Documentaries That Changed Your Vision

by **triers** on Sat Aug 04, 2007 4:21 pm

This topic is dedicated to Documentaries, the type of media that often can give the viewer the quickest, easy to grasp and pleasant to follow information for some field.

Of course here is more information on Documentary films.

I'd share with you that often a good Doc might be a rather good way to relax and learn something new. Not to mention how interesting may some old or rare videos happen to be.

We have to mention also that Documentaries may fill lots of gaps and update everyones personal knowledge base since nowadays we live in a quite quickly changing world, also every minute is precious and Docs last usually not more than an hour.

And maybe one of the most powerful features of Documentaries - they can influence audience and form public opinion, especially on global issues. Maybe the best example is the Climate Issue movie An Inconvenient Truth - hope you've seen it.

Of course there might be found some controversy in every source of information, in Docs too.

So finally I'd like to say some of my favorite Documentaries. Actually almost everything I've seen from BBC has been worth viewing. Here are Sir David Attenborough's Science & Nature series, Brain Story episodes, Horizon series and many others. TV Channels like Discovery and History Channel are also usually good.

Anyway, this the topic where you can share your thoughts on your top docs!

by **triers** on Mon Oct 15, 2007 7:09 pm

Future By Design presents a bold, new direction for humanity that entails nothing less than the total redesign of our culture. There are many people today who are concerned with the serious problems that face our modern society: unemployment, violent crime, replacement of humans by technology, over-population and a decline in the Earth's ecosystems. As you will see, Future By Design is dedicated to confronting all of these problems by actively engaging in the research, development, and application of workable solutions. Through the use of innovative approaches to social awareness, educational incentives, and the consistent application of the best that science and technology can offer directly to the social system, The Venus Project offers a comprehensive plan for social reclamation in which human beings, technology, and nature will be able to coexist in a long-term, sustainable state of dynamic equilibrium.

http://www.futurebydesign.org/

http://www.futurebydesignthemovie.com/

IMDB Info

Future by Design Trailer, William Gazecki Director

Recommended :!:

Bright Ideas Inside :idea:

by **triers** on Sat Dec 01, 2007 3:47 pm

Obviously I am the lonely topic-maker here. Still let me add for those who read:

A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash

The production title is clear enough. :idea:

Still what I can say is this is a chilling scenario indeed for humanity as a whole. It's scientifically proofed so it seems again that only Science can make the magic hat continue working. Let's hope so!

by **surfer** on Fri Dec 14, 2007 5:43 pm

I'll tell you my thoughts on in once I watch it. I guess that will be tomorrow or on Sunday.

by **triers** on Sat Dec 29, 2007 6:00 am

Zeitgeist (pronounced [ˈtsa͡ɪtga͡ɪst] (help·info)) is originally a German expression that means "the spirit of the age", literally translated as "time (Zeit) spirit (Geist)". It describes the intellectual and cultural climate of an era. In German, the word has more layers of meaning than the English translation, including the fact that Zeitgeist can only be observed for past events.

Wikipedia

They must find it difficult...
Those who have taken authority as the truth,
rather than truth as the authority.

- Gerald Massey

American Zeitgeist is a feature length documentary by filmmaker Rob McGann that offers an historical look at the War on Terrorism from 1979 through 2006. The narrative of American Zeitgeist is woven out of more than 40 in-depth interviews with leading experts on terrorism, U.S. foreign policy, Islam and Middle Eastern studies.

imdb.com

This movie is free to distribute and available at http://zeitgeistmovie.com/

Share your thoughts after watching :!:

by **surfer** on Wed Jan 09, 2008 1:20 am

Finally, I watched both documentaries. Here I just want to share some thoughts concerning the film about the Crude. It's obvious that we are dependent on it and as a source of energy, which is not renewable, we will be able to use it within the current century only. Anyway what is interesting and I agree with film's authors on that the crude is indeed too cheap at its current levels and we should pay much more for something which is going to waste soon. The crude reached the record level of a bit above $100 a barrel last week or the week before. Currently, everybody is concerned how it will affect the US economy if the oil breaks this benchmark and will trade above $100 a barrel. This price seems too high to US. Indeed it will slow down US growth, affecting industry especially; It already does. That's why the US keeps looking for new sources of oil but not new source of energy. I am just wondering what would happen if America invested the money it used to pay its desperate conquering of Iraq's oil, into development of new sources of energy? That's billions of dollars which could go for huge solar energy plants or something..

by **triers** on Thu Feb 28, 2008 2:06 am

This surely is one thought provoking documentary film - maybe as provoking as the Bible itself since what is discussed here should be a part of it - The Gospel of Judas, found and restored recently from an ancient Egyptian papyrus in Coptic.

This film is precious at least under three angles:

1. It takes us in the Ancient Times when Christianity was at it's original state and was in no way near to what we know today, it was much influenced by mysticism and had it's enemies although it spread rapidly in the "Old World"

2. It gives us a notion of one of the most controversial religious documents - the lost and forgotten Gospel of Judas

3. We see how Black Markets work and how miraculous it is sometimes that such artifacts come to publicity

One more thing - it's a National Geographic production.

by **triers** on Sat Jun 14, 2008 3:26 pm

In this one-off documentary, David Malone looks at four brilliant mathematicians - Georg Cantor, Ludwig Boltzmann, Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing - whose genius has profoundly affected us, but which tragically drove them insane and eventually led to them all committing suicide.

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The film also talks to the latest in the line of thinkers who have continued to pursue the question of whether there are things that mathematics and the human mind cannot know. They include Greg Chaitin, mathematician at the IBM TJ Watson Research Center, New York, and Roger Penrose.

Dangerous Knowledge tackles some of the profound questions about the true nature of reality that mathematical thinkers are still trying to answer today.

Source

by **triers** on Tue Jun 17, 2008 1:49 am

In this new three-part series, leading theoretical physicist and futurist Dr Michio Kaku explores the cutting edge science of today, tomorrow, and beyond. He argues that humankind is at a turning point in history. In this century, we are going to make the historic transition from the 'Age of Discovery' to the 'Age of Mastery', a period in which we will move from being passive observers of nature to its active choreographers. This will give us not only unparalleled possibilities but also great responsibilities.

1. THE INTELLIGENCE REVOLUTION

2. THE BIOTECH REVOLUTION

3. THE QUANTUM REVOLUTION

More information available @ BBC's site

My comments:

A very informative and broad cover of the 3 major propellers of modern civilization and a deep philosophical jump into the future of our world.. :arrow:

by **triers** on Thu Jun 19, 2008 12:12 am

The 11th Hour is a 2007 feature film documentary, created, produced and narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, on the state of the natural environment.

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With contributions from over 50 of the world's most prominent thinkers and activists, including former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, physicist Stephen Hawking, Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai, and journalist Paul Hawken, the film documents the grave problems facing the planet's life systems. Global warming, deforestation, mass species extinction, and depletion of the oceans' habitats are all addressed. The film's premise is that the future of humanity is in jeopardy.

The film offers hope and potential solutions to these problems by calling for restorative action by the reshaping and rethinking of global human activity through technology, social responsibility and conservation. Scientists and environmental advocates such as David Orr, David Suzuki, and Gloria Flora paint a portrait for a radically new and different future in which it is not humanity's intent to dominate the planet's life systems, but to mimic and coexist with them.

Source

Official Site

My Comments:

What's really the time :?:

And can we synchronize our watches with Nature's :?:

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