Product: For All Mankind [VHS] (1989)
Rating: 5.0
Truly impressive!
This film is like a home movie from a trip to the moon. There is no sweeping musical score nor voiceover gushing about heroism. All gasps and tears are extracted through the blast of rocket engines and footage of real people having real experiences rather than sentimental historical revisionism. I remember the grainy black and white images on TV at the time but nobody every saw the crystal clear film footage taken by NASA, and to now have it put on blu-ray in such an amazingly powerful but low-key memento is just brilliant. I really recommend this to people who missed out on the beauty of manned spaceflight in the 60's and that includes everyone but the people who were actually on the rockets.