I haven't seen "Dark Side", but it sounds like it starts serious but gets sillier as it goes along, plus it depicts the moon landing having taken place, but unfilmable, so they have to make fake film to depict the real event.
In contrast, Operation Avalanche is played deadly serious, a bit light at the beginning but getting darker as it goes along. Plus, it depicts a filming hoax (using Kubrick's techniques) because the moon landing isn't possible, at least not by Kennedy's deadline.
So they both involve fake moon landing film, and Kubrick as either the maker or inspiration (due to his contemporary filming of moon scenes for 2001), but have very different takes on the reason for it and the tone of the film. Given that the moon landings were such a hugely significant historical event, as well as being a milestone for photography, film, and live TV, it's quite understandable that countless documentaries and dramas would depict them, plus at least two mockumentaries that play with the idea that the Apollo 11 footage was faked - a fairly well-known and long-running conspiracy theory.
The idea was also toyed with in the 1971 film Diamonds Are Forever (where James Bond discovers, then escapes from, an active moon landing film stage) and in perhaps the most extreme example, the 1977 mockumentary Alternative Three which pretends the Apollo landings were cover for a much earlier, more extensive and ongoing moon colonization program.
Plus the action/drama Capricorn One, which posits a similar conspiracy of killing those involved in a space cover-up, a feature of both Dark Side and Operation Avalanche.
Summary: both films cover the same event (Apollo 11) and contain some similar elements (faked landing film, Kubrick) but they are very different in story, tone and treatment, despite both being a form of mockumentary.
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