Dark Side of the Moon

Oct 16, 2002

0h 52m

★ 7.0

Top secret.

Overview

A French documentary or, one might say more accurately, a mockumentary, by director William Karel which originally aired on Arte in 2002 with the title Opération Lune. The basic premise for the film is the theory that the television footage from the Apollo 11 Moon landing was faked and actually recorded in a studio by the CIA with help from director Stanley Kubrick.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

ARTE

Point du Jour

PROCIREP

CNC

Dark Side of the Moon Trailers

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Cast

Narrator (voice)

Philippe Faure

Self

Christiane Kubrick

Self

Jan Harlan

Self - CIA

Vernon Walters

Self - NASA

Farouk Elbaz

Self - NASA

Jeffrey Hoffman

Self (archive footage)

John F. Kennedy

Self (archive footage)

Yuri Gagarin

Self (archive footage)

Nikita Khrushchev

Self (archive footage)

Richard Nixon

Self (archive footage)

Stanley Kubrick

Self (archive footage)

Wernher von Braun

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