OutRun2

I just watched both 2001 and Primer, and I'm hungry for more. I love the subject of time travel or space travel, and would like to watch any documentaries on dvd about either subject. Anything out there available worth watching? A&E? The History channel?

dhmac

Have you seen Cosmos featuring Carl Sagan? It is long and covers the history of science mainly, but has a lot on space too (and even a little on time travel due to Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity).

And for a visually great space documentary, I recommend Cosmic Voyage narrated by Morgan Freeman, which is an IMAX documentary on the scale of things, from sub-atomic size to the furthest reaches of space.

pro-bassoonist

Not a conventional time travel production yet very much influenced by it...Donnie Darko.

Pro-B

Supermallet

This made me think of the Stephen Hawking documentary A Brief History of Time, which amazingly seems to be out of print on DVD.

If you want some reading material on time travel, Wikipedia's entry on it is pretty good:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_travel

TGM

Duh. There is only one answer, and it is Kris Kristoffobvious.

Millenium.

Groucho

Yeah, Donnie Darko and Millennium are fantastic documentaries!

OutRun2

LOL Donnie Darko and Millenium are movies!

Or are there two actual documentaries that share the same name?

I've already seen DD. Thought it was OK but nothing special. Great soundtrack though

pro-bassoonist

Actually, I think that I misread your post then. The first sentence has two films and hungry for more. So, I assumed that you wanted features plus documentaries.

Anyhow, disregard my initial post then.

Pro-B

dhmac

You also might want to check out The History Channel's space show now on DVD: The Universe: Season 1.

dhmac

And for a pseudo-documentary-like drama, you could check out "Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets" (aka "Voyage to the Planets and Beyond") which is supposed to be scientifically-accurate.

OutRun2

That looks pretty cool :thumb:

berserker37

I don't think it's OOP, I think it was never put out on DVD (yet). Hopefully soon, with a bunch of extras.

Glad I still had a VHS copy, which I was happy to burn onto a DVD.

The movie is actually more about Stephen Hawking himself than an explanation of "A Brief History Of Time", although it does touch on some of his theories and discoveries. Like most Errol Morris movies, it is about more than it's apparent subject, and it is fascinating.

Drexl

A documentary on time travel? I don't think there are any. The problem is, you know, finding some real time travelers to interview and film in the act of time travel.