Bumfights a Video Too Far
Documentary about the unbelievable exploitation of homeless people’s misery for profit.
Running time: 46 mins.
Fermat’s Last Theorem
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.
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The Origin of Life
A talk by the excellent John Maynard Smith about the celebrated topic, ‘the Origins of Life’ at London’s Royal Institute, in 1995.
Running time: 59 mins
Interview with Jim Brown about “Pete Seeger, the Power of Song”
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Jim Brown, interviewed here, is the director of the film about Pete Seeger, that was recently shown at the Tribeca Film Festival (and which I unfortunately failed to get to see after queueing for 2 hours).
Running time: 27 mins
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After the Warming
A film about global warming from nearly twenty years ago by the Irish documentary maker, James Burke (Connections).
Running time: 1 hour 47 mins
Outfoxed – a Look at Fox News
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Running time: 1 hour 18 mins
Brass Eye – Peadogeddon
Classic, controversial spoof documentary by Chris Morris that satirizes the morbid obsession with paedophilia by tabloid news. Morris persuades unwitting members of government and celebrities (including Phil Collins) read out made up nonsense.
I cannot imagine this being made here and now.
Running time: 28 mins