Saturday, August 29, 2009

The great Books and Documentaries I have watched

Documentaries

Obesity Epidemic

How the American Epidemic is now ebcoming a problem all around - Globesity - Fat's New Frontier


Hiostry of Science


BBC Four - Atom by  Jim Al-Khalili

Evolutionary Biology and the Intelligent Design
Start of the Evolutionay Biology
Evolutionary Biology - A must read for any biologist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Selfish_Gene

Atheism and how atheism is fighting the war on science

By Richard Attenborough War on Science
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=war+on+science+duration%3Along&num=20#

By Richard Dawkins - (Top 100 greatest living genius by Telegraph)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_God_Delusion
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=god+delusion++duration%3Along&num=20#

By Bill Maher Religulous
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=Religulous+duration%3Along&num=20#

How Computer Industry was born
Triumph of Nerds
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=triumph+of+nerds+duration%3Along&num=20#

How Protestant though and philosophy has transformed world
Protestant revolution BBC Documentary
http://exchristian.net/exchristian/2009/03/protestant-revolution.html

How Protestant Religion and its impact
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant_Reformation

How one single family lead to Renaissance be it Arts Michelangelo or Science Galilieo. See what Wall Street of middle world gave to world
The Medici:Godfathers of the Renaissance: PBS Dynasty series
http://www.joost.com/2370002/t/The-Medici-Godfathers-of-the-Renaissance-Birth-of-a-Dynasty#id=2370002

 A documentary on /non western civilization like Eastern Civilization especailly in context of first 1991 Iraq war. When Sumerian Babylon civilization and it then continues to Chinese and Indian civilization. A good comparision of western thought of life as vital counter point to western way of thinking.

Legacy - The Origins of Civilization BBC with Michael Woods.

See all of them here http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/legacy-the-origins-of-civilization/


Some series on Some Great Conquests
Alexander
 In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great BBC Series with Michael Woods. The best is the last paortion of how Alexander dead before his humility seeing himself not as Zeus (son og God) but as human.

How Consquistdors conquered the Americas.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conquistadors_(TV_Series)

Episode list

  1. The Fall of the Aztecs
  2. The Conquest of the Incas
  3. The Search for El Dorado
  4. All World is Human



Indian Diaspora
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/southasia/Diaspora/diaspora.html
Indian Coolies (Porters) or slaves that went to West Indies, Fiji , etc
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/coolies.shtml
Indian Diaspora in Uganda - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indians_in_Uganda
Some statistics of Indians in other countries
Google Book on Indian Diaspora : The Indian diaspora: dynamics of migration
Good Indian Site about Indian Diapsora. http://www.indiandiaspora.nic.in/diasporapdf/chapter15.pdf


Immigration to North America including USA
A really good book detailing with respect to Hinduism
A place at the multicultural table: the development of an American Hinduism


History of India
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_India
Documentary on Indian History
The Story of India read about it here
See the video here
Watch it on Google Video

One done Jawaharlal Nehru's book Discovery of India - See some fo the Doordarshan Serial Bharat Ek Khoj here

Good books on Indian History

Freedom at Midnight by Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins. Dominique Lapierre is a great story writer who writes on history. His best book is certainly O Jerusalem!
Discovery of India by Jawaharlal Nehru read aout it here


American Society

How American woman in workforce and its effect on Family

Two different takes on it funnily both were done in 2003. :-)

Looking into post WWII and how Feminist Movement was born or better why it was born.
Mona Lisa Smile
A Beautiful movie: Which really reminded of Indian young women in India when we were growing up, especially of why girls should get educated, to get a better match.

A Completely take on it after 40 years after Feminism movement.
A Great book:The Two Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers Are Going Broke
MSNBC Article On it
CBS: The Early Show
Amazon: Customer Review on the Book


Birth of Neo-Conservatism and how 

How Car Culture has changed American Soceity
THE END OF SUBURBIA: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of The American Dream

The Military Industrial Complex
Why we Fight

Michaeil Moore's: Fahrenheit 9/11

No End in Sight
A really good documentary on why the Initial Days of Iraq war lead to many of problems are facing now, including sectarian violence and complete break of law and order and simple basic social amenities

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