WONDERLAND: SCIENCE FICTION IN THE ATOMIC AGE

A weaving of the evolution of sci-fi and the history that helped to shape it

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Director: Adrian Munsey Length: Four episodes Streaming: Sky Released: Out now

Have you ever noticed how sometimes two movies can land with very similar ideas behind them? Dante's Peak and Volcano, Deep Impact and Armageddon, The Truman Show and EDtv. They're apparently called 'twin films' and it happens quite a lot. The underlying theory of why tends to look at social circumstances; that events in the world have inspired creative minds to think along similar lines. Adrian Munsey's four-part documentary looking at the history of science fiction spends much of its time connecting those threads.

From the first written science fiction to multi-million dollar film franchises, this documentary series connects the dots between events in the world and the stories they inspired. The first episode looks at the first sci-fi, like Mary Shelley's