If you’re at all clued up on space travel, you know how the Apollo 11 flight ended.

I’ll give you a clue – Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins were on board.

With that in mind, it’s tough to imagine that a doccie about the flight could be a ‘thriller’, but that’s exactly what Apollo 11 manages to do.

Using archival footage that’s never before been released to the public, and shot in a way similar to a Hollywood whodunnit, it offers unique insight into how one of the most famous space flights of all time unfolded.

Over to Quartz:

The unearthed footage is too mesmerizing, and the feat too incredible, for you to look away. It is a depiction of a wondrous human experience, told with startling clarity. It’s as close as any of us will ever get to that big gray rock floating far above our heads.

Director Todd Douglas Miller and archivist Stephen Slater worked with NASA and the US National Archives to unearth hundreds of hours of video and thousands of hours of audio that they then had to match to the footage…

Perhaps the only feat of mankind as painstaking and precise as launching three people to the moon is the act of turning all that footage into a coherent, exhilarating narrative.

To the moon!

I’m sure the Flat Earthers will be frothing at the mouth to discredit this one, but the rest of us can simply enjoy the retelling of a classic.

Apollo 11 has already hit cinemas across the pond, so keep an eye out for it.

[source:quartz]