BP – Deep Water Horizon Oil Spill
(5 votes, average: 3.40 out of 5)
What was once a great area for fishing became a dangerously poisened area full of oil spreading all over the Gulf of Mexico. In 2010 the BP oil platform Deep Water Horizon had an explosion and was leaking oil at around 5000 feet below sealevel. Overoll around 4.9 million barrels of oil leaked after the [...]
Russian Prison System & Tattoos – The Mark of Cain
(9 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)
Documentary about the situation in Russian prisons and the people behind the bars. Especially the tattoos of the criminals and their meanings are in the focus of the producer. The documentary was filmed in some of Russias most notorious prisons, like the White Swan. The prisoners of the Stalinist Gulag, or “Zone,” as it is [...]
Antarctica: Encounters At The End Of The World
(4 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)
What makes people want to live in Antarctica on the Southpole of the World? This documentary by the eccentric German director Werner Herzog tells the story of peoply living and working at this very remote place of the world in beautiful pictures. His base for this Southpole documentary is the Antarctic community of McMurdo Station, [...]
Hunt for the Ghost Ships of the Black Sea
(5 votes, average: 3.80 out of 5)
In the year 2000, on his third trip to the Black Sea, explorer Dr. Robert Ballard discovered a miraculously well-preserved Byzantine shipwreck, but his team could only take pictures. Now, Ballard returns with state-of-the-art technology and a revolutionary $1.5 million robot known as “Hercules” to excavate two shipwrecks for the first time ever, including one [...]
9/11- the third tower -Collapsing of building 7″
(4 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)
Another 9/11 Conspiracy Documentary by the BBC about the Third Tower – Building 7 - which delves into one of mysteries surrounding Sept. 11th, a third tower at the World Trade Centre, which along with the Twin Towers, collapsed on that fateful day. But this skyscraper was never hit by a plane, unlike the other [...]
Steve Jobs: How to live before you die
(15 votes, average: 3.40 out of 5)
“Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish” that’s the main message Apple founder Steve Jobs gives in this speech to college students from Stanford douring his Commencement address on June 12, 2005. Hi talks about his childhood, his mother who gave him away for adoption and the new parents who had to promise to send him to College. [...]
Wing Chun Kung Fu
(14 votes, average: 4.43 out of 5)
Bruce Lee says “Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one!” . Wing Chun Kung Fu is a method that can help people to be successful on on their path to endure in our difficult world. This is a cinematic documentary from Chibi Moku about the martial [...]
The day Hermann Goering discovered evil through a painting
(14 votes, average: 3.79 out of 5)
This is no documentary about Nazis or Hitler’s 2nd in command Hermann Goering in particular, but it’s a story about the origins of pleasure and how we experience it differently. Paul Bloom gives in this TED talk the example of a famous painting by the Dutch artis Vermeer which Goering buys for what would now [...]
The Day After 2010 World Cup in South Africa
(3 votes, average: 3.33 out of 5)
The African dream has come true when it hosted the 2010 World Cup, 3.18 millions fans attended 64 matches, 4.5 billion dollars spent on infrastructure, 400 thousand jobs created. But what will happen after the World Cup, through the South African point of view? We’ve heard many poor South Africans and they’ve shared their expectations [...]
UFOs – can we belive in it?
(10 votes, average: 2.50 out of 5)
This documentary features eye-witnesses who think they have seen UFOs. Are there really UFOs and Aliens in the cosmos? In the documentary we can see accounts, photos and videos from people who reported to have seen UFOs before. But what is really true about these stories and theories, and what is the government’s part in all of this?
