The best documentary movies.

Dispatches - How the Banks Won.

2012-07-18T08:53:00.001+01:00

As the government prepares an emergency budget to help pay for the bank bailout, Will Hutton investigates the banks and what they’ve done with our money. He discovers that while ordinary taxpayers take the pain, for the banks it’s largely business as usual.

Hutton analyses the banks’ accounts and shows how they are using government-guaranteed funds to gamble with derivatives as they did before the crash. He also reveals how the banks are still paying vast salaries and bonuses, and City head hunters tell Dispatches how the banks hide the sums they’re really paying out.

With the help of former and current members of the Bank of England’s monetary policy committee, Hutton shows how the banks’ booming margins come from the free and near-free money the government and taxpayers gave them to save the banking system. He also investigates the banks’ intense lobbying to resist government plans for reform and highlights recent research from the OECD on how Britain is internationally unusual in the extent to which bankers have key roles in the civil service and government.

Featuring high-powered contributors such as President Obama’s banking advisor Paul Volcker, former Chancellor Alastair Darling, former City minister Lord Myners and current Business Secretary Vince Cable, Hutton shows why without urgent reform we risk the prospect of another crash – this time there won’t be any money left for a bail-out – plus the certainty of British business being starved of vital funding. With the Eurozone crisis fueling fears of another banking crash, this programme is an urgent and shocking call to action.

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Free The Network

2012-07-18T08:24:00.002+01:00

A documentary about the Occupy Wall Street, hacktivism, and the hackers trying to build a distributed network for the Occupy movement and beyond.

You’re on the Internet. What does that mean? Most likely, it means one of a handful of telecommunications providers is middlemanning your information from Point A to Point B.

Fire off an email or a tweet, broadcast a livestream or upload video to YouTube, and you’re relying on vast networks of fiber optic cables deep underground and undersea, working with satellites high above, to move your data around the world, and to bring the world to your fingertips.

It’s an infrastructure largely out of sight and mind. AT&T, Level 3, Hurricane Electric, Tata Indicom – to most these are simply invisible magicians performing the act of getting one online and kicking. To many open-source advocates, however, these are a few of the big, dirty names responsible for what they see as the Web’s rapid consolidation.

The prospect of an irreparably centralized Internet, a physical Internet in the hands of a shrinking core of so-called Tier 1 transit networks, keeps Isaac Wilder up at night.

Wilder is the 21-year-old co-founder of the Free Network Foundation. Motherboard first caught up with Wilder at Zuccotti Park during the fledgling days of Occupy Wall Street.

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Cyberwar.

2012-07-18T08:15:00.004+01:00

Is the US contributing to the militarization of cyberspace? Cyberwar. A conflict without foot soldiers, guns, or missiles.

Instead the attacks are launched by computer hackers. Digital spy rings. Information thieves. Cyberarmies of kids, criminals, terrorists – some backed by nation states.

But is cyber war really a threat? Can cyber war actually cripple the United States? Or is the language just sturm und drang spun up by a coalition of major arms manufacturers, the Pentagon, and Internet security firms allied with China bashers aimed at launching a new Cold War in Asia?

China has been accused of hacking into the Pentagon, the International Monetary Fund, the French government, and the CIA, as well as stealing information from major U.S. arms maker Boeing and the Japanese firm Mitsubishi.

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What is the Higgs Boson?

2012-07-18T08:09:00.000+01:00

Scientists behind Sixty Symbols (Ed Copeland, Roger Bowley and Tony Padilla from the University of Nottingham) are doing their best to answer what actually is the Higgs Boson.

Named after Peter Higgs, an Edinburgh University physicist, the Higgs boson is crucial to understanding the origin of mass. The Higgs boson is a hypothetical elementary particle predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics. It belongs to a class of particles known as bosons, characterized by an integer value of their spin quantum number.

The Higgs field is a quantum field with a non-zero value that fills all of space, and explains why fundamental particles such as quarks and electrons have mass. The Higgs boson is an excitation of the Higgs field above its ground state.

Experiments to determine whether the Higgs boson exists are currently being performed using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN.

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Tales From the G20

2012-07-18T07:53:00.000+01:00

In June 2010, leaders from the twenty largest economies met in Toronto with representatives of corporate interests to discuss the policies that would shape the world for everyone else.
Exclusion zones, overlapping layers of security fencing and an estimated 25,000 police and military personnel transformed the downtown area into an armed camp. Over 1.3 billion dollars were spent on security measures, more than all previous G8/G20 meetings combined. This documentary traces the overt breakdown in civil liberties that occurred during the Summit, from unmarked vans with snatch squads of plainclothes police to the pre-emptive arrest of activists now facing years in prison for organizing demonstrations.

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WikiRebels - The Wikileaks - STV

2012-03-17T15:40:00.001+00:00

Exclusive rough-cut of first in-depth documentary on WikiLeaks and the people behind it.

From summer 2010 until now, Swedish Television has been following the secretive media network WikiLeaks and its enigmatic Editor-in-Chief Julian Assange.

Reporters Jesper Huor and Bosse Lindquist have traveled to key countries where WikiLeaks operates, interviewing top members, such as Assange, new Spokesperson Kristinn Hrafnsson, as well as people like Daniel Domscheit-Berg who now is starting his own version – Openleaks.org.

Where is the secretive organization heading? Stronger than ever, or broken by the US? Who is Assange: champion of freedom, spy or rapist? What are his objectives? What are the consequences for the Internet?

Certainly did not find this on CNN.

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BBC Horizon - The Truth about vitamins.

2012-03-17T15:19:00.000+00:00

In Great Britain every year peple spend £300 million on vitamin supplements, but do they actually do them any good?
Some believe they offer the promise of preventing or even curing some of the world's biggest killers, such as heart disease and cancer. Others claim that taking large doses of some vitamins may in certain cases be harmful. So what are the facts?

Vitamin C, the most popular of them all
Nearly 40 years ago, one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century and double Nobel Prize winner, Linus Pauling, revolutionised the way people thought about vitamins. He claimed that by taking huge doses of vitamin C you could prevent or even cure the common cold.

He predicted that if everybody followed his advice, the common cold could even be eradicated. Many scientists dismissed his theory as quackery, but the public loved it and it helped launch a huge industry. But the latest evidence shows the great man was mistaken. Vitamin C can help you once have got a cold, but for most people it does nothing to prevent you from catching one in the first place.

Even if large doses of vitamin C do not prevent the common cold, some claim that it can still offer a more profound benefit. It is one of a group of vitamins called anti-oxidants that some believe can prevent illnesses such as cancer, Alzheimer's and heart disease.

Too much of a good thing?
In 2004, scientists in the United States claimed that people could be missing any of the potential benefits of taking one of the world's most popular anti-oxidant vitamin supplements, vitamin E, because their bodies might not be absorbing it. But our own investigation suggested that the American scientists' conclusion could be mistaken.

While most safety experts believe that vitamins C and E can be taken safely even in quite large doses, there is worrying evidence that one form of another common vitamin, vitamin A, could be linked to osteoporosis, a debilitating bone disease.

If the theory is right it means that a person's diet, or some supplements that they take every day to improve their health, could actually be slowly and silently weakening their bones.

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BBC This World 2012 - Inside the Meltdown - Fukushima nuclear power plant after tsunami.

2012-02-28T16:28:00.001+00:00

When a tsunami struck Japan in 2011, it swamped the Fukushima nuclear complex causing nuclear meltdown and releasing radiation that ultimately would leave hundreds of square miles uninhabitable, and cost a hundred thousand people their homes.

With unique footage and powerful eyewitness testimony from key figures in the drama - the engineers in the plant, firemen, soldiers, pilots, tsunami survivors, the Japanese prime minister and even the MD of the company operating the plant - Inside the Meltdown reveals what really happened in the extraordinary days after the tsunami as a disaster unfolded that Japan's nuclear industry said would never happen.

It tells the story of workers inside the plant's pitch-dark, radio-active reactor buildings desperately trying to stop reactors exploding as radiation levels rose inexorably. 'In the control room people were saying we were finished,' says one. 'They were saying it quietly but they were saying it.' It meets the helicopter pilots who desperately dropped water from above the radioactive cores, and the firemen who braved radiation to spray water onto melting nuclear fuel. 'We chose all the over 40s', their chief tells the programme. 'These were the guys who were not going to be having any more children.'

Inside the Meltdown also reveals the tensions between the plant's owners and an increasingly distrustful Japanese prime minister, struggling to get at the truth of what was happening, fearful the owners planned to abandon the plant.
He reveals his experts at one point warned he might need to evacuate vast areas of Japan, even the capital Tokyo. 'That first week, we walked a razor thin line,' he tells This World.

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Philosophy: A Guide to Happiness - Socrates on Self-Confidence

2012-02-27T09:08:00.000+00:00

Why do so many people go along with the crowd and fail to stand up for what they truly believe?

Partly because they are too easily swayed by other people's opinions and partly because they don't know when to have confidence in their own.

We tend to accept that people in authority must be right. It’s this assumption that Socrates wanted us to challenge by urging us to think logically about the nonsense they often come out with, rather than being struck dumb by their aura of importance and air of suave certainty.

Alain de Botton - popular British philosopher - presents six thinkers who have influenced history, and their ideas about the pursuit of the happy life.

Part one - Socrates on Self-Confidence

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Dispatches - How the banks never lose

2012-02-26T20:38:00.001+00:00

As the credit crunch continues to leave Britain cash-strapped and high street banks report huge losses, Dispatches investigates who is responsible for the current crisis.

Reckless lending and risky investments have been blamed for directly driving up mortgage rates and increasing the numbers of people losing their homes.

Dispatches investigates how the bank chiefs allowed this to happen and if lessons have been learn from the Northern Rock crisis.

Former investment banker James Max tracks down the banking bosses who have presided over the colossal losses to see if they will be held to account.

He examines the billion pound bonus culture and lifestyle of the City’s wide boys and investigates how the banks are now seeking to make back the money they lost before the credit boom hit the buffers.

Featuring the results of an exclusive survey of bank lending rates, and how much money banks are re-claiming through them, the film also offers expert advice on how to cope with higher interest rates and shows how customers can take banking into their own hands.

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Invisible Empire A New World Order Defined

2012-02-26T15:59:00.000+00:00

Invisible Empire: All Conspiracy, No Theory.

Jason Bermas’ highly anticipated documentary Invisible Empire exposes the New World Order in their own words, by painstakingly showing how the elite have not only conspired to create a dictatorial global government in private, but have publicly stated their agenda hundreds of times in public.
By highlighting the words of people like Paul Wolfowitz, Michael Mullen, David Cameron, Gordon Brown and many many others, Invisible Empire dispenses with the conjecture and sticks to the cold hard facts.
This movie is guaranteed to wake up even the most ardent skeptic to the manifestly provable acceleration towards an authoritarian planetary regime that intends to control and regulate every aspect of our existence.
Invisible Empire is all conspiracy and no theory – proving beyond doubt how the elite have openly conspired to insidiously rule the globe via the engines of the CFR, the United Nations, the Trilateral Commission, and the Bilderberg group.
The film traces the lineage of the evolution of global governance from Samuel Zane Batten’s 1919 manifesto New World Order, through to Hitler’s vision of a 1000 year Reich, to the modern incarnation of the conspiracy which has its roots in the evil deeds of people like George H. W. Bush, David Rockefeller and Henry Kissinger.
Invisible Empire catalogues the primary criminal enterprises through which the agenda is financed, operated and advanced – government controlled drug-running, false flag terror, banking scams, and state sponsored assassination.

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History channel - The Universe - Multiverse Parallel Universes .

2012-02-25T20:34:00.000+00:00

A parallel universe or alternative reality is a hypothetical self-contained separate reality coexisting with one's own.
A specific group of parallel universes is called a "multiverse", although this term can also be used to describe the possible parallel universes that constitute physical reality.
While the terms "parallel universe" and "alternative reality" are generally synonymous and can be used interchangeably in most cases, there is sometimes an additional connotation implied with the term "alternative reality" that implies that the reality is a variant of our own.
The term "parallel universe" is more general, without any connotations implying a relationship, or lack of relationship, with our own universe. A universe where the very laws of nature are different – for example, one in which there are no relativistic limitations and the speed of light can be exceeded – would in general count as a parallel universe but not an alternative reality.
The correct quantum mechanical definition of parallel universes is "universes that are separated from each other by a single quantum event."

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The Crusades: Crescent and the Cross.

2012-02-25T17:43:00.000+00:00

It started with a belief. No one could know where it would end.

They were promised Heaven but they found themselves in Hell.
The Crusades: Crescent and the Cross unfurls two centuries of war, two cultures impassioned by belief, and one land to stage it all an epic of human drama cast in the name of the holy. Once called the Levant, the area encompassing modern day Israel and parts of Lebanon, Syria, and Turkey fell under the siege of Christian soldiers in 1096 AD. Galvanized by Pope Urban II, waves of Christian warriors fought their way from Europe to the Holy Land intent on wresting it away from Arab occupiers.
Countless battles, amazing feats, and unforgettable characters forged legends and legacies, but clear victory remained elusive. Only the 13th century and a new menace from Asia finally brought an end to conflict.
This global event, multi-million dollar production from HISTORY™ uses breathtaking CGI-enhanced visuals and dramatic re-enactments to bring to life the key battles of the period. Stunning, rarely seen locations include a vast chain of Crusader castles stretching from Portugal to Jerusalem to Turkey and beyond. Drawn from primary sources that feel amazingly contemporary, vivid interviews with key participants give viewers a day-to-day feel of the medieval world.

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The Muslim Brotherhood

2012-02-25T17:30:00.000+00:00

This is a documentary aired on Norwegian Television, Nov, 2010 (English subtitles).
Is Islam a threat to the western world and our way of living and is it the goal of Islam to take over the world and make us all slaves of the islamic cult?
What comes across clearly throughout the film is the extended time-horizon of the Ikhwan, and its patient assurance that Europe will belong to Islam in a generation or so.
There’s been a lot of discussion lately in our comments about the “moderate” Muslim, and the fact that so-called moderates are a part — and a necessary one, at that — of the process of Islamic conquest.

The presenter and narrator in this piece is a “moderate” Muslim from Norway who seems genuinely worried and perplexed about the threat posed by the Muslim Brotherhood to his adopted country and the rest of Europe.

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Special Forces - The Green Berets - Two Weeks in Hell

2012-02-25T17:20:00.000+00:00

In the Two Weeks in Hell , you are given a pass into the intense training and testing that determines who will be allowed to become a Green Beret candidate.
Over two weeks, the most insane, mind-twisting games are played, and physical limits are stretched beyond imagination to enable the watchers to select the right individuals. During the Green Beret : Two Weeks in Hell, you will see some of the most intelligent and creative individuals alive, and witness brutality of training like you have never before seen.
Two Weeks In Hell features the U.S. Army Special Forces Green Berets, America's unconventional warfare specialists. Whereas the military's focus usually is on brute-force tactics, the Green Berets rely on creative, innovative, and stealthy tactics to destabilize an enemy from within. This film shows that they are experts in guerrilla warfare, sabotage, and subversion. They live as the locals do, and they live by their wits. During the Special Forces Two Weeks in Hell, you can see that time and again, their tenet on how to win wars proves true: "Humans are more important than hardware." — have the right man, in the right place, with the right mix of special tactics and smart thinking. The results are devastating to the enemy.
The film makes you understand that a Green Beret candidate may THINK he's the right man for the job, but the Special Forces Assessment and Selection will find out. Over 14 days, a candidate's true character will be exposed.
This unique access special takes you deep inside the world of America's Green Berets.

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Senna - (2010) - directed by Asif Kapadia

2012-02-25T12:45:00.000+00:00

The history of the monumental life and tragic death of legendary Brazilian motor-racing Champion, Ayrton Senna.

Spanning the decade from his arrival in Formula One in the mid 80's, the film follows Senna's struggles both on track against his nemesis, French World Champion Alain Prost, and off it, against the politics which infest the sport.

Sublime, spiritual yet, on occasion, ruthless - Senna conquers and transcends Formula One to become a global superstar.

Privately, he is modest, almost shy, and fiercely patriotic, donating millions to his native Brasil and contemplating a life beyond motor-racing.

Yet he is struck down in his prime on the blackest weekend in the history of the sport, watched live on television by 300 million people.

Years on he is revered in Formula One as the greatest motor racing driver of all time - and in Brasil as a Saint.

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Jean-Paul Sartre - The Road to Freedom

2012-02-24T19:49:00.002+00:00

My thought is me: that is why I can't stop. I exist by what I think...and I can't prevent myself from thinking.'
Sartre was the leading advocate of atheistic existentialism in France but he was also interested in the novel, drama, literary criticism and politics.

He is best remembered for his philosophical works and his idea of communistic existentialism which he expressed in novels and plays such as his debut novel Nausea (1939), which depicted man adrift in a godless universe, hostage to his own freedom.

He had a long term affair with the feminist philosopher, Simone de Beauvoir, and together they were at the centre of French intellectual life from the late 1920s onwards.

His great philosophical work is Being and Nothingness (1956). Like Kierkegaard and Heidegger, Sartre emphasised the burden of individual personal freedom: that although we can’t escape the fact of our situation, we are free to change it. He drew a distinction between the unconscious and the conscious.

After the Second World War, during which he fought for the Resistance, he became increasingly interested in Marxism and his involvement with the French Communist party was part of his desire to overcome the economic and social "structures of choice" which he found restricting. His main contribution to Marxism is Critique of Dialectical Reason(1960).

Sartre refused the 1964 Nobel Prize in literature on "personal grounds", but is later said to have accepted it.

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Martin Heidegger : Thinking the Unthinkable

2012-02-24T19:45:00.000+00:00

German philosopher Martin Heidegger addressed the central question of human existence full on, by examining how human self-awareness depends on concepts of time and death.

Man had to ask himself 'what is it to be?' and only by doing this, and standing back from absorption into objects and other distractions, could he actually exist.

For Heidegger, the constant fear of death and the anxieties of life helped man to ask this central question – the mystery of life was intimately linked to the individual's confrontation and consideration of the temporary nature of their own existence.

Heidegger also felt that art, like language, was important evidence of existence, something which was a real existence rather than a mere recreation of reality.

He opposed technology, which he believed caused alienation, and advocated a return to an agrarian economy in which the individual had a greater role.

For many Heidegger’s reputation is tainted by his association with Nazism in 1930’s Germany; he actively supported Adolf Hitler during the dictator's first years in power and after World War II he was banned by the Allies from teaching and publishing for five years.

Despite this, his work has been widely influential, especially on the thought of twentieth century philosophical giants such as Sartre, Lacan and Derrida.

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Friedrich Nietzsche : Beyond Good and Evil

2012-02-24T19:38:00.000+00:00

He was appointed professor at the University of Basel aged 24 having not even finished his degree.
His evanescent philosophical life ended 20 years later when he went insane and died shortly afterwards.

Friedrich Nietzsche.

His complete rejection of Christianity, with the famous quote "God is dead", led him to be known as a remarkable philosopher in his own right, but also as a progenitor of existentialism.
Nietzsche's argued that the Christian system of faith and worship was not only incorrect, but harmful to society because it allowed the weak to rule the strong - it suppressed the will to power which was the driving force of human character.

Nietzsche wanted people to throw of the shackles of our misguided Christian morality and become supermen - free and titanic.

However, without God he felt that the future of man might spiral into a society of nihilism, devoid of any meaning; his aim was for man to realise the lack of divine purpose and create his own values.

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Triumph of the Will (Triumph des Willens) (1935) - Leni Riefenstahl

2012-02-24T19:13:00.000+00:00

Triumph of the Will (German: Triumph des Willens) is a propaganda film made by Leni Riefenstahl.
It chronicles the 1934 Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg, which was attended by more than 700,000 Nazi supporters.
The film contains excerpts from speeches given by various Nazi leaders at the Congress, including portions of speeches by Adolf Hitler, interspersed with footage of massed party members.
Hitler commissioned the film and served as an unofficial executive producer; his name appears in the opening titles. The overriding theme of the film is the return of Germany as a great power, with Hitler as the True German Leader who will bring glory to the nation.
''Triumph of the Will'' was released in 1935 and rapidly became one of the best-known examples of propaganda in film history.
Riefenstahl's techniques, such as moving cameras, the use of long focus lenses to create a distorted perspective, aerial photography, and revolutionary approach to the use of music and cinematography, have earned Triumph recognition as one of the greatest films in history.
Riefenstahl won several awards, not only in Germany but also in the United States, France, Sweden, and other countries.
The film was popular in the Third Reich and elsewhere, and has continued to influence movies, documentaries, and commercials to this day

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History Channel the Third Reich "The Rise "

2012-02-23T18:04:00.000+00:00

Third Reich: The Rise and Fall uncovers familiar anecdotes and fascinating details about the people who comprised the Nazi Party, and raids the treasure trove of archives the Nazis left behind, including rarely seen German newsreel recordings along with other unique footage carried home by Russian troops.

Part one: 'The Rise'.

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Quantum Physics & Harry Potter

2012-02-19T11:55:00.001+00:00

An evening of science and magic presented by the Institute for Quantum Computing, "Quantum Physics and Harry Potter" explores real-life science that mirrors the fantastical phenomena of Harry Potter's realm.

IQC postdoctoral fellow Krister Shalm teams up with magician Dan Trommater to demonstrate quantum concepts such as teleportation and entanglement, and their analogies in J.K. Rowling's fantasy world.

A free, educational event, Quantum Physics and Harry Potter was held at the Princess Twin Cinemas in Waterloo, Ontario, on July 14 and 15, 2011.

Rather for kids, but nice and easy presented.

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BBC - The Art of Russia - Smashing The Mould

2012-02-19T11:05:00.001+00:00

The final part of the series examines political revolution and how art was at the forefront of throwing out 1,000 years of royal rule, from its earliest revolutionary days of enthusiasm and optimism when painting died, the poster was king and the machine-made triumphed over the handmade to the dead hand of Socialist Realism.

Andrew Graham-Dixon roots out great portraits of Stalin now hidden in museum storerooms and never on public view, looks at the transformation of the Moscow metro into a great public art gallery and visits the most stunning creation of post-war Communist rule, the Space Monument.
Finally, he comes to the confusion and chaos of Russia today and how it is producing some of the world's strangest art - from heroic sculptures of Russian leader Vladimir Putin to the insides of a giant erotic apple; from the recreation of the Imperial royal family facing the firing squad to sculpture in liquid oil; from Russia's embrace of the commercial art market to a return to Socialist Realism.
Russia seems to stand on another brink of revolution.

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BBC - The Art of Russia - Roads to Revolution

2012-02-19T11:02:00.001+00:00

Andrew Graham-Dixon explores how Russia changed from a feudal nation of aristocratic excess to a hotbed of revolution at the beginning of the 20th century, and how art moved from being a servant of the state to an agent of its destruction.

From monuments that celebrate the absolutism of the tsars to the epic Russian landscape as inspiration; from the design and construction of gold and glittering palaces to the minutiae of diamond-encrusted Faberge eggs; and eventually to the stark and radical paintings of the avant-garde, the journey through Russian art history is one of extraordinary beauty and surprise.

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BBC - The Art of Russia - Out of the Forest

2012-02-19T10:58:00.000+00:00

"We are not Asia and we are not Western Europe, we are just Russia. We are just Russians, we have our own civilization, our alphabet, our language, we have everything our own."
"Мы не Азия и не Западная Европа, мы просто Россия. Мы не такие как они или вы. Мы просто русские, у нас своя собственная цивилизация, свой алфавит, свой язык, у нас всё своё"

The Art of Russia - 3-part film about Russian art from the 10th century. Also tells about the art before the Revolution, the Soviet period and today. The film was released in December 2009 under the "Russian season" on BBC Four.

Изобразительное искусство России - 3-х серийный фильм о русском искусстве, начиная с 10 века. Рассказывает также об искусстве до революции, в советский период и современном. Фильм вышел в декабре 2009 года в рамках русского сезона на BBC Four.

Part 1: Out of the Forest - Из лесов.
He explores the origins of the Russian icon from its roots in Byzantium and the first great Russian icon, Our Lady of Vladimir to the masterpieces of the country's most famous icon painter, Andrei Rublev. Both epic and awe-inspiring, and producing brilliant art, nevertheless medieval Russia could be a terrifying place. Criss-crossing the epic landscape, Andrew visits the monastery founded by Ivan the Terrible, where his favourite forms of torture found inspiration in religious art. One man would shine a light into Russia's 'dark' ages - Peter the Great who, surprisingly, took as his inspiration Deptford in South London.

Он исследует истоки русской иконы от её корней в Византии и первой великой русской иконы, Владимирской Богоматери, до шедевров самого известного иконописца страны, Андрея Рублева. Одинаково эпическая и впечатляющая, рождающая блестящее искусство, средневековая Россия, тем не менее, была страшным местом. В окружении эпического пейзажа, Эндрю посещает монастырь, основанный Иваном Грозным, где его любимые виды пыток были вдохновлены религиозным искусством. Один человек смог пролить свет на «темные века» России - Петр Великий, который, на удивление, был вдохновлён Дептфордом в Южном Лондоне

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