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Cultural depictions of Buzz Aldrin

  • Moonshot (2009 film)Moonshot is a 2009 British television film that sets out to dramatize the events leading up to one of the most closely watched moments of the twentieth…
  • Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3DMagnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D dropped into IMAX theaters on the 23rd of September 2005, inviting audiences to stand on the lunar surface…
  • Moonwalk OneMoonwalk One is a 1971 documentary film about Apollo 11 that almost did not exist. Six weeks before the most watched rocket launch in human history, NASA…
  • First Man (film)First Man, the 2018 biographical drama directed by Damien Chazelle, opens not with the Moon but with a moment of quiet terror.
  • Apollo 11 (2019 film)Apollo 11, the 2019 documentary directed by Todd Douglas Miller, opens not with a narrator's voice but with silence and image: crowds gathering at Launch…
  • Transformers: Dark of the MoonTransformers: Dark of the Moon opens with a secret. In 1962, according to the film's premise, a spacecraft called the Ark crash-lands on the far side of the…
  • Apollo 11 (1996 film)Apollo 11, a 1996 American docudrama television film, brought the story of humanity's first Moon landing back to living rooms on the 17th of November, 1996.
  • From the Earth to the Moon (miniseries)From the Earth to the Moon began its run on HBO on the 5th of April, 1998. It closed five weeks later, on the 10th of May, after twelve episodes.
  • Men in Black 3Men in Black 3 began as a conversation between two men stuck on a film they weren't sure they wanted to make again. Will Smith pitched the idea for a third…
  • Apollo 11 in popular cultureApollo 11 carried Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins to the Moon in July 1969. An estimated 650 million viewers worldwide watched the first…
  • For All Mankind (TV series)For All Mankind is an American science fiction drama series. It opens in 1969, when Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov becomes the first human to land on the…
  • Indiana Jones and the Dial of DestinyIndiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny reached theaters in 2023, decades after Paramount Pictures signed a deal in 1979 for five Indiana Jones films.