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I am especially interested in the initial migrations into the Americas 15,000+ years ago, but our community is small and my interests large, so... any great documentaries are welcome.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

More of an An Idiot Abroad fan myself, but good pick

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Perhaps Herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010), if that counts.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There's a documentary I saw that documented what people in prehistoric times were doing right before they were preserved. For example, there's one part of it taking place in sixty thousand BC about a little girl who got polio when she was young, and it chronicles how her parents must've cared for her because they binge-fed her delicious berries, as seen by the teeth evidence. It's nice to know people were "remembering the human" even before humans existed and they inspired a few elaborate works of art I made depicting those scenes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

If you can remember the name, I'd love to check it out. I was a mortician for a decade and was obsessed with stuff like that as a little girl. I have a plethora of knowledge about this stuff but you can never know too much

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm definitely showing my age here, but the team who made Walking With Dinosaurs created a while line of "walking with" and, while the CG DEFINITELY did not hold up, the science is still pretty decent.

  • Walking with Monsters (pre-dinos)
  • Walking with Dinosaurs
  • Walking with Beasts (post-dinos)
  • Walking with Cavemen

The latter, over 100 scientists worked on to try and make it as accurate as possible.
Don't watch the 'Chased by Sea Monsters" one though... for some reason, they changed up the formula and had a guy pretend he was traveling back in time and doing a Steve Irwin on the marine reptiles. It's just terrible.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Did you watch Prehistoric Planet last year? The CG in that series is gorgeous

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Yes, I need to do a free trial so I can watch the new season. It's incredible

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

'Das Fest des Huhnes' which parodises western/european exotism, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_Fest_des_Huhnes?wprov=sfla1

It's more cultural/social anthropology tho