# Recommend some youtube or google video (or other) documentaries. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 19, 2010, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-youtube-or-google-video-or-other-documentaries/554293 "2010-09-19T15:40:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2010, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-youtube-or-google-video-or-other-documentaries/554293/1 "2010-09-19T15:40:14Z")
I’m in the mood for some documentary viewing. No specifics just recommend something good/interesting. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2010, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-youtube-or-google-video-or-other-documentaries/554293/2 "2010-09-19T17:36:22Z")
David Attenborough and The Lyre Bird. One of my favorite youtube clips. Warning! Ad:[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSB71jNq-yQ](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSB71jNq-yQ) Fake documentaries: Zinc Oxide and you: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/oAJ4XVmI4dc/hqdefault.jpg "Zinc oxide and you - Kentucky fried movie") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAJ4XVmI4dc) Brown 25: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/008BPUdQ1XA/hqdefault.jpg "Brown 25 (from Uranus)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=008BPUdQ1XA) ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2010, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-youtube-or-google-video-or-other-documentaries/554293/3 "2010-09-19T18:21:43Z")
> [@furryman](#): > > David Attenborough and The Lyre Bird. One of my favorite youtube clips. > Warning! Ad:[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSB71jNq-yQ](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSB71jNq-yQ) > > Fake documentaries: > Zinc Oxide and you: > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAJ4XVmI4dc](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAJ4XVmI4dc) > > Brown 25: > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=008BPUdQ1XA](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=008BPUdQ1XA) I find it hard to believe the Lyre Bird clip once it gets to making sounds of creaking wood and chainsaws. Is this/the clip a whoosh? ---
**Author:** ![sisu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@sisu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sisu)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-youtube-or-google-video-or-other-documentaries/554293/4 "2010-09-20T02:39:38Z")
Don’t know what a “whoosh” is but believe me the sounds they make are real. I once heard a steam train in the bush at night and at first it freaked me out until we realised what is was. They are by far the coolest bird in the Australian forest. This is fair dinkum 100% true blue. Now, drop bears are a different story. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-youtube-or-google-video-or-other-documentaries/554293/5 "2010-09-20T06:16:36Z")
I’ve always liked [The Old Negro Space Program](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6xJzAYYrX8). ---
**Author:** ![dzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f9b8f/32.png) [@dzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dzero)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-youtube-or-google-video-or-other-documentaries/554293/6 "2010-09-20T07:07:29Z")
Search “the day the earth nearly died” - about the permian-triassic extinction - some crackpots claim similarities to events today. Stay away form Zeitgeist 1,2, etc and anything from Terry Jones - docufantasy. ---
**Author:** ![wolf-alice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9e8a1a/32.png) [@wolf-alice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf-alice)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-youtube-or-google-video-or-other-documentaries/554293/7 "2010-09-20T08:37:17Z")
I always recommend [Rain In My Heart](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NP0InrPZpjg). It’s depressing but brilliant. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-youtube-or-google-video-or-other-documentaries/554293/8 "2010-09-21T00:44:44Z")
I don’t have the links but YouTube has The Haunted World of Ed Wood Jr. Two documentary sites have God’s Cartoonist (about Jack Chick) and The Nomi Song (about Klaus Nomi). If you can find it, Frazetta: Painting with Fire is really great. ---
**Author:** ![Cyberhwk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7993a0/32.png) [@Cyberhwk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyberhwk)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-youtube-or-google-video-or-other-documentaries/554293/9 "2010-09-21T03:22:05Z")
[Sonicsgate: Requiem for a Team](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9Dp20ydm1E)