Vincent Van Gogh is one of the most tragic artists of all-time. During his lifetime he sold no paintings. After less than ten years of serious painting, Van Gogh took his own life with a shot to the head – having sliced off a year a couple of years earlier. But now everyone wants a piece of Van Gogh.
On the battlefields of Iraq, Sgt. Samuel Tapia of the United States Army hit a roadside bomb. The explosion burned over 50% of his entire body. He lost his left fingers but gained a second chance.
NOVA is a full length documentary on contemporary art and the artists behind it. In Brazil, the Nova Contemporary Culture, a month long festival to celebrate young innovative artists, brings together 140 of the world’s most talented and brilliant minds in the contemporary art world.
Dan Hardy is a champion. He isn’t delusional about exactly where his talents lie: “I get paid to beat people up,” he has said at the Canadian/USA border when asked by border patrol what he does for a living. He’s not your average MMA fighter, however. He’s also known as a sweetheart.
Have you ever wondered if you would survive in the wilderness, on your wits, alone? Heimo Korth did. Now, he’s the last man standing in an Alaskan wilderness. His neighbor is a polar bear. His other neighbor is a caribou. Say goodbye to civilization.
Meet Mr. Happy Man: 88-year-old Bermudian Johnny Barnes devotes six hours every day to an endearing traffic ritual that has made him one of the island’s most cherished citizens. Come rain or shine, he’s there. He stands and blows kisses. This story will make you smile.
This is not a documentary. It’s not very long. You might want to move on and never watch this video. But I think that you would be missing out on something brief and special.
Who is your favorite news anchor? More and more Americans under 40 are answering: Jon Stewart.
The Theory of Special Relativity as part of the educational process: not for the sake of understanding the theory itself, but in using Einstein’s particular discovery as a case study to demonstrate and walk people through real human thinking.
Remember when Seinfeld’s George Costanza became a hand model? He had delicate, graceful hands that were the product of a lifetime without any physical or mental labor of any kind. Seinfeld was fiction but there does exist a Hollywood Hand Model who ruled the silver screen for a decade before losing it all.
Float like a butterfly and sting like a bee. You better watch out because he’s Muhammad Ali. A full-length documentary about the self appointed ‘greatest.’
Athlete, actor and activist Aimee Mullins talks about her prosthetic legs — she’s got a dozen amazing pairs — and the super-powers they grant her: speed, beauty, an extra 6 inches of height … Quite simply, she redefines what the body can be.
The USSR and the United State of America competed with all of their scientific might to put the first man into space. The United States lost. On April 12th, 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first person launched into space. He also became the first person to come back down to Earth.
Steve Jobs died in early October of 2011, but not before re-inventing the personal computer, the animation film industry, the music industry, the phone industry, etc, etc. A couple of weeks later, 60 minutes put out this biography on man who has left his fingerprint in virtually every home in the developed world.
BREAKING NEWS: Koney 2012: Part II – Beyond Famous has been released. DocumentaryStorm is the first to bring you the official response from the creators of the documentary and campaign. Controversial.
GUEST POST: If you have ever participated in the sport of paintball then you are aware of how dangerous, yet exhilarating it can be. I was very excited about my first adventure into the world of paintballing, but let me assure you it ended rather abruptly with the first shot I took off my thigh.
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