Between the mid 1960s and the late 1970s, the long-playing record and the albums that graced its grooves changed popular music for ever. For the first time, musicians could escape the confines of the three-minute pop single and express themselves as never before across the expanded artistic canvas of the album. The LP allowed popular music become an art form - from the glorious artwork adorning ga
Organized crime syndicates are deeply entrenched in Japanese history. Known as the Jakuza, they were once seen as gangsters with strict code of honor, helping the police to fight the criminal underworld.The Yakuza in Japan has links that extend as far back as 400 years to Edo era. But their days of protecting the weak against the strong are long gone.Today, the Yakuza is a criminal network
Liquid Bomb Plot is the incredible true story of the surveillance operation that stopped a fatal disaster and saved thousands of lives.It's August 2006. A UK terrorist cell plans to launch suicide bombs that would have resulted in the world's largest and deadliest attack since 9/11.The plot involved exploding devices disguised as soft drinks and, if it had succeeded, would have blown planes fr
Michael Mosley takes an informative and ambitious journey exploring how the evolution of scientific understanding is intimately interwoven with society's historical path.We are the most power-hungry generation that has ever lived. This film tells the story of how that power has been harnessed - from wind, steam and from inside the atom. In the early years the drive for new sources of power was l
American Call-Girl takes us inside the world’s oldest profession, a thriving black market economy that’s just an internet connection or a phone call away. But there’s a gritty reality to the supply and demand of the American escort industry.National Geographic’s Mariana van Zeller heads to Las Vegas, ground zero for the escort underworld. Here, high-end escorts like Sarah explain how they cult
Consumerism has become the cornerstone of the post-industrial age. Using theories of evolutionary psychology to underpin a bold narrative of our times, this film takes a whirlwind tour through the “weird mental illness of consumerism”, showing how our insatiable appetite has driven us into “the jaws of the beast”.By the age of 20, the average westerner has seen one million commercial messages. W
Hookers at the Point was one of the most candid and revealing documentaries ever made about street prostitution. Now, filmmaker Brent Owens continues his look at the die-hard lives of Bronx hookers, revisiting old faces and introducing us to some new ones, underscoring the hopes, fears and humanity of prostitutes in a way we've never seen before.
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
Adventurer and journalist Simon Reeve heads to Cuba to find a communist country in the middle of a capitalist revolution. Two years ago Cuba announced the most sweeping and radical economic reforms the country has seen in decades. From ending state rationing to cutting one million public-sector jobs, one of the last communist bastions in the world has begun rolling back the state on an unprecedent