For All Mankind is a 1989 documentary film made of original footage from NASA's Apollo program, which successfully prepared and landed the first humans on the Moon from 1968 to 1972.

[2] The idea for this documentary film began in 1979[3] after Reinert had researched a story about the Apollo program for Texas Monthly and learned that huge amounts of high-quality footage had been shot by the astronauts, only to be archived by NASA without ever being seen by the public.

The title of For All Mankind comes from the lunar plaque left by the Apollo 11 astronauts: Here men from the planet Earth First set foot upon the Moon July 1969, A. D. We came in peace for all mankind The excerpt of President John F. Kennedy's Address to Rice University on the Nation's Space Effort on 12 September 1962 that is included in the film is slightly altered to better conform to this title.

We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard ...."[5]Reinert dubbed over "people" with "mankind", the audio of which was taken from a different Kennedy speech.

They also include a commentary track by director Al Reinert and Eugene A. Cernan, commander of Apollo 17 and the last man to stand on the surface of the Moon.