History Film / ForAllMankind

* CoolCar: They had a dune buggy for driving on the Moon.
** No, really, They had a ''dune buggy'' for ''driving on the Moon''.
* CoolStarship: Went to the goddamn Moon.

* DareToBeBadass: See the page quote from John F. Kennedy, re: going to the moon just to go.

* SceneryPorn: They flew to the Moon. Yep, lots of scenery porn.

* OhCrap: The famous "Houston, we have a problem" clip--although the documentary reveals that the actual quote from Lovell is "Houston, '''we've had''' a problem."

''For All Mankind'' is a 1989 {{Documentary}} about the Apollo missions to the moon (specifically, Apollos 8 and 10-17), directed by Al Reinert. The film eschews TalkingHeads and many other documentary tropes, instead consisting of NASA's own footage of the Apollo missions, overlaid with recorded radio chatter from the missions and commentary from the astronauts themselves. Instead of examining each mission in turn, clips from all of them are edited together to resemble a single mission. Among the highlights is the explosion on the Apollo 13 flight, later dramatized as ''Film/{{Apollo 13}}''.

* AlsoSprachZarathustra: Played on a cassette player aboard an Apollo mission, complete with a ShoutOut to ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey''.

-->-- UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy

->''"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard"''

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'''For All Mankind''' is a 1989 {{Documentary}} about the Apollo missions to the moon (specifically, Apollos 8 and 10-17), directed by Al Reinert. The film eschews TalkingHeads and many other documentary tropes, instead consisting of NASA's own footage of the Apollo missions, overlaid with recorded radio chatter from the missions and commentary from the astronauts themselves. Instead of examining each mission in turn, clips from all of them are edited together to resemble a single mission. Among the highlights is the explosion on the Apollo 13 flight, later dramatized as ''Film/{{Apollo 13}}''.

'''For All Mankind''' is a 1989 {{Documentary}} about the Apollo missions to the moon (specifically, Apollos 8 and 10-17), directed by Al Reinert. The film eschews TalkingHeads and many other documentary tropes, instead consisting of NASA's own footage of the Apollo missions, overlaid with recorded radio chatter from the missions and commentary from the astronauts themselves. Instead of examining each mission in turn, clips from all of them are edited together to resemble a single mission. Among the highlights is the explosion on the Apollo 13 flight, later dramatized as ''Film/{{Apollo13}}''.

* AlsoSprachZarathustra: Played on a cassette player aboard an Apollo mission, complete with a ShoutOut to ''Film/TwoThousandAndOneASpaceOdyssey''.

* OhCrap: The famous "Houston, we have a problem" clip--although the documentary reveals that the actual quote from Lovell is "Houston, '''we've had''' a problem.

->''[[DareToBeBadass "We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard"]]''

* BeamMeUpScotty: As this film documents, the quote later popularized by the Creator/RonHoward movie as "Houston, we have a problem" was actually "Houston, we've had a problem."

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The film is dedicated to astronauts who gave their lives for space exploration, and it lists the crews of Apollo 1 and the space shuttle ''Challenger'', as well as two Soyuz crews. It was released 14 years before the loss of the space shuttle ''Columbia''.

The documentary is also notable for the music, which was composed by Music/BrianEno. The soundtrack, ''Music/ApolloAtmospheresAndSoundtracks'' (1983) was released earlier than the movie, because of a lukewarm audience reaction during test screenings of the film.

''For All Mankind'' is a 1989 {{Documentary}} about the Apollo missions to the moon (specifically, Apollos 8 and 10-17), directed by Al Reinert, with a music score composed by Music/BrianEno. The film eschews TalkingHeads and many other documentary tropes, instead consisting of NASA's own footage of the Apollo missions, overlaid with recorded radio chatter from the missions and commentary from the astronauts themselves. Instead of examining each mission in turn, clips from all of them are edited together to resemble a single mission. Among the highlights is the explosion on the Apollo 13 flight, later dramatized as ''Film/{{Apollo13}}''.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The film is dedicated to astronauts who gave their lives for space exploration, and it lists the crews of Apollo 1 and the space shuttle ''Challenger'', as well as two Soyuz crews. It was released 14 years before the loss of the space shuttle ''Columbia''.

''For All Mankind'' is a 1989 {{Documentary}} about the Apollo missions to the moon (specifically, Apollos 8 and 10-17), directed by Al Reinert, with a music score composed by Music/BrianEno. The film eschews TalkingHeads and many other documentary tropes, instead oonsisting of NASA's own footage of the Apollo missions. Instead of examining each mission in turn, clips from all of them are edited together to resemble a single mission. Among the highlights is the explosion on the Apollo 13 flight, later dramatized as ''Film/{{Apollo13}}''.

->''"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard"''

* BeamMeUpScotty: As this film documents, the quote later popularized by the CreatorRonHoward movie as "Houston, we have a problem" was actually "Houston, we've had a problem."