Documentary on the History and the current restoration of Coney Island, an amusement park/entertainment area in Brooklyn, NY
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When world-famous investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya, one of President Putin's fiercest and most effective critics, was assassinated last October in Moscow, there was international outrage.At home, her colleagues at her newspaper, Novaya Gazeta, were determined that an investigation into her murder was not going to run into the sand, like so many before. So they set up their own priva
Copyright Criminals examines the creative and commercial value of musical sampling, including the related debates over artistic expression, copyright law and billions of dollars.Long before people began posting their home-made video mashups on the websites like Youtube and vimeo, hip-hop musicians were perfecting the art of audio montage through sampling.Sampling (riffing) is as old as mus
Take a grand tour of spectacular spaces custom created for some of the world’s most lavish and distinctive homes. Million Dollar Rooms features the very best in high-end design and luxury living around the planet.From nightclubs, Japanese gardens, kitchens, media rooms, multimillion-dollar foyers through to resort style pools, Million Dollar Rooms gives an unprecedented look inside the most sp
What 29,000 Lost Toys Have Told Us About Our Oceans? Our oceans sure look pretty from afar, but if you take a closer look, you’ll find plenty of gross stuff lurking around. There are as many as 46,000 pieces of plastic floating in each square mile of ocean, threatening the health of our seas, especially the marine wildlife inhabiting them. But there is at least one good thing scientists can get f
Second only to Julian Assange, Bradley Manning is the most important figure in the Wikileaks controversy; his is alleged to have handed over hundreds of thousands of secret US war files and diplomatic cables.But, while the world watches Assange’s trial with bated breath, Manning is already wasting away in solitary confinement; this is the story of his daring intelligence heist.We hear the only
East Timor is one of the poorest countries in Asia. Its only economic hope for the future lies in massive reserves of oil and gas in the Timor Sea. But as small and young a state as it may be, it is certainly a nation of fighters. It's now taking on some of the world's biggest private energy companies, demanding they pay their fair share of tax on the oil & gas Timor says is being stolen from
In 2007 the Birmingham Public Art Board accepted The Sauvé proposal to curate the Cityscapes exhibit. The "Birmingham Cityscapes" exhibit is comprised of 10 large scale outdoor sculptures located in Downtown Birmingham. Over a three year period Sauvé raised over $200,000 in donations for the installation of the Cityscapes sculpture exhibit. All funding for this exhibit was raised through the priva
As Russia and the West square up to each other over Ukraine, Paul Kenyon presents this special report from inside the flashpoint military bases of Crimea as they are surrounded by Russian troops. He gains exclusive access to Ukrainian soldiers and commanders preparing for possible conflict and, using previously un-broadcast footage, examines the shooting of nearly a hundred protestors in Kiev, an