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Released
2000 · FILM

The Dish

A quirky team of Australian scientists at a remote sheep farm must overcome technical chaos and bureaucratic indifference to beam the world’s first live images of a moon landing to a captivated Earth.

Man's first step on the moon nearly stumbled on earth.

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Runtime
101 min
ComedyDramaHistory
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

A group of unconventional scientists stationed at a remote Australian sheep farm are the world's only chance to capture the historic footage of humanity's first steps on the moon.

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Principal cast & crew: 19

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Jill BilcockShot by Graeme WoodScored by Edmund ChoiDesigned by Carrie Kennedy

Also known as

  • The Dish - Verloren im Weltallde
  • La luna en directoes
  • L'Antennefr

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