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/planet-rock-the-story-of-hip-hop-and-the-crack-generation/ http://documentaryheaven.com/planet-rock-the-story-of-hip-hop-and-the-crack-generation/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:02:09 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=6385 twenty-five years after crack cocaine ravaged American cities,this documentary explores how the drug also transformed popular culture, especially hip-hop. Narrated and executive produced by Ice-T, "Planet Rock: The Story of Hip Hop and the Crack Generation" is the first documentary to focus specifically on the connections between crack and hip-hop. Based primarily on the first-person accounts of four famous dealers-turned-rappers, the film also widens its lens at points to show how crack changed America culturally, socially and politically. Using rare footage, photos, and animation, all set to the beats and rhymes of the iconic hip hop tracks of the day, the documentary explores how media hysteria, racism and political reaction produced policies and laws that have left us with the largest -- and most disproportionately African-American -- prison population in the world. Crack first appeared in the early 1980s, but by 1986, it was raging through the inner cities of America like wildfire... Watch Now]]> http://documentaryheaven.com/planet-rock-the-story-of-hip-hop-and-the-crack-generation/feed/ 5 http://documentaryheaven.com/drugs-inc-hash/ http://documentaryheaven.com/drugs-inc-hash/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:58:16 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=6373 A British man, known as Dave Kent has experienced the dangers of hash first-hand. An ex-smuggler imprisoned in a tough North African prison for three years, Dave provides you with an insight into the hash trade. British professor Robin Murray reveals psychological risks associated with the drug and you will also explore the medical use of this non-life-threatening substance.... Watch Now]]> http://documentaryheaven.com/drugs-inc-hash/feed/ 8 http://documentaryheaven.com/swansea-love-story/ http://documentaryheaven.com/swansea-love-story/#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2012 04:29:05 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=6371 Rule Britannia scours the UK to partake of all the sordid offerings of this green, pleasant and messed-up land. Under the surface of Swansea, things are a little different than it initially looks.Here they befriend a gang of young addicts caught up in South Wales’ largely ignored heroin epidemic. We find topless fire-breathing dance troupes, old sailors, and two little kids in one of the city’s most drug-ravaged council estates. We visit a demonstration by the Welsh Defense League which turns into something of a race riot. Reforming addict Lee Dennis talks about decorating his blood-spattered house and demonstrates his love of Swansea City FC. An ex-dealer by the name of Old Famous Clinty talks about the pitfalls of methadone and how he’s determined to turn his life around, and so much more.... Watch Now]]> http://documentaryheaven.com/swansea-love-story/feed/ 22 http://documentaryheaven.com/nbc-dateline-the-x-files/ http://documentaryheaven.com/nbc-dateline-the-x-files/#comments Fri, 30 Dec 2011 20:41:39 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=6298 Dateline NBC search for the legendary underground ecstasy chemist, known only as "Strike". The Dateline crew pick up on the trail left by a group of reckless foolish students and Strike himself, which leads directly to a man named Hobart Huson, who subsequently reveals himself to be Strike.... 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Many dispensaries have been raided, targeting their distribution of marijuana and challenging their authority to rise into legitimate business.In the backdrop of this public dispute is the Dark Alliance-- where governments handle the volume of drug trafficking and work with cartels and drug dealers to manage the drug flow. Just like the prohibition of alcohol, drugs have thrived on their illicit appeal, and doomed millions of non-violent offenders to incarceration and prosecution. N... Watch Now]]> http://documentaryheaven.com/how-weed-won-the-west/feed/ 1 http://documentaryheaven.com/britains-secret-cannabis-farms/ http://documentaryheaven.com/britains-secret-cannabis-farms/#comments Tue, 22 Nov 2011 01:11:40 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=6207 In 2002, Britain produced 15 per cent of its own cannabis. In 2010 that figure is 90 per cent, and police around the country raid at least three factories every day. Organised gangs are cashing in on widespread demand for cannabis among Britain's youth by setting up sophisticated factories in suburban homes and disused warehouses. Research shows a third of the UK's 15-year-olds have tried cannabis and a quarter of young people aged 16-24 smoke it regularly.Presenter Rickie Haywood-Williams journeys beyond the scaremongering headlines to find out the true impact of the UK's skunk-smoking habit. Rickie accompanies Avon and Somerset police on raids, and rides in a heat-seeking helicopter as it uncovers cannabis farms with hi-tech thermal imaging equipment. He also meets a landlord who was horrified to find his tenant was in fact part of an organised gang who were farming cannabis in every bedroom of his house.Rickie's journey also includes a trip to Amsterdam and meetings with som... 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Watch Now]]> http://documentaryheaven.com/j-is-for-junkie/feed/ 16 http://documentaryheaven.com/clearing-the-smoke-the-science-of-cannabis/ http://documentaryheaven.com/clearing-the-smoke-the-science-of-cannabis/#comments Fri, 11 Nov 2011 20:06:35 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=6178 Montana PBS’s new documentary, Clearing the Smoke, reveals how cannabis acts on the brain and in the body to treat nausea, pain, epilepsy and potentially even cancer. Extensive interviews with patients, doctors, researchers and skeptics detail the promises and the limitations of medicinal cannabis. Even though the video has an American perspective, marijuana use is illegal throughout many countries of the world for reasons that are not clear. This video is important because it mainly investigates the scientific basis underlying the medical benefits of marijuana use instead of focusing on the social, political and legal hysteria that have been attached to it.... 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Watch Now]]> http://documentaryheaven.com/when-we-grow-this-is-what-we-can-do/feed/ 18 http://documentaryheaven.com/strain-hunters-morocco-expedition-by-green-house-seed-co/ http://documentaryheaven.com/strain-hunters-morocco-expedition-by-green-house-seed-co/#comments Thu, 29 Sep 2011 03:26:46 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=6083 The large majority of the hashish produced worldwide (up to 70% of the total annual world production) comes from a relatively small mountain region in the North of Morocco, called Rif. In Dutch coffeeshops the sales of Moroccan hashish are one of the backbones of the industry, already since the 1970s. And from London to Rome to Madrid to Cape Town, Moroccan hashish is consumed daily by huge numbers of people. Moroccan hashish was first produced after Asian and Arab merchants introduced the cannabis plant to the region, between 1000 and 1200 years ago. But it wasn't until recently (1960s) that hashish production reached export-levels, becoming the number one commercial output in the region of the Rif, and representing a significant proportion of Morocco's GDP (unofficial sources estimate it at roughly 30%). There are social and historical reasons to this: the Berbers, inhabitants of the Rif, always maintained their independence from the Arab dynasties ruling the Country.... Watch Now]]> http://documentaryheaven.com/strain-hunters-morocco-expedition-by-green-house-seed-co/feed/ 19