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Beyond Human: A Billion Years of Evolution and the Fate of Our Species
Our lifespans might feel like a long time by human standards, but to the Earth it's the blink of an eye. Even the entirety of human history represents a tiny slither of the vast chronology for our planet. We often think about geological time when looking back into the past, but today we look ahead. What might happen on our planet in the next billion years?
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Meghan and Harry’s Netflix Fairy Tale
“There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.” Those were the pointed, devastating words that Princess Diana used, when speaking to the BBC journalist Martin Bashir in 1995, to demolish the foundations of the fairy-tale narrative that had been spun around her and the Prince of Wales.
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Synth Britannia
Great documentary on the development of electronic music in England. Enjoy all the out of this world footage from OMD, Depeche Mode, The Normal, Human League, Cabaret Voltaire and super interesting interviews with members from those bands.
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The Art Of Paradise: Inside The World Of Islamic Art
This feature-length documentary examines Islam's rich and significant contribution to western art and culture. Presenter and art critic, Waldemar Januszczak, sets out on an epic journey of discovery across the Muslim world from Central Asia to the heart of the Middle East and beyond. He reveals a world of awe-inspiring architecture, spectacular Islamic treasures and a host of artists and craftsmen, bringing the largely unknown and fascinating story of Islamic art and architecture to the attention of the public. Documentary first broadcast in 2005.
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‘I Love You, You Hate Me’ Review: Peacock’s Unpersuasive Barney Documentary
The two hour-long episodes focus on the rise and fall of the all-loving purple dinosaur and the adoration and hatred that he generated.
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ASML's Secret: An exclusive view from inside the global semiconductor giant
In The Netherlands stands one of the world's biggest drivers of technological progress: ASML. It supplies machines that make chips on a scale of just a few nanometers. And the world is crying out for chips.
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Neuromarketing: How Brands are Manipulating Your Brain
More and more companies are turning to neuromarketing. This controversial practice involves studying consumers’ brains, analyzing how and why we respond to certain stimuli, in order to influence our decisions. It’s based on the idea that 90% of the decisions we make are taken at a subconscious level. If a brand can speak directly to our ‘gut instinct’, bypassing reason, they will sell more products.
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Nature's response to urban sprawl
It’s a new and surprising chapter in the theory of evolution. According to recent studies, it’s in our cities, of all places, that animals and plants adapt particularly quickly to changing living conditions.
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New Zealand, Culture Shaped by Nature
New Zealand's two main islands are covered with green hills and mountains, and a population with a dual Maori and European identity who altogether possess an immoderate taste for spectacular sports and the discovery of nature.
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The Spanish Flu | DW Documentary
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Secrets Of Southern Australia | Full Documentary | TRACKS
A long watch.
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Barack Obama wins Emmy for narrating Netflix national parks series
Barack Obama is halfway to an EGOT. The former president won an Emmy Award on Saturday to go with his two Grammys. Obama won the best narrator Emmy for his work on the Netflix documentary series, "Our Great National Parks."
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HBO Is Releasing A Documentary On Bishop Sycamore Football Scam
HBO has released a trailer for a documentary about Bishop Sycamore High School called BS High. In case you may have forgotten, just last year the Bishop Sycamore Centurions appeared in a nationally-televised game broadcast by ESPN against high school powerhouse, IMG Academy.
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George Clooney’s Ohio State Abuse Documentary Lands at HBO
George Clooney and HBO are teaming up to tell the story of a decades-long abuse scandal at Ohio State University. HBO has joined Clooney and Grant Heslov’s Smokehouse Pictures, Sports Illustrated Studios and 101 Studios on the project, which will premiere on the premium cable outlet and stream on HBO Max. Oscar and Emmy winner Eva Orner (Taxi to the Dark Side, Out of Iraq) will direct.
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Windows Refund Day - When Linux Users Demanded Their Money Back
In 1999, groups of open source software users staged an international protest against Microsoft. They demanded a refund for something they didn't want, but were forced to pay for: Microsoft Windows 98. Today's video examines one of these protests, which occurred in California's Silicon Valley, and the battle that these users fought to get their money back.
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The Turkish blind painter, Esref Armagan
Turkish artist Esref Armagan is one of the few blind commercial painters in the world. Blind from birth, he learned to draw by touching and copying carved shapes. As he grew older, Armagan adapted techniques which allowed him to add perspective to his work. A few critics suggested that his art was not his own, a claim refuted by those who witnessed him paint. Today, Armagan’s artwork is in demand internationally. He also mentors young visually impaired children, demonstrating how they can achieve their artistic dreams.
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The prince of the Sloughis - The Lords of the Animals
In the province of Safi in Morocco, Hossein adopted Jnah, a Sloughi which is his only weapon. For a year, the boss has been looking for a male worthy of his princess: Zia, the Sloughia, who is now old enough to bear babies. He will therefore organize a great hunt in order to choose the best Sloughi.
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Reconsidering modern art's sacred monster: Picasso in a post-MeToo world
Pablo Picasso's problematic relationship with the opposite sex has long been documented: by the women who shared his life and by the art critics and biographers who relayed the artist's musings, such as "there are only two kinds of women: goddesses and doormats". As the Picasso Museum in Paris invites feminist artist ORLAN to revisit his portraits in "Weeping Women Are Angry", we speak to art critic and author Judith Benhamou. She tells us why "like many geniuses, Picasso was a monster" and how his sexual appetite fuelled his creative impulses.
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Is Parkinson's disease related to pesticide use? | DW Documentary
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Cannes screens the last testament of filmmaker killed in Ukraine’s Mariupol
“Mariupolis 2”, a raw portrayal of Ukrainian civilians’ struggle for survival, was completed after the death of Lithuanian director Mantas Kvedaravičius. FRANCE 24 spoke to his partner and co-director,…
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