documentary
Britain from Above
Britain from Above ticks all the normal watchification boxes – documentary / cities / helicopters / visualisation / shipping containers / Andrew Marr – and it was an interesting documentary (especially in HD), but what’s really exciting are all the spinoffs, on both TV and the web. In fact, the blistering speed of the main [...]
Under Night Streets: BBC4
I haven’t seen enough pre-1960s british documentaries to say how widespread this might be, but the use of voiceover in Under Night Streets, a 1958 documentary about the Underground’s 800 night shift workers, to create a narrative over the pictures seems to be straight out of Billy Wilder’s 1950 Sunset Boulevard. Not only does our [...]
Horizon: Fermat’s Last Theorem
What a marvelous documentary and what a marvelous crowd of brainy mathematicians. They’re generous and funny and seem to take uncomplicated pleasure in the triumphs of their peers. And they’re just utterly… you know… brainy. I thought I was about half way to understanding what Fermat’s last theorem was until one of the brainy blokes [...]
The biggest Chinese restaurant in the world
A programme about the largest Chinese restaurant in the world might sound esoteric – only for readers of Worldwide Restaurant Organisation Monthly. However, it’s a great little programme illustrating modern China, people’s thoughts, hopes, and somewhat harsh realities. The restaurant caters for births, birthdays, weddings, so you get to see the similarities and differences in [...]
Women in Black: UK
Drum roll. This is our 100th post! Also, obviously, the 100th programme we’ve featured. So happy birthday to us! To mark the day, I’m taking the opportunity to feature a show for the second time. When I put up an earlier episode of this excellent documentary series in May it produced the largest number of [...]
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