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Resources and recommend watching
Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2013 7:21 pm
by jacob
For youtube (and similar) movies that are ERE relevant.
I suggest mainly focusing on clips that are 15+ minutes or longer.
I'll start with one suggested in another thread
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8soBeofdzQ
And add a Dick Proenneke playlist
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYJKd0rk ... D69FBA5913
Re: Resources and recommend watching
Posted: Sat Oct 19, 2013 7:07 am
by Ego
Thirty Days to Survival: A short film from the 1970s following a NOLS (National Outdoor Leadership School) group. Interesting on many levels.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8zKt8btHYU
Re: Resources and recommend watching
Posted: Sat Oct 19, 2013 7:52 am
by GandK
Harvard's Justice course (contains a lot about choices and taxation):
http://academicearth.org/courses/justic ... ing-to-do/
Other economics courses from Academic Earth:
http://academicearth.org/online-college ... economics/
Re: Resources and recommend watching
Posted: Sat Oct 19, 2013 10:20 am
by theanimal
Quick sidepoint...@Ego- I actually went on a NOLS course in Alaska this past summer for 75 days. I'm in the process of writing a book about my experience. Best time of my life
Re: Resources and recommend watching
Posted: Sat Oct 19, 2013 10:49 am
by theanimal
Dick Proenneke's Alone in the Wilderness. (The whole movie)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1K_3Ky0lqc
And Alaska, Silence and Solitude (Whole movie)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fMesrUSznA
Unfortunately there aren't any uploads of Alone in the Wilderness Part 2 and The Frozen North
Re: Resources and recommend watching
Posted: Sat Oct 19, 2013 2:13 pm
by jennypenny
Re: Resources and recommend watching
Posted: Sun Oct 20, 2013 7:40 am
by Hottentot
Re: Resources and recommend watching
Posted: Sun Oct 20, 2013 12:39 pm
by jacob
Re: Resources and recommend watching
Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2013 6:32 am
by jennypenny
Here's an old film from during the war on growing a Victory Garden. It's interesting if you're into this sort of thing. Just ignore the part about spraying carcinogens on the plants to protect them from bugs and diseases.
https://archive.org/details/victory_garden
Re: Resources and recommend watching
Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2013 2:56 pm
by Felix
Consuming Kids (Advertising to children):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjqifHuVA0U
Sut Jhally: The factory in the living room - How television exploits us:
http://vimeo.com/36491486
Re: Resources and recommend watching
Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2013 4:40 pm
by Felix
Consumed (How and why of the development of consumer culture):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOKl04TW ... r_embedded
Re: Resources and recommend watching
Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2013 8:41 pm
by vivacious
@Felix, looks pretty good.
One of the big reasons is simply CIA psychological research after WWII and aggressively pushing an ideology after Bretton Woods.
Watching it now. That's probably what this video gets into.
Re: Resources and recommend watching
Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2013 8:52 pm
by theanimal
Just watched Consumed. Thanks for posting Felix.
Related reading: Jerry Mander's Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television. One of the best books I've ever read.
http://www.amazon.com/Arguments-Elimina ... 0688082742
Re: Resources and recommend watching
Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2013 10:11 pm
by Ego
Pomegranates are really inexpensive at the Asian market right now so....
http://youtu.be/1iHbSzM63Hs
Re: Resources and recommend watching
Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2013 12:52 am
by vivacious
Re: Resources and recommend watching
Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2013 11:29 am
by theanimal
Ed Wardle, adventurer and filmmaker (summitted Everest twice), attempted to live off the land in the Yukon wilderness during the summer of 2009. He filmed the whole experience
Complete season 1...
http://youtu.be/FPbz5TDy6fs
Re: Resources and recommend watching
Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2013 1:51 pm
by vivacious
jacob wrote:Dave Canterbury (Season 1 & 2 of Dual Survival) ...
I know this isn't your main point but here are a couple quick thoughts.
Dual Survival is pretty cool. I always wonder about the impact of the camera crew on those kinds of shows though. I mean when a few people are following you around with cameras and it states in the opening text that they won't let anything too bad happen, they probably don't feel like they're in too much danger. You somewhat wonder if they're ever going to bed hungry, or are being supplied toilet paper, and stuff like that.
It's definitely interesting. I'm not trying to be too negative. Just thinking about the mechanics of it. I definitely haven't done some of the stuff they've done (Tierra del Fuego and whatnot comes to mind). But I feel like there have been times when I had to rough it harder than they did at least on the show (no one bailing me out, freezing my ass off, hungry, etc).
Also, it must be pretty disappointing when the boats that "rescue" them discover a camera crew and a huge budget. I think that's kind of funny. But I guess they probably smooth it over because they're doing something educational etc.
Anyway good show for sure. This is more just meta analysis of "reality" type shows. I think about the same kinds of stuff when those "picking" shows are on for old antiques and pawning and bartering and stuff. Mostly real but an element of fiction etc.
Re: Resources and recommend watching
Posted: Sat Nov 09, 2013 2:11 pm
by GandK
This site has thousands of documentaries:
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/
Re: Resources and recommend watching
Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2013 9:56 am
by workathome
Re: Resources and recommend watching
Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2013 12:42 pm
by Felix
Mondays can be the worst.