This movie documents the Apollo missions perhaps the most definitively of any movie under two hours. Al Reinert watched all the footage shot during the missions--over 6,000,000 feet of it, ...
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Narrator - Apollo 8, Apollo 13
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Russell Schweickart | ... |
Narrator - Apollo 9
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Michael Collins | ... |
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Charles Conrad | ... |
Narrator - Apollo 12
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Richard Gordon | ... |
Narrator - Apollo 12
(voice) (as Richard F. Gordon Jr.)
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Alan Bean | ... |
Narrator - Apollo 12
(voice) (as Alan L. Bean)
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Jack Swigert | ... |
Narrator - Apollo 13
(voice) (as John L. Swigert Jr.)
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Stuart Roosa | ... |
Narrator - Apollo 14
(voice) (as Stuart A. Roosa)
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James Irwin | ... |
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Kenneth Mattingly | ... |
Narrator - Apollo 16
(voice) (as T. Kenneth Mattingly II)
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Charles Duke | ... |
Narrator - Apollo 16
(voice) (as Charles M. Duke Jr.)
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Harrison Schmitt | ... |
Narrator - Apollo 17
(voice) (as Harrison H. Schmitt)
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Himself
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Bill Anders | ... |
Himself
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This movie documents the Apollo missions perhaps the most definitively of any movie under two hours. Al Reinert watched all the footage shot during the missions--over 6,000,000 feet of it, and picked out the best. Instead of being a newsy, fact-filled documentary. Reinart focuses on the human aspects of the space flights. The only voices heard in the film are the voices of the astronauts and mission control. Reinart uses the astronaunts' own words from interviews and from the mission footage. The score by Brian Eno underscores the strangeness, wonder, and and beauty of the astronauts' experiences--experiences which they were privileged to have for a first time "for all mankind." Written by Scott B. Fisher <sbfisher@burgoyne.com>
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EnglishRelease Date:
1 November 1989 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Erövringen av rymden See more »Box Office
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Performed by Lee DeCarlo and Peter Manning Robinson
Written by Richard Strauss
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The staging footage was captured because NASA wanted to document the flight process of an unmanned Saturn flight for feedback in case there was a failure for engineers to look at footage to see what went wrong. Cameras were mounted in strategic locations, kicking on at critical moments to document the staging process for less than half a minute. After completion, the light-tight canisters containing the exposed film were jettisoned, dropping to earth with homing beacons and parachutes inside protective heat shields. Air Force C-130 transport planes, towing gigantic nets, recovered the canisters in the southern Atlantic Ocean. See more »Goofs
When showing the scenes of trans-lunar injection (firing the rocket to leave earth orbit for the moon), scenes of a Gemini spacecraft reentering the atmosphere are shown instead. See more »Quotes
Charles M. Duke Jr.: The only bad part about zero gravity in Apollo was goin' to the bathroom. We had a very crude system. For your feces it was a bag, and you put this bag in the right position. So you go, but the only thing is that nothing goes to the bottom of the bag in zero gravity.See more »
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This film is dedicated to the men and women who have given their lives in the exploration of Space. Apollo 1 January 27, 1967 Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom Edward H. White II Roger B. Chaffee Soyuz 1 April 24, 1967 Vladimir Komarov Soyuz 11 June 30, 1971 Vladislav Volkov Georgi Dobrovolski Viktor Patsayev Challenger January 28, 1986 Michael J. Smith Dick Scobee Ronald McNair Ellison Onizuka Christa McAuliffe Gregory Jarvis Judith Resnik See more »Soundtracks
Also Sprake ZarathustraPerformed by Lee DeCarlo and Peter Manning Robinson
Written by Richard Strauss
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Without repeating all the good comments that have been mentioned by earlier reviewers, I will add what is unique for me.
1. When Reinert wonderfully builds up the tension for the liftoff, it is more than a crescendo of power when those Saturn 5 rocket motors blast to life! I've had the film on VHS tape for about 10 years, and I still enjoy knocking the socks off of first time viewers when the surround sound system is allowed give its all as it shakes the house. If there were ice chunks on the outside of my house, they would surely shatter and fall just as they did from the rocket body as it slowly left the pad. UNBELIEVABLE! I once read that the Apollo rocket, if it all exploded at one time, would equal 80% of the Hiroshima atomic explosion in WW2. Imagine sitting atop that 31 story tall monster awaiting your fate on the launchpad.
2. Eno's music- just can't say enough superlatives about this soundtrack. Like good art, there is plenty there to continue to pique your interest for years. He is a gift to all mankind for his work on this soundtrack, but that is just the beginning. He's been doing that high level of work for decades!
GREAT FILM!!!