Apollo 8 sends three astronauts around the Moon for the first time in December 1968, and this NASA-produced film assembles the mission from launch to splashdown. Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and William Anders appear in onboard footage and in photography of the lunar surface and of Earth seen whole from lunar orbit, the images that became the mission's lasting legacy. Ground control footage tracks the engineering and planning behind the flight, and the film cuts between the crew's activities in the capsule and the mission control rooms monitoring them. Commentary from a number of prominent Americans of the era frames what the flight meant at the time, situating a ten-day mission inside a program racing to reach the Moon before the decade's end. Produced not long after the mission itself, the film keeps its focus narrow: this crew, this orbit, this set of firsts, rather than the broader Apollo program. It won the Golden Eagle Certificate and a CINE award in 1969.