• December 22, 2013
• At Home, Documentary, Television

There is so much history centered in and around the famous walls of the Tower of London, the imposing fortress that sits in the River Thames in the heart...

• December 22, 2013
• At Home, Documentary, Television

American entrepreneur Harry Gordon Selfridge grew up in poverty and cut his teeth working his way up at Marshall Fields department store in Chicago. But he had big ideas:...

• December 22, 2013
• At Home, Documentary, Television

Scotland Yard (or rather the NEW Scotland Yard) is a nickname for the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Service (or “the Met”), aka the City of London police force....

• December 6, 2013
• At Home, Documentary

Musically, I sure was in the right place at the right time. In the Pacific Northwest in the late 80s/early 90s, bands were brewing. I remember taking a break...

• December 1, 2013
• At Home, Documentary

It shouldn’t surprise me that books recounting the true heroic story of Ernest Shackleton’s failed Antarctic expedition of 1914-1916 are becoming popular reading for corporate executives. After all, it...

• November 25, 2013
• At Home, Documentary, Television

For those suffering from withdrawal after the Beijing Olympics ended to folks that love armchair traveling on a rainy day, Wild China is yet another excellent documentary series profiling...

• November 24, 2013
• At Home, Documentary

Made for $25,000, Deep Throat is touted as the most profitable movie ever made. It raked in an astonishing $600 million dollars in box office receipts. Where did that...

• November 21, 2013
• At Home, Documentary, Television

It has been said that television came of age when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. It was the first time that the American public turned in droves to...

• November 21, 2013
• At Home, Documentary

Imagine proposing to your girlfriend at a sporting event and having her stare at you in shock, then shake her head and walk away. This unfolds on the Jumbotron...

• November 16, 2013
• At Home, Documentary

With all the cute critters out there in the critter world, it can easily be argued that a baby otter is in the pantheon of the cute-overload department. This...

• November 16, 2013
• At Home, Documentary

Now, OK, just the title alone is a dead giveaway that I would weep. I have friends that refuse to watch any animal movies with me for fear of...

• November 9, 2013
• At Home, Documentary, Horror

If you’ve already tackled the 1118 minutes of Crystal Lake awesomeness that makes up Friday the 13th: The Complete Collection, then Crystal Lake Memories, the 400 minute documentary on...