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Ho Chi Minh: Vietnam’s Enigma

Biography | 21 Jan, 2012 | No Comments | 43 mins

Ho Chi Minh: Vietnam’s Enigma is about the North Vietnamese communist politician, prime minister and later president Ho hi. Ho Chi was trained in Moscow shortly after the Russian Revolution, and inspired by the revolution he headed the communist party fighting the French during the Indochina War 1946–54. He developed industrial potential assisted by the communist bloc[...]

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Capturing the Friedmans

Biography | 10 Jan, 2012 | No Comments | 2 mins

Capturing the Friedmans is a documentary directed by the first time filmmaker Andrew Jarecki. The documentary is a disturbing but mesmerizing account of child molesters Arnold and Jesse Friedman. Andrew Jarecki’s film raises as many questions as answers and one cannot decide whether the two are guilty or not. Capturing the Friedmans is about the middle-class Long[...]

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Kurt Cobain: About a Son

Biography | 10 Jan, 2012 | No Comments | 97 mins

Kurt Cobain: About a Son a documentary by Gus Van Sant talks about the life of Kurt Cobain. The feature plays more like autobiography than documentary. The film begins with the narration by Cobain. However no pictures of the alternative icon are shown until the end. The filmmaker uses still and time-lapse photography in the film to[...]

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Exploring Einstein: Life of a Genius

Biography | 08 Jan, 2012 | No Comments | 47 mins

Exploring Einstein: Life of a Genius is a documentary on one of the greatest geniuses, Albert Einstein. Albert Einstein changed the world with four papers which saw the development of atomic weapons, space travel, satellite technology and a profound understanding of the universe, that have had a great impact upon the lives of future generations. The[...]

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Mahatma: Life of Gandhi, 1869–1948

Biography | 07 Jan, 2012 | No Comments | 29 mins

Prepare for a long one. This five hour 1968 documentary chronicles the famous peacemakers life. From his days in South Africa to his Salt March. This gripping documentary shows us the flaws of such a great man as well as his[...]

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Life Without Benedetta

Biography, Disaster, Social | 30 Dec, 2011 | 1 Comment | 27 mins

On July 7th 2005, the United Kingdom was attacked in its capital, London, by terrorists who killed 52 innocent people and injured hundreds more. One of the victims was Italian born Benedetta Ciaccia who boarded the circle line from Liverpool Street. As her train approached the first stop along her journey, Aldgate, her life was[...]

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Bill Gates: How a Geek Changed the World

Biography, Newly Added | 23 Dec, 2011 | No Comments | 59 mins

The Money Programme’s Fiona Bruce gets exclusive admittance to Bill Gates as he gets ready to step down from full-time participation with Microsoft, the corporation he helped establish. Gates’s company has transformed the world, but he’s a provocative character, with his merciless business management influencing to Microsoft being sued by the US government. In a extraordinary one-hour[...]

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Tesla: Master of Lightning

Biography | 23 Dec, 2011 | No Comments | 86 mins

This documentary does a superb job of expressing the genius that was Nikola Tesla. Look at this documentary and afterwards look around your home. You’ll be astonished in the ways in which Tesla influences our ordinary lives. His death ray is also inspected and a helpful dialogue of particle beam weapons follows. Reagan’s Star Wars[...]

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Bill Hicks – Its Just A Ride

Biography | 03 Dec, 2011 | 2 Comments | 41 mins

The life and times of Bill Hicks, the man behind the laughter and his political and world views that started a revolution of[...]

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The New Clinton Chronicles

Biography | 16 Sep, 2011 | No Comments | 101 mins

The New Clinton Chronicles talks about Bill Clinton who became the president of US. On January 20th, 1993, he became the 42nd President of the United States. The film claims that at his time of election many Americans were unaware about Clinton’s criminal background and the media blackout which kept this information from the public. Clinton[...]

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After Mein Kampf

Biography | 16 Sep, 2011 | No Comments | 53 mins

After Mein Kampf a documentary on the tortures unleashed by the Nazi regime provides a shocking footage of concentration camp, the survivors, dead bodies, ranting of Hitler, the patriotic fervor of the German soldiers. The film shows similar scenes of World War II which interspersed with enacted film clips, like a German soldier raping a[...]

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Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple

Biography | 16 Sep, 2011 | No Comments | 84 mins

Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple written by Marcia Smith and produced for the PBS series American Experience talks about the infamous religious cult formed by Jim Jones. The film had its world premiere at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival. The feature deals with the events that saw the group’s horrifying mass suicide in[...]

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