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August 25, 2012, 10:21:18 PM Last Edit: August 25, 2012, 10:26:13 PM by jimmy olsen
Science, History, etc... there are lots of great documentaries on all of them.

So, suggest some.

I'll go first, Sex in the Stone Age by National Geographic

About the sequencing of the Neanderthal and Denisova genomes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c678VIdEDdg
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FunkMonk

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August 25, 2012, 10:23:58 PM
Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.

mongers

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August 25, 2012, 10:31:40 PM
Old but gold, someone has put all of the early Michael Wood 'Dark Age' documentaries on youtube.

This one starts in a Malmesbury Abbey about 45 miles from here. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCsXLdytwj8

That uses Stephminx appears to be the best bet for seeing all of them.
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Admiral Yi

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August 25, 2012, 11:41:11 PM
Anything by Michael Moore.

jimmy olsen

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August 25, 2012, 11:47:46 PM
I asked my favorite paleoanthropologist a question inspired by that documentary and he answered within the hour! :w00t:

http://johnhawks.net/weblog/mailbag/denisova-diversity-2012.html
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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Eddie Teach

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August 26, 2012, 12:27:40 AM
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

CountDeMoney

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August 26, 2012, 04:03:27 AM
Dogs Decoded, a NOVA documentary on the domestication of the canine, their evolution with man, and how recent research over the last 30 years in canine intelligence shows how they actually outscore primates in certain cognitive intelligence tests.

Darth Wagtaros

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August 26, 2012, 09:18:58 AM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on August 26, 2012, 12:27:40 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on August 25, 2012, 11:47:46 PM
my favorite paleoanthropologist

:lol:
Alton Brown's Culinary Anthropologists are better.
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Malthus

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August 27, 2012, 09:25:02 AM
My favorite is a very strange one called Fast, Cheap and Out of Control (and no, it was not about co-eds.  :P):

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119107/
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derspiess

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August 27, 2012, 10:14:12 AM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on August 26, 2012, 12:27:40 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on August 25, 2012, 11:47:46 PM
my favorite paleoanthropologist

:lol:

Well, it may not be his favorite, but definitely in his top 10.
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viper37

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August 27, 2012, 10:16:27 AM
Battles B.C.
Not online, I think.  It's about famous battles of the antiquity, notably the Jewish exodus from Egypt and the conquest of the land by expelling the native.  It tells of the myths, and how they relate to what most likely happenned given what we know.  They also have a few on Romans and Alexander the Great.  It's done in the 300 style.
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August 27, 2012, 11:25:07 AM
There was a series on History about myths, explaining the myth itself (could be Hercules or Thor), and also examining (in less detail, unfortunately) the origins of the myths and  how they may have come about. It was hit and miss, but not too bad.
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derspiess

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August 27, 2012, 12:34:45 PM
Has anyone recommended the documentary on Stalin's ape-man army?  If not, then that one.
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August 27, 2012, 04:20:03 PM
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