Rome – Engineering an Empire tells the story of the expansion of the Roman Empire by means of amazing engineering feats. One of the more impressive anecdotes of this History Channel production is that the Roman aqueducts procured more water for the city of Rome during the Empire than New York City could supply its inhabitants in 1985. The production is sleek, seamlessly flowing from historical period to engineering accomplishment to imperial biography, using on-site [...]

Seeing the dead fills us with horror. Touching their bodies is taboo. But what if touching the dead was your job? Could you exhume rotting corpses from graves to earn two dollars a day? Would you race to the scene of fatal car crashes to collect bloodied bodies? Or dissect a woman’s corpse with power tools in the search for clues to how she died? Money, faith, or the search for the truth what would [...]

We’ve seen “The Strange New World Of Nanoscience” a while ago on Documaga. It’s one of the most popular Docs on this site ever. Let’s take a look at another documentary about the same subject. The earth. Let’s take a look at our planet on a new scale: a billionth of a metre, a nanometre. Suddenly, it seems to have grown immensely. An equally radical revolution has been brought about by nanosciences and technologies. What [...]

EARTHLINGS is an award-winning documentary film about the suffering of animals for food, fashion, pets, entertainment and medical research. Considered the most persuasive documentary ever made, EARTHLINGS is nicknamed “the Vegan maker” for its sensitive footage shot at animal shelters, pet stores, puppy mills, factory farms, slaughterhouses, the leather and fur trades, sporting events, circuses and research labs. The film is narrated by Academy Award® nominee Joaquin Phoenix and features music by platinum-selling recording artist [...]

In this honest, witty and compassionate film Lisa Rogers tries to find out why more and more women are considering vaginal surgery for either aesthetic or cultural reasons. The Bizarre and The Cool:

Although the first video you get to see here about eating da poo poo is really funny, the documentary it comes from is not. The documentary is about Uganda’s Christians and the priests that are slowly creating hate towards one group of people. It’s sickens me even more that this was all carefully calculated by Christian extremists from the United States. Please take note at the posters behind the priest in the thumbnail. The way [...]

With the World Cup starting in a few days, Johannesburg is the major city where the best games are played, including the finals. It might be great looking on your TV at home when watching the games, but just take a look at what is really happening in the city with help of this mindblowing documentary. Crime here is ridiculously high, many people get murdered on a daily basis with guns, bricks and burned to [...]