A documentary about bike messengers in Brussels, the most congested city in Europe with only 4% cycling traffic
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Host: YouTube The story of the number one is the story of Western civilization. Terry Jones (of Monty Python’s Flying Circus) goes on a humor-filled journey to recount the amazing tale behind the world’s simplest number. Using computer graphics, “One” is brought to life, in all his various guises. One’s story reveals how celebrated civilizations [...]
Host: YouTube Manet is one of the main candidates for the title of the most important artist there has been. As the reluctant father of Impressionism, and the painter of Dejeuner sur l’herbe, he can probably be accused of inventing modern art. But his story is fascinating on many other levels. As a piece of [...]
There are almost 5,000 different languages spoken in the world. Many linguists believe that these 5,000 evolved from about 200 distinct and apparently unrelated families. Whether or not all of these language families could have developed from a single language is the issue explored by this documentary. There is a controversy among linguists as to [...]
Uploaded by dmthead2012 on Mar 14, 2011 Host: YouTube Griff Rhys Jones continues his quest to find art by indigenous groups by travelling to West Africa. He begins his journey in Bandiagara Escarpment, Mali, where he learns the Dogon people used carvings and sculptures as spiritual tools, before visiting Accra, the capital of Ghana. Here, [...]
By Vaughan Bell The Ailing Brain is a fantastic documentary series on the brain and its disorders that’s freely available online. It has been produced in Spanish but thefirst part is now on YouTube with English subtitles. The series is among the best neuroscience documentary series I have even seen (along with Susan Greenfield’s Brain Story – made before she lost [...]
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