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1 November 1989 (USA)
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A Film by Al Reinert
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This movie documents the Apollo missions perhaps the most definitively of any movie under two hours...
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Nominated for Oscar.
Another 3 wins
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If only I could have afforded a laserdisc player
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Cast
(Credited cast) | Jim Lovell | ... | Narrator (Apollo 8, 13) (voice) (as James A. Lovell Jr.) |
| Russell Schweickart | ... | Narrator (Apollo 9) (voice) (as Russell L. Schweickart) |
| Eugene Cernan | ... | Narrator (Apollo 10, 17) (voice) (as Eugene A. Cernan) |
| Michael Collins | ... | Narrator (Apollo 11) (voice) |
| Charles Conrad | ... | Narrator (Apollo 12) (voice) (as Charles P. Conrad Jr.) |
| Richard Gordon | ... | Narrator (Apollo 12) (voice) (as Richard F. Gordon Jr.) |
| Alan Bean | ... | Narrator (Apollo 12) (voice) (as Alan L. Bean) |
| Jack Swigert | ... | Narrator (Apollo 13) (voice) (as John L. Swigert Jr.) |
| Stuart Roosa | ... | Narrator (Apollo 14) (voice) (as Stuart A. Roosa) |
| James Irwin | ... | Narrator (Apollo 15) (voice) (as James B. Irwin) |
| Kenneth Mattingly | ... | Narrator (Apollo 16) (voice) (as T. Kenneth Mattingly II) |
| Charles Duke | ... | Narrator (Apollo 16) (voice) (as Charles M. Duke Jr.) |
| Harrison Schmitt | ... | Narrator (Apollo 17) (voice) (as Harrison H. Schmitt) |
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 | Buzz Aldrin | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Bill Anders | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Neil Armstrong | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Stephen Bales | ... | Himself (archive footage) (as Steve Bales) |
| Frank Borman | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Walter Cunningham | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Ron Evans | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Fred Haise | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Christopher Kraft | ... | Himself (archive footage) (as Chris Kraft) |
| Gene Kranz | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Jim McDivitt | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Edgar D. Mitchell | ... | Himself (archive footage) (as Ed Mitchell) |
| Bob Overmyer | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Buck Owens | ... | Himself (voice) (archive footage) |
| Wally Schirra | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Dave Scott | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Alan Shepard | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Deke Slayton | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
| Thomas P. Stafford | ... | Himself (archive footage) (as Tom Stafford) |
| Edward H. White II | ... | Himself (archive footage) (as Ed White) |
| John Young | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
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80 min
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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.
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John Young:
[alone in the Command Module, following CSM-LEM separation during Apollo X] You'll never know how big this thing gets when there ain't nobody in here but one guy.
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Always Returning
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I won't reiterate all of the praise of this film except to say that if I had just few more spare dollars when it was released on laserdisc, I would have bought a laserdisc player just for this title (and 2001). Fortunately years later I've already purchased a DVD player and For All Mankind has finally been released on that format.
To me the defining moment of this film is the lunar lander slowly returning to the command module. At first we only see the cratered surface of the Moon moving below at incredible speed. Then we see a tiny motionless speck above it. Was it a defect in the lens? Of course not. It's the lunar lander slowly returning from the surface. It seems to take much longer than it really does because there are no cuts and no narrator explaining what we already know we're seeing. There's only a dot turning into a space ship. What more could you add to this amazing sight?