Documentary recommendations

[highwaystar101]

A203D said:

highwaystar101 said:

It's documentaries about things like aliens and time travel. It's so easy with those topics to fall into the trap of saying things the viewer wants to hear. It's easy to say "Yeah aliens exist" for most of the documentary, but only mention how extremely unlikely it is once or twice. Take the viewer on some fantasy trip.

It's just my personal preference that I find with documentaries. I imagine that I'm in the minority to be honest, I think most people would like that kind of documentary.

One person who falls into that trap a lot (even though I think he's ace) is Michio Kaku.

That and action. Documentaries should have a little action as possible, unless completely justified. So many documentaries about the big bang have been ruined by having a CGI explosion every five minutes to represent the big bang (which is just as misleading as anything else too).

Luckily BBC understand this very well, and that's why they are the best at making documentaries lol.

Yeah, i know what you mean about that.. like travelling at the speed of light on the train, or how orbiting a super massive black hole will slow time down. but tbh honest these are the types of things that will interest people, the idea of exciting things like aliens will interest the general viewer who dosent have much insight in these things.

which is what i think he wants to do, because science is considered difficult by the general public.

sadly i'm not well versed in physics or mathematics, so i'm not sure who Michio Kaku is, but i know what you mean the bbc ones are very good in that respect, the Brian Cox one was very, very good. hopefully they continue it next year.

i recommend watching this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00vdkmj

it was on just recently about what some scientists believe happened before the big bang. quite possibly the best one i've seen, the end part was really interesting!!

Yeah, I actually watched that particular documentary twice. It was very good. Actually I mentioned it earlier in this thread.

Horizon has a great way of making almost any topic very interesting.There are some good one's from the past few series that may be worth tracking down if you liked that one, 'Who's afraid of a big black hole' and 'How long is a piece of string?'