For All Mankind
In July 1969, the space race ended when Apollo 11 fulfilled President John F. Kennedy’s challenge of “landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.” No one who witnessed the lunar landing will ever forget it. Twenty years later, Al Reinert constructed a documentary that imparts the unforgettable story of the twenty-four astronauts who traveled to the moon as part of NASA’s Apollo program—told in their words and in their voices, using the images they captured. With its awe-inspiring, otherworldly footage and a haunting atmospheric soundtrack by Brian Eno, For All Mankind stirs us with a profound sense of compassion for the “pale blue dot” that is our home, and it remains the most radical, visually dazzling work of cinema that has been made about this earthshaking event.
4K UHD + Blu-Ray Special Edition Features
- New 4K digital restorations of the original 1.33:1 framing and the alternate 1.85:1 theatrical presentation, with 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- Audio commentary featuring director Al Reinert and Apollo 17 commander Eugene A. Cernan, the last person to set foot on the moon
- An Accidental Gift: The Making of “For All Mankind,” a documentary featuring interviews with Reinert, Apollo 12 and Skylab astronaut Alan Bean, and NASA archive specialists
- Selection of excerpted interviews with fifteen of the Apollo astronauts
- Program about Bean’s artwork, accompanied by a gallery of his paintings
- NASA audio highlights and liftoff footage
- Optional on-screen identification of astronauts and mission-control specialists
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: Essays by film critic Terrence Rafferty and Reinert
New cover by Eric Skillman
4K UHD + Blu-Ray Special Edition Features
- New 4K digital restorations of the original 1.33:1 framing and the alternate 1.85:1 theatrical presentation, with 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- Audio commentary featuring director Al Reinert and Apollo 17 commander Eugene A. Cernan, the last person to set foot on the moon
- An Accidental Gift: The Making of “For All Mankind,” a documentary featuring interviews with Reinert, Apollo 12 and Skylab astronaut Alan Bean, and NASA archive specialists
- Selection of excerpted interviews with fifteen of the Apollo astronauts
- Program about Bean’s artwork, accompanied by a gallery of his paintings
- NASA audio highlights and liftoff footage
- Optional on-screen identification of astronauts and mission-control specialists
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: Essays by film critic Terrence Rafferty and Reinert
New cover by Eric Skillman
Cast
- Virgil I. Grissom
- Apollo 1
- Edward H. White II
- Roger B. Chaffee
- Walter H. Schirra
- Apollo 7
- Donn F. Eisele
- R. Walter Cunningham
- Frank Borman
- Apollo 8
- James A. Lovell Jr.
- William Anders
- James A. McDivitt
- Apollo 9
- David R. Scott
- Russell L. Schweickart
- Thomas P. Stafford
- Apollo 10
- John W. Young
- Eugene A. Cernan
- Neil A. Armstrong
- Apollo 11
- Michael Collins
- Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr.
- Charles Conrad Jr.
- Apollo 12
- Richard F. Gordon Jr.
- Alan L. Bean
- John L. Swigert Jr.
- Apollo 13
- Fred W. Haise Jr.
- Alan B. Shepard Jr.
- Apollo 14
- Stuart A. Roosa
- Edgar D. Mitchell
- Alfred M. Worden
- Apollo 15
- James B. Irwin
- T. Kenneth Mattingly II
- Apollo 16
- Charles M. Duke Jr.
- Ronald E. Evans
- Apollo 17
- Harrison H. Schmitt
Credits
- Director
- Al Reinert
- Producer
- Al Reinert
- Betsy Broyles Breier
- Coproducer and technical director
- David Leitner
- Executive producers
- Fred Miller
- Ben Young Mason
- Editor
- Susan Korda
- Associate producer
- Jonathan Turell
- Original music
- Brian Eno
- Daniel Lanois
- Roger Eno
- John Paul Jones
- Harold Budd
- Misha Mahlin
- Lydia Theremin
- Postproduction coordinators
- Kathryn Pasternak
- Maria Palazzola
- Additional editors
- Goran Milutinovic
- Eric Jenkins
- Chuck Weiss
- Sound engineer
- Alexander Markowski
- Sound editors
- Bill Wistrom
- Jon Johnson
- George Nemzer
- Barbara Issak
- Miguel Rivera
- Onboard music carried by the astronauts performed by
- Frank Sinatra
- Merle Haggard and the Strangers
- Buck Owens and the Buckaroos
A scene from For All Mankind
