THE FIRST MAN
HBO, 8:00 p.m. ET
On the very night Neil Armstrong first set foot on the moon 50 years ago, HBO premieres this 2018 movie about Armstrong and that out-of-this-world Apollo 11 mission. Ryan Gosling plays Armstrong, Claire Foy plays his wife, and the film, based on Armstrong’s biography, is directed by Damien Chazelle, who previously directed Gosling in La La Land. If you want to feel what it’s like to be shot into space, First Man comes close…