There are hundreds, if not thousands, of books and several documentaries about 2012 and the themes that are featured in our film, with more being published every passing month as we count down to December 21, 2012.
In the course of our research we read a vast number of books, surfed across countless websites and viewed many films. The quality was all over the map and in all honesty, we found much of what was out there to be kooky and speculative at best and, often, just plain nutty. There's also an unfortunate trend by television networks to commission films about 2012 that include some of the best-qualified and most knowledgeable people in the field, but through hype and sensationalism in a quest for ratings, their wisdom is squandered or miscast. The History Channel in the United States is probably the worst (but hardly the only) offender, so much so that John Major Jenkins has penned a cautionary tale entitled "How Not to Make a 2012 Documentary" which you can read here.
However, there are some real scholars out there, often but not always, outside the academic mainstream, who are prepared to risk ridicule and obscurity to push the boundaries of what we know or perhaps have forgotten and need to re-learn. The following is not intended to be an exhaustive list; rather it is a small and highly edited selection of books and films that we found most influential in our research. We have omitted many more that are important works but were not central to this film (for instance, we did not focus on the work of Jose Arguelles, so none of his books are listed below).
We have listed only one or two works by any one author or filmmaker. If you like the first, you will probably like others by the same person.
Aveni, Anthony, People and the Sky, (Thames & Hudson, 2008)
Bauval, Robert, The Egypt Code (Disinformation, 2008)
Cruttenden, Walter, Lost Star of Myth and Time (St. Lynns's Press, 2005)
Cruttenden, Walter, The Great Year, (DVD, The Yuga Project, 2005)
De Santillana, Giorgio, and Hertha Von Dechend Hamlet's Mill: An Essay Investigating the Origins of Human Knowledge And Its Transmission Through Myth, (David R. Godine, 1992)
Hancock, Graham, Fingerprints of the Gods, (Three Rivers Press, 1996)
Hancock, Graham, Supernatural, (Disinformation, 2006)
Jenkins, John Major, Maya Cosmogenesis 2012, (Bear & Co., 1998)
Jenkins, John Major, Galactic Alignment, (Bear & Co., 2002)
Joseph, Lawrence E., Apocalypse 2012, (Broadway, 2008)
McKenna, Terence, The Invisible Landscape, (HarperOne, 1994)
McKenna, Terence, Time Wave Zero, (DVD, Sound Photosynthesis, 2006)
Pinchbeck, Daniel, 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl, (Tarcher, 2006)
Rose, Sharron, 2012: The Odyssey, (DVD, Sacred Mysteries, 2006)
Schele, Linda, and David Freidel, A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya, (Harper Perennial, 1992)
Various authors, The Mystery of 2012, (Anthology, Sounds True, 2007)
There are many websites to visit in the course of researching 2012. In the Biographies section we have linked to the websites of the experts interviewed in 2012: Science Or Superstition. We recommend that you start your surfing there, but you may also enjoy some of these sites (please note, that's not an endorsement, please be critical when surfing these sites and use your judgment as to what seems credible and what doesn't):
http://2012wiki.com/
http://2012base.com/
http://www.mayavase.com/
http://www.famsi.org/
http://www.december212012.com/
http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/
http://www.sacredmysteries.com/
http://www.survive2012.com/
http://2012news.com/