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The Ascent of Money (video.google.com)The Ascent of Money: Niall Ferguson's tenth book about the Financial History of the World, adapted into a television documentary for Channel 4 (UK) and PBS. It examines the long history of money, credit, and banking.
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2.Hyper Parents & Coddled Kids (www.cbc.ca)
Kids today are the most overprotected, overindulged, and overscheduled in history. Is all of this attention giving the next generation a competitive edge, or creating new problems that will last a lifetime?
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3.Mother India (www.cbc.ca)
A spicy and delicious episode about the land of a thousand dishes.
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The Story Of...Fairytale of New York - The Pogues (www.youtube.com)Documentary about The Pogues classic Christmas song.
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5.King Corn (www.livevideo.com)
King Corn is a feature documentary film released in October 2007 following college friends Ian Cheney and Curtis Ellis as they move to Greene, Iowa to grow and farm an acre of corn. In the process, Cheney and Ellis examine the role that the increasing production of corn has for American society.
The film shows how the industrialization of corn has all but eliminated the family farm, which is being replaced by larger and larger industrial farms. This trend reflects a larger industrialization of the North American food system, whereby, as was outlined in the film, decisions relating to what crops are grown, and how they are grown, are based more on economic considerations than their ramifications on the environment or the population. This is demonstrated in the film by the production of high fructose corn syrup, an ingredient found in many cheap food products, such as fast food.
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Here We Are Waiting for You - The 20th Century as seen by the common man (www.youtube.com) -
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Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations in Shanghai (www.youtube.com) -
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Narco Wars - Mexico (www.youtube.com)Mexicans are facing a horrifying increase in violence brought about by the governments decision to wage war on the powerful drug cartels. Each day sees more deaths and kidnaps, while corruption is endemic.
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9.The Chemical Generation (Esctasy & Culture Documentary) (video.google.com)
This documentary covers the acid house, rave and club culture revolution and also the generations favourite chemical - ecstasy. Broadcasted in the United Kingdom on Channel 4, on the 4th April 2001. It covers the huge changes in the UK's culture as a result with a changes in attitude towards racism and homosexuality and our "stiff upper lip" culture.
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YouTube - Tightwads (www.youtube.com)Documentary on misers or tightwads.
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The Atomic Cafe (www.youtube.com)The film recounts a defining period of 20th century history and serves as a chilling and often hilarious reminder of cold-war era paranoia in the United States--artfully presented through a collage of newsreel footage, government archives, military training films, and fifties music. Profoundly shocking and perversely topical, THE ATOMIC CAFE craftily captures a panicked nation.
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Sophie Bissonnette's documentary analyzes the hypersexualization of our environment and its noxious effects on young people. Psychologists, teachers and school nurses criticize the unhealthy culture surrounding our children, where marketing and advertising are targeting younger and younger audiences and bombarding them with sexual and sexist images. Sexy Inc. suggests various ways of countering hypersexualization and the eroticization of childhood and invites us to rally against this worrying phenomenon.
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Micro Doc - A tiny home tour: living in 96 square feet (www.youtube.com) -
14.Eyes on the Prize - Episode 01 (video.yahoo.com)
Eyes on the Prize is an award-winning 14-hour television series produced by Blackside and narrated by Julian Bond. Through contemporary interviews and historical footage, the series covers all of the major events of the civil rights movement from 1954-1985.
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Sick Around The World (www.pbs.org)Comparing Health Care Systems from Various Countries
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In Pot We Trust (www.youtube.com)In a free society you would have the right to put anything into your own body including medicine of your own choosing. The harms associated with cannabis are more likely to involve the laws than the drug.
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17.Skinheads USA - Soldiers of the Race War (video.google.com)
This documentary takes you inside to an actual neo-Nazi Skinhead organization for a extended look at the methods and mentality that fuel the White Power youth movement in America.
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Scientology and Me (video.google.com)Scientology and Me was a television documentary broadcast 14 May 2007 as part of the BBC's Panorama series. Reporter John Sweeney visited the United States to investigate whether the Church of Scientology was becoming more mainstream. The programme gained particular controversy before and during filming due to unresolved differences on content and approach between Sweeney's production team and Scientology members, who did not want detractors or perceived enemies of the church to be interviewed or included in the documentary.
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Colombia Frontline (Drug Smuggling from Colombia to Europe) (www.youtube.com)Colombia's infamous drug economy is no news to the international community. The US have poured billions into shutting it down but it just keeps on rolling. And now a new phenomenon has emerged: the widespread use of Western tourists as mules smuggling the drugs through customs. This fast-paced, gritty documentary delves into Colombia's seedy underworld and experiences this deadlocked war on all its fronts.
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Children Full of Life (www.youtube.com)In the award-winning documentary Children Full of Life, a fourth-grade class in a primary school in Kanazawa, northwest of Tokyo, learn lessons about compassion from their homeroom teacher, Toshiro Kanamori. He instructs each to write their true inner feelings in a letter, and read it aloud in front of the class. By sharing their lives, the children begin to realize the importance of caring for their classmates.
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Ricky Gervais: New Hero of Comedy (www.youtube.com)Documentary about Ricky Gervais and his work.
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22.Manufacturing Consent (video.google.com)
The classic Canadian documentary Manufacturing Consent based on the Noam Chomsky/Edward Herman book by the same name. Explores the the propaganda model of the media.
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23.Michael Jackson Memorial - Staples Center July 7, 2009 (www.viddler.com)
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24.Do You Want To Live Forever? (Aubrey de Grey & Life Extension) (Channel 4) (video.google.com)
Channel 4 Documentary following the revolutionary life-extension and immortality ideas of this somewhat eccentric scientist, Dr. Aubrey de Grey. This show is all about the radical ideas of a Cambridge biomedical gerontologist called Aubrey de Grey who believes that, within the next 20-30 years, we could extend life indefinitely by addressing seven major factors in the aging process.
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25.Bloody Cartoons (www.guba.com)
On 30/9/05 cartoons of Mohammad were published in a Danish newspaper; inciting Muslims to burn Danish flags/embassies all over the world. This documentary examines the consequences of that fateful event & the cost to our democratic freedom of expression.
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