| 2012
Burma - Press Freedom? - 26'min 21''sec - 18 June 2012 (Ref: 5545)
Overview
As part of its reforms Burma has been releasing its imprisoned journalists. Their stories offer a glimpse into the frightening world of those who kept going despite torture and regular imprisonment.
Egypt - Devil and the Deep Blue Sea - 5'min 47''sec - 18 June 2012 (Ref: 5546)
Overview
In less than 24 hours, Egypt's ruling military junta has tightened its grip on power. Dealing a crushing blow to the country's transition to civilian rule, it's a move that could see a return to revolution.
Greece - On The Breadline - 9'min 50''sec - 18 June 2012 (Ref: 5547)
Overview
With youth unemployment at 50%, the elderly losing their assets and ever-growing numbers going hungry, you don't need to wander far on the streets of Athens to witness the impact of Greece's debt crisis.
UK - The World Tomorrow - Episode 10 - 26min sec - 18 June 2012 (Ref: 5549)
Overview
When former international cricket captain Imran Khan entered politics, neither he nor his party was taken seriously. Today however, he discusses his meteoric rise in Pakistani politics, and the issues driving it.
Belarus - Europe's Last Dictator - 54'min 30''sec - 18 June 2012 (Ref: 5436)
Overview
Alexander Lukashenko has held office in Belarus for 18 years, keeping power through torture, murder and kidnap. In the aftermath of the rigged 2010 elections, the regime's brutality has only continued to grow.
World - The Fourth World (HD) - 54'min 00sec - 14 June 2012 (Ref: 5421)
Overview
There’s a hidden world out there that is getting ready to explode: the world of slums. A seething mass of humanity inhabits it; over a billion people. And it is predicted numbers will triple in the next few years. This powerful, eye-opening documentary takes us across three continents to the heart of this new global niche. It’s the largest development in society mankind has ever known and the consequences if this mass of deprived humanity is ignored could be grave.
World - Cocaine Unwrapped - The Machine - 1min 15sec - 13 June 2012 (Ref: 5543)
Overview
Cocaine Unwrapped is the definitive documentary on the global cocaine industry, tying the blithe recreational use of cocaine to the global realities of its dirty supply chain. With unprecedented access to all the major players in the War on Drugs, from Presidents to drug mules, Cocaine Unwrapped challenges preconceptions and begs compassion.
World - Cocaine Unwrapped - Run for your Life - min sec - 13 June 2012 (Ref: 5544)
Overview
Cocaine Unwrapped is the definitive documentary on the global cocaine industry, tying the blithe recreational use of cocaine to the global realities of its dirty supply chain. With unprecedented access to all the major players in the War on Drugs, from Presidents to drug mules, Cocaine Unwrapped challenges preconceptions and begs compassion.
Egypt - End of the Nile - 17'min 28"sec - 11 June 2012 (Ref: 5524)
Overview
Egypt is headed for a major crisis. Population growth has drastically increased demand for water. In the desert country 80 million are supplied by one river; but how long will it be before the Nile runs dry?
Japan - Sayonara Baby - 26'min 17''sec - 11 June 2012 (Ref: 5540)
Overview
If your children had been snatched by your partner and taken overseas you'd hope the authorities would do everything in their power to retrieve them. But in Japan, the law is on the side of the kidnapper.
China - Asia's Arms Race - 11'min 13''sec - 11 June 2012 (Ref: 5536)
Overview
With diplomacy failing to break the deadlock between China and other Asian nations over the disputed Spratley Islands, arms dealers have been making a killing in the race for control of the valuable South China Seas.
UK - The World Tomorrow - Episode 9 - 26min sec - 11 June 2012 (Ref: 5541)
Israel/Palestine - The Invisible Men (HD) - 59'/70'min 00''sec - 8 June 2012 (Ref: 5538)
Overview
Israel's gay Palestinian underground. Persecuted in Palestine and called criminals in Israel, gay Palestinians are the silent victims of the conflict. Louie has been hiding in Tel Aviv for ten years, Abdu was tortured and accused of espionage for his relationships with gay Israelis and Louis was almost killed by his family. Where ever they go they live in fear of discovery. Only in Isreael’s gay underground are they at home. Eye opening and revelatory.
Turkey - Skeletons in the Closet - 27'min 55"sec - 6 June 2012 (Ref: 5534)
Overview
The climate in Turkey is tense as an expanding civil rights movement, the Enlightenment, calls for justice for thousands of political killings and disappearances. We examine the unsolved crimes and state silence.
Syria - Helping Hands - 9'min 30''sec - 6 June 2012 (Ref: 5537)
Overview
As the conflict rages on in Syria, there's no let-up to the killing of civilians. Thousands are now risking their lives to escape to countries like Turkey and Lebanon, many of them with horrendous injuries.
China - Cancer Villages - 14'min 38''sec - 6 June 2012 (Ref: 5527)
Overview
The Chinese government claims it's making serious efforts to clean up pollution. But as this horrifying report shows, much of their 'success' has involved simply moving their toxic industries out of sight.
UK - The World Tomorrow - Episode 8 - 26min sec - 2 June 2012 (Ref: 5533)
Overview
A terrifying war is being fought in the digital second world of modern life. Technology designed to soak up individuals' private communications is in constant development. In the age of cyber surveillance where does the boundary between private and public fall – if it still exists at all?
Nigeria - Delta Boys (HD) - 52'min 00''sec - 30 May 2012 (Ref: 5360)
Overview
Ateke Tom, the “Godfather” of the Delta Vigilante Force, and his men attack oil pipelines, kidnap foreigners and make the Niger Delta region a no-go zone. It’s all in a bid for a share of government wealth in this oil-rich region. Meanwhile, in a village caught in the crossfire, 22-year-old Mama struggles to give birth while militants launch raids from across the river. Through close and compelling stories this doc gives a human face to a struggle for survival.
Bali - The Paved Paradise - 26'min 02''sec - 28 May 2012 (Ref: 5521)
Overview
Over the last 40 years Bali has gone from being a spiritual, low-key holiday destination to an international tourist hot spot. Now it's stretched to breaking point, with a waste problem that's out of control.
Ecuador - Assange and Ecuador's President Correa - 26'min 00''sec - 28 May 2012 (Ref: 5520)
Overview
In Assange's most incisive interview to date in his World Tomorrow series President Correa speaks frankly about his nation's relationship with the USA, media corruption and the future of South America.
Sudan - Cluster Bomb - 5'min 56'sec - 28 May 2012 (Ref: 5525)
Overview
As the government's assault on the Nuba Mountains continues, we bring the first evidence that President Al Bashir, already indicted by the ICC, is employing cluster bombs against innocent civilians.
China - Lost Children of Coal - 22'min 35"sec - 28 May 2012 (Ref: 5526)
Overview
In China's Shanxi province the rate of children born with congenital defects is six times the national average. With many of these infants abandoned, a remarkable figure has embarked on a heartbreaking mission.
Switzerland - Contract Kids - 15'min 46"sec - 28 May 2012 (Ref: 5528)
Overview
Generations of Swiss children lost their childhoods to state-endorsed abuse and forced labour. This shocking report brings us their stories, shedding light on a little-known dark chapter of Swiss history.
UK - The World Tomorrow - Episode 7 - 26min sec - 28 May 2012 (Ref: 5532)
Overview
The Occupy movement has united hundreds of thousands across the world in protest against economic and social injustice. In this episode, key Occupy activists talk global finance, politics, and direct action.
Spain - Bull Runners of Pamplona (HD) - 56'min 00''sec - 24 May 2012 (Ref: 5522)
Overview
Every year, for 8 days in July, a herd of massive fighting bulls power down cobbled streets, along with a petrified mass of thrill seekers. The dark beasts roar and skid; men with red bandanas are scattered like skittles. It's all about the primordial thrill of the scariest chase in the world. Years in the making, this sumptuous documentary gets unprecedented access to the Running of the Bulls; the camera so close you smell the fear and hear the snorts of the beasts.
Uganda - Life On Air - 8'min 40''sec - 21 May 2012 (Ref: 5334)
Overview
In Uganda's conservative society, sexual health is a taboo that contributes to many deaths. But now one young girl from Kampala is breaking the silence with a fast-talking radio show about sex in the city.
USA - Gulf of Despair - 16'min 15"sec - 21 May 2012 (Ref: 5509)
Overview
Two years after the Gulf of Mexico disaster BP say the area is back in business. But in reality oil is washing up on the beaches, local residents are falling ill and the peak of the crisis is yet to come.
Egypt - Tahrir's Troubadours - 12'min 05''sec - 21 May 2012 (Ref: 5518)
Overview
Last year, Tahrir Square rang out to the sound of violent protests over Mubarak's rule. Now the sound of music can be heard from two troubadours who've taken up performing at the square's tent city protest.
UK - Cocaine Unwrapped - 52'/83'min 00''sec - 15 May 2012 (Ref: 5461)
Overview
This blockbuster of a doc gets inside the drug world with unprecedented access. Travelling from the growers to the drug mules, poverty to prison, cocaine factories in the Colombian jungle, and dealers on the streets of Mexico and Baltimore. It is a fascinating and unusual insight into how the drug world functions. Features exclusive interviews with the political leaders of Latin America and drugs czars on both sides of the Atlantic.
France - Moving Right - 16'min 08''sec - 14 May 2012 (Ref: 5512)
Overview
Hollande may have won the French elections, but Far Right leader Marine Le Pen attracted record support and is showing no signs of slowing down. So what's next for the party and its controversial ambitions?
Honduras - Gang Stigmata - 24'min 25''sec - 14 May 2012 (Ref: 5511)
Overview
In the Honduran barrios crime carries a permanent stigma - gang members are indelibly tattooed with their histories of violence. Desperate to escape their past, some have begun a painful path to rehabilitation.
Libya - Playground War - 16'min 50''sec - 14 May 2012 (Ref: 5513)
Overview
Although the Libyan revolution is over, divisions still run dangerously deep in Sirte. Nowhere is this more damaging than in the school playground, where young friends are now sworn enemies.
UK - The World Tomorrow - Episode 5 - 26'min sec - 14 May 2012 (Ref: 5516)
Overview
This episode takes us to the very heart of America’s War on Terror: Guantanamo Bay. Julian sits down with a former Gitmo prisoner and a rights campaigner, both fighting for those still trapped behind the wire.
USA - License To Kill - 17'min 54''sec - 14 May 2012 (Ref: 5510)
Overview
The killing of Trayvon Martin has divided America, raising questions about Florida's controversial 'Stand Your Ground' law. Can justice ever be served on the street? When does self-defence become murder?
Jordan - Sofex: The Business of War - 19'min 58''sec - 14 May 2012 (Ref: 5514)
Overview
Worldwide, battles are raging between governments and rebels, drug cartels and gangs. But where do all the weapons come from? In this report the frightening reality of the international arms trade comes to light.
Mongolia - Ub Lama - 52'min 00''sec - 10 May 2012 (Ref: 5414)
Overview
12-year-old Galaa likes hip-hop and computer games. But he lives in a small yurt on the outskirts of Ulaanbaatar. After his father’s death he deals on the local black market to support his family until, caught between modernity and tradition, aspirations and poverty, he decides to become a Lama. Can the monks help this unruly, troubled boy to be a breadwinner? A touching and intimate glimpse into life in Mongolia today, painted with the lightest of strokes.
Egypt - The Generals Strike Back - 13'min 39''sec - 8 May 2012 (Ref: 5505)
Overview
The bloodiest week in Egypt since the football massacres may have dramatically altered its political balance. With shocking footage, this powerful report gets inside the fresh turmoil threatening elections.
Ukraine - The Politics Of Football - 31'min 41''sec - 8 May 2012 (Ref: 5506)
Overview
With the 2012 UEFA European Championship upon us, Ukraine finds itself in the world's spotlight. But with its poor human rights record and widespread corruption should it be co-hosting the event?
Vanuatu - The Real Piggy Bank - 15'min 03''sec - 8 May 2012 (Ref: 5507)
Overview
With the Western world rocked by economic turmoil, we explore an alternative financial system that's secure, stable and has stood the test of time. In Vanuatu, a different approach to money is thriving.
World - The World Tomorrow - Assange and the Arab Spring Rebels - 30'min 00''sec - 8 May 2012 (Ref: 5508)
Overview
Assange, the journalist, comes of age! Following his latest interview with Bahrain's Nabeel Rajab, the activist was arrested. He and Egypt's Alaa Abd El-Fattah spoke powerfully to Assange about the failings of the Arab Spring.
Bosnia - Uspomene 677 (HD) - 52'/86'min 00''sec - 2 May 2012 (Ref: 5472)
Overview
677 concentration camps were set up during the Bosnian war in the early nineties. The way the victims and the perpetrators within each community deal with this legacy will determine the country's future. This well-crafted doc shares the viewpoint of each ethnic group through a new generation coming to terms with their toxic past. Living in a Bosnia fighting for EU membership, they’re desperate to find a way to live together for a peaceful tomorrow.
Tunisia - The World Tomorrow - Episode 3 - 26min sec - 1 May 2012 (Ref: 5503)
Overview
Over the last 18 months the middle east has been shaken by a series of revolutionary movements that began in Tunisia. This week Assange speaks to the man running the new Tunisia, President Moncef Marzouki.
Morocco - Seeds of Life - 13'min 52''sec - 30 April 2012 (Ref: 5478)
Overview
Moroccans have harvested the precious oil of the argan tree for centuries, bringing prosperity to the rural Berber people. But now the insatiable global demand for the oil is threatening this 'tree of life'.
Germany - Power Play - 13'min 47''sec - 30 April 2012 (Ref: 5500)
Overview
In villages across Germany the people have seized power by generating enough renewable energy to supply their needs. But with the government cutting subsidies to small producers will this green revolution run out of steam?
Italy - The Almighty Dollar - 24'min 43''sec - 30 April 2012 (Ref: 5499)
Overview
Italians are buckling up for a very bleak ride into economic gloom and many are asking if everyone is paying their way. Even the previously untouchable Catholic Church's finances are finally under scrutiny.
France - The Marseilles Motif - 27'min 45''sec - 30 April 2012 (Ref: 5501)
Overview
The beautiful port city of Marseilles was once a symbol of multiculturalism in France. Now plagued by gangs and crime, it has become central to the heated election debates around immigration and security.
Egypt - Frontrunners for President - 12'min 02''sec - 30 April 2012 (Ref: 5502)
Overview
As the Egyptian presidential elections begin, two candidates are moving well ahead in the polls. Progressive Islamist Dr. Abel Fotoh and former regime man Amr Moussa are now leading an increasingly close race.
Albania - Village Without Women - 52/83'min 00''sec - 25 April 2012 (Ref: 5441)
Overview
Atop a mountain in Southwest Serbia the Jankovic brothers hold the fort in the womanless village of Zabrdje. In a hilarious narrative this well-crafted doc follows the brothers’ quest to bring women back to the once vibrant community. But with no running water or roads, convincing Serbian women is out of the question. Instead they turn their eyes across the border to Albania and extend an olive branch to the women of their old enemy.
UK - The World Tomorrow Episode 2 - 10 x 30'min sec - 24 April 2012 (Ref: 5497)
Overview
In the second episode of his ground breaking new series, Julian Assange is joined in house arrest by intellectual superstar Slavoj Zizek, and via satellite by divisive right wing figurehead David Horowitz.
UK - The World Tomorrow - 12 x 26min sec - 24 April 2012 (Ref: 5530)
Overview
Julian Assange has been under house arrest for 500 days. In that time he has been host to a series of clandestine conversations with some of the world's most controversial people, now broadcasting worldwide.
Libya - Lawless Land - 17'min 38''sec - 23 April 2012 (Ref: 5495)
Overview
Gaddafi may be gone but Libya is now a country in chaos. Rebel groups are flush with weapons and taking the law into their own hands, persecuting those thought to have been allied to Gaddafi's regime.
USA - Attack of the Drones - 26'min 06''sec - 23 April 2012 (Ref: 5494)
Overview
They can move together in swarms, build towers, dance, throw and catch, assess targets and soon will even make their own decisions. Both in war and at home, drones are developing fast and gaining control.
Venezuela - Holy Thugs - 12'min 38''sec - 23 April 2012 (Ref: 5496)
Overview
In the dangerous city of Caracas, people are worshipping dead criminals. Do these flawed figureheads offer genuine comfort to troubled communities or is this unusual spiritualism encouraging more violence?
USA - Birdmen: The Original Dream of Human Flight (HD) - 52'min 00''sec - 18 April 2012 (Ref: 5465)
Overview
Staring down a sheer precipice into a deep abyss with your head spinning, every fibre in your body tries to resist the edge. Meet the mad men and women who don't. Overcoming their fears, they step off into thin air and fly like birds, hurtling at impossible speeds and gliding low across beautiful, rolling landscapes. A startling, adrenaline-filled insight into the revolutionary new sport that brings the dream of human flight alive.
Afghanistan - The Taliban Spring - 12'min 36''sec - 16 April 2012 (Ref: 5489)
Overview
The Taliban have vowed to reclaim their control of Afghanistan and their aggression is growing. This incisive report investigates what a future with the Taliban will really mean for the Afghans.
Bahamas - The Crime Wave - 15'min 06''sec - 16 April 2012 (Ref: 5490)
Overview
To the outside world, the Bahamas are an idyllic holiday hotspot, but for its residents, a surge in violent crime is turning these islands into one of the most dangerous places in the Caribbean.
UK - Lockerbie: Case Closed - 46'min 00''sec - 16 April 2012 (Ref: 5491)
Overview
This powerful film goes in search of answers to a 24-year-old mystery. In the only TV interview Megrahi has ever given about his case, he claims new evidence will prove him innocent. Was he wrongly convicted?
World - The World Tomorrow Episode 1 - 12 X 30'min 00''sec - 16 April 2012 (Ref: 5492)
Overview
A freedom fighter to some, a terrorist to others, it is his first interview in the West since 2006. From a secret location in Lebanon Hassan Nasrallah gives Assange a rare and frank insight into his vision for the future of the Middle East.
Syria - The Regime Must Fall (HD) - 52''min 00''sec - 11 April 2012 (Ref: 5482)
Overview
Group after group of uniformed Syrian troops proudly display their ID cards as they defect to the Free Syrian Army. This is the inside story of the Syrian uprising, from the kids brutally beaten for challenging the regime to the soldiers stories of the terrible events that lead them to defect. This striking documentary presents a unique insiders' view of a collapsing nation. A shocking and definitive film skilfully blending original footage and dramatic phone recorded images from the front-line.
Syria - Arming The Opposition - 16'min 33''sec - 10 April 2012 (Ref: 5485)
Overview
Haitham Al Maleh is Syria's father of human rights and top of the regime's hit list. With extraordinary access, this report captures the secret meetings in which he co-ordinates arming the opposition.
Israel/Palestine - Gaza Crime and Punishment - 33'min 00''sec - 10 April 2012 (Ref: 5486)
Overview
A rare view of the Gaza strip today. Life under the authoritarian rule of Hamas remains dominated by the organisations friction with Fatah and Hamas' strict policies on how the sexes interact.
Hong Kong - Maid Wars - 12'min 59''sec - 10 April 2012 (Ref: 5487)
Overview
300,000 migrant workers keep Hong Kong's households moving. Now, amid claims they are treated as second class citizens, the city's maids are challenging laws that forbid them from getting permanent residency.
Croatia - Troantico (HD) - 43'min 00''sec - 3 April 2012 (Ref: 5423)
Overview
This crafted doc offers a window into the bygone way of life on a UNESCO protected island off Croatia. Living on rocks carved with the history of two and a half thousand years, life for the people of Trogir is infused with an uninterrupted antiquity. From the fresh washing strung across ancient courtyards, wafting smells of traditional baking, and locals gathered in the shoemaker's shop to chatter, these are lovingly selected sequences reminiscent of a time before cameras existed.
World - Building the Perfect Bug - 24'min 40''sec - 2 April 2012 (Ref: 5479)
Overview
Mutated super bugs that could kill millions are being engineered by scientists worldwide. But are their labs secure enough and should bioterrorism fears prevent their research from being published?
Portugal - Bull Breakers - 11'min 24''sec - 2 April 2012 (Ref: 5443)
Overview
Bullfighting has long been a male-dominated sport, but a group of women in Portugal are fighting against the tradition. But what's driving this controversial new interest in female bullfighting?
Afghanistan - Anatomy Of A Massacre - 15'min 07''sec - 2 April 2012 (Ref: 5481)
Overview
The recent massacre of 17 civilians by a rogue US soldier has been shrouded in mystery. But through unprecedented access to those involved, this report confronts the accusations that Bales didn't act alone.
Bulgaria - Once Upon a Time in the East (HD) - 96'min 00''sec - 29 March 2012 (Ref: 5424)
Overview
In the 90s Bulgaria joined the Eastern Bloc's race for freedom. But as thousands flooded the streets calling for democracy the shadows were giving birth to criminal enterprise. And before anyone could realise, the criminals had taken over the new 'democratic' society. The street gangs dominated, a steel hand of fear was forced on the population. And freedom had come to Bulgaria! They quietly privatised everything in their own interests.
India - Girl Killers - 43'min 55''sec - 26 March 2012 (Ref: 5392)
Overview
An Indian proverb says raising a daughter is like watering your neighbour's garden and the burden of having girls means many are killed at birth. We follow the difficult lives of those who survive the practice.
Burma - Road To Mandalay - 26'min 03''sec - 26 March 2012 (Ref: 5475)
Overview
Having long been closed off to the outside world, Burma is now lifting the curtain and making staggering democratic reforms. But will the regime really pass power to its people in the upcoming elections?
USA - Primary Concern - 15'min 35''sec - 26 March 2012 (Ref: 5476)
Overview
Cynicism is not new in the US political arena. But several months into the Republican primaries, and with 8 to go, voters are switching off. Is the mudslinging of candidates starting to take its toll?
UK - Just Do It (HD) - 52/90min 00''sec - 21 March 2012 (Ref: 5417)
Overview
'Cup of Tea Darling?'. A quintessentially British tale of modern day outlaws. This punchy, adrenaline-fuelled documentary lifts the lid on climate activism and the troublemakers who dare to cross the line. It follows a diverse host of characters (including the tea maker) as they blockade factories and glue themselves to trading floors of international banks. Offering unprecedented access to the secretive world of the UK’s environmental activists.
Liberia - Liberia's President and Tony Blair Discuss Anti-Gay Law - 3min 07sec - 20 March 2012 (Ref: 5473)
Overview
The Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, winner of the 2011 Nobel peace prize, explains why she won't change the law to decriminalise homosexuality.
Spain - The Next Domino - 14'min 18''sec - 19 March 2012 (Ref: 5468)
Overview
No country is more nervous about Europe's economic future than Spain. With five million unemployed and property prices plummeting, economists say that unlike Greece, Spain is too big to bail.
Uganda - Hunting Kony - 11'min 13''sec - 19 March 2012 (Ref: 5469)
Overview
Reporter Aaron Lewis has been tracking Kony for years. The first Western journalist allowed to join the Ugandan army on the hunt, he revisits his journey in light of the controversial Kony2012 sensation.
Afghanistan - Girl Power - 25'min 37''sec - 19 March 2012 (Ref: 5442)
Overview
In war-weary Afghanistan women are still sold to pay debts and brutalized by family members. This report exposes the full horror of their plight and introduces the brave women combating the injustice.
Egypt - The Body Snatchers - 16'min 25''sec - 12 March 2012 (Ref: 5458)
Overview
Some of the Sinai Desert's Bedouin are using their new found freedom to turn to crime. This report reveals how they are using their autonomy to torture and murder Israel-bound refugees for hostage ransoms and even body parts.
USA - God's Theme Park - 11'min 48''sec - 12 March 2012 (Ref: 5459)
Overview
The Creation Museum in Kentucky has inflamed the bitter debate between believers and atheists in the US. This report gets inside the huge $17 million dollar exhibit and meets its unequivocal preacher.
USA - Meet The Frackers - 26'min 23''sec - 12 March 2012 (Ref: 5457)
Overview
As oil stocks run low, extracting oil from shale, or fracking, is the energy buzz of the year. It's happening worldwide and in 34 states across the USA. But with environmental and health risks, is it worth it?
Egypt - The Body Snatchers - 16'min 25''sec - 12 March 2012 (Ref: 5458)
Overview
Some of the Sinai Desert's Bedouin are using their new found freedom to turn to crime. This report reveals how they are using their autonomy to torture and murder Israel-bound refugees for hostage ransoms and even body parts.
Europe - Dicing With Debt - 45'min 28''sec - 12 March 2012 (Ref: 5462)
Overview
We think of Greece as the most indebted Euro country. In fact Ireland is in as bad a financial situation and still at risk of going bankrupt - the only difference, the Irish didn't go straight out and burn the banks. And neither were they allowed to right off a significant chunk of their debt. This shocking investigation details the full story, from out of control criminal lending practises to brutal austerity measures. At it's core it asks why the ordinary Irish citizen is now responsible for it all?
India - Behind the Label - 53'min 33sec - 12 March 2012 (Ref: 5467)
Overview
Around 270,000 Indian cotton farmers have comitted suicide. Why? India has replaced almost all its native varieties of cotton with genetically modified plants. The price of cotton seed has soared from 9 rupees a kilo to a staggering 4,000. We ask growers and seed developer Monsanto if the trade is fair, in a film that cuts to the ugly heart of another staggering tale of GM being forced onto third world markets. A devastating tale of corporate greed.
Cambodia - Fashion Week Cambodia - 31min 14sec - 8 March 2012 (Ref: 5452)
Overview
Phnom Penh, the “Wild West of the East”, has a fashion scene with two radically incompatible faces. Cambodia does have a fashion week, but even Filipino designer Don Protasia admits to its irrelevance. Under his strict instructions to “look stoned”, the gagged models, dressed in black, drag their feet along the slowest-ever catwalk, for the entertainment of the “Khmer Riche” – the new urban elite, sons and daughters of government ministers. There’s slightly more life in the afterparty, dominated by transvestites smeared in fake blood, making vampiric lunges at expats’ throats.
Colombia - Fashion Week Colombia - 32min 27sec - 8 March 2012 (Ref: 5451)
Overview
If you’re looking for an ethical fashion experience in Medellin, Colombia, you aren’t faced with many options. Moda Colombia and Moda para el Mundo take place in a single week – the first suffering from the noxious Western trend of starvation-chic, and the second languishing under the influence of “narco-beauty”, a hangover from the heyday of drug lord Pablo Escobar. Under this rigorous aesthetic regime, women must be hourglass-shaped – and, by silent implication, “surgically enhanced”.
Nigeria - Fashion Week Nigeria - 27min 04sec - 8 March 2012 (Ref: 5450)
Overview
If Charles Dickens had written a novel about the Lagos fashion scene, he couldn’t have chosen better names for his characters: there is Justice the Christian zealot, Blessed the hairdresser, Mr Perfect the choreographer, and the grand master of ceremonies, Lexy Mojo-Eyes.
Pakistan - Fashion Week Islamabad - 20min 08sec - 8 March 2012 (Ref: 5453)
Overview
For one week only, fashion-mad Pakistanis take shelter from Sharia Law in a hotel basement, in a dangerously ankle-baring celebration of style. High-security and equally hi-camp, Islamabad Fashion Week is perhaps the only event of its kind that literally takes place underground, since last year’s event in Karachi was marred by military attack.
USA - Las Vegas International Lingerie Show - 19min 27sec - 8 March 2012 (Ref: 5455)
Overview
Fashions change in unexpected ways, but right now the Las Vegas lingerie scene is following a steady trend: it’s simply shrinking. Anything that covers up too much “just doesn’t sell any more.”
USA - Full Figure Fashion Week - 21min 00sec - 8 March 2012 (Ref: 5454)
Overview
Look out, New York Fashion Week – just a few blocks away, there’s a legion of real women with real curves, coming to kick your cadaverous ass. The traditional half-starved model has just enough force to make it down the runway and back. But the runway at Full-Figured Fashion Week is more vibrant than the Broadway stage. Even if a model trips and falls in her stilettos (something that would cause most skinny models to break down and cry) it’s just a cue for a bit of floor-level hip-shaking.
Belarus - Europe's Last Dictator (HD) - 54'min 30''sec - 8 March 2012 (Ref: 5436)
Overview
Irina is the sister of imprisoned Belarussian presidential candidate Andrei Sannikov. Through her eyes this doc charts the violent crackdown that followed the 2010 rigged elections and its dreadful aftermath. Award-winning photography captures Orwellian images of brute force used against unarmed men and women. We see the torture, murder and kidnap that defines Belarus today. A rare glimpse into Europe's most repressive state.
World - Fashion Week Internationale - Series 1 - min sec - 8 March 2012 (Ref: 5456)
Overview
It’s Fashion Week again: the annual reappearance of the well-trodden catwalks in New York, Paris, London and Milan prompts hyperventilation among fashion journalists, and tired sighs of déjà-vu from everyone else. But in this new series, VICE’s Charlet Duboc tracks down the runways less-travelled, to investigate six of the world’s little-known Fashion Weeks – where fashion still has the power to shock.
Sierra Leone - Zainabu's Big Decision - 7'min 15''sec - 5 March 2012 (Ref: 5332)
Overview
Married at 15, Zainabu already has 9 children. Living in a small hut in Sierra Leone, she struggles to provide for them. Now she is going against traditional views of family planning to change their future.
Japan - After the Tsunami - 28'min 45''sec - 5 March 2012 (Ref: 5444)
Overview
On the 11th of March last year Japan's worst ever natural disaster killed almost 20,000 people. This report reveals the controversy surrounding it and the pain of rebuilding under the fear of radioactivity.
Iraq - A Nation On Edge - 7'min 50''sec - 5 March 2012 (Ref: 5446)
Overview
Since the US pulled out of Iraq, the country has been chaotic. Contrary to what the US are saying, mass poverty, clashes between Sunnis and Shiites and political corruption are tearing the nation apart.
World - Lost At Sea - 15'min 27''sec - 5 March 2012 (Ref: 5445)
Overview
With the Costa Concordia disaster dominating the news another problem facing the cruise industry is being forgotten: the disappearance of nearly 200 people from international liners in the last ten years.
Maldives - Mutiny in the Maldives - 19'min 58''sec - 5 March 2012 (Ref: 5447)
Overview
Military coups and violent protests are not what you'd associate with the Maldives. However, on this island paradise a lethal cocktail of wealthy businessmen, Islamic hardliners and corruption lie behind the coup.
India - Prostitutes of God - 29'min 40''sec - 5 March 2012 (Ref: 5448)
Overview
Behind a nation being rapidly developed and globalized lies a society where religion, superstition and old traditions still validate sex trafficking. This report exposes the sordid Devadasi tradition.
Holland - Flotsam and Jetsam - 13'min 03''sec - 27 February 2012 (Ref: 5399)
Overview
On the island of Texel the strangest things wash up on the shore. From a flood of messages in bottles to a shipload of fur coats, a combination of location and tides means the islanders have seen it all.
Greece - Casualties of the Crisis - 27'min 55''sec - 27 February 2012 (Ref: 5440)
Overview
With Greece given a new 130 billion Euro bailout package, this report looks at the human fallout of the country's crisis. It finds a people struggling to survive under a crippling regime of austerity.
Cambodia - Anatomy of a Massacre - 25'min 43''sec - 27 February 2012 (Ref: 5439)
Overview
The UN estimates 3000 were killed in the Khmer Rouge Po Chrey massacre. But journalist Thet Sambath tracked down several perpetrators for the first time and discovered the truth is much more alarming.
UK - The Olympic Side Of London (HD) - 55'min 00"sec - 24 February 2012 (Ref: 5395)
Overview
On the eve of the 2012 Olympics, this critical portrait of East London explores the transformation of the area from a marginal, working class community to a vibrant cultural hotspot, about to take the world's centre stage. With a lyrical cinematic style that oscillates between compelling imagery and gripping interviews, it explores the conflicts and hopes of East Londoners in the midst of the Olympic Propaganda Campaign, asking: what happens after the Games?
Italy - The Castle - 26'min 00''sec - 20 February 2012 (Ref: 5426)
Overview
As a stream of people pass by, how do you tell which ones have drugs in their stomach? This report offers a stark insight into the world of airport security, as they sift the drug mules from the tourists.
Europe - Bavarian Fairytale - 25'min 30''sec - 20 February 2012 (Ref: 5425)
Overview
While most of Europe is mired in financial crisis, the German state of Bavaria is booming. As exports rise and unemployment reaches a 20-year low, they wonder why the Greeks can't follow their lead.
Mexico - Illegal Border Crossing Park - 29'min 03''sec - 20 February 2012 (Ref: 5427)
Overview
In the town of El Alberto, a bizarre new attraction lets tourists simulate illegal border crossing between Mexico and the US. Is this socially-conscious tourism or inadvertent training for illegal immigrants?
China - High/Low (HD) - 52'min 21"sec - 15 February 2012 (Ref: 5278)
Overview
With gambling in China illegal, Hong Kong and Macau have become the premier destinations for Chinese gamblers. In China gambling has long been part of life, but with a society increasingly divided by rich and poor, the Chinese have become obsessed with winning easy money. As they pin their hopes on games of luck and fortune, four larger-than-life gamblers bring us on an emotional search for belief and identity in money-centric modern China.
USA - Generation RX - 80min 00''sec - 14 February 2012 (Ref: 5338)
Overview
Prozac Nation has given birth to a generation of messed-up kids. Children in the West are routinely diagnosed as depressed, hyperactive or bipolar, and systematically plied with powerful drugs. In the US alone, it's a market worth $130 000 per second. But if we were allowed access to proper information, would we really be doling these pills out like sweets, to get our troubled children off our nerves?
Bangladesh - A Tale Of Two Mothers - 8'min 00''sec - 13 February 2012 (Ref: 5333)
Overview
One woman is busy making choices for her family, the other is busy surviving from one day to the next. This comparative tale from one city exemplifies the economic impact of access to modern contraception.
World - The Business of Good Conscience - 28'min 30''sec - 13 February 2012 (Ref: 5405)
Overview
The Fairtrade logo has become a global symbol of ethical trade and is growing in popularity. But is it just a marketing ploy, doing more for the image of the shops than the three million farmers supplying them?
China - The Ka-Ching Dynasty! - 26'min 17''sec - 13 February 2012 (Ref: 5412)
Overview
The economic transformation of China has been electrifying. But with Europe teetering and the US plodding, can the biggest tiger of all keep on roaring? China's super-rich certainly think they can.
Syria - War on Medicine - 5'min 15''sec - 9 February 2012 (Ref: 5411)
Overview
In Syria, not even hospitals provide sanctuary from the carnage any more. And in the city of Homs, amid the brutal clashes, the strategic importance of hospitals has made them a direct target for attack.
Chile - Patagonia Rising (HD) - 54'min 27"sec - 8 February 2012 (Ref: 5408)
Overview
The vast and spectacular wilderness of Patagonia has lain unchanged for centuries. But as a large-scale hydroelectricity scheme looks set to transform it beyond recognition, the legendary gaucho ranchers and unique wildlife may disappear forever. It's all in the name of progress and the increasing demand for cheaper alternatives to costly and damaging fossil fuels. But must progress come at such a cost?
Colombia - Devil's Breath - min sec - 8 February 2012 (Ref: 5410)
Egypt - Football Mayhem - 10'min 55''sec - 6 February 2012 (Ref: 5404)
Overview
EXCLUSIVE: Public outrage over the Port Said massacre is boiling on the streets of Cairo. With filming only completed yesterday we follow protesters battling the regime they accuse of engineering the football massacre.
Italy - Return Of The Diary - 14'min 01''sec - 6 February 2012 (Ref: 5406)
Overview
For 70 years, Ron Miller's family have been custodians of a diary found abandoned during the Second World War. Now, the diary is finally being returned to its author, a 96 year old Italian, Alberto Toni.
Iran - Iran and the Bomb - 33'min 00''sec - 6 February 2012 (Ref: 5407)
Overview
The West says Iran is making a nuclear bomb. Tehran says they're treating cancer. This compelling investigation gets right to the heart of the maelstrom, interrogating facts, falsehoods and shocking allegations.
Iraq - Tikrit - 9'min 22''sec - 30 January 2012 (Ref: 5400)
Overview
As Sunni-led violence returns to Iraq we take a look at life in the Sunni heartland of Tikrit. The population are deeply unhappy with the Shia government and are blaming their troubles on its rampant corruption.
Kyrgyzstan - Bride Kidnapping - 33'min 19''sec - 30 January 2012 (Ref: 5391)
Overview
Follow us on a curious adventure to Kyrgystan, where bride kidnapping is a proud tradition. As women struggle to preserve their autonomy, the controversial practice is seeing a surge in popularity.
Scotland - Raging Torrent - 20'min 32''sec - 30 January 2012 (Ref: 5401)
Overview
Whitewater kayaking is one of the most adrenaline-filled Olympic sports. In the highlands of Scotland, we get a stunning HD insight into what it is like to brave the tumultuous rapids and steep waterfalls.
Bahrain - Shouting in the Dark - 51min 00''sec - 27 January 2012 (Ref: 5377)
Overview
February 2011, and the Arab Spring is in full swing. International TV cameras are lapping up events in Cairo and Tunis, celebrating the overthrow of one despotic regime after another. But out of sight, in Bahrain, another uprising is underway. Foreign journalists are banned from this island kingdom, but unknown to the ruling Khalifa family, one undercover crew were capturing the horrific carnage of a revolution forgotten by the world.
India - Caste Out - 32'min 22''sec - 23 January 2012 (Ref: 5393)
Overview
India's tribal Adivasi population are struggling for survival against the forces of economic growth. This devastating report examines the challenges they face, and the ways the tribes are rising to meet them.
Russia - The Russian Spring - 19'min 26''sec - 23 January 2012 (Ref: 5396)
Overview
Protests have continued on an unprecedented scale and internet activists have awakened a politicised middle class. But with its bloody history, can a Russian revolution cut through the Kremlin's iron grip?
Italy - Toxic Napoli - 28'min 53''sec - 23 January 2012 (Ref: 5397)
Overview
In Southern Italy, the illegal dumping of industrial toxic waste has become a big business for the Naples mafia. As the trade continues, the environment continues to suffer and the death toll rises.
USA - American Faust: From Condi to Neo-Condi (HD) - 60/86min sec - 19 January 2012 (Ref: 5394)
Overview
From a segregated childhood in Alabama to becoming the most powerful woman in the world, Condoleezza Rice cuts an extraordinary and enigmatic figure. This incisive documentary tells a mesmerising Faustian tale of a woman whose pursuit of power destroyed her core values and rocketed America into a fateful new direction. Leading her own defence through a series of candid interviews, this is political biography like no other.
Israel/Palestine - Shattered Hopes - 13'min 45''sec - 16 January 2012 (Ref: 5390)
Overview
Despite widespread upheaval across the Arab world and the ongoing statehood bid to the UN by the Palestinian National Authority, little has changed for those living under occupation in the West Bank.
China - Toxic Linfen - 27'min 14''sec - 15 January 2012 (Ref: 5306)
Overview
Welcome to the dirtiest place on Earth! Breathing the air in Linfen in China for a day is like smoking three packets of cigarettes. This shocking report reveals why Climate Change may be here to stay.
Philippines - Rags to Riches - 9min sec - 14 January 2012 (Ref: 5659)
Overview
In the slums of Manila, a determined group of women are literally turning rags to riches. In a city where the gap between rich and poor is clear to see, this pioneering new project brings the two closer together.
Japan - Children of the Tsunami (HD) - 60min 00''sec - 12 January 2012 (Ref: 5388)
Overview
On March 11th 2011 Japan woke up to a new and very frightening world. Through the eyes of the bright, smart young children who managed to survive the terrible disaster we see the pain-tinged environment in which they have to forge their futures. From the child who has forgotten how to speak to the eight-year-old who wants to become a radiation researcher. It is in turns a touching and horrifying vision of Japan's tsunami generation.
Belgium - Running Cold - 26'min 44''sec - 9 January 2012 (Ref: 5379)
Overview
As global preparations for the London 2012 Olympics hot up, this beautifully shot report follows the Belgian athletics team on their extreme training - on the frozen wastes of an Icelandic glacier.
North Korea - Kim Jong-Il's Foreign Adventure - 39'min 27''sec - 9 January 2012 (Ref: 5386)
Overview
We take a madcap look at one of the weirdest experiments of globalisation: North Korea's deceased leader Kim Jong-Il exporting his people and propaganda machine to Russia in a bid for cold, hard cash.
World - Best Before - 27'min 30''sec - 9 January 2012 (Ref: 5387)
Overview
Colourful, hygienic and nicely packaged: supermarket food is the same wherever you go in the world. But the packaging often contains dangerous toxins that can enter the food chain and pose serious health risks.
Denmark - Hello My Name Is Lesbian (HD) - 52min 48sec - 5 January 2012 (Ref: 5196)
Overview
Laced with a refreshing self-irony, this doc is a tour-de-force story of lesbian love. Provocative animated sequences, colourful archive and a dynamic soundtrack lead an intelligent exploration of life as a lesbian in Denmark. Travel from the secrecy of the straight-laced 1950s to the gender-bending queer community; from a nuclear family with two mums to the summer camps waging war on make-up and men; and finally to Ena, a Muslim and pro MC of 'Fagget Fairy', doing battle with prejudice.
South Africa - Brenda's Battle - 9'min 25''sec - 3 January 2012 (Ref: 5330)
Overview
In South Africa abortion and discourse on sexuality are cultural taboos. But now one woman is striving to break this trend and raise awareness of the rising number of deaths caused by unsafe abortion.
World - Thanking The People Smugglers - 31'min 11''sec - 3 January 2012 (Ref: 5384)
Overview
People smugglers are usually seen as heartless profiteers who exploit the weak. But, as this report shows, some smugglers are also regarded as saviours for many of those desperately fleeing their homeland.
USA - Lucky Ducks (HD) - 52/94'min 00''sec - 3 January 2012 (Ref: 5204)
Overview
Tracey and Taylor are yelling at each other in the kitchen. Doors slam, tears flow. The scene is familiar to anyone who has ever been a teenager, or raised one. But not every mother is a Hollywood scriptwriter with a film crew in tow capturing everything. This revealing, fly-on-the-wall portrait of a daughter and mother unflinchingly focuses on the uncomfortable truths that both must address if they have any hope of a better future. Fascinating and timely.
Hungary - Sinking State - 27'min 38''sec - 3 January 2012 (Ref: 5385)
Overview
First protesters accuse the government of tyranny, now they have taken to the streets to support the embattled PM. This report explores the constitutional changes that have driven Budapest into chaos.
2011
World - The 99 Percent - 28'min 42''sec - 19 December 2011 (Ref: 5383)
Overview
The Occupy movement has become the largest global social movement in recent history and shows no sign of slowing down. But do the protests really have the potential to alter the course of world politics?
Egypt - Protest Footage - 8'min 19''sec - 19 December 2011 (Ref: 5382)
Overview
As the occupation of the Egyptian cabinet continues, hopes of a peaceful transition to democracy are becoming increasingly unrealistic as military thugs are turning Cairo's streets into a raging battle ground.
2003
USA - Over-fishing - 21min 14sec - 1 October 2003 (Ref: 2012)
Overview
Alaska’s rich waters are famous for their plentiful supply of fish. But now overfishing is threatening to destroy this precious ecosystem.
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