Documental

Over the weekend my growing lust for quality documentaries was greatly eased by the discovery of two excellent online film archives dedicated to the underrated artform.

Anyone wanting to see incredible things they've never seen before and that have the power to move them and who has tired of the unreliable cinematic assertion, ‘BASED ON A TRUE STORY’, should get right on to the two websites below, which - somehow - are still provided free of charge to anyone with a net connection.

• PBS Frontline
  which features not only around 50 broadband quality, full length watchable documentaries, but also has fascinating background information on all of them which is fascinating to any journalist or media lover.
  

• Obscured TV
  which features older, hard-to-find documentaries produced by various organisations and again watchable online.

It's especially nice to see that in these times where various investors are about to venture along with YouTube and Veoh into the word of web broadcasting, some websites are already quietly leading the way.