Asbestos was once widely used amongst homes and building across the United States, but it is now known as a carcinogen and hazardous substance because of the dangerous health risks from being exposed to this toxic mineral.Enormous effort is now put into removing it from houses and materials because asbestos kills more than 100,000 people a year and is banned in 59 countries. But rather than be
The Kalahari Desert is located in Southern Africa and covers much of Batswana, parts of Namibia and South Africa. It is roughly 900,000 kilometres squared and is considered to be more of a semi-desert as it is scattered with massive tracts of excellent grazing grounds which allow for it to support far more animals and plants than other deserts do, such as the Namib Desert located to the west.T
The Hard Man is a 52 minute documentary which was made in 1995 about a man called Michael Kelly who is a former criminal from the Southhill area of Limerick City, Ireland. The film examines the social environment from which Kelly emerged and highlights the key role alcohol played in guiding Kelly down the path of violence and crime.After having wasted 17 years of his life going in and our of c
Oil, from farm to pharmaceutical, diesel truck to dinner plate, pipeline to plastic product, it is simply impossible to think of an area of our modern day lives that is not affected by the petrol chemical industry.The story of oil is the story of the modern world and whilst parts of this story are well known, there is another side to which is more obscure, for example the quest of oil and the
British hip-hop artist Professor Green steps out into the cold in an attempt to discover what it's like to live on the streets in the modern day in the hope of changing our perceptions of who these people are and open our eyes to the harsh reality of their lives.In this film Professor Green travels to the city of Manchester, which has recently reported one of the biggest rises in homelessness
In 1977, evangelical preacher Jim Jones fled the United States with nearly a thousand followers of his peoples temple cult. Deep in the South American jungle they set about building a new community and called it Jonestown, it was to be their 'Paradise on Earth' but when outsiders threatened to expose the dark side of their leader, their paradise erupted into violence.In an apocalyptic final ge
On August 19th 1910, an assistant forest ranger named Edmund Pulaski emerged out of the smoked filled Bitterroot Mountains, that loomed over the town of Wallace, Idaho. For months himself and his crew has been fighting wild fires in the Bitterroot's but despite all of their efforts he was afraid that the town was going to burn.Pulaski's worst fears came true the very next day when the
Inside Tourette Syndrome is a film which explores the disorder in great detail, it was produced by Rick Fowler who himself has Tourette's. Fowler's main goal in creating this documentary was to help raise awareness by creating a better understanding of what life is like for someone who lives with the disorder. The film takes us on an extremely interesting trip through the history of Tourette's an
On August 9, 1988 the hardcore rap group known as N.W.A. released their debut album entitled Straight Outta Compton, this release saw the birth of gangsta rap as a music genre and definitively put the city of Compton on the map with regards to hip-hop culture.Fast forward to 2016 and Compton is still well and truly in the spotlight thanks to acts such as Kendrick Lamar,