Airdate: Atlantis Rising
James Cameron sets his sights on the lost city of Atlantis in a new doco on SBS.
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Filmmaker James Cameron sets his sights on the lost city of Atlantis in a new documentary screening on SBS.
Atlantis Rising, made for National Geographic, sees Cameron join filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici go on an adventure by using Greek philosopher Plato as a virtual treasure map.
This aired in the US a year ago.
The legend of the lost city of Atlantis has sparked controversy and debate for thousands of years – but is the story fact or fiction? And if it was a real place, can its ruins be found today?
Atlantis Rising follows executive producer and Oscar-winner James Cameron; filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici; and a group of archaeologists, scientists and historians as they set out to search for the true ‘Atlantean’ civilisation.
The team draws clues from the original source of the story of Atlantis, penned by fourth century BC Greek philosopher Plato. He describes an entire civilisation that spread all the way from the mid-Atlantic to Europe and parts of Africa – not just one city.
This epic, archaeological detective story will explore multiple land and underwater sites on the search for Atlantis, with extraordinary underwater footage, CGI and aerial photography that bring the story to life.
8:30pm Sunday on SBS
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Plato’s account is just a version of myths about the Late Bronze Age Collapse and a tsunami written down 800 years later (after Greek and the Greek alphabet had been invented). In Search Of… Atlantis solved this back in the 80s. They had a crystal recovered by a diver from the ruins of temple in Atlantis that could levitate tons of metal (but only in the temple which it was too dangerous to return to!).
Plato’s story was a parable and metaphor, not an actual history-like looking for the road that the tortoise and hare staged their celebrated race on!
I am really enjoying some sbs docos at them moment. The World’s Greatest Bridges is great and Engineering Space is very interesting.
I doubt this will match them.