Sonny Liston can be described as a tragic figure, someone who reached for the sky above from the mud below but couldn't really handle it once he got there. Having literally been run out of three cities by the police, he brought a true aura of destruction and menace into the gym and into the ring.Although never really seeming to be interested in bettering himself, Liston appeared to be content
British boxing legend Chris Eubank sits down with and speaks to award-winning TV journalist Gabriel Clarke about his life in sport and the legacy in which he left behind once retiring. From his early life growing up on the streets of Peckham to defending his world title 18 times we learn about what it takes to be Mr. Eubank.This film also focuses on the iconic and in one case tragic fights aga
The drug which started out as a fad back in the 1970's amongst the motorcycle gang subculture has now spread right across the United States, it is known by many names, Speed, Meth, Glass, etc. Despite the governments best efforts to crack down on it, methamphetamine has become far more destructive now than at any other point in the last decade.This film is an investigation into
From the producer of the documentary Super Size Me, Morgan Spurlock now sets out to take on the strange new world of bitcoin and attempt to survive on nothing but the digital currency for a week.With a lot of misinformation and misunderstanding surrounding bitcoin these days, this is Spurlocks attempt to understand all of the pros and cons of using the peer-to-peer currency and how it might so
In the United States of America they are taking a highly controversial approach to treating pedophiles, it's even written in law. In this film we meet several convicted pedophiles who have either been chemically or surgically castrated.Atascadero State Hospital is 220 miles north of Los Angeles, it is a maximum security hospital for those deemed criminally insane but it also houses danger
The ability to contemplate the meaning of the world around us brings out a constant desire to deepen our knowledge and broaden our horizons, this curiosity is fundamental to the development of our species and civilisation. From the advent of the wheel to the innovation of engines, from the cultivation of herbs to the development of modern medicine, from the abacus to computers human history is a r
Today our lives depend on just a handful of natural resources but they are not the ones we think they are. Forget about oil, coal and gas, today we depend on a new set of super elements with obscure names like indium and rhenium. They're properties are so bizarre, they could be confused with an alien technology of sorts.These super elements are driving innovation, everything from smartphones t
In this episode of UK Undercover which originally aired in 2002, we head inside Britain's most notorious hospital, Broadmoor. It's located 20 miles south of Reading, Berkshire and the inmates found here are some of the most difficult, disturbed and dangerous men and women in the United Kingdom.Over 30 years ago the producers of this film made another program which exposed some of the scandals
North Korea has just tested a nuclear bomb which is believed to be 10 times more powerful than the one used on Hiroshima. Kim Jong Un versus Donald Trump is the most dangerous stand off seen in decades and people are no longer asking if the hermit kingdom can be stopped from developing nuclear weapons, but rather it can be prevented from using them.So how did North Korea achieve it's nuclear a