Yet Poekel skirts this risk, and creates a minor marvel of quasi-documentary discovery, by way of a method that is at the core of contemporary independent filmmaking — bringing together a cast and crew of young independent-film regulars.
"The Sky Above, the Mud Below," Pierre-Dominique Gaisseau's documentary of discovery in the wilds of New Guinea, was the documentary winner in 1962.
I recently worked on a documentary for Discovery Channel, titled Health: When Sex, Race, and Location Matter.
A recent documentary from Discovery Channel found that elephant ivory was readily available to an undercover Chinese buyer in a market in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
After 9/11, he produced Times television documentaries for Discovery about rebuilding ground zero.
Last year, IMG acquired two British production companies, Tiger Aspect, the largest supplier of programming to the BBC, and Darlow Smithson, which makes documentaries for Discovery and National Geographic.
Mark Gibbings-Jones 8pm, Channel 4 Like a daft pub conversation extended to an hour and given a patina of credibility by the participation of actual scientists, this documentary explores discoveries made by miners in Colombia: excavators came upon the fossilised remains of two gargantuan beasts, a 43ft snake and a huge croc.
Your kids resolve to stop demanding more Deadly 60 cards every single bloody day, to cut down on the chilli Doritos, to watch fewer incredibly scary documentaries on Discovery just before bedtime, to remove their plates at least as far from the table as, maybe, a bit further down the table?
Any kind of sports became little more than a blur, and even documentaries on Discovery Channel lost much of their appeal.
And so, latterly, are things like actual history on The History Channel or documentaries on Discovery or things about animals on Animal Planet.
We divided our subjects randomly in two groups: eight supine bed-rested older subjects who on each day performed 50 min of spatial navigation training in a virtual environment (VE) with joystick (CT group) and another eight supine bed-rested older subjects who watched documentaries on Discovery channel for 50 min (control group) in a separate room.
