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It’s a special sort of achievement to take a collection of footage of the Apollo 11 mission, much of it previously unseen and much of it in the 70-mm. format, and render it dull. That, unfortunately, is what the director and editor Todd Douglas Miller has done in the documentary film “Apollo 11.”

"Apollo 11" isn't like other documentaries about the first moon mission. In fact it isn't like most other movies, period. It's magnificent and unique, an adrenaline shot of wonder and skill.

With a meticulous eye for story and detail, Miller and his team have reconstructed the mission with thrilling care, telling a familiar story in what would seem to be familiar ways. . . . Yet watching [it] this time is, in some ways, like seeing it for the first time, not least because of the quality of the images, which—glaringly large and colorful and complex—are best seen on the biggest screen you can muster.

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. . . . But we've never seen this historic 1969 mission so closely, in such detail, on such a large scale, as we can in Todd Douglas Miller's documentary Apollo 11.

For all that, “Apollo 11” is not entirely devoid of romance. Although we know how the mission turns out, the movie generates and maintains suspense. And it rekindles a crazy sense of wonder at, among other things, what one can do practically with trigonometry.