5/5 Spectacular! (...but skip the booklet movie review)
  by J. Christian (St Louis, MO)
"For All Mankind" is simply a wonderful movie with superbly transferred and restored video and audio straight from the NASA "Cold Storage Vault". The video is incredibly clear and crisp. The focus of the film is indeed the raw video taken by the astronauts themselves. This is not a "technical" documentary but rather a "Video Documentary" with narrative by the astronauts themselves. The entire movie is actual NASA video. The extras on the DVD are excellent as well and greatly enhance the movie itself. Given the many, many deservedly glowing reviews of the film itself, my only (exceedingly minor) complaint is the review in the included booklet from movie critic Terrence Rafferty. While glowing in his praise for the movie, his reasoning and choice of words are miles off-base. A movie about Apollo that is "sensuous" and "nearly erotic"? Really? His disdain for all things American is evident. He is surprised (and disappointed?) that the USSR was not first to the moon. Of the US Flag in some moon scenes, he says "has no business being there". Of US scientists, engineers and astronauts, he calls them "square", "wearing geeky glasses and ill-fitting shirts", "mostly with crew-cuts", "straight arrows". He expresses his "unfathomable" shock that a journalist(!) such as Al Reinert would be capable of making such a wonderful film on his first try. Save yourself the frustration and skip the review. Watch (and re-watch) the movie and the extras. Enjoy.

1/5 Lost Potential
  by James Mcgee (Japan)
Unfortunately, Reinert completely fails as a storyteller and this film was an epic disappointment. I wanted to like it. I love everything about the space program.
However, this film with all of it's incredible potential is a big yawn. Even though his intent was to combine all the missions to tell one story, it is very disjointed.
There is just no flow to this film. I'm a filmmaker and hate to be critical of films but I am just so disappointed.
There have been two films made in the last 35 years that do justice to the Apollo missions. In fact they are films that will give you goose bumps and put a lump
in your throat. The fist and by far the best is called "The Greatest Adventure" produced by NFL Films believe it or not. They did for the Apollo missions what they
do for football but even better and Orson Welles did the narration. This film was produced in 1979 and is hard to find but is one of the few films that includes
Neil Armstrong being interviewed. It is a MUST SEE!!!!! The next film would be Ron Howard's "In the Shadow of the Moon". This too is an excellent documentary
but not quite as good as "The Greatest Adventure" which is probably the best film ever produced on the Apollo missions.

4/5 Great Production But...
  by dr_chopz (Manteca, CA United States)
Blu-Ray is such a pain. There's always a hitch and in this release couldn't select the menu (With a mouse)... only after downloading a trial software with a virtual remote would it play. I imagine stand alone players would be OK. Never any problems with DVD... but never a dull moment with Blu-Ray. Anyway, this historic footage is not to be missed however you decide to view it.

5/5 Amazing details, feel like you're on board
  by blackbird (Anchorage Alaska)
I can watch this over and over. The blu-ray transfer is very good. The music doesn't get in the way, love the crew's personal tapes, the spoken comments make me feel like I'm there in all the scenes. The comments are not silly high-minded bragging nor sensationalism. There is humor. Above all, it is human, just technical facts and human thoughts. The presentation may be out of proper historical order of the flights now and then but it isn't a big factor.

I watched moon walks on color tv, live from the moon, back in those days. I also watched people who wouldn't watch the live tv from the moon at all. Strange.

Some of the lunar scenes are staggering, at least for me. Driving on the Lunar car rover is incredible.

I wonder how young people today will view this blu-ray documentary. I suggest this is for them.



5/5 for all
  by Lesser Knowns (San Mateo, CA, USA)
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R1357Y360WLGO great film should be seen by everyone. very historical