Documentary Post

Louis, Martin and Michael

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Fri, 13 May 2011 13:26:35 PDT

After losing out to Martin Bashir for an opportunity to produce an official Michael Jackson documentary, Louis Theroux tries his best to obtain an interview with Michael, but cannot. In the process, we get to see Louis meet with Uri Geller and Michael’s father Joseph Jackson. Louis had to pay $5000...

Hitler’s Private World

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Fri, 13 May 2011 13:26:35 PDT

When Adolf Hitler bought Eva Braun a movie camera, to film the people and parties which occurred at their Bavarian retreat, the technology to include synchronized sound had not yet been developed. So when soldiers discovered Hitler’s private home movies, in the Berlin bunker where the Nazi...

Being Different

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Fri, 13 May 2011 13:26:35 PDT

A tribute to the spirit and humanity of people who are physically different from the average: very tall and very large men and women, a bearded woman and her long-time husband, Siamese twins joined at the midsection, and several little people including actor Billy Barty. We meet some at...

Horizon: Miracle Cure? A Decade of the Human Genome

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Fri, 13 May 2011 13:26:35 PDT

A decade ago, scientists announced that they had produced the first draft of the human genome, the 3.6 billion letters of our genetic code. It was seen as one of the greatest scientific achievements of our age, a breakthrough that would usher in a new age of medicine. A decade later, Horizon...

The Cromwell Street Killings

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Fri, 13 May 2011 13:26:35 PDT

Rosemary and her husband Fred West, were accused of murdering 10 female victims over a 20 year period ending in 1987. They took great joy in luring away vulnerable runaways with offers of rides, lodging or jobs as nannies. Once in their clutches inside the “House of Horrors”, these young women were...

Animal Passions

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Fri, 06 May 2011 21:56:15 PDT

A British documentary on zoophilia presenting various personal, religious, psychological, and sociological views on the phenomenon of sexual relations between humans and other animals. Watch The Full Documentary Now (playlist)

Bloomberg Game Changers: Steve Jobs

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Fri, 06 May 2011 21:51:41 PDT

Through interviews with friends, former colleagues and business associates, Game Changers reveals the many layers of the intensely private Steve Jobs – his style of leadership, management and creative process. Interviews include Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, former Apple CEO John Scully,...

Tribal Wives

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Fri, 06 May 2011 21:48:22 PDT

40-year-old Michelle Frost from London is travelling to northern Mexico to stay with the Raramuri, an ancient tribe who live perched on the edge of the spectacular Copper Canyon. Although bright, bubbly and self-assured on the surface, Michelle suffers from a crippling lack of self-confidence,...

Colosseum – A Gladiator’s Story

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Fri, 06 May 2011 21:44:45 PDT

Colosseum: A Gladiator’s Story travels back in time to the brutality and glamor of ancient Rome, to shed light on the true manner in which gladiators fought and trained. Throughout the special, historical facts about gladiators and the Colosseum are told via the true story of the gladiator Verus....

BP: $30 Billion Blowout

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Wed, 04 May 2011 02:38:15 PDT

The Money Programme team presents an inside account of the BP oil spill. Features a host of interviews with key industry insiders, including world exclusives with Bob Dudley, the new Head of BP and Tony Hayward, his predecessor. Watch The Full Documentary Now (playlist)

The Strange New World of Nanoscience

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Wed, 04 May 2011 02:35:35 PDT

Where and what is nano? How will it shape our future? Nanoscience is the study of phenomena and manipulation of materials at the nanoscale, where properties differ significantly from those at a larger scale. The strange world of nanoscience – it can take you into atoms and beyond the...

The Net

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Wed, 04 May 2011 02:32:08 PDT

More of a film essay – of the type pioneered by Orson Welles and Chris Marker – than a standard documentary, The Net: (The Unabomber, the LSD and the Internet) begins with the typical format and structure of a nonfiction film, and a single subject (the life and times of mail bomber Ted...

Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Wed, 04 May 2011 02:29:20 PDT

The classic Canadian documentary Manufacturing Consent based on the Noam Chomsky/Edward Herman book by the same name. Explores the the propaganda model of the media. This film showcases Noam Chomsky, one of America’s leading linguists and political dissidents. It also illustrates his message of...

What Remains: The Life and Work of Sally Mann

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Wed, 04 May 2011 02:26:31 PDT

As one of the world’s preeminent photographers, Sally Mann creates artwork that challenges viewers’ values and moral attitudes. Described by Time magazine as “America’s greatest photographer,” she first came to international prominence in 1992 with Immediate Family, a series of complex and...

Ai Weiwei: Without Fear or Favour

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Wed, 04 May 2011 02:20:03 PDT

Architect, photographer, curator and blogger, Ai Weiwei is China’s most famous and politically outspoken contemporary artist. As Ai Weiwei’s latest work is unveiled in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern, Alan Yentob reveals how this most courageous and determined of artists continues to fight for...

Did Cooking Make Us Human?

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Wed, 04 May 2011 02:17:39 PDT

We are the only species on earth that cooks its food – and we are also the smartest species on the planet. The question is: do we cook because we’re clever and imaginative, or are we clever and imaginative because our ancestors discovered cooking? Horizon examines the evidence that our...

Last Hippie Standing

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Wed, 04 May 2011 02:14:46 PDT

Redefining social norms the early Hippies of the 60′s sowed the seed of Goa Trance Dance from which has mushroomed this amazing vibe of Oneness enveloping the entire planet now. This is a beautiful documentary on the Goan Hippie Heaven Era and what has become of it today. Last Hippie Standing is...

Worse Than War

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Mon, 02 May 2011 08:54:51 PDT

“By the most fundamental measure — the number of people killed — the perpetrators of mass murder since the beginning of the twentieth century have taken the lives of more people than have died in military conflict. So genocide is worse than war,” reiterates Goldhagen. “This is a little-known fact...

Laughing With Hitler

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Mon, 02 May 2011 08:50:41 PDT

This documentary looks at the clampdown on satire and other undesirable comedians as the Third Reich grew in power. The plight of specific groups (or “art”) tends to get lost in the scale of the much bigger human cost of WWII. However here the film looks at how satire and jokes at Hitler’s expense...

The Cult of the Suicide Bomber

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Mon, 02 May 2011 08:44:16 PDT

Presented by former CIA Operative, Robert Baer (George Clooney’s character from Syriana) returns to a former theatre of operations, the Middle East, to trace the origins of the modern day suicide bomber. A two-part series, which focuses on issues from the child martyrs of the Iran-Iraq war, the...

Voices From The Grave

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Mon, 02 May 2011 08:24:21 PDT

A compelling documentary tells the story of the Irish Troubles through the unflinching testimony of two men who were on opposite sides of that bloody conflict, the Provisional IRA’s Brendan Hughes, who was the Commander of the Belfast Brigade & David Ervine, former UVF member and leader of the...

Sufi Soul: The Mystic Music of Islam

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Mon, 02 May 2011 08:19:28 PDT

With a dogmatic and fundamentalist view of Muslims increasingly predominant in the Western media, there has never been a more important time to show an alternative view of Islam. Sufism is the mystical dimension of Islam that preaches peace, tolerance and pluralism, while encouraging music as a way...

Amish: World’s Squarest Teenagers

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Mon, 02 May 2011 08:15:09 PDT

The five Amish teenagers – Jerry, Andrew, Leah, Becky and Leon – bid an emotional farewell to their loved ones, as leaving their closed community for the very first time hits home. Their first challenge is getting to the UK: how will they cope with their first experience on an aeroplane? Over...

Armadillo

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 21:11:43 PDT

In February 2009 a group of Danish soldiers accompanied by documentary filmmaker Janus Metz arrived at Armadillo, an army base in the southern Afghan province of Helmand. Metz and cameraman Lars Skree spent six months following the lives of young soldiers situated less than a kilometer away from...

Rivers and Tides

noreply@blogger.com (Admin) — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 21:07:15 PDT

Landscape sculptor Andy Goldsworthy is renowned throughout the world for his work in ice, stone, leaves, wood. His own remarkable still photographs are Goldsworthy’s way of talking about his often ephemeral works, of fixing them in time. This film, shot in four countries and across four seasons, is...