How about a movie thread?

[bobabode]

The Farthest--Voyager in Space by PBS (2017)

Get your space geek on and spin some Chuck Berry







The Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan

"Consider again that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam".

[Pio1980]

Wind River.
Mature themed serious story of justice in which a professional game tracker and a rookie FBI agent investigate the rape and death of a young native American woman.

[Chicks]

Dunkirk. Beautifully done. The nazi bastards are never seen, only their war machines at a distance. Thrilling Spitfire scenes from the pilots' perspectives. You will be cheering every time they are able to shoot down a German plane, preventing their evil carnage on hospital ships, civilian boats, and defenseless soldiers lined up on the beaches. No John Wayne heroism, just a highly realistic view of ordinary soldiers trying their best to survive, and ordinary civilians doing their best to rescue them.

It's impossible not to think about the current idiot neo nazis, and the idiot in chief's refusal to properly define them while watching this.

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertai...l-film/534252/

Nolan has made the film using practical effects rather than CGI whenever possible—he even spent $5 million on a vintage Luftwaffe plane in order to crash it—and the difference is palpable. Rarely has the beauty of aerial flight (or the unpleasantness of its failure) been captured so vividly.

[donquixote99]

Since it was a fascist aggressor Luftwaffe plane, I'll forgive him. But don't tell me if he crashed any Spitfires.

Odd movie--funny combination of beautiful realism and cinematic tricks, including hopping around in time, and the trick where one guy named Tommy becomes symbolic of hundreds of thousands. Understated--very British actually. I wasn't quite sure how much to like it, but it's growing on me rapidly.

[bobabode]

'Destination Tokyo' '43 w/ Cary Grant and a slew of fresh faced kids on TCM.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destination_Tokyo

[bobabode]

'The Trees' A documentary about the forest planted at the WTC Memorial in NYC on PBS. Very cool. http://www.pbs.org/video/treasures-n...trees-preview/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation...ial_%26_Museum

[Dondilion]

Originally Posted by bobabode

'The Trees' A documentary about the forest planted at the WTC Memorial in NYC on PBS. Very cool.

Indeed, "a sense of restoration."

[bobabode]

2013 - Docudrama about Simon Bolivar on PBS

[donquixote99]

Wind River. Bleak and hard cop thriller. I don't know if breathing hard in sub-zero cold can really have the effect shown, but some guys could have gotten away with murder because of it. Mainly because in general no one cares that much about dead Indian girls. FBI girl did, however.

[donquixote99]

Not exactly a movie. Episode 3 of the new Star Trek, 'Context is for Kings,' is good! No ship-to-ship battles, which is helpful I think....

You'll need to watch episodes 1 & 2, for context. It's worth it.