> In Northern Alberta, Canada, sit the Athabasca tar sands—the world's largest known reservoir of crude bitumen, and a major driver of Canada’s economy. The vast majority of Canadian oil production comes from the extraction and processing of the crude bitumen found in the tar sands. But while Canada prospers off the tar sands industry, Indigenous communities downstream are in the grips of its toxic impact. It is well documented that the people of Fort Chipewyan, in northern Alberta, have been struck by disproportionately high rates of cancer, and their proximity to the tar sands has long been the suspected dominant factor contributing to their sickness. > > In a new feature documentary, "Killer Water," award-winning journalist Brandi Morin and award-winning filmmaker/director Geordie Day delve deep into the heart of the environmental crisis plaguing the Alberta oil sands, uncovering the hidden truths that have long been ignored. The film exposes the detrimental impact of toxic tailings ponds leakage on the delicate ecosystems, water sources, and human life in and around Fort Chipewyan. Through stunning visuals and compelling narratives, Morin and Day take viewers on a journey that highlights the injustices faced by the Indigenous community living in the shadow of this industrial development.

YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3vF66R2F0Q

To celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the release of Half-Life we reunited the original development team to share their memories of creating Valve's first game.

Israeli historian Ilan Pappe revisiting the false histories at the foundation of Israel

With a comparison between apartheid South Africa and the Israel/Palestine conflict, this doc traces the future of one conflict from the past of another. Weaving the history of apartheid into the complex issues facing Israelis and Palestinians, it highlights the frighteningly similar laws and tools used by Israel and apartheid-era South Africa. It's a dark picture of the present but offers hope based on the peace that South Africa eventually found.

Werner Herzog's exploration of the Internet and the connected world.

A continued examination of the heavy metal subculture focusing on the adaptation and performance of heavy metal in various global communities, and how the increased import of Western cultural forms has impacted new global markets.

A compilation of declassified nuclear incidents, by Derek Muller (Veritasium).

Or on youtube directly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILgSesWMUEI

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> A film about mutual aid disaster relief in the immediate aftermath of hurricane Katrina and the beginnings of the Common Ground Collective > > ⚠️ Content Warning: ⚠️ (moments of extreme racism, talk of violence and death, a brief image of a corpse) > > Documentary - 56 min > > A film about violence, racism and hope. The first year after the hurricane Katrina. > Malik Rahim, a 58 year old Black Panther, became a local hero in the days after the flooding and is now running a big grassroots organization. > > Storyline: > The city of New Orleans is a ghost town after the hurricane Katrina. While most people left the city in fear, racism and poorness is there to stay. In a city full of racists and vigilantes, we meet the 58-year-old former Black Panther Malik Rahim. All his life he has been struggling to make a difference, been trying to pass on a better society to his children and grandchildren. In the aftermath of the hurricane Katrina, the need is greater than ever, and Malik uses the attention this brings, to begin the building of a long-term grassroots organization. The film starts in the days after the hurricane, and takes us on a journey to poor Afro-American neighborhoods where the mainstream media never goes. We meet despair, hate and a little hope despite all. But most of all it tells us the story about one man who wants to make a better world, and about his extraordinary fight for peace and justice.

Documentary about the general history of Mongolia starting with Genghis Khan and its impact on modern Mongolian society and culture.

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> cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/1701405 > > > On a July day in 1990, a confrontation propelled First Nations issues in Kanehsatake and the village of Oka, Quebec, into the international spotlight. Director Alanis Obomsawin spent 78 nerve-wracking days and nights filming the armed stand-off between the Kanien’kéhaka (Mohawk) People, the Quebec police and the Canadian army. This powerful documentary takes you right into the action of this historic confrontation. The result is a portrait of the people behind the barricades. > > > > Directed by Alanis Obomsawin - 1993 | 119 min

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> Better Quality Invidious Link: https://invidious.kavin.rocks/watch?v=JnUD9iXWqLg > > > The Coconut Revolution (2001 50min) > > The Coconut Revolution is a 2001 multi-award winning documentary film about the struggle of the indigenous peoples in the Bougainville Island. The movement is described as the "world's first successful eco-revolution". > > The movie tells the story of the successful uprising of the indigenous peoples of Bougainville Island against the Papua New Guinea army and the mining plans of the Rio Tinto Zinc company to exploit their natural resources. The documentary reveals how the Bougainville Revolutionary Army (BRA) managed to overcome the blockade strategy carried by the Papuan army by using coconut oil as fuel. > > Fair Use Copyright Disclaimer: This is an educational not for profit production. Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for fair use for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. > >

Dark Days is an American documentary film directed, produced, and photographed by the English documentarian Marc Singer. Shot during the mid-1990s, it follows a group of people who lived in the so called Freedom Tunnel - a railroad tunnel carrying the West Side Line under Riverside Park in Manhattan, New York City. The filming took two-and-a-half years. Documentary won three awards at the Sundance Film Festival.

The first of the three inscriptions said to be carved into the Temple of Apollo, where the Oracle of Delphi resided: Know Thyself.

While focusing heavily on the Norwegian Lemming, there's a lot of general Scandinavian taiga nature docu stuff here. Reindeer, moose, artic fox, etc.

It's a good one. But at any rate, we should clearly have an understanding of our namesake, I think.

A look into how the first democratically elected socialist leader attempted to solve the issue of a socialist economy with the help of the computer revolution, and why those efforts had to be stopped by Multinational Corporations and the CIA.

All Creatures Welcome sketches a utopian image of society in the digital era. Accompanied by the appeal to “use hacking as a mindset,” the viewers immerse themselves, together with the filmmaker, in a documentary adventure game and explore the world of digital communities at the events held by the Chaos Computer Club; a real-world reflection of the virtual spectrum.

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Together with the filmmaker and the slogan"use hacking as a mindset" we immerse in a documentary adventure game and explore the world of Komputerfrieks, as they used to call themselves at the inaugural meeting of the Chaos Computer Club in 1981. We come upon an open, free-spirited society. The events of the CCC are a kind of utopian real-world reflection of the virtual spectrum. We encounter angels, activists, robots, coders and makers. We learn what a hack is, why lockpicking can be important, how a cellular system works. We dive into the game and become part of the community that is as inclusive as it is sophisticated. Still outside of this collective the challenges are immense in an era, in which political certainties and institutions increasingly erode. Models of governance, economics, social order, technology and science are being put into question 24/7. With the internet’s rules of conduct, national laws are being repealed and transformed into global structures. While the worldwide web would structurally actually allow a radical renewal of democracy, changing it from representation to participation, more and more states are drifting towards authoritarian societies in political reality. In the course of that process, en passant the largest surveillance machinery of human history has been created. We see how the hacker culture meets these challenges and what inner contradictions it encounters. We learn that our lives are not determined by general, given truths but actually through the way we work, develop ourselves, suffer or dream. The events of the CCC become a possible blueprint of social upheaval. Self-organization, freedom of expression and critical discussion merge in a colorful, polyphonic chorus apart from social norms and capitalist constraints: "Be excellent to each other!“

http://www.allcreatureswelcome.net

I just watched this documentary on Netflix called "The Deepest Breath 2023" and I was so captivated by this extreme diving sport.

EDITED FOR CLARITY: I do not have a problem with the documentary, I enjoyed it very much. My problem is with one of the divers, Alyssia Zecchini, current womens world record holder, who attempted a very difficult diving stunt without the proper precautions and incremental steps required. She risked the lives of all involved, and one of them actaully died as a result. I feel this tragedy was VERY PREVENTABLE. You need to watch the documentary to see my point.

SPOILER ALERT If you have not watched the documentary, you may want to watch it first before you read my criticism below. Otherwise you may make yourself look silly.

As I watch the plot twists and the person you think will have the accident does not have the accident but someone around them does instead.

Watching Alessia Zecchini set world diving record after diving record really captures her personality, including the bad parts, her extreme ego.

I was so angry when Stephen Keenen, the Safety Diver ended up dying in her stunt to swim under the arch in the Blue Hole Arch in Dahab, Egypt.

She misses the rope and keeps on going past the place where the divers are expecting her to pop up, then when she does, and the Safety Diver, Stephen Keenen goes to rescue her, they both are so far away from other divers to be helped, both struggling for air, and both on the verge of blacking out. However, Stephen being the Safety diver has the decency to leave Alessia facing up as she blacks out trying to replenish her body with oxygen. In turn she does not notice Stephen who blacks out shortly afterwards, and has no one to notice that he does so facing down with his head in the water. He dies, saving her.

This stunt angered me so much because Alessia insisted that she did not want to use the uni fin in her attempt, the last female diver who did the arch used a uni fin Natalia Molchanova who's record Alessia has been chasing all her life, and who she has just eclipsed in terms of sheer depth.... but she has yet to dive under the arch which Natalia did using a uni-fin, Alessia decides she wants to be better than her, she will do it WITHOUT.

As she starts doing the side ways portion of her dive she remarks that its incredibly hard, no shit sherlock! The ego on this girl! This stunt kills her boyfriend, her love, Stephen Keenan as a result... and I have to go back and look at this ego maniac, who could not do it in small steps, just decided to do something this complex in a giant leap without a uni-fin! Is it too much to ask, to do this in small steps? Why risk peoples lives with these massive leaps so that you could look "better" than the last person doing so? Would it not help to have done the arch at least once with a uni-fin? I am shocked and speechless when I see Stephen die, I did not know about this, but watching the documentary I feel that Alessia's ego killed him.

You see this aspect of her in the Documentary when she blacks out 3 times in a row during competition and a doctor tells her that she will not be diving for a couple of days as a safety percussion... so instead of taking this like a good sportswoman, she gets all huffy and puffy about it and decides to swim away from the crowd a mile or two, defiantly.... and this point no one knows if she will try to dive by herself, but everyone is worried and concerned about her childish tantrum.

After watching this documentary, I do not like this woman. I think she is irresponsible and immature, and killed a good person because of her ego.

I am still shocked by what I just streamed on Netflix... and how none of the divers said anything about her not trying the feat with a uni-fin first. I feel this death could of been avoided and was senseless. You should be able to do this sport without unnecessarily putting people at risk, and doing the arch without first trying it with a uni-fin was an unnecessary leap that gambled not just her life, but also the lives of those around her.

Everyone should watch this