Operation Avalanche

...a 1960s-era found-footage parody about two undercover CIA agents (Johnson and Owen Williams) who infiltrate NASA and fake the 1969 moon landing.

Operation Avalanche exploits the found footage genre by making its heroes Matt Johnson (...) film-makers with a liberal shooting policy.

...a quartet of CIA scientists help NASA fake the Apollo 11 moon landing after they discover that the Americans can't land on the moon.

The director convincingly splices real-life archival footage of NASA and other 1960s-era settings into staged scenes in which he and his friends portray ambitious CIA film dweebs who’re desperate to make their mark...