Curated playlist
Cultural depictions of Neil Armstrong
- Moonshot (2009 film)Moonshot, a 2009 British TV film, mixes real Space Race footage into its drama. It retraces the Apollo 11 landing.
- Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3DMagnificent Desolation took its title from Buzz Aldrin's two words on the Moon's surface. Tom Hanks narrates it.
- Moonwalk OneThe Apollo 11 film Moonwalk One used launch footage found in two cardboard cartons under a workbench.
- First Man (film)First Man opens with Neil Armstrong's X-15 bouncing off the atmosphere. His daughter Karen was dying of a brain tumor.
- Apollo 11 (2019 film)The 2019 film Apollo 11 was built from 70 mm footage that sat unseen for nearly five decades. It turned up in May 2017.
- Transformers: Dark of the MoonMichael Bay bet $25,000 that two robots would not appear in Transformers: Dark of the Moon.
- Apollo 11 (1996 film)Buzz Aldrin filmed a cameo in a 1996 Apollo 11 movie, then it was cut. He played a clergyman.
- From the Earth to the Moon (miniseries)The HBO series From the Earth to the Moon is not based on Jules Verne's novel of that name.
- Men in Black 3Will Smith pitched Men in Black 3 in 2002: send Agent J back in time to save Agent K.
- Apollo 11 in popular cultureMTV opened in 1981 with footage of the Apollo 11 Moon landing. Producers chose it because it was in the public domain.
- For All Mankind (TV series)In the TV series For All Mankind, a Soviet cosmonaut lands on the Moon first.
- Indiana Jones and the Dial of DestinyIndiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny first left out Marion until Karen Allen wrote a letter.