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/manufactured-landscapes/ http://documentaryheaven.com/manufactured-landscapes/#comments Sun, 27 Nov 2011 20:26:18 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=6220 Manufactured Landscapes is a feature length documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. Burtynsky makes large-scale photographs of ?manufactured landscapes? ? quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines, dams. He photographs civilization?s materials and debris, but in a way people describe as ?stunning? or ?beautiful,? and so raises all kinds of questions about ethics and aesthetics without trying to easily answer them. The film follows Burtynsky to China as he travels the country photographing the evidence and effects of that country?s massive industrial revolution. Sites such as the Three Gorges Dam, which is bigger by 50% than any other dam in the world and displaced over a million people, factory floors over a kilometre long, and the breathtaking scale of Shanghai?s urban renewal are subjects for his lens and our motion picture camera. Shot in Super-16mm film, Manufactured Landscapes extends the narrative streams of Burtynsky?s photographs, allowing us to... Watch Now]]> http://documentaryheaven.com/manufactured-landscapes/feed/ 5 http://documentaryheaven.com/hot-planet/ http://documentaryheaven.com/hot-planet/#comments Sun, 27 Nov 2011 16:34:27 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=6216 Professors Iain Stewart and Professor Kathy Sykes take a timely look at global warming ahead of the Copenhagen summit, exploring the world’s leading climate scientists’ vision of the planet’s future.Scientists predict that if global temperatures continue to rise at their current rate, Earth will be one degree warmer within 10 years, two degrees warmer within the next 40 years and three degrees or more warmer before the end of the century.If the Earth’s temperature increases to three degrees warmer than the average pre-industrial temperature, the impact on the planet will be catastrophic. Across the Earth, ways of life could be lost forever as climate change accelerates out of control. This isn’t inevitable, however: climate change is not yet irreversible. Ingenious technology and science is currently being devised, advanced and tested around the world which could offer solutions for a sustainable future. The question that remains is, can the world embrace and impleme... Watch Now]]> http://documentaryheaven.com/hot-planet/feed/ 13 http://documentaryheaven.com/energy-war/ http://documentaryheaven.com/energy-war/#comments Mon, 31 Oct 2011 21:26:09 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=6154 In a world in which the U.S. and Europe are addicted to oil and gas, and those increasingly scarce resources are controlled by authoritarian regimes in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Venezuela, Nigeria and Russia, the geopolitical ramifications have upset the traditional balance of power between nations. ENERGY WAR reveals precisely how the economic importance of fossil fuels affects international politics and becomes a powerful tool of foreign policy.The film profiles newly emergent superpowers such as Iran, a rogue regime that Western democracies must politically tolerate to assure access to its oil, and Venezuela, where President Hugo Chavez has nationalized the oil industry, which boasts the largest untapped oil field in the world. Through interviews with Russian and Georgian government officials, ENERGY WAR shows how oil was used as a political weapon in the struggle between an economically revitalized Russia and its former Soviet Republic.Thomas Friedman (author of The Lexus and the... Watch Now]]> http://documentaryheaven.com/energy-war/feed/ 4 http://documentaryheaven.com/vanishing-of-the-bees/ http://documentaryheaven.com/vanishing-of-the-bees/#comments Mon, 31 Oct 2011 21:01:26 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=6150 Known as Colony Collapse Disorder, this phenomenon has brought beekeepers to crisis in an industry responsible for producing apples, broccoli, watermelon, onions, cherries and a hundred other fruits and vegetables. Commercial honeybee operations pollinate crops that make up one out of every three bites of food on our tables.Vanishing of the Bees follows commercial beekeepers David Hackenberg and Dave Mendes as they strive to keep their bees healthy and fulfill pollination contracts across the U.S. The film explores the struggles they face as the two friends plead their case on Capital Hill and travel across the Pacific Ocean in the quest to protect their honeybees.Filming across the US, in Europe, Australia and Asia, this documentary examines the alarming disappearance of honeybees and the greater meaning it holds about the relationship between mankind and mother earth. As scientists puzzle over the cause, organic beekeepers indicate alternative reasons for this tragic loss. Co... Watch Now]]> http://documentaryheaven.com/vanishing-of-the-bees/feed/ 5 http://documentaryheaven.com/bp-deep-water/ http://documentaryheaven.com/bp-deep-water/#comments Mon, 31 Oct 2011 19:04:48 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=6141 In 2010 the BP oil platform Deep Water Horizon had an explosion and was leaking oil at around 5000 feet below sealevel. Overoll around 4.9 million barrels of oil leaked after the BP Deep Water Horizon Oil Spill until the leak got stopped in July 15 2010. This documentary shows images about the Oil Spill, you might have never seen before and explains the enourmous risks of Offshore Drilling.... Watch Now]]> http://documentaryheaven.com/bp-deep-water/feed/ 0 http://documentaryheaven.com/extreme-ice/ http://documentaryheaven.com/extreme-ice/#comments Tue, 04 Oct 2011 14:37:52 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=6090 As scientists try to forecast the future consequences of the big melt, internationally acclaimed photographer James Balog is risking everything to capture the phenomena on film.... Watch Now]]> http://documentaryheaven.com/extreme-ice/feed/ 3 http://documentaryheaven.com/gashole/ http://documentaryheaven.com/gashole/#comments Wed, 21 Sep 2011 05:11:45 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=6076 What caused America to go from being a leading exporter of oil to the world’s largest importer? What are the economic and sociological forces that have contributed to that change and impede its solution? Gashole is an eye-opening documentary about the history of oil prices and sheds light on a secret that the big oil companies don’t want you to know – that there are viable and affordable alternatives to petroleum fuel! It also provides a detailed examination of our continued dependence on foreign oil and examines various potential solutions – starting with claims of buried technology that dramatically improves gas mileage, to navigating bureaucratic governmental roadblocks, to evaluating different alternative fuels that are technologically available now, to questioning the American Consumers’ reluctance to embrace alternatives. Narrated by Peter Gallagher, hear from a wide range of opinions from representatives of the US Department of Energy Representatives, Congressional l... Watch Now]]> http://documentaryheaven.com/gashole/feed/ 11 http://documentaryheaven.com/freedom-fuels/ http://documentaryheaven.com/freedom-fuels/#comments Wed, 21 Sep 2011 03:52:19 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=6073 Freedom Fuels, takes an in-depth look at renewable fuel sources, such as bio-diesel, ethanol and vegetable oil. It explores the interaction of the petroleum industry and alternative fuels over the last 150 years, and examines the global impact that bio-fuels can have on our future.... Watch Now]]> http://documentaryheaven.com/freedom-fuels/feed/ 4 http://documentaryheaven.com/meet-the-climate-sceptics/ http://documentaryheaven.com/meet-the-climate-sceptics/#comments Wed, 21 Sep 2011 03:03:18 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=6072 Filmmaker Rupert Murray takes us on a journey into the heart of climate scepticism to examine the key arguments against man-made global warming and to try to understand the people who are making them.Do they have the evidence that we are heating up the atmosphere or are they taking a grave risk with our future by dabbling in highly complicated science they don’t fully understand? Where does the truth lie and how are we, the people, supposed to decide?The film features Britain’s pre-eminent sceptic Lord Christopher Monckton as he tours the world broadcasting his message to the public and politicians alike. Can he convince them and Murray that there is nothing to worry about?... Watch Now]]> http://documentaryheaven.com/meet-the-climate-sceptics/feed/ 54 http://documentaryheaven.com/life-reptiles-and-amphibians/ http://documentaryheaven.com/life-reptiles-and-amphibians/#comments Wed, 03 Aug 2011 00:18:55 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=5953 Reptilians survive from the age of the Saurians, but if many look Ancient that's because their early and sometimes relatively recent adaptations to widely varied conditions worldwide still work admirably. Examples include lizards like the giant Komodo dragon, still top-dog on his Indonesian island, the feared crocodilian hunters, color-changing chameleons and snake species fitted for most (warm) ecosystems. The same goes for amphibians, including numerous specialized (tree) frogs and toads. Both groups are cold-blooded, hence vulnerable while warming up.... Watch Now]]> http://documentaryheaven.com/life-reptiles-and-amphibians/feed/ 3