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Gone: The Story of Paul Alexander

Paul Alexander was a young British teenager who possessed an amazing talent for skateboarding, he was full of character and had crazy ambition for his age. Upon moving from Leicester to Bristol he discovered incredible opportunities such as sponsorship, recognition and invitation to travel different countries. It was here that he started living with professional skateboarder Danny Wainwright, and

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WU: The Story of the Wu-Tang Clan

Back in the summer of 1993, the Wu-Tang Clan emerged from the slums of Staten Island, NY, and took the hip-hop scene by storm. Their legacy spanned over a decade, and they sold more than 20 million albums. Their talents brought them success and their music made them legends. This is their story, a tale filled with inspiration and hardship, told by acclaimed director Gerald "Gee-Bee" Barc

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Ancients Behaving Badly: Alexander the Great

Alexander the Third of Macedon, his legend gives him the name "Alexander the Great" but he could also be known as "Alexander the Annihilator" due to the fact that anyone who got in his way was crushed. Alexander considered himself a god, his admirers thought of him as a military genius, his enemies referred to him as the devil.In this film investigators decide to put Alexanders life under a mi

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Genius of the Ancient World

Since the dawn of civilisation the forces of nature and the whims of Gods held sway over humanity but 2,500 years ago human kind experienced a profound transformation. Suddenly there were new possibilities, it was a time when rationality began to overrule superstition and belief.Upheavals across the globe sparked an ambitious vision of what humans could achieve, spearheaded by three trailbl

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The Bank of Tax Cheats

In this episode of BBC's Panorama, serious questions are raised for the British government and the city of London, all in regards to an apparent effort by the biggest bank to help some of their biggest and most wealthy clients dodge paying tax.When the government found out about this scheme, Panorama asks why weren't the cheats or the banks prosecuted? and even more curious, why was the banker

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An Honest Liar: The Amazing Randi Story

"Some people can not believe that a magician can fool them in such a way that they can't figure it out, but magicians can and magicians do. Swindlers do, conmen do, all the time, their not magicians but rather are fakes. They are lying to us, they are deceiving us. It's okay to fool people as long as you're doing that to teach them a lesson which will better their knowledge of how the real wo

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I Am Evel Knievel

"I Am Evel Knievel" takes a unique look at the life of Robert Craig "Evel" Knievel, through the use of archival footage we experience some of Evel's greatest jumps and learn about his rise to fame, having started off as a small town rebel in Butte, Montana, to becoming a cultural icon who's success was build on nerves of steel.The film not only uses archival footage of his larger-than-life cha

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Britain’s Nuclear Secrets: Inside Sellafield

Lying on the remote north west coast of England is one of the most secret places in the country. 65 years ago it helped make Britain a world superpower and within it's is material that could devastate life on this island and beyond, this is Sellafield. Costing around 2 billion pounds every year, its the most controversial nuclear facility in Britain.Nuclear physicist Jim Al-Khalili has been fasc

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Britain’s Secret Terror Deals

Unsolved, unresolved, terrible crimes from the troubles in Northern Ireland but these are no ordinary killings. This is the story of why the state is accused of standing in the way of truth and justice. It's a story of how the state helped and protected killers, killers of innocent people, its why the past will not and cannot simply go away.Once a suspicion, now a fact, there were murders on the

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