A look at the UK’s underground wrestling scene, from the community centres of Plymouth to the streets of Glasgow.A far cry from the now faded memories of terrestrial TV’s World Of Sport and even further from the glitz and glamour of the stateside WWE, Brits across the country have been escaping the banality of their everyday lives by moonlighting as pro-wrestlers in the largely unheard scene o
Starbucks and coffee drinkers globally love the green beans which grow in the wild remote altitudes of East Timor.Since it was a Portuguese colony – organic coffee have been cultivated for centuries in pesticide free soils25% of the population depend on coffee for their income and it is the agrarian nation’s only cashcrop.But East Timor suffers from the worst yields and farming techniq
The game of poker has evolved into the game we know today over a period of nearly 1,000 years and across a wide spectrum of civilizations. Some attribute the origins of the game to the Sung Dynasty of 10th century China, while others mark its beginnings with a Persian game called "As Nas" dating back to the 16th century. Throughout its history, the game has varied considerably, however the basic c
The true story of the fight to build the North American Water And Power Alliance, spanning the 1960s and early 1970s, as told through the words of Utah's Senator Frank Moss.This unique style of documentary does not use a narrator, but is told using 100% source material.
Wiring the WorldNerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet (1998) is a three-hour documentary film written and hosted by Mark Stephens under the pseudonym Robert X. Cringely and produced by Oregon Public Broadcasting for PBS.A sequel to Triumph of the Nerds, Nerds 2.0.1 documents the development of ARPANET, the Internet, the World Wide Web and the dot-com bubble of the mid and late 1990s
Nowadays we think of the Tudor home as an icon of Britishness, timber-framed and possibly thatched, a cottage even, it sounds wonderful but these quaint pretty relics of the past belie the revolution in technology that changed them and us.It is considered to be the great age of change and it is one of the reasons we love the Tudor period so much, because it is the age of discovery and there's
A BBC documentary which takes a look at Margaret Thatcher's strategy for dealing with the IRA. This film reveals a complex picture of a women who was both fiercely and combative in public but yet despite this behind the scenes she was secretly dealing with the very same people who tried to kill her.
East Timor is one of the poorest countries in Asia. Its only economic hope for the future lies in massive reserves of oil and gas in the Timor Sea. But as small and young a state as it may be, it is certainly a nation of fighters. It's now taking on some of the world's biggest private energy companies, demanding they pay their fair share of tax on the oil & gas Timor says is being stolen from
In 2007 the Birmingham Public Art Board accepted The Sauvé proposal to curate the Cityscapes exhibit. The "Birmingham Cityscapes" exhibit is comprised of 10 large scale outdoor sculptures located in Downtown Birmingham. Over a three year period Sauvé raised over $200,000 in donations for the installation of the Cityscapes sculpture exhibit. All funding for this exhibit was raised through the priva