Doc and Bob's Disney Adventures

  Release Date: August 2020 Watch Date: May 24 - May 25, 2023 "They've shared the ocean for millennia, but scientists have only just begun to understand the complex relationship between sharks and dolphins. Sharks vs. Dolphins follows a team of experts as they travel to the epicenter of this savage struggle - Shark Bay, Australia - to unlock the secrets of shark and dolphin combat using new research and cutting-edge technology."     Shame on us, really, for expecting Sharks vs Dolphins: Blood Battle, to be anything but an over dramatized documentary made specifically for Shark Week, to pull in viewers in the hopes of maybe educating them. It was Bob's pick, and I'm not sure if he was genuinely interested in it, or if he just picked the most over the top sounding documentary on the list.     Either way he was sick of it by the end.     Honestly, and sadly for the poor scientists being involved in this documentary, no new information is really distribute...

  Release Date: November 27, 1996 Watch Date: May 4 - May 10, 2023 "The 1692 Salem witch trials are brought vividly to life in this compelling adaptation of Arthur Miller's play, directed by Nicholas Hytner, which stars Daniel Day-Lewis and Winona Ryder. When a group of teenage girls is accused of witchcraft, they accuse various townspeople as having bewitched them. As hysteria mounts, blameless victims are torn from their homes, leading to a devastating climax."     Remember that thing where we occasionally read classics? We done did it again. And once again, there was a movie.      First of all, I didn't realize John Proctor was played by Daniel Day-Lewis until I saw the above movie poster, and I also spent the first part of watching referring to Wynona Ryder as Natalie Portman. So, safe to say, Bob is better at recognizing as actors than I am. But I don't think that takes away from my general enjoyment of movies.     This movie is incredib...

  Release Date: 2019 Watch Date: May 21 - May 22, 2023 "High in the Peruvian Andes lies the ancient city of Machu Picchu, a lost city of doorways and passages that hint at the ghosts of its past. Who were the mysterious people who built it and why? The answers lie below the surface, and mummy kings wait to share their stories. But will these revelations finally lay the ghosts of Machu Picchu to rest?"     The city of Machu Picchu is an engineering marvel, and one that we will never fully understand the purpose behind - but this documentary does a fairly good job of trying to provide plausible explanations for both it's creation, use, and eventual abandonment.     The Inca did not write in the traditional sense, using a form of knots tied in ropes as their main means of expressing information to one another, and while that is very cool, it doesn't give archaeologists a lot to work with when it comes to actually discovering the purposes behind certain rituals or l...

  Release Date: 2016 Watch Date: May 21, 2023 "On September 11, 2001, one hundred and eighty-four innocent people lost their lives at the Pentagon. It is a fact that is fading from our collective memory. Today, it's not uncommon to find people who don't know that the Pentagon was even a target - let alone the huge number of casualties. Though they helped define a generation, the individual acts of bravery and heroism that took place at the Pentagon are still relatively unknown. This documentary delivers the most complete and largely untold story of what happened behind the walls of one of America's most secretive buildings on September 11, 2001, the day that forever changed the world."      The blurb for this special isn't wrong, the fact that a plane hit the Pentagon is not an often talked about part of the events of 9/11. The attack on the World Trade Center, and the brave civilians who retook their hijack aircraft before it could make it's way to Washin...

  Release Date: April 18, 2015 Watch Date: May 18, 2023 "Since it's launch in 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope has captured thousands of stunning images of space, revolutionized our understanding of the universe and become a global icon. To mark it's 25th anniversary, National Geographic Channel tells the definitive story of NASA's most successful science project ever, in Hubble's Cosmic Journey, narrated by Neil deGrasse Tyson."     Regardless of your feelings on Neil deGrasse Tyson, of which there are many highly varied ones, he has a nice voice. You can't really argue that. And when that nice voice is used to confidently explain anything about space, which it usually is, you can't help but want to listen. I think people even retain information better when Neil deGrasse Tyson says it. So it makes complete and perfect sense you would have him narrate a documentary about the Hubble Space Telescope, and it makes even more sense that the documentary woul...

  Release Date: 2015 Watch Date: May 17, 2023 "Big Red - one kangaroo's epic battle against the outback. The parched central deserts of the red heartland of Australia are home to the toughest kangaroo on the planet - the mighty Red. Above all, this is a story of survival against the odds and what it takes to endure drought, heatwave, and bushfire. Red struggles to prove his strength, not only against others of his kind, but against the very land itself."     I have never watched a documentary on kangaroos before, which seems surprising to me. I actually know surprisingly very little about kangaroos, or I did before this documentary - because it is actually surprisingly informative.     This documentary follows one male kangaroo, from birth, gives him a curious personality, and charters his story from legless peanut to the king of the mob, which is an amazing title for any animal. Bob doesn't think they followed the same kangaroo for five years, especially becaus...