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Fermat's Last Theorem http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8269328330690408516 This documentary is about a quaint Englishman who devoted much of his adult life to discovering a proof for Fermat's Last Theorem which states that no three positive integers a, b, and c can satisfy the equation an + bn = cn for any integer value of n greater than two. If you didn't understand that, it's not important. The documentary explains it but what I liked more was this one guy's journey and the emotional and mental commitment he approaches the challenge with. It almost makes me well up when his achievement is realised.
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^^^ I always knew the name of the mathematician to be Fermet (pronounced the same). Hm. I'll check out this documentary, though. It sounds interesting.Spoot posted:I found this gem. I just watched this and I have to recommend it. Stan and Maine are two of the coolest folks. 
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Frontline - House of Saud (2005) http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4383835181717429209&hl=undefined An interesting and concise history of the kingdom of Saud. From its inception to modern day, it also examines the ties between the US and Saudi kings, and riches. Pretty interesting considering today's political climate and the issues currently facing the Middle East and the United States.
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Petah posted:Great Moments in Nature Narrated by David Attenborough edit:and drat this staircase docu is gripping. I started watching it not paying attention to the title and thought the 45 minutes was the whole thing. Now I can't pull myself away and am looking at like 3 more hours before I can sleep. A blessing and a curse this video has turned out to be. Mosaic Perception fucked around with this message at 13:44 on Apr 17, 2010 |
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The Milosevic Case: Glosses at a trial Documentary about the alleged errors that occurred during the Milosevic trail in the International Criminal Court. I know next to nothing about this procedure, so I don't necessarily agree with this documentary, I just found it to be very interesting. Specially the part about the concentration camp video. Part 1: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5840619592451624793#docid=-5915455578968730263 Part 2: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5840619592451624793 Another documentary about the trial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_bU_y3fjsQ Redrum and Coke fucked around with this message at 06:31 on Apr 18, 2010 |
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I'm sorry if this has been mentioned before... I remember watching a documentary one day about the jails in New Orleans and/or surrounding areas and what happened when they were hit by hurricane Katrina. Anyone seen this and know what it was called/have a link?
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BoonyPC posted:I'm sorry if this has been mentioned before... Prisoners of Katrina, mayhaps?
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Does anyone have a good documentary about the OKC bombing and/or crazy right wing militias in general?
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Someone had mentioned not being able to find The September Issue. Here it is: http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/bn-uZWnRkXw/
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Frontline: Digital Nation has completely engrossed me. As someone who was 12 years old when Yahoo Messenger took the tween world by storm, seeing the more intelligent side of our obsessive internet usage is captivating. Topics include: the harmful effects of multitasking in a college environment, teaching responsible internet use in elementary schools, gaming addiction, integrating technology into all levels of grade school education, the unlikely connections made through online usage, personalizing the impersonal web, and more! http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/view/
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spite house posted:I caught The Great Happiness Space recently and was pretty amazed. It's on Netflix instant view. I really got sucked into this one. I was expecting some Japanese equivalent to Jersey Shore bros & guidos, but its really a whole business mindset of lies and fantasy, and an emotional exhausting one to boot. It's amazing how much this specific niche of men and women are utterly dependent on one another.
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Sodium Chloride posted:Requiem for Detroit, a recent BBC doc about the rise and fall of Detroit. This is pretty good so far, but I was really confused at about 7:25 in the first video that I had somehow opened a new youtube tab because old Doctor Who theme title music started playing in the background. Really coincidentally, the last thing I had looked at on youtube? Old Doctor Who intros. Huh. Gonna watch The Corporation next probably.
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Lord of the Ants A PBS Nova Program on Edward Wilson and his influence on what we know about ants. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKbj3ZDmvdU
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My Best Fiend Herzog explores his relationship with Klaus Kinski and the actor's volatile nature. If you've enjoyed any of their work then you owe to yourself to watch this documentary. Here are the first 10 minutes of the film: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlUfb1SjdNQ&feature=related Part 1 Judakel fucked around with this message at 04:02 on Apr 27, 2010 |
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Valkyn posted:The Iceman: Confessions of a Mafia Hitman I saw this a few years back and it's pretty crazy. In the actual interview, Kuklinski loses his poo poo out of nowhere and attempts to assault the interviewer when he gets rushed and restrained by guards. The version I saw (and probably all of them) cut this out, but you'll notice that he refers back to "what I just did, just now" after an awkward cut.  Also, I just watched Dear Zachery a few hours ago. Oh god... it's just so well done but so horrifying. I even knew the twist at the end before seeing it but god drat it still hit me...
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Almost anything frontline posts is really really good, and for similar types of stuff I've been watching this program Vanguard which is available on hulu. They do most of their interviews on the street or on location, so its not as well set up or produced as Frontline, but the topics are interesting. Not sure if it's been mentioned, but the Canadian Film Board has a lot of documentaries available online. Another source I also use is vbs.tv which is Vice Magazine's website where you can view their TV stuff, which is also excellent. VBS and Vanguard tend to do some of the crazier stuff I've seen (like going to an open air gun market in Pakistan, or Going to Liberia). That snagfilms.com website mentioned earlier is loving dope, too! This film "Young Yakuza" on there is pretty excellent. national film board of canada: http://www.nfb.ca/ vice's tv 'network' VBS: http://www.vbs.tv Vanguard on Hulu: http://www.hulu.com/vanguard
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Beyond Kokoda Pretty good doco about the Kokoda Track campaign between the Australians and Japanese in New Guinea in WW2. Not heaps of archival footage but details the battles very well. Talks to veterans from both sides, although it doesn't provide too much information about the American involvement at Buna. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jOuHwaIVJM Pt 1....the rest of it is easy to find.
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Darwin's Nightmare http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_wYcxlXjOQ&feature=related A documentary that covers how the introduction of the Nile Perch has affected the local ecosystem in Tanzania. Very compelling since it keeps the camera on the people of the region and shows how this fish has devastated the region in ways we would not immediately assume. Judakel fucked around with this message at 15:08 on May 4, 2010 |
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Judakel posted:Darwin's Nightmare *Whew*, I read the title and held my breath while I read the rest of your post, only exhaling at the end when I realized you weren't making a post about peanut butter or bananas.
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No creationist documentaries allowed. Unless you want comedy.
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Judakel posted:No creationist documentaries allowed. Unless you want comedy. Part of me (a sick, sick part) wanted to see Expelled back when it was released. That's the Ben Stein documentary about "creationism is being blocked from school curricula!  " I guess it's just morbid curiosity, or maybe the same itch that makes some folks rubberneck car crashes. I think it must be pretty funny.
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To see if I'm smiling http://warincontext.org/2010/05/09/to-see-if-i-am-smiling/ quote:In the documentary, To See If I Am Smiling (released in 2007), six young Israeli women recount their experiences of military service in the occupied Palestinian territories. It can only be viewed from the US, and I don't know if it'd be against the rules to point a torrent or something like that where you can download it (specially considering that you can watch it for free). If you want to watch it and you're from outside the US, a google search should help you find it anyway.
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Does anyone know where I can watch that Louis Theroux documentary on the crime in Johannesburg and another based on meth in America?
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Kara Thrace posted:Does anyone know where I can watch that Louis Theroux documentary on the crime in Johannesburg . . . ? Looks like it's linked here in 6 parts: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7pwwp_louis-theroux-law-and-disorder-in-j_news
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This was posted in the other abandoned doc thread but is a very good watch.Medical posted:Welcome to Lagos examines what life is like in one of the world's fastest growing mega-cities. Lagos, Nigeria.
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Just want to add a few links. CONGO: WHITE KING, RED RUBBER, BLACK DEATH Peter Bate, Belgium, 2003 Wednesday 4 April 2007 10pm-11.50pm The story of King Leopold II of Belgium's brutal colonisation of central Africa, turning it into a vast rubber-harvesting labour camp in which millions died. http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries...lle/congo.shtml quote:What the Belgians did in the Congo was forgotten for over 50 years. It's a shocking, astonishing story. In a way, it's a horrifying prelude in European history to the Holocaust. quote:This excellent documentary tells one of the saddest stories of the late imperialist era, the genocide in the Belgian Congo. The growing need for rubber meant death for millions as the Belgian king himself set up world's most efficient production line for rubber. The cruel systematic murder was carried out for the greed of one man. Info on Leopold II of Belgium: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_II_of_Belgium 109 Minutes Quality is Good for Streaming Link: http://freedocumentaries.org/film.php?id=191 The National Film Board of Canada It has, I think, everything they have online for streaming. The quality is good too. In total there are 1388 full length films. 592 of them are in French though. That leaves 790 English. 542 of those are documentaries. Very few are subtitled. They also are rated so there are 498 suitable for children. Link: http://www.nfb.ca/ Also see: http://www.onf-nfb.gc.ca/eng/home.php Free To Choose Free To Choose is a landmark television series about the interrelationship of personal, political and economic freedom -- ideas that still dominate public policy debates decades after they were first proposed. These are the ideas of Nobel winning economist Milton Friedman and his economist wife, Rose. These ten one-hour programs, filmed on location around the world, have helped millions of people understand the close relationship between the ideas of human and economic freedom. The interaction between these ideas has created, in the United States of America, the richest and freest society the world has ever known. Milton Friedman sees this success threatened when citizens assume that government intervention is the answer to all their problems. In this series, which premiered in the United States on January 11, 1980, Dr. Friedman focuses on basic principles. How do markets work? Why has socialism failed? Can government help economic development? The television series and the book that emerged from it have been watched and read by millions of people around the world. Both have been translated into over two dozen languages. It was also a direct response to John Kenneth Galbraith's The Age of Uncertainty. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Age_of_Uncertainty "Free To Choose 1980 - Vol. 01 The Power of the Market" http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2024617864923164175&hl=hu "Free To Choose 1980 - Vol. 02 The Tyranny of Control" http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2253962402015490587&hl=hu "Free To Choose 1980 - Vol. 03 Anatomy of Crisis" http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5329526746115377061&hl=hu "Free To Choose 1980 - Vol. 04 From Cradle to Grave" http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5374242425247995227&hl=hu "Free To Choose 1980 - Vol. 05 Created Equal" http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3050305586516558441&hl=hu "Free To Choose 1980 - Vol. 06 What's Wrong with our Schools" Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxeP-krUrdU Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMgz2W3taw8 Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdUHbs-x5sc Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJtNJ5-Ma2w Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkPfY5MJQZQ Part 6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_U_kKxwWps "Free To Choose 1980 - Vol. 07 Who Protects the Consumer?" http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3050305586516558441&hl=hu "Free To Choose 1980 - Vol. 08 Who Protects the Worker?" http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5871921977484002896&hl=hu "Free To Choose 1980 - Vol. 09 How to Cure Inflation" http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5538021588734490153&hl=hu "Free To Choose 1980 - Vol. 10 How to Stay Free" http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7531507980205759677&hl=hu Updated 1990 version with new discussion segments: "Free To Choose 1990 - Vol. 01 The Power of the Market" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yndxvj6813c http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBOHpKNzxHw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12cTb4_9aLQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YXcfd51kCA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JTEjsXGSwI "Free To Choose 1990 - Vol. 02 The Tyranny of Control" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe8O4sD2kkQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_i6uiXVvXg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdFOQwKyxjI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YG_NhXWsgA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2F9-6gFAPto "Free To Choose 1990 - Vol. 03 Freedom and Prosperity" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Knvuf3MnZ3E http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXiq5vdIUug http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK9JnGxxlsA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPcsDymEl4k http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83gl8zDnnKY "Free To Choose 1990 - Vol. 04 The Failure of Socialism" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8AwW_BO1BQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEtVtM1CgxI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpDamszFTD4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw4RiWIr8fU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hveppm7CH8I "Free To Choose 1990 - Vol. 05 Created Equal" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIbe2IMZPZY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSxb2UkDgoo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZIuAcpdt10 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNSF8OWQwdg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHStECBeutM Thanks to Miconosco for Free To Choose posted at MVGroup Forums. ... 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I don't think this's been posted yet: The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off. A short one about the last four months of Johnny Kennedy, a guy with DEB and an awesome sense of humour/personality/outlook on life and death.
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If you've never seen Pumping Iron, you should. It's a documentary about competitive body building starring Arnold Schwarzenegger back when he was Mr. Olympia: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdE1C6NaT5Q
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I just tried to watch Dear Zachary here: http://www.novamov.com/video/49a83db769c99 Got 70 minutes in and then it cut itself out and restarted from the beginning :[ anyone know somewhere else to watch it?
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Hormones posted:I just tried to watch Dear Zachary here: http://www.novamov.com/video/49a83db769c99 Netflix has it streaming. Other... Ahem... Ways to watch it.
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Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson "Long before Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier, boxer Jack Johnson became the first African-American to obtain the world heavyweight title. This documentary tracks the life of the trailblazing boxer, from his early days as the son of former slaves to his rise through the ranks of a traditionally all-white sport, culminating with the 39-year-old's achievement of the prestigious title in 1908." This is a fantastic documentary (by Ken Burns, known for his work with PBS)about Jack Johnson, first black heavyweight boxing champion of the world. He won this title in 1908, facing enormous challenges and a level of public racism literally unimaginable today. This man was an incredible man. He didn't take criticism from anybody and refused to let whites (or other blacks for that matter) tell him how to live his life. Netflix Instant: http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/Unfo..._0&trkid=438381 PBS (not available yet but maybe soon):http://www.pbs.org/unforgivableblackness/
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Play posted:Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson This sounds amazing. Thank you for the recommendation. I'll be looking around for this, although there are so many great recommendations up on Netflix that it may be high time I sign up again.
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RealKyleH posted:This was posted in the other abandoned doc thread but is a very good watch. seriously watch this. I was amazed how loving and complete and normal that family is that lives next to the dumpside in poverty, just this dude with his wife and two kids. Then I realized this is because I am essentially a huge racist who thinks poor blacks in Lagos can not have normal loving families and are murdering/high on drugs all the time.
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Play posted:Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson Amazing really. I'm shocked at the racism in these days. I mean, I knew it was bad, but not THAT bad.
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For us non americans, its available on youtube here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNIGZyFiLIU
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Spiderjelly posted:If you've never seen Pumping Iron, you should. It's a documentary about competitive body building starring Arnold Schwarzenegger back when he was Mr. Olympia: This is literally the best documentary ever made. Nay the best film ever made. mrfart posted:Amazing really. ...Jack Johnson died in 1946. Nuke Goes KABOOM fucked around with this message at 22:17 on May 16, 2010 |
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Nuke Goes KABOOM posted:...Jack Johnson died in 1946. I have a feeling he knew this. He just doesn't know how to use proper tense
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The Vice Liberia documentary is overwhelming. After watching a child no more than 12 smoke Heroin and talk casually about a rape he committed, people making GBS threads on the beach because they have no bathrooms, and prostitutes who sell themselves for less than 1 US dollar, they started talking about the widespread cannibalism. I had to take a break. I never imagined how horrible it could be over there. I wouldn't be surprised to see a Nazi style death camp in the next episode. Oh, and a Liberian journalist they met over there joked about how female genitalia were cut and preserved in such a way that a man could keep them in his wallet. The thing is, the government sounds unbelievably corrupt, and I doubt aid workers would be safe, especially women. So how do we help them? Send the military? That always works out terribly for everyone involved, and their government would never sanction our meddling. We can't just invade every country to "fix" it. Maybe some of those micro loan companies do business there, but it was also pointed out that most businesses are just fronts for dope houses. Hopefully that's just that one slum. It's amazing to me when I think of how many "lotteries" I won before I was born: I live in a first world country, no serious illnesses, am fairly intelligent, have parents who love me that I can fall back on, live an upper middle class life... Seeing the lives of the people who "lost" these lotteries makes my problems seem pretty insignificant.
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Rabhadh posted:For us non americans, its available on youtube here Well, I know what I'm watching when I get out of work. Thanks!
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NecronSchmecron posted:I have a feeling he knew this. He just doesn't know how to use proper tense You mean I've should have said "those days"... sorry, I have to switch between dutch/french/english all the time and I sometimes get confused.
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