Stage6.com has been killed. It was the best video site so far, because it over high-quality viewing (based on the great DIVX codec) and - let’s be honest - tons of excellent pirated stuff.
What attracted me was the fore mentioned quality and many great user groups full with documentaries and arty stuff. It’s all gone now. So I have to do some housekeeping and delete the video links on my blog as well.
Goodbye Stage6 - you will be missed.
PS: I am pretty sure all that stuff will come back on another site.
Loads of machismo and inaptitude results in hilarious moments caught on tape. I always watch this video to reassure myself that I am not a total idiot … maybe it helps you too!?
An insight into the history of nuclear power. In the 1950s scientists and politicians thought they could create a different world with a limitless source of nuclear energy. But things began to go wrong. Scientists in America and the Soviet Union were duped into building dozens of potentially dangerous plants. Then came the disasters of Three Mile Island and Chernobyl which changed views on the safety of this new technology.
A look at how former Ghanaian leader Kwame Nkrumah set Africa ablaze with his vision of a new industrial and scientific age. At the heart of his dream was to be the huge Volta dam, generating enough power to transform West Africa into an advanced utopia. But as his grand experiment took shape, it brought with it dangerous forces Nkrumah couldn’t control, and he slowly watched his metropolis of science sink into corruption and debt.
A modern fable about science and society, focusing on our attitude to nature. Should we let scientists be the prime movers of social or political change when, for instance, DDT made post-war heroes of American scientists only to be put on trial by other scientists in 1968? What kind of in-fighting goes on between rival camps before one scientific truth emerges, and when it does emerge, just how true is it?
Oil is - like so many natural resources - only available in a limited supply. And with all limited resources we will reach an ‘ extraction / production peak’ - which means less of it will be available after that point.
Many scientists and oil people think that we have either reached or soon will reach peak oil. This is of course very bitter, because our global industrial society is just really starting to take off in many big countries like India, Brazil and China.
Watch this documentary to learn more about peak oil and it’s consequences.
Thirty years ago, a group of economists managed to convince British politicians that they had foolproof technical means to make Britain great again. Pandora’s Box tells the saga of how their experiments have led the country deeper into economic decline, and asks - is their game finally up?
Focusing on the men of the Cold War on whom Dr Strangelove was based. These were people who believed that the world could be controlled by the scientific manipulation of fear - mathematical geniuses employed by the Rand Corporation. In the end, their visions were the stuff of science fiction fantasy.
Curtis most recent documentary ‘The Trap’ also comes back to these think tanks featured in this documentary.
Once again Maestro Curtis delivers some excellent insights into modern affairs. This time he reports about the inner workings of the Soviet Union and why it’s economy failed. This is once again highly recommended to anyone who wants to understand our present world.
Important note: some minutes of the end are missing. Nothing really essential. Just don’t be surprised if some final statement is abruptly ended. The rest is still brilliant!
Do you like science? Do you like interesting experiments? Cool! Than go and visit Robert Krampf - who has a magnificent website up with many videos. Highly recommended for small and big science nerds …
I consider Billy Wilder one of the greatest movie makers of all times. His Sunset Boulevard is basically a nasty homage to the old Hollywood and it’s star cult. There are only a few movies from that period that have that mind of psychological depth and character play in them. And this movie hardly has a happy ending …
The final scene
Gloria is just brilliant in this VERY creepy last scene.
PS: The most tragic figure in the movie is Erich von Stroheim - the butler (director by the cameras in this scene) and a great - but ignored director in real life.
I think this is one of the best movies about the American military industrial complex - and how it came to be.
An addiction to military power is as dangerous as the addiction to oil - the US suffers from both. Will this ever change? Will America grow up some day and feel less insecure and vulnerable? Today this country spends more money on military power and secret services than almost all other nations on this planet. This is paranoia and insecurity of a so called great nation.
This is what I would consider basic knowledge or better say insight what happened in recent history.
I can recommend watching all parts - but number 2 is especially important, because it shows that Racism was one of the driving forces in America that swapped over to Europe (again) in a scientific disguise and supported the old idea of the Masterrace, which suited the Nazis perfectly.
Part 1: The Philosophy of Racism
Beginning by assessing the implications of the relationship between Europe, Africa and the Americas in the 15th century, it considers how racist ideas and practices developed in key religious and secular institutions, and how they showed up in writings by European philosophers Aristotle and Immanuel Kant.
Part 2: Scientific Racism
Looking at Scientific Racism, invented during the 19th century, an ideology that drew on now discredited practices such as phrenology and provided an ideological justification for racism and slavery. These theories ultimately led to eugenics and Nazi racial policies of the master race. Some upsetting scenes.
Part 3: Modern and colonial Racism
The third and final episode of Racism: A History examines the impact of racism in the 20th Century. By 1900, European colonial expansion had reached deep into the heart of Africa. Under the rule of King Leopold II, The Belgian Congo was turned into a vast rubber plantation.
Men, women and children who failed to gather their latex quotas would have their limbs dismembered. The country became the scene of one of the century’s greatest racial genocides, as an estimated 10 million Africans perished under colonial rule.
Is there anyone out there who doesn’t love Sesame Street? It has become a part of modern life and almost everyone’s TV childhood memories.
Finally there is a great Sesame Street video archive with LOADS of videos, all very well tagged and named. Too bad I can’t link directly to videos - but I guess this will come later.
I have to go now - and watch all videos of the cookie monster!
Another great historical documentary by Bettany Hughes. I think this should be mandatory in each school in democratic countries to serve as education and a warning to all future generations.
It’s always good to check from time to time who you are and who we are. Some nice insights about humans, apes, brains and our heritage in this documentary.
Heidegger - the last of Germany’s great Philosophers and weird thinkers. Although he had some great insights - he totally failed to see the dangers of Fascism.
