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Itious posted:I was wondering if anyone could help me find somewhere to watch old National Geographic documentaries. We had cable tv for a brief period in the mid 90's and I remember some really wonderful documentaries, before reality tv had infected everything. I remember an especially good one about Mobutu Sese Seko, but it's hard to find any reference to the old National Geographic documentaries anywhere on the web. Here is a group of 75 of them on snagfilms. Should keep you entertained for a bit. http://www.snagfilms.com/films/browse/category/national_geographic
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Few people have mentioned this one before and it's now up on Netflix streaming. It's a brilliantly shot doc, but I'm watching it in chunks for about ~20 minutes at a time since woah, my lord, this is some heavy, depressing stuff. But I feel like every other doc I watch about China makes me feel terrible.
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I found the other two episodes of the 2002 BBC series 'The Hunt For Britain's Pedophiles'. Be warned that these episodes feature some heavily censored but still very upsetting images. I haven't watched it yet, but I'm hoping one of the parts is the episode I remember with a particularly obviously mentally-ill bloke who kept saying it was all the kids fault and how the existence of female circumcision makes it alright for him to sexually abuse children or something. All of these are  and  . You have been warned.Episode 1, Part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Rw_glK3CiA Episode 1, Part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LihdzmVECao Episode 1, Part 3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2wW4OD79D8 Episode 2, Part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYr6Ud8mrfc Episode 2, Part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B4XHrhfiWY: Episode 2, Part 3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4Vn6mZzojI Episode 3, Part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZM_AXVtOIA Episode 3, Part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCsAW6q0L6w The last part was the one linked earlier in the thread. Edit : Only halfway through the first episode and already remember why this upset me so much the first time. Listening to that now older girl recounting the abuse she suffered at the hands of her father and his friends just fills me with so much revulsion and sadness. Edit 2 : Having now watched it I'd add an extra warning that parts of the other two episodes are even worse, so you might want to skip this. El Goatherd fucked around with this message at 14:38 on Jan 1, 2012 |
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Can anyone recommend any good documentaries about the history of electrical engineering or electromagnetic theory? It would be great if there's one out there that can teach me how to build a battery and radio from scratch (which I'll need to know if I ever get sent two thousand years back in time).
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Just found this great BBC series on the food industry, and the history of mass marketed and produced food, focusing on three of the most successful products in recent times. Cereals http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYkLByB7HQ4 Yogurt http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXdk6mG_gbw&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL Water Annoyingly enough, I could only find the first part of this one, but you get the general idea. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsP6cMRC5LM BeigeJacket fucked around with this message at 22:07 on Jan 1, 2012 |
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Zackarotto posted:It would be great if there's one out there that can teach me how to build a battery and radio from scratch (which I'll need to know if I ever get sent two thousand years back in time). If this does occur, you can always just pop over to Baghdad for one of these.
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Zackarotto posted:Can anyone recommend any good documentaries about the history of electrical engineering or electromagnetic theory? It would be great if there's one out there that can teach me how to build a battery and radio from scratch (which I'll need to know if I ever get sent two thousand years back in time). You might find a shortage of good stations to listen to, surely 
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feedmegin posted:You might find a shortage of good stations to listen to, surely There were some pretty rad Rock 'n Rock stations around back then!
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Popelmon posted:There were some pretty rad Rock 'n Rock stations around back then! Tiny Faye posted:Few people have mentioned this one before and it's now up on Netflix streaming. It's a brilliantly shot doc, but I'm watching it in chunks for about ~20 minutes at a time since woah, my lord, this is some heavy, depressing stuff. But I feel like every other doc I watch about China makes me feel terrible.
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Balancing Monsters posted:If this does occur, you can always just pop over to Baghdad for one of these. feedmegin posted:You might find a shortage of good stations to listen to, surely  Radd McCool posted:Have you seen this shirt before?
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El Goatherd posted:I found the other two episodes of the 2002 BBC series 'The Hunt For Britain's Pedophiles'. Be warned that these episodes feature some heavily censored but still very upsetting images. The first episode just died out before my bewildered eyes. I'm now hanging in the middle point between feeling horrified and dirty for having watched this or feeling enlightened for having learned all those things I didn't know on the subject. My line of work sometimes brings me to hear victims witness in court, but mostly the accused never give any testimony; it's the first journey I really take on "their side", so to speak. They pose as victims; that's so sick I wonder what amount/duration of therapy would breach a little ray of light into their hosed up heads. Thanks for sharing. I'll watch the other two but not tonight. The cheesiest comedy available is now in order to restore some sort of balance. 
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Budget Bears posted:Can anyone recommend me some interesting and not-heartbreaking documentaries about the ocean, ocean life, etc? BBC Blue Planet and BBC Oceans series.. HD is a must for these. Blue planet is the better of the two, it's narrated by attenborough
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Brainwash / Hjernevask In 2010 a television show called "Hjernevask" ("Brainwash") which contrasted cultural determinist models of human behavior (also referred to as the Standard social science model) with nature-nurture interactionist perspectives made some noise in norway. Several of those who were interviewed for the show criticized the show publicly both before and after the airing, and this ignited a wide public discussion on the subject of nature versus nurture debate. Specially the question of gender, and what is referred to as the gender paradox (the fact that although Norwegian women are largely represented within the working stock, more so than most countries, the Norwegian job market remains highly segregated in terms of gender) has provoked controversy. password is "hjernevask" 1 – The Gender Equality Paradox 2 – The Parental Effect 3 – Gay/straight 4 – Violence 5 – Sex 6 – Race 7 – Nature or Nurture Warning, subtitles! Scuttle_SE fucked around with this message at 18:10 on Jan 2, 2012 |
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My Kid Could Paint That About a five year old girl who paints pictures that are sold for tens of thousands of dollars. But then there's some question if her dad has done the work for her, which raises the question, does it matter? Is art dependent on the artist? Is it still art if the artist doesn't know what they're doing? Lake of Fire Very intimate film about abortion. Very intense, directed by the guy who directed American History X, and it carries that kind of weight. Sure, there's bias here, but it's more of an educational analysis, rather than a persuasion. Nerdcore Rising To lighten things up a bit, this is the perfect goon doc. This is about a sub genre of music, nerdcore or nerd rap, and it mainly hilights the godfather of nerdcore, MC Frontalot. Totally nerdy, and a very unimportant film, it's still a lot of fun.
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Sneep posted:I just watched "Life in a Day" which is on instant on Netflix, or can be viewed here: Wow, just wow. Thank you so much for sharing this. It's a truly amazing film, invoking every emotion and pulling the heart-strings. I lost it in the beginning when the Japanese father and little boy pray to the shrine of their deceased wife and mother.
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Scuttle_SE posted:Brainwash / Hjernevask I've only got to part 3 so far but that is strange as hell 
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This is by far the most pedophile documentary. It's worse than the man who looks at the Romanian pedophile sex-tourism / child trafficking. I have not finished the first episode.
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Steve Jobs: Billion Dollar Hippy A look back at Jobs' history with Apple including interviews of employees and ex-employees. That Mr. Voznik sure ain't driven by revenge. Duration: 59:12. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co1CU3-Ms5Q&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
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Are there any good documentaries about music studio work in the 70s? Actually any documentary that goes through the whole recording, mixing and mastering process would be awesome. I've seen a lot of those Classic Albums documents that have been entertaining but I wish they'd dwelve deeper into the actual making of the albums. Also, you can recommend documentaries about music scenes in the 70s (or other eras but preferably not before 70s).
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BeigeJacket posted:Just found this great BBC series on the food industry, and the history of mass marketed and produced food, focusing on three of the most successful products in recent times.
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You're Gonna Miss Me I haven't seen this posted, but I may have missed it. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0791268/ Documentary about Roky Erickson, lead singer of The 13th Floor Elevators, a group some consider pioneers of psychedelic rock. Just a terribly sad doc. Basically he went from being a rock star in the '60s to the equivalent of a child today. He did too much LSD, had shock therapy, and was diagnosed as schizophrenic. Unfortunately, his mother was the one who cared for him and she closed him off from any help he needed. It is on Netflix streaming. Like I said, just a really sad documentary. It actually has some parallels to Brian Wilson, in that they were both rock stars in the 60s (Brian Wilson more than Erickson) who just went completely bonkers. However, whereas Brian Wilson sort of made a recovery, Erickson is pretty pleased when his mom gives him a Mr. Potato Head doll.
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peepoogenderparts posted:You're Gonna Miss Me Actually he seems to be doing a lot better nowadays if you check his Wikipedia page: Wikipedia posted:A documentary film on the life of Roky Erickson titled You're Gonna Miss Me was made by director Keven McAlester and screened at the 2005 SXSW film festival. In September of the same year, Erickson performed his first full-length concert in 20 years at the annual Austin City Limits Music Festival with The Explosives with special guest and long time associate, Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top.
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Scuttle_SE posted:Brainwash / Hjernevask Is the obnoxiously large boom mic the presenter carries around supposed to be a joke?
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These Loving Eyes posted:Actually he seems to be doing a lot better nowadays if you check his Wikipedia page: Hey, that's alright. Glad to see he's doing better. He was just so child-like in the documentary.
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El Goatherd posted:I found the other two episodes of the 2002 BBC series 'The Hunt For Britain's Pedophiles'. I watched all three episodes last night and have not slept. Not saying that is the only reason but the only other time recently I have not slept a minute of the night was in Vegas. This is horrific poo poo. My ex-fiancee/gf was a victim, this ruins childrens life's forever, not just when the act it committed. And if not treated it just continues the cycle of abuse in one way or another. These people working the pedophile unit, and the film crew put up with stuff I would not dare want to handle. And any documentary that leads almost all the crew to get counseling during/after is just mind boggling. Glad it was offered to them. That third episode was just unreal to me. It is a foreign way of thought that most are not capable of even capable of, and this man just sat in a chair and smiled with his shirt off for an interview about raping boys. Ended well for him. This show seemed to have helped catch many of the distributors of the material, so I am glad it had a positive impact for the most part.
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El Goatherd posted:I found the other two episodes of the 2002 BBC series 'The Hunt For Britain's Pedophiles'. Be warned that these episodes feature some heavily censored but still very upsetting images. I haven't watched it yet, but I'm hoping one of the parts is the episode I remember with a particularly obviously mentally-ill bloke who kept saying it was all the kids fault and how the existence of female circumcision makes it alright for him to sexually abuse children or something. Yeah, I'm on part 1 of episode 1 and I'm already feeling sick with those censored pictures. I really don't want this to get worse because I think I'll actually start throwing up.
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Onion Vanguard posted:Yeah, I'm on part 1 of episode 1 and I'm already feeling sick with those censored pictures. I really don't want this to get worse because I think I'll actually start throwing up. The photos are what they are, they do not really get worse in that sense. But the sheer volume of it found in these houses is insane. But you really get engaged when the bastards start getting tossed in the pokey. It is a good watch, but it will get tougher.
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WouldDesk posted:The photos are what they are, they do not really get worse in that sense. But the sheer volume of it found in these houses is insane. But you really get engaged when the bastards start getting tossed in the pokey. It is a good watch, but it will get tougher. Yeah, I think tougher would have been a better word. I mean for gently caress sake 100,000 indecent images of children? What in the almighty gently caress. EDIT: nope. gently caress that poo poo. SLAMMING A 6 YEAR OLD. Why did they show that video man. For real. Yeah its 'censored' but you can clearly see the child's father raping her. For gently caress sake. Onion Vanguard fucked around with this message at 02:08 on Jan 4, 2012 |
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Is there a part 3 to episode 3 or does it cut just before the credits? Definitely a tough doc to watch.
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Onion Vanguard posted:Yeah, I think tougher would have been a better word. I mean for gently caress sake 100,000 indecent images of children? What in the almighty gently caress. That is the worst part. Forgot about that... but, later a woman in her mid 20's tells the whole story on what her uncle did and my mind fried trying to process it I think the third episode is just 2 parts. WouldDesk fucked around with this message at 02:16 on Jan 4, 2012 |
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BeigeJacket posted:Just found this great BBC series on the food industry, and the history of mass marketed and produced food, focusing on three of the most successful products in recent times. Here are the last two parts to the water one. =) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ7hwrcohmg&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHg0qhkS6Ng&feature=related
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El Goatherd posted:I found the other two episodes of the 2002 BBC series 'The Hunt For Britain's Pedophiles'. Be warned that these episodes feature some heavily censored but still very upsetting images. I haven't watched it yet, but I'm hoping one of the parts is the episode I remember with a particularly obviously mentally-ill bloke who kept saying it was all the kids fault and how the existence of female circumcision makes it alright for him to sexually abuse children or something. Can't/won't watch this. I think of what I'd do if I knew something who violated a child like that. The horrible, horrible things I would do to that person. In a way, documentaries like this are great because so often we just turn a blind eye to child abuse. We know it happens but just...can't really comprehend the true gravity of such a situation. I don't think my heart can take it.
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Toriori posted:Can't/won't watch this. I think of what I'd do if I knew something who violated a child like that. If you want to skip the photos and videos, albeit censored, just watch episode 3.
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Toriori posted:Can't/won't watch this. I think of what I'd do if I knew something who violated a child like that. My head says I should be reasoned and liberal and say that people like that should be treated as being mentally ill, shut in prison or if possible rehabilitated, but I can't watch that documentary without feeling all they really need is a bullet in the head.
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Oh my god, one youtube commentor god it completely right: 'This makes "To Catch A Predator" look like Sesame Street.' It's a little excessive.
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It's already pretty old. But "white king, red rubber, black death" is still a fascinating and shocking documentary about 'the horror' in the congo. I thought about it after reading "king leopold's ghost" again. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4748355130635434378&hl=sv
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Nuclear Tourist posted:I was wondering if anyone here could help me locate a documentary I saw a few years ago. I don't remember any names, but it was about a gigantic ore transporter that capsized and sank with all hands lost somewhere in southeast Asia (I think) during extremely foul weather. The documentary followed investigators trying to find out why exactly it sank, and there was also interviews with next of kin who I think mostly came from some small village in England. I think they finally concluded that the sinking had something to do with an access hole having been torn open in the storm which had allowed swell to gradually fill up the interior of the ship until it got so heavy it sank. This is from a while back, but the ship concerned is almost certainly the MV Derbyshire, the largest British-flagged ship ever lost at sea. Hope this helps.
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El Goatherd posted:My head says I should be reasoned and liberal and say that people like that should be treated as being mentally ill, shut in prison or if possible rehabilitated, but I can't watch that documentary without feeling all they really need is a bullet in the head. I have the same problem. Having young children in my family, my first instinct it "I would rip that person to shreds with my bare hands!" But when I dwell on it I realize there's the chance that someone who's a pedophile may have been sexually abused themselves. It's very sad and emotionally exhausting to think about. Can you truly rehabilitate those kinds of people? Are some people really mentally ill or just twisted? Also, here's a good documentary thanks to the Fifth Estate. http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/2011-2012/storiesfromtheriversedge/ quote:For aboriginal kids from reserves in northern Ontario, a high school diploma is a ticket to a better future. But a shocking number of these students have ended up dead before graduation. Thunder Bay has a population around 120,000, now imagine being 13 years old from a reserve with 2000 people in it and being placed in a boarding home in such a "big" city. That would be like taking a 13 year old from Thunder Bay and sticking them in the downtown core of Toronto. This is a very eye opening documentary and if you're into sociology I definitely recommend it.
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I live in Thunder Bay, and things have come to a head on the issue: It's making headlines, and they're trying to find better housing solutions for the kids who come from fly in communities. People who come from fly in communities get blamed for drat near all the crime around here. Mac's (a popular canadian convenince store franchise) was robbed something like 30 times in 2011. It got worse after they opened a 24 hr. store 2 blocks away from the location that got robbed the most.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:I live in Thunder Bay, and things have come to a head on the issue: It's making headlines, and they're trying to find better housing solutions for the kids who come from fly in communities. People who come from fly in communities get blamed for drat near al the crime around here. Macs (a popular canadian convenince store franchise) was robbed something like 30 times in 2011. It got worse after they opened a 24 hr. store 2 blocks away from the location that got robbed the most. I got in an argument with a friends mother about kids from fly in reserves who go to boarding homes, and how I had talked with a teacher who knew a student whose boarding parents put a padlock on their fridge when they weren't home so the kid and his friends wouldn't eat all the food. Her (the friends mom) response was that she had a friend who was a foster parent and when she'd have emergency foster kids in the house they would just go to town, devouring everything in sight so they had to lock the food up. Really? I mean in terms of money I can see why it makes sense but don't bother being an emergency foster parent or a boarding parent then be surprised when the kid in your house is ravenous because they probably don't even know what it's like to have a fridge full of food.
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