{"id":2255664,"date":"2018-12-14T10:30:15","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T18:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dostoevsky-bts.com\/blog\/?p=2255664"},"modified":"2018-12-14T10:30:15","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T18:30:15","slug":"chariots-gods-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dostoevsky-bts.com\/blog\/chariots-gods-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"Chariots of the Gods Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hardly anyone remembers the controversial 1970 documentary Chariots of the Gods<\/a><\/strong><\/em>. The feature hit movie screens with a ton of controversy. The documentary’s subject matter was “way, way out there.” The film attempted to pose the following question seriously: were all the great strides in civilization during antiquity derived by early humans’ first contact with advanced travelers from outer space? Did those humans who came in contact with aliens thousands of years ago assume space travelers were gods?<\/p>\n

The documentary Chariots of the Gods<\/em><\/strong> revels in sheer absurdity, but the feature came out at the right time. The public was quite willing to spend money on books and movies dealing with the paranormal, Nostradamus, Bigfoot, the Bermuda Triangle, and extraterrestrials in the early 1970s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Several odd and speculative documentaries hit movie screens during the entire decade. And those documentaries made money. Chariots of the Gods<\/strong><\/em>, arguably, played a role in launching the entire ‘bizarre documentary’ movement. The film, after all, sold a ton of tickets.
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