James "Jim" Foley was an American photojournalist who was kidnapped in Syria on Thanksgiving Day 2012. After being kidnapped he went missing for two long years before the infamous video of his execution was released by the terror group know as the Islamic State.The video sent shockwaves around the world and played a big role in introducing many of us to the fundamentalist group. Through the us
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Reptilians survive from the age of the Saurians, but if many look Ancient that's because their early and sometimes relatively recent adaptations to widely varied conditions worldwide still work admirably. Examples include lizards like the giant Komodo dragon, still top-dog on his Indonesian island, the feared crocodilian hunters, color-changing chameleons and snake species fitted for most (warm) e
There are nearly 50,000 polygamists living illegally in the southwestern state of Utah, and in this film we see how one such family lives from day to day, as the producers were given permission to film Tom Green and his family which includes six wives and twenty nine children.Originally released in 1999, Tom was 51 years old at the time, through a number of interviews with himself and family m
Israel has always felt under siege, but its internal problems could be more damaging than any external threat. The rift is between the secular and the ultra-Orthodox, who believe any compromise with Arabs is unacceptable. Zealous immigrants are boosting the extreme right and militant settlers are pushing further into Palestinian territory. Last summer, a new social movement was born demanding an e
Utilizing excerpts from the award-winning non-fiction text A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid, Life and Debt is a woven tapestry of sequences all focusing on the stories of individual Jamaicans whose strategies for survival and parameters of day-to-day existence are determined by the U.S. and other foreign economic agendas.By combining traditional documentary telling with a stylized narrative fr
There is a mystery at the heart of our universe, a puzzle that so far no one has been able to solve but if scientists can solve this mystery it will have profound consequences for all mankind. That mystery is why mathematical rules and patterns seem to infiltrate pretty much everything in the world around us?Many people have described maths as the underlying language of the universe but how di
This documentary provides a detailed analysis of Fox News' daily programming and minute-by-minute breakdown of their regular scheduling. Commentary from Fox News' previously hired employees provides further insight to how stories are chosen, why they are chosen, and dissection of several different methods of delivering the story to the audience to invoke desired reactions. ICE casino bonus code
One of the year's most unexpectedly moving films, this French-made documentary about the mating cycle of emperor penguins took moviegoers by surprise and became a box-office blockbuster in the process. Small wonder: March of the Penguins is cinema vérité at its purest, an unsentimental yet intimate depiction of one of nature's true marvels.As narrator Morgan Freeman explains, every year these
Alexander The Great the shining light of Ancient Greece, the prince from remote Macedonia would become the greatest conquer of all time. No one would have thought that someone would have tried to conquer the whole world, yet alone almost succeed.He was the first European to establish an Empire, an Empire which stretched from the Mediterranean to the end of the known world. Fame on the battlefiel