Showing posts with label Documentaries. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Documentaries. Show all posts

Sunday, November 16, 2025

Documentaries on Television

Repost from 2016:

This past week I was resting and trying to recover from symptoms of a cold.  I watched television, read, and played with CorelDRAW.  I enjoyed watching documentaries.

The "Magical Andes" was a spectacular tour of the Andes Mountains and the people who live there in South America.  This massive mountain range from Argentina to Columbia is 8,000 KM or 4,970 miles.  I have lived my whole life close to mountains.  I have toured, hiked, and camped in the San Gabriel mountains and San Bernardino mountains near Los Angeles, the Sierra and Cascade mountains in Northern California, and the Cascades in Washington and Oregon.  Views of mountains, up close and from afar, have been a dramatic experience in my life.  I don't think I will ever visit the Andes, but the Cascades (Mt. Hood, Mt. Adams, Mt. St. Helens, Mt. Rainer) will provide my fair share of mountain living.  This fine documentary film will take you directly into the Andes.

The business side of professional soccer and its impact on a working class community is shown in the documentary "Sunderland."  This team was loosing in 2017-2018, and dealing with failure is the challenging topic.

I enjoyed the doucmentary on "Design" featuring top design artists from around the world.

All of these fine documentaries are on Netflix, and probably on other television streaming applications a well.


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Andes Mountains





The photograph above is of Mount Shasta, California. It was taken by Evi Shoemaker of Rancho Tehama, California. Mount Shasta is a 14,179 foot (4,322 m) stratovolcano. It is the second highest peak in the Casade Range, and the fifth highest peak in California. It is a member of the Cascade Volcanic Arc. It is located in Siskiyou County, California, in the United States of America. It is considered to be one of the Sacred Mountains on Mother Earth. 


When I was 65 years of age I once climbed to about 10,000 feet on this volcano.  Most of the time we visited the sourrounding forests below 8,000 feet.

Monday, October 07, 2019

Interesting Documentaries

I enjoy watching documentaries on the Netflix channel.  Recently, I enjoyed watching three documentaries.

Inside Bill's Brain  The Mind and Projects of Bill Gates

Abdus Salam  Noble Prize physicist from Pakistan.

Birding   Flyways in Texas and Mexico.

I don't normally watch television fantasy shows about ghost hunting, zombies, tracking Big Foot monsters, aliens, etc.  I avoid programs about crime, drugs, criminal life, action-adventure killing films, WWE wrestling, game shows, lifestyles of backwoods "survivalists" driving four wheel drive vehicles, dirty duck and alligator good old boys, gun and hunting shows, religious services, outlandish conspiracies, and the endless political discussion programs and social talk shows, etc.