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Yes, very unreal! It would be absolutely great if they release quality video or VR material!

There was better video once. The original public pictures came from pointing a broadcast TV camera at a slow-scan monitor, which is why they're so crappy. Better data was recorded at the tracking stations, directly from the downlink. Those tapes were archived. Efforts were made recently to find them. It now appears that when NASA had a shortage of 1" tape in the 1980s, the tapes were reused for Landsat imagery.[1]

[1] https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/Apollo_11_TV_Tapes_Report.p...

You're forgetting about the other Apollo landing missions. The later ones have fantastic color video footage, remastered in full HD for episode 4 of the fantastic documentary series When We Left Earth.

The whole 6 part documentary series are worth watching for anyone remotely interested in space, but here's a small sample of the quality of the moon landing video footage: https://kristofferR.com/files/moonlanding_footage_HD.mkv

The wonderful movie For All Mankind [0], from 1989, features high quality footage of the Apollo moon landings and a beautiful score by Brian Eno.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_All_Mankind

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