http://documentaryheaven.com Welcome To Documentary Heaven!! Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:47:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://documentaryheaven.com/pirate-radio/ http://documentaryheaven.com/pirate-radio/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:06:24 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=6392 This is a short 16 minute documentary from Vice exploring London’s original and current illegal underground radio scenes.... Watch Now]]> http://documentaryheaven.com/pirate-radio/feed/ 1 http://documentaryheaven.com/playing-god/ http://documentaryheaven.com/playing-god/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:41:46 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=6390 Adam Rutherford meets a new creature created by American scientists, the spider-goat. It is part goat, part spider, and its milk can be used to create artificial spider’s web.It is part of a new field of research, synthetic biology, with a radical aim: to break down nature into spare parts so that we can rebuild it however we please. This technology is already being used to make bio-diesel to power cars. Other researchers are looking at how we might, one day, control human emotions by sending ‘biological machines’ into our brains.... Watch Now]]> http://documentaryheaven.com/playing-god/feed/ 6 http://documentaryheaven.com/the-real-west/ http://documentaryheaven.com/the-real-west/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:36:06 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=6389 Boom Towns to Ghost Towns Historians explain dirtier, less glamorous side of America’s wild west. A great look into what life was really like in the lawless boom towns.... Watch Now]]> http://documentaryheaven.com/the-real-west/feed/ 2 http://documentaryheaven.com/stand-up-student/ http://documentaryheaven.com/stand-up-student/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:44:36 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=6387 Documentary about learning stand-up comedy. Starring the author as the brave/stupid guinea pig, how much could he improve in two gigs?It features interviews with some of Britain’s best-loved comedians… Lee Mack, Micky Flanagan, Milton Jones, Jo Brand, Ed Byrne, Tim Vine, Arthur Smith, Hugh Dennis, Rhod Gilbert, Greg Davies, Russell Kane, Russell Howard, Stephen K Amos, Shappi Khorsandi, Johnny Vegas, Lenny Henry, Al Murray, Jack Whitehall and Kevin Bridges... 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Watch Now]]> http://documentaryheaven.com/the-real-bonnie-and-clyde/feed/ 0 http://documentaryheaven.com/planet-rock-the-story-of-hip-hop-and-the-crack-generation/ http://documentaryheaven.com/planet-rock-the-story-of-hip-hop-and-the-crack-generation/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:02:09 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=6385 twenty-five years after crack cocaine ravaged American cities,this documentary explores how the drug also transformed popular culture, especially hip-hop. Narrated and executive produced by Ice-T, "Planet Rock: The Story of Hip Hop and the Crack Generation" is the first documentary to focus specifically on the connections between crack and hip-hop. Based primarily on the first-person accounts of four famous dealers-turned-rappers, the film also widens its lens at points to show how crack changed America culturally, socially and politically. Using rare footage, photos, and animation, all set to the beats and rhymes of the iconic hip hop tracks of the day, the documentary explores how media hysteria, racism and political reaction produced policies and laws that have left us with the largest -- and most disproportionately African-American -- prison population in the world. Crack first appeared in the early 1980s, but by 1986, it was raging through the inner cities of America like wildfire... Watch Now]]> http://documentaryheaven.com/planet-rock-the-story-of-hip-hop-and-the-crack-generation/feed/ 1 http://documentaryheaven.com/statesmen/ http://documentaryheaven.com/statesmen/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:56:10 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=6384 Statesmen is a portrait of three American men and their relationship with the world around them. Donny is a 60-year old paper boy, Mike makes his living fishing for crabs, and Don Mike whiles away his time in a trailer shooting squirrels. Three different backgrounds, three different states; each narrative reveals embers of the old American dream still glowing in the modern American man.Director - Tom Goudsmit Producer - Adam Brichto... Watch Now]]> http://documentaryheaven.com/statesmen/feed/ 0 http://documentaryheaven.com/the-last-resort/ http://documentaryheaven.com/the-last-resort/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:45:14 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=6383 Both funny and illuminating, this documentary short gives a voice to people who feel that they are at the sharp end of modern Britain.Take a trip to the seaside town of Southsea, an area steeped in both history and tradition. There we meet life-long residents and attraction owners who battle against the erosion of Britain’s traditions in a community staring into an economic abyss.The Last Resort reflects on individuals and communities attempting to hold back the tide.... 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Watch Now]]> http://documentaryheaven.com/all-about-dad/feed/ 1 http://documentaryheaven.com/fela-kuti/ http://documentaryheaven.com/fela-kuti/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:27:09 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=6380 “Fela Kuti Music is the Weapon” is about the Afrobeat legend, musician, composer and performer, mixes footage of Fela Anikulapo Kuti performing at his Shrine nightclub, interviews with the controversial musician, glimpses of life at his not-so-palatial Kalakuta Republic compound, and scenes of Lagos street life. Some voice-over narration gives basic information on Kuti’s musical career and Nigerian politics, but for the most part, the images are left to speak for themselves. Well shot in color, it’s an important historical document capturing Kuti in stage and home environments that were most crucial to his life and work.Music is a weapon of the future / music is the weapon of the progressives / music is the weapon of the givers of life.” Fela Kuti... 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