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pal1cam · 5 months
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Pieces of media to watch to educate yourself on Palestine’s long history of suffering from the zionist Israeli occupation :
“Jenin, Jenin” a documentary by Mohammad Bakri (available on Youtube)
“200 meters” a movie by Ameen Nayfeh (available on Netflix)
“Born in Gaza” a documentary by Hernán Zin (available on Netflix)
“Samouni Road” a documentary & animation by Stefano Savona (available on Netflix and Palestine Film Institute’s website)
“Edward Said on Palestine (1988)” a TV documentary style film by Christoper Skyes (available on Youtube)
“To My Father (2008)” a documentary style film by Abdel Salam Shehada (available on Palestine Film Institute’s website)
“Salt of this sea” a movie by Annemarie Jacir (available on Netflix)
“Children of Shatila” a documentary by Mai Masri (available on Netflix & Youtube)
“The Present” a short movie by Farah Nabulsi (available on Netflix)
“Frontiers of Dreams and Fears” a documentary by Mai Masri (available on Netflix & Youtube)
“The Crossing” a short film by Ameen Nayfeh (available on Netflix)
“Tantura” a documentary by Alon Schwartz (available on Youtube)
“3000 nights” a movie by Mai Masri (available on Netflix)
“Farha” a movie by Darin J. Sallam (available on Netflix)
“Arna’s Children” a documentary by Juliano Mer-Khamis (available on Youtube)
“Ma’loul celebrates it’s destruction” a documentary by Michel Khleifi (available on Youtube)
“A World Not Ours” a documentary style movie by Mahdi Fleifel (available on Netflix)
“Like Twenty Impossibles” a movie by Annemarie Jacir (available on Netflix)
“Omar” a movie by Hany Abu Assad (available on Netflix)
“Mars At Sunrise” a movie by Jessica Habie (available on Netflix)
“5 Broken Cameras” a documentary by Emad Burnat & Guy Davidi (available on Youtube)
[this list will constantly be updated with more movies & documentaries that i’m reminded of, or with new pieces that i find and watch… if you have any suggestions please send them my way]
PS ; as this is a personal list coming from a Palestinian person, i will only be adding the movies and documentaries that i feel are MOST important and effective in transferring the message of the Palestinian cause… so all recommendations are highly appreciated yet this is just a personal list and doesn’t include all types of Palestinian (or Palestinian related) visual media 🙏
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katherines · 4 months
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BLUE PLANET II EP05 Green Seas (2017)
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wayward-delver · 9 days
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Following in the footsteps of Prehistoric Planet is an upcoming documentary named T-Rex. Which plans to put the most recognizable yet misunderstood dinosaur in a spotlight that allows people to understand it for the animal it was and not the monster it is.
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rebeccathenaturalist · 8 months
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I wanted to bring to your attention this excellent documentary on spring Chinook salmon. They're one of the most endangered of the Pacific salmonids, and they face a variety of threats, from dams to climate change. They also have unique behaviors and traits that set them apart from other salmon, and recent genetic research shows that they're different even down to the level of their DNA.
It's only an hour long, and very well done; if you aren't able to just sit and focus on something for that long, it's good either watched in bite-sized chunks, or having on in the background while you do chores, art, etc. And while it does highlight some distressing realities, it leaves on a hopeful note, IMO.
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pintoras · 9 months
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Bridget Riley: Painting the Line (Sophie Deveson, 2021)
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cantcatchmeee · 2 years
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this could be us
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a-dinosaur-a-day · 6 months
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Hypothetical scenario: you’ve been granted the budget of your average big summer blockbuster movie, but you can only use it to fund a movie / TV series on dinosaurs or prehistoric animals. What would that ideal piece of paleo-programming look like?
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I'd tell the entire story of dinosaurs, from beginning to today. Start with the end-Permian extinction and how that lead to the empty niches that allowed sauropsids to diversify. Discuss the evolution of Archosaurs and what made early Dinosaurs unique from other animals (and highlight that those things were usually things that make birds unique from other animals today). I'd then go into their diversification in each period, showcasing how different environmental events affected their evolution. I wouldn't stop at the KPg, of course; I would talk about why the dinosaurs that survived (birds) did, while others didn't. I then would dig into the Cenozoic and how dinosaurs have diversified through that, discussing notable major groups and their responses to environmental change. I would finish with the modern day, the sheer diversity of living dinosaur species, and how these dinosaurs are affected by anthropogenic climate change.
can you tell I think about this a lot and wish some magical rich person would descend from the clouds to give the money I need to make my projects happen?
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psykopaths · 12 days
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Agnés Varda, (1995)
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likeafantasy · 1 month
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2001hz · 1 year
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Toshio Matsumoto: 'Everything Visible is Empty' (1975)
Everything Visible is Empty contains a selection of short experimental films, documentaries, and sound pieces from two decisive periods in the cultural history of Japan and frames them as pivotal in Matsumoto’s avant-garde filmmaking practice. Shown in near darkness, they reemphasize the urgency of his “visual spectacle” as an unnerving physical experience, and stressing the importance of the Happening as a radical form of art practice.
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jamesfitzjamesdotcom · 6 months
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Do you have any documentary recommendations about the Franklin Expedition? Thank you
Hi! These documentaries are very good, although some are a bit old. Enjoy!
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This one comes in English, German and French. It was made after Erebus was found:
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salvadorbonaparte · 3 months
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Broaden Your Horizons 2024
A Non-Fiction Rec List by Salvadorbonaparte
Books
Adventures in Yiddishland: Postvernacular Language and Culture - Jeffrey Shandler
A Good Man in Evil Times: The Heroic Story of Aristides de Sousa Mendes -- The Man Who Saved the Lives of Countless Refugess in World War II - Jose-Alain Fralon, Peter Graham (trans.)
Brief Answers to the Big Questions - Stephen Hawking
Erebus: The Story of a Ship - Michael Palin
Every Word Is A Bird We Teach To Sing: Encounters with the Mysteries and Meanings of Language - Daniel Tammet
Federico Garcia Lorca: A Life - Ian Gibson
Getting to Yes: Negotiating an agreement without giving in - Roger Fisher, William Ury
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban - Malala Yousafzai
Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition - Paul Watson
Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny - Amartya Sen
If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?: My Adventures in the Art and Science of Relating and Communicating - Alan Alda
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Iwígara: American Indian Ethnobotanical Traditions and Science
Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe - Gaston Dorren, Alison Edwards (trans.)
Monsters in the Closet: Homosexuality and the Horror Film - Harry M. Benshoff
One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rainforest - Wade Davis
Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour - Kate Fox
What's Your Pronoun? Beyond He and She - Dennis Baron
Documentaries
Bowling for Columbine
Break It All: The History of Rock in Latin America
ReMastered: Tricky Dick and the Man in Black
She's Beautiful When She's Angry
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
Podcasts
Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda
Freaks and Psychos: The Disability in Horror Podcast
Lingthusiasm
Ologies with Alie Ward
Root of Evil: The True Story of the Hodel Family and the Black Dahlia
The Sewers of Paris
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katherines · 1 year
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BLUE PLANET II 2017 | EP01 One Ocean
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hasellia · 5 months
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Okay apologies for hopping on tag trending train but I have an important request.
If you don't know about the history of Aboriginal genocide in Australia, watch this program.
It's a very very hard watch but one that is important.
If you're outside of Australia, make sure to set your VPN to Aus. You may also need to set an acount for SBS but it's free viewing.
I would also recomend most of SBS's docos through NITV, as they're the National Indigenous broadcast station.
A little update on the warnings before I forget. I'm a little pressed for time so this is from my DM's with someone I've shared with.
I just wanted to give a heads up that the show contains footage of a mourning ceremony (with the grievers's permission from what I remember). There is also a segment where stolen remains are returned to their families but there is no appearence of the remains themselves on screen. From what I can tell/remember these scenes are treated with care and gravitas but I don't think I can be the one to say whether they were treated appropriately. Anything on colonialism is a hard watch, but this doco particularly follows on the unglamourised brutality of the frontier wars as well the lack of recognition on the wars from the Australian government/military and from the wider Australian public. That's on me for not disclosing that properly in the post.
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3liza · 5 months
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2019 BBC documentary about the 1980s epidemic of mad cow disease in the UK which killed and infected a bunch of people after years of the government insisting it was perfectly safe and feeding infected meat to everyone. mad cow is a long term, hidden infection for people with certain genetics and the UK has been waiting for the second wave of delayed symptoms to kick in for years now. something a lot of people have forgotten about, including the Thatcher government's role in making it all worse. pandemic handling has always been shit
CONTENT WARNINGS: prion diseases are extremely nasty. video has frank documentation, imagery and descriptions of animal and human pain, suffering, onscreen death/euthanasia, animal butchering and what could loosely be called "gore", animal meat byproduct and storage imagery, medical content of all kinds, etc. it's the BBC so it's handled with professionalism but you can't really pull punches with this stuff
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pintoras · 2 years
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Kusama: Infinity (Heather Lenz, 2018)
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