An engrossing documentary about the unappreciated & invisible art of film editing. It shows how film editing came about, and explains all the groundbreaking ways it has changed the film watching experience.... continue reading
posted by benjee 1 decade 7 years 8 months 4 weeks ago • 8,915 viewslong stuff to watch
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This documentary describes the glorious rule of Muslim Moors in what is now Spain. A forgotten history is remembered.
posted by wildmanBill 1 decade 7 years 8 months 4 weeks ago • 1,745 viewsA boy comes to a dark, desolate corner of town called "the Street of the Lifted Lorax," to learn who the Lorax was and how he got "lifted and taken away." Through a "whisper-ma-phone," the Once-ler tells... continue reading
posted by HistNerd 1 decade 7 years 8 months 4 weeks ago • 47,875 viewsPresidential address on the attack on Libya which was in retalliation for the Labelle Disco bombing in Germany in 1986. There is other navel footage included, but the address to the nation starts at 9:08.
posted by Wumpus 1 decade 7 years 8 months 4 weeks ago • 5,175 viewsRageh Omaar uncovers the hidden story of Europe's Islamic past and looks back to a golden age when European civilisation was enriched by Islamic learning. Rageh travels across medieval Muslim Europe to... continue reading
posted by gwaan 1 decade 7 years 9 months ago • 6,447 viewsAn interesting three part documentary by Professor Robert Winston analysing the history of religion and its various gods. He travels throughout the world talking with people ranging from hindus, muslims,... continue reading
posted by benjee 1 decade 7 years 9 months ago • 5,671 viewsOnce Upon a Time in Iran is a road movie featuring pilgrims and presidents: a journey to the spiritual heartlands of the Iranian people and a tale of martyrdom that has helped define their view of aggressors... continue reading
posted by gwaan 1 decade 7 years 9 months ago • 3,706 viewsA documentary presented by Anglican priest Pete Owen Jones, which explores the huge number of ancient Christian texts that didn't make it into the New Testament. Shocking and challenging, the books describe... continue reading
posted by benjee 1 decade 7 years 9 months 1 week ago • 3,637 viewsA panel moderated by Guy Kawasaki, in which six founders of some of the net's top community sites talk about how they started, their business model and their complete defiance of the venture capital model.
posted by arvana 1 decade 7 years 9 months 1 week ago • 1,602 viewsBased on the novel by Jonathan Swift, produced by Fleischer Studios and Paramount Pictures as a response to the success of Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, directed by Dave Fleischer. The film... continue reading
posted by firefly 1 decade 7 years 9 months 1 week ago • 5,214 viewsA fantastic drama documentary on five apocalyptic disasters in the style of Groundhog Day by the BBCs Horizon. It focuses on an American scientist traveling to New York from London - his day starts the... continue reading
posted by benjee 1 decade 7 years 9 months 1 week ago • 7,018 views • 56:03Dreams That Money Can Buy is a 1947 American experimental feature color film written, produced, and directed by surrealist artist and dada film-theorist Hans Richter. Collaborators included Max Ernst,... continue reading
posted by Farhad2000 1 decade 7 years 9 months 1 week ago • 3,542 views(117min)'M' is the story of a child murderer, loose in 1930's Berlin. Police are at a loss to find the serial killer; the criminal underground mounts an effort in order to distance themselves from the... continue reading
posted by bamdrew 1 decade 7 years 9 months 1 week ago • 2,037 viewsA documentary showing both how The Beatles made music together, and how they split up. Hundreds of hours of raw footage was condensed into the final product. The rooftop performance ending the film remains... continue reading
posted by benjee 1 decade 7 years 9 months 1 week ago • 11,602 viewsIn depth views of what life is actually like in Iran, beyond the insultingly shallow 1.5 minute nightly news American flag burning/nuclear weapon aspiring facade are very rare and I've never seen anything... continue reading
posted by gluonium 1 decade 7 years 9 months 1 week ago • 3,555 views • 1:29:25The Corporation is a 2003 Canadian documentary film and book critical of the modern-day corporation and its behavior towards society. The topics addressed include the Business Plot in 1933 when General... continue reading
posted by Farhad2000 1 decade 7 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 6,380 viewsThis is a documentary on one extraordinary (even by savant standards) person: Daniel Tammet. Daniel exhibits, aside from the amazing intellectual capabilites associated with savantism, self-awareness... continue reading
posted by rembar 1 decade 7 years 9 months 1 week ago • 16,476 views • 47:32"The Day The Earth Stood Still" depicts the arrival of an alien dignitary Klaatu (Michael Rennie) who has come to earth with his robot guardian Gort to deliver a special message from his people...
posted by firefly 1 decade 7 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 8,392 views