As the world focused on the fight against the Taliban in Afghanistan this Channel 4 special set out to reveal how the conflict has lead to a terrifying rise in the number of children who are now addicted to opium and heroin.The film exposes many reasons for this spike in addiction, one being the fact that opium and heroin have become so readily available that it is now cheaper to treat pain wi
The Age of Stupid is a British film which was released back in 2009 by Franny Armstrong, director of McLibel. The documentary itself is semi-dramatised, featuring the actor Pete Postlethwaite who portrays a man who is living alone in the devastated world of 2055. Postlethwaite can be seen watching archive footage from the mid to late 2000's, as he asks the question "Why didn't we st
This is the shocking tale of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, two well to do college students who both came from extremely wealthy families in Chicago. The two plotted the kidnapping and murder of a 14 year old boy just so they could prove they were smart enough to get away with it.The body of the child was found on the morning of May 22nd 1924, his name was Bobby Franks and he was rep
This is the story of three mothers who fiercely love their imperfect babies, all of whom were born with microcephaly which resulted in their heads being abnormally small and their brains underdeveloped. This can mean severe intellectual impairment, frequent seizures, even blindness and deafness, the scary thing is that nobody known for sure what the long term effects will be.The birth of these
In this episode of VICE's series "The Chosen Ones" UK Correspondent Gavin Haynes makes his way across the pond to the United States in order to determine what masculinity means to your average American man these days.America has always been seen to embrace ones masculinity with stereotypical acts such as fraternity hazing, monster truck rallies and food competitions and now there is a growing
This is the story of Lawrence Bittaker and his accomplice Roy Norris, two convicted serial murderers and rapists who in 1979 murdered and raped five teenage girls over a period of five months in southern California, they would later become known as the "Tool Box Killers".The crimes these two individuals committed truly shook the nation, making headlines all across the United States. At the tim
Manufacturing Dissent: Uncovering Michael Moore was released in 2007 and it is a documentary film which takes aim at filmmaker Michael Moore, claiming that he uses misleading tactics to push his own agenda. This comes in the form of interviews with people who seem to have personal grievances with Moore.The film itself was made over the course of two years by Canadians Debbie Melnyk and Rick Ca
Rave culture was always supposed to polarize people and depending on your own experiences it is either one of the UK's greatest exports or a symptom of our own moral decline. But after a nationwide clampdown in the mid 90's the scene was forced further into the underground with new super clubs and licensed sanitized parties taking their place.Recent years have seen an institutionalized attack
Heroin overdose deaths in Virginia nearly doubled from 2011 to 2013 with every region having experienced an increase in heroin fatalities, these include a 164% increase in Northen Virginia, a 94% increase in Hampton Roads and a 50% increase in the Richmond Metro Area.Heroin: The Hardest Hit is a film which was put together by the VA State attorney's office in order to raise awareness about her