Moonscape

The Apollo 11 Moonwalk in HD

A free documentary produced and funded by Apollo enthusiasts, featuring restored and remastered footage and photographs

Latest update: 2025/12/13

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Moonscape is a free, freely shareable and freely downloadable high-definition documentary about the first manned Moon landing.

Funded and produced by space enthusiasts from all over the world, it shows the full, unedited Apollo 11 landing and moonwalk, using only the original TV and film footage and the original audio and photographs.

All this material has been scanned, digitized and restored from the best available sources. The live TV broadcast, the 16mm color film footage shot on the Moon and in Mission Control, and the Hasselblad 70mm color photographs taken by astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong have been fully synchronized with the audio recordings (including the onboard and Mission Control recordings) and are presented in real time, as they happened, with full subtitles in English or Italian.

The latest version of Moonscape is now available for free streaming below with English subtitles. It is also available for free download.

Moonscape is an ongoing, open-ended project made possible by the donations and hard work of many people. There’s still lots more work that can be done to improve it.

Contacts

I’m Paolo Attivissimo, British-Swiss-Italian IT journalist and space enthusiast. I’m the organizer of the Moonscape project. You can contact me at paolo.attivissimo@gmail.com, in English or Italian.

Production diary

Concept and FAQ

Work to do

Donors

Accounting summary

Latest updates

2020/01/23: Science Gear Deployment (removed watermark, fixed a missing sentence at 28:43, fixed typos) and Samples and Photographs (removed watermark, fixed typos, repositioned captions, added at 7:35 Neil Armstrong’s photo restored by Andy Saunders)
2020/01/15: Closeout (removed watermark, fixed a missing sentence at 16:54, corrected attributions)
2020/01/12: Trying to Rest and Back in the LM (removed watermark, added “next communication at…”, corrected typos)
2020/01/03: Trailer (minor tweaks); Main title (image stabilization and cleanup, color correction)
2020/01/01: End credits (added new donors)
2019/06/17: Trailer (minor tweaks)
2019/05/20: End credits (added new donors)
2014/08/20: Trailer, Contact Light
2014/03/24: PLSS Jettison
2014/03/10: Closeout; Back in the LM; Trying to Rest; Restorations and Rescans
2014/03/07: Science Gear Deployment
2014/03/06: Samples and Photographs
2014/01/27: Mobility and Presidential Call

Trailer (1:41)

(direct link to Vimeo)

1. Main Title (1:40)

(direct link to Vimeo)

2. Contact Light: the Moon Landing (16:37)

(direct link to Vimeo)

3. One Small Step (16:58)

(direct link to Vimeo)

4. Magnificent Desolation (17:07)

(direct link to Vimeo)

5. TV and Flag Setup (17:40)

(direct link to Vimeo)

6. Mobility and Presidential Call (15:36)

(direct link to Vimeo)

7. Samples and Photographs (25:19)

(direct link to Vimeo)

8. Science Gear Deployment (28:49)

(direct link to Vimeo)

9. Closeout (18:10)

(direct link to Vimeo; download)

10. Back in the LM (15:06)

(direct link to Vimeo)

11. Trying to Rest (28:02)

(direct link to Vimeo)

12. PLSS Jettison (1:35)

Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin discard their backpacks, no longer needed for the return to orbit, by tossing them out of the LM hatch. Ed von Renouard, video technician at the Honeysuckle Creek receiving station in Australia, captured the event with his 8mm movie camera. This is the only known footage of this part of the mission.