For All Mankind

Beautifully complied. Excellent archive footage.

No sit down interviews to speak of. I mean, maybe. There were mysterious voices talking about their respective voyages. But there's no way of knowing since they didn't have any on camera interviews. I thought that was a really cool way to do it. Made it seem like an observational doc while still getting the specifics of what the astronauts were doing, feeling, and thinking while there.

A funny part of this is that the idea of getting to the moon wouldn't even be the scary part, to me. It's the idea of getting back off of the moon. It's not like you can just fall to Earth. You could do all the preparation on your end here, but you'd had no idea what was going on on the other end. That's terrifying. So as a downside, I would have loved to see how they got back to Earth. Clearly they don't have that footage.

Also, as much as the idea of leaving Earth even still seems unimaginable to the astronauts who were apart of the voyage to the moon, the idea that someone compiled a very successfully very compelling documentary out of some scraps of documentary footage is amazing. Where did all this footage come from?! Who's recording on the shuttle?! Insane. Well shot, the footage of the take off showing each part breaking off from the shuttle, all great moments on film. All this footage, but the movie wasn't completed until a little over two decades later.

It used a lot of classical music and a great score over the majestic scenes of floating in space, landing on the moon with a soft thud, returning to Earth. It captured exactly the mood you'd imagine for something about space. Maybe this is the thing that brought that mood to life and everyone has just been capitalizing on that every since.