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I was lucky enough to see this at the Cinerama Dome in Hollywood (California) the first time. Definitely worth seeing, but I recall a moment when the screen was filled with the lunar landscape. Because of where I was seated it filled my line of sight, and it gave me a slight insight into what it must have been like to actually be standing on the moon seeing it in person. It really drove home Edwin Aldrin's description, "Magnificent desolation."For All Of Mankind (1989) About the Apollo moon landings. If you are looking for a precise history of events this is not the movie for you! It is footage of the actual missions, but all jumbled up, even some Gemini space walk footage. All the narration is by the actual astronauts, no third persons. Some pretty spectacular film, even the ones where the lens was covered with Lunar dust. My favorite line was the one uttered by Pete Conrad, the third man to walk on the moon, "that may have been a small one for Neil, but that's a long one for me." Ironically, I now realize, if I had my choice, I would rather stay on the command modual circling the moon, think, only six men in all of history have circled the moon alone! I still can't believe there are people out there that don't believe we went to the moon! Incidentally, the flags only wave when the astronauts are putting them on the staff, the rest of the time they are motionless!