The History of Time Travel, filmed in 2014, is a fictional documentary about a man who invents the world’s first time machine. What is a “fictional documentary” you may ask?
The entire movie is being narrated by various “authorities” like the general shown above, as well as scientists, journalists, and others. The are being interviewed and they tell the story of Richard Page, a physicist who invents time travel. The story involves his wife and two sons, who eventually carry on his work. While the narrations take place, there are grainy scenes of the Richard and his contemporaries during various periods in history.
As you might surmise, a time machine will quickly attract the attention of the government and military organizations, as well as foreign adversaries, and they will do what they can to obtain the technology. With the technology being the ability to travel in time, things tend to get interesting.
There is no good synopsis to write for this movie without giving away its inherent cleverness. But clever it is. It does require careful attention, and I suspect it’s the kind of movie that would be best watched at least twice. It is now streaming on Netflix, so you can do just that.
Hint: It helps if you have busied yourself marveling about time travel, like I have, and I suspect I am rating it higher than I would otherwise.
I saw this movie a while ago and was really impressed.. You are certainly correct about having to pay close attention while watching it. I confess I really wasn’t and got totally confused a short way in and had to restart the movie again before I figured out what was going on. Probably my favorite thing about the movie is details in the background that are very easy to overlook.
Agree. I didn’t realize what was going on until somewhat into it. I decided that I would watch it again just when writing this review. I think I’ll see much more nuances that I didn’t even look for the first time around.