Dark Side of the Moon (2002)

7.1/10 52 min Documentary

Overview

A French documentary or, one might say more accurately, a mockumentary, by director William Karel which originally aired on Arte in 2002 with the title Opération Lune. The basic premise for the film is the theory that the television footage from the Apollo 11 Moon landing was faked and actually recorded in a studio by the CIA with help from director Stanley Kubrick.

Cast

Philippe Faure

Narrator (voice)

Christiane Kubrick

Self

Jan Harlan

Self

Vernon Walters

Self - CIA

John F. Kennedy

Self (archive footage)

Yuri Gagarin

Self (archive footage)

Nikita Khrushchev

Self (archive footage)

Richard Nixon

Self (archive footage)

Stanley Kubrick

Self (archive footage)

Wernher von Braun

Self (archive footage)

Neil Armstrong

Self (archive footage)

Buzz Aldrin

Self - Apollo 11

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