Documentaries
Here is an update to this list. I’m listing both movie documentaries and TV documentaries here. Best of the best The Battle Over Citizen Kane Bowling for Columbine Capitalism: A Love Story The Corporation Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner Eden: Untamed Planet Fahrenheit 9/11 Fahrenheit 11/9 The Fog of War For the Love of Spock […]
Prehistoric Planet (season 2)
{5/5} “Journey to a time when nature put on its greatest show.” Prehistoric Planet season 2, aired in 2023 This season’s episodes are divided into habitats: islands, badlands, swamps, oceans, and North America. Here are some of the dinosaurs shown: Giant pteurosaurs, even though they could obviously fly, did their hunting on the ground Isisaurus […]
This Changes Everything
{5/5} “Whenever the press announces ‘this changes everything’ I’m a little skeptical. That was supposed to happen after Thelma & Louise came out… It didn’t change anything.” — Geena Davis This Changes Everything, released in 2018 Hollywood movies have a huge impact, not just on North America but on the world. Most movies reflect the […]
What We Left Behind
{5/5} “The way you know we liked you was that you kept coming back, and your role kept getting better. That is how writers tell an actor that they like them more than anything.” — Ira Steven Behr, to Marc Alaimo What We Left Behind, released in 2018 When Star Trek: Deep Space Nine came […]
Documentaries
Here is an update to this list. I’m listing both movie documentaries and TV documentaries here. Best of the best The Battle Over Citizen Kane Bowling for Columbine Capitalism: A Love Story The Corporation Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner Eden: Untamed Planet Fahrenheit 9/11 Fahrenheit 11/9 The Fog of War For the Love of Spock […]
For the Love of Spock
{5/5} “There are 500 or 1000 who could play our characters effectively. There’s only one person who could play Mr. Spock.” — Walter Koenig For the Love of Spock, released in 2016 Leonard Nimoy worked for many years doing odd jobs while he did intermittent acting work. His first acting job that lasted more than […]
Apollo 11
{4.5/5} “Be advised, lots of smiling faces in this room and all over the world, over.” Apollo 11, released in 2019 The Apollo 11 mission landed on the Moon and returned to Earth in 1969. Thousands of people camped out to witness the spacecraft’s launch live. Hundreds of people were involved on the day, getting […]
Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb
{5/5} “When we cleaned the ground, we found four shafts filled with sand… If we can find the whole family buried in the shafts after 4500 years, that would be better than finding gold.” Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb, released in 2020 Saqqara is the oldest stone pyramid in the world. In 2018 Egyptian archaeologists […]
Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World
{5/5} “I don’t want you to listen to me. I want you to listen to the science.” Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World, aired in 2021 This 3-part documentary depicts the year that Greta Thunberg, a young climate activist, travelled to learn more about the changing climate from experts and to speak to […]
Prehistoric Planet (season 1)
{5/5} “His great size and his battle scars are evidence that he is a survivor, and that perhaps in her eyes makes him an attractive partner.” Prehistoric Planet (season 1), aired in 2022 Using the latest scientific information, this show brings to life new information about dinosaurs: Tyrannosaurus rex could swim, although their young would […]