For All Mankind:
Fantastic Voyage
By July 14, 2009
Tough title to live up to. The lofty three-word phrase Al Reinert chose for his 1989 documentary on the Apollo space program comes from the plaque the first Read more »
- United States
- 1989
- 79 minutes
- 1.33:1
- English
- Spine #54
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. 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.
Cast & CreditsOpen
Cast
| 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 |
Credits
| 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 |
Disc Features
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by producer-director Al Reinert (with DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
- Audio commentary featuring Reinert and Apollo 17 commander Eugene A. Cernan, the last man to set foot on the moon
- An Accidental Gift: The Making of “For All Mankind,” a new documentary featuring interviews with Reinert, Apollo 12 and Skylab astronaut Alan Bean, and NASA archive specialists
- On Camera, a collection of excerpted on-screen interviews with fifteen of the Apollo astronauts
- New video program about Bean’s artwork, accompanied by a gallery of his paintings
- NASA audio highlights and liftoff footage
- Optional on-screen identification of astronauts and mission control specialists
- PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by film critic Terrence Rafferty and Reinert
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Film Essays
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Backyard Wonders
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For All Mankind
By February 14, 2000
The decade-long Apollo program was the largest and most expensive undertaking in the history of man that wasn’t devoted to a war. During the four years between December 1968 and Read more »
News
Blast Off
May 31, 2009
This summer marks the fortieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon mission, and nostalgia for the lunar landing of astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin will undoubtedly once again be all Read more »
Clippings
MOON TONES
June 30, 2009
With the fortieth anniversary of the first lunar landing nearly upon us (which we’re celebrating at Criterion with new DVD and Blu-ray special editions of the 1989 documentary Read more »
Press Notes
PRESS NOTES: OVER THE MOON
July 20, 2009
Today’s the day, the fortieth anniversary of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin’s moon landing, and as Brian Sholis writes in Artforum, it’s the perfect opportunity to Read more »
