11.12.06
Documentaries galore
I’ve always loved documentaries, but in the past month I’ve begun to discover just how many good ones are freely available online. It all started with a reddit post linking to del.icio.us. Here’s the sources I’ve found so far:
- del.icio.us/Full.Length.Doc From ThrowawayyourTV
- Top Ten Must Watch Documentaries, also from TayTV
- PBS Frontline has dozens of hour-long documentaries on a range of topics. There’s also Frontline/World.
- In fact, many PBS shows are online, e.g. NerdTV
My favorites so far:
- The Power of Nightmares, a three-hour documentary from the BBC on the rise of the Neocons and Islamic Fundamentalists.
- The Dark Side, an hour-long PBS show about Dick Cheney. What a title!
- Why We Fight, about the Military Industrial complex. For bonus points, cross-reference Eisenhower’s Farewell Speech.
- Iraq, the Hidden Story, also from the BBC. One hour about journalism in the Iraq war.
- Hacking Democracy, from HBO
Possibly the coolest thing about YouTube and Google Video is that playback in them Just Works. If you’re not using Windows, you’ll have some trouble with the PBS website. I had to use Flip4Mac WMV to view the Frontline episodes. I checked its “open in QuickTime Player” option, since I much prefer viewing in an application designed for that purpose than on a web page.