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Documentary 'Apollo 11' Retells History With Wide Eyes - And A Wider Perspective

Newly restored footage of the historic 1969 moonshot widens the focus to include the hundreds of men and women who made the mission possible.
The new documentary <em>Apollo 11 </em>features never-before-seen footage of NASA's most-high profile expedition.

We've all seen footage from the Apollo 11 mission, when the world watched as two American men walked on the moon for the first time. It was the stuff of fantasy made real, not science fiction but science, with live images and radio connecting the earth to its first lunar pioneers. "The eagle has landed," "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" — it's a story we think we know. But we'vehitting IMAX theater screens Friday.

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