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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Like Operation Avalanche, it uses self-shot footage and Johnson’s on-camera persona to make a reckless amateur project feel uncomfortably immediate, with escalating tension beneath deadpan comedy.
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Why this pick
A faux-documentary investigation that begins with scrappy, plausible curiosity and steadily turns into paranoid uncertainty, matching Operation Avalanche’s convincing archival texture and conspiracy-minded unease.
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Why this pick
Its embedded-news-camera approach creates the same sense of being trapped inside a supposedly routine assignment as events become alarming, sustained through naturalistic performances and mounting dread.
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Why this pick
Another Apollo-era fabricated-record thriller, using recovered mission footage and institutional secrecy to turn lunar-history iconography into intimate, claustrophobic suspense.
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Why this pick
Assembled from surveillance, phone, and amateur recordings, this brisk pseudo-documentary makes a concealed disaster feel disturbingly credible while retaining the investigative momentum of Operation Avalanche.
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01 / THE STORY
Two Central Intelligence Agency agents, part of the Agency’s (then) small Audio Visual (AV) Department, infiltrate NASA to expose a potential Mole (espionage) working for the Soviet Union. There, they find that NASA has kept its inability to reach the 1969 deadline for the Apollo 11 Moon landing a secret, with a plan to cover the problem by shooting down the Apollo 11 capsule (killing the real astronauts) and blaming the Soviets. When the young agents learn that the Moon mission can execute everything but the lunar landing itself, they become involved in a plot to use their AV skills to fake the landing portion. As their operation continues to a successful conclusion, the team becomes increasingly paranoid that they are being watched, by either the mole or by the CIA itself. As the Apollo 11 mission nears, the team buries copies of what becomes the found footage in a verdant rural field.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
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Director Brackett
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James Webb (voice)
Agent #1
