Watch free documentaries online at the Documentary Database. Here are the recently added documentaries to the website http://free-documentaries-online.com http://free-documentaries-online.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sat, 25 Jun 2011 21:45:16 +1000 Sat, 25 Jun 11 21:45:05 +1000 en-us How can a few crucial minutes in a football match change the life of an entire family? How do the men in black feel when they are attacked by supporters? Kill the Referee unveils the lives of several professional football referees at the EURO 2008 championship; amongst them, the English referee Howard Webb, who provoked incredible controversy when he gave a penalty to Austria just before the end of the match with Poland, and the Italian Roberto Rosetti, who refereed the final. Other Titl... Watch Now]]> http://free-documentaries-online.com/watch/kill_the_referee-full.php Thu, 22 Sep 11 18:19:22 +1000 The full Season 3 of Ancient Aliens Episode List: Aliens and the Old West: Ancient Astronaut theorists believe aliens have been visiting earth for thousands of years. If so, might we find evidence of this even in the stories of America's Old West? In Aurora, Texas, the local cemetery claims to hold the body of an alien whose ship crashed there in 1897. In Utah, petroglyphs depict strange beings wearing what look like space suits. In southern California, 19th century ranchers reporte... Watch Now]]> http://free-documentaries-online.com/watch/ancient_aliens_season_3-full.php Thu, 22 Sep 11 18:13:06 +1000 Ancient Astronaut theorists believe aliens have been visiting earth for thousands of years. If so, might we find evidence of this even in the stories of America's Old West? In Aurora, Texas, the local cemetery claims to hold the body of an alien whose ship crashed there in 1897. In Utah, petroglyphs depict strange beings wearing what look like space suits. In southern California, 19th century ranchers reported seeing an otherworldly creature emerge from Elizabeth Lake. And even in Tombstone, Ari... Watch Now]]> http://free-documentaries-online.com/watch/ancient_aliens_s03e01_aliens_and_the_old_west-full.php Tue, 20 Sep 11 17:02:41 +1000 A mysterious code underpins the world. But what does it mean and what can we learn from it? Marcus du Sautoy takes us on an odyssey to uncover the code and reveal its meaning. A code that has the power to explain everything, from the numbers and shapes we see all around us to the rules that govern our own lives. In This Episode - Prediction: This time it’s the strange world of what happens next. Professor du Sautoy’s odyssey starts with the lunar eclipse – once thought s... Watch Now]]> http://free-documentaries-online.com/watch/the_code_prediction-full.php Tue, 20 Sep 11 16:46:42 +1000 A mysterious code underpins the world. But what does it mean and what can we learn from it? Marcus du Sautoy takes us on an odyssey to uncover the code and reveal its meaning. A code that has the power to explain everything, from the numbers and shapes we see all around us to the rules that govern our own lives. In This Episode - Shapes: Starting at the hexagonal columns of Northern Ireland’s Giant’s Causeway, he discovers the code underpinning the extraordinary order foun... Watch Now]]> http://free-documentaries-online.com/watch/the_code_shapes-full.php Tue, 20 Sep 11 16:46:33 +1000 A mysterious code underpins the world. But what does it mean and what can we learn from it? Marcus du Sautoy takes us on an odyssey to uncover the code and reveal its meaning. A code that has the power to explain everything, from the numbers and shapes we see all around us to the rules that govern our own lives. In This Episode - Numbers: In this first episode, Marcus reveals how significant numbers appear throughout the natural world. They’re part of a hidden mathematical w... Watch Now]]> http://free-documentaries-online.com/watch/the_code_numbers-full.php Tue, 20 Sep 11 16:46:31 +1000 A great flood would leave a signature. It would be a very very large signature apparent all over the world. There is no such signature. There's no evidence, in fact there is only overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Ian Plimer, Geologist According to the Bible, a global flood occurred about 5000 years ago and after the catastrophe, Noah and his family landed in the Mountains of Ararat. Geologically --and logically--, is it possible to believe such a story? Archaeological datas show... Watch Now]]> http://free-documentaries-online.com/watch/noahs_ark_the_real_story-full.php Mon, 19 Sep 11 17:53:37 +1000 Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (22 April 1870 – 21 January 1924) was a Russian revolutionary, author, lawyer, economic theorist, political philosopher, creator of the Soviet Communist Party, leader of the 1917 October Revolution, and founder of the USSR. As head of the Bolsheviks (1917–1924) he led the Red Army to victory in the Russian Civil War, before establishing the world's first officially socialist state. As a theorist, his extensive theoretical and philosophical contributions to Marxism produ... Watch Now]]> http://free-documentaries-online.com/watch/lenin_revolutionary-full.php Mon, 19 Sep 11 17:40:51 +1000 Military jobs can be dangerous and extreme, but they can also be downright dirty. This episode will show the lesser known, but essential jobs in the military that put men and women in situations that would make many cringe.... Watch Now]]> http://free-documentaries-online.com/watch/toughest_military_jobs_dirt-full.php Sun, 18 Sep 11 23:01:40 +1000 DIRTY JOBS profiles the unsung American laborers who make their living in the most unthinkable — yet vital — ways. Our brave host and apprentice Mike Rowe will introduce you to a hardworking group of men and women who overcome fear, danger and sometimes stench and overall ickiness to accomplish their daily tasks. In This Episode: Mike travels to Hawaii where he harnesses up and hops into a bosun's chair to clean windows 40-stories above downtown Honolulu. ... Watch Now]]> http://free-documentaries-online.com/watch/dirty_jobs_high_rise_window_washer-full.php Fri, 16 Sep 11 15:09:51 +1000 For the first time, Mayor Rudy Giuliani relives the day when the city he was in charge of came under attack. September 11th 2001 was a day that changed the world. Informed over an 8am breakfast meeting, Giuliani had a choice: co-ordinate from afar or head downtown to the centre of the devastation. The decisions he would make in the next 12 hours would save lives. While the world watched in shock, he had to act: he went downtown. Surrounded by death, chaos and carnage, he displayed exemplary qual... Watch Now]]> http://free-documentaries-online.com/watch/giuliani_commanding_911-full.php Wed, 14 Sep 11 12:02:01 +1000 This feature-length drama-documentary tells the story of 9/11 in the words of key political and military leaders as well as ordinary people who suddenly found themselves on the frontlines of a new kind of war. In the chaos of the day, many people faced split-second decisions that they had never expected or planned for - and their actions could make the difference between life and death. Through a minute-by-minute investigation, this film tells the story of those whose choices would help sha... Watch Now]]> http://free-documentaries-online.com/watch/911_state_of_emergency-full.php Wed, 14 Sep 11 11:56:12 +1000 Long ago scores of real pirates plied their brutal trade in the temperate waters of the Caribbean Ocean. In the 1600s and 1700s, Captain Henry Morgan, Blackbeard, Calico Jack Rackham, Ann Bonny, Mary Read, and Black Bart were among the infamous pirates whose crews lied in wait to violently raid the merchant ships of various nations. The true stories of who they were, how they operated, and their various successes and failures in this dark and deadly profession, go far beyond popular legend. THE ... Watch Now]]> http://free-documentaries-online.com/watch/true_caribbean_pirates-full.php Mon, 12 Sep 11 21:58:31 +1000 Could the RMS Titanic have survived its 1912 encounter with an iceberg... but for a single design flaw? This provocative History Channel documentary explores a unique theory about the notable tragedy with the help of expert divers, archival photographs, cutting-edge computer-generated imagery, and rare documents.... Watch Now]]> http://free-documentaries-online.com/watch/titanics_achilles_heel-full.php Mon, 12 Sep 11 21:53:30 +1000 Before dawn on May 2, a pair of Blackhawk helicopters carrying two dozen Navy seals left Jalalabad, Afghanistan, and entered Pakistani airspace using stealth technology to evade Pakistan’s radar systems. Forty minutes after reaching their destination in Abbottabad, Osama bin Laden, mastermind of the September 11 attacks on the United States, was dead. When the team reentered Afghanistan’s airspace with bin Laden’s body, the sun had not yet risen, and the Pakistani government was ... Watch Now]]> http://free-documentaries-online.com/watch/killing_bin_laden_operation_neptune_spear-full.php Mon, 12 Sep 11 21:48:07 +1000 Modern forensic science should make it impossible to commit murder and get away with it. But how easy would it be to outfox the detectives? With the help of top forensic scientists, and real-life murder investigations, we explore whether it’s possible to commit a perfect murder. The body is the most important piece of evidence in any murder. Pathologist Dr Richard Shepherd reveals the crucial clues that give away the secrets of a suspicious death. Dr Lee Goff can work out a time of death ... Watch Now]]> http://free-documentaries-online.com/watch/how_to_commit_the_perfect_murder-full.php Mon, 12 Sep 11 21:41:51 +1000 Mystery has surrounded these epic structures for centuries with theories varying from the scientific to the bizarre. However with over thirty seven years of in depth research taking in sites from China, Peru, Mexico and Egypt one scientist has as at last managed first to understand and then to prove what lies behind this greatest of archaeological mysteries: a message of paramount importance for all mankind, through time and space.... Watch Now]]> http://free-documentaries-online.com/watch/the_revelation_of_the_pyramids-full.php Sun, 11 Sep 11 21:54:01 +1000 The Iceman is an appropriate title for this pair of HBO specials, because the words of former Mafia enforcer Richard Kuklinski will chill you to the bone. Speaking in the monotonous drone of a man who has numbed himself with remorseless brutality, Kuklinski was first interviewed in 1991, five years after receiving consecutive life sentences for multiple murders. Specializing in the tidy use of cyanide, Kuklinski lived a double life, like the fictional hitmen in The Sopranos and Road to Perdition... Watch Now]]> http://free-documentaries-online.com/watch/the_iceman_confessions_of_a_mafia_hitman-full.php Sun, 11 Sep 11 21:42:32 +1000 Machine to Die For is about the search for perpetual motion and free energy. Conventional science claims this is impossible, yet generations of inventors have been mesmerized by the promise of an engine that powers itself. The world’s reliance on diminishing fossil fuel resources and the associated problems of pollution serve to spur them on. A Machine to Die For showcases a number of dedicated, sometimes eccentric, and always obsessive individuals who have devoted their lives t... Watch Now]]> http://free-documentaries-online.com/watch/a_machine_to_die_for_the_quest_for_free_energy-full.php Fri, 09 Sep 11 17:54:56 +1000 Andrew Marr discovers something surprising about his own evolutionary history as this epic series continues with an exploration of Darwin's impact on politics and society. Under the banner of Survival of the Fittest, Darwin's theory of natural selection has been used to justify imperial expansion and the oppression of indigenous peoples; to inform the science of eugenics - the selective breeding of humans which was implemented in the United States in the early 20th century; and to provide a... Watch Now]]> http://free-documentaries-online.com/watch/darwins_dangerous_idea_born_equal-full.php Tue, 06 Sep 11 16:48:03 +1000