Product: For All Mankind [VHS] (1989)
Rating: 5.0
A great film about the Apollo missions!
This review is for the Criterion Collection DVD edition of the film.This film is a documentary and is well compiled. Consisting almost entirely of stock footage of the missions, it has audio interviews with the astronauts and mission control technicians.The film has a superb score by Brian Eno. One particular piece of music in the film, also heard on the main menu of the DVD has been resued for two other films: Traffic (2000) and 28 Days Later(2002).Much of the footage taken in space is high resolution and very well preserved as it was stored at the NASA film archives in liquid nitrogen.The special features on the DVD are audio commentary by the Director Al Reinart and Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan. There is subtitle identification of the astronauts and NASA employees when they appear on screen. There are Audio and Video highlights from several NASA missions. My favorite is the soundbyte of the apollo 8 astronauts when they gave a radio address by reading parts of the Bible on Christmas day.There are also paintings by Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean and interviews with him describing some of his paintings.For anybody interested in the space program, this DVD is a musy buy!