An excellent documentary.
935644
Are you interested in ancient Greece and the Aztec's?
No?
Then why are you reading this?
If you answered yes, then get ready for an awesome documentary.

Ok, the good.
Great acting, great score, great pacing etc...
There was a ton of history thrown in here.
The parts on ancient Greece were incredible.
There was a ton of information in there I did not know about or had forgotten.
But as good as the parts on ancient Greece were the Aztec parts were the icing on the cake.
I've always found the Aztec culture fascinating.
Scary but fascinating and the documentary does an excellent job of providing answers as to how their civilization got started and how it ended.
Their bloody rituals were also explained in detail without being overly dramatic or graphic.

The bad?
Nothing.
Everything about this documentary was done right and done extremely well.

For people who are into history this comes...
Highly recommended.
3940475
Top notch production.  This is one of the best documentaries I've ever seen.  And what an intreging idea:  a camera crew goes back in time and documents the habitats of these creatures that watched the earth millions of years before us and millions of years longer than us.  It's presentations like WALkING that make you wonder about our place in the world.  I get a similar feeling with the Jodie Foster movie CONTACT.  WALKING is overflowing with quality.  Even when the makers had to guess about certain looks and behaviors (i.e., the color of dinosaurs and the way a ornithocheirus walks when it's not flying) are all wonderfully educated.
Now, I was all set to give this a lower score (4 stars) because I noticed that the picture seemed to be bobbing up and down a little and "fluttering" at times.  That may just be my player program so I'll not downgrade it yet.
Be sure to watch the wonderful "Making of..." documentary AFTER you have watched all parts of the program.  I think it makes the overall impact less potient when you know how things were done. But DO watch it because it's alternatingly funny and enlightening.
WALKING complements the other dino-movies like the Jurassic Parks and Dinosaur.  It's better in many ways and not as good in others.  It's a DVD you'll watch at least once a year.
It's worth the price.  Good show!  Thank you BBC!
4676243
I love the way this documentary is laid out and presented.  It is balanced and informative yet has an element of drama without the hype of other modern docudramas.  Highly recommend this video.
2393107
Protagonist is by far one of the most interesting and well made documentaries that I have seen in a long time. Director Jessica Yu truly shows audiences her exquisite skills as a director and filmmaker alike. This documentary takes the viewer on an exciting journey into the psyches of four men who search to rectify themselves from their pasts by following extreme ambitions and paying little regard to themselves and others around them until it is almost too late.  Protagonist's subjects are both darkly seducing as well as spiritually enlightening.  I highly recommend this movie to anyone.  Its characters are not only intellectually stimulating, and sincere but also very funny and humored. This is truly a great documentary.
2448093
We really enjoyed this documentary, both for its production value and its interesting subject. It is an inspiring story.
2467209
An excellent documentary film which holds the viewers' attention from the beginning to the end.  I learned so much about the National Surveillance Agency, citizen's privacy rights and freedom of speech.  I also admired Edward Snowden for being courageous to do what he did in.  Because of his whistle-blowing, the Freedom Act Law was enacted to protect the privacy of US Citizens.
3501563
Killing Jimmy Hoffa was an excellent documentary.......very insightful......
4775968
I love this documentary, I can watch it over and over again. You always learn something new that you might not have caught the first time around. It is thought provoking and I find myself Goggling different topics from the movie. This in turn creates more questions, however good documentaries have a tendency to do that. The tone is light with some humor which makes it easier to take in the sometimes disturbing information. I highly recommend and look forward to more from Ray.
1875757
This was a facinating documentary. One of the few I missed. A family member said it was good, and it was. I found it better than most others of this genre, being well produced. This hit almost every newspaper and radio broadcast across the country. It was Big News.
This is a story about a cold blooded, indicriminate, child's murder, but without the unneccesary gore, not allowed at that time, as is in our times.

Delving into the the relationship of these two young peoples lives and their (psychological, mental) thinking, thoughts, both separate and together, for the understanding of this terrible crime, was complex to say the least. It was, as the title suggest, (almost) a perfect crime, except for the surprising and simple slip-up clue that rushing egos sometimes commit.
They were both raised by nannies, and both developed abandonment issues. They both had advantage in life, and so did notdid not fit the profile (of expertise at the time). One suffered more than the other, and their intimate relationship, described as homoseual and deviant, itself was deemed complex, as one was the "master" and the other his "slave".
Well worth the time to watch it.
1648593
Very good documentary.  I am amazed at the dedication of Tim in order to complete this project.
3600993
They did a good job with this documentary.  It takes place over a number of years, and I watched a young girl mature into a young lady.  Watching this film....wow, it's wrenching.  It's remarkable this young woman spent hours and years practicing, memorizing music, and competing, but she relates to other people very well.  She's made extremely difficult personal decisions.  She lived alone in NYC at the age of 15.  Her career choice is phenomenal, and shows her love of music, and a very deep compassion for children.  I liked it so much that I will watch it multiple times.
666756
This is one of those documentaries that make history, as few do, because of their interviewing real victims and protagonists of the facts. The facts are basically the Holocaust, the tortures, killings and persecutions of Jews of France by German Nazis and its French anonymous collaborators... everything focused on one person, the notorious Gestapo agent Klaus Barbie.

Remember that 1000 people massacred doesn't reach as much to the heart as one person tortured, with a name and last name to identify. Well this documentary does this job. We, the audience, can hardly appreciate -sitting in the comfort of our free Western societies, decades now away from those terrible times- the value of a document like this one. The film starts at Barbie's birthplace, family circle, etc. and moves, in four hours, to his trial at old age in France. Like a detective story it traces his life through family members, victims, people who met him and people who just might have been his neighbors, knowingly or not. What I mean is, regardless of the film being wonderfully directed and entertaining, this film has a value that makes it priceless. Here is a picture of society, made up of all kinds of people (it is France and Germany, but it is rather about the Homo Sapiens), and it shows how all humans fail to live up to what we expect of others than ourselves. If not guilty of some heinous crime, we might fail because of collaboration; if not by collaboration, then by omission of help; and if not by this, then maybe by throwing the stone at someone whose shoes we are not in. We all fall short.

This documentary is priceless. We are liable to do it again, right here today, in the West. We are already, in fact: don't we ignore the crimes that dictatorial regimes and Muslim loonies perpetrate to thousands every single day, specially to women? We are not the Resistance; we are collaborators.
3633307
Very well done documentary. Adding the personal touch from the owners point of view makes the subject come alive.
898032
A thoughtful look at the current global climate change movement, the data involved, and the conclusions drawn.  Significant time is spent on the likely repercussions of enacting climate change legislation.  As you can imagine, it won't be pretty.  The documentary also focuses on the harm caused by the anti-DDT campaign which has killed millions in impoverished nations.  It's a common sense look at the issues - sure to be unpopular with the global warming blindly faithful.  It's not a right-wing hate-fest either - just a well put together documentary that exposes some of the inconvenient truths that are ignored by those with an agenda.  Best documentary I've seen in years and I watch plenty.
244071
A fantastic documentary about perhaps the greatest film never made. This is comprised of interview footage, production photos and drawings, animations, and a really compelling soundtrack.

The way that the surviving concept art is animated, in combination with a soundtrack that is absolutely magnificent, leaves the viewer feeling that they have seen the film for real, and that they have been allowed a small insight into Jodorowsky's genius and madness.
3520925
I found this to be a well-done and informative documentary which focused on the impact of Nazism upon the local population as well as Europe. This film is long (five vhs videos) but well worth watching. I was particularly impressed with the interviews that they attained; former Nazis as well as victims of the regime. They also interviewed Germans who witnessed these times and events and asked them the hard questions such as "why didn't you do anything?" and "why did you participate in persecuting the Jews?"

This documentary has plenty of footage and clearly presents the events that took place under Nazism. Although there is no groundbreaking research presented here, I learned about events that I had no idea took place. The focus of this documentary is "a warning from history" and they clearly present this theme throughout this film. There are lessons to be learned about the power of ideology, nationalism and racism and how these streams of thoughts were used to sway a population and the danger of this happening again.
4203832
This is quite an enjoyable documentary that takes you on a journey around the 9/11 truth movement.

It is unusual for a film like this to made by a British Director, but he has done a reasonable job in getting some interesting footage, particulary getting to speak with Cynthia McKinney on her trip to London.

It starts with a look at some activists in UK/Europe, unfortunately it comes over as he is fighting a losing battle, in his attempt to get the 9/11 truth to the British public.  Yes, Blair & Co. have done an equally good job on us, as Bush did to the US.

The film then moves to the US, this is by far the best part as he gets to speak with W Rodriguez, First Responders, US 9/11 truth activists and films Alex Jones during various events.  He gets to the many issues around 9/11 that are being ignored or covered up by the US government.  The piece with First Responder John Feal is excellent, highlighting the suffering still happening as a result of 9/11.

Some of the footage you will have seen before if you follow Alex Jones films, and the style of the film is similar to a Jones production, which is no bad thing.

This is a decent introduction to 9/11 truth, as it gets its message across in a balanced and respectful way.  Its encouraging people are now realising the mainstream media and governments are working together to feed us untruths.