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  • Worst fking documentary I have ever suffered through. Seriously though if you are flaky artsy fartsy shmuck you will probably enjoy this. If you are interested in scientific facts and information about the the people who may have created these pictures, DO NOT bother with this P O S. The amount of tangible info available in this encumpasses MAYBE a 15 minute window....the doc is 1 hour 30 minutes..do the math

  • I do not deny the significance of this discovery. It is both profound and fascinating. However, the idiot sticks who put this thing together are a bunch of flaky pretentious morons.

    "Shhh we must all be quite now to listen to the cave speak" "what will an albino croc think when it stairs at these paintings?" "When these two crocs look at each other do they really see each other or is it a reflection of one's self"? WTF !!! These are supposed to be educated people?

  • Let's see you "the earth is 6,000 years old" Creationist fools try and explain this.

  • How are we supposed to believe that it was really done 30,000 years ago. It could easily be hoax created as an archaeological cover-up. If you don't believe do some research on the giant and dinosaur cover-up.

  • @SuperStringShredder7 I can see you have no understanding of science.

  • @DeathToLiberalism Science is just illusion to blindfold the weakminded

  • @SuperStringShredder7 Massive LOL. Yeah, the computer that science created that you used to type that inane comment is just an illusion.

  • These are the places where the Shamans like to go to make contact with Ancestors from long ago. Very beautiful but should not be disturbed. This is how I see it. Peace.

  • Filme absolutamente fantástico. É pena que haja alguns selvagens que não percebem a beleza e a emoção disto. Nâo sabem o que perdem.

  • Full-length video of Cave Of Forgotten Dreams at FullDocumentary [dot] com

  • fascinating film, really well done. considering the restrictions they had..

    there is something very stirring about looking back in time as we all have some part of our consciousness that recalls living in this ancient times..

  • Cave of Forgotten Dreams: Review by a Heathen Dacritics org

  • I want very much to see the movie, and to be able to have a sample in anaglyphic 3D to show to my students: thousands of students from public brazilian schools have seen my "Exposição de Holografia" and there I show the "Cueva de las Manos" of Argentina, for example.

  • @lunazzi you guys have 3D technology available in public schools?

  • @VEVONot Not, it is a particular case where I, as a university professor, offers a two hours speech and experiments about 3D images and holography to some public schools, about 44 people once a week. The technique to make your own 3D photos and even video is available in an article "Fazendo 3D com uma camera só" (making 3D with just one camera), if you search the title altogether with my name you can find it. I think I am not allowed to add the address in this comment.

  • as an artist myself i think this is very fascinating. With that said i have a serious question. How do we know these are real? and someone didn't fake them? Great DOC.

  • @deepelements they date them

  • @deepelements because then you would of seen footprints in the floor.

  • @deepelements A number of scientists have done carbon dating and other research on these paintings and they agreed they were from around 30,000-35,000 years ago.

  • You don't need to be agressive with your cultural vanity over those whose opinion is different.

  • CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS, I WATCHED THIS DOCUMENTARY AND LUV THE BEAUTY AND ART OF THE SACREDNESS OF THE THUNDERBEINGS=ANIMAL KINGDOMS, OKCHA 2011

    MANKIND SHOULD NOT NOW NOR EVER HAVE DOMINIAN OVER SACREDNESS BEYOND HIS OWN DIVINITY

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  • How I wish I could see that cave in person... I've seen rock art from ca. 1200 AD which was inspiring enough, I can't even imagine seeing what's in Chauvet. Fantastic documentary, and what you would expect from Herzog anyway? The questions he asks are just perfect.

  • you should see "lektionen in finsternis" if you liked this one

  • The documentary is ideal for those who may never get to see the wonders of the world in person. Having been there, I saw it to measure how successful Herzog had been in doing that. He used the 3D, the long silences, the lighting and sound effectively to come as close as one can to being in the cave with only two senses engaged. From the comments here, looks like he wasted efforts on some. I'd namecall the, "Oh Please, it's cliched gay" folks as Cro-Magnon but that's an insult to Cro-Magnon man.

  • wow SOOOO gay

  • @reefz3ro

    You're a tool

  • This looks very kewl - looking forward to it!

  • the trailer suxs ass...

  • I was so overwhelmed I cried. I had already been there. I read "The Land of Painted Caves." by Jean M. Auel

  • Paleolithic Facebook.The cave writers were telling each other about their day.

  • The movie is aweful, but the cave is amating. Mind that I thumb down the movie itself.

  • @Atanar89 Amazing, damn it.

  • I feel sorry for those who can't understand why this is outstanding. This is the very heart of art and long term communication for our species. The paintings transcend time and gives us the only tangible piece of an existence that took place over 30,000 years ago. If you can't understand its' importance and why it effects people, go back to watching Jersey Shore. That's right where you need to be culturally.

  • @CardinalJunky I dont know why, but it makes me a bit overwhelmed..in a good way tho.. and somehow, amidst the rise of evil in our society (corporate owned Governments, ties to Nwo illuminatists w/their '#1Agenda', mass murder of a huge chunk of the world population), this for some reason makes me feel/remember that we're NOT always an evil species.. Once we were simple, content and happy with family and survival..Materialism obviously hadnt taken place as much as it has today..

  • @CardinalJunky You don't have to be aggresive with your cultural vanity over those whose opinion is different

  • @CardinalJunky Oh, geesch, get over yourself, will ya? Everybody's different, at different times and walks in each of our lives. What a snob.

  • @CardinalJunky Frankly, When I look at some realist paintings of some contemporary artist, the cave paintings were extremely advanced for their times.

  • David Lynch 0:20 ?

  • Silence please -- except for the annoying chorus followed by the cliched heartbeats...

  • Hmm I wonder how a religious bafoon would explain how these drawings came to exist 20,000 years ago.. then again we haven't improved that much since then it seems.

  • @akulabite religious bafoon? you mean anyone with any notion of spirituality or divinity? so a sweeping generalization about over half the world's population is your move There are many ways of explaining the origin of the paintings as well as religious explanations but my guess is you don't actually want to hear what a "religious bafoon" has to say, you were simply stating that as some kind of way of discrediting religious peoples and their beliefs have an open mind and an open heart

  • @GeradAkkdesu You couldn't be more wrong. The problem is that I have been listening to the explanations of "religious bafoons" all my life. Talking with certainty on matters they know little about and have no evidence to back their claims , just the convictions of their hearts and a 2000 year book. That my friend is wrong. Also, just because half of the world's population believes in fairy tales does not affirm what truth is , because truth doesn't require numbers but evidence.

  • @akulabite Truth is immutable and exists whether there is proof of it or not. Truth is what it is. The truth about the religeous beliefs of others is that it may or may not have some truth in it, but you and I may never know what parts of it or true and what parts are not. All of it may be true or all may be false or some variation in between. The odds are that you and I will never know. I know 2 things for sure....I don't know everything...and neither do you!

  • @NakedLadyMudFlap don't agree here either. The truth requires proof that's how we define reality. I dont have all the answers but make my judgements based on what actually exist. No offence but if u believe in fairytales that's ur choice. Good luck.

  • This documentary is not that good. I'm sorry for whoever thinks it is. The paintings are amazing, don't get me wrong, but they seriously show the same 7 or 8 paintings over and over for the entire documentary. Plus, the discussions and narratives are pretty out there! My favorite (and the most ridiculous) narrative Herzog says is: "Fairly soon these albino [alligators] will reach the cave. Looking at the paintings what will they make of them." What?!? The music is pretty horrible as well.

  • silence preese preese don't merv

  • I was skeptical when I when to see this but by the end I was in awe. Definitely a must see.

  • So... its a movie about people walking through a cave... I'll get this if I need something to put me to sleep.

  • @aussj4link It's actually really interesting you buffoon

  • @aussj4link not smart to be dumb...

  • Full length video at FullDocumentary dot [com]

  • One if the most profound films I have ever seen. And I can tell by 99 %of the comments below I unfortunately read that the white crocodiles have already begun to write (well, sort of:(

  • werner herzog is a genius.

  • lol what crap. as if cavemen could invent materials that last 32,000 years. Remember they are in a cave with oxygen which has moisture. Cavemen drawings are made by grinding plant material up or charcoal. Scientifically impossible to last more than 1,000 years in an oxygen environment.

    FRAUD!

  • @MajorChaos69 I sense some creationist stupidity

  • @MajorChaos69 It really isn't, the black drawings where made from burnt wood/ charcoal: which is carbon. The strongest and most chemically held element is carbon. The white paintings were not a material that they painted on, but it was literary scratched on the caves: which any stone carving will last an extremely long time. Think about taking the bark of a tree and leaving the inside to show. Also the red ones where made from red ore, and if you can see they were the most faded of the three.

  • Respond to this video... Now please don't get me wrong they hipped it up way to much. Things like the spear and spear thrower: the thing he used to throw a spear would not have lasted. They were made from plant material and glue substances like tree sap. They didn't say they found the spear in the cave. And the name *huh* is just a clever title. Don't mix up the actual facts of the cave and get them mixed with the directer/producers over zealous craving for money.

  • @MajorChaos69 well for one thing the cave was sealed off my natural disasters 12,000 years ago so that sort preserved everything how it was even animal footprints. and they used charcoal and the craved into the the rock itself so there is all that too.

  • dating back 32,000 years my ass.

  • THIS LOOKS PATHETIC !

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  • @boogiebuddy01 because it looks shit

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  • So what this is showing us is... that even 32,000 years ago the French were gay?

  • @XxPhillyGxX

    LOL

  • I was waiting for a monster to pop out the whole time haha

  • @tmasters27 it's a documentary...

  • Saw this movie in 2D and it blew my mind into the 4TH dimension. 

  • I DONT HAVE TIME FOR THESE BULLSHT ADS, I HAVE A FUKING MIDTERM IN AN HOUR.

  • @kamikrazi123

    What the hell were you doing on youtube then..

  • @kamikrazi123 lol

  • @kamikrazi123

    so how did it go? your midterm? bahah

  • thumbs up if don strong brought you here

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  • Thumbs up if Max Newton brought you here

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  • looks sh1t

  • @XSmexyLamaX it is. was made to watch it in a lecture.

  • Is it possible that there is no where online where one can watch this? No torrent, Nothing?

  • Fascinating subject, but Werner Herzog tends to waffle on too much about mutant alligators and French ex-perfumers. It's unlikely well get another documentary maker down there to record them though, so for that reason, it's a worthwhile film.

  • 11 people can eat my nutz

  • That would crazy if they found pictures of UFO's on the wall

  • @chrisfball12 They have in few caves and in paintings that date back thousands of years. Google "ancient ufo paintings"

  • Pretty sure it was Banksy, not cavemen.

  • when are they going to release this on dvd i mean how long does it take, its been ages!!!

  • My Art History teacher recommended this film! Will it be released on DVD or Blu-Ray? Or is it only in theaters?

  • eerie and beautiful. getting goosebumps just from the trailer

  • This movie was beautiful... I only wish someone like Brian Eno had handled the soundtrack. The discordant screeching had my ears bleeding by the end of the film.

  • this trailer looks awkwardly similar to Transformers: Dark of the Moon trailer o_o''

  • What a breathtaking piece of work. For some reason, parts of it had me almost weeping.

  • Did they find "Starbuck was here" somewhere in there?

  • @GrimmFilmEnt  no but they wound adama's horrible jaw and it's now sitting in a museum as one of the evolutionary steps.

  • What song is that in the trailer?

  • @Dostoevskymofo it is from the specially written soundtrack. This film is brilliant, capturing the feeling I would have had as a boy among the caves and mountains and also answering a small amount of my questions.

  • @TheLizardmonkey I would really like to see it! Oddly, the song kind of reminds me of the movie Andrei Rublev, as well as Agguire, The Wrath of God.

  • Would love to see this. Yessir...

  • @fabianoasc A wonderful gift to ourselves and the entire human race. Breathtaking! Thanks for sending my friend!

  • What's the name of the song in the trailer?

  • Thumbs up if Swiftkaratechop brought you here!

  • @a7xrockchick92 stop being a thumbs up whore. seriously, this is pathetic.

  • I saw this movie yesterday and it was amazing, beautifully shot, and for once a reason to film in 3D. You do feel like you are in a cave, and the artwork on the walls looks fresh. My only criticism is the new agey soundtrack, the high pitched singing got on my nerves, it idid not add anything to the movie.

  • @EarlofSuave308 - Yeah, Herzog has always liked New-Agey music, particularly Popol Vuh. For those who don't care for it, it makes several of his films difficult to sit through.

  • @EyeLean5280 Funny, because I like Krautrock, and the music of Popol Vuh in "Aguirre, The Wrath of God", and Firzcaraldo, maybe I just wanted to get the heck out of that cave! lol

  • @EarlofSuave308 I had this same trailer posted on Faceboook.... go figure.

  • @EarlofSuave308 - Well, I can't blame you for that! (At least there wasn't a centuries-old build up of bat-guano on the floor, because you know we'd have been treated to several 3D closeups of it!)

  • Saw this last night. AWESOME. The one & only thing I didn't like was the movie constantly resolving itself. I could never tell when it was over - not that I wanted it to end per se - but it was very confusing. I saw it with a somewhat immature audience who laughed at the albino alligators. I don't think they understood the metaphor. Oh, well. Brilliant, masterful movie it was!

  • My wife and I saw it last night. I don't have the words to describe it. Just go see it, please. It's not to be missed.

  • @Athiest961 Dude that's what I believe too!

  • Wow! Did not disappoint. I'm going to see this again. Excellent documentary and my favorite 3-D experience. Better than Avatar because it's real. I want to see this as many times as I can in 3-D.

  • I'm a cave freak. I love caves. I visited commercial caves and always wanted to do spelunking. I'm going to see this movie this afternoon in 3-D ... the only thing I care about is that I FEEL I'm in a cave. I'm getting up close, hmmm, and I think I'll take a little toot ;-) beforehand.

  • allaahhh ackbar

  • trailer is a terrible, movie must be really good though!

  • We were visited by an advanced ET in the past and our ancestors were primitives and they called them GODS

  • I watched Herzog on Colbert Show...he is absolutely delightful

    so wonderful that Colbert wants to party with him. Me too!

  • @stereoachitect how does the sun play with that inside of a cave?

  • Wouldn't it make more sense to shoot this in some ultry high resolution format, rather than in 3D?

  • @geow9 Much of the footage is quite high resolution, and this cave is a perfect setting for a 3D movie. You have to see it on the big screen. It's brilliant.

  • the dates are off because carbon dating is flawed. google: 2011/05/04/carbon-dating-revea­led-as-flawed-as-the-sun-plays­-with-us/

  • very funny herzog-interview by steven colbert -> movieparasite.de

  • but the world is 12,000 years old.

  • it looks WICKED cool.....but the editing for this trailer really bothered me....the titles were a constant glare, and the ending was repetition of a space object revealing "coming soon" several times.....OTHER THAN THAT ILL SEE IT

  • COLBERT

  • Has anyone ever discovered Rhino bones in France? I mean come on Pangaea was 250 Million years ago sooo I don't know.

  • Anyone who thinks this is a fake, it quite possibly is, he is a film maker. What i have heard him say about this film is that he is not a factual film or documentary maker. He said well compare it to the New York phone directory. Is that a completely accurate and factual document, is anyone going to check every single entry? No so take that for what its worth.

  • @jakej3tt123 The wall paintings are real. But you shouldn't worry about it. Just pray to God and keep your eyes closed. People like you can't handle reality. Just go back in hiding.

  • @jakej3tt123 The wall paintings are real. But you shouldn't worry about it. Just pray to God and keep your eyes closed. People like you can't handle reality. Just go back in hiding. Others who do care, go look up the Lascaux caves.

  • @jakej3tt123 Actually, he said the exact opposite of that - that it's NOT like the phone directory (which is, actually, a factual document, contrary to what you seem to believe) because facts in and of themselves aren't always lively enough to hold an audience's attention. Don't worry, I know, metaphors are hard.

  • SAW IT wat a transporting experience...Herzog's use of 3d was shockingly good. It's 3d u've never seen before. It;s a film one should not miss...

  • 5 people can suck my hard stalagmite dick.

  • very nice film, in my opinion some repetitions were not necessary, we got it! Mother goddess worship was not only in Europe part of the world, could be explained better in the film, annoying music got better at the end, wish he used Tuvan throat singers which would fit better to the spirit of the film, it is interesting to see in the paintings that there were more right handed people painted than the left handed ones, was the red paint w/the right palm image a bears blood?

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  • @kinbotest Herzog has a strange sense of humor, I wouldn't be surprised if this was a giant joke

  • The art looks fake. A damp, drippy cave and all the dark marks have not faded at all? The iconography itself is also fake looking. I'm a Herzog fan, but I think he has been hoodwinked along with the rest.

  • @kinbotest thats an extremely private cave they were only allowed in there for 3 hours at a time because of the strict air flow that they have to control to allow people to breathe.

  • @kinbotest The wall paintings are real. That's the reason the caves are off limits for regular visitors - our breath would destroy the paintings. You probably never heard of the Lascaux caves either. Look it up. These type of cave paintings are not uncommon in Europe at all. Just use Wikipedia before posting nonsense on Youtube. It's what its there for, to learn knowledge.

  • so I have to watch an advertisement, for an advertisement.  Sweet.

  • @strangestringsnyc I was going to post this same comment.  Glad others see the same thing.

  • @strangestringsnyc youtube ads are the most ridiculous things!

  • It's fantastic, and beautiful :D

  • just saw the movie... not only are the caves and the drawings fascinating, but the many people interviewed, from different disciplines, are fascinating... much much much to think about.

    But the music is very inappropriate, too intrusive

  • La Grotte Chauvet in Ardèche, the oldest decorated cave of the world (- 35,000 old years), is not yet part of the UNESCO world heritage list. Really umbelievable!!!!

    Please, help to correct this mistake and support/vote for its inscription in the list!

  • Just saw this today. The only 3-D movie I would recommend seeing.

  • Are we today the crocodiles who look back into an abyss of time? The Coors Light commercial preceding this video makes me think: yes.

  • 20,000? i heard it was 32,000

  • I was waiting 2:16 for the gollum like monsters to come out - hungry

  • @nogoodbastid well nogood....these paintings were made 30,000 years ago, your comment shows your evolution.

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  • @nogoodbastid Yeah you probably could....but you don't shit in a field, fear the dark spirits and worship hunting gods-probably. Give the prehistoric 'humans' credit for something 32,000 yrs ago. This is about our DNA heritage and what makes you who you are today.

  • @Real1shepherd don't tell me what i do and don't do, real1shepherd. you don't know me!

  • Those cave paintings are strangely reminiscent from the in The Descent.

  • Werner is the creator of masterpieces, and this is one.