21min 30sec clip - The Man Behind Trainspotting & Slumdog Millionaire | The VICE Guide to Film

6min 50sec clip - The History of Mansa Musa - the great Malian Mansa, in the early 14th century, who is claimed by some to have been the richest man in history

The Obsolete Man

5min 18sec clip - Man Documents the World's Quietest Places

51 sec clip - How #Animals Would #Run if They Were People.

found via a boingboing email

1min rare colour clip - World's Tallest Man, Robert Wadlow

 
Text from youtube "Rare color footage of the tallest man in medical history, Robert Wadlow (1918-1940), who stood 8 feet 11 inches and weighed 491 pounds. This home movie footage appears to have been taken during one of Wadlow's personal appearances in the late 1930s. "

4min clip - a lesson from 21st November 1962: a behind the scenes JFK conversation on prioritising the race to the moon

Giant Mechanical Miner Man unveiling Tavistock UK on 25th July - travels from there stopping at various locations - ending at Geevor Tin Mine on 6th August

 

found via laughing squid