"Director: Al Reinert"

• For All Mankind (Masters of Cinema) | Blu Ray | (14/11/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  During the Apollo lunar missions from 1968 to 1972, those on-board were given 16mm cameras and told to film anything and everything they could, in space, in orbit, and on the surface of the moon itself. Two decades later, filmmaker Al Reinert went into the NASA vaults to create this extraordinary compendium of their journeys and experiences.Assembled from hundreds of hours of the astronauts’ own footage, with a soundtrack made up of their memories and a specially composed score by Brian Eno, the film takes the form of one journey to the moon and back again, building with elegant simplicity and exquisite construction to create an overwhelming vision of human endeavour and miraculous experience.At once intimate and awe-inspiring, For All Mankind is a genuinely mesmerising firsthand document of one of the high points of the 20th century. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Criterion’s beautiful high-definition restoration of the film for its UK home viewing premire in a comprehensive, director-approved edition. Special Features: A new high-definition transfer, supervised by director Al Reinert New 5.1 soundtrack remastered from original sound stems (BD-only) Audio commentary featuring Al Reinert and Eugene A. Cernan An Accidental Gift: The Making of For All Mankind documentary A gallery of Alan Bean’s artwork, inspired by his life as an astronaut NASA Sound Archive and lift-off footage Optional on-screen identification of astronauts and mission specialists New, optional English subtitles (SDH) for the hearing impaired A full-colour booklet featuring essays, rare stills, interviews, and morean

• For All Mankind | DVD | (27/08/2012) from £19.59   |  Saving you £-3.60 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  During the Apollo lunar missions from 1968 to 1972 those onboard were given 16mm cameras and told to film anything and everything they could in space in orbit and on the surface of the moon itself. Two decades later filmmaker Al Reinert went into the NASA vaults to create this extraordinary compendium of their journeys and experiences. Assembled from hundreds of hours of the astronauts' own footage with a soundtrack made up of their memories and a specially composed score by Brian Eno the film takes the form of one journey to the moon and back again building with elegant simplicity and exquisite construction to create an overpowering vision of human endeavour and miraculous experience. At once intimate and awe-inspiring For All Mankind is a genuinely mesmerising first-hand document of one of the high points of the 20th century. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Criterion's beautiful high-definition restoration of the film for its UK home viewing premi''re in a comprehensive director-approved special edition on DVD.

• For All Mankind | Blu Ray | (24/06/2019) from £21.65   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In July 1969, the space race ended when Apollo 11 fulfilled President Kennedy's challenge of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. No one who witnessed the lunar landing will ever forget it. Al Reinert's documentary For All Mankind is the story of the twenty-four men who travelled to the moon, told in their words, in their voices, using the images of their experiences. Fifty years later, it remains the most radical, visually dazzling work of cinema yet made about this earth-shaking event. Features: New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by producer-director Al Reinert (with a DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 soundtrack) Audio commentary featuring Reinert and Apollo 17 commander Eugene A. Cernan, the last man to set foot on the moon An Accidental Gift: The Making of For All Mankind, a new documentary featuring interviews with Reinert, Apollo 12 and Skylab astronaut Alan Bean, and NASA archive specialists Don Pickard, Mike Gentry, Morris Williams, and Chuck Welch On Camera, a collection of excerpted on-screen interviews with fifteen of the Apollo astronauts New video programme about Bean's artwork, accompanied by a gallery of his paintings NASA audio highlights and lift-off footage Optional on-screen identification of astronauts and mission control specialists PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by film critic Terrence Rafferty and Reinert

• For All Mankind | Blu Ray | (16/11/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  During the Apollo lunar missions from 1968 to 1972 those onboard were given 16mm cameras and told to film anything and everything they could in space in orbit and on the surface of the moon itself. Two decades later filmmaker Al Reinert went into the NASA vaults to create this extraordinary compendium of their journeys and experiences. Assembled from hundreds of hours of the astronauts' own footage with a soundtrack made up of their memories and a specially composed score by Brian Eno the film takes the form of one journey to the moon and back again building with elegant simplicity and exquisite construction to create an overpowering vision of human endeavour and miraculous experience. At once intimate and awe-inspiring For All Mankind is a genuinely mesmerising first-hand document of one of the high points of the 20th century. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Criterion's beautiful high-definition restoration of the film for its UK home viewing premi''re in a comprehensive director-approved special edition Blu-ray.