We’re here to alleviate those volatile few minutes when you’re food is still hot and you’re frantically searching for something to watch while you enjoy dinner. Well, if you like science documentaries, that is. Here is our round-up of a few science documentaries for you to have queued up! Let’s get started.
Night on Earth
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If you’ve ever wondered just what this big, beautiful world is up to while we’re warm in our bed, in a deep slumber, then check out Night on Earth on Netflix to find out. Viewers can enjoy six episodes about what goes on outside of our doors after we’re long settled in! We would suggest a similar documentary, only one that occurs on and in the ocean, but then we may never sleep again.
The Social Dilemma
This documentary kinda just proves what we already know as far as social media having quite the impact on our lives, not only in the form of “influencing” but also manipulating. The documentary also further explores how platforms gather data to create ads that are programmed to be appealing to us, and how there aren’t really a lot of regulations stopping them. So if you’ve never had the urge to delete all of your apps and hurl your smartphone off of a cliff, you will after you watch this.
Crip Camp
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It was the early 1970s, located in the Catskill Mountains in New York sat a camp known as Camp Jened. What was special about this camp was that it was only for teenagers with disabilities. For many at this time, it was the only place where campers felt seen, felt heard, and for once in their lives, felt like everybody else. Viewers will enjoy a number of interviews, news footage, even learn of a counselor that went on to become a leader of the disability rights movement. Heumann, a polio survivor who served as a special adviser at the US Department of State under then-president Barack Obama, recalls: “This camp is where we had those conversations in the bunks late at night that made us realize, hey, there’s this civil rights movement going on around us, why aren’t we a part of it?” So if you’re in the market for something uplifting and inspiring, Crip Camp is worth a watch!
The Pharmacist
You didn’t think we were going to list documentaries and not include a true documentary, did you? Are you new here? The Pharmacist is about, well, a pharmacist of course, by the name of Dan Schneider, and after losing his son in a drug-related shooting, he makes it his life’s mission to educate us all about our nation’s dangerous opioid addiction.