The Last Lioness

For any of you feeling lonely you may gain inspiration from the documentary below about a lone lioness. It may sound strange to some but I did. She is inspirational, the way she adapted to being alone and how she found company with humans...

Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead

  This is a video from veoh.com. You will need to install their free  Veoh Web Player to view the whole video. I think it is well worth an install as they have some videos you wont find anywhere else :)

An inspirational documentary following Joe Cross as he embarks on a journey to regain his health. At the beginning Joe is overweight and suffering from an autoimmune disease, by the end he has lost weight, is full of energy with no symptoms of his autoimmune disease and off medication...

Free Genome Fridge Magnets..UK

Uk residents can order some free Genome fridge magnets when you click on this link: http://www.open.ac.uk/openlearn/science-maths-technology/science/biology/get-free-set-your-genome-fridge-magnets

History's Turning Points - 1347 AD The Black Death

This is a video from veoh.com. You will need to install their free  Veoh Web Player to view the whole video. I think it is well worth an install as they have some videos you wont find anywhere else :)

This is short documentary from the History Channel about the Black Death and it tells the tale well. I find it fascinating how the Black Death is still talked about to this day over 600 years later and I guess that is a sign of how much an effect it had on so many people at the time. How would the world cope now with an epidemic of this proportion?

A Tiger Called Broken Tail

I have always loved big cats, especially tigers and love a nature documentary that tells a story. A Tiger Called Broken Tail is an educational and moving story of the eventful life of one of these powerful yet elegant animals which was sadly cut short...

Wonders of the Solar System: Pts 1 & 2

More pts to come.

"In this spellbinding series Professor Brian Cox visits the most extreme locations on Earth to explain how the laws of physics carved natural wonders across the solar system."...

Chemistry - A Volotile History

"The explosive story of chemistry is the story of the building blocks that make up our entire world - the elements. From fiery phosphorous to the pure untarnished lustre of gold and the dazzle of violent, violet potassium, everything is made of elements - the earth we walk on, the air we breathe, even us. Yet for centuries this world was largely unknown, and completely misunderstood...

Everything You Need to Know About the Brain

"A Discovery Channel Documentary. Learn how people block-out extreme pain with their thoughts, see what's different about a criminal's brain and understand why they say the human race is getting smarter. Meet the Rainman and learn what gives savants like him their extraordinary skills. You'll see why some patients are kept awake during brain surgery...

Darwin's Nightmare

"Some time in the 1960's, in the heart of Africa, a new animal was introduced into Lake Victoria as a little scientific experiment. The Nile Perch, a voracious predator, extinguished almost the entire stock of the native fish species. However, the new fish multiplied so fast, that its white fillets are today exported all around the world. Huge hulking ex-Soviet cargo planes come daily to collect the latest catch in exchange for their southbound cargo… Kalashnikovs and ammunitions...

The Boy Who Sees Without Eyes

This Channel 5 documentary is about 14 year old Ben Underwood who has been totally blind since the age of 3 when he lost his eyes to cancer. He has taught himself to see with echo location. He still manages to play basket ball, roller blading and many other activities with this amazing talent of echo location...

Meet the Foxes

Having had my own ups and downs with the town fox from seeing a young family of foxes grow up across from my home to my childhood pet rabbit "disappearing" I found this channel 4 documentary quite interesting.

"This modern day fairytale uses footage of dozens of foxes and archive film to reflect the typical experience of urban foxes in Britain and tell the story of a year in the life of a virtual fox family...

Warrior Queen Boudicca

This is a dramatised documentary about the celtic queen Boudicca (also Boudica or Boadicea) of the Iceni a Celtic tribe from East Anglia, East England and her courageous fight against the Romans.

Boudicca's husband King Prasutagus wanted to leave his kingdom to his daughters and also the Roman Emperor but when he died the Emperor did not take account of his will. The Romans took control of the Iceni kingdom, Boudicca was flogged and her daughters raped...

BBC: Future of Food - Part 3

"From the two women working to make their Yorkshire market town self-sufficient to the academic who claims it could be better for the environment to ship in lamb from New Zealand, George Alagiah meets the people who believe they know how we should feed the world as demand doubles by the middle of the century.

BBC: Future of Food - Part 2

Part 2 of the BBC documentary Future of  Food.

"George heads out to India to discover how a changing diet in the developing world is putting pressure on the world's limited food resources. He finds out how using crops to produce fuel is impacting on food supplies across the continents...

BBC: Future of Food - Part 1

This is a BBC documentary presented by George Alagiah. Future of food tells of the environmental and economical consequences of food production and the global trade of food and also looks into other dangers that threaten the way we produce our food like global warming...

ATLANTIS: THE LOST CONTINENT

This is a guest post by Sulav. Website: Medchrome.com

This is a history documentary about the lost continent that has been talked and written about a lot. But still it remains a great mystery because what we’ve heard and read are merely hypotheses.
Atlantis is believed to be the source of all religion, science, races and civilization. Plato's dialogues Timaeus and Critias, written in 360 BC, contain the earliest references to Atlantis...

Gamer Revolution

A documentary that looks into to weird, wonderful, fascinating and sometimes dark world of video gaming. The video gaming world has certainly moved on since the days of Pac-Man, Street Fighter and many more. Now you can have virtual lives in programmes like Second Life where you can interact with many many different people and do the things that in our own world would be impossible...

Horizon: Why Do Viruses Kill?

A very interesting documentary from the BBC. "Just months ago, a new disease threatened to kill millions. In the UK alone, 65,000 deaths were predicted. Yet dire warnings about new flu variant H1N1 have not materialised. If this latest pandemic has taught anything, it is just how little is understood about the invisible world of viruses...

Defamation - Anit-semitism

A suggestion from Rob.

"Israeli director Yoav Shamir embarks on a provocative – and at times irreverent – quest to answer the question, “What is anti-Semitism today?” Does it remain a dangerous and immediate threat? Or is it a scare tactic used by right-wing Zionists to discredit their critics? Speaking with an array of people from across the political spectrum (including the head of the Anti-Defamation League and its fiercest critic, author Norman Finkelstein) and traveling to places like Auschwitz (alongside Israeli school kids) and Brooklyn (to explore reports of violence against Jews), Shamir discovers the realities of anti-Semitism today...

The Ten Commandments of the Mafia

"In 2007, Italian police make an astonishing discovery during a raid on a Mafia boss' villa: a list of the Mafia's most sacred laws. It's an incredible find: a code of conduct for the Mob. Now, for the first time, former Mobsters speak out about the rules that govern their criminal world...