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How The Kids Took Over

Social | 28 Sep, 2012 | No Comments

In the past 10 years, corporations have doubled what they spend on marketing to children. No wonder. Children influence 62% of family purchases - everything from fast food to car cameras. Children under twelve are at the epicenter of consumer culture. There's gold in the hills, and sellers know their children the road. Therefore, it is[...]

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Kaw Thoo Lei: A Land Without Evil

Social | 26 Sep, 2012 | 3 Comments

Filmed Secretly over a month and a half along the Thai/Burmese border; Kaw Thoo Lei: A Land Without Evil is the story of the longest running civil war in modern history and a young Karen refugee named Eh Htee.

Having escaped Burma and oppression by its ruthless military regime, Eh Htee is now faced with the[...]

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Energy War

Social | 25 Sep, 2012 | 27 Comments

Forget the axis of evil, is the axis of oil. The Cold War and the War on Terror is about ideology and globalization. The 21st century will be dominated by the struggle for power: It will be every man for himself and will get dirty.

In the War of energy in two parts documentary VPRO Backlight[...]

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Marc Dutroux: The Monster of Belgium

Social | 25 Sep, 2012 | 5 Comments

Marc Dutroux (born November 6, 1956 in Brussels) is one of the sickest human beings born. Belgium is a criminal, convicted of in 1995 and 1996, kidnapped, tortured and sexually abused six girls, aged between 8 to 19, four died as a result. He was also convicted of murdering an alleged accomplice before, Bernard Weinstein. He was arrested[...]

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MS13: World’s most Dangerous Gang

Social | 24 Sep, 2012 | No Comments

The gang MS13, also known as Mara Salvatrucha 13, is one of the most dangerous gangs in the United States violently - and one of the most organized. The band has MS13 cliques or factions, located in the United States and is the only one that retains it's links with their counterparts in El Salvador. With cliques[...]

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In this World

Social | 24 Sep, 2012 | 2 Comments

"In the Shamshatoo refugee camp in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province, there are 53,000 refugees living in subhuman conditions since 1979 with the invasion of the Soviet Union in 2001 with the U.S. bombing and invasion of Afghanistan.

The Afghan family and his cousin Enayat Jamal illegally decide to send to London for a better life.[...]

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Louis Theroux: Law and Disorder in Philadelphia

Crime, Drugs, Social | 22 Sep, 2012 | 193 Comments

Louis Theroux, our favoritereporter goes into Philadelphia to document the horrors the residents and officers see daily. This intriguing documentary shows the public what life is like in a very real and non-glamorized way, something we rarely see in American news[...]

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Confessions of a Serial Killer: Jeffrey Dahmer

Social | 20 Sep, 2012 | 1 Comment

In February 1994, Stone Phillips met NBC serial murderer Jeffrey Dahmer in his only television interview. He went to prison with Jeffrey Dahmer's father, Lionel, and his stepmother, Shari. A Midwestern innocent child and a teenager retracted and curious, Jeffrey Dahmer lived a terrible double in adulthood, eventually becoming known as one of the most notorious[...]

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A Survivor’s Guide To Plane Crashes

Social | 19 Sep, 2012 | No Comments

Every day around the world, more than 3 million people catch a plane. However, despite being the safest way to travel, many of us are afraid to fly and what we fear most is to crash and die. Most people believe that if you're in a plane crash over time, in fact, the truth is strikingly different. Over[...]

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Famous in 31 Days

Social | 19 Sep, 2012 | 27 Comments

Feeling unhappy at work and experience a midlife crisis, without prejudice to the movie leave your job and try to become a recognizable national in a month.

John Gerard, quits his job, takes in everything he has, hop in your car (decorated with huge letters announcing their purpose, and the title of the movie) and goes[...]

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Haunted History of Halloween

History, Religion, Social | 18 Sep, 2012 | 1 Comment

What are we celebrating when we carve out Jack-o-Lanterns and encourage our youth to go out in costumes and ask for candy from strangers? This documentary shows us the ghoulish past and transformation of one of our oldest holidays still celebrated. Originating back in Ireland thousands of years ago during Celtic times. The origins of Halloween[...]

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The Enemies of Reason

Social | 16 Sep, 2012 | 420 Comments

The enemies of reason is a television documentary in two parts, written and presented by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins. Is it rational that the dead can communicate with the living and give advice on how to live their lives? What about sticking pins into your body to free the flow of Chi energy and cure[...]

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Total Denial: Film by Milena Kaneva

Burma, the country of the Golden Pagodas, strangled by a military junta. A pipeline built by two oil companies, TOTAL and UNOCAL. Slave labor, rape and murder are the results of the joint venture with the military. Doe vs. UNOCAL, the first lawsuit of its kind. Fifteen indigenous people battle head to head with two corporate giants in[...]

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Welcome to North Korea

History, Social | 15 Sep, 2012 | 278 Comments

This award winning 2001 documentary takes us inside the rogue nation of North Korea and shows images many of us have never seen. This is one of the few times the west was able to glimpse into North Korea's way of life and[...]

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