Good Documentaries

[Matt Emery]

Here is a list of some documentaries to look out for:

• BBC - Walking with Caveman
• BBC - The ascent of man (an old series but a good one)
• Ray Mears -Extreme Survival
• Survivorman
• Man Vs Wild
• The Century of Self

I'll add more as I think of them, got any suggestions?

[Jen]

Man's First Diet (BBC)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2006/06_june/01/diet.shtml

"The Paleolithic diet is the only one that fits ideally into our genetic make-up. Man's First Diet will find out how difficult it is for eight people to revert back to the Paleolithic diet."

Sadly the group really didn't take advantage of their unique opportunity.

[Kate]

Those are great, I checked them out!

Here are some other good ones, mainly dealing with human consumption/corruption/etc:

These are online, and the first one is only 20 minutes! (The second one, Zeitgeist I and II, are very intense, but have definitely changed my view of the world.)

http://www.storyofstuff.com/ 
http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/

I also recommend:

The Corporation      (about corporate greed)
The Beautiful Truth      (about healing cancer with whole foods!)
Collapse    (a pretty frightening but beautiful political documentary that just came out)

I also liked the recent Michael Moore film: Capitalism, a Love Story.  I usually dislike talking or thinking about anything that has to do with money or politics (why ruin a beautiful day?), but unfortunately, money and politics define our current system.   

[Camptravis]

Here is a 20/20 episode with John Stossel(might as well be a documentary) that is about the topic of greed.  It's somewhat of a different perspective when compared to the normal perception of greed, but I found it very eye opening.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0VHiONkot8  This is just part 1.  You can find the other parts in the "related videos" section.