New documentaries

A collection of new documentaries added to Docur. Last update January 23, 2018 @ 07:41 AM

Secrets of Body Language

  One can imagine that when communicating in person your words alone would cover 99% of what you are saying.   The "Secrets of Body Language" documentary turns this notion on its head and shows that a huge part of your mutual understanding with other people is actually c[...]

The Divine Michelangelo

  Michelangelo is regarded as one of the greatest artists to ever walk the face of the Earth for three works in particular; The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican, The Dome of St. Peter's in Rome and the Statue of David.   The Divine Michelangelo docu-drama takes us[...]

Stacey Dooley Investigates: The Cannabis smugglers

SocietyDrugs Presenter Stacey Dooley 2015 Unrated

  In the third episode of a six-part documentary series “Stacey Dooley Investigates” about the war on drugs, British investigative journalist Stacey Dooley travels to the state of Swaziland in  Southern Africa to meet with farmers who are growing some incredibly potent weed.[...]

Love and Hate Crime

SocietyCrime Presenter Unknown 2018
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  A three-part 2018 BBC series exploring hate crime in the United States.    The first episode of “Love and Hate Crime”  documentary attempts to go inside the mind of murderer Adrian Loya who planned to kill Lisa and Anna Trubnikova for months before fin[...]

America: The Story of Us - Cities

  Hollywood actor Liev Schreiber hosts America: The Story of Us - Cities, which looks into how America built modern cities from the ground up and created modern steel symbols such as the Empire State building.

The Pyramid Code

The 2010 5-part documentary series The Pyramid Code centres around work by Dr Carmen Boulter who went to 50 countries in the search for ancient technology that according to her can be found embedded in ancient monuments, especially in Egypt on the Giza Plato.   It has[...]

Facebookistan

Facebookistan is a study of the site facebook.com which has the policy to ensure that it's users are "open and connected". With a user base of more than a billion and a half users, this policy has caught on extraordinary well over the last 15 years it's of existence, but is th[...]

Chasing Ice

Chasing Ice is an epic adventure following photographer James Balog and his team of researchers who are conducting the “extreme ice survey”, collecting visual information on the effects of climate change to provide ocular evidence for the numerous studies by scientists who have publ[...]

Saving Face

Saving Face, a documentary about acid attacks on women in Pakistan directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy.   The film follows the story of two victims who have survived acid attacks, Zakia and Rukhsan. The heinous attacks left them with permanent physical scars but even worse mental[...]

The Man Who Lost His Body

  The Man Who Lost His Body is about Ian Waterman who in 1971 came down with an illness which was at first suspected to be Gastric Flu however after a few days he became so weak that he collapsed and was unable to move his body and admitted to Hospital.   Waterman's illne[...]

This is Anfield

Sport Presenter Peter McDowall 2016 Unrated

  “This is Anfield” was created by Liverpool football club in celebration of their iconic home ground. Anfield is one of the oldest stadiums in the world and a centre of football which has a capacity for 54,000 people, though this is a far cry from when it was first bui[...]

Living with ADHD

  Living with ADHD can be tough as it can impact many aspects of life, from being about to concentrate for a reasonable period of time to social and emotional problems. These are all subjects explored in this documentary which was made back in 2005 but is still as relevant today as it was ba[...]

What Are Dreams?

  What Are Dreams? A Nova documentary presented by Jamie Effros which goes in-depth into this common yet largely unexplained phenomena.   A dream is what you hear and see when sleeping, sometimes they can resemble real life and sometimes they can be something comple[...]

The Siege of Leningrad

The Siege of Leningrad was one of the worst sieges to happen in history. Also known as the Leningrad Blockade this siege happened in the city we call Saint Petersburg today and was conducted by the German army during world war 2.   It started on September 8th, 1941&nbs[...]

Why Are We Getting So Fat?

Dr Giles Yeo asks a simple straightforward question; why are we getting so fat? A question that is more relevant in 21st-century western societies than ever with an estimated 62% of adults officially considered obese in the UK, despite “miracle diets” being sold in their d[...]

Inside the Dark Web

Inside the Dark Web documentary: Decades after the initial launch of the internet as a tool for scientific research it has turned into a whole different beast which is used for surveillance by governments and other, darker organisations. This is of great concern to a lot of people in light of r[...]

Dogfighting Undercover

  In 2005 a BBC investigative team went undercover to show the reality of the world of international dogfighting.   Dogfighting Undercover captures on camera the savagery of organised fights and the sales of illegal dog breeds such as American Pitbull Terriers for the purpose[...]

A Very British Brothel

  A Very British Brothel goes behind the scenes of one of the most popular massage parlours in Sheffield called City Suna ran by mother and daughter duo Kath, 54, and Jenni, 28. Established in 1985, the brothel has been serving clients for all kinds of sexual services including “c[...]