Links to Interesting New Media Sites
Updated October 28, 2002
Non-fiction / Documentary
The number of good documentary website sites is amazing and the
number grows daily. It seems that documentary makers have found
the web a useful venu to showcase their work and to reach a wide
audience.
One World Journeys
Experience a number of photo-documentary Expeditions around the
world. Travel to the remote mountain forests of the former Soviet
Georgia, track jaguars in Mexico, dive on pristine coral reefs,
document wild salmon and wildlife of British Columbia and hang with
the chimpanzees in Africa.
http://www.oneworldjourneys.com/expeditions/
Tuning the World (CBC)
An interactive sound & image experience that celebrates what
Marconi made possible: the connecting of lives and stories across
the globe.
http://www.tuningtheworld.com/
Unwrapped
Discover the mysterious world of Mummies.
http://www.secondstory.com/index.html?36unwrapped
Fire Call: a Wildland Firefighter Speaks
This site tells the story of a 52 year old wildland firefighter.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/firecall
African Voices
This site is dedicated to exploring Africa's striking diversity
and long history (Smithsonian Institute).
http://www.mnh.si.edu/africanvoices
A Life Revealed
Uncovering the mystery of the Afghan girl whose picture appeared
on the June 1985 National Geographic cover.
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0204/sights_n_sounds/media2.html
Steve McCurry Online
Highlighting the award winning career of documentary photographer
Steve McCurry - the photographer who took the Afghan girl photo
in the documentary above.
http://www.pdnonline.com/legends/mccurry/
Remembering Pearl Harbour
Photos, footage, firsthand accounts, and narration bring the attack
on Pearl Harbor in Oahu, Hawaii, to life—moment by moment,
target by target.
http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/pearlharbor/
Becoming Human
Journey through the story of human evolution.
http://www.becominghuman.org/
The Endurance
A piece about a 1914 trip to Antarctica which failed.
http://www.kodak.com/US/en/corp/features/endurance/home/index.shtml
Voices of the Colorado Plateau
is an online multimedia museum collection featuring oral history
recordings and historic photographs that document life on the Colorado
Plateau.
http://archive.li.suu.edu/voices/
Sleeping Giants
Sleeping Giants tells the story of the Aerospace Maintenance and
Regeneration Center (AMARC) and the people who work to maintain
and restore the thousands of military planes that are stored at
the facility located in the Arizona desert.
http://www.kodak.com/US/en/corp/features/sleepingGiants
Congo Expedition - 1909 - 1915
This site tells the story of the expedition sponsored by the American
Museum of Natural History to explore the Congo at the beginning
of the century.
http://diglib1.amnh.org/intro/intro_swf.html
Tempus Fugit: Time Flies
A documentary about different cultural views about time.
http://www.nelson-atkins.org/tempusfugit/default2.htm
Oyez Baseball
Buildling knowledge about the US Supreme Court thorugh a baseball
game. Developed by the OYEZ Project.
http://baseball.oyez.org/
A New York Miracle
Although not a Flash site, the content on this one is a hoot!
Take a look
http://www.nycmiracle.com/
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