Documentaries

[0ni0n]

All documentaries welcome!! not exclusive to science ones.
Here's some of my favorite documentaries, share yours!
Vision of the Future (part 1), the Intelligence Revolution.

Vision of the Future (part 2), the Biotech Revolution.

Vision of the Future (part 3), the Quantum Revolution.

Human 2.0

2005 DARPA Urban Challenge (Fully auto pilot car competition to cross a desert. Competition participants include Stanford, Carnegie Mellon School of Engineering, and 20 other teams.)

Phage, the virus that cures.

Rageh in Iran (It shows a face of Iran that most people don't know about. The bbc host Rageh Omaar is amazing.)


Will add more as I find them.

[The_OG_Nelta]

Look up Savants, they are so neat.

[0ni0n]

Look up Savants, they are so neat.

Yea I have seen one about an english guy who learned to converse in Icelandic language in a week and recalled 22500 decimal of pi. In the same documentary, they also showcased another guy who could memorize the landscape of an entire city and then hand-draw it on paper.

also,
Brain story
Search results for brain story - Mininova

Human instinct
The Pirate Bay - The world's largest BitTorrent tracker

edit, 22500 decimal of pi, what a feat. Thanks Nelta.

[Trichocyst]

Sorry, no links handy.

The Sorrow and the Pity is amazing.
Hearts and Minds is sobering.
King of Kong (even if some of it was embellished).

[Cream Soda]

YouTube - High on Crack Street (1 of 7)

[Mizango]

-Pimps up hoes down.
-Hookers at the point.


No but seriously, for me it is anything Physics, Cosmos or Prehistory related. I watch Nova religiously if that counts as well as Physics lectures on the Community College channel here :3

[0ni0n]

-Pimps up hoes down.
-Hookers at the point.


No but seriously, for me it is anything Physics, Cosmos or Prehistory related. I watch Nova religiously if that counts as well as Physics lectures on the Community College channel here :3

YouTube - Melkane's Channel
You will love this guy. He has all kind of science shows that you can imagine, from blackholes, to evolution, to the hadron collider and more. Check him out!

[Mizango]

Fucking sweet man thanks.

One of my favorite Physicists Dr. Kaku incoming....

Free Science Videos - ScholarSpot Videos Ebooks Podcasts

This thread is about to get derailed nerd style in about 10 minutes lol. Digging up DeGrasse Tyson, Green, Smolin and Magueijo links.....

[The_OG_Nelta]

Yea I have seen one about an english guy who learned to converse in Icelandic language in a week and recalled 1000 decimal of pi. In the same documentary, they also showcased another guy who could memorize the landscape of an entire city and then hand-draw it on paper.

also,
Brain story
Search results for brain story - Mininova

Human instinct
The Pirate Bay - The world's largest BitTorrent tracker

Yeah i've been reading up all on them.
You are talking about Daniel Tammet, he didn't recall it to 1000, he recalled it to 22,500 from memory in span of 5hours.

This is the 2nd guy you are talking about
YouTube - Drawing Savant

[0ni0n]

Yeah i've been reading up all on them.
You are talking about Daniel Tammet, he didn't recall it to 1000, he recalled it to 22,500 from memory in span of 5hours.

This is the 2nd guy you are talking about
YouTube - Drawing Savant

OH I was thinking 1000 wasn't too impressive lol.

[ferigor]

My favorite documentary is Grizzly Man, but its not really scientific at all. Does it count still?
YouTube - Timothy Treadwell- Grizzly Man

[0ni0n]

My favorite documentary is Grizzly Man, but its not really scientific at all. Does it count still?
YouTube - Timothy Treadwell- Grizzly Man

Yea it does. Any documentaries. Gizzly Man is a good one, it reminds me of "into the wild".

[Trichocyst]

That guy was nuts.

[#686578]

Almost no one has seen Penn and Teller's Bullshit TV series that's pretty much documentaries disproving things. Here's one of my favorites on why Recycling not only hurts the economy but the environment.

MEGAVIDEO - Recycling Bullshit

[Tyche]

The Boy With The Incredible Brain

The pi guy. 47 minutes.

[Nightbreed]

Man on Wire.

Amazing documentary.

[Blarg]

I've seen a ton of documentaries but I can only remember like 2 of them (non scientific ones that is)

Super high me: comedian smokes a ton for 30 days, shows some of his stand up he does while taking the 'challenge' and he is pretty damn funny.

Who killed the electric car: what I remember its about how the big car companies interfered with these becoming main stream and whatnot

[Omniyoji]

A good one for computer geeks

Freedom Downtime - The Story of Kevin Mitnick (2003)

[claritybiv]

Almost no one has seen Penn and Teller's Bullshit TV series that's pretty much documentaries disproving things. Here's one of my favorites on why Recycling not only hurts the economy but the environment.

MEGAVIDEO - Recycling Bullshit

That's a great show. The episode on the bible especially.
YouTube - Penn and Teller: Bullshit - The Bible 1-3

[Brien]

The Man Who Skied Down Everest

"The first barrier in the ascent of Everest is a huge ice fall. It looks like the tongue of some gigantic demon. More lives have been lost here than on Everest itself. It rises 1600 feet--a world of dangerous, fragile beauty; a cascade of massive blocks of ice moving imperceptibly from the glacier above, pushed by the weight of centuries of the snows of Everest. Without warning it can shift and break into an avalanche of millions of tons of ice. On the other side of this barrier lies the most challenging ski run in the world."

-From the dudes dairy

Only watch this on a BIG TV/projector/etc, or else its a waste...trust me its well worth it!