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Carl Sagan – Human Journey

The history of the world is the recorded memory of the experience, around the world, of Homo sapiens. Ancient human history begins with the invention, independently at several sites on Earth, of writing, which created the infrastructure for lasting, accurately transmitted memories and thus for the diffusion and growth of knowledge. Nevertheless, an appreciation of the roots of civilization requires at least cursory consideration to humanity’s prehistory.

Human history is marked both by a gradual accretion of discoveries and inventions, as well as by quantum leaps, paradigm shifts, revolutions, that comprise epochs in the material and spiritual evolution of humankind.

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Capitalism: A Love Story

With the crisis still closely behind us, the middle-class world is trying to get up it’s feet again. In this documentary Michael Moore investigates the true horror that made 14.000 people in America get evicted from their homes every day because of the lovely Capitalism system. After seeing only a part of this film, it gets clear to me (once again) that the capitalism system is primitive, out-dated and a system controlled by the rich. This documentary will give you a rough idea about the modern world we live in today: 99% working poor puppets and only 1 percent rich people that rather see somebody dead than alive so they can claim their possessions to make money for their own good. Michael also diggs in deep to the religious scare tactics that are being use widely in the United States, another tool to control the people. I think this is one of the best documentaries out there.

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Super High Me

Determined to find out the true effects of marijuana on the human body, stand-up comedian and former Stoner of the Year Doug Benson documents his experience avoiding pot for 30 days and then consuming massive amounts of the drug for 30 days. More than just an amusing story of one man’s quest to get superhigh, this documentary also examines the hotly contested debate over medical marijuana use.

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BBC Horizon – To Infinity And Beyond

Infinity is a very weird concept to comprehend. In fact the human mind can’t really understand what infinity is. This documentary will challenge your philosophical mind.

By our third year, most of us will have learned to count. Once we know how, it seems as if there would be nothing to stop us counting forever. But, while infinity might seem like an perfectly innocent idea, keep counting and you enter a paradoxical world where nothing is as it seems.

Mathematicians have discovered there are infinitely many infinities, each one infinitely bigger than the last. And if the universe goes on forever, the consequences are even more bizarre. In an infinite universe, there are infinitely many copies of the Earth and infinitely many copies of you. Older than time, bigger than the universe and stranger than fiction. This is the story of infinity.

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Welcome To Macintosh

Filmmakers Josh Rizzo and Rob Baca trace the evolution of Apple computers from the Apple-1 to the iPhone in this documentary. They combine criticism and history with an unapologetic celebration of the company that helped revolutionize home computing.

Evidence Of Revision

Evidence of Revision is a 6-part, 8 hour long documentary series whose purpose is to present the publicly unavailable and even suppressed historical audio, video, and film recordings largely unseen by the American public.

These documentaries will give you a rare glimpse into U.S. politics, the workings of the CIA and the MKULTRA program. You will also see the truth behind the John Kennedy assassination, the Robert Kennedy assassination, the Jonestown massacre, the assassination of Martin Luther King, the little known classified “Black Ops” actually used to intentionally create the massive war in Vietnam, the CIA “mind control”,  and other important truths of our post-modern time. With hours of archival footage, you will get a glimpse at the man behind the curtain. Evidence of Revision could well change the way you see the world forever!

The U.S. government has played some dirty games the last couple of decades, its time for you to find out the truth about the real history.

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The Virtual Revolution [2010]

Don’t let the little red haired lady fool you. This is a documentary about the virtual world that we live on now, the world with Internet. The documentary holds a lot more to it than you would expect, just let the first 10 minutes go by and you really want to see what comes next.

Twenty years on from the invention of the World Wide Web, Dr Aleks Krotoski looks at how it is reshaping almost every aspect of our lives. Joined by some of the Web’s biggest names – including the founders of Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Apple and Microsoft, and the web’s inventor – she explores how far the Web has lived up to its early promise.

With contributions from Al Gore, Martha Lane Fox, Stephen Fry and Bill Gates, Aleks explores how interactive, unmediated sites like Twitter and YouTube have encouraged direct action and politicised young people in unprecedented numbers. Yet, at the same time, the Web’s openness enables hardline states to spy and censor, and extremists to threaten with networks of hate and crippling cyber attacks.

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The Human Behavior Experiments

I think this documentary should be shown in every high school in the world, because it at least gives people the opportunity to be aware of, and thus able to guard against, the failings of human nature. The documentary does an excellent job of drawing parallels between classic psychological experiments and real life horrors like Abu Ghraib. These situations call into question how much responsibility we have for our actions; people do horrible things under the right circumstances, and someone in the movie says that people who will do the right thing are the exceptions rather than the rule, yet in the movie we see people whose behavior is both explainable and predictable according to these experiments who wound up doing jail time. It’s a tricky question; can we hold people accountable for not being exceptional.

As a documentary, this movie comes across as what it is, a straightforward television documentary with a lot of talking heads and archival footage. The director has been more artful in his feature films, but with an intelligent approach to such a powerful, intriguing subject matter, artfulness is not required to make this riveting.

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Children Underground

The film follows a group of abandoned street children, aged eight to sixteen, who live in the Romanian subway system. The street kids are encountered daily by commuting adults, who pass them by in the station as they starve, swindle, and steal, all while searching desperately for a fresh can of paint to get high with.

One of the is Cristina Ionescu. At first this child may seem to be a young man, but you later find out that girls have to become hard and boyish in order to survive. This is also very apparent with another child named, Violeta ‘Macarena’ Rosu, who is also a girl. The nickname ‘Macarena’ derives from the song “Macarena”, her favorite. Three other children, Mihai Tudose, and brother and sister Ana and Marian, are also profiled.

The film explores the lives of these children, who are shown fighting, abusing themselves, and becoming addicted to inhaling a spray paint called Aurolac. A really moving documentary, go see it now!

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How Racist Are You?

Your answer to this question will probably be, ‘I am not racist’. This documentary follows Jane Elliott who has been running an exercise that has ignited controversy around the world. She says it lays bare the hidden truth about racism in white societies. Many disagree, some vehemently. Now she’s bringing her extreme methods and message to modern Britain. She’s about to divide this group. Her aim: Simulate a racist apartheid style regime.

30 people who have never met before and are separated into two groups based on something arbitrary as the color of their eyes. The blue-eyed group are treated as outcasts. Many white people don’t seem to recognize that they’re racist because its not a nice characteristic to have. So they block the thought of being racist themselves, but they still display racist attitudes. This fenomenon is called implicit racist attitude in psychology.

The show reveals that many white people try to block the thought of possibly being racist themselves so hard, that at some point they even try to argue whit a black woman that there isn’t much racism going on and that they call it upon themselves.

For me there’s only one lesson here and I quote Bob Marley, the legend of awareness himself: ‘The color of a man’s skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes’.

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The Power Of Nightmares

The Power of Nightmares, subtitled The Rise of the Politics of Fear, is a three part BBC documentary film series.

The films compare the rise of the Neo-Conservative movement in the United States and the radical Islamist movement, making comparisons on their origins and claiming similarities between the two. More controversially, it argues that the threat of radical Islamism as a massive, sinister organised force of destruction, specifically in the form of al-Qaeda, is a myth perpetrated by politicians in many countries—and particularly American Neo-Conservatives—in an attempt to unite and inspire their people following the failure of earlier, more utopian ideologies.

The Power of Nightmares has been praised by film critics in both Britain and the United States. “A fluid cinematic essay, rooted in painstakingly assembled evidence, that heightens and cleanses your perceptions”. “A superb, eye-opening and often absurdly funny deconstruction of the myths and realities of global terrorism”.

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The Dark Side Of Porn – Does Snuff Exist?

After all the deep and heavy documentaries we posted, it’s time for a different subject: Sex. In ‘The Dark Side Of Porn’ the concept of  “snuff” porn and the urban legends that surround it are investigated. It features a German case where Ernst Dieter Korzen and Stefan Michael Mahn kidnapped a prostitute and recorded her torture. Does it exist? Is there a black market for porn? Let’s find out!

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Dispatches – Saving Africa’s Witch Children

Dispatches: Saving Africa’s Witch Children is a powerful Emmy Award winning documentary about the torture and abandonment of African children who are believed to be witches. A followup documentary was made one year later. Dispatches: Return to Africa’s Witch Children is also included in this post.

The Documentary tells the story of young children who had been labeled Witches and Wizards by their family and community and left abandoned, tortured, imprisoned or killed in Nigeria. The programme followed Sam Itauma, a Nigerian who started a school for the abandoned children called CRARN (Child Rights and Rehabilitation Network) and Englishman Gary Foxcroft who started the charity Stepping Stones Nigeria, to support the school. The problem is caused by a combination of African traditional beliefs and extreme Christian Penticostal groups. In particular the programme singles out Liberty Foundation Gospel Ministries for producing a film called “End of the Wicked” which the charity workers blame for the increase in children being abandoned by their families.

This documentary made me really mad. Mad at the people who still believe in witchcraft, mad at the situation of Africa where people simply don’t have access to enough knowledge, and subscribe things they don’t understand and can’t explain to witchcraft and god, and mad at those cruel people who torture and even execute innocent children because they think they’re witches.

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The Vice Guide to Liberia [UPDATED]

This is one of the most shocking documentaries I have seen in a while. If you thought the shit you see on the news is bad, just go into the first 5 minutes of this documentary and be blown away. Killing people is something they do everywhere, but in Liberia they seem to kill the kids first, so they can eat their flesh and drink their blood before they go to battle. It’s supposed to give them extra strength to fight their enemies.

UPDATE: Part 5,6,7 and 8 are now added. The whole documentary series is complete!

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Home

Home is a Planet Earth like documentary about the planet we call home and it’s habitants. The documentary brings us unique extremely sharp footage from over fifty countries, all seen from the air. The story is told from above, like another alien species is describing the animal ‘Human Beings’.

We are living in exceptional times. In 200.000 years on earth humanity has upset the balance of the planet, established by nearly four billion years of evolution. Scientists tell us that we have 10 years to change the way we live, avert the depletion of natural resources and the catastrophic evolution of the Earth’s climate.

Become aware of the full extent of its spoliation on the Earth’s riches and change its patterns of consumption.

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