| Release Date: | Jan 1989 |
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| Genres: | History / Documentary |
| Awards: | Nominated for Oscar. Another 3 wins |
| Cast: | Jim Lovell (Narrator (Apollo 8, 13) (voice) (as...), Russell Schweickart (Narrator (Apollo 9) (voice) (as...), Eugene Cernan (Narrator (Apollo 10, 17) (voice) (as...), Michael Collins (Narrator (Apollo 11) (voice)), Charles Conrad (Narrator (Apollo 12) (voice) (as...), Richard Gordon (Narrator (Apollo 12) (voice) (as...), Alan Bean (Narrator (Apollo 12) (voice) (as Alan...), Jack Swigert (Narrator (Apollo 13) (voice) (as John...), Stuart Roosa (Narrator (Apollo 14) (voice) (as...), James Irwin (Narrator (Apollo 15) (voice) (as...), Kenneth Mattingly (Narrator (Apollo 16) (voice) (as T....), Charles Duke (Narrator (Apollo 16) (voice) (as...), Harrison Schmitt (Narrator (Apollo 17) (voice) (as...), Buzz Aldrin (Himself (archive footage)), Bill Anders (Himself (archive footage)), Neil Armstrong (Himself (archive footage)), Stephen Bales (Himself (archive footage) (as Steve...), Frank Borman (Himself (archive footage)), Walter Cunningham (Himself (archive footage)), Ron Evans (Himself (archive footage)), Fred Haise (Himself (archive footage)), Christopher Kraft (Himself (archive footage) (as Chris...), Gene Kranz (Himself (archive footage)), Jim McDivitt (Himself (archive footage)), Edgar D. Mitchell (Himself (archive footage) (as Ed...), Bob Overmyer (Himself (archive footage)), Buck Owens (Himself (voice) (archive footage)), Wally Schirra (Himself (archive footage)), Dave Scott (Himself (archive footage)), Alan Shepard (Himself (archive footage)), Deke Slayton (Himself (archive footage)), Thomas P. Stafford (Himself (archive footage) (as Tom...), Edward H. White II (Himself (archive footage) (as Ed White)), John Young (Himself (archive footage)), Lyndon Johnson (Himself (behind JFK) (archive...), John F. Kennedy (Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)), Joseph P. Kerwin (Himself - capsule communicator...) |
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."
