Remember when people paid real money to watch bug apocalypse documentaries?
Documentaries used to be about more than just true crime and celebrity deep-dives. Gary D. Rhodes' new book Weirdumentary: Ancient Aliens, Fallacious Prophecies, and Mysterious Monsters From 1970s Documentaries (May 2025, Feral House) is a lavishly illustrated history of how America spent the 1970s watching theat…
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