[1] After premiering at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the World Cinema Audience Award, it was given a limited release in the United States on 7 September 2007, and in Canada on 19 October.

[2][3] Although the film shares its name with a book by space historians Colin Burgess and Francis French that was also released in 2007, and both include many original interviews with Apollo lunar astronauts, neither work is a source of, or a tie-in to, the other.

The ten Apollo astronauts interviewed by the filmmakers tell their story, supplemented by mission footage shot by the astronauts, archival footage, and news reports about the Apollo program by the likes of television broadcasters Walter Cronkite and Jules Bergman, and the occasional use of onscreen text.

Ten of the twenty-four men who reached the vicinity of the Moon as part of the Apollo program were interviewed for the film.

On 23 June 2008, the Independent Investigations Group (IIG) honoured the film for promoting scientific skepticism in media; the award was accepted by producer Duncan Copp.