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Factory: From Joy Division to Happy Mondays

A BBC documentary about the rise and fall of the most influential and successful independent record label in British rock music history - Factory Records in Manchester. (88 min, 9 segments)

Segments: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Venezuela: The Domino Theory

Canadian Skot Sanderson and Mitch St.Pierre, travel to Venezuela in search of answers to the questions surrounding President Chavez and his reforms for this South American nation. (35:05 min)

Invisible Children - Northern Uganda

In the spring of 2003, three young Americans traveled to Africa in search of a story on Invisible Children, the victims and weapons of the 20 year-long war in Northern Uganda. “Invisible Children: Rough Cut” is the extraordinary “home-made” documentary of a tragedy that is both disturbing and inspiring. (55:00 min)

Calexico: The Black Night

The Black Night was released on the 1998 Calexico album of the same name. (3:30 min)

Mekons: Ghost of American Astronauts

Ghost of American Astronauts was first released on the 1988 Mekons album So Good It Hurts. I used to carpool from Berkeley to San Francisco and I heard this song on one of the rides…

Arcade Fire Live… in an Elevator

A few weeks ago, I posted Arcade Fire playing Neon Bible in an elevator. This is the complete 15 minute film by Vincent Moon from the Olympia in Paris. The film follows Arcade Fire through the backstage corridors, the elevator and eventually to the crowd and features both Neon Bible & Wake Up.

Two Headed Boy - Jeff Mangum Live

A 6:09 minute excerpt of the long-rumored live recording of Neutral Milk Hotel’s lead singer performing at an Athens, Georgia coffee shop in early 1997.

  • Edgar Cayce

    Decoding the Past – The Other Nostradamus
  • Frontiers: Sci-Tech

  • Parallel Universes
  • Michio Kaku Talks About ETs and the MultiVerse
  • Kaku: 3 Types of Extraterrestrial Civilizations
  • Time Travel by Virtual Reality
  • Human Version 2.0
  • The Intelligent Revolution
  • Large Hadron Collider - The Search For The Higgs Boson
  • Nanotechnology Takes Off
  • China Watch

  • Beijing’s Bird Nest Stadium
  • Olympic Water Cube [H2O]3
  • China’s Sexual Revolution
  • Uyghur - China’s Other Tibet
  • The Story of India

  • The Series - Volume 1-4
  • Plus:
  • The Life of Buddha
  • City of the Gods - Angkor, Cambodia
  • Food Around the World

    Street Food: Beijing | Cairo | Mumbai | Nairobi | New York | Penang
    No Reservations: Vietnam | Indonesia |
  • Someday We Will Have a Cool Map

    Africa > North Africa
    Egypt | Kenya | Morocco | Niger | Uganda

    Middle East > Afghanistan | Iran (Persia) | Iraq | Israel/Palestinian

    South Asia > Bangladesh | India | Pakistan
    Southeast Asia > Cambodia | East Timor | Indonesia | Thailand | Vietnam
    Asia > China | Japan | Tibet

    Canada | U.S.
    Latin America > Brazil | Guatemala | Mexico | Nicaragua | Peru | Venezuela

    Europe > Great Britain | Greece | Italy | Macedonia | Russia | Spain | Germany

    Global