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State of Surveillance

In this special VICE manages to get an exclusive interview with none other than NSA whistleblower, Edward Snowden. Snowden if you don't already know was the individual responsible for leaking details on a massive government surveillance operation which targeted America citizens back in 2013.His actions ignited a raging debate over digital privacy and security, a debate which is still very much

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Heroin: The Hardest Hit

Heroin overdose deaths in Virginia nearly doubled from 2011 to 2013 with every region having experienced an increase in heroin fatalities, these include a 164% increase in Northen Virginia, a 94% increase in Hampton Roads and a 50% increase in the Richmond Metro Area.Heroin: The Hardest Hit is a film which was put together by the VA State attorney's office in order to raise awareness about her

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Muhammad Ali: Through the Eyes of the World

One of the greatest sporting figures of all time has sadly passed away at the age of 74 (June 3 2016), he had been suffering from a respiratory illness, a condition that was complicated by Parkinson's disease. As a tribute to the man himself here is Muhammad Ali: Through the Eyes of the World.Muhammad Ali has been called the greatest athlete of his century but he was so much more than just a g

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The Smashing Machine

Originally released in 2002 and directed by John Hyams, The Smashing Machine is a film about the mixed martial arts career and personal life of Mark Kerr. This graphic documentary takes an unflinching look into the world of no-holds-barred fighting and the modern day gladiators who populate it, all through the eyes of Mark "The Smashing Machine" Kerr and his friend Mark "The Hammer" Cole

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Project Greenglow: The Quest for Gravity Control

This is a film about an unusual scientific adventure, which had the ultimate goal of establishing the ability to control gravity. For centuries the greatest scientific minds have struggled with the precise workings of gravity, from Newton to Faraday and Einstein, to them the concept of controlling gravity has been seen as little more than a fanciful dream.However in the

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Louis Theroux: A Different Brain

Louis Theroux’s latest documentary A Different Brain, saw the presenter spending time with staff and service users at the Brain Injury Rehabilitation Trust or BRIT, one of the UK’s largest providers of neuro-behavioural rehabilitation, in an effort to understand how individuals and their families come to terms with this life-changing condition.In his characteristically calm and empathetic mann

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Britain’s Illegal Rave Renaissance

Rave culture was always supposed to polarize people and depending on your own experiences it is either one of the UK's greatest exports or a symptom of our own moral decline. But after a nationwide clampdown in the mid 90's the scene was forced further into the underground with new super clubs and licensed sanitized parties taking their place.Recent years have seen an institutionalized attack

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This Is Dixon

VICE co-founder Suroosh Alvi takes us to Dixon, West Toronto, Canada, it is basically a complex of six condo towers, a place where Alvi spent most of his high school summers, he lived in building 380. Back then it was home to mostly middle class South Asians, Jamaicans and white Canadians, little to no trouble was observed.When Alvi began seeing media reports with police saying that this was t

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The Day Hitler Died

As the Russian and Allied forces began to surround Berlin in 1945, Adolf Hitler took refuge in a bunker located below the crumbling city. He had plunged the world into total war with the dream of founding a thousand year Reich and now his end was nearing.What exactly happen within this bunker has long been pondered, however through this film we get to relive Hitler's final days, detailed through

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