Cosmic Birth is a 2019 Icelandic documentary film about mankind's journey to the Moon and the experience of viewing the Earth from a quarter of a million miles away.

Cosmic Birth is written and directed by Exploration Museum founder Örlygur Hnefill Örlygsson and filmmaker and musician Rafnar Orri Gunnarsson.

[4] The film also explores the impact of the photographs coming out of NASA during the Apollo era and what role they played in helping start the environmental movement in the early 1970s.

In addition to the Apollo astronauts and their families, the film features interviews with Icelandic poet Vilborg Dagbjartsdóttir, artist Chris Calle (son of NASA artist Paul Calle), around the world pilot Amelia Rose Earhart, astrophysicist Dr. Michael Shara, and Expedition News editor Jeff Blumenfeld.

[9][10] Most of the astronauts appearing in the film are interviewed both on location in the Apollo geology training areas in Iceland[11] and in space museums and at their homes in the United States.

[8] The film was released simultaneously in cinemas and on RÚV,[16] the National TV of Iceland, on July 20, 2019, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11's first landing on the Moon.