In today's musical landscape there are few artists more polarising than Kanye West. Unlike most entertainers, it's Kanye's unparalleled boldness that simultaneously propels him to new heights whilst fracturing his betrayal in the media. Leaving little room for nuance or public perception, you either love the man or hate him.Whether it's throwing his support behind Donald Trump or stealing th
At 6:08 pm on August 4th, 2020, in Beirut, Lebanon, it is a sweltering hot day in this ancient Mediterranean city which is home to 2.2 million people. The nation is suffering its worst crisis since the end of the civil war which lasted from 1975 to 1990. Without any economic reform by the new government, the Lebanese pound is collapsing and fresh groceries are hard to come by and the Covid-19 pan
Gangs in the early 20th century turn Britains race tracks into battlegrounds. A Birmingham gang called the Brummagems were the top dogs and built up a criminal network reaching far beyond their city. The Brummagems made fortunes from racetrack extortion and beat their rivals mercilessly in order to protect their territory.Over 80 years later in 2003 another Birmingham gang kills innocent bys
Simon Wiesenthal is the world's most famous Nazi hunter, in his office at the Jewish Historical Documentation Centre located in Vienna, Austria, he keeps files on hundreds of fugitive war criminals, it is solitary work. But on February 22, 1964, there was an unexpected visitor, a drunken man turns up at Wiesenthal's office and tells him that he will reveal the location of Nazi war criminal Franz
In 1969 violence erupted in Northern Ireland between Protestants loyal to the British Crown and Catholics. As such an information warfare department is established inside the British Army's Northern Ireland headquarters at Lisburn, comprising army psychological warfare and the Information Research Department (IRD), a clandestine department in the British Foreign Office.The IRD as a Foreign O
On the night of the 13th of January 2012, the Costa Concordia cruise ship ran aground off the island of Giglio, Tuscany, west of Italy. Its carcass lay off the coast of Tuscany for a year a grim reminder of one of the most bizarre catastrophes in nautical history and of the incredible series of blunders that took 32 lives making it the worst cruise accident since the Titanic.This special inve
Punk in Drublic is a music festival that was designed by NOFX frontman Fat Mike. He combined craft beer and the punk scene heavyweights NOFX, Bad Religion, Pennywise, Rancid, The Offspring, Descendents, Less Than Jake, and The Interrupters, to create a live music experience that has not been seen for some time.This documentary tells the story of the touring festival through its first three y
Not all pictures tell a thousand words, but the one featured in this film thumbnail certainly tells that and more. We will never know for sure but it's also probably worth about 20 million dollars, that's the speculated amount Prince Andrew will pay Virginia Giuffre to settle a legal case she brought against him. Giuffre has claimed that when she was 17 she was trafficked to the prince by the ped
Russia is the largest country on Earth and home to nearly 150 million people, now with Vladimir Putin well into his third term as president it's starting to feel like the cold war era all over again. The west has imposed though sanctions against Russia and relations are the frostiest since the cold war so television personality Reggie Yates travels there to find out what life is really like for y