| Rocketmen | |
| Director: | Richard Dale |
| Producer: | Tim Goodchild Michael Kemp Peter Parnham |
| Narrator: | Michael J. Reynolds |
| Music: | Richard Blair-Oliphant |
| Editing: | Peter Parnham |
| Studio: | Dangerous Films |
| Distributor: | Sony Pictures Entertainment |
| Released: | (Japan) |
| Runtime: | 1 hour 32 minutes |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
Rocketmen is a 2009 documentary directed and written by Richard Dale. The film is narrated by Michael J. Reynolds.[1]
This was BBC Worldwide's first science film release[2] and it grossed $1.2 million from being shown theatrically on 104 screens in Japan in 2009 (performing at number 16 nationally on its opening weekend),[3] in addition to subsequent release on various international television outlets and on Netflix.
Using archival footage, this film explores the American space program, from the Mercury program through Gemini program through the return to space after the Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster.[4]