New documentaries
A collection of new documentaries added to Docur. Last update June 27, 2016 @ 06:13 PM
The Giraffe: Africas Gentle Giants
Giraffe documentary hosted by David Attenborough. In this documentary we take a look at one of the more gentle creates of Africa; the Giraffe. Giraffa Camelopardalis as it is scientifically known is the tallest mammal living on land, with a long neck, camel shaped body and a colour much like the leo[...]
Secrets of War: Spy Planes
Secrets of War, spy planes is the fifth episode in the series narrated by Charlton Heston. The key to winning a war is having intelligence but, more importantly intelligence that your enemy does not know you have. As a result countries like the United States have put in an awful amount of money over[...]
Life and Death of a Star
Life and Death of a Star documentary. Firstly, where are stars born? Found in a region of the cosmos clumps of gas and dust as dark and dense than projected shadows strongest recorded to date in interstellar space for this class of cosmic objects. Infrared observations of these unique regions,[...]
The Lost Treasure of the Library of Alexandria
Library of Alexandria documentary. The ancient library of Alexandria was the largest and most famous in all of ancient history. Within the patronage of the Ptolemaic dynasty, it flourished and was the capital of scholarship right up until the Rome invaded in the conquest of Egypt. It is[...]
Killer Tanks: The KV Tank - Russian Steel Monster
Killer Tank documentary. The Kliment Voroshilov tank or “KV” was a series of soviet tanks that were used by the red army against flood of the German invasion of the East during world war 2. They were known as the tanks that liberated Russia and struck fear into the German[...]
Pandas: The Journey Home
Panda documentary. National Geographic presents the film, Pandas The Journey Home, an intimate insight into one of the most iconic animals in the world that is under imminent threat of extinction in the wild. Documentary film makers have been given rare access to the Wolong Panda center which is loc[...]
Secrets of War: Tools of Deception
Secrets of War: Tools of Deception presented by Charlton Heston. War is not only fought with fire power, a large part of it is misguiding the enemy to cause a number of different reactions depending on what type of deception you are using. This documentary is based on World War two so here we a[...]
Polar Bears: Ice Bear
Polar bear documentary. Film makers provide a stunning insight into one of the most formidable predators on the planet as they capture breathtaking footage recorded over a 12 month period in the Canadian Arctic. The footage captured brings the viewer up close to the polar bear in it’s nat[...]
Gazza's Tears: The Night that Changed Football
Gazza's tears: the night that changed football: ITV documentary shown in 2010. Twenty years on from one of football's most iconic matches, ITV1 revisits England's 1990 World Cup semi final match against Germany in Gazza's Tears: The Night That Changed Football. Gazza is an iconi[...]
City In The Sky – Airborne
City In The Sky – Airborne. This, the second episode in the three part documentary series produced by Hannah Fry and Dallas Campbell moves on from departure and into the sky. Right now there are more than 600,000 people flying in the air, something that requires the most strict of safely[...]
Drugs Map of Britain - 3. Scotland: Valium Crisis
Drugs Map of Britain - 3. Scotland: Valium Crisis, the third episode in the hard hitting documentary series produced by the BBC. In this film we travel up to Scotland to investigate the Valium pandemic where three quarters of all drug related deaths involve this drug. Valium or as it is sometim[...]
City In The Sky – Departure
City In The Sky – Departure, the first episode in a three part series presented by Dallas Campbell and Hannah Fry. Air travel has taken the world by storm. There are currently an estimated 3300 planes in the sky across the globe traveling to a huge number of destinations full of peop[...]
Man on Mars: Mission to the Red Planet
Man on Mars: Mission to the Red Planet documentary. We have dreamed about putting a man on Mars since at least the mid 20th century however the extreme complexity involved in achieving such a challenge without purposefully sending people on a one way mission is immense. NASA has been worki[...]
Hippo Paradise
Hippo documentary. The hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) is a Herbivore that mostly lives in sub-Saharan Africa and is the third largest land mammal in the world after the elephant and the rhinoceros, it’s name comes from the greek word meaning “river horse” and this animal whi[...]
What We Still Dont Know: Are We Real?
What we still do not know about the universe: Are we real? documentary. Despite all we know about the cosmos for the most part it still remains a mystery at the most fundamental level, one of the best examples of this is with dark matter as it consists of mostly “everything” yet nob[...]
Wild Australia with Ray Mears: Rainforest
Wild Australia with Ray Mears: Rainforest. This is episode 4 in a six part series with Ray Mears covering many of the wonderful and diverse landscapes across Australia from North to South. Ray goes deep into the rainforest to look for two of the most elusive animals in the country, cassowaries[...]
Wild Australia with Ray Mears: Bush
Wild Australia with Ray Mears: Bush – episode 3. Ray Mears is delving back into the extraordinary and diverse landscape of Australia in this six part documentary series. In this episode Ray goes to the Australian bush in the state of Victoria which is home to some of Austra[...]
Wild Australia with Ray Mears: Wetlands
Wild Australia with Ray Mears: Wetlands – episode 2. Australia is a wonderfully diverse and expansive landscape giving home to some of the most amazing creatures on Earth. In this episode Ray heads over to the countries wetlands which are located in the Northern Territory, one of the most[...]