What if there’s a cure for asthma, arthritis, osteoporosis, migraines, hypertension and diabetes? Would your doctors tell you? Take a look at these documentaries to see if there is.
Planet Earth
Jesus Camp. It’s actually more funny than thought-provoking, I recommend it.
Watched a documentary of what would happen to the earth if humans disappeared. They started out with humans simply disappearing, sort of like a mass rapture. (gawd I really dislike the word rapture)
Anyway, it showed the effects of the earth once humans stopped encroaching on every square inch. How animals react to humans not being there to take care of them or the extinction of animals because their dependence on humans made the species weak. How cities are taken over by the forest within a hundred years, how concrete buildings or steal structures hold up or fall apart due to neglect. How nuclear meltdowns would occur but then the earth would heal.
It was facinating.
I watched that, too. It was pretty cool.
The Union: The Business Behind Getting High
I’ve never smoked anything a day in my life, but this documentary was certainly very informative and thought provoking.
Pretty much any recent PBS Frontline documentary, mainly the Afghanistan ones. Iraq For Sale. Power of Nightmares. Anything from Al Jazeera’s Fault Lines program, especially the ones on the US financial crisis.
That’s not true! Nuclear powerstations have fail-safe systems specifically for when all of mankind spontaneously disappears. Animals would generally be better off without humans, humans have caused much more rapid extinction in certain species than what would happen naturally because we interfere with ecosystems.
If you’re interested in that sort of thing then take a look at Prypiat, a small abandonned city near the Chernobyl nuclear plant which is slowly being reclaimed by nature. Trees growing through buildings and all that kind of jazz.
Did anyone notice that Michael Moore looks like Peter Griffin?
Didn’t you hear? Live Action Family Guy is to be released in just under two years now. He’s Peter the movie is set when Peter first meets Louis up to when Stewie is born. 8)
To make this post relevant. I recently watched “Sicko” made by M.Moore and oh boy do I want to move to Canada or France after I get my degree.
Super Size Me
Best movie ever.
Oh, and "Loose Cha…"ahahahahah!!! Just kidding!
I yell at documentaries on Animal Planet and Discovery for being filled with presumptuous bullshit.
I like Nova on PBS because it’s actually interesting and the narrators tend to consist of Sigourney Weaver and James Earl Jones.
PBS Kids also has Dinosaur Train, the weirdest fucking kid’s show in the world. Family of Pteranodons adopt a T-rex and board a magical time-travelling steam engine train that takes them back and forth through the Mesozoic to visit the animals there.
It’s ridiculously awesome.
Did they do an episode on the dinosaurs that appeared durring the Third Reich?
https://www.moddb.com/mods/dino-d-day
Mesozoic, Not Cenozoic. I’ll E-Mail them about it, though.
I don’t remember the details but it was pretty clear regarding nuclear plants not having proper failsafe procedures to turn off the machines, or that they needed human intervention in order to engage the proper shutdown sequence. Regardless… it made a pretty convincing point. And yes I have seen and learned in school the many problems of Chernobyl. Still, it was slightly different than what was presented in the documentary.
Yes animals would be better off, but it talked more about scenarios where our interference created a more difficult problem for the species. Example, domesticated dogs unable to fend for themselves, animals in zoos, ANY domesticated animal that has been spayed or neutered. Even if they DO get out of the house/zoo and breed, their species may not live more than 2 generations.
Anyway, it was a great documentary on how the earth would heal and get back to good within 300 years (or something like that) of human disappearance.
Take the fucking joke, will ya?
Anyway, my dad said he watched a film about how Wall Mart uses cheap labor in China and has piss poor benefits to their employees. I’m not sure what it’s called though.
People do realize that you shouldn’t be working at Wall Mart to support a family, right? They need to go out and get a REAL job. Whether it’s working your back at a construction team, or sitting behind a desk, they both pay well and have great benefits. The only people that should be working at Wall Mart are teenagers that need money for pot and video games.
The Chinese sweatshops, however, I’m more concerned about. Again, I haven’t seen the film yet, but I can only hope no human rights are being violated. Plus, I hate it when an American company outsources to a foreign nation. Yes, I realize that it’s the reason the prices are low, but at what cost? Now there are fewer jobs for Americans, which is what we really need right now in this economy.
It was fascinating, I enjoyed it.
Ha it’s actually called “WAL-MART: The High Cost of Low Price”.
Oh and I just saw Super High Me. It was pretty entertaining and was (surprisingly) informative.