Jeremy Clarkson – The Century of Speed
August 16th, 2007 · 1 comment or link to (permalink)
BBC
28 min 18 sec – Aug 16, 2007
1 comment » (report dead embeds in comments) tags: gear history technology
channel: 'history'
Eat the Document (1966)
August 13th, 2007 · 3 comments or link to (permalink)
52 min 19 sec – Aug 11, 2007
www.lulu.com
This is the rare documentary that provided the original footage for the award winning, documentary by D. A. Pennebaker, Dont Look Back.
3 comments » (report dead embeds in comments) tags: history music
Isaac Newton – Rejector of The Trinity believer in one God
August 1st, 2007 · Comments Off or link to (permalink)
BBC
58 min 50 sec – Jul 31, 2007
Many people see Newton’s religiosity as an endorsement of the divine by a powerful intellect. Another view: he though so hard that he cracked and became a delusional fairly chasing nut-case.
Sex Pistols – Never Mind the Bollocks
July 23rd, 2007 · Comments Off or link to (permalink)
50 min 2 sec – Jul 23, 2007
chatdevil.blogspot.com
When the Sex Pistols released Never Mind The Bollocks, the type of music that was as old as the Sex Pistols are now, would have been Noel Coward singing ‘Mad Dogs and Englishmen’. Which pretty much proves how modern and groundbreaking the Pistols were.
The Lost Pyramids Of Caral
July 18th, 2007 · Comments Off or link to (permalink)
BBC
49 min 3 sec – Jul 16, 2007
www.bbc.co.uk
The 5 thousand year old city of Caral, in Peru, is as old as the pyramids of Egypt and a thousands years older than any other civilization in the Americas. Many believe it is the missing link of archeology.
Comments Off tags: architecture history science
Live Aid Documentary – Rocking All Over The World
July 12th, 2007 · 2 comments or link to (permalink)
1 hr 24 min 10 sec – Jul 11, 2007
The story of Live Aid – the worlds biggest concert. Seeing this in an age where people don’t seem to give-a-shit, almost brings tears to my eyes. In fact, it almost brought tears to my eyes then, because I couldn’t go, on account of being somewhere in the middle of Hungary, where I crashed a party after hearing ‘do they know its Christmas’ from the window.
Journalists have been trying for years to track down the girl that Bono picks out of the audience making her globally famous for 15 minutes. I know who she is, but I’m not telling!
2 comments » (report dead embeds in comments) tags: history music nostalgia politics
Fighting the War
July 9th, 2007 · 1 comment or link to (permalink)
A film about the First World War made two years into the fighting, in 1916
Running time: 23 mins
Northern Soul
June 27th, 2007 · 1 comment or link to (permalink)
There are two places in the world that rank high in the importance of 60’s and early 70’s Soul: the North of the Midwest, where it was made and the North of England where the blue-collar, black American art form was truly appreciated by their white English counterpart.
This is a great documentary about the Wigan Casino an unlikely and forgotten cultural Mecca.
Running time: 26 mins.
Full screen
1 comment » (report dead embeds in comments) tags: history music nostalgia
The War Game
June 18th, 2007 · 3 comments or link to (permalink)
Classic cold war piece. Infamous 1965 production about a hypothetical nuclear attack on Britain. The film was deemed so disturbingly realistic that it was never broadcast in the UK. It was released theatrically in the US, and went on to win an Oscar.
Running time: 48 mins
J.G.Ballard – Shanghai Jim
June 10th, 2007 · Comments Off or link to (permalink)
Running time: 34 mins.
Full screen
Fermat’s Last Theorem
June 4th, 2007 · 31 comments or link to (permalink)
If I were to pick my favorite documentary of all time – it would be this. Mathematics, the most rational of all subjects may seem to be an unemotional topic. For this very reason, seeing the tears in Wiles’ eyes when he recounts the inspirations that enabled him to finally solve a centuries old enigma make this a dramatic piece of the most subtle kind. Simultaneously gentle and powerful.
Running time: 43 mins.
31 comments » (report dead embeds in comments) tags: history science smashing telly top 10 documentaries
Monsters of the Atomic age
April 30th, 2007 · 1 comment or link to (permalink)
Documentary exploring nuclear fears in the 50s and how they manifested themselves in the sci-fi movies of the time.
Running time: 34 mins.
Full screen
1 comment » (report dead embeds in comments) tags: history science fiction
Alfred Hitchcock’s Holocaust Documentary
April 18th, 2007 · 4 comments or link to (permalink)
A film the British Government deemed too traumatic for release after World War II – Frontline pieced it together and aired it in its unedited form.
Running time: 53 mins
The Warsaw Ghetto
April 8th, 2007 · Comments Off or link to (permalink)
The first documentary about the infamous Warsaw Ghetto
Running time: 37 mins.
1957 Triumph Motorcycle Factory Tour
March 6th, 2007 · 2 comments or link to (permalink)
Great period piece
Running Time: 31 mins.
2 comments » (report dead embeds in comments) tags: gear history nostalgia technology
How to Go Out of Your Mind – the LSD Crisis.
February 5th, 2007 · Comments Off or link to (permalink)
With footage of Leary’s initial followers.
Running time: 54 mins.
Comments Off tags: history
The French Foreign Legion
January 25th, 2007 · Comments Off or link to (permalink)
You cannot join with a French passport and you relinquish your passport when you join. A long way from Beau Geste this documentary praises the contribution of the bizarre, official French mercenary force in the other war with Iraq.
Running time: 50 mins.
Comments Off tags: history
Mr Death The Rise and Fall of Fred A Leuchter Jr.
January 19th, 2007 · Comments Off or link to (permalink)
Errol Morris’ complex anti holocaust revisionist film that sometimes gets accused of being the opposite.
Running time: 1 hour 31 mins.
Comments Off tags: history
Soviet Animated Propaganda
January 19th, 2007 · 4 comments or link to (permalink)
Running time: 27 mins.
4 comments » (report dead embeds in comments) tags: animation history
Frontline: War in Europe
January 19th, 2007 · Comments Off or link to (permalink)
The excellent Frontline series’ look at Kosovo.
Running time: 1 hour 52 mins.