ScienceHD: Sunday! Freeleech Picks of the Week

Fry's Planet Word (2011)
Language is what defines humans from other species, and with our planet home to around 7,000 different languages, words have played a crucial role in our evolution. Renowned wordsmith Stephen Fry is the perfect guide for this fascinating exploration of language in all its forms: from cutting edge linguistic research to the glories of world literature.

The series travels the globe as Fry takes viewers on a journey through the thousands of years since man first mastered speech to the cyber world of today with its html, codes and texting. Revealing how language is used, abused and continues to evolve, Fry's Planet Word looks at whether we are any closer to understanding the most complex activity of the human brain.


A Million in the Morning (2010)
A Million In The Morning starring Gavin McInnes from Vice magazine. The film follows 8 contestants as they compete as part of the Movie Watching Championship, all trying to break the World Record for most consecutive hours without sleep…while watching movies…in a clear plexiglass box…in the middle of Times Square.

Apparently there’s a Guiness World Record for most consecutive hours watching a movie. If you want to break that record, you have to stay up for 123 hours and watch at least 57 movies; and you can’t look away. Seriously, even a “long blink” constitutes disqualification. A Million in the Morning is the documentary that follows eight contestants as they try to beat said record. The doc takes some unusual turns as it follows one of the contestants, Gavin McInnes, as he slowly goes literally insane from sleep deprivation.

Netflix sponsored the event and the documentary, but took their name off the documentary when the crew went wild in the streets.

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