SciShow
How We Know Star Wars Isn’t A Documentary | Compilation
Plot often trumps reality when portraying space in movies and, as a result, many films are full of inaccuracies. So how much fiction is actually written into some of our favorite movies? Movies mentioned (and potentially spoiled) in this...
National Geographic
An Island On the Brink of Collapse Makes a Huge Comeback | Short Film Showcase
Off the coast of East Africa in the Zanzibar archipelago, lie the island of Pemba and islet of Kokota. When Mbarouk Mussa Omar visited Kokota a decade ago, it was teetering toward the brink of collapse. Deforestation and climate change...
Extra Credits
Revolution 1979 - How to Make a Documentary Game - Extra Credits
Revolution 1979 cracks the code of how to make games function as documentaries, showing how we can educate players about a real world topic and let them experience it without locking them into a passive role. By casting the player as a...
TED Talks
TED: Documentary films that explore trauma -- and make space for healing | Almudena Toral
TEDmakes a documentary films that explore trauma
TED Talks
TED: What I learned as a prisoner in North Korea | Euna Lee
In March 2009, North Korean soldiers captured journalist Euna Lee and her colleague Laura Ling while they were shooting a documentary on the border with China. The courts sentenced them to 12 years of hard labor, but American diplomats...
The Guardian
How To Make a Pearl
For 53 years, John Kapellas enjoyed the bright sky of the western US but one day he started to burn, blister and break out in rashes whenever he was exposed to light. Now allergic to the entire spectrum of light, Kapellas has spent the...
Natural History Museum
Hindsight 2021: A Documentary from the Future | Lates Online
Humanity is at an incredibly important moment in our relationship with our planet. We’ve been taking advantage of nature’s capacity to accommodate and adapt to changes, but things are coming to a head. The decisions we make now, as...
The Guardian
Experience of a Filmmaker Arrested for Documenting Belarusian Elections
Maksim is a Belarusian filmmaker who was making a documentary about taxi drivers during the country's 2018 elections. President Alexander Lukashenko claimed a sixth term in a widely disputed election. In the ensuing chaos, Maksim was...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Robert Shetterly - Teachers Make a Difference - Moral Courage
Robert Shetterly was born in 1946 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He graduated in 1969 from Harvard College with a degree in English Literature. At Harvard he took some courses in drawing which changed the direction of his creative life -- from the...
Science360
Engineering a Difference
Do engineers have the power to change lives and make a positive difference in the world? This inspiring, award-winning documentary clearly shows the answer is a resounding “Yes!” "Engineering a Difference" follows three teams of...
Curated Video
Facial Reconstructions of Richard III & the Princes in the Tower | Mini Documentary | Royalty Now
The story of Richard III and the Princes in the Tower is one of the notorious mysteries in English history. Was Richard a tyrant who killed his nephews, or an innocent, believing he was simply the best candidate to take the throne?...
Mr. Beat
Alaska Road Trip (Documentary)
A documentary about a road trip from Kansas City to Alaska and back in less than 17 days. The trip took over 8,000 miles total. Alaska Road Trip How much should i expect to spend going one way? Probably at least $600. This will be your...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Documentary on the New Community & Challenge
A documentary on the beginnings of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, its goals and challenges
Brainwaves Video Anthology
John L. Stanizzi Teachers Make a Difference - Theresa Vincenzo
John L. Stanizzi is the author of the chapbook, Windows. His full length collections are Ecstasy Among Ghosts, Sleepwalking, Dance Against the Wall Antrim House Books, and After the Bell, and Hallelujah Time!, Big Table Publishing...
National Geographic
His Epic Message Will Make You Want to Save the World | Short Film Showcase
As the human population continues to grow, so does our impact on the environment. In fact, recent research has shown that three-quarters of Earth’s land surface is under pressure from human activity. In this short film, spoken word...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Ken Burns - Teachers Make a Difference - Jerome Liebling
Ken Burns has been making documentary films for over forty years. Since the Academy Award nominated Brooklyn Bridge in 1981, Ken has gone on to direct and produce some of the most acclaimed historical documentaries ever made, including,...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Tony Wagner - Teachers Make a Difference
TONY WAGNER currently serves as an Expert In Residence at Harvard University’s new Innovation Lab. Prior to this appointment, Tony was the first Innovation Education Fellow at the Technology & Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard, and the...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - Teachers Make a Difference - Helene Iverson
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, journalist,...
The Guardian
Owen Jones meets Sinn Féin leader | Could Brexit make a united Ireland happen?
So I've met Mary Lou McDonald before but as Brexit remains a burning skip, and has such serious implications for Ireland, we caught up again. We discuss Brexit and Irish unity, her thoughts on Karen Bradley, Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn...
The Guardian
What makes a man? | Modern Masculinity
As part of a series on Modern Masculinity, Guardian journalist Iman Amrani is exploring what masculinity means to a range of men from diverse backgrounds. In this third episode, Iman speaks with Channel 4 News presenter Jon Snow, grime...
Curated Video
The real reason streetcars are making a comeback
It’s mostly about economic development. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO Starting in the late 20th century, modern streetcar proposals started rippling across municipalities in the United States. They’re touted as...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Khalil Gibran Muhammad -Teachers Make a Difference - Howard Stevenson
Khalil Gibran Muhammad is professor of History, Race and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and the Suzanne Young Murray Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies. He is the former Director of the Schomburg Center...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Ira Flatow - Teachers Make a Difference - My 7th Grade Teacher
Ira Flatow is the host of Science Friday, bringing 2 million radio and Internet listeners a lively, informative discussion on science, technology, health, space and the environment. Ira is president of Science Friday, Inc. and founder...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Lily Yeh - Teachers Make a Difference - My Parents
Lily Yeh (born 1941, Guizhou, China) is an artist whose work has taken her to communities throughout the world. She grew up in Taiwan and moved to the United States in 1963 to attend the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Fine...