Fifty years later, watch ‘Apollo 11,’ and marvel

Some time in this next month, dear reader, please, please, please find and watch the documentary film “Apollo 11.”

It’s a merely good, not great, movie, but it provides an immediacy and sense of awe that is appropriate for next month’s 50th anniversary celebration of man’s first-ever moon landing. That July 20, 1969, landing and safe return remains, in the judgment of many wise minds, the single greatest achievement in human history. The movie, despite some narrative flaws, elucidates that appraisal.