Why I don’t watch TV shows at fifty and don’t recommend spending time on them, especially in my later years

In the world of Google and YouTube, almost all of us are more viewers and listeners than readers. Therefore, even the most interesting and richly illustrated books today are often on the shelves. At the same time, parents are looking for new ways to interest their children in learning. One of them is informative documentaries, from which it is simply impossible to break away!



In recent years, we have witnessed a real flourishing of documentary films. Thanks to streaming services, projects have appeared on all kinds of topics that bribe the viewer with realism and truthfulness. And even if you are over 50, they will help you quickly understand the most pressing issues of our time, without overloading with mountains of encyclopedias.

Cognitive documentary films Physics. British physicist and popularizer of science Jim Al-Khalili opens us the door to the amazing world of quantum physics.

"The Secrets of Quantum Physics," my new 2-part TV doc, starts on Tuesday 9 Dec on BBC4 t.co/429yJHjqk

— Jim Al-Khalili (@jimalkhalili) November 21, 2014



A world where objects can be in many places at once. Where particles can interact faster than the speed of light, and reality only exists when we observe it.

Geography. A fantastically beautiful BBC film about the nature of the South Pacific Ocean. Underwater volcanoes and deep-sea monsters, more than twenty thousand islands and a quarter of the total amount of water on the planet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBH1V4e8hpw

And 230 years after Captain Cook's voyage, many parts of the Pacific Ocean are not much better understood than the surface of Mars. Isn't that a way to get the young adventurer interested in geography?

History. The premiere of the documentary television series-anthology took place on April 25, 2017 on the National Geographic channel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=SICLBlHizUY

Each season is dedicated to the life of one of the scientists, artists, inventors who radically changed our world.

Biology. "Cage." Cell of life" We're all made of cells. When we breathe, move, think, all these processes are carried out by cells. And the more we learn about them, the more amazed we are.



British biologist Adam Rutherford tells how humanity has solved the mystery of life. This is one of the most exciting scientific stories.

The television series The Universe for 8 seasons covers topics related to space exploration, the solar system and astronomical objects in the universe.



The peculiarity of the series is that complex scientific phenomena are clearly explained by analogies from our lives. For example, if the Sun were the size of a dot at the end of this sentence, the galaxy it is in would be larger than the United States.

Art. "Abstraction: The Art of Design" Eight novels of the documentary series from Netfli tell about the outstanding designers of our time. They define the appearance of our cities, embody new models of clothes and shoes, set the style of what we see on the pages of print and online publications.

https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=wEAdvM4zgXM

Thanks to the talent of designers, the world is what it is. The series shows artists in their workshops and tries to find the sources of inspiration for people who know how to find beauty in the ordinary.