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The End of Poverty?

ilovedocumentaries — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 01:52:17 +0000

The End of Poverty? is a feature-length documentary directed by the award-winning director, Philippe Diaz and produced by Cinema Libre Studio in collaboration with the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation. The movie was narrated by famous actor, Martin Sheen. It talks about the reality of global poverty that will explain how all of us have arrived at the present condition throughout the world.

Diaz find out the cause and growth of global poverty back in 15th century in an interviews with economists, sociologists, and historians who shares how poverty is the clear consequence of free-market economic policies that allow powerful nations to exploit poorer countries for their assets and keep money in the hands of the wealthy rather than distributing it more equitably to the people who have helped them gain their fortunes.

Rooted in military conquest, slavery and colonization that resulted in the seizure of land, minerals and forced labor, poverty persists because of unfair debt, trade and tax policies – in other words, wealthy countries taking advantage of poor, developing countries.

The film also features expert insights from: Nobel prize winners in Economics, Amartya Sen and Joseph Stiglitz; acclaimed authors Susan George, Eric Toussaint, John Perkins, Chalmers Johnson; university professors William Easterly and Michael Watts; government ministers such as Bolivia’s Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera and the leaders of social movements in Brazil, Venezuela, Kenya and Tanzania.

The End Of Poverty? is a clear picture of the most important questions in our time. Within a planet so abundant with resources, how come millions of people are starving? Why are there this kind of enormous financial as well as social iniquities amongst the rich and poor?

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Ben Lewis – Gursky World

ilovedocumentaries — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:39:51 +0000

The 23-minute documentary video above features about a profile of artist and considered as the most influential German photographer in the word, Andreas Gursky.

Director Ben Lewis tries to find out what makes him tick and what it is like to live in “Gursky World”. Trying to find out what makes Gursky tick, Lewis’s bizarre journey takes him on an adventure from Reading to Dusseldorf. When he meets finally his hero, he gains a fuller understanding of what it means to live in a ‘Gursky World’.

Original Air Date: 27 September 2002

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Private Library

ilovedocumentaries — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 04:56:41 +0000

The video above is a short film of a 1,520 s.f building called Private Library designed by New York architect Andrew Berman as a library and studio for a writer as his dream project.

Commissioned to design a writing studio in the woods in Long Island, he grabbed the challenge and created a building which seems to float in a sea of foliage.

The short film, while informative conveys the tranquility of the building by simply inviting you to enter and experience the pace of the writer’s world inside. Not much left to say. Experience it on your own.

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Casteller Tarragona in Spain

ilovedocumentaries — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 03:24:53 +0000

There is a crazy contest in Spain where people gather in the Catalan city of Tarragona and compete to build the highest, most intricate human tower.

Every two years, the competitors called ‘castellers’ gather for this one of a kind Catalan tradition that requires astonishing strength, fitnesse and balance. And most of all, courage.

Watch the video above from last year’s competition, and check out for the the toddlers that climb up at the very top of the towers and occasionally fall in a sea of people who act as a human cushion. The next event will be slated next year 2012.

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EAT, LEARN, MOVE

admin — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 14:50:10 +0000

3 guys, 44 days, 11 countries, 18 flights, 38 thousand miles, an exploding volcano, 2 cameras and almost a terabyte of footage… all to turn 3 ambitious linear concepts based on movement, learning and food ….into 3 beautiful and hopefully compelling short films…..

= a trip of a lifetime.

move, eat, learn

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First Orbit Documentary

admin — Sat, 21 May 2011 02:02:19 +0000

A real time recreation of Yuri Gagarin’s pioneering first orbit, shot entirely in space from on board the International Space Station. The film combines this new footage with Gagarin’s original mission audio and a new musical score by composer Philip Sheppard. For more information visit http://www.firstorbit.org/

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SuperSize Me Documentary

admin — Tue, 10 May 2011 01:55:43 +0000

Super Size Me is a 2004 American documentary film directed by and starring Morgan Spurlock, an American independent filmmaker. Spurlock’s film follows a 30-day period from February 1 to March 2, 2003 during which he eats only McDonald’s food. The film documents this lifestyle’s drastic effects on Spurlock’s physical and psychological well-being, and explores the fast food industry’s corporate influence, including how it encourages poor nutrition for its own profit.

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Through The Wormhole: Are We Alone?

ilovedocumentaries — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 18:25:14 +0000

Aliens almost certainly do exist. So why haven’t we yet met E.T.? It turns out we’re only just developing instruments powerful enough to scan for them, and science sophisticated enough to know where to look. As a result, race is on to find the first intelligent aliens.
But what would they look like, and how would they interact with us if we met? The answers may come to us sooner than we imagine, for one leading astronomer believes she may already have heard a hint of their first efforts to communicate.
Of all the signals received in the search for intelligent extraterrestrials, the Wow! signal is one that many people remember. And Jerry Ehman was the man who wrote it. Ehman taught astronomy and electrical engineering at Ohio State University and worked on early projects for Big Ear, a radio telescope at the university.
These telescopes collect radio waves from space. Because cosmic radio waves are weak, the telescope collecting dishes have to be large, more than three football fields long in Big Ear’s case.
Ohio State let Ehman go after cutting Big Ear’s funding. Undeterred, he came back to Big Ear as a volunteer. Two colleagues helped Ehman. Without John Kraus, who conceived of the telescope, Big Ear wouldn’t have been listening.
Robert Dixon, Kraus’s former student, designed Big Ear’s search plan, choosing the radio wavelength to listen to, and he corrected the listening to account for our galaxy’s spin. Without Dixon’s correction, Big Ear would have listened to the wrong wavelength.

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Documentary:Lift Up Movie

ilovedocumentaries — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 06:00:31 +0000

LIFT UP – OFFICIAL TRAILER from PHiLLYK on Vimeo.

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The Virtual Revolution

admin — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:03:58 +0000

The clip above is the introduction to the BBC’s Virtual Revolution program. Below are some unedited interviews that the BBC has posted online from this documentary series. Please visit the BBC website to learn more about this series.

Chris Anderson on the bargains we make for ‘free’

Ross Anderson on privacy and the myth of cyberwar

John Perry Barlow on the importance of free information

John Battelle on the conversation economy

Tim Berners-Lee recalls the path to inventing the web

Gina Bianchini on changing human relationships

Dana Boyd on young people’s online experience

Stewart Brand on the Whole Earth Catalogue

Nicholas Carr on the web’s effects on our minds

Vint Cerf on inventing a neutral internet

Stephen Fry on the risk/reward ratio of the web

AC Grayling on the erosion of privacy and safety online