This documentary by Alexandra Pelosi takes a behind-the-scenes look at the recent life and hard times of ex-minister Pastor Ted. Ted Haggard had it all: prosperity, a doting wife, five kids, and a ministry that reached out to approximately 30 million followers who hung on his every word, whether on TV or in person at one of his arena sermons.Ted Haggard had it all: prosperity, a doting wife, f
J. Robert Oppenheimer, a man of brilliant intellect, unwavering pride, and undeniable charisma, once stood as a national hero. Guiding the United States through the crucible of World War II, he played a pivotal role in the nation's historic achievement: harnessing the terrifying power of nuclear energy to forge the atomic bomb, an unparalleled weapon of mass destruction. Yet, as the war concluded
Episode 1: F**k You BuddyIndividual freedom is the dream of our age. It’s what our leaders promise to give us, it defines how we think of ourselves and, repeatedly, we have gone to war to impose freedom around the world. But if you step back and look at what freedom actually means for us today, it’s a strange and limited kind of freedom. Politicians promised to liberate us from the old dead h
Human trafficking takes on many different forms but is defined by exploitation, it often doesn't involve criminal gangs or people being transported across borders. These trafficking operations can be very small and very local.Pimp controlled prostitution is now recognised as one of the most brutal forms of human trafficking in the United States, it is characterised by violence, manipulation an
Jerusalem is an ancient city with a sparkling new train, it was built to unite people but instead the train itself seems to be dividing it further. In this film by BBC's panorama, reporter Adam Wishart, a British Jew, investigates how the train has made it easier for the Jewish community to travel into the Palestinian suburbs, seeing a dramatic influx of people who the Palestinians would rather st
Rathkeale in County Limerick, Ireland, may seem like any other sleepy rural village though it is anything but. Irelands traveling community seem to have chosen the town as their spiritual home, their Mecca and have all but made it their own.The settled community now claim to be under siege and in this the town that travellers took over, a cross-cultural tug of war has reached boiling point with
An archaeologist searching for a Roman road is amazed to instead discover an entire Roman town that had been lost and forgotten for thousands of years.
Photographed from a single perspective on September 5th, 6th, 8th, 11th, 12th, and October 1st in the year 2001, The Tower Age is the true story of a kid, his camera, his Brooklyn fire escape, and the resulting array of images that document the twilight and death of the Twin Towers--an archive so unique that it amounts to a kind of time-lapse of the unfolding of history.Beginning on September
The Tool Box Killers consist of two individuals who committed some of the most horrendous crimes in America. Lawrence Sigmund Bittaker and Roy Lewis Norris together decided to kidnap, rape, torture and murder five teenage girls over a 5 month period in southern California back in 1979.Bittaker would later be described by FBI agent John Douglas as one of the most disturbing individuals he ha