The Last Man on the Moon (2015)

The 1960s was an extraordinary time for the United States Unburdened by postwar reparations Americans were preoccupied with other developments like NASA the gamechanging space programme that put Neil Armstrong on the moon Yet it was astronauts like Eugene Cernan who paved the uneven perilous path to lunar exploration A test pilot who lived to court danger he was recruited along with 14 other men in a secretive process that saw them become the closest of friends and adversaries In this intensely competitive environment Cernan was one of only three men who was sent twice to the moon with his second trip also being NASAs final lunar mission As he looks back at what he loved and lost during the eight years in Houston an incomparably eventful life emerges into view Director Mark Craig crafts a quietly epic biography that combines the rare insight of the surviving former astronauts with archival footage and otherworldly moonscapes