Goede Docu's?! #2

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Op vrijdag 14 augustus 2009 20:58 schreef Butcherlars het volgende:
louis theroux law & disorder in johannesburg

gaat over criminaliteit in south africa

Johannesburg - Law and Disorder 1/5

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Op donderdag 13 augustus 2009 18:58 schreef Chain_Reaction het volgende:

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Vooral hoe verrot mensen er "al" naar een jaar gebruik uitzien is echt schokkend te noemen, om nog maar te zwijgen over de psychotische episodes van al die gebruikers.

Dodelijke troep.

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Op vrijdag 14 augustus 2009 21:05 schreef kikoooooo het volgende:

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Zo blijkt maar weer dat de war on drugs volkomen kansloos is. Coke e.d. worden in de VS keihard aangepakt, met als gevolg dat elke boerenlul meth kan gaan brouwen... Met alle gevolgen van dien.

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Op zondag 6 september 2009 23:53 schreef Lebawski het volgende:
Heeft iemand misschien een linkje waar je online leuke docu's kunt kijken ? Surf the channel en dergelijke.

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In this program, an eye-opening documentary on the National Security Agency (NSA) by best-selling author James Bamford and Emmy Award-winning producer Scott Willis, NOVA exposes the ultra-secret intelligence agency's role in the failure to stop the 9/11 attacks and the subsequent eavesdropping program that listens in without warrant on millions of American citizens.

"The Spy Factory" is based on Bamford's best-selling 2008 book, The Shadow Factory, praised as "important and disturbing" in the Washington Post by former senator Bob Kerrey, who was a member of the 9/11 Commission. (Read our excerpt.)

In this program, NOVA chronicles the NSA's role in eavesdropping both before and after 9/11. Drawing on dozens of interviews with agency insiders and probing publicly available sources as well as transcripts of terrorist trials and an FBI chronology of the terrorists' movements, NOVA assembles a detailed picture of events leading up to the 9/11 attacks.

The program sheds light on the vital data known inside the NSA but only partly relayed to other agencies. The trove of information the NSA had access to in advance included Osama bin Laden's now-disconnected direct satellite phone, which the NSA tapped starting in 1996. Exclusive footage shows the three-story house in Yemen that served as Al Qaeda's communications and logistics headquarters. The NSA was listening in on phone communications to and from the house for years prior to the 9/11 attack.

Three times the size of the CIA and far more secret, the NSA is comprised of top linguists, mathematicians, and technologists trained to decipher all kinds of communications—epitomizing the hidden world of high-tech, 21st-century surveillance. To show how this eavesdropping operates, NOVA follows the trail of just one typical e-mail sent from Asia to the U.S. Streaming as pulses of light into a fiber-optic cable, it travels across the Pacific Ocean, coming ashore in California, and finally reaching an AT&T facility in San Francisco, where the cable is split and the data sent to a secret NSA monitoring room on the floor below. This enables the NSA to intercept not only most Asian e-mail messages but also the entire U.S. internal Internet traffic.

Thus, since 9/11, the agency has turned its giant ear inward to monitor the communications of ordinary Americans, many of whom are on the government's secret watch list, now more than half-a-million names long.

But how effective is this monumental monitoring effort in countering security threats? The NSA is faced with an enormous and ever-expanding archive of phone calls and e-mail messages. Many experts in data mining and analysis are skeptical about the value of collecting so much information without the ability to understand it, as it may lead to critical clues being lost in the static. (Listen to a podcast about the challenge even powerful computers have in decoding human speech.)

Among those interviewed on "The Spy Factory" are former NSA, CIA, and FBI analysts and officials, many speaking publicly for the first time. Among these is Mark Rossini, the senior FBI agent in the CIA's Osama bin Laden tracking unit. For the first time, Rossini tells how intelligence agency turf wars prevented him from notifying his FBI superiors that Al Qaeda terrorists were heading for the U.S. with valid visas in early 2000.

Surprisingly, the 9/11 Commission never looked closely into the NSA's role in the broad intelligence breakdown behind the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks. If they had, they would have understood the full extent to which the agency had major pieces of the puzzle but never put them together or disclosed their entire body of knowledge to the CIA and FBI. Traditionally, the NSA didn't share its raw data with those other agencies, an institutionalized reluctance that played a critical role in the failure to stop the 9/11 plotters. (Hear from Eleanor Hill, a former Staff Director of the House Intelligence Committee, on the myriad dangers inherent in such a tradition.)

In what Bamford calls "one of the largest ironies in the history of American intelligence," he notes that weeks before the attacks, the terrorists were staying in a hotel near NSA headquarters in Maryland, almost within sight of the office of then-NSA Director Michael Hayden. Hayden, who was later appointed director of the CIA by President Bush, was never held accountable for his agency's failure, and after 9/11 he spearheaded the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping activities in the name of making the nation safe from terrorists.

Addressing the question, Are we any safer now than we were before?, Bamford says, "We should have been safe the way it was. NSA had all the information that it needed to stop the 9/11 hijackers. It had laws that allowed it to track the hijackers." Bamford adds that those same laws also protected the privacy of ordinary Americans in ways that have since vanished. (On this website, Bamford answers viewer questions about the NSA and other organizations and issues covered in the program.)

Spy Factory - Part 1

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Op maandag 7 september 2009 00:40 schreef Jaytonism het volgende:
Goed topic.

Ik weet niet of het past in dit topic en/of dit naar voren is gekomen in het eerste topic, maar Zeitgeist is 1 van de meest toffe docu's die ik ook gezien heb.

www.zeitgeistmovie.com

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Op maandag 7 september 2009 00:40 schreef Jaytonism het volgende:
Ik weet niet of het past in dit topic en/of dit naar voren is gekomen in het eerste topic

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Op maandag 7 september 2009 01:16 schreef Jaytonism het volgende:
Ja, ook gezien.. Vond ik iets minder sterk.

The Bridge vond ik ook niet zo heel aangrijpend als de meesten hier. Wist me op 1 of andere manier niet totaal te boeien.

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Op maandag 7 september 2009 00:26 schreef Chain_Reaction het volgende:

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Ik weet niet precies wat jou interesseert, maar @ ted.com zijn wel veel interessante lezingen (vaak maar +/- 20 min.) te bekijken..

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Op maandag 7 september 2009 13:29 schreef Lebawski het volgende:

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Heel uiteenlopend. Ik ben al een tijdje op zoek naar een docu over verschoppelingen die in de verlaten/geheime metrostelsels, gemaakt door Stalin, onder Moskou wonen. Er zou een groepje op expeditie zijn gegaan en ze hebben voor hun leven moeten vrezen.

Dingetjes over criminaliteit/bendes/maffia is ook boeiend, maar die zie je ook veel op tv. Daarom zou ik daar wel eens een exclusieve docu over willen zien. Docu's over het leven achter tralies idem dito. En alles wat daar op lijkt, het boeit me om te zien hoe mensen leven, overleven & denken in bepaalde situaties. Docu's over legendes of waargebeurde verhalen zoals Jack the Ripper, Sawney Bean, Sweeney Todd etc. zijn ook leuk. Vooral omdat ik laatst in Schotland geweest ben, en al die verhaaltjes daar veel indruk maken op de mensen. De hele sfeer uit dat land in combinatie met zulke 'legendes', dat brengt een beetje het kind in mij naar boven.

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The Iceman Confessions Of A Mafia Hitman

Up Close and Personal with a Killer When I was finally admitted into the bowels of Trenton State Prison in New Jersey’s capital to interview multiple murderer Richard Kuklinski, a.k.a. “the Iceman,” it wasn’t at all what I had expected. My assumption was that it would be like the movies. We’d be separated by a shatter-proof glass barrier. We’d communicate through telephone handsets. There would be guards all around watching our every move. But I couldn’t have been more wrong. Clarice Starling had more protection when she visited Dr. Hannibal “the Cannibal” Lector in The Silence of the Lambs. At least she had bars. And frankly, as a killer, Lector was downright crude compared to the stealth and skullduggery of the Iceman. Lector liked to bite; Kuklinski preferred a cyanide solution administered from a nasal spray bottle. A surprise spritz to the face usually produced a shocked inhalation from the victim, who as a result would die in under a minute. And unless the body was found right away and a savvy medical examiner knew what to look for, the poison would go undetected because cyanide naturally dissipates in the body after two hours. But cyanide was only one of the things I was thinking about on the morning of January 16, 1992, when I arrived for my date with the Iceman.

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Op maandag 7 september 2009 14:08 schreef Lebawski het volgende:
Ja daar begon ik al over, over die metro's .

Die docu die jij post klinkt erg boeiend, ga 'm eens bekijken. Als je nog meer kunt afleiden uit mijn verhaal en daar docu's over weet, dan lees ik dat hier graag terug.

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Jack The Ripper - Case Closed

Patricia Cornwell's portrait of a killer. Patricia Cornwell's own funded investigation into the true identity of jack the ripper.

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Op maandag 7 september 2009 00:26 schreef Chain_Reaction het volgende:
.. ted.com

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Op maandag 7 september 2009 00:26 schreef Chain_Reaction het volgende:

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Ik weet niet precies wat jou interesseert, maar @ ted.com zijn wel veel interessante lezingen (vaak maar +/- 20 min.) te bekijken..

Deze docu. vind ik iig zeer interessant:

Spy Factory
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Spy Factory - Part 1

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Op maandag 7 september 2009 01:06 schreef Arcee het volgende:
Eenzame Hoogte - Willem Ruis (Google Video)

Inzichtelijke en eerlijke docu over Willem Ruis.

Willem Ruis.

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Op maandag 7 september 2009 18:27 schreef sander-3 het volgende:

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Geweldige docu! Echt een aanrader

PBS Frontline: Spying on the Home Front 1/5

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Op zaterdag 25 juli 2009 03:20 schreef Probably_on_pcp het volgende:
Net Religulous gekeken van Bill Mayer op Googlevideo.....

Wat kunnen gelovigen toch debiel zijn zeg

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Op maandag 7 september 2009 13:29 schreef Lebawski het volgende:
Ik ben al een tijdje op zoek naar een docu over verschoppelingen die in de verlaten/geheime metrostelsels, gemaakt door Stalin, onder Moskou wonen. Er zou een groepje op expeditie zijn gegaan en ze hebben voor hun leven moeten vrezen.

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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