Watched this on Netflix "Watch Instantly". There were many amazing scenes, including
a) A male gorilla describing (using sign language) how his mom was shot when he was an infant.
b) Koko selecting a mate through video dating. She was very clear about who she liked and didn't. When she found her favorite, she asked her trainer to bring him to her.
c) Koko painting a picture of her favorite dog -- deliberately selecting only black and white from a palette of 5-10 other colors.

Quoted: Narrated by Martin Sheen, this installment of the Emmy award-winning PBS series Nature features the story of the famous gorilla named Koko. Collecting conversations -- in which Koko "spoke" via sign language -- from a decades-long dialogue with the ape, this program details the wants and needs expressed by Koko and her complexity and creativity.

Quoted: Ostensibly a look at four old-world Austrian businesses that won’t survive gentrification, this rewarding documentary is really about the quiet moments and the banter that takes place among the aging proprietors. Beautifully shot and absolutely charming, it recalls of a time when community was more important than consumerism.

419 documentaries.

Recommended by my friend Luke.

Quoted: A devastating and heartrending take on grizzly bear activists Timothy Treadwell and Amie Huguenard, who were killed in October of 2003 while living among grizzlies in Alaska.

Just watched this based on other people's dots. A number of interesting things in here:
a) The Chinese government following Tiananmen Square made a conscious "compromise" with the people to open up the economy but maintain the one-party system and control of the press.
b) Students at Beijing University had could not identify the "Tankman" picture from Tiananmen Square. Censorship has had the desired effect.
c) It is well-known that Western technology companies have aided the Chinese government in censoring the Internet. What was more surprising was the extent to which these companies have helped the Chinese government track the activities of dissident Chinese citizens.

The full show is available online.

Quoted: On June 5, 1989, one day after Chinese troops expelled thousands of demonstrators from Tiananmen Square in Beijing, a solitary, unarmed protester stood his ground before a column of tanks advancing down the Avenue of Eternal Peace. Captured by Western photographers watching nearby, this extraordinary confrontation became an icon of the fight for freedom around the world. On April 11, veteran filmmaker Antony Thomas investigates the mystery of the tank man -- his identity, his fate, and his significance for the Chinese leadership. The search for the tank man reveals China's startling social compact -- its embrace of capitalism while dissent is squashed -- designed to stifle the nationwide unrest of 1989. This policy has allowed educated elites and entrepreneurs to profit handsomely, while the majority of Chinese still face brutal working conditions and low wages, and all Chinese must endure strict political and social controls. Some of these controls regulate speech on the Internet -- and have generated criticism over the involvement of major U.S. corporations such as Yahoo!, Cisco, Microsoft, and Google.

Good documentary. He uses dna from blood samples to build a family tree for the human race. Four stars instead of five only because the narrator/scientist is a little high on himself.

Quoted: This show is so compelling and complete in its coverage of how we/man evolved and traveled out of Africa. Dr. Wells travels to Namibia, Kazakhstan, Siberia, Arizona, Brazil, North Australia, and South India among other places. He incorporates interviews with other scientists to support his work - such as linguists.

Quoted: Wells also relies on a controversial theory of cognitive development that suggests that early homo sapiens may have looked like modern humans by around 100,000 years ago, but that brain development lagged far behind. According to this theory, somewhere around 60,000 years ago, there was a "great cognitive leap forward," during which the human brain became essentially modern.