Best Online Documentaries

[Guest Scathane]

For those of you interested in other things than your daily dose of commercial crap: try this for a change... It's a real treasure, whatever your taste in documentaries is...

[Mad78]

Amazing site Scath! Thanks alot!!!

[DarthTofu]

You're very lucky that this site has nothing on sexual education, or I'd have been forced to rip out my hair, seeing as right now I'm taking a short break from writing a massive paper that I only just finished the bibliography on. If i had to add one more source I was going to have to rip somebody's head off, because I am totally ready to be done with this paper! Which gives me an idea for how to drag out the effects of writing it...

[Darth_Rob]

That is a really neat find Scath! Im definitely gonna take a look at this site.

[Eagle]

Oh yeah, nice find!

 

Maybe it´s because of my age, but I watch a lot of documentaries. And sometimes it´s the only interesting thing which is on tv.

 

This is also a site with lots of documentaries which are frequently updated. Even if you´re not german tongued lots of these docus are in original dub.

[Guest Scathane]

Even if you´re not german tongued lots of these docus are in original dub.

Why do you guys do that, Eagle? International documentaries or productions - unless they're meant for children - are always subtitled in the Netherlands, which leaves so much of the film maker's original intent! But you French and German speaking lot...

 

Prithee, tell...

[Eagle]

That´s indeed a good question. Since there´s television movies and documentaries from abroad always have been dubbed in german. I also don´t know since how long english is teached in schools here in germany. After the war the numbers of people who spoke english tended to zero. It would be helpfull if some movies would be aired in english, maybe with subtitles. Because I can watch that most people here do talk and write a horrible english. Since I´ve got cable television I often watched english tv shows, that helped me a lot to improve my english.

[Eagle]

Btt:

Here´s an interesting documentary which I can recommend. It´s about other important aspects of global warming which seem to be ignored by the mainstream scientific communities.

 

Global Dimming

[Mad78]

Speaking of documentaries. Has anybody seen the one called "The Corporation". I highly recommend it.

[Eagle]

No, not yet. Sounds interesting. Is it about some neoliberal capitalistic corporations?

[Mad78]

Its an interesting concept. They compare Corporations to people and run a sort psychological test on them. I really enjoyed it.

[Eagle]

That sounds indeed interesting. I wonder which Corporation will be seen as psychopath. Gotta search Google-Video for that documentary.

[Guest Scathane]

Speaking of documentaries. Has anybody seen the one called "The Corporation". I highly recommend it.

A bit late but I have... It's a real eye opener... I would also recommend Guns, Germs and Steel and Why we fight...

[Darth_Rob]

Guns, Germs, and Steel is a really great documentary, that really covers the book well, which I am still working my way through.

[Eagle]

Isn´t "Why we fight" the documentary with former Secretary of Defense William McNamara? I always wanted to watch it. Is it online somewhere?

 

Edit:

Aargh! Just remembered that those are two different documentaries. I saw "Why we fight" some while ago. That docu I´ve mentioned above has been shown on cinemas a couple of years ago and I believe it´s called "Shadows of War" if I´m right. Would love to see that docu.

[Eagle]

Zeitgeist - The Movie

 

Don´t watch it if you are a very religious person! I´d say it needs an open mind to watch it.

[Guest Scathane]

I must say that Zeitgeist is a fine piece of work, although it must be said that it's rather a compilation of other works...

[Eagle]

Really? Do you know those documentaries of which they used the parts? Could be also interesting to watch them.

[Guest Scathane]

I don't know them all but you can find a complete listing of its sources here...

[Eagle]

Wow, thats more than I could expect! Many thanks!!!

[Eagle]

Ok its that date of the year again where our all thoughts are all about the victims of 9/11 and their families. One more reason to understand why these attacks happened and how they happened, to prevent us from being attacked by the same way ever again.

 

Interestingly enough the todays featured movie on google-video is a presentation of an organisation which consists of architects and engineers who want to force another investigation about the happenings of 9/11 and present seemingly undeniable and convincing facts about why the twin towers in New York havent brought down by the two jets which crashed into those buildings:

 

9/11 Blueprint for Trueth

 

Ok the presenter is not a showmaster you will surely recognise that. Hes just an architect. But his statements should be much more convincing than those of any kind of teenager who is talking about some conspiracy theories. The most interesting part of that presentation is IMO from the last 40 minutes on.