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 [...]

The World History of Organized Crime travels the globe to get an insider’s view of some of the most active, dangerous and diabolical criminal syndicates in existence. In the episode about Russia, the breakup of the Soviet Union paving the way for a new breed of ruthless criminals. Organized crime has existed in Russia since the days of the Czars and Imperial Russia in the form of banditry, pornography, and thievery. In the Soviet period [...]

In this one-off documentary, David Malone looks at four brilliant mathematicians – Georg Cantor, Ludwig Boltzmann, Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing – whose genius has profoundly affected us, but which tragically drove them insane and eventually led to them all committing suicide. David Malone, the British filmmaker, does a really great job tracing how mathematical ideas tie together the four individuals through history. While some of the films claims are a bit…over the top and [...]

This documentary is a must see. While watching it actually got scared. The Horizon Project begins with a frightening bang. Newly discovered scientific evidence shows that the world as we know it is about to come to an unexpected end; however, knowing what’s coming over the horizon is only the tip of the iceberg; understanding WHY presents a picture far greater than you could have imagined. Global catastrophic events throughout our past have severed the [...]

This is f*cking sick: Aspartame, the artificial sweetener in Coca and Pepsi cola has a poisonous effect on the human central nervous system. The government knew this, but still they approved the production and use of this sweetener in cola in 1983. The year after the number of patients with brain cancer almost doubled. There seems to be a connection here, but just watch for yourself. The Bizarre and The Cool:

BBC gives you an inside look of Europe’s history and the Islam. At the moment there is a difficult relationship between christians, jews and muslims and over time there have been many battles between members of those different religions. But Muslims also had a major impact on the technological development of Europe when they took their knowledge from the east and merged it with the knowledge from the west. The Bizarre and The Cool:

For three years, filmmakers Jean-Michel Carr and Jill Emery interviewed dozens of people to gain insight into the life and political motivations of Russia’s most powerful politician, Vladimir Putin. They spoke to long-time supporters, like Putin’s former schoolteacher, Vera Gurvich, to his harshest critics, like world chess champion Garry Karparov, as well as many KGB and Kremlin insiders. What emerged is a point-of-view documentary that presents an ominous view of what Putin is willing to [...]