Netflix Documentaries

[Bouncer]

My Netflix HD quality has completely gone to crap over the last couple of months. Everything looks like SD. I can't bear to watch it anymore. Netflix says it's Comcast's problem and vice versa.... My ping is at 10msec and DL speeds are over 60Mbps, so I know it is not my connection. Not sure what's going on. Pretty much stick to Amazon Prime these days.

Definitely Comcast throttling it. It still looks fine on ATT U-Verse. "superhd 1080" as Netflix calls it looks as good as blu ray.

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The bison that died giving birth killed me. The way the other bison was trying to wake her up. :(

Yeah, got a lump in my throat watching that scene. I saw something similar in an elephant documentary when all the elephants in a group go and handle the tusks and bones of a dead elephant that we once part of the group. Very touching.

I wonder what goes through the minds of these animals.... Are they aware of death in the abstract sense that humans are aware of? Are they merely paying their respects to a family member? Are they experiencing a sense of loss?

I know for a fact that cows have emotions and mourn loss. My grandfather had cows on his farm. I was about 5 or 6 years old and I remember it like it was yesterday. A cow had a young calf that got sick and died. The cow did everything she could to get the dead calf to get up, in vain. She had tears running down her face and she cried for days. It was the first time I had seen a non-human species cry and it had a profound effect on me.

[Bouncer]

Yeah, got a lump in my throat watching that scene. I saw something similar in an elephant documentary when all the elephants in a group go and handle the tusks and bones of a dead elephant that we once part of the group. Very touching.

I wonder what goes through the minds of these animals.... Are they aware of death in the abstract sense that humans are aware of? Are they merely paying their respects to a family member? Are they experiencing a sense of loss?

I know for a fact that cows have emotions and mourn loss. My grandfather had cows on his farm. I was about 5 or 6 years old and I remember it like it was yesterday. A cow had a young calf that got sick and died. The cow did everything she could to get the dead calf to get up, in vain. She had tears running down her face and she cried for days. It was the first time I had seen a non-human species cry and it had a profound effect on me.

Have you seen blackfish? Its on netflix. The way the parents call for their baby that had been taken. They literally scream.

I think animals "feel" more then we think.

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Thanks bro, I haven't seen that. I'll look for it.

[Bouncer]

A must see. Seriously.

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This is a clip from the elephant documentary I was referring to:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5RiHTSXK2A

[Turbo3000]

Have you seen blackfish? Its on netflix. The way the parents call for their baby that had been taken. They literally scream.

I think animals "feel" more then we think.

I don't think that I can watch it.

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Dogs Decoded... on Season 6 of Nova. It is on Amazon Prime, may be on Netflix as well.

Great documentary on the origin f dogs. I won't give it away but the experiment on silver foxes was amazing.

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Dogs Decoded... on Season 6 of Nova. It is on Amazon Prime, may be on Netflix as well.

Great documentary on the origin f dogs. I won't give it away but the experiment on silver foxes was amazing.

That was good.

[Bouncer]

American Lives

PBS Documentary series by Ken Burns

Basically life stories of various important people who played a role in American History.

This is on Amazon Prime.

[MattG]

Sweet. Ken Burns documentaries are the shit :agreed:

[Bouncer]

Sweet. Ken Burns documentaries are the shit :agreed:

For sure. First one in the series is about Susan B Anthony. Amazing Woman for her time.

[Bouncer]

Pretty interesting.

Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip In the spring of 1903, on a whim and a fifty-dollar bet, Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson set off from San Francisco in a 20-horsepower Winton touring car hoping to become the first person to cross the United States in the new-fangled "horseless carriage."

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^ Cool... I'll check it out!

My Netflix stream seems to be a lot better now. Super HD is pertty spectacular, got to admit!

Here's one that I found very good. Cinematography is phenomenal. It is made by Disney Nature, but there was no cute anthropomorphizing here... nature in the raw. I saw footage here that even "regular" wildlife shows don't show. Lots of dipshits on the Netflix website giving it 2 stars because they were expecting some cute Disney movie and their 4 yo kid got traumatized because a marabou stork ate the flamingo chicks.. :retard:

Watch The Crimson Wing: Mystery of the Flamingos Online | Netflix

[Mr I]

I tell ya one thing, being able to watch series right through instead of having to wait a week between episodes is brilliant