For All Mankind
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| Directed by | Al Reinert |
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Betsy Broyles Breier Al Reinert Ben Young Mason Fred Miller |
| Music by | Brian Eno |
| Edited by | Susan Korda |
| Distributed by | Apollo Associates |
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80 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
For All Mankind is a 1989 documentary film documenting the Apollo missions of NASA. It was directed by Al Reinert with music by Brian Eno.
The film provides 80 minutes of real NASA footage, mostly 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 are Jim Lovell, Michael Collins, Charles Conrad, Jack Swigert, and Ken Mattingly. The film concentrates on the beauty of the Earth as seen from space.
For All Mankind was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary in 1990.
The title comes from President John F. Kennedy's Address to Rice University on the Nation's Space Effort, September 12, 1962, but is slightly altered from "for all people" to "for all mankind":
"The exploration of space will go ahead, whether we join it or not, and it is one of the greatest adventures of all time... We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained and new rights to be won, and they must be won and used for all people... We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard...".
The phrase was altered in the film's audio of Kennedy's speech as well. The director dubbed in "mankind" from a different Kennedy clip.
Several unusual or memorable views are included:-
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commentary, Reinert explains that he made the film after learning that huge amounts of footage shot by astronauts had been archived by NASA without ever being seen by the public. Al Reinert and editor Susan Korda sifted through six million feet of film footage, and 80 hours of NASA interviews to create the documentary.
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