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An in-depth look at various NASA moon landing missions, starting with Apollo 8.An in-depth look at various NASA moon landing missions, starting with Apollo 8.An in-depth look at various NASA moon landing missions, starting with Apollo 8.
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 3 wins & 3 nominations total
Jim Lovell
- Narrator - Apollo 8, Apollo 13
- (voice)
- (as James A. Lovell Jr.)
Ken Mattingly
- Narrator - Apollo 16
- (voice)
- (as T. Kenneth Mattingly II)
Russell Schweickart
- Narrator - Apollo 9
- (voice)
- (as Russell L. Schweickart)
Eugene Cernan
- Narrator - Apollo 10, Apollo 17
- (voice)
- (as Eugene A. Cernan)
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)
Charles Duke
- Narrator - Apollo 16
- (voice)
- (as Charles M. Duke Jr.)
Harrison Schmitt
- Narrator - Apollo 17
- (voice)
- (as Harrison H. Schmitt)
Buzz Aldrin
- Self
- (archive footage)
Bill Anders
- Self
- (archive footage)
Neil Armstrong
- Self
- (archive footage)
Stephen Bales
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (as Steve Bales)
Frank Borman
- Self
- (archive footage)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe 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.
- GoofsThe opening of the documentary incorrectly states that: "During the four year between December 1968 and November 1972, there were nine manned flights to the moon." The last lunar mission, Apollo 17, took place in December 1972.
- 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.
- Crazy creditsFilmed on location by the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
- SoundtracksSirens
Courtesy of Opal Records (Music For Films III)
Written and Performed by Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno
Licensed by Upala Music/Hamstein (BMI)
Featured review
Twenty years after the first manned moon landing, there came the best documentary about Apollo, and by extension, the space program that I've ever seen!
Nothing I can say could possibly do this documentary justice, but I'm going to try anyway. One of the greatest (in more than one sense) and most profound of human endeavors that has ever been undertaken is the effort at spaceflight. The most notable achievement is the landing and return of humans to the Moon. This documentary recaptures the awe and wonder I felt (and still feel today) when I watched the landing. Nominated for Documentary Feature, it should have won (or at least tied). As good as Common Threads was and is, for For All Mankind not to have won says more about the Academy and present-day society's fixation on now and its indifference to both yesterday and tomorrow. In a disposable society where creativity is less honored than timliness and for whom all too many, the past is what they had for breakfast, twenty years may as well be two thousand. Sic Transit Gloria (Thus Passeth Glory). Most, most highly RECOMMENDED!!!
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- Feb 5, 2001
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Details
- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- National Geographic: For All Mankind
- Filming locations
- Sea of Tranquility, The Moon, Space(Apollo 11 landing site)
- Production companies
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $770,132
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $33,777
- Nov 5, 1989
- Gross worldwide
- $770,132
- Runtime1 hour 20 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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