Goede Docu's?! #2

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The Universe is full of explosions that both create and destroy. The Chicxulub impact on the Yucatan peninsula, which may have wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, was two million times more powerful than the largest nuclear bomb ever detonated on Earth. But guess what? That's only good enough for the very bottom of the Biggest Blasts top ten list. This episode works its way up through supernova explosions and gamma ray bursts all the way to the blast that started it all--the Big Bang.

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Op woensdag 9 september 2009 20:47 schreef Mestras het volgende:
nu op sbs 6 102 minutes that changed America

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Op woensdag 9 september 2009 16:25 schreef Lebawski het volgende:
Zou heel goed kunnen, maar hoe krijg je die docu te zien ?

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Op zondag 13 september 2009 19:43 schreef Cyan het volgende:
Morgen komt er bij Dokument op de NCRV een documentaire over een spookvilla in Monster. De docu is gemaakt door Frans Bromet.

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If you’re looking for a thoughtful and balanced introductory documentary on the life and writings of Friedrich Nietzsche, here’s a good one. This video was produced by the BBC for television in 1999 and it’s entitled Human All Too Human. You’ll find a lot of information carefully packed into one hour.

Given the complexity of Nietzsche’s writings, this video can only serve only as an introduction. As an introduction, though, it does a good job.

When I was an philosophy undergrad in 1977, I took a course on Nietzsche and it turned me inside out. That course focused on one of Nietzsche’s later works: The Gay Science (1882), translated by Walter Kaufmann. Since that time, there has been at least one additional excellent translation of The Gay Science.

Nietzsche was a prolific writer, though, and there are numerous other Nietzsche works to explore. To beginners, they will seem to be written by a man who was, in equal parts, severely emotionally scarred and an absolute genius. To a veteran reader they will still seem this way. Highly recommended for anyone who is not afraid to risk wiping out many of assumptions that you currently rely upon as existential salve.

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Op zondag 13 september 2009 18:50 schreef DubzOne het volgende:

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Vind Religulous niet te vergelijken met Jesus Camp... Hoewel het onderwerp in hoofdlijnen misschien wel overeenkomt legt Bill Mayer met humor de vinger op de zere plek.

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Op woensdag 16 september 2009 00:07 schreef Nepthys het volgende:
Before the Music Dies
Over hoe de muziekindustrie steeds meer is veranderd in een eenheidsworstproducerende winstmachine. Bekende artiesten als Eric Clapton en Erykah Badu komen aan het woord over hoe ondergeschikt talent tegenwoordig is en hoe het nu verder moet met kansen voor beginnende muzikanten. De filmmakers laten ook nog zien hoe je met behulp van autotune en een songwriter van een willekeurig fotomodel een popster kunt maken.

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Near the final days of World War II when the Russians were surrounding Berlin, Hitler and his wife went down to their underground bunker and killed themselves. At least that is what his guards have said. They said they heard the shot and opened the door to find Hitler lying bloody and dead on the couch, and his wife next to him, poisoned to death.

They said they then took the body of Hitler outside and burned it then buried it. Apparently, Hitler did not want his lifeless body on display like Mussolini’s corpse had been.

MysteryQuest takes up the challenge of finding clues of Hitler’s death. There has been speculation that he escaped and might have gone to South America. Other people have said they had seen him around other parts of Germany. Whatever the stories, there is no evidence of a dead body belonging to Adolph Hitler.

Hitler Used a Body Double
Hitler used a double, especially after the close attempt on his life in the Valkyrie incident. What the Russians found when they arrived in Berlin, was the dead body of a man looking like Hitler, but in all accounts was his double. This man was apparently two inches shorter than Adolph Hitler.

Extracting DNA from Blood and Skull Fragments
In the Russian archived they have a couch with blood stains and a piece of a skull with a bullet hole in it. MysteryQuest sent an American archeologist to Russia to get evidence from these items and bring it back to the United States to see if there was any DNA that could be found in the blood or the burned skull.

In the meantime, in Germany they were reconstructing the bunker via computers, trying to figure out if the eye-witness accounts were plausible. The underground bunkers had engines running and those engines might have been loud enough to drown out a gun shot. What they discovered was an actual engine that was there at the time and still running, so they were lucky and were able to hear exactly how loud the noise was at the time Hitler apparently committed suicide.

What the investigators from MysteryQuest uncovered for this show is fascinating. Using modern science they were able to piece together some of the puzzle surrounding Adolph Hitler. It is a surprising and interesting story.

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Op donderdag 17 september 2009 18:52 schreef Symer het volgende:
Net Religulous gezien, vond het maar tegenvallen. Maher laat de geïnterviewden niet uitpraten, of als ze met een goed punt komen maakt Maher ze achteraf belachelijk wanneer ze zichzelf niet kunnen verdedigen, waardoor het eigenlijk één lange monoloog van Maher is.

Ik deel zijn standpunten over godsdienst wel, maar vond de film niet bijzonder sterk.

Buiten dat, tvp want goed topic