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Moon Hoax KubrickAtlas

Science & Technology · Space & cosmology

The French production Dark Side of the Moon is a mockumentary that satirically links Stanley Kubrick to a moon-landing hoax narrative. A long-running conspiracy narrative claims Stanley Kubrick helped stage or film fake Apollo moon-landing footage for the U.S. government.

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Timeline

  1. 1968 · event2001: A Space Odyssey released under Kubrick’s direction
  2. 1969-07 · eventApollo 11 moon landing broadcast globally
  3. 1999 · eventStanley Kubrick dies
  4. 2002 · first_appearanceDark Side of the Moon mockumentary links Kubrick to hoax lore
  5. 2012 · popularizationOpen Culture and others resurface the Kubrick mockumentary
  6. 2015 · amplificationAlleged Kubrick hoax-admission video draws mainstream coverage
  7. 2016 · investigationSkeptical write-ups critique Kubrick moon-hoax claims
  8. 2017 · mutationDebate spreads over whether a Kubrick confession video was faked to muddy the hoax narrative
  9. 2024 · popularizationFly Me to the Moon dramatizes Kubrick-linked moon-hoax premise

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