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Documentaries like Koyaanisqatsi

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The 3 reasons people love Koyaanisqatsi

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  1. You can watch landscapes and crowds in time-lapse for an hour and a half.

  2. You want Philip Glass carrying the whole film.

  3. You like canyons, clouds and deserts filmed from the air.

Picks that share your reasons

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  • Powaqqatsi1988

    • you can watch landscapes and crowds in time-lapse for an hour and a half
    • Philip Glass carrying the whole film

    Good for you if you like faces and crowds filmed in slow motion.

  • Baraka1992

    • you can watch landscapes and crowds in time-lapse for an hour and a half
    • Philip Glass carrying the whole film

    Good for you if you want ninety minutes of images shot on seventy millimetre film.

  • Heima2007

    • Philip Glass carrying the whole film
    • canyons, clouds and deserts filmed from the air

    Good for you if you love Sigur Rós and slow, soaring music.

  • Voyage of Time: Life's Journey2017

    • you can watch landscapes and crowds in time-lapse for an hour and a half

    Good for you if you want galaxies, volcanoes and cells as pure images.

  • Encounters at the End of the World2008

    • canyons, clouds and deserts filmed from the air

    Good for you if you like ice caves, volcanoes and seals under the sea ice.

  • Lessons of Darkness1992

    • you can watch landscapes and crowds in time-lapse for an hour and a half
    • Philip Glass carrying the whole film

    Good for you if you like burning oil fields filmed like an alien world.

  • Human2015

    • you can watch landscapes and crowds in time-lapse for an hour and a half
    • Philip Glass carrying the whole film

    Good for you if you like aerial images of the Earth that hold you still.

  • My Octopus Teacher2020

    • canyons, clouds and deserts filmed from the air

    Good for you if you like cold water, kelp and the life hidden in it.

  • Winged Migration2001

    • you can watch landscapes and crowds in time-lapse for an hour and a half
    • canyons, clouds and deserts filmed from the air

    Good for you if you like following migrating birds over every continent.

  • Home2009

    • you can watch landscapes and crowds in time-lapse for an hour and a half
    • canyons, clouds and deserts filmed from the air

    Good for you if you want ninety minutes of images you could never see from the ground.

  • Honeyland2019

    • canyons, clouds and deserts filmed from the air

    Good for you if you like bees, rocks and light in a remote Balkan valley.

  • Our Planet2019

    • you can watch landscapes and crowds in time-lapse for an hour and a half
    • canyons, clouds and deserts filmed from the air

    Good for you if you like animals in their habitats, from forests to the deep sea.

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