction, Moonshot interweaves cinematic drama with hi-definition NASA footage in presenting glimpses of life behind the scenes in Houston alongside edge-of- your-seat moments in space. We welcome Richard Dale, head of research Dan Parry and (hopefully) cast members for a Q&A.
Dir Richard Dale With Daniel Lapaine, James Marsters, Andrew Lincoln, Dangerous Films for ITV 2009, 69min

The Planets: Moon + Stranger Than Fiction: The Truth Behind The Moon Landings
Mon 6 Jul 8.15pm
The Planets: Moon
A meditation on the bewildering range of theories about the origins of the moon, and a look at a ground-breaking new theory from the United States.

Stranger Than Fiction: The Truth Behind the Moon Landings
A documentary examining the conspiracy theory that the moon landings were in fact staged. Experts from either side of the debate put their view, including conspiracy theorist Bill Kaysing and former aerospace engineer Jay Windley.
Dir Virginia Quinn, 2004, 60 mins

Was the Moon Landing Faked?
Sat 18 July, 1pm
In 1961 John F Kennedy gave NASA until the end of the decade to land a man on the moon. Join the discussion, led by esteemed King’s College academics Dr Mark Miodownik, Head of the KCL Materials Research Group and Prof Simon Wessely of the KCL Institute of Psychiatry, could it be that this impossible mission was faked for television?

For All Mankind
Sat 18 Jul 8.45pm
Fri 24 Jul 6.10pm
For All Mankind was released on the 20th anniversary of the first moon landing in 1989. Set to a specially commissioned score by Brian Eno, it purports to show a single moon shot, although it is in fact a collage of NASA material from various missions. Reinert's film won several prizes and was Oscar-nominated in 1990. Of all the works of space fiction that have ever been made only the ground-breaking shorts by Georges Méliès, Woman in the Moon and 2001: A Space Odyssey exert anything like the same artistic, intellectual and emotional hold.
Dir Al Reinert, USA, 80 mins

Moonwalk One
Sun 19 July 6.20pm
We are delighted to premiere this newly remastered Director’s Cut in high definition. Theo Kamecke’s vision for the film – commissioned by NASA to cover their historic Apollo 11 moonshot – was to create something which would mark the historic, philosophical and epic nature of this greatest of endeavours. We hope to welcome the director for a post-screening Q&A.
Dir Theo Kamecke, USA 1970, 110min.

In The Shadow of The Moon
Sun 19 Jul 8.45pm
Sat 25 Jul 8.30pm
Thu 30 Jul 5.50pm
The 12 Apollo astronauts who walked on the moon between 1968 and 1972 are the only human beings in history to have stood on another celestial body. With the exception of Neil Armstrong, In the Shadow of the Moon brings together all the surviving moon walkers and allows them to tell their story in their own words. This riveting testimony is interwoven with visually stunning archive material re-mastered from the original NASA footage, and the result is an intimate epic, vividly depicting an extraordinary era in American history.
Dir David Sington, UK 2006, 100 mins

Everyone's Gone To The Moon + Horizon: Beyond The Moon
Tue 21 Jul 6.20pm
Everyone's Gone to the Moon
A fascinating documentary looking at the life and training of astronauts in the Houston Manned Spacecraft Centre.
Horizon: Beyond the Moon
Using archive footage, James Burke looks back at the moon landing and discusses the current US space programme.
BBC, 1984, 65 mins

Race to the Moon: Failure is Not an Option
Wed 22 Jul 6.20pm
DeNooyer's gripping documentary for the History Channel was produced to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the first moon landing and explores how the extraordinary exploits of the astronauts in space were only made possible by the unsung efforts of the mission control engineers on the ground. The film focuses on NASA flight director Gene Krantz and takes the lead from his engaging, behind-the-scenes memoir and New York Times bestseller of the same name.
Dir. Rushmore DeNooyer, USA 2005, 90 mins

American Experience: Race to the Moon - The Daring Adventure of Apollo 8
Fri 24 Jul 8.30pm
We all know about Apollo's 11 and 13, but in 1968 the entire history of the moon programme hinged on the success of Apollo 8. This wonderfully lucid TV doc features the recollections of Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders, the former fighter pilots whose determination and bravery united a nation divided, and explores how a bold decision by NASA enabled US astronauts to reach the moon before the Soviet Union could launch its own manned attempt.
Dir Kevin Michael Kertscher, USA 2005, 60min

The Red Stuff
Sat 25 Jul 1:50pm
Mon 27 Jul 9pm
Between 1957 and 1965, the Russians had one success after another in their space programme, including the first artificial satellite, the first living creature in space, the first man in space, the first woman in space and the first space walk. They were streets ahead of their American rivals, but these successes were overshadowed when Neil Armstrong became the first human being to set foot on the moon. The Soviet foil to In the Shadow of the Moon, The Red Stuff is a lyrical and beautifully crafted film that tells the story of the engineers and cosmonauts who led the way in space exploration.
Dir. Leo De Boer, Netherlands 2000, 79 mins

The Space Movie
Tue 28 Jul 6:20pm
Wed 29 Jul 5:50pm
Made at the request of NASA to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Apollo 11 and featuring a commissioned soundtrack by Mike Oldfield, Tony Palmer's groundbreaking documentary features never previously released film footage provided by NASA and the United States National Archive, and audio records of the electrifying conversations between the astronauts and mission control in Houston. The Space Movie went out on ITV at 7.30pm on 20 July 1979 and the Evening Standard critic Alexander Walker described it as the best British film screened at Cannes that year.
Dir Tony Palmer, UK-USA 1979, 80 mins

First on the Moon
Thu 30 Jul 8.40pm
Fri 31 Jul 8.45pm
A group of journalists are investigating a highly secret document when they uncover a sensational story: that the first rocket was built in the USSR in 1938 and that Soviet scientists were planning to send a spacecraft to the moon and back. A witty and mostly convincing mock-documentary, Aleksei Fedorchenko's debut feature film has won numerous awards and proves beyond doubt that Russia was the first nation to land a man on the moon.
Dir Aleksei Fedorchenko, Russia 2005, 75 mins

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