Dr Temple Grandin has a unique ability to understand the animal mind - and she's convinced her skill is down to her autistic brain.Temple believes she experiences life like an animal. Her emotions are much simpler than most people's and she feels constantly anxious. It's this struggle with overwhelming anxiety that led her to discover just how much she has in common with animals and, in partic
The Choice is Ours is a film by The Venus Project, it explores many aspects of our society and sets about rethinking the possibilities available to us in our world, dispelling the myth of so called "Human Nature", insisting that it is our environment which shapes our behaviour and shows us what type of world we could live in given the motivation to improve.We learn of the social structures whi
Before the fictional Hannibal Lecter there was a select group of real life monsters that terrorized our neighborhoods.Albert Fish, Andrei Chickatilo, Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy. Between them their reigns of terror claimed over 150 lives. The Real Life Hannibal Lecters will take you into a world that is rarely shown on television.Featuring never before seen footage including
Fourteen Days in May is a documentary directed by Paul Hamann. The program recounts the final days before the execution of Edward Earl Johnson, an American prisoner convicted of rape and murder. Johnson protested his innocence and claimed that his confession had been made under duress. He was executed in Mississippi’s gas chamber on May 20, 1987.The documentary crew, given access to the prison
Overconsumption or "La surconsommation" as its originally titled, is a short six minute documentary / feature, filled with haunting time-lapse footage that reveals the processes involved in mass producing food for human consumption.Description Update:I have been informed that this short is actually a clip from a documentary entitled "Samsara". Regardless of this I believe the clip is still
Actor Brian Cox reveals the rich and controversial past of sugar, alcohol, tobacco and opium to uncover how the commercial exploitation of these products hooked the world.Sugar The first film in this series looks at how sugar cane fuelled a consumer revolution but is now responsible for serious ailments.Sugar has crept into all areas of our daily diet, from the sweet treats we award ourse
Cats are one of the most popular domesticated animals around and in the United Kingdom their numbers have dramatically risen over the last couple of years to around ten million. This number is viewed in two lights, for the cat lovers it's great news but for those who don't take kindly to them it could almost be seen as an epidemic.Cat Wars is a BBC film that is attempting to understand both
Just over 25 years ago Mongolia emerged from the shadows of a crumbling Soviet Union, since then the country has been through a mining boom. This has been driven by neighbouring China's insatiable demand for Mongolia's huge deposits of natural resources such as coal, copper, gold and other minerals.However the economy now appears to be slowing down and the country is being wrecked by i
Control on our daily lives increases and privacy is disappearing. How is this exactly happening and in which way will it effect all our lives? A film about the rise of the surveillance state into your life.Technology is becoming better and more interesting every day. And more important. We are the digital generation. We can have more freedom. We can become smarter. We can be more creative. We