New documentaries
A collection of new documentaries added to Docur. Last update January 12, 2016 @ 06:58 PM
The Hunt for AI
The hunt for artificial intelligence is on. BBC Horizon investigates how close the human race is to making true AI. Every year computing power is almost doubling and we are now at the stage where a computer can match the power of the human brain. However, intelligence is not measured on calculating[...]
Blues for a Red Planet
Blues for a Red Planet: As mankind plans its first ever manned mission to Mars, this particular episode of Cosmos is more relevant now than ever before. Dr Sagan takes us through the history of Mars our beautiful red neighbour and its history of fictional tales that have surrounded it since the[...]
David Bowie and the Story of Ziggy Stardust
When David Bowie played on TV screens in the early 1970’s music on planet earth would never be the same again. His first mainstream success was with the album “Space Oddity” which was released only days before the launch of the Apollo 11 moon mission in 1969. It captured the story[...]
Shock and Awe: The Story of Electricity
Discovering and harnessing the power of electricity brought us into the age we live in today. It has been more than three hundred years since it was first discovered in the 17th century by English scientist William Gilbert. In this documentary physicist Jim Al-Khalili explores the wei[...]
Are We Alone in the Universe?
The search for life on other worlds has been enduring for more than 50 years; fore fronted by SETI and Dr Frank Drake. The chance of life existing on other worlds is something that seems almost to be certain as there are billions of planets in our galaxy alone and there are billions of galaxies[...]
Dinosaurs: The Hunt for Life
Dinosaurs: The Hunt for Life: The idea that we could get dinosaur DNA sounds like something from the movie Jurassic Park to most people. To palaeontologists, it sounds like a total fantasy that DNA could be preserved for more than 65 million years. In this documentary, BBC Horizon meets&nb[...]
To Infinity and Beyond
To Infinity and Beyond: Infinity is one of the most bizarre phenomena that we know of. No body really knows what infinity is or whether it even exists as nothing can be proven with a number that has no real value yet at the same time it can have a value. Infinity is something that all of us can imag[...]
Aftershock: The Hunt for Gravitational Waves
Update: Gravitational waves have now been unequivocally confirmed! Onwards and upwards! The big bang theory describes the universe that we live in a matter of seconds after the “bang”. Despite its name the big bang theory tells us nothing about the bang itself, which is wher[...]
Louis Theroux: Gambling in Las Vegas
Louis Theroux visits Las Vegas, the home of gambling and reveals the side of the city what most people ignore. Many of the people who are gambling in the top Casinos have the idea that they are going to win it big but often end up spending all of their life savings.
The Crash Reel
A documentary about two snowboarding halfpipe legends, Shaun White and Kevin Pearce. Directed by Lucy Walker; The film documents the early days of their careers as they push each other to do more and more dangerous tricks leading up to the Vancouver Winter Olympics.[...]
Pumping Iron
Pumping Iron is a part scripted, part documentary about the world of body building with a focus on the 1975 IFBB Mr Olympia & Mr Universe events. The film follows the competition between two close rivals for the title, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Lou ferrigno who are both close friends who pu[...]
Dogtown and Z-Boys
Dogtown and Z-Boys. A documentary which takes us to the origins of skateboarding as we know it today through the eyes of a group of Californian surfers. In the 1960’s skateboarding was considered to be a fad by most people and by the 70’s its relative popularity had all but died out[...]
The Victoria Cross: For Valour
A documentary presented by Jeremy Clarkson which closely focuses on how Major Cain won what was considered the “finest Victoria cross of the whole war”. The Victoria Cross: For Valour explores Major Cains’ story at the Battle of Arnhem and also looks into how other people won[...]
Dispatches: inside Britains Israel Lobby
A fascinating documentary exploring how Israel lobby groups fund political propeganda in Britain in support of the state of Israel, exposing its underlying Zionism connections. In this documentary we look at how politicians are funded by these groups and manipulated in order to gain bias resear[...]
Secrets of the Solar System
Our solar system in its current equilibrium is a rather quiet and orderly place where the planets are in stable orbits around the sun. New discoveries by astronomers are forcing scientists to reconsider how the solar system was formed. traditionally it has been thought that the planets were cre[...]
The Invisible War
A powerful documentary by the Oscar nominated documentarian Kirby Dick, who’s previous work included the film Twist of Faith which looked into the Catholic Church and how it handled cases of Child Abuse and gay rights. This time round he takes on the fantastic record of how the U.S. military h[...]
Panorama - The Secrets of Scientology
John Sweeney takes us inside the church of Scientology to discover some of its distrubing secrets that are being uncovered in this documentary for the very first time. With the help of fromer church spokesman Mike Rinder they examine some of the techniques used by the Church in order to at[...]
The Century of the Self
The Century of the Self: A documentary about how we came to be the consumer society that we are today. Adam Curtis tells the story of what made this western consumer society come to be and also looks into what choices we make and why we make them. It started in the 19th&n[...]