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/when-we-grow-this-is-what-we-can-do/ http://documentaryheaven.com/when-we-grow-this-is-what-we-can-do/#comments Mon, 03 Oct 2011 19:22:58 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=6088 When we grow is a documentary about cannabis in the UK. It looks at the history of the plant, the facts, its many uses and the laws and politics surrounding it. Follow two young filmmakers on a shoe string budget, as they try to unravel what prohibition of cannabis really means, who it affects, who profits from it and why it was prohibited in the first place. Featuring interviews with; a cannabis activist, a hydroponic grow shop owner, a cannabis dealer, a professor of neuropsychopharmacology, who just so happens to be a former government drugs policy advisor and a medical marijuana user who would rather die than live without it.... 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Also returning to Portugal are Jane Tanner and Matthew Oldfield, two friends from the group known as the ‘Tapas 7′, who were on holiday with the McCanns at the time.The documentary reconstructs events surrounding Madeleine’s disappearance using actors and based on testimony given to the Portuguese police as part of... Watch Now]]> http://documentaryheaven.com/madeleine-was-here/feed/ 31 http://documentaryheaven.com/the-last-nazis-3/ http://documentaryheaven.com/the-last-nazis-3/#comments Sun, 17 Apr 2011 12:47:07 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=5681 Children of the Master Race looks at the Nazis' secret breeding programme called Lebensborn, and how the surviving children have lived their lives in the knowledge that they were bred to rule the world.... 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His 'procedures' included injecting poison directly into the hearts of his patients, often timing them to see how long it took them to die. He would amputate limbs without reason, and without anaesthetic, and would even keep mementos of his victims, using skin as a lamp shade, and a skull as a paperweight. He evaded capture and has never answered for his crimes - but now 60 years on and with Heim well into his 90s, fresh evidence has emerged suggesting that he might still be alive. This film follows Dr Efraim Zuroff in his international manhunt for one of the world's most wanted Nazi war criminals. With Heim's horrific crimes soon to be consigned to history forever, this Nazi hunt will be the last of its kind and the clock is ticking for... 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From the genesis of LA’s gang culture to the shocking, war-zone reality of daily life in the South L.A., the film chronicles the rise of the Crips and Bloods, tracing the origins of their bloody four-decades long feud. Contemporary and former gang members offer their street-level testimony that provides the film with a stark portrait of modern... Watch Now]]> http://documentaryheaven.com/crips-and-bloods-made-in-america/feed/ 48 http://documentaryheaven.com/steal-this-film-ii/ http://documentaryheaven.com/steal-this-film-ii/#comments Thu, 10 Mar 2011 18:18:17 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=5471 These are strange times indeed. While they continue to command so much attention in the mainstream media, the ‘battles’ between old and new modes of distribution, between the pirate and the institution of copyright, seem to many of us already lost and won. We know who the victors are. Why then say any more? Because waves of repression continue to come: lawsuits are still levied against innocent people; arrests are still made on flimsy pretexts, in order to terrify and confuse; harsh laws are still enacted against filesharing, taking their place in the gradual erosion of our privacy and the bolstering of the surveillance state. All of this is intended to destroy or delay inexorable changes in what it means to create and exchange our creations. If STEAL THIS FILM II proves at all useful in bringing new people into the leagues of those now prepared to think ‘after intellectual property’, think creatively about the future of distribution, production and creativity, we have achieved... Watch Now]]> http://documentaryheaven.com/steal-this-film-ii/feed/ 2 http://documentaryheaven.com/the-maze-prison-escape/ http://documentaryheaven.com/the-maze-prison-escape/#comments Fri, 25 Feb 2011 05:25:47 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=5165 Documentary on The Maze Prison Escape in the Early 1980s. 36 IRA Men in Block 7 escaped from Europes most secure prison based inside a British Military Facility just outside Lisburn.This escape took place shortly after the Hunger Strikes Protest came to an end at christmas 1981. This was also one of Margaret Thatchers biggest embarrasements while in office.... Watch Now]]> http://documentaryheaven.com/the-maze-prison-escape/feed/ 12 http://documentaryheaven.com/kevorkian/ http://documentaryheaven.com/kevorkian/#comments Fri, 25 Feb 2011 04:49:17 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=5140 Dr. Jack Kevorkian is most known for being the doctor involved in at least 130 assisted suicides. The controversy surrounding his practice was huge in the ’90′s and resulted in a prison sentence for the doctor. He was released in 2007 and has since run for congress.Kevorkian follows the doctor’s life post-incarceration and will give a look at his mindset since serving time for acts that some would argue are merciful, while others would brand as murder.- There is more to his life than death.... Watch Now]]> http://documentaryheaven.com/kevorkian/feed/ 8 http://documentaryheaven.com/paradise-lost-the-child-murders-at-robin-hood-hills/ http://documentaryheaven.com/paradise-lost-the-child-murders-at-robin-hood-hills/#comments Tue, 30 Nov 2010 02:24:58 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=4533 Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills is a 1996 documentary film directed by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky about the trials of three teenage boys in West Memphis, Arkansas for the murder and sexual mutilation of three prepubescent boys. The boys on trial for the crime are: Jessie Misskelley, Damien Echols and Jason Baldwin, also known as the West Memphis 3.Despite a lack of any significant evidence indicating that they are connected to the case at all, the three boys are charged and tried for the murders. A common theme throughout the film is the treatment of the boys based on their appearances and tastes in music, possibly as a Satanic ritual abuse. During the course of the filming, John Mark Byers, the stepfather of one of the victims, gives the filmmakers a knife which has blood in the hinge. The filmmakers turn the knife over to police, who examine it; the DNA is similar to that of himself and the boy but the evidence is nonetheless inconclusive since the DNA... Watch Now]]> http://documentaryheaven.com/paradise-lost-the-child-murders-at-robin-hood-hills/feed/ 40