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English-language documentary films

  • In the Shadow of the Moon (2007 film)In the Shadow of the Moon arrived at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival carrying ten first-person accounts of what it felt like to leave Earth behind.
  • 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…
  • Beatles '64David Tedeschi first entered the Beatles archive while editing Martin Scorsese's 2011 documentary George Harrison: Living in the Material World.
  • Footprints on the Moon (1969 film)Footprints on the Moon: Apollo 11 is a 1969 documentary film that captured one of humanity's most watched events while it was still happening.
  • For All Mankind (film)For All Mankind is a 1989 documentary film assembled from original footage shot by the astronauts of NASA's Apollo program.
  • 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…
  • The Beatles at Shea StadiumThe Beatles at Shea Stadium captures a single night that changed what a rock concert could be. On the 15th of August 1965-55,600 people packed into a New…
  • The Beatles: Eight Days a WeekThe Beatles: Eight Days a Week , The Touring Years traces its subject between two places. One is the Cavern Club in Liverpool, where the Beatles built their…
  • Let It Be (1970 film)Let It Be, the 1970 documentary film, ends with a line that few bands could have delivered with such perfectly calibrated irony.
  • Life in a Day (2011 film)Life in a Day began with three questions. "What do you love? What do you fear? What's in your pocket?" Director Kevin Macdonald posed those questions to…
  • An Inconvenient TruthAl Gore walks onto a small Los Angeles stage, opens with a joke, and then proceeds to rattle the audience for ninety minutes. "I am Al Gore," he says.
  • All This and World War IIProducer Russ Regan conceived the project after experiencing vivid dreams about Adolf Hitler in Berchtesgaden. He imagined these scenes set to the Beatles…
  • The Compleat BeatlesThe Compleat Beatles is a two-hour documentary released in 1982 that set out to chronicle the full career of the Beatles using the people who were actually…