http://documentaryheaven.com Welcome To Documentary Heaven!! Mon, 06 Sep 2010 01:22:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://documentaryheaven.com/fire/ http://documentaryheaven.com/fire/#comments Sat, 14 Aug 2010 23:53:51 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=3998 Professor Iain Stewart continues his epic exploration of how the planet has shaped human history. Iain explores man's relationship with fire. He begins by embarking on an extraordinary encounter with this terrifying force of nature - a walk right through the heart of a raging fire. Fire has long been our main source of energy and Iain shows how this meant that the planet played a crucial role in Britain's industrial revolution, whilst holding China's development back. Along the way he dives in a mysterious lake in Oregon, climbs a glacier of salt, crawls through an extraordinary cave in Iran and takes a therapeutic bath in crude oil.... Watch Now]]> http://documentaryheaven.com/fire/feed/ 0 http://documentaryheaven.com/behind-blue-eyes/ http://documentaryheaven.com/behind-blue-eyes/#comments Thu, 24 Jun 2010 22:57:57 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=3555 There are only thirteen known Leucistic alligators in the world. Gatorland located in Orlando, Florida is home to four of the thirteen Leucistic and is the biggest collection in the world. This short Documentary is the amazing story of how the four 'white' gators came from the swamps of New Orleans to Gatorland, Florida. Gatorland’s rare leucistic alligators were discovered in Louisiana deep within a swamp in 1986. Because of their white skin, in the wild they would have attracted the attention of predators and would have been killed at a young age. The workers who found them took the young gators to a zoo in New Orleans, but a few of them died. Regardless of age, they would not survive in the wild. There are now only thirteen living leucistic alligators left in the world. These gators are often confused with the slightly less rare albino alligator. The difference between leucism and albinism is that a leucistic animal has a decrease in all pigmentation, whereas with al... Watch Now]]> http://documentaryheaven.com/behind-blue-eyes/feed/ 4 http://documentaryheaven.com/dirt-the-movie/ http://documentaryheaven.com/dirt-the-movie/#comments Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:07:00 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=3463 A look at man's relationship with Dirt. Dirt and humans couldn't be closer. We started our journey together as stardust, swirled by cosmic forces into our galaxy, solar system, and planet. We are made of the same stuff. Four billion years of evolution created dirt as the living source of all life on Earth including humans. Dirt has given us food, shelter, fuel, medicine, ceramics, flowers, cosmetics and color --everything needed for our survival. A millennial shift in consciousness about the environment offers a beacon of hope - and practical solutions. Around the globe, pioneers are coming together to save earth's last natural resource. Tiny villages rise up to battle giant corporations slaughtering their land. Scientists discover connections with soil that can balance global warming. Generation X brands organic farming as trendy and children begin to eat from edible school yards. Inmates find inner peace and job skills in a prison horticulture program. Medical researc... Watch Now]]> http://documentaryheaven.com/dirt-the-movie/feed/ 0 http://documentaryheaven.com/mystery-of-the-wolf/ http://documentaryheaven.com/mystery-of-the-wolf/#comments Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:02:00 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=3457 One of Europe's last great predators, the wolf is an animal that remains cloaked in myth and mystery. But a new vision is emerging thanks to an ambitious research project in Italy's Pollino National Park. Paolo Ciucci leads a team of biologists from the University of Rome on a quest to learn more about this elusive species. Tracking two wolves, Rebecca and Francesco deep into the forest, the biologists work to reveal the true nature of the wolf and maintain its haven within the Pollino National Park.... Watch Now]]> http://documentaryheaven.com/mystery-of-the-wolf/feed/ 0 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/ 5 http://documentaryheaven.com/battle-for-the-amazon-2/ http://documentaryheaven.com/battle-for-the-amazon-2/#comments Mon, 17 May 2010 14:11:10 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=3371 Ross Kemp - Battle For The Amazon will look into the socio-economic and environmental pressures facing the Amazon regions of Brazil and Ecuador. The shows will explore the legacy of devastation created by a burgeoning global desire for energy, food and mineral resources. ROSS KEMP comments: "While filming in Nigeria last year, I saw first-hand how much man's greed has cost the environment. By traveling to the Amazon, we hope to highlight some of the well-known and lesser-known causes of deforestation. I am no environmentalist, but no species has interfered with the earth's temperature in such a short space of time as we have. That damage as yet is unquantifiable. However, the survival of the world's rainforests, in particular the Amazon, is crucial to the future of the human race."... Watch Now]]> http://documentaryheaven.com/battle-for-the-amazon-2/feed/ 0 http://documentaryheaven.com/battle-for-the-amazon/ http://documentaryheaven.com/battle-for-the-amazon/#comments Mon, 17 May 2010 14:01:40 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=3369 Ross Kemp - Battle For The Amazon will look into the socio-economic and environmental pressures facing the Amazon regions of Brazil and Ecuador. The shows will explore the legacy of devastation created by a burgeoning global desire for energy, food and mineral resources. ROSS KEMP comments: "While filming in Nigeria last year, I saw first-hand how much man's greed has cost the environment. By traveling to the Amazon, we hope to highlight some of the well-known and lesser-known causes of deforestation. I am no environmentalist, but no species has interfered with the earth's temperature in such a short space of time as we have. That damage as yet is unquantifiable. However, the survival of the world's rainforests, in particular the Amazon, is crucial to the future of the human race."... Watch Now]]> http://documentaryheaven.com/battle-for-the-amazon/feed/ 2 http://documentaryheaven.com/growing-up-in-the-universe/ http://documentaryheaven.com/growing-up-in-the-universe/#comments Tue, 27 Apr 2010 23:37:50 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=3316 Growing Up in the Universe was a series of lectures given by Richard Dawkins as part of the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, in which he discussed the evolution of life in the universe. The lectures were first broadcast in 1991, in the form of five one-hour episodes. To start off part one, Dawkins discusses the amazing capabilities of the human body and contrasts these with the limited capabilities of computers and other man-made machines. He uses a small totem pole (which is used in ancestor worship) to illustrate the importance of studying our ancestors to understand how we’ve evolved. Dawkins’ second lecture of the series examines the problem of design. He presents the audience with a number of simple objects, such as rocks and crystals, and notes that these objects have been formed by simple laws of physics and are therefore not designed. Dawkins starts the third lecture coming in with a stick insect on his hand. He describes with how much... Watch Now]]> http://documentaryheaven.com/growing-up-in-the-universe/feed/ 1 http://documentaryheaven.com/flock-of-dodos/ http://documentaryheaven.com/flock-of-dodos/#comments Tue, 27 Apr 2010 23:18:32 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=3301 Flock of Dodos examines the disagreements that proponents of intelligent design have with the scientific consensus position of evolution. The evolutionarily famous dodo (Raphus cucullatus) is a now-extinct bird that lived on the Island of Mauritius, which is approximately 500 miles east of Madagascar. When Portuguese sailors arrived on the island, the possible combination of over-hunting and introduction of new predators (i.e. pigs, macaques) seems to have led to its extinction by approximately 1700. Due to its lack of fear of humans and inability to fly, the dodo was easy prey, and thus became known for its apparent stupidity. It failed to change with an evolving environment, which ultimately led to the birds’ demise. The film attempts to determine who the real “dodos” are in a constantly evolving world: the scientists who are failing to effectively promote evolution as a scientifically accepted fact, the intelligent design advocates, or the American pu... Watch Now]]> http://documentaryheaven.com/flock-of-dodos/feed/ 0 http://documentaryheaven.com/water-the-great-mystery/ http://documentaryheaven.com/water-the-great-mystery/#comments Thu, 15 Apr 2010 03:15:16 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=3277 "Water is the driving force of all nature." - Leonardo da Vinci Water makes most of earths surface and most of our human bodies ... but do we really know the secrets of this amazing element. From agriculture, to factories and hydropower, we put water to work in a million different ways every day. And yet water acts outside all known physical laws of nature. At a time of global climate change, understanding the mysteries of water is critical. Every living thing needs it to survive ... Our ignorance of its function and capacities has lead us to abuse its quality and forget its potential. Witness WATER’s capacity and challenge historical assumptions. Unveil enlightened information and new scientific discoveries that create new possibilities for water’s use in every field of endeavor. These new discoveries go beyond human reckoning – beyond the solar systems and galaxies to the Source of life itself.. Featuring breathtaking discoveries by researchers worldwide includin... Watch Now]]> http://documentaryheaven.com/water-the-great-mystery/feed/ 11