Oscar-winning actress Jane Fonda is many things besides just being an actor, some of which being an activist and fitness tycoon but she has lived a life shrouded in controversy, tragedy and transformation whilst all of this occurring in the public eye.Jane Fonda in Five Acts reveals how Fonda has been hated as Hanoi Jane, lusted after as Barbarella and heralded as a beacon of the women’s mo
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Queen, it can be safely said they were one of the worlds greatest rock bands of all time, having set records never before seen in the music industry, selling out tours like no tomorrow and topping all the charts. With frontman Freddie Mercury dead over 20 years, the band still remains incredibly popular with album sales having topped 300 million sales worldwide.It all began in 1971, when Queen
On January 1 1993 Colin Ireland made a New Year resolution to himself, it was to become a serial killer. In just three months he had successfully completed his resolution having brutally murdered five men. Serial Killer On Camera reveals the full story behind his reign of terror, told for the first time by the man himself.In his own words Colin Ireland reveals in graphic detail how and why he de
The Ku Klux Klan is Americas most notorious white supremacist group and 2015 marked their 150th year anniversary, it was also a year which saw escalating racial violence in the United States, in this turbulent climate the KKK claim their membership numbers are on the rise and they are trying to appeal to the younger generation.At its peak the KKK had an estimated 5 million members, thousands o
Anatomy of a Scandal is an award winning 2011 investigation into medical research and vaccine trials which were carried out on children and babies in many Mother & Baby homes and other Irish institutions right up until 1973.During the making of this film a truly shocking discovery was made, the bodies of four hundred and sixty ‘illegimate’ infants had been sent to anatomy laboratories betw
An hour long special from ABC's Lateline which examines the future of artificial intelligence and how new figures show that every job will begin to change in the coming years as AI starts to revolutionise not just the repetitive physical tasks but also those which require more cognitive thought.Throughout the documentary we hear from several professionals all of whom are fearing replacement by
Over 70 years ago the nuclear bomb altered our reality forever and in this film The Bomb we see it's transformation from the theoretical, to the physical when it was first used August 6, 1945, it was on this day the public learned of a new type of weapon, a destroyer of worlds.We witness the nuclear bomb's humble beginnings from when in 1938 two German chemists accidenta
America's 2016 election boiled down to a race between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, two of the most controversial presidential candidates we have ever seen and as a result the race itself became the most bitter and ugly in living memory.With Trump coming out victorious BBC reporter Hilary Andersson travels to the states in order to meet up with some Americans on both sides of the electoral r
Jill Dando born 1961 was an English journalist, she was one of Britians most well known television presenters having won BBC's Personality of the Year award in 1997. At the time of her death (1999), she was the presenter of the BBC programme Crimewatch.At the pinnacle of her career when she was mercilessly gunned down outside her house in Fulham, London. Her killer left the scene witho