Jared Diamond – How Societies Fail-And Sometimes Succeed – Long Now Foundation

Jared Diamon is a captivating and articulate speaker whose are ideas are a type of common sense that just makes sense, even without the countless hours of research. From the description:

Jared Diamond articulately spelled out how his best-selling book, COLLAPSE, took shape.

Cities of Light – The Rise and Fall of Islamic Spain

I’ve actually seen a couple of better tv shows about the same subject, but this is the longest. Al-Andalus is an interesting challenge to the notions of east vs. west.

The Life of the Buddha

The Life of the Buddha.

The Lost Temples of South India

The Lost Temples of South India

I guess the people who name educational shows think the people who watch them like to find lost things while watching.

The Lost Treasures of the Ancient World – China

The Mongol Invasion of Japan

A British educational television show focusing on the research of Kezno Hayashida, an archaeologist, on the failed Mongol invasion of Japan and the infamous ‘kamikaze’ that saved Japan.