New documentaries
A collection of new documentaries added to Docur. Last update July 23, 2016 @ 01:05 PM
GENIUS by Stephen Hawking: Can We Travel in Time?
“GENIUS by Stephen Hawking: Can We Travel in Time?” The first episode in a six part documentary series presented by Stephen Hawking. In this film professor Hawking challenges three people to determine if time travel is possible. The fascinating journey of discovery feature[...]
Conor McGregor - The Notorious
A documentary about Conor McGregor (born 14 July 1988) who only a couple of years ago was collecting social welfare in his hometown of Dublin. Now he is the most famous name in the Ultimate Fighting Championship UFC. Mixed Martial Arts is considered to be the world's fas[...]
National Geographic Megastructures - Panama Canal
The Panama Canal is a 48 mile man-made strip of water that connects the Atlantic ocean to the Pacific ocean. The Canal is vital to shipping and cuts thousands of miles off millions of tonnes worth of shipping every year, which is why it was built with a tremendous amount of effort, firstly by the Fr[...]
Concorde: 27 Years of Supersonic Flight
Concorde documentary. Concorde was the first commercial airliner capable of Supersonic flight and was built with a French and British combined effort by Manufactures BAE Systems and Aérospatiale, The Aircraft was an unbelievable achievement crafted in pencil by hundreds of engineers [...]
Genius of the Modern World: Karl Marx
The first episode in a three-part documentary series Genius of the Modern World. This film investigates the revolutionary ideas of German Journalist, Sociologist, philosopher and economist Karl Marx (5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) who was born to a wealthy family in Prussia. Marx became a politic[...]
Stoked up in Stoke: Fighting Men
Stoked up in Stoke: Fighting Men, A documentray about cage fighting which follows two cage fighters from Stoke-on-Trent, England during the tough eight weeks of training, overcoming injuries and battered egos, as they prepare for fight night. As the fight night approches we see that f[...]
Psychedelic Britannia
Psychedelic Britannia, a documentary about what many people to be the most visionary period in British music history roughly between the years 1965 and 1970. This was a generation that discovered the drug LSD which shaped popular culture like never before and allowed a small group of talented[...]
Sports Doping - Winning At Any Cost?
In the documentary film Sports Doping - Winning At Any Cost? we enter the world of scandal and corruption and risk taking as athletes work to achieve the goal of being the best. Being number one is something that every sports person wants to be since it is the acknowledgement of their dedication in[...]
Bitcoin: The End of Money as We Know It
Bitcoin: The End of Money as We Know It is an award winning documentary film presented by John Barrett and directed by Torsten Hoffmann & Michael Watchulonis. The film analyses the rise of bitcoin currency, something that many people still know very little about around the world, it’s impl[...]
K2: The Killer Summit
K2: The Killer Summit is a documentary film about the 2008 K2 disaster where 11 climbers were killed on the second largest peak in the world, the worst incident to ever to happen there. With dramatic reenactments, real footage of the incident and interviews with many of the people who[...]
Forces of Nature with Brian Cox: Somewhere in Spacetime
Somewhere in Spacetime Episode 2, a 2016 Brian Cox documentary as part of the series Forces Of Nature. In this film Brian explains the Earths amazing 66,000km/h journey around the Sun and where it puts us in space-time. We are traveling and rotating at an astonishing speed, yet b[...]
Inside Porton Down: Britains Secret Weapons Research Facility
Dr Michael Mosley and the BBC have been given unprecedented access to Britons top-secret weapons research facility, Porton Down. Here you will find some of the most deadly substances in the world which are being tested to ensure the national security of the United Kingdom, everything from chemical t[...]
Some Kind of Monster
Some Kind of Monster, a 2004 documentary about the heavy metal band Metallica. Metallica was formed in Los Angels in 1981 when the drummer Las Ulrich posted an advert in a local news paper looking for a front man and a guitarist to which James Heftield replied. More than 30 years later they are stil[...]
The Last Orangutan Eden
The Last Orangutan Eden, an Orangutan documentary exploring the conservation efforts to help save the primate in its last home in Northern Sumatra. The “person of the forest” as the name translates is a great Ape exclusive to Asia of which there are two species, the Bornean Orangutan and[...]
Easter Island: Mysteries of a Lost World
When one thinks about Easter Island the first thing that comes to mind is the ancient civilisation who lived there 1000’s of years ago and built the great monuments which turned Rapa Nui into the tourist attraction and land of mystery it is today. Easter Island: Mysteries of a Lost World, a BB[...]
Forces of Nature with Brian Cox: The Universe in a Snowflake
Forces of Nature with Brian Cox episode 1. The Universe in a Snowflake, the first documentary in a series that looks closely at the world around us to reveal its true construct. The shapes in the nature that surrounds us are produced by fundamental rules which govern the universe and when investigat[...]
The Imposter
The imposter, a 2012 documentary film about a young Spanish man who made the astonishing claim that he was, in fact,t the son of an American family who had been missing for the more than three years. This is one of the strangest stories in recent years since the man is either an extremely treac[...]
True Crime: The Black Dahlia mystery
The Black Dahlia, a documentary about the much publicised death of 22 year old Elizabeth Short in 1947. The name “Black Dahlia” was given to her by the newspapers which at the time used popular film noir titles to describe real life events; it is believed that the name came from the murd[...]