- For All Mankind
Infobox_Film
name = For All Mankind
caption = DVD cover
writer =
starring =
director =Al Reinert
editing =Susan Korda
producer =Betsy Broyles Breier Al Reinert Fred Miller
distributor =Apollo Associates
released = flagicon|USA1 November ,1989
runtime = 80 min
language = English
amg_id = 1:18118
imdb_id = 0097372
budget =" For All Mankind " is a 1989
documentary film documenting theApollo mission s ofNASA . It was directed byAl Reinert .The film provides 80 minutes of real NASA footage, taken on the Apollo missions of the 1960s and 1970s. The focus of the documentary is on the human views of the space flights, and the original mission footage is provided along with the voices of the
astronauts , from interviews and from the actual mission recordings. Among those providing narration areJim Lovell , Michael Collins, Charles Conrad,Jack Swigert , andKen Mattingly ."For All Mankind" was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary in 1990.
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In the DVD commentary, Reinert explains that he made the film after learning that huge amounts of footage shot by astronauts had been archived by NASA without ever being seen by the public.
Reinert also explains that although the documentary purports to show a single moon mission, it is in fact a
collage of images from all six missions. Furthermore, images are often presented out of context: the images of rocket stage separation are test footage shot during earlier missions; a shot used to represent trans lunar injection is in fact footage ofre-entry ; and the images of aspacewalk are from aGemini mission , not Apollo.DVD availability
At present, "For All Mankind" is available on DVD only as a
Region 1 disc released byThe Criterion Collection . The disc features a commentary track by director Al Reinert andEugene A. Cernan , commander ofApollo 17 .See also
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