Documentaries are meant to entertain audiences, but some, particularly science fiction documentaries, educate viewers by uniquely presenting science and its wonders. These documentaries also become visually striking because they showcase new technologies and world patterns that not only engage and entertain viewers to a higher level but also foretell the future of this technology. These sci-fi documentaries are released on different platforms such as Max, Discovery+, and Amazon Prime and have immense success due to their unique stories.
Top 7 Sci-Fi Documentaries That Nailed Future Predictions
Below are the Top 7 Sci-Fi Documentaries That Nailed Future Predictions. HBO Max in Canada has a remarkable collection of documentaries, and its documentary collection alone contains enough treasures for hours of captivating viewing.
1) My Octopus Teacher
Craig Foster, a friendly documentary filmmaker, decided to dive daily in a chilly underwater kelp forest close to his Cape Town, South Africa, home. He encountered an octopus hiding from sharks during one of these dives. After witnessing such intricate and captivating behavior, Foster decided to visit the octopus and follow her about over the next year. As the octopus eventually replied, greeted him, and even played with him, Foster started to chart the areas of similarity between the two vastly disparate types of intellect.
My Octopus Teacher won two categories at the Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards: Best Science/Nature Documentary and Best Cinematography. It combined Foster’s footage with excellent, iridescent camerawork by underwater expert Roger Horrocks, responsible for some of the most memorable scenes in the BBC series Our Planet and Blue Planet II.
It’s an emotional depiction about curiosity, play, and trust, and it’s not simply another nature documentary. Foster makes several humorous, strange claims due to his intense study and emotional investment; he indicates that octopuses and humans are not alike.
2) Dune (2021)
Dune is an exciting depiction set in the future, where advanced technologies and space travel occur on various planets. The story is about a young man, Paul Atreides, born of the mighty Atreides family. His family gets an allotment of a desert planet called Arrakis, the only host planet of a valuable substance known as spice. This spice is essential for space travel, so whoever controls this product maintains much power.
On the desert planet of Arrakis, many perils play out against Paul’s family by their enemies. The longer Paul is on this planet, the more he has visions about the desert people- the Fremen and of a girl in his vision. He and his family would have to learn about desert survival and figure out these situations.
Dune was released on 22nd October 2021 and is exclusively available on Max.
3) Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Blade Runner 2049 is a masterpiece that will surely blow your mind with its captivating storyline and stunning 3D animation. The story happens in the future when, for the first time, humans create artificial beings called replicants and put them to hard labor. One such replicant was K, who works as a “blade runner” tasked with tracking down and retiring the older generation of replicants.
On one of these missions, K discovers the impossible: a replicant has given birth to a child. This revelation could explain why, at this point, a war between humans and replicants had not emerged. It is just then that K is ordered to find and destroy the child, while he instead becomes driven to understand his existence and creation.
While finding the truth, K searches out Rick Deckard, a blade runner who has gone into hiding for years. They go on to unwind deep secrets of both humans and replicants concerning their past and future.
4)Ready Player One (2018)
Ready Player One is an exciting picture set in the year 2045. A gamer, James Halliday, designs a virtual reality world called OASIS, where people can be anyone, go anywhere, and do anything. People escape into the OASIS to escape their miserable lives. James has hidden an Easter egg—a secret prize—within the OASIS, and whoever finds this egg will inherit James Halliday’s fortune and gain control of the OASIS.
Wade Watts was among the many players who sought the egg. He undertakes multiple explorations, forming alliances with his friends to search for this egg. In search of this, a powerful corporation, IOI, equally wants to take over control of the OASIS and would stop at nothing but find the egg first. First, Wade and his friends outsmart IOI in getting the egg.
5) Her (2013)
Her is a sci-fi docu-series about the life of a man named Theodore, available to watch on HBO Max in Canada and other HBO Max libraries. After his breakup, his life becomes dull and lonely because his loved one has left him. He thinks of buying a new operating system, which includes artificial intelligence. The OS can learn, converse, and grow emotionally, almost like a natural person.
Soon, Theodore starts conversing with the AI, which labels itself as Samantha. With each step forward in talking to it, he develops an affection for it and questions whether it is possible to feel love for a non-physically natural person.
6) Ex Machina (2014)
Ex Machina is the story of a young programmer named Caleb, who works for a giant tech corporation. He wins a competition to spend a week in the remote home of Nathan, the company’s CEO. Nathan tells Caleb that he has been able to create a highly advanced robot in his name, named Ava, who possesses artificial intelligence. Nathan asks Caleb to interact with Ava and spend time with her to see whether she feels emotions like humans do.
Caleb begins to fall in love as they spend more time together. Caleb soon realizes Ava wants out of the life where Nathan controls her. Caleb becomes confused by Nathan’s intent and questions himself as to whether or not he trusts him.
7) Arrival (2016)
Arrival is a science fiction thriller. The government contacts Linguist Louise Banks after an alien spaceship mysteriously appears on Earth. Her task is to communicate with the heptapods and ask them why they came to Earth. The heptapods’ ambiguous symbols and language gradually make Louise do something that causes her to experience visions out of sequence in time.
She soon learns that the alien language is a tool that changes how they perceive time itself. The more she learns, the more she discovers their real motive for their visit, the basis of which has a profound and surprising message for humanity.
