In 1999 students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold would embark on a massacre that would make history and the name of one Colorado high school synonymous with tragedy. The Columbine High School shooting saw these two individuals ill 12 of their fellow students and a teachers before committing suicide.As the clock ticked the body count rose and with it the question, why had these two y
Six thousand years before the present the colossal city of Uruk by far the largest in the worlds dominated the southern Mesopotamian plains of modern day Iraq. With a population of at least 50,000 people Uruk wouldn't be surpassed in size or in numbers for an astonishing 3,000 years to come. Until well into the Classical Age the legendary homeland of Gilgamesh was surrounded by a colossal mud bric
Prince Andrew, Queen Elizabeth’s beloved second son and his links to convicted paedophile, Jeffery Epstein has brought on a shame that now haunts the royal family. With this relationship being brought to light the duke has been forced to step away from a few recent royal engagements.Prince Andrew's links to the disgraced financier were bad enough but it gets worse as he continued to visit Epst
Beginning in the 1980s a belief has slowly taken over the world, that neoliberal globalisation with its built in self-regulating mechanisms would finally do away with old institutions like the state and the military and would usher the planet into an era of relative peace and prosperity. 9/11 and the current economic crisis have shown that belief to be largely a myth but many signs were already th
Jeffrey Epstein was a billionaire New York business man whose vast wealth bought an arrogance that knew no limits. Damn the consequences, Epstein acted in the day to day life as if he could have anything he craved but what he desired most was sex with young women and girls, for years he abused them at will.Such were the number of victims Epstein exploited he started trading them around the wor
In less than a century America has progressed from the sandy hills of Kitty Hawk along the Atlantic coast into the vast new ocean of space. They journey has been difficult and dangerous but it has also been extremely rewarding, giving us a better understanding of our home planet, solar system and the universe as a whole.Although humans have dreamed of sailing outward from the planet Earth for
Shed Your Tears and Walk Away is a harrowing real-life drama set in the beautiful but rural town of Hebden Bridge, in the United Kingdom. We follow filmmaker Jez Lewis as he travels back to his hometown for yet another childhood friends funeral, having already lost five friends to suicide.The film itself is very much a personal quest for understanding as to how so many of his friends have foun
Imagine you're a child but trapped in the body of a giant, these are the children who simply tower above everyone and they live in a world that is just to small for them. In this film we meet Brendan, the 13 year old who is currently 7ft and 3 inches tall and can't stop growing, the Van Nes', a family of super tall children who get their height from genetics alone and Marley, a 17 year old Thai gi
For 2,000 years Europe has been divided by war, each passing century marked with the blood of endless conflict, sometimes religious, always political and never resolved, finally this never ending conflict exploded engulfing the world. It seems absurd that nearly all this bloodshed can be traced back to a single battle, but it can. A battle that few Europeans remember but no Roman was allowed to fo