Every Saturday night in China, millions gather around their televisions to watch Interviews Before Execution, an extraordinary talk show which interviews prisoners on death row. In the weeks, days or even minutes before they are executed, presenter Ding Yu goes into prisons and talks to those condemned to die. Combining clips from the TV show, never before seen footage of China's death row and int
Broad Street Bullies the documentary, chronicles the National Hockey League’s Philadelphia Flyers from their beginnings as an expansion team in 1967, to their back to back Stanley Cup championships in 1974 and 1975, and 3 straight Finals appearances from 1974 to 1976.Thirty years later, members of those Cup teams are still revered in the city of Philadelphia and throughout the hockey world, fo
A short film looking at how most popular music has been borrowed from the blues. The film also asks, do we naturally copy & borrow in order to learn & grow? Escort girl
The Codes of Gender applies the late sociologist Erving Goffman’s ground-breaking analysis of advertising to the contemporary commercial landscape, showing how one of American popular culture’s most influential forms communicates normative ideas about masculinity and femininity, the relationship between gender and power, and the everyday performance of cultural norms.In striking visual detail,
This BBC documentary focuses on the Devadasi young Indian girls denied the chance to marry after being 'dedicated' to a deity or temple. Many spend the remainder of their lives involved in prostitution despite laws which make the practice illegal.
A National Geographic documentary on the CIA, the right hand tool, of the Military-Industrial Complex.
What happens when the police fail in their sworn duty to protect life, when they get it wrong or when police officers themselves break the law?BBC’s Richard Bilton investigates cops who behave badly, and discovers just how many cases are dealt with by the police themselves behind closed doors.This film asks why, in some cases, are police officers who are accused of misconduct, simply allow
John Wayne Gacy, Jr. (March 17, 1942 May 10, 1994) was an American serial killer. Between 1972 and 1978, the year he was arrested, Gacy raped and murdered at least 33 young men and boys. Although some of his victims' bodies were found in the Des Plaines River, he buried 26 of them in the small crawl space underneath the basement of his home and three more elsewhere on his property. He became known
Thirty years after becoming a nation, and 30 years after Robert Mugabe and ZANU PF came to power, Zimbabwe does not appear to have fulfilled the hopes that so many had at independence. Both ZANU PF and the MDC appear to be in a state of denial about the true condition of Zimbabwe at 30, and this cannot be the best way for the country to start its fourth decade as a nation. A country which was me