Film · 1989 · Films · 1980s
For All Mankind
Scored from 36 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).
Summary
Al Reinert's documentary edits NASA footage from the nine Apollo missions that flew to the Moon between 1968 and 1972 into a single composite voyage: suiting up, launch, the coast out, the landing, the surface, and the trip home. There is no narrator and no talking heads; the soundtrack is assembled from mission audio and from interviews Reinert recorded with the astronauts, none of whom are identified on screen, over a score written for the film by Brian Eno. The emphasis falls on what the crews saw and said in transit, from weightless horseplay and housekeeping to the look of the Earth through a window, rather than on the politics of the space race.
For All Mankind (1989) is a film IMDb files under the documentary and history genres. It was made in the United States. The runtime is 80 minutes.
Only 36 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 36 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1980s films — 3,141 of them.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where For All Mankind lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against Films · 1980s (3,141 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 36.
Cohort: Films · 1980s
