Documentaries

Fantastic Beasts: A Natural History (2025) Seen on the 26th June 2026, 1 Episode, BBC (59 min)

Dinosaurs: The Final Day with David Attenborough (2026) Seen on the 23rd June 2026, 1 Epside, BBC

Matthew Perry and the Katemin Queen (2025) Seen on the 18th June 2026, 59 min. BBC

Artemis: To the Moon and Back (2026) Seen on the 16th June BBC, 1 Episode, 59 min.

Brain Hacks (2023) Seen on the 7th June 2026, 1 Episode. BBC Sleep, do not stress. Have friends

Caligula with Mary Beard (2024) Seen on the 8th June 2026, 1 episode, BBC Four

Birthgap (2023) Seen on the 26th May 2026, 105 min. Birthgap correctly identifies a real demographic transition: fertility has fallen, parenthood is being delayed, and many rich societies are ageing into historically unusual population structures. However, judged by the standards of demographic science, history of science, and causal inference, the documentary turns a valid demographic pattern into an overdetermined causal story. BirthgapFacts is right to challenge its strongest claims: the evidence does not justify treating unplanned childlessness as the central cause of low fertility everywhere, nor does it justify global “population collapse” language. The scientifically safer conclusion is that low fertility is a multi-causal demographic transition, not a single-cause crisis. 1. What Birthgap gets right: the phenomenon is real The documentary is not inventing the problem. Fertility decline in high-income societies is real and large. The OECD reports that the average total ferti...