Documentaries I've Watched (6-10)

54 Watch 100 Documentaries

006. Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood (2008)
68 min
Creator: Steven Smith

This documentary looks at how the social, financial and moral forces all helped shape one of the most intriguing periods in Hollywood history.

007. Russia, Land of the Tsars (2003)
120 min (including comercials)
Creator: Don Campbell

008. Great Railway Journeys of the World: Confessions of a Train Spotter (1980)
Creator: Michael Palin

Michael Palin travels from London to Kyle of Lochalsh in the north of Scotland.

009. Great Railway Journeys: Derry to Kerry (1994)
Creator: Victoria Silver

Michael Palin travels through Ireland - from Derry in the North down to his ancestral homeland of Kerry in the South.

010. Sahara with Michael Palin (2002)
Episode 3
50 min
Creator: Michael Palin

In this four part BBC television series presented by British comedian and travel presenter Michael Palin, and broadcast in 2002. In it, Palin traveled around the Sahara Desert in Northern and Western Africa in four episodes: 1° Line in the Sand - from Gibraltar (British crown colony enclaved in Spain) to amazingly varied Morocco, Western Sahara (disputed by morocco and the Polisaro liberation movement) and Mauritania (another ultra-poor Sahel country, yet plagued by extreme obesity, even as a result of forced feeding of women as a status symbol); 2° Destination Timbuktu - Senegal and Mali; 3° Absolute Desert - Mali and Niger; 4° Dire Straits - Algeria, Libya, Tunisia, Ceuta (a Spanish enclave in Morocco where refugees hope to enter Europe) and back to Gibraltar.