Advanced LIGO Documentary Project
The Advanced LIGO Documentary Project is a collaboration formed in the summer of 2015 among Caltech, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Director Les Guthman to make the definitive documentary about the Advanced LIGO project's search for, and expected first detection of, gravitational waves; and to record a longitudinal video archive of the project for future researchers and historians. The feature documentary, "LIGO," will be completed in the spring of 2018 and released in the fall. A second documentary focusing on the post-discovery era for LIGO and its upcoming third science run will be completed in the spring of 2019.
On October 3, 2017, Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne and Barry Barish won the Nobel Prize in Physics for LIGO's historic first observation of gravitational waves in September 2015, one month after principal photography began on the documentary.
On September 14, 2015, the Advanced LIGO Documentary team was on location filming at the LIGO Livingston Observatory when the detection was made. Over the next five months, it had exclusive media access to document the long, careful process of scientific verification that was conducted by the LIGO Scientific Collaboration to confirm that the received signal was in fact a gravitational wave, as predicted by Albert Einstein more than 100 years ago.
The detection was announced by LIGO at the National Press Club in Washington DC on February 11, 2016.
In addition to its filming of the secret internal confirmation months of the gravitational wave detection and LIGO's continuing breakthrough science, the Advanced LIGO Documentary Project filmed LIGO's Nobel Prize week in Stockholm; three important post-detection lectures by Thorne, Barish and LIGO astrophysicist Alessandra Buonanno. It also filmed the LIGO Scientific Collaboration semi-annual meeting at CERN two weeks after its August 2017 detection of two colliding neutron stars, which launched the new age of multi-messenger astronomy and lead LIGO astrophysicist Daniel Holz to tell the New York Times, "I can’t think of a similar situation in the field of science in my lifetime, where a single event provides so many staggering insights about our universe.”
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