Inside Mecca
With unique access to Islam’s holiest city, National Geographic’s Inside Mecca follows three Muslims from very different backgrounds as they embark on an epic five-day reaffirmation of faith and quest for salvation Inside Mecca captures the look and feel, spiritual uplift, claustrophobia, grandeur and grit of the largest annual gathering of Muslims in the world.
“Inside [...]
Evolution: The Mind’s Big Bang
How did our ancestors become truly human? Why does our brain work the way it does? Learn the mystery behind the birth of the human sciences, culture, communication, and art.
This fascinating documentary explores the elusive Missing Link: How did human ancestors evolve into self-reflective beings that could create cave art, religion and eventually transform [...]
What Would Happen If The Oil Runs Out?
We are addicted to oil. It is the life blood of all industrial economies, powering our cars, factories, airplanes and just about everything else.
This BBC documentary takes a troubling look at a possible future, our world in 2016 when oil production has peaked and prices have skyrocketed. The warning signs have been clear for a [...]
Riding Giants: Big Wave Surfing
Riding Giants is a 2004 documentary film directed and narrated by Stacy Peralta, a famous skater/surfer who helped define modern skateboarding. The movie traces the origins of surfing and specifically focuses on the art of big wave riding. Some of the featured surfers are Greg Noll, Laird Hamilton, and Jeff Clark, and surfing pioneers such [...]
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Digital Revolution
The World According To Google
What if all the world’s information would be available and easy to find? What if all the news, all books, all texts, photographs and videos would be collected in one place, and made available, always and everywhere?
This is the goal of Google, and the company seems to be realising its core mission at an amazing [...]
Engineering
Three Gorges Dam: Great Wall Across the Yangtze
The Three Gorges Dam is the world’s largest hydroelectric dam and also the world’s largest electricity-generating plant of any kind. In addition to generating more energy than the combined total of 15 nuclear power plants, the Three Gorges Dam was designed to moderate the annual flooding that has plagued the Yangtze River. But scientists are [...]
Spirituality
Meetings With Remarkable Men: Gurdjieff
Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings about certain changes in his inner processes.
He begins to understand that self-observation is an instrument of self-change, a means of awakening.
In 1920, an unknown man appeared in Europe, having lived through some extraordinary [...]
Sports
Inside Ferrari’s Ultimate Factory
An inside look at Ferrari’s legendary factory in Maranello, Italy. Learn how the latest Ferrari models are hand-crafted and engineered with the precision of a space craft using state-of-the-art technology. Ferrari makes cars for the street and for the car racing track and has a long history of dominating F1 Racing. Few outsiders or cameras [...]
Recent Documentaries
Heaven On Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism
Much of the history of the past 200 years revolved around a single idea. It was the vision that life could be lived in peace and brotherhood if only property were shared by all and distributed equally, eliminating the source of greed, envy, poverty and strife. This idea was called “socialism” and it was man’s [...]
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
Ben Stein shows us a world where Academia’s freedom of inquiry might not be so free. This should be a concern for anyone and everyone. This undermines the concept that we will be teaching facts and truth in our universities. However, if you watch how this documentary is formatted you will find that this documentary [...]
What Would Jesus Buy?
What Would Jesus Buy? follows Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Gospel Choir as they go on a cross-country mission to save Christmas from the Shopocalypse: the end of mankind from consumerism, over-consumption and the fires of eternal debt!
From producer Morgan Spurlock of Super Size Me and director Rob Van Alkemade comes a [...]
Death Of A Nation: Russia After The Collapse Of The Soviet Union
Death Of A Nation tells how Russia has changed since the fall of communism. After the Soviet Union collapsed, the life expectancy has dropped, every other newborn baby is diagnosed with a disease at birth. In the first half of 2005 the population dropped by half a million and the WHO estimates that in 2020 [...]
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
After Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room and Taxi to the Dark Side, Hunter S. Thompson seems like an odd subject for Alex Gibney to take on. Unlike the Enron executives or Baghram guards, the gonzo journalist didn’t bilk old ladies out of their savings or torture Iraqi citizens. Nonetheless, the director’s follow-up to [...]
Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats
An interesting look at the life of Beat author Jack Kerouac, who wrote On The Road and The Dharma Bums. Kerouac coined the phrase “Beat Generation” and has a huge influence on the counter-culture movement.
Here Be Dragons: An Introduction to Critical Thinking
Here Be Dragons is a fascinating introduction to critical thinking. Most people fully accept paranormal and pseudoscientific claims without critique as they are promoted by the mass media. Here Be Dragons offers a toolbox for recognizing and understanding the dangers of pseudoscience, and appreciation for the reality-based benefits offered by real science.
Here Be Dragons is [...]
When You’re Strange: A Film About The Doors
When You’re Strange uncovers historic and previously unseen footage of the illustrious rock quartet and provides new insight into the revolutionary impact of its music and legacy. Directed by award-winning writer/director Tom DiCillo and narrated by Johnny Depp, the film is a riveting account of the band’s history.
Said Depp, “Watching the hypnotic, hitherto unreleased footage [...]
A World Without Water
As less and less water is available, you have yet another problem being added and that is the problem of privatization. There are companies now saying ‘why don’t we bottle it, mine it, divert it, sell it, commodify it.’ That greed of privatization, I believe, will be much worse than climate change and everything else [...]
CERN’s Large Hadron Collider: The Big Bang Machine
Professor Brian Cox visits Geneva to take a look around Cern’s Large Hadron Collider before this vast, 27km long machine is sealed off and a simulation experiment begins to try and create the conditions that existed just a billionth of a second after the Big Bang.
Cox joins the scientists who hope that [...]
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Heaven On Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism
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Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
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What Would Jesus Buy?
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Death Of A Nation: Russia After The Collapse Of The Soviet Union
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Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
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