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 Manhattan Project
(59 votes, average: 4.39 out of 5)
In a race against the Nazis to develop an atomic bomb, the USA assigned leading scientists like Albert Einstein from all over the world to The Manhattan Project, an incredible scientific, engineering and manufacturing feat which would have everlasting global consequences. This documentary examines the Manhattan Project through government files, archival footage and accounts of [...]
Watch “The Wave” Online – A real life student experiment
(69 votes, average: 4.51 out of 5)
The movie “The Wave” is based on a novel by Morton Rhue and is based on a true story that happend in 1967 at Gordon High School in Palo Alto. The teacher starts an experiment with his students trying to show them how the Nazi regime was able to invluence so many people and why [...]
