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Title: Documentary Recomendations
Post by: jimmy olsen on August 25, 2012, 10:21:18 PM
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
Title: Re: Documentary Recomendations
Post by: FunkMonk on August 25, 2012, 10:23:58 PM
Connections. All of them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_(TV_series) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_(TV_series))
http://youtu.be/WgOp-nz3lHg (http://youtu.be/WgOp-nz3lHg)
Title: Re: Documentary Recomendations
Post by: mongers on 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 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCsXLdytwj8)

That uses Stephminx appears to be the best bet for seeing all of them.
Title: Re: Documentary Recomendations
Post by: Admiral Yi on August 25, 2012, 11:41:11 PM
Anything by Michael Moore.
Title: Re: Documentary Recomendations
Post by: jimmy olsen on 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
Title: Re: Documentary Recomendations
Post by: Eddie Teach on August 26, 2012, 12:27:40 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on August 25, 2012, 11:47:46 PM
my favorite paleoanthropologist

:lol:
Title: Re: Documentary Recomendations
Post by: CountDeMoney on 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.
Title: Re: Documentary Recomendations
Post by: Darth Wagtaros on 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.
Title: Re: Documentary Recomendations
Post by: Malthus on 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/
Title: Re: Documentary Recomendations
Post by: derspiess on 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.
Title: Re: Documentary Recomendations
Post by: viper37 on 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.
Title: Re: Documentary Recomendations
Post by: Syt on 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.
Title: Re: Documentary Recomendations
Post by: derspiess on August 27, 2012, 12:34:45 PM
Has anyone recommended the documentary on Stalin's ape-man army?  If not, then that one.
Title: Re: Documentary Recomendations
Post by: Siege on August 27, 2012, 04:20:03 PM
2016: Obama's America.

Title: Re: Documentary Recomendations
Post by: crazy canuck on August 27, 2012, 04:24:43 PM
Food Inc.

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/food-inc/
Title: Re: Documentary Recomendations
Post by: CountDeMoney on August 27, 2012, 04:27:00 PM
The Corporation

http://www.thecorporation.com/

It felt topical.  :P
Title: Re: Documentary Recomendations
Post by: Octavian on August 27, 2012, 04:34:24 PM
Kurt Sutters Outlaw Empires (are on youtube)
Title: Re: Documentary Recomendations
Post by: PRC on August 27, 2012, 04:36:33 PM
Here is a link to a site that hosts some documentaries for free and links to other sites where they're available as well: http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/