Some people think that watching documentaries is a pastime, but in fact, documentaries, especially popular science documentaries, can solve many embarrassing situations and practical problems in life.
For example, my son asked me yesterday, "Mom, what's the difference between an octopus and a squid?" "I just happened to watch a documentary about sea life, and I blurted out, 'The octopus has a big head, and it's particularly clever; the squid's head is small and stupid. Octopus has eight 'hands' and squid have ten 'hands'. Octopus likes to dive, squid like to swim fast, so octopus may one day rule the world, while squid can only play survival games! The son was instantly flickered to the point where his pupils exploded.
Therefore, a good and practical popular science documentary should be like what we say to children, using the simplest and most understandable language to convey the most boring knowledge points, if you can also be humorous, it is more intimate.
Not only parent-child interaction, but also workplace interviews, date parties, exotic trips, wild expeditions, or accidental accidents, the more cold knowledge you have, the greater your living space, and the stronger your sense of acquisition at that moment.
During the winter vacation, in addition to urging children to do winter vacation homework, it is better to accompany children to watch popular science documentaries, in addition to strengthening the parent-child relationship, your life pattern may have opened up another dimension.
Guns
Late one night in early 1887, a breathless French soldier crossed the heavily defended border and defected to Germany. Just as the German officers were perfunctory, the French deserter put a rifle in front of them and offered him 20,000 marks, the price equivalent to 400 Mauser 1827 rifles in use by the German army. Is this guy crazy? No, because this gun applied the most cutting-edge French military technology at that time - smokeless gunpowder.
Screenshot of Guns
I have watched this 2014 documentary and have always been obsessed with it. The content hardcore is not exaggerated, so far, the lens density is high, and there is no need to open the double speed. The small historical stories related to guns in the film are told with relish, from point to noodle, pulling and pulling just right.
The documentary discusses pistols, rifles, submachine guns and other episodes, starting from the world's first revolver, how did the submachine gun, known as the "Chicago typewriter", be brought by gangsters? Why is the M88 rifle called a "Jewish rifle"? What material is the originator of the rifle, the fire bolt?
Believe me, throwing such a film to the boys who are preparing to break up their houses during the winter vacation will definitely return you to a long-lost single time.
In addition, the documentary "War Machines – Battlefield Behemoths!" "The Final Destruction" is a good choice of military themes.
"Creation Says: A Few Steps in Total"
Song Dandan asked: Put the elephant in the refrigerator and divide it into several steps?
Everything is logical. Friends who like DIY and like to create their own things have noticed that this is a strong series, and the volume of each episode of about 20 minutes is basically dry goods. Small shots shuttling between factory production lines and 3D2D animation are also quite healing for obsessive-compulsive patients.
Poster of "Creation Says: A Few Steps in Total"
How is lipstick made? Configuring the color turned out to be the first step in lipstick production;
The first step in hiking boots turned out to be rubber;
How are smartphones made? The first step is to make the screen, how does the screen come about? How did the shot come about? After watching this episode of mobile phones, at least you will no longer be fooled by mobile phone repair shops.
This kind of documentary is small and bright, with the visual opening method of shooting advertising films, calm text, coupled with clear knowledge points, enough to make your brain waves over-emit, it does not matter how much you can remember after watching it, what is important is that these questions are no longer foreign to you.
I have always had a prejudice against the creation of things, making practical things is not cattle, making practical and romantic things is cattle, such as the master who made a skewer piano on a certain sound, the piano keys and salt dancing together, dreams and cumin flying together, absolutely!
"Strange Art Museum"
What would happen if the world's famous paintings came alive?
This brain-opening "Strange Art Museum", which must be counted at the end of the year, is really a high-end material for traveling with children, plagiarizing at annual meetings, and gatherings of relatives and friends.
"Musée Quirk" is an art documentary "A Musée vous, à musée moi" produced by ARTE in France, with 350 performers, 24 characters, interesting dialogue, witty atmosphere, and a world famous painting every three episodes.
The opening credits of "Strange Art Museum"
Friendly reminder, watching this documentary, you must know a little about the history of Western art, otherwise you may not get the lines in the film that are shocking.
The characters in the famous paintings, a mouth is spitting, either spitting on their own adult sitting with back pain, or spitting that the painter actually did not paint the strings for the piano, resulting in his inability to play, and even complaining that the other party's name is too long, occupying most of the position in the introduction column... The eighth wife is the Mona Lisa with a charming smile, she likes to call and complain when she has nothing to do, saying that she has worked for the museum for so many years, has not received a dime, and also complained that in the painting opposite, someone eats barbecue.
Complained that someone was eating a roast Mona Lisa
These people in the painting who were originally high up in the sky suddenly took the ground, and the French people engaged in this set of very good, they liked to break all the shackles and prove their unique taste.
Mona Lisa emojis
If you feel that you are still unfinished after watching it, you can also match the British art historian Grandma Wendy's masterpiece "Grandma Wendy Tells 1000 World Famous Paintings", or Chen Danqing's program "Partial", and Zhou Bing's "When the Forbidden City Meets the Louvre" is also a good choice.
Chinese Plants That Influenced the World
There are 35,000 known plant species in China, accounting for one-tenth of the world's plants, from the primary forest of the Brahmaputra River Gorge, to the oldest source of Chinese tea trees, to artemisinin in the central highlands of Africa, the life journey of 28 plants in 21 families is presented in this film.
The long worldwide migration of Chinese plants is also related to climate change in China's complex geographical environment. Plants 3.5 billion years ago, from the cells of the ocean to the land, developed into moss, and then from the ground cover plants to stand up little by little, developed into lush towering trees... Little by little, the evolutionary history of plants is also mixed with the figure of human beings, tea, grains, and various fruits, with the arrival of plants, selflessly dedicated to human beings.
Poster of "Chinese Plants That Influenced the World"
"Chinese Plants That Influenced the World" has a total of ten episodes, each episode is 50 minutes, which is the longest 4K documentary in China. In terms of audiovisual effects, it is comparable to documentary blockbusters, and before "Chinese Plants Affecting the World", director Li Chengcai was well known for his "financial trilogy" ("Wall Street", "Money", "Centennial Finance"). With the scientific rigor and big pattern of doing financial themes, this documentary with plants as the protagonist can be called a bloody work.
Friends who are interested in biodiversity can take a look, and they can often take out two brushes and three brushes, because the picture is too eye-catching.
《Universe》
What puzzles us is some key questions, such as how the universe came to be... With doubts and awe of the universe, Brian Cox, a professor of high-energy physics at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom, explores and discovers everything curious in the universe with the audience in the vastness of time and space.
Cosmos poster
There have been many documentaries on the theme of the universe, either too realistic to drop the book bag, or the gods and gods are nagging and confusing for some reason. This documentary is very humble, and the visual effects achieve the kind of life perception that in the vast universe, you and I are just a grain of dust.
"The Age of Starlight is a very brief moment in the endless history of the universe, and the Dark Ages will continue."
The film's philosophical angle is also just right, telling the various historical events and excellent attractions of the universe in an almost poetic way, Professor Brian is like a magician, with the assistant actor called the universe, traveling through time and space. The picture moves slowly, you can look closely as if you were wandering in a museum, secretly tasting, accompanied by grand music, as if you are in the universe.
This Professor Brian is not small, and is the most famous "Internet celebrity scholar" in the United Kingdom. He cooperated with the BBC to launch a series of popular science documentaries such as "Planet", "Miracle of the Solar System", "Miracle of the Universe", "Miracle of Life" and so on, which are also worth watching.
At the end of each episode, scientists and researchers come out to tell the "cosmic exploration" that has a deep impact on them, which is very destructive to those who love astronomy.
Ah! Design》
"Design あ" ("Ah! Design" is a design education program for children on NHK Television in Japan. Taku Satoh, a well-known designer with a "design mentality, everyone must have", serves as the film's artistic director. Although it is a design show for children, each episode invites heavyweight designers to tell the interesting and inspiring places in the design, chase the origin of the design, and analyze all aspects of life through the inconspicuous small details and small designs in life, involving all aspects of life, such as soy sauce bottles, cakes, packages, pens, lights, sushi, bento, currency, musical instruments, umbrellas, glasses, chairs, etc.
Even playing cards can be removed...
After reading it, you will understand that every successful designer has no shortage of the most subtle observations about life, such as the recent strange woman in the cake industry who can cut everything, do you think she is cutting a net of oranges? That's cake; you think she's cutting the wall? That's still cake. Because her ability to make cakes to imitate all things is really unrecognizable to the naked eye.
Two Hundred Years of Surgery
Medical topics are worth seeing, even if they are generally photographed, because medical knowledge is closely related to us ordinary people. I watched "My White Coat 2" a few days ago, and I immediately became much clearer about how to distinguish lupus erythematosus and ordinary rashes. "Two Hundred Years of Surgery" is more worth seeing, because the growth of human life expectancy depends on the advancement of medicine and the rise of surgery.
Poster for Two Hundred Years of Surgery
This film begins with where surgery comes from. The film covers the past, present, and future of anatomy, anesthesia sterilization and hemostasis, abdominal surgery, craniotomy, heart transplant replacement surgery, cancer, and more.
Parkinson's disease why the hands are shaking, after watching this documentary, you may not only say one or two, but even three or four.
"The Great Meal"
After "China on the Tip of the Tongue", the food documentary automatically stood in a row, making people mistakenly think that filming food can be filmed no matter how. The reason why I recommend the film "The Great Meal" is because it more or less jumps out of the rigid routine of food documentaries. The documentary answers two key questions: How did food shape humanity? How will food change the future of humanity?
Poster of "The Great Meal"
Every child in the village of La Marella dreams of one day becoming a whaler. Day after day, in order to throw a pole two to three times higher than himself, he jumped fearlessly into the sea.
In the season when even fur seals can't be fought, Inuit hunters rely on experience to go to the ice cave under the glacier and pick the only mussel that can resist the cold, helping the family survive the winter. Natural changes, lack of food, the Inuit also began to disappear.
The Bajau people held their breath for 5 minutes, overcame the buoyancy of the sea, and dived into the bottom of the sea at 15 meters alone, just to prevent their families from starving.
Putting food in different environments and in different character relationships has uniqueness. After watching the film for many years, I still remember the way the elderly couple in Hokkaido, Japan, after a hard day's work, made a large plate of sashimi to treat themselves.
"If National Treasures Could Talk"
Since the advent of this film, it has brought a wave of national treasure fever, although each episode is only 5 minutes, but the content is not light. In order to shoot the documentary, the main creative team traveled all over the country, shooting nearly 100 museums and archaeological research institutes, and more than 50 archaeological sites. In the end, 100 national treasures were selected from 3,856,268 precious cultural relics across the country.
"If National Treasures Could Talk" has a total of 100 episodes and is broadcast in four seasons. The creators said, "What can be walked, what can be photographed, we all have to shoot... Gold, silver, copper, wood, stone; religious, humanistic, realistic, abstract; tall, mighty, small, exquisite", what is to be.
Poster of "If National Treasures Could Talk"
In the museum, you can only look at a rough treasure through the glass, and the details are enlarged in the documentary, accompanied by very interesting knowledge points, short and concise, cutting into the point, the so-called "charging five minutes, through 8000 years".
"Mendeleev is Busy"
Mendeleev was a busy Russian scientist in the 19th century who devoted himself to Arctic exploration, named after an undersea mountain range in the Arctic Ocean. He flew alone in an air balloon and flew to an altitude of 3,000 meters to collect meteorological data. It is said that the bags he made also have a place in the fashion industry. He spent a tenth of his life studying chemistry.
This documentary is guided by this scientist, in the form of pictures, animations, real scenes and expert interpretations, etc., to take us from the chemical elements to understand the world of life.
Poster of "Mendeleev Is Busy"
For example, oxygen and nitrogen, a pair of good friends, tolerate each other and encourage each other, giving life to all things on the earth. Just like people have a sharp temper and a chronic child, high cold and lively, there are also very different "personalities" between the elements. Copper, very "stable", even if it is put into dilute hydrochloric acid and dilute sulfuric acid, it does not dissolve, the Statue of Liberty is a bronze statue. Other metallic elements are very reactive, like calcium, which, due to their activity, are always combined with other elements, such as the formation of calcium carbonate. A large piece of calcium carbonate is the first artifact of architecture in ancient times, marble.
A popular science documentary on chemistry, but also a "chemical documentary that can increase dopamine!" ”
Explain Everything
This is a popular science documentary jointly produced by Netflix and VOX, and the Chinese given by the producer is called "Pop Encyclopedia", and the domestic translation is called "Explain Everything".
Since the beginning of this film in 2018, the average score of the three seasons of Douban has remained at 8.5 points.
Explain Everything poster
Each episode talks about a topic such as sugar, dieting, esports, tattoos, alien life, cults, plastic surgery, animal intelligence...
A few of the episodes I love, including chess, the next plague, etc., the most interesting of which is "Are we overusing exclamation points!?" In this episode, linguists and copywriters explore the evolution of punctuation between different historical periods, literature, and online languages.
The most rare thing in the film is that the preset without a position, the various views are played at will, and the bricks and stones are thrown, although it is not deep enough, but it is enough to arouse interest, after all, the original kinetic energy of the operation of the world is the curiosity of human beings.