Why We Can't Save Her

Powerful video from the International Committee for the Red Cross...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wm0TYebjyHQ

L.A. Dreamers

Five Japanese girls meet in Los Angeles. They are far from home but they have same goal, chase the dream of becoming hip hop dancers.

Shot on Arri Alexa Mini and Zeiss Standard 2.1
Directed By
Dani Fortuny

Watch Video here....
https://vimeo.com/153879475

Camp 14: Total Control Zone

One of the best documentaries I've ever seen...absolutely stunning.
Watch Full Documentary here...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihUOHARC_Og

The Murder and the Money Trail

Hard to find journalism this good anymore....

http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/episodes/2013-2014/the-murder-and-the-money-trail

Days of Night/Nights of Day

Elena Chernyshova truly captures a remote Russian mining city...Norilsk.  I love when art meets documentary photography...enjoy. (full screen recommended)

SEE PHOTOS HERE...
https://www.lensculture.com/articles/elena-chernyshova-days-of-night-nights-of-day

War, street and Travel Pics 2014

In Syria, Three Years of War
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2014/03/in-syria-three-years-of-war/100701/

2014 Sony World Photography Awards

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2014/03/winners-of-the-2014-sony-world-photography-awards-part-i/100700/

And a really good documentary on street photography...(easy to download it)...here's the trailer... 

Everybody Street

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwjal7Dk2As

Best Wire Photographer of 2013

Incredible photographer...Muhammed Muheisen... 
See images here...
http://lightbox.time.com/2013/12/10/muhammed-muheisen-time-picks-the-best-wire-photographer-of-2013/#1

AP Photographers Covering Syrian Conflict
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgJEr9feOiY&feature=share&list=PLpP3Ux9QU0k6XdmLU1NQD-YjP8EWHB321&index=4

Pulitzer Prize Winning Photos by Muhammed Muheisen
http://www.ap.org/states/tester/syriaap/index.html

The Last Great Escape

The best documentary I've seen on North Korea in a long time.  ANyway, this doc tells the story of two North Koreans who escaped from Prison camps in North Korea and uses animation to enhance the story...check it out...

(PS:  This doc plays in Canada...hopefully works everywhere...)

The Last Great Escape

http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/episodes/2013-2014/the-last-great-escape

Also this is another doc with a great INSIDE Look into CAMP 14...

Camp 14: Total Control Zone

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb1iwo4txE4

More on North Korea here.

http://ajarnmike.blogspot.ca/search/label/North%20Korea

Hitler lived until 1962? That's my story, claims Argentinian writer

Did Hitler live and die in this Argentinian Hotel?

Excerpt:

"Arguing that American intelligence officials turned a blind eye to Hitler's escape in return for access to Nazi war technology, Gerrard Williams and Simon Dunstan set out the case for a scenario almost too horrible to contemplate: that the Führer and Eva Braun made a home in the foothills of the Andes and had two daughters.
Hitler, they claim, escaped punishment and lived out his life in tranquillity in Patagonia until his death in 1962 at the age of 73.

READ MORE HERE...
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/27/hitler-lived-1962-argentina-plagiarism 

ALSO Check out this fascinating documentary...

Hitler's Escape 

More interesting info...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2478100/Theory-Adolf-Hitler-fled-Argentina-lived-age-73.html 

This is What Winning Looks Like

With more than a 1000 people dead in Iraq in July, and a looming war in Syria it seems that "nation-building" is immensely more difficult than we were led to believe.  Anyway, this is a very interesting doc, please share, adios!

SEE FULL DOCUMENTARY HERE...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/13/this-is-what-winning-looks-like_n_3268079.html?utm_hp_ref=world&utm_hp_ref=world

Three Videos to Warm the Soul VII

 
With a focus on Africa here are some incredible videos and of course I saved the best one for the last.

PS: Play these videos on your HDTV for maximum enjoyment!

60 Seconds in Congo
https://vimeo.com/67959620

Sahara Wonderland
https://vimeo.com/10151351

Rwanda
https://vimeo.com/57465392

Here's a link to Three Videos to Warm the Soul VI
http://ajarnmike.blogspot.ca/2012/11/three-videos-to-warm-soul-vi.html

Wringing Out Water in Space

Science never ceases to amaze...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFPvdNbftOY

Gordon Ramsay in Vietnam

Great doc on Vietnam's cuisine with Chef Gordon Ramsay...pretty funny and the food looks incredible...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_VMj1xc5rE

Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-cWTw23FPo

Part 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5IyXe2WkVM

Street Art

See more here...

http://www.streetartutopia.com/?p=10554

Also check out this exceptional documentary on street art...Exit through the Gift Shop...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIiOgj3uc0w

Most Expensive Banksy Street Art...

http://arrestedmotion.com/2011/09/banksy-top-25-most-expensive-works-ever/

Babies: Born to be good?

Psychologists have made breakthroughs in our understanding of what babies might be thinking, and what they could possibly know about justice, helping, honesty, fairness. Even before they learn to talk!

See full documentary here...
http://www.cbc.ca/player/Shows/Shows/The+Nature+of+Things/ID/2296544019/

A Bird's Eye View of the World

 

See more of George Steinmetz's images here:

http://www.georgesteinmetz.com/index.php

The Multimedia videos are also worth a look...

http://www.georgesteinmetz.com/multimedia/empty-quarter

Facebook's Craziest Stories

A documentary that revolves around some of the craziest stories associated with Facebook...Enjoy!

http://www.cbc.ca/player/Shows/Shows/Doc+Zone/ID/2161490436/

Surviving :) The Teenage Brain

Fascinating documentary on the teenage brain...

SEE FULL DOCUMENTARY HERE...

http://www.cbc.ca/player/Shows/Shows/The+Nature+of+Things/ID/2188547727/

The Story of Amanda Todd

 

A heartbreaking, yet amazing story of a Vancouver teen who is driven to suicide after experiencing years of bullying both on and offline.  Definitely, worth sharing...

The mother of a teenager who died Wednesday of suspected suicide wants her daughter’s anti-cyber-bullying video to be used to help other young people.

Fifteen-year-old Amanda Todd was found dead in a Port Coquitlam home at 6 p.m. Wednesday, five weeks after she posted a heartbreaking video on YouTube detailing how she was harassed online and bullied.
“I think the video should be shared and used as an anti-bullying tool. That is what my daughter would have wanted,” Carol Todd, Amanda’s mother, told The Vancouver Sun in a message on Twitter.

See full video and story here...
http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Port+Coquitlam+teen+driven+death+cyberbullying+with+video/7375941/story.html

Or here... 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej7afkypUsc&feature=g-logo-xit 

Update...

The internet vigilantes: Anonymous hackers' group outs man, 32, 'who drove girl, 15, to suicide by spreading topless photos her...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2218532/Amanda-Todd-Anonymous-names-man-drove-teen-kill-spreading-nude-pictures.html?ICO=most_read_module

 

National Geographic: America Before Columbus

Fascinating documentary...

History books traditionally depict the pre-Columbus Americas as a pristine wilderness where small native villages lived in harmony with nature. But scientific evidence tells a very different story: When Columbus stepped ashore in 1492, millions of people were already living there.

America wasn't exactly a "New World," but a very old one whose inhabitants had built a vast infrastructure of cities, orchards, canals and causeways. But after Columbus set foot in the Americas, an endless wave of explorers, conquistadors and settlers arrived, and with each of their ships came a Noah's Ark of plants, animals—and disease. In the first 100 years of contact, entire civilizations were wiped out and the landscape was changed forever. 

WATCH FULL DOCUMENTARY HERE...
http://www.fulldocumentary.net/history/default.asp?action=listing&id=1730 

ALSO SEE MORE PORTRAITS OF NATIVE AMERICANS HERE...
http://ajarnmike.blogspot.ca/2011/03/americas-first-people.html 

Lastly, this is a great article from the Atlantic Monthly...
http://ajarnmike.blogspot.ca/2010/06/1491-americas-before-columbus.html