Big History (2013)

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Length

1 season, 17 episodes

Rating

7.8 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary series takes a single topic from history and shows how it connects to many different sciences and social sciences. Narrated by Bryan Cranston, it looks at the big picture of how events are linked across time and fields.

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What happens

Big History is an American television documentary series narrated by Bryan Cranston, which originally aired on H2 in 2013. It won the 35th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Graphic Design and Art Direction. Each episode covers a single topic from history and shows connections between that topic and various fields of science and social science. Sixteen half-hour episodes aired in the first season, followed by a two-hour finale drawing connections between the sixteen topics. The series has been criticized by Media Life Magazine for its factual inaccuracies. The series takes its title from a coinage by David Christian who describes Big History as an emerging academic discipline and approach to history that is less interested in wars and monarchs than it is in the way events are connected thematically and even molecularly, back to the Big Bang. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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