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Frame 394

Frame 394 is a documentary short which follows a young man from Toronto who happens to have found himself wrapped up in one of America's most high profile police shooting cases. Daniel Voshart was trawling the internet one night when he happened to stumble across a video which had just gone viral.The video in question was filmed in North Charleston, South Carolina and depicted a white police o

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Mayday: The Passenger Who Landed a Plane

It was a midair emergency over Northern England and 77-year-old John Wildey was faced with every passengers worst nightmare, the pilot of the Cessna light aircraft he was in had just suffered a heart attack and died at the controls leaving Wildey alone in the aircraft during the pitch black darkness of night.This is the story of how a man with zero previous piloting experience battled to land

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Karamoja City Warriors

This animated and real life documentary addresses the issues of child trafficking and begging by the Karamojong women in Uganda. We follow the story of Lucia Nayep with her children in the city, and their return to Karamojaland. We talk to the City Council in Kampala, the MP for central Karamojaland, elders from the village and let the women who are trafficking the children justify themselves. Des

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Women of Fukushima

Six Japanese women offer brutally honest views on the state of the clean-up, the cover-ups and untruths since the nuclear accident in Fukushima, and how it has affected their lives, homes and families.Over a year since three reactors went into meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, a broad, disparate anti-nuclear movement is growing in Japan. Nowhere is that more apparent

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Rise of The Superstar Vloggers

Video sharing online has revolutionised how we connect with one another forever. Now anyone can share anything and everything with anyone and it has given birth to a new breed of celebrity. By simply turning the camera on themselves, bloggers or rather video bloggers have billions of people watching them online, they are sticking two fingers up to the old media establishment, they sell out stadium

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The Rise of the Superchef

Delia, Jamie, Gordon, Nigella, Rick, Gary and Antony - their names and faces are everywhere, they are all over the TV schedules, their own brand products dominate the department stores and their cookery books fill up the bestseller lists. We think we know them well, but for the first time this is the story of how they took British cuisine out of the joke book and into the record books.With beh

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Groomed By The Islamic State

In February of this year (2015), three young schoolgirls from East London, aged between just 15 and 16 left their typical way of life and all comforts that go along with that in order to travel to Syria and join the Islamic State as brides to be. So far around 60 women from the UK have made the same journey.The story of this disappearance instantly became big news and a blame game quickly foll

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The Congo Dandies

In recent years the Congo has seen rise to a unique movement known as "La Sape" which stands for "The Society of Ambiance-Makers and Elegant People", the movement itself see's fashion-conscious men splashing out on designer clothes rather than the spending it on essentials. As a result these men truly do stand out from the crowd becoming local celebrities, but this taste of fame comes at a price.

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The Most Hated Man in Britain: Nicholas van Hoogstraten

The Courtlands Hotel in Hove, United Kingdom is used by its owner Nicholas van Hoogstraten to run a business empire he claims is worth around £800 million, it spans three continents encompassing property, mines, farms, art, shares and money lending.Nick is one of Britain's richest and most infamous men and in July 2002 he was arrested for manslaughter following the murder of Mohammed Raja.

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