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War Made Easy (2007)

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War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death

War Made Easy reaches into the Orwellian memory hole to expose a 50-year pattern of government deception and media spin that has dragged the United States into one war after another from Vietnam to Iraq. Narrated by actor and activist Sean Penn, the film exhumes remarkable archival footage of official distortion and exaggeration from LBJ to George W. Bush, revealing in stunning detail how the American news media have uncritically disseminated the pro-war messages of successive presidential administrations.


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All governments lie and nothing they say should be believed. - I.F.Stone

Or in other words: If something is said by a government it is not automatically true.

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HOME - a film by Yann Arthus-Bertrand

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HOME - a film by Yann Arthus-Bertrand

Home is a 2009 documentary by Yann Arthus-Bertrand. The film is almost entirely composed of aerial shots of various places on Earth. It shows the diversity of life on Earth and how humanity is threatening the ecological balance of the planet.


Official Site: http://www.goodplanet.org/en/

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1014762/

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_(documentary)

The whole Film on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxENMKaeCU :!: :arrow:

I think they say a lot in this movie and we've got to what's possible to change current direction. I am just wondering with concern will time and human will be enough for a shift of that kind and magnitude.. :?:
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Ancient Aliens (2009)

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Ancient Aliens (2009)

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Is it possible that intelligent life forms visited Earth thousands of years ago, bringing with them technology that drastically affected the course of history and man’s own development?

Presented in the 1968 bestselling book Chariots of the Gods by Erich von Daniken, the theory of “ancient aliens” rocked people’s beliefs in mankind’s progress. Ancient cave drawings of strange creatures, remains of landing strips in Peru, and Indian texts that describe the “flying machines of the gods” were just a few of the odd archaeological artifacts cited by von Daniken as proof that ancient astronauts were well known to our ancestors.
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This is one amazing documentary summarizing the findings of many explorers, maybe the most famous of which is Erich von Daniken :idea: :!:

You should simply see this movie because as they say:

"A picture is worth a thousand words.."
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Re: Documentaries That Changed Your Vision

Postby surfer on Fri Nov 27, 2009 8:43 pm

You may find this documentary interesting. It's by Craig Bodeker and it's about racism in nowadays America. Watch on Google Vidoes Here:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1084394769627714346&hl=en-GB#

A Conversation About Race

A controversial documentary by Craig Bodeker that discusses the taboo issue of race.
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Encounters at the End of the World (2007)

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Encounters at the End of the World (2007)

There is a hidden society at the end of the world. One thousand men and women live together under unbelievably close quarters in Antarctica, risking their lives and sanity in search of cutting-edge science.

Now, for the first time, an outsider has been admitted.

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I congratulate the filmmaker also for the memorable OST that accompanies those amazing pictures :!:
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BBC Horizon 2010 What Happened Before the Big Bang

Postby triers on Wed Dec 29, 2010 7:36 am

They are the biggest questions that science can possibly ask: where did everything in our universe come from? How did it all begin? For nearly a hundred years, we thought we had the answer: a big bang some 14 billion years ago.


Several of the most prominent scientists in this field explain their theories and submerge us into the concepts of modern cosmology.

@ BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00vdkmj

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[Discovery] The Real Eve

Postby triers on Sat Feb 26, 2011 12:19 am

The Real Eve (TV 2002)

The Real Eve is the title of a popular science book written by Stephen Oppenheimer and a documentary based on the book.

The Eve in the title refers to Mitochondrial Eve, a name used for the most recent common ancestor of all humans in the matrilineal (mother to daughter) line of descent.


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A great research reaching back 150,000 years ago in Africa where was traced the genetic ancestor to whom all of humans are connected :!:

Amazing movie with great effects and documentary value :idea: :arrow:
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Re: Documentaries That Changed Your Vision

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The Secret Life of Chaos

It turns out that chaos theory answers a question that mankind has asked for millennia - how did we get here?


@ BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00pv1c3

What Is Reality?

There is a strange and mysterious world that surrounds us, a world largely hidden from our senses. The quest to explain the true nature of reality is one of the great scientific detective stories.


@ BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00xxgbn

Both documentaries are very interesting to watch providing great philosophical material. Universe seems to be more bizarre than we might have ever imagined and the scientific insights explained in those movies gives us exactly that ephemeral glance into the great beyond of our Universe :!: :idea:
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Darwin's Nightmare (2004)

Postby triers on Thu May 05, 2011 2:17 am

Darwin's Nightmare (2004)

A documentary on the effect of fishing the Nile perch in Tanzania's Lake Victoria.


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And not only that... This documentary is showing to the not introduced audience the struggle for survival in Africa.

Poor poor Africa...
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The Corporation & Consuming Kids

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The Corporation (2003)

Documentary that looks at the concept of the corporation throughout recent history up to its present-day dominance.


10 wins & 1 nomination

A must see documentary :!:

Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood (2008)

Consuming Kids throws desperately needed light on the practices of a relentless multi-billion dollar marketing machine that now sells kids and their parents everything from junk food and violent video games to bogus educational products and the family car.


That's how we reached the term "Kids getting older, younger"...

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