Category: Documentary
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Day In Auschwitz
Reading Time: < 1 minute “If you were young and healthy and if they needed labour then you were selected as slave labour. You would have suffered a slow death rather than a fast one”. This soundbite is 13 minutes in. In this documentary a concentration camp survivor takes two girls who are the age…
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Human – A Yann Arthus-Bertrand documentary
Reading Time: 2 minutes The French have an interesting history of documentary film. Jean Rouch explored social questions with his film Chronique d’un été, a revolutionary film at the time because of the tech that they used. The Cinéma Eclair and crystal sound sync. A few decades later Yann Arthus-Bertrand is following in Jean Rouch’s…
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Mythbusters: A Fun Documentary Series
Reading Time: 2 minutes Recently Netflix Switzerland made Mythbusters available on their service. As I watched episode after episode I noticed the camaraderie between those who participate in the show. We see that Adam and Jamie occasionally argue but that overall they are having a lot of fun. We see them laugh, joke, tease each…
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Edwardian Farming, a BBC documentary series about the life of Edwardian farmers.
Reading Time: < 1 minute I really like this documentary series about Edwardian Farming. it is a fly on the wall documentary following three people through a year on an edwardian farm close to Dartmoor. They experiment with market farming, food preparation of the time, trout farming and so much more. It is relaxing and…
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A line Across The Sky
Reading Time: < 1 minute An endurance challenge. I want to watch the documentary.