POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold.

First official trailer for Super Size Me director Morgan Spurlock’s “Inception of documentaries,” POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold.

The film, which explores the often invasive world of product placement, is set to open in theaters April 22.

Saturday Morning Cartoon Special: Star Wars Super Documentary

Superfan Jambe Davdar has spent an awe-inspiring amount of time piecing together three absolutely must-watch Star Wars fan documentaries — essentially, the original trilogy re-cut with alternate takes, deleted scenes, concept art, original audio, production footnotes, and commentary from the cast and crew.

Star Wars Begins: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14.

Building Empire: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24.

Returning to Jedi: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23.

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Stats Doc

Hans Rosling’s eminently informative BBC Four documentary The Joy of Stats — from which this chartgasmic clip was taken — has finally been made available for viewing in all regions (previously, only the Brits were privy to this tremendous knowledge trove).

Dataphiles, you’re gonna want to set two hours aside for this: One hour to watch, and another to regain your composure.

Fear The Boom and Bust

Filed under Saturday morning cartoons: bonus time... here's the EconStories guys are back with three video lectures about "Fear The Boom And Bust"

Part III: The Cluster of Errors

Program Disruption

What in the name of good peer reviewed science is going on here?! The gunman who held up and threatened to blow up the Discovery Channel building today was pissed off about their programming?

Holy Spittin' Jebus. It's come to this?

It's not enough to change the channel? To seek out new documentaries? How's that internet working out, crazy guy? Not enough or too much Shark Week? Turns out, all that and a whole lot more of crazy on top.

Here's a photo of Discovery building hostage taker James Jay Lee protesting outside the channel’s HQ, circa February 2008. [photo: sss.]

Hey, folks at History Channel - Better step up your security!

Saturday Morning Cartoons

TELEPHONEME | MK12 from MK12 on Vimeo.

TELEPHONEME was created by the Kansas City design and filmmaking collective MK12.

For more information, refer to this excellent electronic press kit.

“These X-ray films were made by the Voice Research Laboratory to prevent languages from being forever lost to the study of man.

You could look at it as a kind of detective story.”

Bill Hicks Documentary

Bill Hicks died at the age of 32 in 1994. Next to Carlin, he's one of my all-time favorites. A truthsayer in the church of brick walls and two drink minimums.

Behind the film are British producers Paul Thomas and Matt Harlock who were lucky enough to easily get family members and friends of Hicks on camera to fill in stories and tales of his youth, even during the formative years.

What is nice for viewers is that instead of the straight head shot visuals that documentary viewers are used to, the film making duo used a cut and paste animation style that makes it a much cleaner viewing experience. Much like 'The Kid Stays In The Picture.'

His background is fairly simple, as the child of a strict Baptist couple that convinced him his purpose in life was to get far away from them and his town. It was in Houston that he found his first comedy club and started on his path towards becoming famous comic and an alcoholic which it took him 21 years to even try, making it a little less of a surprise that he fell into the habit so hard.

The Shark is Still Working

According to the American Film Institute, Jaws ranks among the fifty greatest movies of all time and the second- greatest thriller ever (Behind Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho). After three decades, the film continues to intrigue, thrill and frighten viewers. It’s become an entertainment mainstay, a timeless classic in a world of fad filmmaking...

Jaws's legacy is undeniable and virtually unmatched: It jump-started the summer blockbuster phenomenon, not to mention the illustrious career of one Hollywood’s most influential directors, Steven Spielberg. Jaws had a tremendous impact on the way movies are made, marketed and merchandised and spawned a pop cultural fascination with sharks. And, perhaps most notably, the film generated a visceral fear of swimming that continues to afflict multitudes to this day.

So there is a documentary about it.

(thanks to J from Chi for the tip!)