What was the most recent documentary you watched on TV?
Hippies on The History Channel
Like, far out, man. :rasta:
"Word Wars"--about the US Scrabble Championships a few years back.
The War, of course. Didn't see all of it.
And if they count, recently saw specials about Carol Burnett (rerun) and Lucille Ball (rerun.)
I watched Hippies, too. I've seen it before. Pretty accurate description of both the good and the bad, although I did not agree with some of the asshole "expert" commentators on there.
Pretty much all of my core beliefs spring from hippie philosophy, for good or for ill. I was nodding my head through most of it, yeah, that's what I believe.
An additional thought: One thing I picked up this time watching was the division between hippies and politicos. Most hippies weren't really interested in political activism ala Abbie Hoffman until much later.
This made sense to me, thinking about it, since I have never been too interested in politics.
and, I watch LOTS of documentaries on the History Channel, Discover Channel, et al. all the time.
I keep watching the one about musicians from Athens, GA. on the documentary channel. I can't help it...If I see that it's on...I have to watch it...This has happened at least 3 and a half times over the past 4 months.
When Metallica Ruled The World on VH1Classic for the umpteenth time
So, uh.. when was that?
Today? 4:00pm.
You mean Metallica ruled the world today and I missed it? Shucks!
No, no, no, I mean, when was it, that Metallica was ruling the world?
Apparently, you missed it too. ;)
How Art Changed the World, BBC documentary. Excellent stuff.
Am watching The Secret Millionaire - it's a series rather than a proper documentary but it always makes me cry.
They send a real millionaire undercover to meet real people (usually doing charity/ volunteer/ community work). The idea is they donate some of their own money to someone they meet. Sounds cheesy and of course it is carefully edited but it changes their life and perspective. People who have worked hard to succeed meet people who work hard for no gain, it's heartwarming.
E! True Hollywood Story: Will Smith on E! Entertainment Television
This past Sunday:
The Lost Book Of Nostradamus followed by 1968 on The History Channel
You mean Metallica ruled the world today and I missed it? Shucks!
According to TV Guide.com, it's on again December 20th @ 9:00pm, and December 22nd @ 12:00am.
"Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea."
Link to what looks like the official website...
http://www.saltonseadoc.com/
It was pretty good...some of it was funny..bittersweet.
I saw the Nostradamus one too...The book really looks fake. (I was excited too) More than fake...like an overt lie.......
:(
It was fake. They proved it.
E! True Hollywood Story: Traci Lords on E! Entertainment Television
Seven Ages Of Rock (Episode 1): The Birth Of Rock on VH1Classic
Seven Ages Of Rock (Episode 2): White Light, White Heat on VH1Classic
Seven Ages Of Rock (Episode 3): Blank Generation: Punk Rock on VH1Classic
There was something on PBS last night about Ralph Nader and his impact on the 2000 election. Talked about how Michael Moore, Susan Sarandan and some others were total traitors in 2004. I'd love to know what the name of it was or if it was coming on again - I missed most of it.
If anyone knows - pm me please.
There was something on PBS last night about Ralph Nader and his impact on the 2000 election. Talked about how Michael Moore, Susan Sarandan and some others were total traitors in 2004. I'd love to know what the name of it was or if it was coming on again - I missed most of it.
If anyone knows - pm me please.
http://www.tvguide.com/detail/tv-show.aspx?tvobjectid=191571&more=ucepisodelist&episodeid=7283358Thanks - looks like that was the last airing for the year - just my luck.
Seven Ages Of Rock (Episode 4): Never Say Die: Heavy Metal on VH1Classic
Seven Ages Of Rock (Episode 5): We Are The Champions: Stadimm Rock on VH1Classic
Seven Ages Of Rock (Episode 6): Left Of The Dial: American Alternative Rock on VH1Classic
Seven Ages Of Rock (Episode 7): What The World Is Waiting For: British Indie on VH1Classic
The History Channel, "Cold Cuts" the history of meat.
It was enlightening. There's meat then there's other stuff that looks like meat. Sort of pseudo meat.:headshake
I dunno if this counts as a documentary, but I just saw the first 3 eps of Cosmos on The Science Channel.
History's Mysteries: Secret Societies on History International
History's Mysteries: Samurai on History International
Planet Earth - BBC 1st two segments
Got it for xmas and I love it so far.
Got it for xmas
This would indicate a DVD, in which case your post belongs
here.
Andrew Jackson(narrated by Martin Sheen)
Death Devices on History International
I don't remember the exact name of it, but it looked like a school film of U.S. Vice Presidents, ending at Ford (and seemingly right before Watergate, unless they just didn't want to get into that). For some reason, it was in black and white, which led me to think at first that it was an older film than it was. So naturally, I was a little thrown off when it kept going after Lyndon Johnson. A slightly surreal documentary-watching experience, especially at 3 or 4-ish in the AM.
History Channel: Crime Wave.
It was about bonnie and clyde, the great depression era criminals, etc, etc. Hoover's beginning of the FBI (failed miserably at first). Awesome!!
The depression era (the masses) actually supported gangs because the banks were not trusted and hated......So people actually (the masses)supported the robbers position. Interesting. Some police made deals with the gangs in written statements of negotiation....interesting. (harbouring them for protection from robbery) Hoover exacted justice with dead or alive notifications without trials. Orders to shoot to kill on sight. Wow . Crazy stuff back then...I thought it was enlightening.
:)
It was either Outfoxed, Who Killed the Electric Car, An Inconvenient Truth, or Born Into Brothels. They were all good, but I can't remember the order in which I watched them.
Caught one over the weekend on Jim Jones and The People's Temple on History Channel. I've been fascinated with this since high school.
Today I watched a free DVD I got with a magazine subscription called A Nation Adrift, which seemed to be saying that America has gone to Hell in a Handbasket because we're straying from our Christian roots.
Vampire Secrets (again) on the History Channel
I caught about 20 minutes of the Nimitz Aircraft Carrier documentary on PBS that's going to run over several days. They don't make it look glamorous. All I can say is thank God I didn't join the Navy. I wouldn't fit in, and I'd be miserable.
Watched this:
The First Georgians: The German Kings Who Made Britain. I love Lucy Worsley, she's one of the best presenting historians on tv to my mind.
If you want to understand the modern British state, this is the starting point.
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The last documentary I can remember watching is "White Falcon, White Wolf" on PBS.
Watch it
here.
PBS has like eighty-some odd full episodes of "Nature" online.
Watch them anywhere, anytime.
Bronies. Oh dear god in heaven.
Bronies. Oh dear god in heaven.
FUCK YEAH!
I'm going to SakuraCon next year as Pinkie Pie!
Pandora ' s Promise.
Just on case you missed the memo, nuclear power isn't evil.
I just watched the most recent episode of Nature's Weirdest Events - I think it's on it's fourth series now.
It's not a 'When Insects Attack!!!' type show - but a look at some really weird and marvellous shit in nature, by one of my favourite nature presenters, Chris Packham. It has quite a light and quirky tone; fun and informative.
Here's the first ep from the first series (2011)
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(some of the stuff has been in the Cellar IotD, so it's nice to get a closer look)
As an aside: Packham drew controversy a couple years ago through his stance on pandas and the conservation movement:
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I just watched the most recent episode of Nature's Weirdest Events - I think it's on it's fourth series now.
It's not a 'When Insects Attack!!!' type show -
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Right.
**THIS** is "When Insects Attack!!!"
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I watched one on Fusion the other night called Black, White & Blue...it looked at policing in the aftermath of Mike Brown, Tamir Rice, Eric Garner, etc. Interesting watch.
I'm surprised how small their solar array is, especially with ten year old panels.
I think his windmill does most of the battery charging.
Oh, then are they water panels?
A Nova show, The First Air War. About the evolution of aircraft during the WWI.
The twist is that there is an American guy in New Zealand with a workshop and team of guys that build the planes from scratch according to original blue prints so instead of just old pictures there is great footage of the planes being flown.
They could also test out some stuff like dogfighting two planes to see which is superior.
Oh, then are they water panels?
I'll have to ask him, I think he has both but the solar cells may be on his battery shed.
A Nova show, The First Air War. About the evolution of aircraft during the WWI.
The twist is that there is an American guy in New Zealand with a workshop and team of guys that build the planes from scratch according to original blue prints so instead of just old pictures there is great footage of the planes being flown.
They could also test out some stuff like dogfighting two planes to see which is superior.
How cool is that? I'll answer that's pretty damn cool.
Way cool, NOVA, PBS, and the internet for that matter, have unearthed some long hidden treasures in photographs and film. Most of it not intentionally hidden, but just unknown outside a circle of the holder's friends. Companies fold and some employee grabs records being trashed for a keepsake, or an employee took behind the scenes photos of historic events, when there was no news organizations who wanted them. I mean who takes snapshots at events thinking they are a historic record, just souvenirs to show friends. Unfortunately the snapshots taken today have the owner's mug in every damn shot. :rolleyes:
I dont watch TV really anymore because its all RUBBISH but the last documentary I watched was NAKED STATES (2000) on VHS .. I got it @ salvation army....
www.imdb.com/title/tt0259453
It was beautiful seeing ppl NOT BE AFRAID to pose naked for this guy... Most people are so brainwashed they think its wrong to be seen nude.... Its a shame really.....
I think it was titled $chooled: The High Cost of College Sports.
Very educational
Yea most documentaries are :)
Agreed, I split documentaries into interesting or Zzz
. But interesting is a very personal call. By saying a particular thing was interesting I'm voicing an opinion, and those listening to me would have to know something about me to make a judgment. That's why anything Patrick Stoner(critic for PBS) says is interesting, I'll only watch as a last resort.
The last documentary I watched was sort of a documentary - but also a pop-culture history clip show with celeb guests commenting. It was a continuation of the excellent 'It was alright in the 1970s'. This time it was looking at telly in the 80s and was fascinating.
I also watched, on the same evening, the first part of 'The Celts: Blood, Iron and Sacrifice', with Neil Oliver and Alice Roberts. I usually really like Oliver, and have watched quite a few of his documentaries. I quite like Alice Roberts too, as an academic, but I sometimes find the style of her documentaries a little grating. I found the programme interesting, but very slow and to be honest I could do without all the docudrama scenes wrapped around it. I'd have preferred the analysis to have been a little more compact and the delivery of headline findings a little less heavy-handed.
I'm voicing an opinion, and those listening to me would have to know something about me to make a judgment.
I've got one friend IRL and I love it when he tells me a movie is good because he has
the worst taste you can imagine, and I know what to skip.
But when he saw the movie it was great, it's not his fault you picked a bad night to see it. :haha:
Saw one awhile back called "Approaching the Elephant," about an attempt at a very different alternative school (many wouldn't even call it that.) It was interesting, but very much proved that just because the current public schools are bad doesn't mean every other idea is better.
I saw a programme on Sky arts called "Finding Vivian Maier"
Or Mary Poppins with a camera,
When Vivian died she left over 150,000 images, negative and prints in storage, she was never published in her lifetime but it's only now being realised how important her pictures are.
Most of the stuff they showed was street shots of people and areas now long gone in New York and other towns she lived and worked in.
D
she seemed to be a total eccentric especially towards the end of her life but what a photographer eye she had, any one interested in photography should try and see some of her work you tube has stuff and there's lots on the net.
I was blown away by some of the images.
I've seen some of her work, she had a good eye. It's kind of mind boggling how many she accumulated, especially figuring she was working with film, and had to be throwing a percentage of the pictures she took away.
I saw a programme on Sky arts called "Finding Vivian Maier"
Or Mary Poppins with a camera,
When Vivian died she left over 150,000 images, negative and prints in storage, she was never published in her lifetime but it's only now being realised how important her pictures are.
Most of the stuff they showed was street shots of people and areas now long gone in New York and other towns she lived and worked in.
D
she seemed to be a total eccentric especially towards the end of her life but what a photographer eye she had, any one interested in photography should try and see some of her work you tube has stuff and there's lots on the net.
I was blown away by some of the images.
I saw that. Liked it so much I googled her work. Captivating stuff
"Welcome To Union Glacier"
Union Glacier is located in the southern Ellsworth Mountains of West Antarctica. This is a documentary about a small team of people who live and work on the glacier during the Antarctic summer.
In 2013 I was the filmmaker attached to the Scott Expedition - the journey that completed Captain Scott's final, ill-fated expedition from the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole and back again. Our team passed through Union Glacier Camp on route to the starting point of Scott's Hut at Cape Evans, but after becoming stranded at the camp and working with the staff there; I decided to make this documentary.
For me, this film seems a bit like an antithesis to many expedition and adventure documentaries. There is no great achievement or record broken, nor any real challenge to overcome. Instead it concerns minor details; the everyday tasks of the staff that were made more special by the environment surrounding them. And in fact, I think that's what attracted me to make this film - the delightful trivialities of an average life, working in Antarctica.
Fullscreen is more better.
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Or, watch it at
Vimeo.
The Death of Superman Lives - What Happened? An interesting behind the scenes look at the collapse of a blockbuster movie.
RE: Post #78:
WTF happened with that second video getting put there? That was just a link to the vid's Vimeo page. And why does it look different than the other one?
ETA: In the preview it just looks like a link. Weird.
The truth behind the Nevada Triangle.
I watched it on Netflix,
Apparently over 2000 aircraft, small ones, have dissapeared over the Sierra Nevada mountains since 1962, that's a lot of planes, interesting...
One of these was
Steve Fossett, super rich guy and avid aviator, I remember the hoo ha and huge search effort at the time, but not really any of the follow up.
The documentary does a good job of mixing the general story of the loss of planes and this one famous incident. The bit I didn't know, they found Fossetts plane a few years later, random discovery by a hiker, some remains, and explained why it went down, there's a very strong air condition that can occur in certain conditions due to the geography, if you get in it you're done.
That's all nonsense, it's aliens I tell you, snatching planes right out of the air. They beam them up, transmogrify the planes into common air pollution and anal probe the pilots until they refuse to leave. honest. :crone:
Star Wars: A New Gaming Era on Fusion followed by Bears on Starz Kids & Family.
That's all nonsense, it's aliens I tell you, snatching planes right out of the air. They beam them up, transmogrify the planes into common air pollution and anal probe the pilots until they refuse to leave. honest. :crone:
Vorlons?
Not on tv - via Youtube, but this was really fascinating (I thought). A case study in moral panic and censorship from 1980s Britain. As someone who both remembers this particular moral panic very clearly, and has an abiding interest in schlocky horror movies, i found it particularly interesting - but anyone with an interest in censorship and questions of freedom of artistic expression would also find it interesting I think.
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I haven't seen this one yet but it features a friend who build his house a little after us. The Sustainable
http://www.saratogian.com/general-news/20151011/local-couples-green-home-featured-in-new-documentary
I'm surprised how small their solar array is, especially with ten year old panels.
We stayed at the house Wednesday night on our way up North. He has 12 panels and a windmill which generally does the job. There is a generator tied in to top off the batteries if needed but it apparently doesn't come on often. The battery bank is in the basement. I was there when he did his monthly maintenance topping off the batteries that need more water.
What kind of batteries for that setup, big like forklift batteries, or like car batteries, or something special?
The Stocks have saved an estimated $50,000 on heat and electric bills since moving into their passive-solar home 10 years ago.
$5k a year for electricity and heat?
$5,000 a year????
Yumpin' Yiminy.:eek:
Something on public television about elephants.
What kind of batteries for that setup, big like forklift batteries, or like car batteries, or something special?
Deep cycle marine batteries
I don't know where that $50k number comes from.
On episode 7 of Making a Murderer - a Netflix original.
Highly recommend
Oh man, so compelling and so fucking depressing.
Not reallyadocumentary but close enough:p
Don't know if this is playable outside the UK.I hope sobecause it made me laugh and I think it might be of interest toa non brit.
Couldn't find ep1 on the toob, so here's ep2 (am currently watching ...well,listening to this ep..as I post this.I shall go back and watch the rest now:P)
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I just watched that and, there are just too many rules. And people seem to take things too seriously.
On episode 7 of Making a Murderer - a Netflix original.
Highly recommend
Oh, and! After you finish the whole thing, make sure you read the online writeups about the evidence shown at trial that they did not include in the documentary. And then you'll just curl up in a ball on the floor because you won't have any idea what is real anymore.
Oh, and! After you finish the whole thing, make sure you read the online writeups about the evidence shown at trial that they did not include in the documentary. And then you'll just curl up in a ball on the floor because you won't have any idea what is real anymore.
I'm not convinced he's innocent, but the case needs more, and unbiased, investigation, at least.
Kratz struck me as a sleazeball, which he turned out to be and I wouldn't trust Lenk as far as I can throw him.
Did you finish it? I want to ask you what you thought about a spoiler from a late episode...
Did you finish it? I want to ask you what you thought about a spoiler from a late episode...
Yeah, finished Monday evening. Started on Friday or Saturday AM.
Ask away!
Okay, so I have this theory. The only good and smart people in the whole thing were Stephen Avery's trial lawyers, right? The shorter one with the full head of hair seemed to be slightly more in charge. And he said two things that really caught my attention, only because he proved himself in other places to be SO VERY careful with his words, as lawyers must be.
1.) In the closing arguments, they got into a weird back and forth where the prosecution was basically like, "Why would the police pick Avery out of nowhere to frame him?" And the defense responded with the logical argument that of course the police are not inherently evil, and they would only plant evidence if they believed him to be guilty and wanted a slam dunk, but that doesn't actually make him guilty... Except what he said was, "The police don't frame innocent people." And then he sort of elaborated into the point he actually meant. But that seemed like a really boneheaded verbal slip for a defense lawyer, to me.
2.) In the post trial discussion with all five lawyers in the room, he was the one who said that on some level he hopes that Avery did really do it, because otherwise the system is so depressingly broken, etc. Again, a relevant point, but not really the way one's own lawyer best phrases it.
Conclusion: I think he knew/believed Avery was guilty, or at least a terrible person (did you find the not-presented-in-the-documentary stuff online about Avery molesting Brendan Dassey when he was younger?) and didn't actually slip up at all, but instead showed the excellent, excellent control of language that he had in the rest of the series to very subtly make sure that he lost the case in the end.
The question being, I guess, does that strike you as plausible?
Okay, so I have this theory. The only good and smart people in the whole thing were Stephen Avery's trial lawyers, right? The shorter one with the full head of hair seemed to be slightly more in charge. And he said two things that really caught my attention, only because he proved himself in other places to be SO VERY careful with his words, as lawyers must be.
1.) In the closing arguments, they got into a weird back and forth where the prosecution was basically like, "Why would the police pick Avery out of nowhere to frame him?" And the defense responded with the logical argument that of course the police are not inherently evil, and they would only plant evidence if they believed him to be guilty and wanted a slam dunk, but that doesn't actually make him guilty... Except what he said was, "The police don't frame innocent people." And then he sort of elaborated into the point he actually meant. But that seemed like a really boneheaded verbal slip for a defense lawyer, to me.
2.) In the post trial discussion with all five lawyers in the room, he was the one who said that on some level he hopes that Avery did really do it, because otherwise the system is so depressingly broken, etc. Again, a relevant point, but not really the way one's own lawyer best phrases it.
Conclusion: I think he knew/believed Avery was guilty, or at least a terrible person (did you find the not-presented-in-the-documentary stuff online about Avery molesting Brendan Dassey when he was younger?) and didn't actually slip up at all, but instead showed the excellent, excellent control of language that he had in the rest of the series to very subtly make sure that he lost the case in the end.
I don't remember his exact words in the closing arguments, but what I took away was "The police don't frame people
they believe to be innocent."
I was shocked when he said he almost hopes Steven is guilty, but I think he was trying to salvage something, anything, from the whole mess. He got choked up, which I think added to his show of frustrated indignation.
The question being, I guess, does that strike you as plausible?
I guess it's plausible, but I think he truly believed that Avery was mistreated.
I read a couple of articles about the "ignored" evidence. Unfortunately, it all appears to me to be hearsay. It would be nice if someone did the kind of investigation into those accusations as they did in the series. Still, if he was an evil guy early in his life, it doesn't mean he killed Halbach, any more than it meant he raped Beernsten in 1985. There was no indication, even by the cops, that he did anything bad after getting out of jail for the rape.
I think the most damning evidence against the cops is the tampering of the vial of Avery's blood that was in the police evidence room, in police custody.
Keryx has been watching The Making of a Murderer, on Netflix. She can only watch 2 episodes at a time, because it pisses her off.
I read a couple of articles about the "ignored" evidence. Unfortunately, it all appears to me to be hearsay.
Some, yeah, but one of the pieces of evidence was non-blood Avery DNA underneath the hood of Halbach's car (Brendan said they pulled out the battery cable after moving her vehicle,) and another was the fact that Avery had one week earlier purchased handcuffs and leg irons like the kind Brendan described. (Avery claimed they were for sex play with his girlfriend Jodi.)
I definitely believe the cops planted numerous pieces of evidence against him, and completely railroaded the kid. I also don't know for certain that he's innocent--but reasonable doubt is reasonable doubt, and there's plenty of that.
The thing I kept screaming at the screen was why in the hell they couldn't get the phone records--Brendan claimed to have received and answered multiple phone calls that evening when he was supposed to have been helping Avery dispose of the body. Does Wisconsin not have modern phone technology? Were the friends who called him not willing to testify that they had spoken with him?
I don't trust anything Brendan said. The interrogators fed him everything they wanted him to say. He could have said something about the hood latch, and the cops, who had full access to Avery's house, could have swabbed sweat and placed it on the latch. Avery had a cut on his finger. How could blood not have been on the latch? When the cops found the handcuffs, they could have easily gotten Brendan to say how they were used. They got him to say that he slit her throat on the bed, yet there was no blood evidence.
I know he has a 70 IQ, but he doesn't seem stupid enough to leave her car on his property when he has a car smasher at hand. He can't be smart enough to clean up all the (alleged) blood from the bedroom and garage, but leave a smear in the car. Can he?
Re the phone. Maybe it was a cell phone and they figured he would have had it with him, so it wouldn't place him at home, and thought he could talk calmly while he was raping and murdering. Just spit balling.
Come to think of it, they had phone records showing that Avery called Halbach, even that he used *67, so they definitely have the technology. Strange that neither prosecution nor defense determined Brendan's records to be useful.
I'd like the cops to take polygraph tests.
That's true, it probably was a cellphone, I didn't think about that.
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J and I watched Amy
What a sadly troubled soul and what a loss. From the very introductory scene, they are shooting a birthday party of 14-year-olds and she sings happy birthday, and you realize two things: one, she's already got that spark; she is going to be the real deal Amy Winehouse. And two, this is like a nature documentary and you are watching the playful young antelope... the lions will be here soon enough. Nobody could save her, a terrible modern tragedy.
What a brilliant description, UT.
I loved Winehouse. First time I heard Back to Black, I was mesmerised. She's up there with Joplin and Hendrix, for me, as a tragic loss to music.
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I was blown away by the amount of footage there was of her in private moments. Much of it had to be provided by the boyfriend, and little of it showed him in a flattering light. Is he that much of an attention whore or was the price that high that he couldn't refuse?
In any event, I was moved by that documentary. I really felt like I knew her after watching that and I was really sympathetic. What a beautiful but tragic life.
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There were a few parts of this documentary that made want to cry. This stuff baffles me. I sort of know some of the reasons why it is the way it is - economics plays a large part I guess. But - it's so extreme and counterproductive, at a societal and species level, it is baffling.
The level of internalisation of a lack of value of the self, for a woman to kill her girl babies and keep trying for the son, is heartbreaking. Communities that kill their own girls, and then have to kidnap other girls to be brides, because they haven't any of their own to marry. If it wasn't so brutal and tragic it would be funny in its absurdity.
These people are animals.
Nope. They're people. Most of them aren't even bad people - they are products of a social system that tells them from the second they are born, and throughout every part of life, that boys are valuable and girls are a drain. Bearing a son brings plaudits and celebration. Bearing a daughter brings grief and recrimination.
If you and I had each been born to that system, we'd probably believe the same thing.
Prolly but I don't have to like it.
Don't know if this will play outside uk - I hope so. I've liked all of Worsley's series so far. She's an excellent historian and a really engaging presenter. Russian history is interesting, but I don't know that much about it. I did an a-level history course years ago with the road to the Russian Revolution as one of the topics, and I know odds and sods from the 18th and 19th centuries. This is the first ep of Worsley's history of the Romanovs:
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I bought the Amy video. Wow. It was a perfect marriage of real footage and editing. What I mean to say is that the video was real but it was so well done that a critical person might have not felt the beauty of it. She was one talented woman.
Night of the Grizzlies. Summer of '67 (wo)man and beast collide. Not great film-making but the story is gripping. Puts our current National Park programs in perspective. Apparently there is a book by the same name which should be good if a little dated. They talked about these two conflicting and wrong-headed ideas about nature we have. The older religious strain of wild being evil and the hippy dippy strain of rainbows and cuddly animals. Anyway the grizzly population was backed into a corner, huge numbers of tourists, lots of trash, lots of food waste, a hot dry summer, forest fires, and a lack of berries during the crucial late summer feed. Throw in outdoorsy young people, a Vatican II priest, a Vietnam trained helo pilot, a Native American kid, a couple of doctors, and some park rangers and you've got quite a morality play.
Could one of the mods kindly remove the youtube clip above, please - the account that posted it has been suspended
The Death Of "Superman Lives": What happened? on TMC
That was a pretty good one.
"The Winding Stream" is about The Carter Family, the country music royalty, not the Jimmy and Rosalynn.
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The Real Story: Star Trek followed by
Building Star Trek on,,, oh just click the links.
It's not often a tv programme will really make me reevaluate how I think about an issue. This one did, though. I've always liked the woman who made this documentary. She's a brilliant actor and comedian (and writer), who some of you may recognise from the sketch show Smack the Pony. Here she explores an issue that's very personal to her, as the mother of a son with Down's Syndrome/
A World Without Down's Syndrome
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I see above, sadly, the video I posted is no longer viewable.
This is not a documentary, but a short interview with one of my favourite documentarians, Louis Theroux. This is from several months before Trump won the election
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Did it do the story justice?
It was pretty heavy, not sensationalized at all, so yeah, I think so. But sad and tragic, especially as a parent. The interviews with his adult son, who was 8 at the time, are heartbreaking at times. You can see the boy inside the man when he tears up at certain points during his recollections. Imagining your kids suffering through that emotional pain is rough.
Foot, have you ever seen the spoof series "Documentary Now!" with Fred Armisen and Bill Hader? It's subtle-funny, in ways that big documentary fans will appreciate. Each episode stands alone; my favorite from season 1 was "Kunuk Uncovered."
That sounds funny. I might seek it out myself.
Foot, have you ever seen the spoof series "Documentary Now!" with Fred Armisen and Bill Hader? It's subtle-funny, in ways that big documentary fans will appreciate. Each episode stands alone; my favorite from season 1 was "Kunuk Uncovered."
Thanks for reminding me! That is on my list.
My son keeps pulling up "The Barkley Marathons: The Race That Eats Its Young" on Netflix.
It's a quintuple marathon bushwhacking through the steep wooded hills of Tenn. The guy who runs it is a real character and the people who participate are a special breed. It's all he and his friends are talking about these days.
The race was held this past weekend, and a guy from DC finished it. Another guy would have finished it, but he was 6 seconds too slow crossing the finish line before the 60 hour cut-off.
My son keeps pulling up "The Barkley Marathons: The Race That Eats Its Young" on Netflix.
It's a quintuple marathon bushwhacking through the steep wooded hills of Tenn. The guy who runs it is a real character and the people who participate are a special breed. It's all he and his friends are talking about these days.
The race was held this past weekend, and a guy from DC finished it. Another guy would have finished it, but he was 6 seconds too slow crossing the finish line before the 60 hour cut-off.
listening to a show last weekend and the author being interviewed talked about a special sentence that could improve every novel. "Call me Ishmael. And that's when the murders began."
"Another guy would have finished it, but he was 6 seconds too slow crossing the finish line before the 60 hour cut-off. And that's when the murders began."
Yeah, that fits.
As for recent documentaries, I wholeheartedly recommend "Soul Train, The Hippest Trip in America."
Now on YouTube for your streaming pleasure. The music presented from the early years of this program touches me, moves me in a very fundamental way.
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You'll appreciate the dancing more on a bigger view. Love, Peace, and Soul!
Caught this last night.
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Curious about that one, how was it?
Risky project. Easy because that story has been told and retold so many times in every medium the information is available. However for the same reason they have to come up with a novel way to present it, and be 100% accurate because so many people are knowledgeable on the subject.
In the past I've seen this story presented repeating mistakes they obviously copied from previous tries. Invariably, after an attempt to tell the story makes some press coverage, people come out of the woodwork to dispute certain details. Most of these people don't have the credentials to take their claims seriously, but a handful who were there on the team should know how things went down. Or course nobody in any organization from the main man to the janitor, knows everything.
I have to remind myself this was 50 years ago :blush:, and there's generations who see it as ancient history. So I guess being entertaining is primary and facts less important to them. [SIZE="1"]nevermind[/SIZE]
I really enjoyed it. The film is short and I feel like they could've gotten into the technical details of the cars more. The story they are telling is really good so any version should be captivating. Has it ever been done as a film? It also explains all those little Ford cars in my matchbox pile.
:D
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I'm in tears!!!
(At the Cerne Abbas Giant) "Before Snapchat,
hills were the most efficient way to distribute dick pics to a wider audience."
:D :D Absolutely dense with laughs. Almost every gag kills. Thank you so much for posting it!!
Oh, man.
Have you guys watched Wild Wild Country yet?
Do it. Don't read any spoilers. Just start it, and also be sure to do some jaw exercises first, because yours will be on the floor. I involuntarily shouted "WHAT?!" at the screen multiple times.
I'm in tears!!!
(At the Cerne Abbas Giant) "Before Snapchat, hills were the most efficient way to distribute dick pics to a wider audience."
:D :D Absolutely dense with laughs. Almost every gag kills. Thank you so much for posting it!!
:)
Oh, man.
Have you guys watched Wild Wild Country yet?
Do it. Don't read any spoilers. Just start it, and also be sure to do some jaw exercises first, because yours will be on the floor. I involuntarily shouted "WHAT?!" at the screen multiple times.
I started that show a while back. It quickly got away from me.
Yesterday I watched a doc about language (more or less).
It was called
Mountain Talk.
Very interesting, and fairly entertaining, too.
Popcorn Sutton makes an appearance or two.
First episode of 'Losers" on Netflix.
Former world heavyweight boxing champion who never wanted to be a boxer, but was pushed into it by his abusive father, recounts the roller coaster ride of winning and losing, and where he ended up in life, and as a person, as a result.
I watched Believer last night. I've been meaning to get around to it for a while - I really like the band Imagine Dragons and I was intrigued by how the lead singer was utilising his fame to bring about a positive change in his community. Worth a watch.
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I've had it with anything the-lead-singer-of-Imagine Dragons.
This commercial plays on semi-local radio incessantly.
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Imagine [strike]Dragons[/strike] that every 10-12 minutes.
At least they've stopped with the Whitney Houston version. It's a classic rock station.:right:
i imagine that would be annoying
Goddamn, that was hilarious.
"Not a good look for any species."
I laughed my ass off!