As our troops in Afghanistan prepare to come home, more and more British soldiers are haunted by the trauma of over a decade of war. This Panorama special investigates the true personal cost which, until now, has remained largely hidden. The Ministry of Defence only releases the number of suicides of serving soldiers and does not track what happens to its veterans.Over the course of a year, repo
Boy Interrupted is a HBO film that examines the life of Evan Perry a 15 year old boy from New York who took his own life in 2005. This film which was made by his parents Dana and Hart looks at how Evan's bipolar disorder and depression consumed him and affected his family.Mental illness was something that ran in Evan's family; his uncle had also committed suicide at a young age, just 21. Evan
Consider the following story line for the ultimate video nasty. Single man meets radical male masochist on the Internet. On their first date, the masochist offers up his penis as main course in a romantic dinner for two. After some teething problems over the best way to prepare the food, the two men enjoy a meal of garnished genitals. Satiated, and feeling woozy, the masochist is led upstairs to t
Beware the Slenderman is a HBO feature length documentary which visits the strange incident where two 12 year old girls attempted to murder one of their friends. It was an effort on their part to appease Slender Man, a fictional monster who originated from an internet phenomenon known as "creepypasta". These creepypastas are horror-related legends or images that have been copied and pasted ar
The number of people with bipolar disorder has risen three fold in the last two decades. Three percent of us, that's nearly two million people in Britain today are thought to have this serious mental illness, but who are these people and what do they experience, what do they feel?In this film we see psychotherapist Philippa Perry, explore the nature of this disorder in an attempt to better u
In 1988, Chris Bryson was found running down a Kansas City street naked, beaten, and bloody wearing nothing but a dog collar and a leash. He told police about Bob Berdella, a local business man and how Berdella had captured him, held him hostage, raped him, tortured him, and photographed him over several days.Police later arrested Berdella and searched his mid-town Kansas City home where they fo
Can you think of 100 different uses for a sock? How would you cope with glasses that turn everything upside down? What's your emotional intelligence? Can you create a work of art in ten minutes?Horizon takes seven people who are some of the highest flyers in their field - a musical prodigy, a quantum physicist, an artist, a dramatist, an RAF fighter pilot, a chess grandmaster and a Wall Street
Batman Begins and The Dark Knight are both excellent sources of entertainment, but they also offer a complex and interesting dissection of a man who learned to use his own fear against criminals. Delve into the world of Batman and the vigilante justice that he brought to the city of Gotham. Batman is a man who, after experiencing great tragedy, devotes his life to an ideal – but what happens when
A film which dives into the controversy that surrounds ABA (Applied Behaviour Analysis) which is an intense intervention used to treat children who have autism, a lifelong developmental disorder which affects around 1 percent of the population in the United Kingdom.ABA uses a system of rewards and consequences to modify behaviour, it is based on the discoveries of psychologist B. F. Skinner an