Get ready to explore the final frontier as we take a look at 11 best space documentaries on Netflix streaming in 2015.
Space has always captured human imagination. Until quite recently in our history, we lacked the means to start truly exploring it. It wasn’t until Yuri Gagarin that we, as a race, could start exploring our solar neighborhood in earnest. Then came the Apollo program and humans successfully landed on another celestial body. The interest in space gave birth to science fiction movies and shows, giving us such gems like Star Trek and Star Wars. Documentaries about space soon followed. But it wasn’t until the 1980s and Cosmos: A Personal Voyage that space (and science in general – take a look at the best science documentaries on Netflix streaming in 2015) documentaries became mainstream. Hosted by Carl Sagan, the show was broadcasted in 60 countries and was watched by more than 500 million people. It established the genre as a viable TV program and allowed us to see all best space documentaries on Netflix today. It is a giant on whose shoulder all of them stand.
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Space documentaries are quite popular today and with talks about NASA’s Mars mission they are bound to gain even more popularity, as people become more interested in space exploration. Things like supermassive black holes and birth of stars have always been interesting, but with people like Stephen Hawking and Neil deGrasse Tyson explaining them in laymen’s terms, they are reaching an audience that usually didn’t care much about space. All in all, things are looking bright for the future of the genre.
To rank 11 best space documentaries on Netflix streaming in 2015, we used our standard formula. Going simply by IMDb rating just wouldn’t cut it, although we did include it in our final ranking. We also scoured dozen of lists on most popular sites in order to get an accurate feel for public opinion. We mixed it all together and came up with a genuine Insider Monkey ranking. We hope you’ll enjoy watching them.
