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-story-of-marjoe/ http://documentaryheaven.com/the-story-of-marjoe/#comments Fri, 28 Oct 2011 21:57:44 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=6131 Marjoe was a precocious child preacher with extraordinary talents, who was immensely popular in the American South. His parents earned large sums of money off him up until the point he outgrew his novelty. Marjoe rejoined the ministry as a young adult solely as a means of earning a living, and not as a believer; he spent the next several years using his fame and status as an evangelist to defraud a small fortune out of individuals both through tent revivals and televangelism.Eventually, Gortner suffered a crisis of conscience and decided to renounce his ways, offering the documentary film crew unrestricted access to him during his final revival tour. The film contains scenes from genuine revival meetings showing Gortner preaching and praying for people, interspersed with footage of Gortner admitting on camera that he was a non-believer and revealing the tactics used by himself and other evangelists to manipulate people.... Watch Now]]> http://documentaryheaven.com/the-story-of-marjoe/feed/ 29 http://documentaryheaven.com/religulous/ http://documentaryheaven.com/religulous/#comments Tue, 04 Oct 2011 19:08:49 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=6091 Early on in Religulous, Bill Maher throws up a bar chart illustrating the number of people in America who are non-religious. That number is 16%, more than blacks, more than Jews, more than numerous other minority groups who seem to have no problem making themselves heard and getting Congress to do their bidding. Maher wonders aloud why non-religious people are so underground, and why they aren’t having an impact on the national discussion. His film is aimed squarely at that 16% of the country, and almost no one else. His goal, and he clearly has one, is to give those people the motivation they need to come out of the closet and do something… before it’s too late. Religulous begins with Bill Maher, standing alone in Israel at a place called Meggido; a worthless pile of rubble where many of the planet’s religions believe the end of the world will begin. From there, Maher pushes us into an intense, honest, and brutally funny discussion of blind belief, presenting the possibility... Watch Now]]> http://documentaryheaven.com/religulous/feed/ 28 http://documentaryheaven.com/anything-but-an-atheist/ http://documentaryheaven.com/anything-but-an-atheist/#comments Sun, 24 Jul 2011 19:46:19 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=5940 A short interesting documentary on the social effects of atheism and the repercussions that can come about due to the admission of being atheist in the United States.... 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Cut off from their families for 9 months out of the year and without any reliable means of communication, the children quietly suffered emotional, spiritual, physical and/or sexual abuse at the hands of the all-missionary staff. It took the children decades to acknowledge the effects the abuses had on their lives. Whe... 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Watch Now]]> http://documentaryheaven.com/derren-brown-miracles-for-sale/feed/ 23 http://documentaryheaven.com/america%e2%80%99s-most-hated-family-in-crisis/ http://documentaryheaven.com/america%e2%80%99s-most-hated-family-in-crisis/#comments Tue, 05 Apr 2011 22:56:03 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=5629 Following up on his 2006 documentary, The Most Hated Family in America, Louis Theroux returns to Topeka, Kansas, for a week-long visit with the Westboro Baptist Church.He again joins the Phelps family on their controversial pickets where they try to antagonise communities with offensive slogans and anti-gay placards. But five years on from Louis’s last visit, there are signs of disarray in the Phelps clan. A series of defections of family members has shaken up the church. ... 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The British Muslim Forum condemned abuse and bigotry but said that such incidents and attitudes were not widespread in the 2,000 Islamic institutions across Britain.It urged Channel 4 not to fall in the trap of ‘Islam bashing’ or creating fear, hatred and racism against Muslims and their holy faith as has become fashionable these days by over-generalising and exaggerating such i... Watch Now]]> http://documentaryheaven.com/lessons-in-hate-and-violence/feed/ 24 http://documentaryheaven.com/why-i-am-no-longer-a-christian/ http://documentaryheaven.com/why-i-am-no-longer-a-christian/#comments Fri, 25 Feb 2011 05:08:10 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=5150 In this series the author (YouTuber Evid3nc3) explains his life as a born-again Christian, his deconversion, and his life as an atheist.In the deconversion section, he shows how evidence, reason, and experiences related to prayer, morality, deconverted Christians, the Bible, and his relationship with God Himself all lead to his eventual inability to believe anymore.The series Why I am no longer a Christian is not finished. It is a work in progress. Based on the author’s current notes for the series, he should be releasing a new video in the series once a month until April 2012. Every new video will be automatically added in the playlist above.... 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