It wasn’t until Kubrick’s passing in 1999 that the Apollo 11 theory gained traction – which hasn’t stopped media from embracing it.
Internet legend would have you believe that filmmaker Stanley Kubrick – as well as directing classic films including 2001: A Space Odyssey and Full Metal Jacket – aided the US government in its faking of the moon landing in 1969.
It has now emerged that Kubrick’s daughter Vivian is not a fan of this theory going so far as to write an open letter chiding those who believe it to be true.
The idea has been backed up by conspiracy theorists over the years, most prominently aided by documentary Room 237, which suggests that the British filmmaker hid allusions to his involvement in the Apollo 11 deception within his horror film The Shining.