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I worked on David Attenborough’s documentary. The grim reality gave me climate anxiety | Liv Grant
We live in a time of loss. Wild places dwindle, the animals and plants that live in them disappear. Climate change is now a certainty, and it will without a doubt lead to the loss of land, species, and ways of life. In the abstract this is disconcerting. Up close it is devastating. I worked on the BBC’s Climate Change: The Facts, presented by David Attenborough, and have felt this pain first-hand.
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David Attenborough documentary has viewers in tears over orangutan's plight
Viewers of David Attenborough's new BBC documentary were moved to tears over the heartbreaking battle between an orangutan and a bulldozer sent to destroy its home. Climate Change: The Facts told how the soaring demand for palm oil was leading to large scale deforestation with large areas of rainforest being ripped down and replaced with palm oil plantations.
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David Attenborough, the voice of Our Planet: "Things are going to get worse"
The voice of some of the most stunning nature documentaries ever made is pessimistic about the future of wildlife on earth.
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A Netflix Nature Series Says to Viewers: Don’t Like What You See? Do Something About It
It’s a striking image, watching a walrus climb a rock cliff. During one episode of the new Netflix nature docu-series “Our Planet,” we witness something that shouldn’t be happening — and is only happening now, the producers say, because of climate change. Desperate marine animals driven away from their natural habitats are trying to adapt to shelter elsewhere, and falling to their deaths as a result.
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Shirley Curry: The Gaming Grandma Documentary
A very well done documentary featuring a delightful older gamer who plays Skyrim and takes all the grand kids on adventures.
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The Most Dangerous Dams
Dams serve a wide variety of purposes from hydropower to flood control to storage of water for municipal and industrials uses. But when a dam’s useful purpose fades away, the structure itself still remains. Dams come in all shapes and sizes, but contrary to what you might think, the most dangerous dams are often the smallest, also known as low head dams.
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Sir David to present climate change film
Sir David Attenborough is to present an "urgent" new documentary about climate change for BBC One. The one-off film will focus on the potential threats to our planet and the possible solutions. The broadcaster says "conditions have changed far faster" than he ever imagined when he first started talking about the environment 20 years ago. The documentary will show footage showing the impact global warming has already had.
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The charmed life and mysterious death of Leslie Howard
How Gone with the Wind's quintessential screen gentleman gave up Hollywood to fight the Nazis
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Apollo Documentary Shares Overlooked Footage from Space Race
Apollo 11's historic magnitude is etched in Americans' minds, but behind the "one small step" are unknown stories that have slipped through the cracks. A forthcoming documentary showcases some of these moments in an unusual fashion, taking the viewer into the era of Apollo and the space race, from Sputnik's launch to the shuttle era.
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The Documentary Highlighting the Real 'Green Book'
A new Smithsonian Channel film positions the guidebook for black travelers as a necessary response to white-supremacist violence—and as a community-building tool.
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Amazon and Hulu's algorithms are recommending conspiracy theory films, and the consequences could be more serious than you might think
Amazon and Hulu continue to recommend content that promotes conspiracy theories, despite an industry-wide effort to purge them.
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‘Untouchable’ Exposes How the Media Protected Harvey Weinstein for Decades
It was at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival that Harvey Weinstein, a crater-faced caricature of an asshole Hollywood movie producer, allegedly raped Rose McGowan. Following a screening of her film Going All the Way, McGowan, then 23, alleges that Weinstein invited her to a meeting at a restaurant that was then changed to his hotel suite. He was effectively her boss, since she’d already filmed a sizeable role in the sci-fi thriller Phantoms, which was to be distributed by the Weinstein-owned Miramax, as well as one of the most powerful men in the film industry, so she went.
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David Attenborough to present Netflix nature series Our Planet
Sir David Attenborough will front a new natural history documentary for Netflix, in the latest example of the streaming company muscling in on the BBC’s territory. The 92-year-old broadcaster has been synonymous with the BBC’s natural history output for decades but will now provide the voiceover for Netflix’s eight-part series Our Planet, which will be released in April.
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That Moment I Escaped North Korea
We talked with another advocate of the organization Liberty in North Korea, Geum Hyok Kim. Geum is a defector from the ruling class of North Korea who didn’t realize the nature of the regime until he left. He tells his beautiful, reflective story of growth, understanding freedom, and realizing what’s important.
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Aliens under the Ice – Life on Rogue Planets
Out in the vast coldness of outer space, there are planets that travel alone through darkness without the boundaries of a system. Here’s how this can happen – and why these frozen deserts might secretly harbor alien life.
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The Syphilis Enigma (Medieval Disease Documentary) | Timeline
The true history of Syphilis.
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Documentary about Democracy in Hamtramck looks to raise money
The documentary, which followed the mayoral candidates throughout their campaigns, is looking to raise $55,000 by Jan. 31.
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Iggy Pop is producing a new documentary on punk music
Iggy Pop has been named as the executive producer of an immersive documentary about punk music. The punk genre has one of the most interesting and storied histories of any musical genre, and stretches back further than you’d think. While bands like the Ramones and the Sex Pistols were blazing their own trail in the late ’70s, bands like Suicide had used the “punk music” phrase for years, and bands like The Stooges had planted the seeds of the genre since the late ’60s.
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‘Of Fathers And Sons’: “Atheist” Filmmaker Goes Undercover To Reveal Brutal Life Inside Radical Islamist Family
Deep in the credits for the documentary Of Fathers and Sons comes a startling notation—a mention of the firm that supplied kidnapping and ransom insurance. That’s an indication of just how dangerous the project was for director Talal Derki, who risked his life to get inside a radical Islamist family in Northwestern Syria.
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Frail Mikhail Gorbachev warns against return to the Cold War
Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, warned on Thursday against rising ten...
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