Voyage of Time: Life's Journey

Voyage of Time: Life's Journey (2017) is a documentary you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Terrence Malick with narration by Cate Blanchett. The film moves from the formation of the earliest stars through the cooling of the Earth's crust, the first microbes, the age of dinosaurs, and the arrival of the human species — all without a conventional narrator explaining what you are looking at.

Malick reportedly spent over forty years developing the project, and that span shows in how it is assembled: this is not a nature film in the Planet Earth mould but a meditation structured more like a prayer than a lecture. The cinematography covers locations across six continents and deep-sea footage that took years to acquire. A shorter IMAX cut with Brad Pitt narrating ran alongside the theatrical release. The film will frustrate viewers expecting exposition and reward the ones willing to let the images accumulate on their own terms. Stream Voyage of Time (2017) online on iFILM.