The Documentary

Watching four babies from four parts of the globe as they grow from infancy to toddlerhood is an interesting experience. And that is exactly what the documentary Babies gives you the opportunity to observe. If I ever needed to see firsthand how certain aspects of childhood—like grasping, crawling, and pulling oneself upright—are almost entirely nature, this film is a good place to find that out. Babies showed how four children from four very different parts of the globe grew during the first…

To me they always seemed so mysterious, and instilled a bit of fear when passing them on the street. I would watch documentary after documentary about their culture, and struggles in search of a better understanding. I began to notice a common factor in every one I watched, addiction. Everyone always blames addiction as the sole reason for their struggles, and places them on a lower…

nt Exploration Worksheet #1 Watch: “A Class Divided” Parts 1-5. Find it at: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/divided/etc/view.html 1. What was the most surprising thing you learned or saw in this documentary? Nothing about this documentary was very shocking for me. The most surprising thing to me, was how little people, especially the adults, were willing to push back and stand up for themselves when they were in discriminated group. I would have assumed a group of grown…

Through the extensive interviews with former Seaworld trainers and investigation into the wrongdoing of multiple institutions, the movie Blackfish was able to show the barbaric practices being performed on these innocent animals. Early in the documentary, the process…

Name: Thang Duong Econ 40 “Inequality For All” “Inequality for All” isso in interesting. It considering documentary about the declining wage-earning capability of the American middle class, as explained through a series of lectures by Robert Reich.His conversations with Americans from many walks of life, the film provides disturbing evidence of the roles stagnating wages, growing personal debt, an economy based on consumer spending, and the decline of manufacturing are playing in the…

1. After watching all seven parts of the documentary "The Real Eve", please describe the route(s) that the earliest humans took out of Africa and how humans eventually arrived on several continents, as explained in the documentary. Please include a minimum of SIX specific countries, bodies of water, continents, OR other locations referred to in the video--SIX locations total. There are two possible routes that the earliest humans took out of Africa. One was North of the Red Sea across the Sues…

change in his voice was dramatic. The explosion still haunts the lives of those most intimately affected, though the story has long ago faded from the front page. The film gives a inside look at the oil industry, "The Great Invisible" is the first documentary feature to go beyond the media coverage to examine the crisis in depth through the eyes of oil executives, survivors and Gulf Coast residents who experienced it first-hand and then were left to pick up the pieces while the world moved on.…

Quiet Rage Response Quiet Rage is a documentary based on a prison experiment conducted by a Stanford University psychologist in 1971. It was a study of the psychological effects of becoming a prisoner or prison guard. The experiment has been severely criticized for going too far and is now taught in most psychology classes. I thought it was an interesting experiment, and one that was worth doing. It shows what a prison can do to people. The experiment displayed the different ways prisoners…

oday, Julien is about to make a change. Two years ago, he had a big reflexion, while watching a documentary based on how people lived all around the world. This opened-minding movie makes him realizes how is life is easy, beside others, who, sometimes, have to fight and work till death to be able to eat. After seeing those horrible condition where people are living, he decides to make a action In his mind, it couldn't be possible that person live like this. So he started searching informations…

Music has the power to transporting us back to a particular experience, memory, or era without that being its intended purpose. The documentary, Alive Inside, provided a look into how the brain’s reaction to music for nursing home residents with dementia provided an alternative therapy by allowing them to temporarily regain the memories and movement of their younger years. At the suggestion of Dan Cohen, social worker, nursing home volunteer and non-profit organizer of Music & Memory, the film’s…