Style Wars
April 15th, 2009
A remarkable 1983 documentary about Hip Hop culture focusing mainly on graffiti but also covering break-dancing and rapping.
Guns, Germs and Steel – Part one
April 14th, 2009
Based on Jared Diamond’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Guns, Germs and Steel traces the journey humankind has taken from the end of the last Ice Age to modern day life in the twenty-first century in a quest to understand why white Europeans managed to conquer so much of the world.
Three one-hour programs were made, filmed across four continents and combining ambitious dramatic reconstruction with moving documentary footage and computer animation. The first episode begins on the island of Papua New Guinea in 1974 when a local named Yali asked Diamond a deceptively simple question: “Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo, but we black people had little cargo of our own?”.
The Cosmos – Part One – The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean
April 14th, 2009
Appreciate the beauty and wonder of the universe with Carl Sagan’s awesome series as he guides us through the stars and galaxies. Over 20 years since it was made, Cosmos remains one of the most profound statements in exploration, crossing boundaries between science and religion.
Cosmos – Part 3 – Harmony of The Worlds
April 14th, 2009
The third episode of Carl Sagan’s television series is a re-creation of the life of Johannes Kepler, the last scientific astrologer, the first modern astronomer and the author of the first science fiction novel. Kepler provided the insight into how the moon and the planets move in their orbits and ultimately how to journey to them. It’s also a story about the scientific process of discovery, and how the search for truth is never easy but always worthwhile.
