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Year: 1989
Director: Al Reinert

Cast:

Jim Lovell (Narrator (Apollo 8), 13) (voice) (as James A. Lovell Jr.), Russell Schweickart (Narrator (Apollo 9) (as Russell L. Schweickart)), Eugene Cernan (Narrator (Apollo 10), 17) (voice) (as Eugene A. Cernan), Michael Collins (Narrator (Apollo 11)), Charles Conrad (Narrator (Apollo 12) (as Charles P. Conrad Jr.)), Richard Gordon (Narrator (Apollo 12) (as Richard F. Gordon Jr.)), Alan Bean (Narrator (Apollo 12) (as Alan L. Bean)), Jack Swigert (Narrator (Apollo 13) (as John L. Swigert Jr.)), Stuart Roosa (Narrator (Apollo 14) (as Stuart A. Roosa)), James Irwin (Narrator (Apollo 15) (as James B. Irwin)), Kenneth Mattingly (Narrator (Apollo 16) (as T. Kenneth Mattingly II)), Charles Duke (Narrator (Apollo 16) (as Charles M. Duke Jr.)), Harrison Schmitt (Narrator (Apollo 17) (as Harrison H. Schmitt)), Buzz Aldrin (Himself (archive footage)), Bill Anders (Himself (archive footage)), Neil Armstrong (Himself (archive footage)), Stephen Bales (Himself (archive footage) (as Steve Bales)), Frank Borman (Himself (archive footage)), Walter Cunningham (Himself (archive footage)), Ron Evans (Himself (archive footage))

Storyline:

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." Written by Scott B. Fisher <sbfisher@burgoyne.com>

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