This movie documents the Apollo missions perhaps the most definitively of any movie under two hours. Al Reinert watched all the footage shot during the missions--over 6,000,000 feet of it, and picked out the best. Instead of being a newsy, fact-filled documentary. Reinart focuses on the human aspects of the space flights. The only voices heard in the film are the voices of the astronauts and mission control. Reinart uses the astronaunts' own words from interviews and from the mission footage. The score by Brian Eno underscores the strangeness, wonder, and and beauty of the astronauts' experiences--experiences which they were privileged to have for a first time "for all mankind."

Starring:

Alan Bean, Alan Shepard, Bill Anders, Buck Owens, Buzz Aldrin, Charles Conrad, Christopher Kraft, Dave Scott, Deke Slayton, Edgar D Mitchell, Eugene Cernan, Fred Haise, Gene Kranz, Jack Swigert, Jim Lovell, John F Kennedy, John Young, Lyndon Johnson, Michael Collins, Neil Armstrong, Richard Gordon, Wally Schirra

Genre:

Documentary, History