Watch a documentary on a subject you know nothing about.

“Ah.. the latest documentary I checked out was "Stolen" by Rebecca Dreyfus - released in 2006. It's about the theft on St Patrick's Day in 1990 of multiple paintings from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. The painting most emphasized in this doc being Vermeer's "The Concert". A $5,000,000 reward was offered for the paintings' recovery. 18 yrs later, apparently none of them have been gotten back. The paintings were collectively valued at around $300,000,000. I knew nothing about this theft & found it fascinating. The doc has an interesting cast of characters - including, most notably, an art theft detective named Harold Smith who's visually highly distinguished b/c of skin cancer developed b/c he was the unfortunate subject of an army medical experiment that attempted to solve his dry skin problem as a young man. Interestingly missing are the security guard (or guards) who was (or were) gagged, blindfolded, & tied up for the robbery.”

“Wow. I know next to nothing about horse racing. As an US citizen I feel like our knowledge of this is mostly based on hats! Wasn't expecting to be watching a pretty gripping rise/fall kind of story where by the end I was cheering for this Horse like Rocky. Solid production and very insightful into a world I knew nothing about. Also... they feed the horses beer and it's adorbale. And also a part of their regimen (to up their appetites obviously!) Good stuff!”