Back In October 2016, an elite team of Iraqi Special Forces were sent directly to the frontline against ISIS with only one objective, to reclaim Mosul and eradicate the remaining ISIS fighters. It marked the beginning of what would quickly become a brutal battle of attrition that would last nearly nine months.Filmed over the course of their deployment, this documentary follows the experiences of
Ukraine stands on the brink of disaster, after losing the Crimean peninsula to Russian annexation it now faces losing control of its eastern regions in a struggle with Pro Russian separatists. Vice travelled to Kiev for what turned out to be the last days of the Euromaidan revolution that toppled president Viktor Yanukovych. The police had locked down the city after a day of deadly battles that ha
The 'Fight for Water' is about an oil spill that happened on Feb. 28th, 2009 in the Ecuadorian Amazon Rain forest. About 14,000 barrels of crude oil seeped into the Napo and Coca Rivers, both of which are tributaries of the Amazon River.Through the eyes of the local residents, both indigenous and non-indigenous, the film explores not only the specific case of the Santa Rosa spill, but als
Britain's most brutal, controversial fight. Boxing's most compelling story. A new ITV1 documentary revolving around the infamous world championship bout between Nigel Benn and Gerald McClellan in February 1995.The Fight of Their Lives is a story of human courage, the search for the truth and for redemption. It is a story that reaches far beyond the ropes of the boxing ring.Gerald 'The G-Ma
The way that we meet, flirt and become intimate has dramatically changed over the last 10 years, but now that so much of our private lives have migrated online we're vulnerable in ways we have only just begun to understand.Revenge porn is a new form of epidemic with thousands of websites dedicated to it. The term "Revenge Porn" itself is defined as the nonconsensual sharing of sexual materials
A 60 minute special from BBC TWO which revisits the haunting tales of five fires that foretold the Grenfell disaster. For those unaware of this tragedy it was a fire which broke out on 14 June 2017 in the 24 story Grenfell Tower block of flats in North Kensington, West London. The blaze caused 72 deaths and more than 70 others were injured, 223 people were lucky enough to escape. It was the d
The roots of the human race are shrouded in mystery, lost to the depths of prehistoric time. Although every school kid knows that we evolved from the apes the reality is that almost nothing is known about our earliest ancestors beginnings. In October 2000, in a remote corner of Kenya, Africa, a team of French and Kenyan scientists, led by Martin Pickford and Brigitte Senut made an extraordinary
Although the First World War gets less attention than its successor, it was really the watershed event of the 20th century. This conflict shaped the world that came after to this day. It was the catalyst for the rise of soviet communism in Russia, whose unraveling less than a decade and a half ago continues to affect worldwide diplomacy and economics.Germany’s defeat provided the opportunity for
Hailed as a harmless chemical that would prevent tooth decay, new evidence shows how fluoride could be linked to serious health problems. Fluoridation was first advanced in the US at the end of the second World War. Proponents argued that fluoride in water and toothpaste would help to protect teeth and prevent decay. Over the following decades, fluoride was added to public water supplies across th