Documentary Today

Watch Finding What’s Possible - Parkour from a social view

It’s a documentary that tells you about parkour in Belgium, viewed from a social angle. This documentary is all about how people (traceurs and outsiders) look at parkour and all it’s aspects Is it dangerous? Is it socially accepted? It won’t tell you what parkour is and how to practice it safely.

TV One’s documentary on truly unsung artist - Bobby Womack

Be sure to visit TV One’s and Bobby Womack’s site as well: http://www.tvoneonline.com/

http://www.bobbywomack.com/

Watch Guillaume Nery exclusive Sportlife documentary

The Sportlife Saga is about three elements of nature; water, ice and snow. The story of the element water is told by Guillaume Néry, world champion in freediving

Understanding PIPA / SOPA & Why You Should Be Concerned

Most everyone has noticed the swath of websites that were blacked out in protest of the pending PIPA / SOPA legislation in congress, but not as many people understand exactly why those bills are such a problem.

This short documentary explores PIPA and SOPA, how the bills work, who’s behind them, and why all internet users have reason to be concerned.

The fight to prevent online censorship in the U.S. is far from over. While SOPA’s future seems increasingly bleak, PIPA has not been pulled from consideration in the senate, where it will be up for a vote later this month.

Watch the short documentary Humanity Overdue

Short Documentary exploring the current state of the world and some of the social, environmental and economic changes which could be put into place to create a better quality of life globally.

Interviews from Occupy London, The Eden Project and Ben Mcleish and Will Dixon from The Zeitgeist Movement.

Photo of the Day: Iguazu Falls

Aerial view of Iguazu Falls, Brazil-Argentina border

Photo of the Day: Rice Terraces, China.

A farmer is beginning his day, walking along the rice terraces at dawn.

Photo of the day by National Geography (NatGeo):  

Westminster Abbey, London

For a thousand years, music and ceremony have celebrated the Christian Gospel in Westminster Abbey in London. As the place where generations of English kings and queens have been married, crowned, and buried, this great medieval building embodied King James’s cherished fusion of glory and regal authority—a visual and aural richness of which the new Bible was to be an integral part.

Watch History of China: The Roots of Madness - CIA Cold War Documentary Film (1967)

It won an Emmy Award in the documentary category.

The film attempts to analyze the Anti-Western sentiment in China from the official American’s perspective, covering 170 years of China’s political history, from Boxer Rebellion of the Qing Dynasty to Red Guards of Cultural Revolution. The film focuses on the power struggle between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China, amid heavy political intervention from Moscow, with Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong playing the pivotal role at the center stage.

The documentary film was made for television in 1967 — during the Cold War era. It was written by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Theodore H. White, directed by Mel Stuart, edited by William T. Cartwright and produced by David L. Wolper. Production costs were funded by a donation from John and Paige Curran. The film has been released under Creative Commons license. White’s access to important political figures of the time allowed him to create some rare footage, which included the wedding of Chang Kai-shek and the funeral of Sun Yat-sen.

Photo of the day by National Geographic:

Submerged Plane, Bahamas

While island hopping around the Bahamas in a Cessna C172 aircraft, I made this aerial of a Curtiss C-46 that ditched on November 15, 1980. It crashed while it was on a drug smuggling mission for the Colombian Medellín drug cartel and lies in shallow water east of the Norman’s Cay airport in the Exumas, Bahamas. My preflight Internet research paid off!