My Fake Baby is a documentary that explores the lives of women who collect and care for life-like designer dolls called "reborns".  The reborns are customized to the owners' specifications.  The dolls can be made to have beating hearts, scratches, milk spots, specific hair colors, and open ears and nostrils -- just to name a few. 

Although some "mothers" admit to missing out on their reborns interacting witth them like real babies, they will say that reborns are perfect because they don't scream or make a fuss like real chidren.

Whether it's replacing a lost child or being lazy in wanting to care for a real child, I find this very disturbing.  I never enjoyed playing with dolls even when I was a little girl so to see grown women caring for such life-like dolls like real babies seems very sad to me.

The documentary is split into five parts:  Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5.

Here is a "revolutionary" 1993 documentary about this thing called the internet.  I don't know if you've heard about it, but I really don't think it's going to take off.

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Historian and Monty Python member Terry Jones hosts this very entertaining BBC documentary on the history of the number 1.

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Previously:
BBC documentary on the story of Tetris, Blade Runner Documentary, Documentary on Japanese Sushi

A friend just sent along a link to this incredible documentary that Channel 4 did about Philip K. Dick and Blade Runner. Based on Dick's story Do Androids Dream Electric Sheep, Blade Runner is easily one of the greatest Sci-fi films ever made.



Whether you agree with me about the absolute fantasticness of Blade Runner, the documentary (On The Edge Of Blade Runner) is solid in it's own right and well worth an hour of your eyeballs.

And, yes, they interview Daryl Hannah. 'Nuff said.

Over at Kottke, you can view the 2004 BBC documentary about the story of Tetris:

The following is a great 2004 BBC documentary about Tetris, the man who created it, and the lengths that several companies went to in order to procure the rights to distribute it. Tetris - From Russia With Love:

Alexey Pazhitnov, a computer programmer from Moscow, created Tetris in 1985 but as the Soviet Union was Communist and all, the state owned the game and any rights to it. Who procured the rights from whom on the other side of the Iron Curtain became the basis of legal wranglings and lawsuits; the Atari/Nintendo battle over Tetris wasn't settled until 1993. There's an abbreviated version of the story, but the documentary is a lot more fun. A rare copy of the Tengen version of Tetris, which was pulled from the shelves due to legal troubles, is available on eBay for $50.

Previously:
Reality video gaming,  Tetris Ice Cream Truck

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