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Alastor_the_Stylish
Jul 25, 2006

WILL AMOUNT TO NOTHING IN LIFE.

sh1fty posted:

King Corn - "Everything on your plate is corn."

A documentary looking at the commercial corn industry, and how it's in literally everything we eat. It's also destroying us, and the land its raised on. Awesome doc. 2 guys set out to grow their an acre of corn and see where it goes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiCRwMMh9k8

http://www.megavideo.com/?d=Q1ULNDIS

The audio is off by maybe 3 seconds, but it's still very watchable.

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Alastor_the_Stylish
Jul 25, 2006

WILL AMOUNT TO NOTHING IN LIFE.

The Saddest Rhino posted:

Is there anywhere to watch this online? It sounds absolutely amazing.

There's a copy on youku, but it's really low res and horribly letterboxed.

Alastor_the_Stylish
Jul 25, 2006

WILL AMOUNT TO NOTHING IN LIFE.

Rapey Joe Stalin posted:

The amazing thing about this is that without any sort of editorial slant, the Zionists seem like absolute cunts. They are quite happy for their words and deeds to drat them because they are so conviced of their righteousness.

It's like looking through a window into pre-war Germany.

No one reply to this!



The documentary was very good though.

Alastor_the_Stylish
Jul 25, 2006

WILL AMOUNT TO NOTHING IN LIFE.

WouldDesk posted:

Louis Theroux Documentary

Infomercials


Louis Theroux attempts to become a presenter on Florida’s Home Shopping Network TV channel and meets the people who invent, sell and make a fortune from products such as the Win Gym.
:dance:
http://documentarystorm.com/lifestyle/infomercials/

I thought I watched all the Louis programs, what good news!

Alastor_the_Stylish
Jul 25, 2006

WILL AMOUNT TO NOTHING IN LIFE.

Dead Pressed posted:

While we're talking about documentaries that don't tell the whole truth....man, Gasland is one of the most skewed, biased pieces I've ever seen. I can't believe people here were recommending it. That wasn't even close to legitimate film-making in the slightest bit. For insight: http://www.energyindepth.org/2010/06/debunking-gasland/ and http://www.netl.doe.gov/technologies/oil-gas/publications/EPreports/Shale_Gas_Primer_2009.pdf

I can't tell if this post is parody or not.

EDIT: VVV Those poor oil companies! Good thing they have Dead Pressed and WouldDesk sticking up for the little guy's right to shoot poison into the earth.

Alastor_the_Stylish fucked around with this message at 03:38 on May 7, 2011

Alastor_the_Stylish
Jul 25, 2006

WILL AMOUNT TO NOTHING IN LIFE.

12th and Delaware is an HBO doc about a streetcorner with an abortion clinic on one side and a "Don't have an abortion" clinic on the other. A staff member from one falls in love with a staff member from the other, and then they get pregnant and have to decide if okay that's not true but it's still very interesting.

http://www.megavideo.com/?v=LYZ80I2J

Alastor_the_Stylish
Jul 25, 2006

WILL AMOUNT TO NOTHING IN LIFE.

BobFossil posted:

John Lasseter (of Pixar) – A Day in a Life

A day in the life of John Lasseter, chief creative officer at Pixar Studios.

http://www.coffeedocs.tv/2011/07/john-lasseter-of-pixar-a-day-in-a-life/

Before I watch, does this have a shot where he picks out a dumb shirt from a gigantic closet of dumb shirts?

Alastor_the_Stylish
Jul 25, 2006

WILL AMOUNT TO NOTHING IN LIFE.

Diodeous posted:

There have been a lot of great documentaries coming out over the past couple years, so I'll give you a quick list with small descriptors.

Forks Over Knives - Deals with health and nutrition. http://forksoverknives.com


I'd recommend against Forks Over Knives, seeing as it's vegan propaganda.

Alastor_the_Stylish
Jul 25, 2006

WILL AMOUNT TO NOTHING IN LIFE.

Lone Rogue posted:

Care to explain that more?

(I am a meat loving son of a bitch. But vegetables are awesome too. Go on.)

From the film's website, "The feature film Forks Over Knives examines the profound claim that most, if not all, of the degenerative diseases that afflict us can be controlled, or even reversed, by rejecting our present menu of animal-based and processed foods."

It also uses the China Study as evidence that a diet containing meat and dairy causes diseases, a study whose conclusions depend on a whole lot of assumptions that A -> B and B -> C means A -> C.

It's comparable to a vegan Super-Size Me, which also shouldn't be used in an academic setting.

Alastor_the_Stylish
Jul 25, 2006

WILL AMOUNT TO NOTHING IN LIFE.

Diodeous posted:

I don't know if I'd necessarily agree with you. Although I have not finished the film, I am familiar with it, and the producers. One of the men behind it is the Professor Emeritus of Nutrition at Harvard, and recently he was on Real Time with Bill Maher where he spoke of the movie and he definitely didn't give off a vegan propaganda vibe. Instead he spoke very plainly that "real" nutrition is not being taught in most schools and colleges because eating animal products comes with a host of health problems that are becoming more well documented. I'll have to finish the movie and read up more on it if it is provoking enough to draw the term propaganda.

It's not vegan propaganda, it's just a movie that uses misrepresented and fault-ridden science to say you shouldn't eat animal products!

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Alastor_the_Stylish
Jul 25, 2006

WILL AMOUNT TO NOTHING IN LIFE.

Retarded Pimp posted:



He's the guy that did this amazing real time chart.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahp7QhbB8G4

This is a bad thing because he is presenting history in a very dishonest way. By plotting income on a log scale, what he's actually showing is an ever increasing inequality between rich and poor. Yes lifespans have increased, the majority of all people are now living longer only to be exploited for longer which will continue to increase economic inequality.

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