Documentary TV channels and documentary videos posted on the internet
Forget those fictional re-enactments of what life was like in the 1920’s, here’s is actual footage of the period.
Is it just me or does it seem so…primitive? The language, the people (where’s all the over-weight ones?), even the cars make it seem like a different world.
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This is the video trailer for The Cove, a full-length documentary film which won the 2010 Oscar for ‘Best Documentary’ at the Academy Awards.
The Cove tells the story of efforts to expose and halt the hunting and supposed slaughter of dolphins in the coastal Japanese town of Taiji. And it’s a powerful real-life drama sure to invoke an emotional response.
After being inspired by the movie Ghandi, Jon Henley decided that he would try to live the rest of his life without money.
It isn’t as rough as you’d think. In fact, I’m a bit jealous of the free food part myself.
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Pedigree and selective breeding practices amongst ‘champion’ breeders has done an enormous amount of damage to many breeds. Will breeders wake up to the problem before it’s too late?
The Mothman is a mythical creature (although some would dispute the mythical description) which showed up in West Virginia in the late-1960s, supposedly.
This video is a short documentary looking at the creature and some of the sightings of it. You may not believe the creature is real after watching this clip but you will at least have a better idea of what the Mothman is.
From bees to locusts and beyond, when creatures swarm together in massive numbers, encountering humans is rarely a good thing – for us.
Human rights, or the rights that all humans are entitled to, didn’t always exist in an official declaration like they do today. The above video gives a very brief (and very optimistic) story of human rights as we know them now.
Apparently there are 30 “official” human rights that the United Nations recognizes- many of which are already laws in developed countries.
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Consoles like “the household monitor screen” and an “electronic correspondence machine” don’t exist today, but this vintage clip from 1969 is pretty close to predicting the internet.
Also included is an unintentional bit of sexism; which I find very funny.
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If you’ve never heard of ‘Harold and Kumar Go To Amsterdam’ then you’re not alone. The short film was revealed to exist back in 2006 but it never surfaced until the DVD for Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay was released with extras.
You can watch part one above and the second half below. Keep in mind that they are censored.
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Take the world’s largest snake and pit it against the world’s largest rodent. Who is going to win?
