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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

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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

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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/

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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

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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

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http://faircompanies.com/videos/view/se ... lateditems

They get to the non-gardening stuff towards the end.

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Dave Canterbury (Season 1 & 2 of Dual Survival): Basic Camp Overnighter (primitive camping/bushcraft)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGdNSqa_clI (part 1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vInrIpb6G9Q (part 2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5WBfpzDe20 (part 3)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvQSx9rw7t0 (part 4)

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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. :D

https://archive.org/details/victory_garden

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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

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Consumed (How and why of the development of consumer culture):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOKl04TW ... r_embedded

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@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.

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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

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Pomegranates are really inexpensive at the Asian market right now so....

http://youtu.be/1iHbSzM63Hs

;)

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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

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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.

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This site has thousands of documentaries:

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/

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Mondays can be the worst. :lol:

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