The Tribal Eye is a seven-part BBC documentary series on the subject of Tribal art, written and presented by David Attenborough. It was first transmitted in 1975. 3. "The Sweat of the Sun" On the ancient Aztecs and Incas.
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Down The Deep, Dark Web is a film on, you guessed it... the Darknet. There have been many documentaries released recently on the now infamous dark net website The Silk Road but most of those films focus solely on that website alone and Ross Ulbricht , it's creator. This film however takes a closer look at the dark net itself and how it works.A journalist by the name of Yuval Orr is our tour
Australians love a drink, and some see no problem at all with drinking to excess. But now doctors, police and paramedics have called “time”, warning that alcohol-fueled violence has reached crisis levels.Read the statistics and it’s hard to argue with these dire warnings. The latest figures show that each year as many as 70,000 people are involved in alcohol-related assaults.In all, it is esti
During a period of time in Stockholm, the colombian musician Sergio Castrillón (cellist and composer) began to search unconventional places to make them worthy stages for contemporary music.In the summer of 2012 he met the swedish film maker Stina Lundkvist and together they made the documentary Sounds for the city.This documentary shows a panorama that ranges from the issues in the contem
In 2011 Sally Challen, a mother of two from Surrey, United Kingdom, was jailed for life for bludgeoning her husband to death whilst he was sat at the families kitchen table eating lunch. After committing such a gruesome crime Sally proceeded to cover her husband Richards body in a pair of old curtains and placed a note which read "I love you" on top.Nobody at the trial was shocked when the j
How free are the Chinese people? How free to worship as they please? To learn the truth from the media? To hear the truth from the Communist Party and the government? How can people with a grievance negotiate with the state?Tibetan Buddhism has long been feared as a rallying point and cover for Tibetan independence. Worship is permitted on the Party's strict terms -- neither government employees
Fragile People gives us a unique insight into the every day life of people who live with osteogenesis imperfecta (OI or brittle bone disease). Even the tiniest movement can lead to serious fractures.The congenital disease is frequently caused by a defect in the gene that produces type 1 collagen, an important building block of bone, and in most cases is inherited from a parent. The severity of
One Killer Punch is an incredibly hard hitting film which sets out to explore the phenomenon of a one punch kill. With regards to the law and sentencing it is certainly in the grey area because it can be very difficult to establish if the person who threw the punch had intended to do serious harm. By examining three separate assaults this documentary gives us some great insight into several circum
On April 13th 1953, newly appointed CIA director Allen Dulles signed off on MKUltra, the CIA's top secret mind control project. Three days before that Dulles gave a speech on the battle for mens minds to justify it. For Dulles it was a missive into a newly declared battle for the minds of men and would come just weeks after he became CIA director as a countermeasure to Soviet "brainwashing".Du