http://documentaryheaven.com Welcome To Documentary Heaven!! Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:18:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://documentaryheaven.com/the-elephant-life-after-death/ http://documentaryheaven.com/the-elephant-life-after-death/#comments Tue, 07 Jun 2011 02:10:30 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=5828 Elephants can live for 70 years. But what happens when one of these magnificent beasts dies in the wild? This stunning film turns normal wildlife documentaries on their head to find out what happens after death, as a five-tonne adult elephant is transformed into six million calories worth of fat, meat and guts, feeding a whole new cycle of life. The documentary gives scientists the chance to watch close up, day and night, as animals from leopards, hyenas and vultures to flies and beetles take just days to reduce the largest land animal on earth to bare bones. Biologist Simon Watt leads a team of experts watching the events unfold in Tsavo West National Park in Kenya. They follow the action as never before, using remote cameras and night vision equipment under the supervision of animal behavior expert Warren Samuels. The elephant, a young adult male, had to be put down by a vet after being mortally wounded by ivory poachers. But his remains will provide a feast for the local ecosystem... Watch Now]]> http://documentaryheaven.com/the-elephant-life-after-death/feed/ 12 http://documentaryheaven.com/charles-darwin-and-the-tree-of-life/ http://documentaryheaven.com/charles-darwin-and-the-tree-of-life/#comments Tue, 12 Oct 2010 00:38:51 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=4322 David starts his journey in Darwin’s home at Down House in Kent, where Darwin worried and puzzled over the origins of life. David goes back to his roots in Leicestershire, where he hunted for fossils as a child, and where another schoolboy unearthed a significant find in the 1950s. And he revisits Cambridge University, where both he and Darwin studied, and where many years later the DNA double helix was discovered, providing the foundations for genetics.At the end of his journey in the Natural History Museum in London, David concludes that Darwin’s great insight revolutionized the way in which we see the world. We now understand why there are so many different species, and why they are distributed in the way they are. But above all, Darwin has shown us that we are not set apart from the natural world, and do not have dominion over it. We are subject to its laws and processes, as are all other animals on earth to which, indeed, we are related.... 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Watch Now]]> http://documentaryheaven.com/sex-in-space/feed/ 7 http://documentaryheaven.com/darwins-secret-notebooks/ http://documentaryheaven.com/darwins-secret-notebooks/#comments Sat, 03 Jul 2010 00:47:15 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=3695 Using Darwin’s own diary and field notes as a travel guide, retrace Darwin’s expedition beyond the Galapagos to uncover the forgotten evidence that inspired his revolutionary work. He wasn’t a mathematician. He wasn’t an inventor. He was just a 20-something guy who liked to poke around in the dirt.Yet, Charles Darwin developed a theory of evolution so significant that it forms the bedrock of biology, and so radical it is still controversial in some circles today. In 1859, when he was 50, Darwin published “On the Origin of Species,” the work that outlined the theory of natural selection and left every high-schooler hankering for a trip to the Galapagos Islands. He was only 22 when he began the five-year adventure that led him to his legacy.Charles Darwin’s five-year expedition led him to his theory of evolution. Feb. 12, 2009 marked his 200th birthday.... Watch Now]]> http://documentaryheaven.com/darwins-secret-notebooks/feed/ 3 http://documentaryheaven.com/the-future-of-food/ http://documentaryheaven.com/the-future-of-food/#comments Mon, 17 May 2010 14:24:50 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=3374 THE FUTURE OF FOOD is a feature length documentary that offers an in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind the unlabeled, patented, genetically engineered foods that have quietly filled grocery store shelves for the past decade.The Future of Food has also been a key tool in the American and international anti-GMO grassroots activist movements and played widely in the environmental and activist circuits since its release in 2004. The film is widely acknowledged for its role in educating voters and the subsequent success of passing Measure H in Mendocino County, California, one of the first local initiatives in the country to ban the planting of GMO crops.... Watch Now]]> http://documentaryheaven.com/the-future-of-food/feed/ 22 http://documentaryheaven.com/the-elephant-inside-natures-giants/ http://documentaryheaven.com/the-elephant-inside-natures-giants/#comments Fri, 05 Feb 2010 01:23:51 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=2895 A four-part documentary that dissects the largest animals on the planet to uncover their evolutionary hidden secrets. A team of experts examine the anatomy of an elephant, a crocodile, a giraffe, and even a 55 tonne fin whale measuring over 19 metres long.Inside Nature's Giants is an intriguing four-part series that gives insight into the evolution of the world’s largest animals, revealing how their bodies work from the inside out, and demonstrating how the magnificent creatures have adapted to their surroundings over thousands of years.... Watch Now]]> http://documentaryheaven.com/the-elephant-inside-natures-giants/feed/ 4 http://documentaryheaven.com/the-mystery-of-the-jurassic/ http://documentaryheaven.com/the-mystery-of-the-jurassic/#comments Wed, 27 Jan 2010 01:23:45 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=2781 For years scientists have been trying to find the mysterious evolutionary master key responsible for transforming the dinosaurs into world-beaters. In the early Jurassic, 200 million years ago, they were a relatively small group of primitive creatures. By the late Jurassic, 50 million years later, they had become the magnificent array of carnivores and giant plant eaters that would dominate the planet for millions of years. In between lies the mysterious period of the middle Jurassic in which all these changes must have happened. But what were they? What was it that transformed the dinosaurs?Was there some terrible mass extinction? Had there been an amazing change in the environment? All this was speculation and theory. How and where would evidence come to light? Fossils from the middle Jurassic are incredibly rare. All anyone had to go on were a few small outcrops of rock dotted around the world.Then a treasure trove of fossils emerged from the midst of an Argentinian wilderne... 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We give them something like binoculars so that they can see it in a very classical, real way. “What we’re trying to do in Predators is to take a tiny moment in time, the moment when a predator detects, identifies, approaches and grabs its prey.“We try to explode that very short moment and open it up so that the viewer can see what is going on. “These are r... Watch Now]]> http://documentaryheaven.com/predators-the-ultimate-killing-machines/feed/ 11 http://documentaryheaven.com/know-your-mushrooms-2008/ http://documentaryheaven.com/know-your-mushrooms-2008/#comments Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:05:43 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=2626 Suggested By: confusedmimeRon Mann investigates the miraculous, near-secret world of fungi. Visionaries Gary Lincoff and Larry Evans lead us on a hunt for the wild mushroom and the deeper cultural experiences attached to the mysterious fungi. The oldest and largest living organisms recorded on Earth are both fungi. And their use by a new, maverick breed of scientists and thinkers has proven vital in the cleansing of sites despoiled by toxins and as a "clean" pesticide, among many other environmentally friendly applications. Combining material filmed at the Telluride Mushroom Fest with animation and archival footage, along with a neo-psychedelic soundtrack by The Flaming Lips, this film opens the doors to perception, taking the audience on an extraordinary trip.Please Excuse The Ads Which Pop Up On First Click. These Have Nothing To Do With Us. They Are Built Into MegaVideos Player & We... Watch Now]]> http://documentaryheaven.com/know-your-mushrooms-2008/feed/ 6 http://documentaryheaven.com/the-cove/ http://documentaryheaven.com/the-cove/#comments Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:42:57 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=2618 The Cove begins in Taiji, Japan, where former dolphin trainer Ric O’Barry has come to set things right after a long search for redemption. In the 1960s, it was O’Barry who captured and trained the 5 dolphins who played the title character in the international television sensation “Flipper.”But his close relationship with those dolphins – the very dolphins who sparked a global fascination with trained sea mammals that continues to this day -- led O’Barry to a radical change of heart. One fateful day, a heartbroken Barry came to realize that these deeply sensitive, highly intelligent and self-aware creatures so beautifully adapted to life in the open ocean must never be subjected to human captivity again. This mission has brought him to Taiji, a town that appears to be devoted to the wonders and mysteries of the sleek, playful dolphins and whales that swim off their coast.But in a remote, glistening cove, surrounded by barbed wire and “Keep Out” s... Watch Now]]> http://documentaryheaven.com/the-cove/feed/ 23