# what are your favourite speeches or documentaries available on Youtube or elsewhere?

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**Created:** [April 20, 2010, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favourite-speeches-or-documentaries-available-on-youtube-or-elsewhere/536710 "2010-04-20T03:27:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Livardo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/43a26b/32.png) [@Livardo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Livardo)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favourite-speeches-or-documentaries-available-on-youtube-or-elsewhere/536710/1 "2010-04-20T03:27:52Z")

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Would you be so kind as to share your favourite speeches or documentaries available online? The subject matter doesn’t matter as long as you found it interesting. err… perhaps no creationism debates or atheist speeches. I’ve seen most of them.

Cheers.

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**Author:** ![Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8edcca/32.png) [@Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superfluous_Parentheses)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favourite-speeches-or-documentaries-available-on-youtube-or-elsewhere/536710/2 "2010-04-20T06:51:01Z")

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Just a few from my favorites list. I left out a whole load of religious debates 🙂

John Hodgman’s TED talk: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W51H1croBw](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W51H1croBw)  
Synth Brittania - documentary on the early days of synth pop in the UK. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeVRYPjcVXg](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeVRYPjcVXg)  
Douglas Adams; Parrots the Universe and Everything. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\_ZG8HBuDjgc](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZG8HBuDjgc)  
Look Around you module 2: “Water”; [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCWA7uevo\_Q](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCWA7uevo_Q)

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**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favourite-speeches-or-documentaries-available-on-youtube-or-elsewhere/536710/3 "2010-04-20T07:30:08Z")

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William Hague laying into Gordon Brown: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6Cj1b-rp1E](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6Cj1b-rp1E)

Daniel Hannan laying into Gordon Brown: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94lW6Y4tBXs](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94lW6Y4tBXs)

William Hague again: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UejDW2y3Aq4](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UejDW2y3Aq4)