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15 votes
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The official history of Chex Quest
8 votes -
M2: Complete Works - The history of Japanese game developer M2, who are well known for elaborately porting retro games to modern platforms
5 votes -
The Heat: A Kitchen (R)evolution | Trailer 1
5 votes -
God of War: Raising Kratos - Full length feature documentary
8 votes -
The new film "The Race Is On" tackles climate change. Its filmmaker is Dr. James Dyke, who's crossed the line that separates academia from activism.
7 votes -
Foster (2019)
6 votes -
Inside Final Fantasy X|X-2 HD Remaster (Japanese, with subtitles)
3 votes -
Delia Derbyshire - The Delian Mode | The unsung heroine of electronic music
4 votes -
The vanishing of flight 370
15 votes -
The Station
6 votes -
Pakistan's blasphemy laws
5 votes -
Shirley Curry: The gaming grandma documentary
6 votes -
The heroin hearse in the OD capital of America
6 votes -
'A model of hope for the world': Twenty-five years after Rwandan Genocide, new film shows journey toward justice and healing
3 votes -
The History of Video | Veritasium
4 votes -
Why was Egypt crucial for the Roman Empire?
6 votes -
When we first made tools
9 votes -
‘Leaving Neverland’ director compares Michael Jackson truthers to Corbynites
5 votes -
Anybody's son will do: The process by which civilians are turned into soldiers, people who kill other people. (1983)
10 votes -
Apollo 11 is phenomenal, and gave me an existential crisis
Apollo 11 is a limited IMAX only engagement, at least for now, and I don't know how long it'll be in theaters. But while it is, I implore everyone to go see it.This movie left me speechless, and...
Apollo 11 is a limited IMAX only engagement, at least for now, and I don't know how long it'll be in theaters. But while it is, I implore everyone to go see it.This movie left me speechless, and not just in the sense of the footage being so incredible as to leave me without words, though that's certainly a factor. It's restored footage and audio of the Apollo 11 mission, for anyone that doesn't know, and it covers the launch, moon landing, and re-entry.
It's so easy for historical events to be looked back on and be seen as just that: events. Like a natural disaster or the existence of a waterfall or a canyon, so many battles, inventions, and human triumphs are stripped of humanity, remembered only as things that happened, not things people did. Apollo 11 has staggering to witness footage, yes, but it weaves that footage together with the human moments wonderfully. The scenes of the launch countdown or the lander making its descent are intercut and splitscreened with the footage of the NASA control centers, with names of all the teams, as audio of their conversations with the astronauts and recaps of what has happened and is going to play over the incredibly restored launch footage. Cuts to the crowd overlooking the Apollo 11 launch are also common in the beginning.
This is not an educational video, one to be seen for great understanding of the finer details of the mission. Apollo 11 instead acts as history in motion, with a perspective to the individuals and the event simultaneously. It's about the people that accomplished the amazing things you see. A display of the triumph of human spirit over the perceived rules of the world and the desire for understanding out world and breaking the limits that we thought were imposed on us. And yet, we as the viewers have a perspective that the people who actually accomplished the great things we see never did. The splitscreening helps to assign human beings to the awe inspiring footage in front of the viewer, yes, but at the same time it offers 2 entirely separated perspectives framed as one, one that the human beings being assigned to the footage never truly experienced in the moment. We have an intimate view of the control center with a simultaneous omnipotent-esque view of the mission in all of its glory. The viewer as the omnipotent being is true of most films to some degree, but the way in which the movie frames its central event, small and big at the same time, really highlights an omnipresent view that even those who lived through the launch never experienced in real time. It's a film of contrast between the individuals and the accomplishment of the collective, but in its control center voiceovers and constant splitscreens, it's really a movie that bridges the two contrasts.
Basically, I loved it in ways that, despite my extensive best efforts, I find difficult to describe. This line sounds corny, I know, but you owe it to yourself to see it on the biggest screen that you can, and I implore everyone to try to make time for it and find a true IMAX showing, if possible. The visuals alone may not have been the biggest thing that awed me, but they were certainly a huge part of it. And for anyone that's also seen it, what'd you think? I'd love to see other perspectives on this doc.
11 votes -
Getting rich teaching Hong Kong's kids
4 votes -
The History of Blindfolded Punch-Out | Summoning Salt
11 votes -
Pack of wolves hunt a bison
4 votes -
POLYBIUS - The video game that doesn't exist
11 votes -
Teutoburg Forest 9 AD - Roman-Germanic wars
5 votes -
Please Don't Die Joey Janela // A short documentary
3 votes -
“To witness the final moment”: Forty years of ‘Faces of Death’
3 votes -
Sack of Constantinople 1204 - Fourth Crusade
8 votes -
Netflix's "Abstract: The Art of Design" is possibly one of the best docuseries I've ever watched
11 votes -
Last Sassanids and the anti-Caliphate alliance with Tang
9 votes -
The rise of Ksenia Sobchak - from TV presenter to politician | Unreported World
4 votes -
Down the Rabbit Hole - TempleOS (documentary about Terry Davis & TempleOS)
6 votes -
Fighting in the age of loneliness
2 votes -
SoberDwarf Design Documentaries: "Randomizer" romhacks/mods
3 votes -
Unforeseen Consequences: A Half-Life Documentary
11 votes -
Project Code Rush - The beginnings of Netscape/Mozilla
19 votes -
Stay Free: The Team Spooky Story - FGC (Fighting Game Community) Documentary | Noclip
2 votes -
Searching for gold (illegally) in South Africa's abandoned mines
10 votes -
World Record Progression: Super Mario Bros. 3 Warpless | Summoning Salt
15 votes -
North Korea - Inside the world's most secretive state
4 votes -
The making of Fallout Shelter
14 votes -
The fake abortion clinics of America: Misconception
12 votes -
New Doc ‘Fire Music’ Sets the Record Straight on Free Jazz
6 votes -
Back streets of the Internet
2 votes -
How learning science is catching up to Mr. Rogers
4 votes -
Has anyone else watched Netflix's Dark Tourist? What are your thoughts?
I found this show thoroughly interesting, if confronting at times. I haven't seen much discussion on the internet, so I'm wondering what Tildes thinks?
4 votes -
Alfie, the odd-job boy of Clitheroe
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Struggling to find a new TV show to watch? Check out my Google doc detailing shows I've watched, shows I'm currently watching, and shows I want to watch. All with IMDB links and ratings.
Link to Google doc: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Hc-Ti6Pff_qUZLAfzzL7WjhFNh2m_XPvMkdYBL6mLzI/edit?usp=sharing I created this document a while back and update it every couple months....
Link to Google doc: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Hc-Ti6Pff_qUZLAfzzL7WjhFNh2m_XPvMkdYBL6mLzI/edit?usp=sharing
I created this document a while back and update it every couple months. There's an Introduction tab with guidance on how to browse the spreadsheets, which I've copied below for reference:
(1) This document outlines various TV shows and is broken up into 3 tabs: Watched, Watching, and Want to Watch.
Watched: Shows I've completed through series finale or given up on. Some of these were canceled early.
Watching: Shows I'm actively watching day-to-day or shows in between seasons that will air new episodes in the future.
Want to Watch: Shows I haven't started and want to watch. Many of them are recommendations I jotted down to avoid forgetting, so this list will sometimes be unalphabetized.
(2) Certain columns of information were exported directly from IMDB, and the page for each show is linked in the rating from the IMDB column.
(3) On the Watched and Watching tabs, there are columns for Recommend? and Notes to provide background that will help decide what to watch. Don't let any of my negative comments stop you from watching a show you're interested in.
(4) The Recommended? column is divided into the following categories: Must Watch, Yes, Maybe, No. These are all based on personal opinion with extra discussion/information in the Notes column.
(5) I've shared this with most people using View Only permissions, so download the Excel file (or copy to your Drive account) to filter columns by genre, rating, and personal recommendation.
Disclaimer: not everyone will have the same tastes as me - that's okay. I welcome any disagreement about how I've rated shows and hope to get some discussion going.
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What shows have I missed that I need to watch?
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What shows did I strongly recommend that you didn't like?
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What shows did I give up on too early?
I expect to take some heat for quitting Brooklyn 99 around season 3.
- What shows haven't come out that I should keep an eye out for?
Like Jack Ryan which debuts this month.
- How can I improve the document?
I considered including a column with the show's network or where it can be legally streamed, but this is pretty tedious given the nature of broadcast rights.
35 votes -
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Project Code Rush - The beginnings of Netscape/Mozilla
6 votes