In the past three years more than £13 million worth of metal has been stolen from Britain’s railway network. Cables, wiring and the rails themselves are removed by thieves who take advantage of the relative accessibility of the metal and the high prices it will fetch. (Thanks to Chinese demand, prices have risen 500 per cent in a decade.) Cameras follow British Transport Police in Yorkshire as the
Shadows of Liberty reveals the phenomenal truth behind the news media: censorship, cover-ups and corporate control. The documentary takes a journey through the darker corridors of the American media landscape, where global conglomerates exercise extraordinary political, social, and economic power.The overwhelming collective power of these firms raises troubling questions about democracy. For d
Monumental Myths is a 47-minute documentary, which unveils the perpetuated myths told at several American monuments and historic sites.Carved in rock or cast in bronze, America's monuments are intended—by those who commission them—to impart a sense of authority and an unquestionable truth about the people and events they commemorate. Director Tom Trinley traveled across the country in a
As part of the making of the documentary series A Brief History of Disbelief, Jonathan Miller filmed conversations with some very distinguished minds.In this ground-breaking series, neurologist turned playwright and atheist Jonathan Miller interviewed six of today’s leading men of letters and science.New York Times best-selling author Richard Dawkins, Philosophers Daniel Dennett and Colin McGi
Queen Elizabeth I, conqueror of the Spanish Armada, Tudor defender of the Protestant faith, the headstrong Virgin Queen who refused to marry, but out of all of her challenges her most grueling battle happened to be with another women, her own cousin, Mary Stuart Queen of Scots. Elizabeth had not faced a more relentless threat to her crown or her life, both claimed the English throne, two
This documentary tells the fascinating and poignant story of the closure of Britain’s mental asylums. In the post-war period, 150,000 people were hidden away in 120 of these vast Victorian institutions all across the country.Today, most mental patients, or service users as they are now called, live out in the community and the asylums have all but disappeared. Through powerful testimonies from
H.P. Lovecraft was the forefather of modern horror fiction. He inspired writers such as Stephen King, Robert Bloch and Neil Gaiman, but what lead an Old World, xenophobic gentleman to create one of literature’s most influential mythologies?What attracts the minds of 21 century people to read these fascinating stories of unspeakable abominations and cosmic gods?Fear of the Unknown is a chro
Sally Evans, mother of two, is on a journey to discover what it was that drove her eldest son Thomas to join leave home and join the deadly Islamic terror group known as Al Shabaab. Thomas was only 21 when he decided to leave his home in a Buckinghamshire village and travel to Somalia.The group Al Shabaab is a jihadi Al Qaeda affiliate which is responsible for many atrocities commited in Kenya
Stephen Nolan lifts the curtain on the stigma surrounding depression and gains a better understanding of this illness. He meets people whose life is a constant battle against it and examines the science behind this potentially life-threatening condition.