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. Al Reinert’s documentary For All Mankind is the story of the twenty-four men who traveled to the moon, told in their words, in their voices, using the images of their experiences. Forty years after the first moon landing, it remains the most radical, visually dazzling work of cinema yet made about this earthshaking event.
| Apollo 1 | Virgil I. Grissom |
| Edward H. White II | |
| Roger B. Chaffee | |
| Apollo 7 | Walter H. Schirra |
| Donn Eisele | |
| Walter Cunningham | |
| Apollo 8 | Frank Borman |
| James A. Lovell Jr. | |
| William Anders | |
| Apollo 9 | James McDivitt |
| David R. Scott | |
| Russell L. Schweickart | |
| Apollo 10 | Thomas P. Stafford |
| John W. Young | |
| Eugene A. Cernan | |
| Apollo 11 | Neil A. Armstrong |
| Michael Collins | |
| Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr. | |
| Apollo 12 | Charles Conrad Jr. |
| Richard F. Gordon Jr. | |
| Alan L. Bean | |
| John L. Swigert Jr. | |
| Fred W. Haise Jr. | |
| Apollo 14 | 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 |
| Director | Al Reinert |
| Producer | Al Reinert and Betsy Broyles Breier |
| Co-producer and technical director | David Leitner |
| Executive producers | Fred Miller and Ben Young Mason |
| Editing | Susan Korda |
| Associate producer | Jonathan Turell |
| Music | Brian Eno |
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