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*points to the edit in my previous post* It's something I set up just for this but I would very much appreciate the Horizon archive...
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Done. Just having a quick glance I think there are about 400 episodes of Horizon on there. Downloads are pretty quick too. Can anyone recommend some good boxing documentaries?
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Jun 7, 2011 11:56
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When We Were Kings is probably one of the most definitive boxing docs, if not the most; it covers pretty much the whole of the Ali v. Foreman fight, from the promotion and run up with everyone involved to some of the more technical aspects of the fight itself. It's on Documentary Heaven and Netflix instant and it is excellent.
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Jun 7, 2011 16:04
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Groselgar posted:When We Were Kings is probably one of the most definitive boxing docs, if not the most; it covers pretty much the whole of the Ali v. Foreman fight, from the promotion and run up with everyone involved to some of the more technical aspects of the fight itself. It's on Documentary Heaven and Netflix instant and it is excellent. its on my lovely blog too http://www.coffeedocs.tv/2011/06/when-we-were-kings/
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Jun 7, 2011 16:39
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Up for Grabs Cute story about two people suing each other over a baseball. Nothing to do with sports, I would compare it to King of Kong, but replace everyone likable with assholes and lawyers. I also find it funny that in the entire documentary the only person who does the right thing is a lawyer, it's also got an ending that makes you smile.
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Jun 8, 2011 20:30
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mikewozere posted:Post your e-mail address or something and I'll mail you an invite. I've got 10 invites but check you can't sign-up without one, sometimes you get lucky. If not, like I say, post your e-mail here omitting the @'s or whatever and then delete it after I've invited you. Weird, worked just fine for me. Thanks anyway!
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Yeah it might not be at full capacity. When We Were Kings is amazing. Why can't there be as many awesome personalities in boxing these days?
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Jun 8, 2011 22:34
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John and Yoko’s Year of Peace http://www.coffeedocs.tv/2011/06/john-and-yokos-year-of-peace/ John and Yoko’s Year of Peace was program originally broadcast by CBC Television in Canada to commemorate John Lennon’s 60th birthday. The special utilized the CBC’s archival film from 1969, as well as rare footage and photographs given by Yoko Ono, who also contributed interviews to the program.
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Jun 9, 2011 21:38
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I don't know where you got the idea that it's legal to torrent files from the site under discussion, but it isn't. Doesn't matter if you're in the UK or not. Now shut completely the gently caress up about it.
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Jun 10, 2011 00:28
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Mrens posted:Up for Grabs Seconded, this one is a rollercoaster and the King of Kong comparison is spot-on.
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I've read through the whole threat at one point or another and I don't think either of these have been posted before. The Perfect Vagina Enjoy looking at vaginas in this documentary about women and the new trend of vaginoplasty. Everyone's watched porn, and porn ladies all have the coveted "little kid vag". Yeah some of you right now are thinking  "what the christ!?" but seriously, think about it. The ideal vagina is shaved, and the vaginal lips aren't pokey but tucked instead. You basically have older women trying to get to the point where they look like little kids. A great documentary for any woman who's thought "Jesus my snatch is ugly," or any man who's been about to get down with a lady and told them their vagina is too ugly and gotten the gently caress out.  obviously and there are some surgical videos of a woman getting surgery. I was actually really unhappy with the scene in which the young lady has her labia snipped. Apparently people made fun of her for having gross hanging meat, but when you see her bits in the video, you realize she had a really pretty vagina before they cut it up. Pretty as vaginas go anyway. If I had a dick I'd have hosed that. Busting Out Follow up your trip to snatch-ville with a good look at how western culture views titties. for titties, though I guess you could always claim to your boss that you were interested in empowering women. A look at breasts, breast cancer, breast reduction and augmentation, and just titties in general. Any ladies in the audience may be convinced to breast feed (good, you should all breast feed) if they were against it.
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I just wrapped up watching all 3 parts of All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace and I've just got to say that it's going to take a while to process everything I just learned about my upbringing, but never knew I didn't know. Astounding piece of work. Not sure if I liked the ending or not yet. I'm afraid I might not understand entirely what he meant. Maybe it was naive to expect a happy ending hm?
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AwkwardKnob posted:I just wrapped up watching all 3 parts of All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace and I've just got to say that it's going to take a while to process everything I just learned about my upbringing, but never knew I didn't know. Astounding piece of work. Not sure if I liked the ending or not yet. I'm afraid I might not understand entirely what he meant. Maybe it was naive to expect a happy ending hm? Does he over-use any Nine Inch Nails songs in part III? Once my internet is back up at home I plan to watch it.
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Lone Rogue posted:Does he over-use any Nine Inch Nails songs in part III? Once my internet is back up at home I plan to watch it. A couple times the piano chords struck pretty hard, but it was legit, you'll see. There's some extremely shocking imagery in the third one. The whole 3-part production really left me in an odd place because I feel like the past 40 years have been a long failed experiment unfolding and we're stuck in it. Not sure where to go from here in light of what I was shown.
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I'll have to check out the 3rd part. While it was striking that a major ecology textbook could be traced to systems analysis & equilibrium theory, I thought it was a bit of a stretch to draw some sort of cause and effect relationship between cyberpunk internet ideology and Alan Greenspan's vision of global capitalism. Such a link is especially odd, since Objectivists consider balance-of-nature environmentalism to be evil. ayn rand posted:In the Middle Ages, their weapon was the fear of God. In the nineteenth century, they still invoked the fear of God -- for instance, they opposed the use of anesthesia on the grounds that it defies God's will, since God intended men to suffer. When this weapon wore out, they invoked the will of the collective, the group, the nation. But since this weapon has collapsed in their hands, they are now reduced, like cornered animals, to baring their teeth and their souls, and to proclaiming that man has no right to exist -- by the divine will of trees and slugs.
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Retarded Pimp posted:I've been putting documentary websites on a Speed Dial group as I find them, thought I'd share.   Thanks!
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JibbaJabberwocky posted:
I came for the breasts, but stayed for the documentary. I kinda wish I spoke Japanese to understand fully though.
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Jun 11, 2011 08:23
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Grand Moff Tarkin posted:I came for the breasts, but stayed for the documentary. I kinda wish I spoke Japanese to understand fully though. Yeah sorry I forgot to mention that it starts out incomprehensible and if you wait then there's the documentary. But I thought it was a good documentary about accepting the titties you have. I also REALLY wanted to know what the guy was saying at the beginning but I guess it probably went along the lines of "Guys: titties, boobs, breasts, etc, you know you love them, so please watch more about them."
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JibbaJabberwocky posted:The Perfect Vagina Very good recommendation, thanks. The labiaplasty story was really hard to watch. Not just the surgery itself (though that was part of it, ow), but the story about the woman getting laughed at by her GP and Rosie admitting she's never even seen a doctor regarding her labia before having surgery kind of pissed me off and then made me sad. On the other end of the "feel-good feel-bad" scale, the mold-making was really cool. The human body can vary so much, in retrospect it's kind of funny to be surprised that genitalia would vary in appearance, too.
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The Adventure of English - Birth of a Language About how English was first formed and absorbed loads of words from different languages, better than it sounds IMO. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4c5v-cj2LA Better and longer version. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8770985761908014082 Retarted Pimple fucked around with this message at 01:45 on Jun 12, 2011 |
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Mrens posted:Up for Grabs This was very entertaining!  to the max. I really recommend this one.
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Football High was...well, as interesting as it could be for a dude who knows nothing about football. Does anyone know of a similar doc about hockey for us  goons ?
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Hellwuzzat posted:Football High was...well, as interesting as it could be for a dude who knows nothing about football. Does anyone know of a similar doc about hockey for us Well, there is this is you have not seen it. Not like a hockey a version of Football High, but better. http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/pond_hockey/
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Massacre at Virginia Tech This documentary details the story behind Cho Seung Hui, a South Korean student at Virginia Tech University, who committed a mass murder of 32 people and wounded 25 others in the shooting rampage which has come to be known as the Virginia Tech massacre. Cho killed himself after law enforcement officers breached the doors of the building where he had killed and injured the majority of his victims. Cho arrived in US at a young age with his family. He had a severe form of anxiety disorder known as selective mutism in middle school as well as depression. During Cho’s last two years at Virginia Tech, several instances of his aberrant behavior, as well as plays and other writings he submitted contained references to violence, and caused concern among teachers and classmates. http://documentarystorm.com/massacre-at-virginia-tech/ This can be hard to watch. I was a University student at the same time in the US and remember getting texts and emails for months after warning of anything suspicious that had been reported on campus. Like many places. More than once students carrying rolled up umbrellas were mistakenly reported carrying firearms. I sat and watched cable news throughout the night for days following this and it was surreal. This is the first comprehensive film that covers more than just that day.
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Groselgar posted:When We Were Kings is probably one of the most definitive boxing docs, if not the most; it covers pretty much the whole of the Ali v. Foreman fight, from the promotion and run up with everyone involved to some of the more technical aspects of the fight itself. It's on Documentary Heaven and Netflix instant and it is excellent. drat, this was fantastic!
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Terry Pratchett: Choosing to Die http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0120dxp/Terry_Pratchett_Choosing_to_Die/ Well, I don't think I've ever cried this much at a documentary before. Follows an English couple as the husband, struggling with motor neurone's disease, make the decision to go to the Dignitas clinic in Zurich to end his life. Terry Pratchett is in favour of assisted dying, as he has Alzheimer's and can see a point in the future where he may want to go through the same process as the couple in the film. The complication for him, as opposed to a physically ill person, is that when the time comes, he may not be capable of making the decision or performing the act - all suicides at Dignitas must be carried out by the person dying. Really moving, especially as the couple allow the crew into the Dignitas apartment to observe the final act. As Sir Terry says, there are many ways a life can end, and there are many worse than going peacefully in the arms of your wife of forty years.
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AwkwardKnob posted:I just wrapped up watching all 3 parts of All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace and ... Terry Pratchett: Choosing to die was on TV last night. Thought provoking to the point of insomnia.  By way of (terrible) content, hear the insane ex-guitarist from the Corrs (irish band- if you haven't heard them, congratulations!) rant about the NWO. He's like our very own David Icke  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCPicGUQv4M&feature=related
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David Pratt posted:Terry Pratchett: Choosing to Die I had never heard Terry Pratchett speak until this documentary, and he has the most adorable lisp  Very good, very thought provoking. The hardest thing about this docu was watching Terry cry  (Not really a true spoiler, given the subject matter, but you never know)
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Smee posted:I had never heard Terry Pratchett speak until this documentary, and he has the most adorable lisp I have always thought he sounds like the priest from The Princess Bride. I went to see him speak at a bookstore once and could not get the notion out of my head. I just kept waiting for him to say "Mawwiage!" Of course, this same speaking appearance was when he revealed to the world that he had Alzheimer's, and talked very frankly about 'what a funny thing it is' (his own words) that everything that makes him into himself will one day waste away while his body still remains - but also how that makes his work now so much more important, and as long as people are still enjoying his work he'll still be a part of the world, even if he's not aware of it. It was heart-wrenching.
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If you have 7 minutes and are vaguely interested in animation you might find this worth watching. Walt Disney’s MultiPlane Camera Walt Disney explains how parallaxing effects were created in their films before Adobe Flash using a 'Multiplane Camera' Also, "I was moving it the wrong way Dick" - monotone robo disney employee. http://www.coffeedocs.tv/2011/06/walt-disneys-multiplane-camera/
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This isn't a particularly good film on the subject but it's worth it to see a glaswegian getting rear end raped by a demon in part 2. Sleep Paralysis – Ghost Visions I had sleep paralysis today  http://www.coffeedocs.tv/2011/06/sleep-paralysis-ghost-visions/
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AwkwardKnob posted:I just wrapped up watching all 3 parts of All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace and I've just got to say that it's going to take a while to process everything I just learned about my upbringing, but never knew I didn't know. Astounding piece of work. Not sure if I liked the ending or not yet. I'm afraid I might not understand entirely what he meant. Maybe it was naive to expect a happy ending hm? The message seems to be "The world is now a hosed up version of what it used to be because a bunch of idiots and randian nerds tried to apply computer logic to real life and failed. Also trying to help will only make it all worse."
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BobFossil posted:This isn't a particularly good film on the subject but it's worth it to see a glaswegian getting rear end raped by a demon in part 2. I kinda like that CoffeeDocs site. Beats rounding up missing up 10m segments on YT. Bob Fossil, there's a way to avoid sleep paralysis (awful loving feeling isn't it?). You'll have to take my word for it, but I swear it's worked for me without a single lapse ever since I forced myself into the habit about 10 years ago: falling asleep on your side with your legs as well as your free arm fully stretched along your body's axis. Like a private standing at attention, but lying on his side. You'll fall into the habit of alternating sides even when you're asleep. Sleep paralysis seems to hit when you lie on your back, so as long as you're avoiding that even when unconscious you're okay. Again: not scientific, but it sure as hell works for me and the few others I know who've tried it.
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Underflow posted:Sleep paralysis seems to hit when you lie on your back, so as long as you're avoiding that even when unconscious you're okay. Again: not scientific, but it sure as hell works for me and the few others I know who've tried it. I can kinda back this up with some more anecdotal evidence: whenever I have a nightmare, when I wake up I am invariably lying on my back.
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AwkwardKnob posted:A couple times the piano chords struck pretty hard, but it was legit, you'll see. There's some extremely shocking imagery in the third one. The whole 3-part production really left me in an odd place because I feel like the past 40 years have been a long failed experiment unfolding and we're stuck in it. Not sure where to go from here in light of what I was shown. I finally caught it and... I don't know what to loving say either. It's kind of... hopeless.
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Any recommendations for documentaries about art or street art? Not too dry though. I watched ''Exit through the gift shop'' and found that interesting.
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ravenkult posted:Any recommendations for documentaries about art or street art? Not too dry though. Its the polar opposite of Exit Through the Gif Shop but there's a BBC documentary called Shock of the New which is a great guide to modern art.
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Microcosmosquote:documentary film by Claude Nuridsany and Marie Pérennou produced by Jacques Perrin. This film is primarily a record of detailed insect interactions set to the music of Bruno Coulais. A fairly short documentary about insects, its on netflix (probably in much better quality) and is one of the more relaxing things to watch on a lazy Sunday. If you like insects then you owe it to yourself to watch this. EDIT: Apologies if this was already mentioned, didn't see it in the original post.
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The Pipe Think that oil companies can only bend and break laws, and buy out members of communities splitting them up, in third world countries? Think again. quote:In a remote corner of western Ireland sits Broadhaven Bay, a postcard perfect area housing the tiny village of Rossport. It's a unique area of coastline that has sustained generations of farmers and fishermen, and one that has caught the eye of Shell Oil. I haven't seen anything in a long, long time that makes me so incredibly angry. There are clearly laws being broken, both national and European, the Irish government ignoring its people, and a community which ends up being forced against each other. Available on 4oD, and it has an IMDB entry.
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