For All Mankind Documentary Review

Cinema started with dreams about trips to the moon with George Melies. He envisioned the moon as a hostile place, filled with alien creatures. What captivated audiences was the sense of exploration, of going to a world unlike our own. It wasn’t until decades later that NASA began making real trips to the moon and discovered that the moon is really just a ball of dust which reflects the sunlight and the most hostile thing about it is your space suit ripping. 

Melies provided us with a fantasy view of the moon, the Lumieres provided us with documentary views of life. Al Reinart’s documentary provides us with a glimpse of both the moon and life. He takes footage of real trips to the moon and multiple interviews from those who made those trips. 

Watching this was inspiring two me in two ways: 1) Our desire to explore and to take bold steps. This is an amazing achievement both in exploration and in cinema. It really is a gripping documentary seeing all the incredible footage from launch to lunar. 

But 2) Just how incredible God is to create this vast universe. And how Job 28 says we can search the depths of the sea and the vastness of the universe for wisdom, but only God has true wisdom. When God speaks, that’s where wisdom is found. 

This doc will be well worth your time! Check it out.