8. History of the World in Two Hours
Site score 4, IMDb score 4; Overalll score= 8
Directed by Douglas Cohen
Year: 2011
Ill-wishers would say that only Americans would aspire to jam the entire history of the world from Earth’s creation to Moon landing in two hours. But once you weed out all the less important details, like which king fought whom, which battle was waged on what river and when, two hours seems like a decent time frame. By focusing on the important stuff, like the creation of life and spread of human civilization, the show heavily uses CGI to illustrates the most important events in history and explain how they affect our life today, even though millennium may have passed since they happened. For instance, how did the spread of vast grasslands 7 million years ago forced apes to abandon trees and adapt to their new environment, eventually evolving into Homo sapiens.
