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For All Mankind

United States

1989

79 Min
Color
1.33:1
English
  • Currently 4.3/5 Stars.
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DIR Al Reinert

PROD Al Reinert, Betsy Broyles Breier

CAST Virgil I. Grissom, Edward H. White II, Roger B. Chaffee, Walter H. Schirra, Donn Eisele, Walter Cunningham, Frank Borman, James A. Lovell Jr., William Anders, James McDivitt, David R. Scott, Russell L. Schweickart, Thomas P. Stafford, John W. Young, Eugene A. Cernan, Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins, Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., Charles Conrad Jr., Richard F. Gordon Jr., Alan L. Bean, John L. Swigert Jr., Fred W. Haise Jr., Alan B. Shepard Jr., Stuart A. Roosa, Edgar D. Mitchell, Alfred M. Worden, James B. Irwin, T. Kenneth Mattingly II, Charles M. Duke Jr., Ronald E. Evans, Harrison H. Schmitt

ED Susan Korda

MUSIC Brian Eno

Sundance (Documentary Competition): Grand Jury Prize, Audience Award

Synopsis

In July 1969, the space race ended when Apollo 11 fulfilled President Kennedy’s challenge of “landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth.” No one who witnessed the lunar landing will ever forget it. Breathtaking both in the scope of its vision and the exhilaration of the human emotions it captures, Al Reinert’s award-winning documentary For All Mankind is the story of the 24 men who traveled to the Moon—told in their words, in their voices, using the images of their experiences. —The Criterion Collection

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Brad Scott

2Jul11

Supremely beautiful, and delightful that the astronauts took soundtrack to 2001 with them

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Nathan Deming

24May11

Man, this is beautiful.

dinoage

16Apr11

For Reinert's amazing editing, there's one facet that bothers me: the American exceptionalism as used by JFK. Reinert redeems this glitch in the end by acknowlodging the cosmonauts and astronauts who had died of both nations. Grand ideas never seemed grander.

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Groovy Monster

4Nov10

(Fixed!) As a lifelong space nut and amateur astronomer myself, I LOVE space documentaries. The rare footage in this one is definitely breathtaking, but personally, the new age-y Brian Eno soundtrack (and country music) didn't quite work for me. This is great, but I still prefer IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOON.

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Aptly Titled

By Seth Farmer on December 31, 2009

APTLY TITLED
For All Mankind is an extraordinary chronicle of the Apollo missions. Director Al Reinert poured over endless amounts of NASA’s archival footage to create one of the…  read review

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By Josef K. on June 11, 2009

Besides the gorgeous looking shots and appropriate soundtrack, what makes this documentary great is that, the film really gives you the sensation that you are in space and traveling to the moon. This…  read review

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