i wanna go to a real one but they’re open like 5 hours a day
well 7 but i am not voluntarily leaving the house before noon
Is Planet Earth cheating? Is David Attenborough in general cheating?
I don’t care how many times I watch it, it’s one of my comfort shows (miniseries?).
If you want something a bit different, I’d recommend Life On Earth. This was the first of the Attenborough ‘big’ documentaries and broke the mold. It is perhaps more scientifically rigorous than the the later series - more aimed at explanation than spectacle, but fantastic imho
Blue Planet and Blue Planet 2 too
Anything by Ken Burns. I really enjoyed the ones about the dust bowl and the national park system.
I realize they’re not specifically art related, but his documentaries just give an art museum feel to me.
The BBC Historic Farm Series is a collection of docuseries about daily life on English/Welsh farms from the Tudor period to WW2, with each series following a group of people spending a full year on a farm in each period. They show you all the ins and outs of life as it would have been in each era, and it’s like traveling back in time, a living museum.
The first series, Tales From The Green Valley, is available in full on archive.org, and is my favorite of the bunch. One episode per month of a year, on a little farm in Stuart-era England. It’s lovely.
Not a documentary, not even close, but Joe Pera Talks With You.
They are old, and are based around the ratter unfashionable ‘great men of history’ framework, but still fantastic in my view
Both produced by David Attenborough, then controller of bbc2. I’ve seen civilization which is great, think I better try Ascent of man.
There are plenty of museums on Google maps where the inside of the museum has been captured, so you can walk through it at your own pace and look where you want, rather than relying on a documentary maker to choose on your behalf.
Sister Wendy. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QBv0HezlOBw
If you’re short on time I recommend Great Art Explained in 15 Minutes. May not be exactly what you’re looking for but the creator puts in a lot of work and you get to learn some really interesting things about art pieces and the artists who made them.
My octopus teacher
Samsara
One of my favorite movies of all time, but it’s pretty emotionally intense. Not a movie I associate with “strolling through” anything.
Sister Wendy
this is wonderful, thank you i’ve always heard people mention virtual travel and i figured it was like google street view + zoom quality; this is brilliant
If you search YouTube for “walking” and a city name you’ll get a lot of virtual tours. I do it for Tokyo a lot and it’s almost like being there walking the streets. Example: https://youtu.be/Ze42hH2GzHc
