Documentaries

Unfortunately, the folks at PBS decided to interview Hillary "Superpredator" Clinton for this, but otherwise the doc seems to more or less tell it like it is.

available wherever you get y'alls torrents

HyperNormalisation is a 2016 BBC documentary by British filmmaker Adam Curtis. It argues that following the global economic crises of the 1970s, governments, financiers and technological utopians gave up on trying to shape the complex "real world" and instead established a simpler "fake world" for the benefit of multi-national corporations that is kept stable by neoliberal governments.

Coming soon to a neighborhood near you!

Documentary on a guy who was sanctioned by the government to kill in indonesia in the 1960's

Feels like contra-luddite propaganda

Anyone know where I can watch this? Channel 4 won't let me register 🙁

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/7968339

Check it out.

Your thoughts on this?

I just found it from a channel I subscribed to a while back.

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/7889913

Oh God, make it stop.

Listen to the first 10 or 15 minutes. Bonus points if you get to 20.

It's bad.

Anyway, I'll stop the doomscrolling behavior. How are you all?

An unusual example of a film that will be interesting to any ordinary American.

Director interviews ordinary people and ask some basic questions in order of their age.

Photo Ark

Renowned photographer Joel Sartore's quest to document and save animals at risk of extinction.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7181320/?ref%5C_=fn%5C_al%5C_tt%5C_1

@documentaries
#photography
#animals
#EndangeredSpecies

A screenshot from the documentary:

George Church hopes to bring back the woolly mammoth.

From Human Nature (2019) documentary about gene editing.

@documentaries
#GeneEditing

Terra – a film by Yann Arthus-Bertrand

Animals are the refugees we often forget. In this documentary by GoodPlanet and OMEGA, directors Yann Arthus-Bertrand and Michael Pitiot examine the human relationship with other species on Earth. With a global population of 7 billion people, let’s have the courage to change the way we share our planet. Available on Netflix.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pMScorWcyU

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@animals
#animals
#evolution
#fungi
#ArthusBertrand
#Earth

I'm an enthusiast for public transit. Everyone buying two tons of steel and glass is simply not a sustainable transportation plan. It's helped bring us to the looming collapse of what's quaintly called 'western civilization'.

The National City Lines scandal is an aspect of this that most people are only peripherally aware of.

If you saw the film Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, you might remember that old-time Los Angeles had a fabulous streetcar system that went virtually everywhere in the metroplex. The movie's bad guys bought the streetcar company in order to shut it down, so people would need to buy cars and oil and build freeways instead. What Roger Rabbit forgot to say was, it's based on a true story.

In 1936, acting through proxy companies to keep things cloaked, General Motors established a new business called National City Lines (NCL). Also backed by Standard Oil, Mack Trucks, Phillips Petroleum, and Firestone Tire, NCL took control of numerous privately-owned transit systems all across America, simply to shut them down.

Clean, cheap, reliable streetcars were replaced with soot-belching city buses that run far less frequently and more slowly.

This documentary from PBS delves into the NCL scandal, and if any of the above is news to you, you should watch Taken for a Ride.

The filmmakers talk with old people (doubtless dead now) who were there as all this happened. Workers remember seeing their 'Rolls Royce' transit system obliterated, and an NCL exec admits that shutting the streetcars down was always the only plan.

NCL lost a lawsuit over it, so all this is factual, but there's also the argument that cars were becoming more and more popular anyway, so we would've lost America's streetcar infrastructure with or without GM's nefarious plot. I've been on the fence about that for long enough that the fenceposts are drawing blood out of my butt, but this line from fabulously bald former San Francisco Mayor Joe Alioto resonates:

"I cannot accept the argument that rapid-transit systems broke down because of their complete inefficiency to serve the public, because the experience of western Europe and Japan belies that argument. ...

"If it is true that the streetcar companies were breaking down of their own weight, why was it necessary for General Motors to join with Standard Oil and the [Firestone] tire company to go in and buy the systems and tear up the tracks?"

Other than that succinct quote and a new love for Alioto, I didn't get much from the film, but that's because of my head start — I've always gobbled up info on public transit. Heck, I've been aware of the NCL scandal since before Roger Rabbit.

Only half of the documentary is about NCL. After that, it's an overview of the disaster that followed — freeways and cars everywhere — which is also worth watching, and mourning over.

Earthflight

A nature documentary about a bird's-eye view of the natural world, joining the journeys of snow geese, cranes, albatrosses, eagles and other birds across six continents.

The best moments from Earthflight (Winged Planet):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeHmqKoisT4

@documentaries
#birds

Getting pregnant out of wedlock was long seen as a disgrace in Catholic Ireland. By 1998, more than 50,000 women had had their babies taken away and given up for adoption. Many of these children are now trying to trace their birth mothers.

They are also fighting for their plight to be recognized at last. Contraception and abortion were long banned, sex before marriage taboo, and sex education was practically non-existent. If a woman, nevertheless, fell pregnant, she was generally treated as the "guilty” party even if she had been raped. Whoever was unable or unwilling to have an illegal abortion abroad had no further say over the matter. The priest was informed and he decided whether the woman would be thrown out on the street, or sent to one of the 18 Catholic mother and baby homes. Paul Redmond was born in one of those homes. He describes himself and others in a similar situation as "survivors” of a scandal that is still rocking Ireland. The 59-year-old keeps on returning to the place where he was born, which now lies empty. He says that many babies were left lying in their beds there and their nappies were rarely changed. Children with a disability or another skin color were particularly neglected, according to Redmond. The consequences of this neglect were terrible. In the town of Tuam in western Ireland, local historian Catherine Corless discovered that the bodies of almost 800 babies and children had been concealed in a mass grave on the site of the former home. She prompted a national investigation into the scandal and went on to campaign for the exhumation of the infants’ remains. That is also something close to Anna Corrigan’s heart. She discovered that she had two brothers who were born in the home in Tuam. A death certificate exists for her brother John, but it’s unclear what happened to William. Exhumation and DNA tests could bring clarity. Anna is still searching for clues. She hasn’t given up hope that her brother William might still be alive.

YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5WOymf8u-s

Planet Earth III

Official trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNWXMAJF7ww

#BBC #Attenborough #PlanetEarth #documentaries @documentaries

The Alpinist (2021)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11790780/?ref%5C_=fn%5C_al%5C_tt%5C_1

#alpinism #IceClimbing #MixedClimbing #SoloClimbing
#Leclerc #youtube @documentaries

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRpVyzagXLQ

Cubans fleeing

Source: BBC Our World 2023 Windsurf Escape Cuba's Migration Crisis

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