For All Mankind (1989)

Director:

Al Reinert

Release Date:

1 November 1989 (USA)

Genre:

Documentary | History

Tagline:

A Film by Al Reinert

Plot:

This movie documents the Apollo missions perhaps the most definitively of any movie under two hours...

Plot Keywords:

Astronaut | Moon | Space | Mission Control | NASA

Awards:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 3 wins

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)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
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)
Lyndon Johnson	...	Himself (behind JFK) (archive footage) (uncredited)
John F. Kennedy	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Joe Kerwin	...	Himself - capsule communicator (voice) (uncredited)

Directed by
Al Reinert

Produced by
Betsy Broyles Breier	....	producer
David W. Leitner	....	co-producer (as David Leitner)
Ben Young Mason	....	executive producer
Fred Miller	....	executive producer
Al Reinert	....	producer
Jonathan Turell	....	associate producer

Original Music by
Brian Eno

Film Editing by
Susan Korda

Production Management
Maria Groumbas	....	post-production supervisor
Kathryn Pasternak	....	post-production supervisor

Sound Department
Wayne Bell	....	additional sound recordist
Doug Davey	....	sound re-recording mixer
Ross Davis	....	sound re-recording mixer
Lee De Carlo	....	post-production sound supervisor (as Lee DeCarlo)
Douglas Greenfield	....	stereo sound consultant: Dolby
Barbara Issak	....	sound editor
Jon Johnson	....	sound editor
Alex Markowski	....	sound engineer (as Alexander Markowski)
Richard L. Morrison	....	sound re-recording mixer
George Nemzer	....	sound editor
Miguel Rivera	....	sound editor
Bill Wistrom	....	supervising sound editor

Camera and Electrical Department
Levie Isaacks	....	additional photographer

Editorial Department
Eric Jenkins	....	additional editor
Goran Milutinovic	....	additional editor
David Pulse	....	color timer
Chuck Weiss	....	additional editor

Music Department
Roger Eno	....	composer: additional music
Daniel Lanois	....	composer: additional music

Other crew
David W. Leitner	....	16 mm to 35 mm blow-up (as David Leitner)

Thanks
Chuck Biggs	....	this film is indebted to the men and women of the Johnson Space Center, especially:
Roger B. Chaffee	....	dedicatee: Apollo 1, January 27, 1967
Marika Christ	....	this film is indebted to the men and women of the Johnson Space Center, especially:
Georgy Dobrovolsky	....	dedicatee: Soyuz 11, June 30, 1971
Gayle Frere	....	this film is indebted to the men and women of the Johnson Space Center, especially:
Mike Gentry	....	this film is indebted to the men and women of the Johnson Space Center, especially:
Gus Grissom	....	dedicatee: Apollo 1, January 27, 1967 (as Virgil I. Grissom)
John Holland	....	this film is indebted to the men and women of the Johnson Space Center, especially:
Denny Howe	....	this film is indebted to the men and women of the Johnson Space Center, especially:
Gregory Jarvis	....	dedicatee: Challenger, January 28, 1986
Vladimir Komarov	....	dedicatee: Soyuz 1, April 24, 1967
Gentry Lee	....	special thanks
Christa McAuliffe	....	dedicatee: Challenger, January 28, 1986
John McLeaish	....	this film is indebted to the men and women of the Johnson Space Center, especially:
Ron McNair	....	dedicatee: Challenger, January 28, 1986
Goran Milutinovic	....	in memory of
Gary Morrison	....	this film is indebted to the men and women of the Johnson Space Center, especially:
Pete Nubile	....	this film is indebted to the men and women of the Johnson Space Center, especially:
Ellison Onizuka	....	dedicatee: Challenger, January 28, 1986
Diana Ormsby	....	this film is indebted to the men and women of the Johnson Space Center, especially:
Glenn Osbourne	....	this film is indebted to the men and women of the Johnson Space Center, especially:
Viktor Patsayev	....	dedicatee: Soyuz 11, June 30, 1971
Don Pickard	....	this film is indebted to the men and women of the Johnson Space Center, especially:
Judith A. Resnik	....	dedicatee: Challenger, January 28, 1986
John Riley	....	this film is indebted to the men and women of the Johnson Space Center, especially:
Bill Robbins	....	this film is indebted to the men and women of the Johnson Space Center, especially:
Carl Sagan	....	special thanks
Francis Scobee	....	dedicatee: Challenger, January 28, 1986
Michael John J. Smith	....	dedicatee: Challenger, January 28, 1986
Theodore Strauss	....	special thanks
Lisa Vasquez	....	this film is indebted to the men and women of the Johnson Space Center, especially:
Vladislav Volkov	....	dedicatee: Soyuz 11, June 30, 1971
Doug Ward	....	this film is indebted to the men and women of the Johnson Space Center, especially:
Chuck Welch	....	this film is indebted to the men and women of the Johnson Space Center, especially:
Edward H. White II	....	dedicatee: Apollo 1, January 27, 1967
Terry White	....	this film is indebted to the men and women of the Johnson Space Center, especially:
Morris Williams	....	this film is indebted to the men and women of the Johnson Space Center, especially:
Frank Zehniner	....	this film is indebted to the men and women of the Johnson Space Center, especially:

Production Companies

• Apollo Associates
• FAM Productions

Distributors

• Eureka Entertainment (2009) (UK) (DVD)
• Svensk Filmindustri (SF) (1989) (Sweden) (theatrical)
• Apollo Associates
• Criterion Collection, The (2000) (USA) (DVD)
• Criterion Collection, The (2009) (USA) (DVD) (Blu-ray)
• Eureka Entertainment (2009) (UK) (DVD) (Blu-ray)

Also Known As:

Runtime:

80 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (DuArt)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Sweden:Btl | Singapore:G | Canada:G (Manitoba/Quebec)

Filming Locations:

Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA

Company:

Apollo Associates

Trivia:

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.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: 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.

Quotes:

Narrator:I had a bet with somebody who didn't, uh, really felt that Neil spent a great deal of time before he went figuring out his famous words, and they were not extemporaneous, on-the-spot, historical words. He actually felt that these words might have even been written for Neil by somebody else...
[...]

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Drive (1991)

Soundtrack:

Silver Morning

Found this film through Eno's album...

I've been a fan of Brian Eno's work for years, and have cherished the album entitled "Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks." The album is the commissioned soundtrack for this compilation documentary of the NASA Apollo missions. What a harmony of the arts this is. The stark NASA footage coupled with the hauntingly soothing score create a fascinating marriage of techniques and styles. Although the music editor overused certain tracks over others, the subtlety of Eno's music prevents it from becoming repetitive. A pleasure to watch.