Murray Siple’s feature-length documentary follows a group of homeless men in Canada who have combined bottle picking with the extreme sport of racing shopping carts down the steep hills of North Vancouver. This subculture depicts street life as much more than the stereotypes portrayed in mainstream media. The film takes a deep look into the lives of the men who race carts, the adversity they face
Every American knows the date December 7, 1941 the morning the Japanese Imperial Navy launched a massive attack on Pearl Harbor. What most people don't know is that the first shots of the battle were fired by an American naval vessel, nearly an hour before the air attack started! The ship's target? One of Japan's four secret weapons the so-called "midget? subs two-man vessels designed to cripple U
Every person is free to believe in whatever religion they might like, but the Church of Scientology as a religion that is operated like a military regime. Targeted only to recruite new members for their church and to get their money. This documentary film gives some interesting insights into Scientology and its’ methods.
The Gabby Petito Story is one that has shocked a nation, it's a story that is filled with twists and turns at every junction along the way. Two young people set out on a trip of a lifetime but only one would return. Gabby would tragically never make it home but her fiance, Brian Laundrie, the man who claimed to love her but likely killed her would turn up at his home in Florida, in Gabby's van on
The Great Wall of China, it's been studied for decades but now new technology is revealing its secrets like never before. In this National Geographic special we see archaeologist Allan Maca, an expert in ancient civilizations, set out to investigate China's distant past from a whole new perspective as he leads a team of intrepid experts on an epic adventure to solve mysteries, explore secrets and
Into the Unknown gives us some first hand insight as to the effort that went into building NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. A telescope which is simply revolutionary, measuring in at being 100 times more powerful and the scientific successor to the Hubble Telescope.The telescope itself is scheduled to be launched March 30, 2021, it will reveal a universe we have never seen before and is pois
A short flight from Las Vegas, deep in the Nevada desert lies Area 51 the CIA's secret. It is a giant clandestine base that remained unacknowledged and disavowed by the United States government for almost 60 years but in August 2013 the CIA finally admitted that this place is real.In this National Geographic special we see Richard Co, a former United States Air Force pilot head straight for it,
The Jinx is a documentary mini-series which consists of six episodes that delve into several murder/disappearance cases for which Robert Durst has been and is still the prime suspect. Durst himself is an American real estate heir, the son of New York City mogul Seymour Durst and in 1982 his wife Kathie vanished into thin air. Many believe Durst to be responsible for this but given t
It shouldn't have happened that Homo sapiens, our species, managed to survive and overcome the odd which have been against us for over 200,000 years. We are not indestructible and there are many evolutionary dead ends but our ancestors managed to not only survive, but also to spread into every corner of the globe.It was only our ancestors who managed to spread and colonise some of the most diffi