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AT THE MOVIES #774                   IT WAS FIFTY YEARS AGO TODAY…

 Simon Morris looks at three films that look back to 1969 – the year of the Moon landing, the Vietnam War, and the publication of that definitive gangster novel, The Godfather.

 Apollo 11 is a documentary that covers the first man on the moon – from count-down to giant leap to safe landing.

 Danger Close is a dramatized account of a famous Anzac battle durin g the Vietnam, war.  Stars Travis Fimmel (Vikings).

 And The Kitchen imagines a classic New York gangster movie, from the point of view of the wives.  Stars Melissa McCarthy, Elisabeth Moss and Tiffany Haddish.