New documentaries
A collection of new documentaries added to Docur. Last update February 03, 2018 @ 01:22 PM
Monopoly Men: Federal Reserve Fraud
Monopoly Men: Federal Reserve Fraud is a 1998 documentary film about the United States Federal Reserve, directed by Daniel Hopsicker and narrated by Dean Stockwell. Commonly abbreviated as "Fed", The Federal Reserve is a governmental organisation which was set-up by[...]
Freakonomics
Freakonomics is a 2010 documentary narrated by Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me) exploring how human behaviour responds to incentives. Chad Troutwine, creator of the film assembled a team of renowned documentary gurus such as Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) who suggeste[...]
Conquistadors
Conquistadors is a four-part BBC documentary series about the fall of the Aztec Empire by Portuguese and Spanish colonialists. Historian Michael Wood Michael wood takes us back to the 16th 17th and 18th as he walks the same footsteps that the Spanish explorers[...]
Dirty Pictures
Dirty Pictures is a 2010 biographical drug documentary about Alexander Sasha Shulgin who was a chemist responsible for creating more than 200 psychedelic compounds including the notorious MDMA (Ecstacy). Shulgin's vast number of discoveries made a massive impact on ps[...]
The Art of War
The Art of War documentary examines ancient Chinese military texts from the 5th century BC which are in a large part attributed to general Sun Tzu. Military strategist Sun Tzu's most famous work is The Art of War which remains one of the highest regarded studies of militar[...]
The Case for Christ
The Case for Christ documentary is based on a 1998 book by atheist author Lee Strobel who tried to prove his wife's Christian faith. To make the case Strobel interviewed a number of respectable scholars to find out whether the resurrection of Christ was actually true and if the[...]
Bomb It
Bomb It, a 2007 documentary film by award-winning director Jon Reiss about the controversial art-form and sub-culture: Graffiti. Graffiti is not some new movement that has just sprung up as Jon explains in his documentary. In fact, you can go back to the dawn of man and see th[...]
Commando: On The Front Line
Commando: On The Front Line, is a 2014 military documentary series directed by Chris Terril for ITV. Chris spends 12 months with new recruits for the Royal Marine Commandos as they go through a hellish 32-week training course which notoriously known to be the most challenging in t[...]
Bounce: Behind the Velvet Rope
The Bounce: Behind the Velvet Rope documentary takes a behind the scenes look at the crazy and violent world of nightclub bouncers. As you can imagine bouncers have to face a lot of violent, dangerous people and face some very strange situations.
Clash of the Gods
Clash of the Gods is a ten-part documentary series about the ancient Greek and Norse gods which dominated mythology for generations. They are tales of gods heroes and monsters possessing superpowers that mortals do not possess. Episode 1 Zeus - This is a story of how Zeus led an ar[...]
Communism: The Promise and the Reality
Communism: The Promise and the Reality is a 1995 documentary series which looks at the evolutionary history of the communist ideology. Beginning in the early 20th Century with the Bolshevik revolution in 1917 led by Vladimir Lenin, the documentary then moves on through most signifi[...]
Conquest of Hawaii
In the 2003 Conquest of Hawaii documentary narrated by Kelly Hu, we look back on the historic Overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii. On Jan. 17, 1893, Hawaii's monarchy was overthrown when a group of businessmen and sugar planters forced Queen Liliuokalani to abdicate. T[...]
Cracking the Maya Code
In the Cracking the Maya code documentary NOVA investigates breakthrough discoveries in ancient Mayan artefacts. For decades people have tried to get a better understanding of the ancient Mayan monuments and hieroglyphs in central American Mexica but never found much success. For t[...]
Daphne Bavelier: Your brain on video games
Daphne Bavelier is a professor at the University of Geneva, who studies cognitive neuroscience. In this Ted Talk, she presents her case on the effects of video games on the brain. How do fast-paced video games affect the brain? Step into the lab with cognitive researcher Daphn[...]
Did Cooking Make Us Human?
In the Did Cooking Make Us Human? documentary Horizon asks whether eating cooked food prompted changes that helped humanity evolve. Today in the civilised world one would not think that cooking some bacon and eggs is anything particularly revolutionary and smart, however, there w[...]
Earth 2050: The Future of Energy
Dir Michael Epstein, Lilibet Foster Three stories from filmmakers about the expected change in the future of energy, in the year 2050. Earth 2050: The Future of Energy looks at interesting ways for which we are going to be powering our lives in the near future as our demands for energ[...]
Engineering an Empire
Engineering an Empire is a series of 14 documentaries that go over the world's history and it's many accomplishments in the realms of engineering. The documentaries which are narrated by American actor Peter Weller (Robocop) cover many of the major brea[...]
Ernest Hemingway: Wrestling with Life
Biographical documentary of Nobel Prize-winning novelist Ernest Hemingway narrated by his granddaughter Mariel Hemingway. A&E's long-running biography series takes a look at one of the 20th century's most emblematic figures, Ernest Hemingway to bring some[...]