Documentaries : Economy

Describes how a disparity in funding and research, religious beliefs, and politics plays a role in the number of people affected by HIV-AIDS in developed and developing countries. Throughout the years, many diseases have plagued mankind. Often, one forgets the past and focuses instead on the presen...

The Shroud of Turin: sacred Christian relic or clever fake? If it was created, it must have been by someone with extraordinary skills. The evidence points to one man, one of the greatest geniuses who has ever lived. Was Leonardo da Vinci the man behind the Shroud of Turin? Worshiped by millions a...

The History Channel shows us the Lost World of the Vikings and the advances and technology of the Nordic culture....

ABSTRACT Every year since the late 70’s the US National Science Foundation has supported a team of space scientists to search for meteorites in Antarctica. Why Antarctica? The polar desert environment best preserves these precious samples of other worlds, which include shattered planetesimals,...

Factual Factory- Stock Footage, (black & white) "Conserving A Heritage." Petroleum is hidden deep beneath the surface of America. In their search for oil, drillers sometimes get water instead. The water is turned over to government officials that put it to good use. Drilling Rig off the coast of Cal...

From the Colossus of Rhodes and Egypt’s pyramids to the Hoover Dam and the Space Shuttle, mankind has celebrated the work of engineers. But what happens when their calculations prove wrong? From Hammurabi, who passed the first building laws, to today’s potential disasters that can wipe o...

From the crash of an El Al 747 into an Amsterdam Apartment buiding to the collapse of an Indiana ... road bridge due to inadequate support during construction, this episode explores 5 engineering disasters and the changes each one brought about....

The Dyslexia Myth (2005) exposes the myths and misconceptions that surround a condition said to affect 10 per cent of the population. The Dyslexia Myth argues that the common understanding of dyslexia is not only false but makes it more difficult to provide the reading help that hundreds of thousand...

The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 was a major earthquake that struck San Francisco, California and the coast of Northern California at 5:12 A.M. on Wednesday, April 18, 1906.[2] The most widely accepted estimate for the magnitude of the earthquake is a moment magnitude (Mw) of 7.8; however, other...

What are the low prices of Walmart costing not only America, but the entire world?...