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/child-trafficking-in-cambodia-stacey-dooley-investigates/ http://documentaryheaven.com/child-trafficking-in-cambodia-stacey-dooley-investigates/#comments Wed, 04 Jan 2012 03:00:52 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=6311 Stacey Dooley explores the issue underage sex trafficking in Cambodia, investigating how thousands of young girls are being sold into sexual slavery often by those they trust the most, their family. She confronts the problem head on as she joins the police on raids to shut down brothels and learns the harsh realities for girls who are trafficked and abused in the sex industry... 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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/harlan-county-usa/ http://documentaryheaven.com/harlan-county-usa/#comments Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:30:56 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=6232 A man crouches and pokes at what first appears to be a wad of chewed-up pink bubble gum on the ground. “That’s what a scab will do to ya, by God,” he says, his voice quavering with emotion. The pink wad is brain tissue from a striker shot in the head by a strikebreaker. That’s one of the harsh realities of Harlan County USA. Barbara Kopple’s documentary camera looks at this forgotten corner of 1970s America, the site of some of the bitterest labor violence in American history. It’s hard to believe that some 40 years after the Depression, there were parts of Appalachia that were hardly better off than they were in the 1930s. The care-worn faces of the miners and their families speak volumes.They’re the tough, proud faces of people struggling to make a living the way that their parents and grandparents did in generations past. Kopple skillfully weaves archival footage and traditional labor songs through the film to give a historical perspective to the strike against Eas... 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Unit 731 was based at the Pingfang district of Harbin, the largest city in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo (now Northeast China). More than ten thousand people, from which around 600 every year were provided by the Kempeitai, were subjects of the experimentation conducted by Unit 731.More than 95... Watch Now]]> http://documentaryheaven.com/nightmare-in-manchuria/feed/ 27 http://documentaryheaven.com/very-young-girls/ http://documentaryheaven.com/very-young-girls/#comments Sat, 30 Jul 2011 17:46:35 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=5947 Very Young Girls, whose title reflects the fact that in the United States the average age of entry into prostitution is just thirteen. The film takes us into the work of a former sexually exploited youth-turned-activist named Rachel Lloyd, who started the New York City organization GEMS (Girls Educational and Mentoring Services) to help victimized young women escape their pimps and find another way of life.... 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Diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 2008, Terry wants to know whether he might be able to end his life before his disease takes over.Travelling to the Dignitas Clinic in Switzerland, Terry witnesses first hand the procedures set out for assisted death, and confronts the point at which he would have to take the lethal drug.... 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The kids are running away from this reality, only to find what waits for them is a life with little hope. After seeing the cycle that leads kids to the street, the programs began addressing family issues at the root of the problem to combat them, often successfully, from all sides.In Recife, a few d... Watch Now]]> http://documentaryheaven.com/hummingbird/feed/ 3 http://documentaryheaven.com/inside-out/ http://documentaryheaven.com/inside-out/#comments Mon, 25 Apr 2011 02:14:10 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=5706 The film "Inside Out" was born out of the angst that even in the 21st century, in a city as liberal and safe and cosmopolitan as Mumbai (India), women’s access to public space is limited and largely relegated to the sphere of purposefulness. Today, women are increasingly accessing the public sphere but with certain restrictions of unwritten rules. They are out there doing only a certain kind of work, dressed a certain way and almost always existing as consumers in markets or malls, caretakers for children in parks, or office-going purposeful women. But what happens when one just wants to be? When one pursues unconventional roles in the public domain? How thin is the line of acceptable conduct in public for a woman, and what happens if one dares to cross it? Can one cross it at all? Can a woman ever access public space as freely and completely as a man, or will she forever be aware of the multiplicity of gazes that are on her, including her own? The film brings out the experiences of... Watch Now]]> http://documentaryheaven.com/inside-out/feed/ 13