1. National Geographic's Sizing Up Sperms (The Great Sperm Race)
This is possibly the most extraordinary and most creative documentary I have ever seen. It does not just show you white threads with overblown heads in a diagram of female body. This documentary sizes up sperms into a human scale and simulates their surrounding to a more understandable challenges they face. It is very informative and funny. It must have required high budget but it was worth it. It makes me feel proud for being the winner against another more than 100 millions challengers in the greatest race in universe, even more fascinating than The Amazing Race. Imagine the challenges, the hardships and surprises to a tiny sperm just to reach the egg. People always fall asleep on top biology books but this documentary is really interesting, the visualization and background music is also amazing. What's more awesome is how creative the creator of this show is, how can he or she thinks about scaling up sperms into human, racing through beautiful landscapes. I raise my 2 thumbs up for this show :D My favorite scenes? When the human-sperms are being shot through water tunnels, screaming. After watching this show, I bet you will think twice of wasting your sperms. Pity those little creatures!
I have always been fascinated by secret societies: the Illuminati, the Freemasons, and now, Wikileaks. These people are completely anonymous except their spoke person, Julian Assange and certain staffs. They leak secret documents such as Iraq war logs. Their popularity sky rocketed when a video was leaked. The video show US army shooting civilians walking on a Baghdad street using helicopter. Wikileaks have become an important figure in history against the giant country, America. Many people argue if Wikileaks is right or wrong. Because of Wikileaks a new issue about internet censorship also comes to spotlight. What do you think? Do you agree on internet censorship? I don't, an information should be unrestricted. People have the right of acquiring information that concern them and the government has no right to restrict that. this documentary provokes mind and thought about war and politic. It is a must see documentary.
3. Outfoxed
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6737097743434902428
Outfoxed is a very detailed documentary, the only problem it has is that it is too one sided. After watching the documentary, you will think that Republican is full of shit, Rupert Murdoch is a total jackass and FOX News is a total garbage. It is though, very convinving. It thoroughly researches it materials and sources. Presenting several researches and surveys on the effect of FOX News. The video show us the scary part of media and why people hates journalists nowadays. Watching the show reminds me of George Orwell's 1984, in which the government can manipulate their history and people's mind through media, changing history and facts. One of the interesting scene is when Bill O'Reily shouting shut up to his guests which is totally opposite of a good television host (remember week 4 lecture?). I recommend you to watch this to see how bad it is when facts and opinions are blurred in the name of journalism and try to think how to fix it :D
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