http://documentaryheaven.com Welcome To Documentary Heaven!! Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:18:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://documentaryheaven.com/then-and-now/ http://documentaryheaven.com/then-and-now/#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2012 04:01:55 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=6361 A short documentary made about the survivors of the earthquake and tsunami that occurred in Japan in March 2011."We visited a town on the east coast called Ishinomaki, part of which was completely erased by the tsunami. Made up of interviews with survivors, Then and Now lets the survivors tell us about their experiences during the event and the progress of the recovery that has been taking place since." - From the producer... 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His nickname was the Fish, and I added the “Billy” in because I was drunk.Billy was a local mafia type from a remote Siberian town that had no police and little regulation, save him and his boys. This would prove to be literally lifesaving, because we were after a very dangerous quarry in the middle of nowhere—North Korean slaves—who don’t want anyon... Watch Now]]> http://documentaryheaven.com/vice-north-korean-labor-camps/feed/ 26 http://documentaryheaven.com/the-american-future-a-history/ http://documentaryheaven.com/the-american-future-a-history/#comments Wed, 21 Dec 2011 01:56:32 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=6285 What is an American? During the 2008 presidential campaign, Simon Schama traveled through America to dig deep into the conflicts of its history to understand what was at stake.Simon looks at the bitter conflict over immigration in American history. Who should be allowed to enter America and call themselves an American has always been one of the nation’s most divisive issues, and it continues to be so at this election. He traces the roots of this conflict to the founding of America.The early settlers were themselves immigrants, but they saw America as fundamentally a white and Protestant nation. Simon looks at the key events that challenged this view: the annexation of parts of Mexico in 1848 that made 100,000 non-whites American citizens, the immigration and subsequent expulsion of the Chinese in the late 19th century, and the massive immigration from Eastern Europe during the industrialisation of the 1920s. Each time there have been those who have insisted America... 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Such is the cycle of globalization, pushing the U.S. and China into a necessary partnership that has an upside for some and a profound downside for others.“The U.S. would have an easier time disentangling itself from Germany or France than from the Chinese,” says Ted Koppel. “You have to wonder how ei... Watch Now]]> http://documentaryheaven.com/the-people%e2%80%99s-republic-of-capitalism/feed/ 5 http://documentaryheaven.com/undercover-syria/ http://documentaryheaven.com/undercover-syria/#comments Thu, 15 Dec 2011 23:34:28 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=6274 Reporter Ramita Navai and producer Wael Dabbous spend two weeks living undercover in Syria with opposition movement members, who are determined to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad. They meet protestors and victims of the military crackdowns, visiting makeshift hospitals set up in private homes by doctors risking their lives treating the injured.... 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Since the mid nineteen-nineties, armed groups have used these minerals to fund a series of fantastically complicated and horrifically violent wars.Vice founder Suroosh Alvi travels to the Democratic Republic of Congo and makes one of the most grueling treks of his life to see first-hand where this so-called "conflict mineral" comes from and to meet some of the rebels involved in the seemingly never-ending conflict in Eastern Congo.... Watch Now]]> http://documentaryheaven.com/vice-guide-to-congo/feed/ 4 http://documentaryheaven.com/vice-guide-to-belfast/ http://documentaryheaven.com/vice-guide-to-belfast/#comments Fri, 09 Dec 2011 01:35:00 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=6252 Gerry and Alistair, two ex-paramilitaries from opposite sides of the sectarian divide, guide us through post-peace process Belfast.... 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When the previous television history series was told by the historian Robert Kee in 1981, Ireland was in a very different place, at war with itself in the north and economically ravaged in the south. The series naturally reflected those conditions and primarily... Watch Now]]> http://documentaryheaven.com/the-story-of-ireland/feed/ 5