13.8 billion years ago the universe was born through an event known as The Big Bang, it was at this point when all matter, all energy that will every exist burst into being within the space of a trillionth of a second. This was the mother of all explosions, spreading matter and energy out across the universe, it was the force of gravity which pulled this dust into dense clumps which eventually tur
The Workhouse was a hallmark of Victorian Britain in an era associated with imperial pomp and industrial revolution, the workhouse represented the vast underbelly of society. An institution that caused misery to millions and evoked shame in even more. For the poor, the homeless, unemployed or even the ill of Victorian Britain there were no welfare benefits and no NHS, they could starve on the stre
This is the story of immigrants in the UK, legal and illegal. They went to Britain because it offered hope of a better life but for some the reality proved to be very different. As the number of illegal immigrants exceeds 600,000, this BBC documentary team sets about meeting individuals fighting to stay in the country including many who are in fact homeless, struggling to survive.
This is the story about a convicted Satmar drugdealer who after his release from prison tries to get back into hes community. Although he doesn’t sound like the smartest cookie out there, and that’s probably the reason he was chosen to do the things he did with the drugs. And it’s a little obvious that he doesn’t want to fully integrate into the community he wants to eat the cake and have it (no p
Samuel Leibowitz is a member of an ultraorthodox Jewish sect and has been in prison for the last 9 years for drug trafficking. Released from prison he plans to return to his community in North London to try and live once again the life of an observant Hasidic Jew.Samuel comes from Stamford Hill a closed community in the United Kingdom that is hostile to the media and has almost never bee
British Channel 4 engaged the Team Delta Cadre to recreate the Guantanamo Bay interrogation experience.At the production company’s request, along with Team Delta’s normal approach to interrogation, the cadre also reenacted several specific events reported to have occurred at Guantanamo.In most cases these reenacted events were counter productive to the interrogation plan developed by Team
In the summer of 2012 we flew from Amsterdam to Tel-Aviv to meet young Israelis and Palestinians and film their stories. We made contact with youngsters in Modi'in and Ni'lin. Two villages only a few miles apart, separated by the wall.The project was one of our last school projects and made without any commercial means. Additional footage and music were used, and are included in the credits. W
The Group is a feature length film and an attempt by filmmaker Bob Meehan to revisit his past in an effort to make sense of the 5 year journey he took through the world of adolescent drug abuse programs.The Group itself is one such network, created by Bob Meehan and operated by his son-in-law and protege Clint Stonebraker, its so called purpose was to help rehabilitate the youth but this docum
This thirty two minute documentary explores the act of hitchhiking in a unique manor. Filmmaker Thomas Francine an experienced hitchhiker, having traveled over 26,000 miles through 13 countries records some of his journeys and the people he has encountered revealing to us that even though hitchhiking is now widely considered somewhat dangerous to do, he himself has never been in a dangerous situat