Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Jonah Abbott There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

AidanManchester I will just quote an e-mail message I sent to a film maker friend of mine:I have to tell you about this movie I've been watching on iPlayer. It was on BBC4 last week. Maybe you've seen it, it's For All Mankind about the Apollo missions, produced and directed by Al Reinert.What is remarkable about it – and has a parallel to your work – is the way it tells the narrative, weaving and compressing all the Apollo missions into one 'storyline' starting on Earth, going to the moon and back again.There is no narrator, just voiceovers by various astronauts who travelled on the moon, including Neil Armstrong and Eugene Cernan, and the 'radio' voices of the astronauts and Mission Control from the recordings of the missions.It is a superb piece of documentary film making. And the way the music is used, I can't find words to describe it. There are tracks from 'Apollo' the album of ambient soundscapes by Brian Eno. The music that keeps recurring is the ethereal and moon-like 'An Ending (Ascent)' and it is utterly spine chilling particularly at the very end. Phew, it really gets to me!I'm a great admirer of Brian Eno, and saw him interviewed by Tony Wilson at In The City in 2000.I think I will buy a DVD copy, as I just want to own it and replay it loads of times!I think every documentary film maker should watch it!Thanks,Aidan

disdressed12 i enjoyed this 80 minute or so documentary chronicling all of the Apollo missions,including the Landing on the moon.yet it didn't have as much of an impact as i had hoped or expected.it's a well done film in all aspects.it looks great and sounds great,and the musical score is nice.there are some great shots of space and the moon,as well as the Earth from the moon.the clothing style of the guys at Mission Control(with their ill fitting shirts,and bad fashion sense)are amusing,as are the scenes of them smoking.for an 80 minute doc,this actually covers a lot of ground.i just wish it had been longer.for me,For All Mankind is a 7/10

hantonr This film had some of the most extensive, most well restored Apollo footage I have ever seen.Not having been around in the 1960s to see much of this footage firsthand, I was astounded by some of the videos and insights portrayed by this film. To see the Apollo 11 astronauts goofing around and playing cassette tapes that had been custom made for them by their favorite artists is pretty awesome. This is a must-see for any big Apollo or space buff.Seeing from some other reviews that incorrect footage is mixed to information about different missions doesn't really hurt the picture. Many of the different Apollo launches looked similar. It is hard to tell from the outside what each ship's mission was, so that does not detract from the film.Hopefully we will have more footage from the moon in the near future as we proceed back into outer space to gain more knowledge through exploration like the early explorers that can be heard and seen in this film.

Scott W. Larson I won't reiterate all of the praise of this film except to say that if I had just few more spare dollars when it was released on laserdisc, I would have bought a laserdisc player just for this title (and 2001). Fortunately years later I've already purchased a DVD player and For All Mankind has finally been released on that format.To me the defining moment of this film is the lunar lander slowly returning to the command module. At first we only see the cratered surface of the Moon moving below at incredible speed. Then we see a tiny motionless speck above it. Was it a defect in the lens? Of course not. It's the lunar lander slowly returning from the surface. It seems to take much longer than it really does because there are no cuts and no narrator explaining what we already know we're seeing. There's only a dot turning into a space ship. What more could you add to this amazing sight?