Documentaries : Anatomy

A countdown of the top 50 documentaries, based on a vote by documentary filmmakers....

An overweight film maker obsessed with looking like the guy in fitness ads sets out to show what it really takes to have a 6 pack. Little did he know achieving his desired look would lead him to the brink of madness....

The documentary produced by HBO in the year 2002 shows two white inmates brutally stab a black inmate in the State of Utah prison system. I found the stabbing sequence disturbing. When the prison murderer(Troy Kell) is interviewed by the film producers, the prison murderer(Troy Kell) does not look l...

To start off part one, Dawkins discusses the amazing capabilities of the human body and contrasts these with the limited capabilities of computers and other man-made machines. He uses a small totem pole (which is used in ancestor worship) to illustrate the importance of studying our ancestors in ord...

Is there really such a thing as the mad genius? Can an illness be both a blessing and a curse? At seven years old, Nick van Bloss started shaking his head, grinding his teeth and making wild whooping noises. Nick had Tourette’s syndrome. No medical intervention helped him. But one activity sto...

NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD is the wild, untold story of OZPLOITATION movies. A time when Australian cinema got its gear off and showed the world a full frontal explosion of sex, violence, horror and foot-to-the-floor, full bore action. Jam packed full of outrageous anecdotes, lessons in maverick filmmaking...

Everybody has at least once in their lifetime received spam emails arguing in favor of a bigger penis size for men, and knowing just the right product that really works. But have we really thought about this issue? In the beginning of the 21st century men are at last feeling at ease when talking abo...

Specifically, it was a race between two teams of young scientists working in Britain, as well as the esteemed chemist Linus Pauling, based in California. Already a Nobel laureate, Pauling may have been the favorite, but the discovery would ultimately be made by his British counterparts. Rosalind Fra...

A troubled 15-year-old boy attempting to cope with the recent death of his mother sets out to research Dr. Max Gerson's claims of a diet that can cure cancer as his first assignment for home-schooling in this documentary from filmmaker Steve Kroschel (Avalanche, Dying to Have Known). Garrett is a bo...

This film examined new research into the human brain and asked are we programmed to believe in God?...