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Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds (2020) is a documentary you can watch online on iFILM. Filmmaker Werner Herzog teams up again with volcanologist Clive Oppenheimer, and the two travel the globe chasing one question: what falls from the sky, and why have humans always looked up with both dread and awe?
The film roams from the Antarctic ice fields where ancient meteorites are harvested, to the Chicxulub crater that ended the dinosaurs, to shrines built around stones that dropped from space. Scientists, monks, meteorite hunters and a jazz musician who scrapes cosmic dust off rooftops each get their moment. Herzog's unmistakable narration turns an astronomy lesson into a meditation on how small — and how lucky — we are.
This isn't dry science television. It's pure Herzog: wry, curious, drawn to oddball characters and quietly poetic about the cosmos. Best for anyone who likes a documentary that sends you outside to stare at the night sky afterward. Stream Fireball (2020) online on iFILM.
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