Documentary Area

The Last Lioness

2012-01-01T22:43:00.001+00:00

For any of you feeling lonely you may gain inspiration from the documentary below about a lone lioness. It may sound strange to some but I did. She is inspirational, the way she adapted to being alone and how she found company with humans...

Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead

2011-08-29T16:52:00.000+01:00

This is a video from veoh.com. You will need to install their free Veoh Web Player to view the whole video. I think it is well worth an install as they have some videos you wont find anywhere else :)

An inspirational documentary following Joe Cross as he embarks on a journey to regain his health. At the beginning Joe is overweight and suffering from an autoimmune disease, by the end he has lost weight, is full of energy with no symptoms of his autoimmune disease and off medication...

The documentary also follows Phil Staples who Joe met on his travels across America while juice fasting. Phil was extremely overweight, suffered from the same autoimmune disease as Joe and wanted to change his health. Luck had it he bumped into Joe at a truck stop in the middle of nowhere, from there he got inspiration and eventually asked for help.

Also included are some great catch phrases "up and down like a brides nightie"! - Written by Claza

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Free Genome Fridge Magnets..UK

2011-04-26T19:28:00.000+01:00

Uk residents can order some free Genome fridge magnets when you click on this link: http://www.open.ac.uk/openlearn/science-maths-technology/science/biology/get-free-set-your-genome-fridge-magnets

History's Turning Points - 1347 AD The Black Death

2011-04-22T14:37:00.001+01:00

This is a video from veoh.com. You will need to install their free Veoh Web Player to view the whole video. I think it is well worth an install as they have some videos you wont find anywhere else :)

This is short documentary from the History Channel about the Black Death and it tells the tale well. I find it fascinating how the Black Death is still talked about to this day over 600 years later and I guess that is a sign of how much an effect it had on so many people at the time. How would the world cope now with an epidemic of this proportion?

Watch History's Turning Points - 1347 AD The Black Death in Educational | View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.com

A Tiger Called Broken Tail

2011-04-04T15:05:00.002+01:00

I have always loved big cats, especially tigers and love a nature documentary that tells a story. A Tiger Called Broken Tail is an educational and moving story of the eventful life of one of these powerful yet elegant animals which was sadly cut short...

You will need to download the Veoh Web Player to watch the full length of any videos from Veoh.com

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Also avaliable on BBC Iplayer for a short period of time: A Tiger Called Broken Tail

Wonders of the Solar System: Pts 1 & 2

2010-03-22T19:19:00.002+00:00

More pts to come.

"In this spellbinding series Professor Brian Cox visits the most extreme locations on Earth to explain how the laws of physics carved natural wonders across the solar system."...
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00qyxfb

Part 1: Empire of the Sun
"Professor Brian Cox explores the sun - the powerhouse of our solar system."

Part 2: Order out of Chaos
"Professor Brian Cox looks at the rings of Saturn, formed from a chaotic cloud of gas."

Chemistry - A Volotile History

2010-03-13T16:03:00.002+00:00

"The explosive story of chemistry is the story of the building blocks that make up our entire world - the elements. From fiery phosphorous to the pure untarnished lustre of gold and the dazzle of violent, violet potassium, everything is made of elements - the earth we walk on, the air we breathe, even us. Yet for centuries this world was largely unknown, and completely misunderstood...
In this three-part series, professor of theoretical physics Jim Al-Khalili traces the extraordinary story of how the elements were discovered and mapped. He follows in the footsteps of the pioneers who cracked their secrets and created a new science, propelling us into the modern age.

Just 92 elements made up the world, but the belief that were only four - earth, fire, air and water - persisted until the 19th Century. Professor Al-Khalili retraces the footsteps of the alchemists who first began to question the notion of the elements in their search for the secret of everlasting life.

He reveals the red herrings and rivalries which dogged scientific progress, and explores how new approaches to splitting matter brought us both remarkable elements and the new science of chemistry."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00q2mk5

Pt1: Discovering the Elements

Pt2

Pt3

Everything You Need to Know About the Brain

2010-03-07T15:39:00.001+00:00

"A Discovery Channel Documentary. Learn how people block-out extreme pain with their thoughts, see what's different about a criminal's brain and understand why they say the human race is getting smarter. Meet the Rainman and learn what gives savants like him their extraordinary skills. You'll see why some patients are kept awake during brain surgery...
and why a rat brain flying an F-22 fighter jet may one day change missions to space." - http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/everything/about/about.html

Darwin's Nightmare

2010-03-07T15:35:00.002+00:00

"Some time in the 1960's, in the heart of Africa, a new animal was introduced into Lake Victoria as a little scientific experiment. The Nile Perch, a voracious predator, extinguished almost the entire stock of the native fish species. However, the new fish multiplied so fast, that its white fillets are today exported all around the world. Huge hulking ex-Soviet cargo planes come daily to collect the latest catch in exchange for their southbound cargo… Kalashnikovs and ammunitions...
for the uncounted wars in the dark center of the continent. This booming multinational industry of fish and weapons has created an ungodly globalized alliance on the shores of the world’s biggest tropical lake: an army of local fishermen, World bank agents, homeless children, African ministers, EU-commissioners, Tanzanian prostitutes and Russian pilots."

The Boy Who Sees Without Eyes

2010-02-26T10:39:00.001+00:00

This Channel 5 documentary is about 14 year old Ben Underwood who has been totally blind since the age of 3 when he lost his eyes to cancer. He has taught himself to see with echo location. He still manages to play basket ball, roller blading and many other activities with this amazing talent of echo location...

Meet the Foxes

2010-02-23T13:10:00.001+00:00

Having had my own ups and downs with the town fox from seeing a young family of foxes grow up across from my home to my childhood pet rabbit "disappearing" I found this channel 4 documentary quite interesting.

"This modern day fairytale uses footage of dozens of foxes and archive film to reflect the typical experience of urban foxes in Britain and tell the story of a year in the life of a virtual fox family...
- Miss Fox and her four cubs, Naughty, Lazy, Sickly and Timid the vixen - as they try to survive on the tough streets of London.

The film follows the fictional fox family as they eke out a living feeding on rubbish left out by their two-legged neighbours and occasionally getting into trouble by making a mess, creating a racket, having sex in public and, worse still, feeding on things they shouldn't.

Part wildlife film and part social commentary, Meet the Foxes offers a fresh perspective on the clash between nature and the increasingly urbanised UK." - http://www.channel4.com/programmes/meet-the-foxes/episode-guide/series-1/episode-1

Warrior Queen Boudicca

2010-02-16T21:35:00.003+00:00

This is a dramatised documentary about the celtic queen Boudicca (also Boudica or Boadicea) of the Iceni a Celtic tribe from East Anglia, East England and her courageous fight against the Romans.

Boudicca's husband King Prasutagus wanted to leave his kingdom to his daughters and also the Roman Emperor but when he died the Emperor did not take account of his will. The Romans took control of the Iceni kingdom, Boudicca was flogged and her daughters raped...

In the year A.D 60/61 Boudicca, driven by those terrible events that beforehand went on to lead a revolt against the Romans with some great success but was eventually defeated at the Battle of Watling Street. She then poisoned herself to prevent capture. - Claza

BBC: Future of Food - Part 3

2010-02-16T19:57:00.001+00:00

"From the two women working to make their Yorkshire market town self-sufficient to the academic who claims it could be better for the environment to ship in lamb from New Zealand, George Alagiah meets the people who believe they know how we should feed the world as demand doubles by the middle of the century.

He heads out to Havana to find out how they are growing half of their fruit and vegetables right in the heart of the city, investigates the 'land-grabs' trend - where rich countries lease or buy up the land used by poor farmers in Africa - and meets the Indian agriculturalists who have almost trebled their yields over the course of a decade.

George finds out how we in this country are using cutting-edge science to extend the seasons, recycle our food waste and even grow lettuce in fish tanks to guarantee the food on our plates.

He hears the arguments about genetically modified food and examines even more futuristic schemes to get the food on to our plates." - BBC

BBC: Future of Food - Part 2

2010-02-10T17:48:00.001+00:00

Part 2 of the BBC documentary Future of Food.

"George heads out to India to discover how a changing diet in the developing world is putting pressure on the world's limited food resources. He finds out how using crops to produce fuel is impacting on food supplies across the continents...
George then meets a farmer in Kent, who is struggling to sell his fruit at a profit, and a British farmer in Kenya who is shipping out tonnes of vegetables for our supermarket shelves. He also examines why so many people are still dying of hunger after decades of food aid."

Back in the UK, George challenges the decision-makers with the facts he has uncovered - from Oxfam head of research Duncan Green to Sainsbury's boss Justin King. He finds out why British beef may offer a model for future meat production and how our appetite for fish is stripping the world's seas bare. - BBC

BBC: Future of Food - Part 1

2010-02-08T14:38:00.002+00:00

This is a BBC documentary presented by George Alagiah. Future of food tells of the environmental and economical consequences of food production and the global trade of food and also looks into other dangers that threaten the way we produce our food like global warming...

"George joins a Masai chief among the skeletons of hundreds of cattle he has lost to climate change, and the English farmer who tells him why food production in the UK is also hit. He spends a day eating with a family in Cuba to find out how a future oil shock could lead to dramatic adjustments to diets. He visits the breadbasket of India to meet the farmer who now struggles to irrigate his land as water tables drop, and finds out why obesity is spiralling out of control in Mexico.

Back in Britain, George investigates what is wrong with people's diets, and discovers that the UK imports an average of 3000 litres of water per capita every day. He talks to top nutritionist Susan Jebb, DEFRA minister Hilary Benn and Nobel laureate Rajendra Pachauri to uncover what the future holds for our food." - BBC

ATLANTIS: THE LOST CONTINENT

2010-02-04T20:08:00.001+00:00

This is a guest post by Sulav. Website: Medchrome.com

This is a history documentary about the lost continent that has been talked and written about a lot. But still it remains a great mystery because what we’ve heard and read are merely hypotheses.
Atlantis is believed to be the source of all religion, science, races and civilization. Plato's dialogues Timaeus and Critias, written in 360 BC, contain the earliest references to Atlantis...

According to Plato:
“At the center of the island, near the sea, was a plain, said to be the most beautiful and fertile of all plains, and near the middle of the plain about fifty stades inland a hill of no great size... There were two rings of land and three of sea, like cartwheels, with the island at their center and equidistant from each other... In the center was a shrine sacred to Poseidon and Cleito, surrounded by a golden wall through which entry was forbidden... There was a temple to Poseidon himself, a stade in length, three hundred feet wide and proportionate in height, though somewhat outlandish in appearance. The outside of it was covered all over with silver, except for the figures on the pediment which were covered in gold... Round the temple were statues of the original ten kings and their wives, and many others dedicated by kings and private persons belonging to the city and its dominions... The two springs, cold and hot, provided an unlimited supply of water for appropriate purposes, remarkable for its agreeable quality and excellence; and this they made available by surrounding it with suitable buildings and plantations, leading some of it into basins in the open air and some of it into covered hot baths for winter use. Here separate accommodation was provided for royalty and commoners, and again, for women, for horses and for other beasts of burden... The outflow they led into the grove of Poseidon, which (because of the goodness of the soil) was full of trees of marvelous beauty and height, and also channeled it to the outer ring-islands by aqueducts at the bridges. On each of these ring-islands they had built many temples for different gods, and many gardens and areas for exercise, some for men and some for horses... Finally, there were dockyards full of triremes and their equipment all in good shape... Beyond the three outer harbors there was a wall, beginning at the sea and running right round in a circle, at a uniform distance of 50 stades from the largest ring and harbor and returning in on itself at the mouth of the canal to the sea. The wall was densely built up all round with houses and the canal and the large harbor were crowded with vast numbers of merchant ships from all quarters, from which rose a constant din of shouting and noise day and night.”

According to Plato, Atlantis was located "Beyond the Pillars of Hercules", which means beyond the Straits of Gibraltar and out into the Atlantic Ocean.
Proposed Sites:
A. In/Near Mediterranean Sea: islands such as Sardinia, Crete and Santorini, Sicily, Cyprus, and Malta; Troy, Tartessos, and Tantalus, Turkey; Israel-Sinai or Canaan; Bosporus and Ancomah, Sea of Azov
B. In Atlantic Ocean: northern Europe, in the North Sea , Celtic Shelf and Andalusia, Ireland, the Azores, strait of Gibraltar
C. Other locations: Caribbean locations such as Cuba, the Bahamas, and the Bermuda Triangle, areas in the Pacific and Indian Ocean

What caused the destruction of Atlantis?
There are various hypotheses involving natural disasters like earthquake, tsunami, flood, volcano, etc. Some associate its destruction with the existence of a lots of supernatural forces in it.

The events associated with Atlantis are presented well in a game called “Age of Mythology”.

Gamer Revolution

2010-02-04T12:11:00.002+00:00

A documentary that looks into to weird, wonderful, fascinating and sometimes dark world of video gaming. The video gaming world has certainly moved on since the days of Pac-Man, Street Fighter and many more. Now you can have virtual lives in programmes like Second Life where you can interact with many many different people and do the things that in our own world would be impossible...
You can fight on the front line in games like Call of Duty, even as an observer you can get sucked into this game! Military forces in the real world are now using gaming technologies to train their recruits. This games revolution has certainly opened up many new paths for our mind's to follow. - Claza

Horizon: Why Do Viruses Kill?

2010-01-31T18:19:00.002+00:00

A very interesting documentary from the BBC. "Just months ago, a new disease threatened to kill millions. In the UK alone, 65,000 deaths were predicted. Yet dire warnings about new flu variant H1N1 have not materialised. If this latest pandemic has taught anything, it is just how little is understood about the invisible world of viruses...
Horizon follows the leading researchers who are attempting to unravel the many secrets of viruses to understand when and why they kill"

Defamation - Anit-semitism

2010-01-28T11:24:00.001+00:00

A suggestion from Rob.

"Israeli director Yoav Shamir embarks on a provocative – and at times irreverent – quest to answer the question, “What is anti-Semitism today?” Does it remain a dangerous and immediate threat? Or is it a scare tactic used by right-wing Zionists to discredit their critics? Speaking with an array of people from across the political spectrum (including the head of the Anti-Defamation League and its fiercest critic, author Norman Finkelstein) and traveling to places like Auschwitz (alongside Israeli school kids) and Brooklyn (to explore reports of violence against Jews), Shamir discovers the realities of anti-Semitism today...

His findings are shocking, enlightening and – surprisingly – often wryly funny." - http://wideeyecinema.com/?p=7208

The Ten Commandments of the Mafia

2010-01-25T23:54:00.003+00:00

"In 2007, Italian police make an astonishing discovery during a raid on a Mafia boss' villa: a list of the Mafia's most sacred laws. It's an incredible find: a code of conduct for the Mob. Now, for the first time, former Mobsters speak out about the rules that govern their criminal world...
and reveal what happened when gangland began to question the so-called 'Ten Commandments of the Mafia'."

Discovery: Machines of Malice

2010-01-23T19:41:00.001+00:00

"Prepare to be terrified as you learn the history of mankind's death devices - from their invention and purpose, to why the most devious devices are often at the pinnacle of design - as execution, torture and technology come together in the most frightening ways...

Ancient Machines
Learn about the ingenious technology behind some of the first death devices ever created - the Wickerman, the Brazen Bull, the Crucifix, and the matrix of deadly machines hidden under the Roman Coliseum." -

http://www.amazon.com/Machines-of-Malice/dp/B001P810KU">http://www.amazon.com/Machines-of-Malice/dp/B001P810KU

National Geographic: In the Womb

2010-01-19T13:15:00.001+00:00

Follow the creation of a human baby from conception to birth. This National Geographic documentary provides a thorough insight of conception, pregnancy and birth from inside the womb. New technologies like 3d and 4d scanning give this documentary some amazing images and videos. - Claza

Atom: The Clash of the Titans

2010-01-18T22:46:00.002+00:00

"In this three-part documentary series, Professor Jim Al-Khalili tells the story of one of the greatest scientific discoveries ever: that the material world is made up of atoms. Part 1. THE CLASH OF THE TITANS Professor Al-Khalili takes us from the discovery of the atom to the development of quantum mechanics."...

"Part 2. THE KEY TO THE COSMOS This episode tackles world-changing discoveries such as radioactivity, the Atom Bomb and the Big Bang, and tries to answer the biggest questions of all - why are we here and how were we made?"

"In the last in the series Professor Jim Al-Khalili explores how studying the atom forced us to rethink the nature of reality itself. He discovers that there might be parallel universes in which different versions of us exist, finds out that empty space isn't empty at all, and investigates the differences in our perception of the world in the universe and the reality."

The Secret You - Consciousness

2010-01-16T18:04:00.001+00:00

Mathematician Professor Marcus Du Satory takes us on a journey through the human mind.

Consciousness - What exactly is it? When looking in a mirror how do we know we are looking at ourselves and what other animals share this ability? What area of the brain controls consciousness? These are some the questions this BBC documentary investigates.

Royal Massacre of Nepal

2010-01-13T22:04:00.003+00:00

This is a Channel 4 documentary that provides an insight into the Royal Massacre of Nepal where it is said that the Crown Prince Dipendra then 29yrs of age killed several members of his family. On June 1st 2001 or 19th Jestha according to Nepalese calendar a party was held at the Narayanhity Royal Palace where a shooting took place and 10 members of the royal family were killed...
This video tells the story of the Royal Massacre of Nepal with the perpetrator as the Crown Prince Dipendra. There is still uncertainty about who was actually responsible amoung the people of Nepal and one suggestion is that has theorised is that the Crown Prince Dipendra may not have been responsible for the massacre, instead suspecting Gyanendra who was third in line to the thrown before this tragic event. - Claza

Related information: http://www.manitara.com/timeline/reports/eyewitness.htm