Apollo 11

Apollo 11 (2019) is Todd Douglas Miller's documentary you can watch online on iFILM, telling the story of the first Moon landing entirely through footage shot at the time, with no narrator and no talking heads.

The film's secret weapon is its source material. Miller's team dug up large-format 70mm reels that had sat unseen in NASA and National Archives vaults for decades, then restored them to a clarity nobody had witnessed before. What you get is July 1969 as it actually looked: the pre-launch hush at the Cape, mission controllers chain-smoking at their consoles, spectators packed onto Florida beaches, and the eight-day journey of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins.

Built purely from period film and audio, it plays like a thriller even though the ending is in every history book. Countdown clocks tick, Houston radios crackle, and your palms still sweat. For anyone who assumed there was nothing new to see in the Moon landing, this one proves otherwise. Stream Apollo 11 (2019) online on iFILM.