Unconstitutional: The War on Our Civil Liberties, is the third in a series of Public Interest Pictures films that follows Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election and Uncovered: The War on Iraq. True... continue reading
posted by bl968 1 decade 7 years 1 week ago • 1,960 viewsDocumentaries - the truth and other entertainment
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Directed by Josh Rushing, a veteran Marine Corps media spokesman, "SPIN: The Art of Selling War" is an investigative documentary that looks at the standard justification for going to war by the American... continue reading
posted by bl968 1 decade 7 years 1 week ago • 2,244 viewsA hard-hitting 47-minute documentary on what money is, how it came into existence, and how it works in the world today. Definitely not boring!
posted by arvana 1 decade 7 years ago • 5,548 viewsThis is a trailer for 'Veiled Voices' - a ninety-minute documentary that explores how women religious leaders in the Muslim world preserve, propagate, and react to traditional religious values in today's... continue reading
posted by gwaan 1 decade 7 years ago • 5,912 viewsfrom-youtube"Liam Neelson tells the story of how Athens became the world's first democracy. From the PPB series "The Greeks -- Crucible of civilization""
posted by Fedquip 1 decade 7 years ago • 1,088 viewsThe History channel documentary on the Mayans, their prophecies and the 2012 "doomsday".
posted by thesnipe 1 decade 7 years ago • 2,995 viewsThis documentary focuses on online "copyright infringement." I love the irony that this is available online. The main issue isn't copyright infringement. The issue is clearly outdated business models being... continue reading
posted by bl968 1 decade 7 years ago • 2,177 viewsJames Burke explains the historical development of science & technology and its effect on western philosophy. Part 1 of 5, episode 2 of 10.
posted by jwray 1 decade 6 years 12 months ago • 2,841 viewsMuslims in the West with Olivier Roy Olivier Roy is one of Europe's most noted experts on Islam, with particular expertise on the globalization of Islam and its expression in the West. He has recently... continue reading
posted by Farhad2000 1 decade 6 years 12 months ago • 1,102 viewsIn this excerpt from the final episode of Sagan's 'Cosmos,' he discusses why the momentous discoveries of the ancient world were unable to prevent the dark ages from virtually banishing scientific thought... continue reading
posted by Spiff 1 decade 7 years 1 month 1 week ago • 9,414 viewsWith MRSA threatening to infect huge numbers of patients who make even short trips to the hospital, and the gradual increase in the number of bacteria that are resistant to all known antiobiotics, scientists... continue reading
posted by bl968 1 decade 7 years ago • 5,669 viewsHBO Synopsis - "This 92-minute documentary is Marc Levin's firsthand exploration of resurgent anti- Semitism in the wake of 9/11. Starting with the examination of a long-discredited piece of 100-year-old... continue reading
posted by Fedquip 1 decade 6 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 2,204 viewsThe Singularity Summit symposium hosted by Stanford University was a series keynote addresses given with the purpose of addressing the very real implications that the Singularity may hold in the near future... continue reading
posted by Cronyx 1 decade 6 years 12 months ago • 1,614 views • 21:41Sicko is not a movie about the 50 million Americans walking around without health insurance. Sicko is a movie about the other 250 million of us who have insurance, but are just as well and truly screwed.... continue reading
posted by Cronyx 1 decade 6 years 11 months 1 week ago • 33,794 viewsA very entertaining lecture by David Weinberger on the ordering of information, and the way internet has made new ordering paradigms possible. Other keywords than the ones given above would be: Dewey,... continue reading
posted by cheshirepuss 1 decade 6 years 11 months ago • 1,568 viewsChomsky and Trivers (an evolutionary biologist) discuss the workings of deception and self-deception. One of the few interviews with Chomsky in which he links his two main interests: politics and linguistics.
posted by cheshirepuss 1 decade 6 years 11 months ago • 2,141 viewsIn the 1950s, Eisenhower issued a stern & cogent warning about the burgeoning "military industrial complex". Foretelling with ominous clarity the state of the world in 2004 with its incestuous entanglement... continue reading
posted by benjee 1 decade 7 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 9,870 views • 1:38:31The first full-length documentary film to present the complete picture of the series of events outside Waco, Texas during 1993 that resulted in the shooting of 4 federal agents and the deaths of 86 men,... continue reading
posted by eric3579 1 decade 6 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 2,573 views • 2:21:00