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45:23BUSTED: The Citizen's Guide to Surviving Police Encounters
4.1M views • 19 years ago
Flex Your Rights
A 45-minute Flex Your Rights documentary on how to deal with police in three situations: traffic stops, encounters at home, and on the street. It presents practical advice on asserting constitutional rights and refusing searches.
8:11Appalachian English
8.4M views • 18 years ago
The Language & Life Project
An excerpt from the documentary Mountain Talk on Appalachian English. Residents of Southern Appalachia talk about their dialect and give examples of its distinctive words.
Topic match · Language & linguistics
9:01Feynman: Take the world from another point of view (1/4)
1.5M views • 18 years ago
Aaron Scher
Part one of a four-part upload of a BBC Horizon documentary featuring Richard Feynman, in which he talks about physics and looking at the world from another point of view.
Topic match · Scientific method & science communication
2:16Wild crows inhabiting the city use it to their advantage - David Attenborough - BBC wildlife
2.3M views • 19 years ago
BBC Studios
A short BBC clip narrated by David Attenborough showing crows in Japan using city traffic to crack nuts, dropping them at intersections and retrieving them when the light changes.
10:38HBO Intro - Behind the Scenes
1.3M views • 19 years ago
archivefilms
A 1983 behind-the-scenes film about making the HBO 'Feature Presentation' starship logo sequence. It shows the handcrafted miniature city, motion-control cameras and practical effects.
Topic match · Filmmaking & video production
9:33THE CORPORATION [11/23] Basic Training
321K views • 19 years ago
Cool World
Chapter 11 of the documentary The Corporation, on how marketing targets children, including the Nag Factor study that taught kids to nag their parents more effectively.
Topic match · Product, marketing & sales
1:32:16Commodore 64—25th Anniversary Celebration
140K views • 18 years ago
Computer History Museum
The Computer History Museum's 25th anniversary celebration of the Commodore 64, recorded in December 2007, with a panel including Jack Tramiel and Steve Wozniak. It recounts the machine's launch and history.
51:44The End of Suburbia - 52 minute documentary on peak oil
580K views • 20 years ago
endofsuburbia
A 52-minute short version of the documentary The End of Suburbia, about peak oil and the end of cheap energy. It argues that American suburbs depend on cheap oil and may become the slums of the future.
Topic match · Transit, cities & urban planning
17:26Don't Be a Sucker - 1947
1M views • 19 years ago
Weirdo Video
A 1947 US military film that deconstructs how the Nazi regime used divisive propaganda and prejudice to split and control a population. It teaches viewers to recognise demagoguery tactics.
Topic match · Media, journalism & propaganda
2:18The odd accent of Tangier VA - American Tongues episode #3
1.9M views • 18 years ago
People Like Us - The CNAM Channel
A clip from the documentary American Tongues about the isolated Tangier Island, Virginia, whose dialect is among the most unusual in the US. It is often said to resemble speech from centuries ago.
Topic match · Language & linguistics
32:35I.O.U.S.A.: Byte-Sized - The 30 Minute Version
770K views • 18 years ago
IOUSAtheMovie
A 30-minute condensed version of the documentary I.O.U.S.A., which examines the growing US national debt and its consequences.
Topic match · Macroeconomics & financial crises
10:00First Strike (Part 1)
3.2M views • 19 years ago
filmsouth
A dramatization of a hypothetical Soviet first strike that destroys US bombers and Minuteman missiles, filmed with US Air Force cooperation. It is a short version of the 1979 documentary First Strike.
Topic match · Military history & warfare
2:32Shagged by a rare parrot | Last Chance To See - BBC
30.7M views • 17 years ago
BBC
A clip from BBC's Last Chance to See in which Stephen Fry and Mark Carwardine meet Sirocco, a kakapo, who famously tries to mate with Carwardine's head. The kakapo is a critically endangered flightless New Zealand parrot.
56:09Netscape Mozilla Documentary 1998 - 2000 ProJect Code Rush - creative common licence
171K views • 17 years ago
znoopy2k
Code Rush is a 2000 PBS documentary following Netscape engineers during the year they open-sourced the browser as Mozilla. It shows the pressure and long hours of work in Silicon Valley at the height of the dot-com era.
6:23Seymour Papert
44K views • 17 years ago
Seth Morabito
A short vintage film clip of Seymour Papert, creator of Logo, on using computers to spark children's imagination and learning.
3:21Alcoholic Vervet Monkeys! - Weird Nature - BBC animals
10.6M views • 17 years ago
BBC Studios
A BBC Weird Nature clip about vervet monkeys in the Caribbean that drink alcohol, and how they split into heavy drinkers, social drinkers and teetotalers.