It's impossible to talk about Standard Operating Procedure without referencing Taxi to the Dark Side. Fortunately, both documentaries are vital to any discussion about US military interrogation techniques. While Alex Gibney's Oscar winner uses the death of an Iraqi taxi driver as a framing device, director Errol Morris and writer Philip Gourevitch (We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Ki
Susan Polgar is the world's first female chess grandmaster. But she wasn't born with her brilliant brain - it was created by the unique experiment that dominated her childhood. From the age of four her father trained her for up to six hours a day at chess alone.Growing up in the early 1970s, no woman had ever held the title of chess grandmaster. It was widely believed that female brains weren'
Jon Koppenhaver (War Machine), is a former professional mixed martial artist who on March 2017 was convicted of 29 felony counts after assaulting adult film star Christy Mack. They had previously been in a relationship together.In the early morning hours of August 8th, 2014, a trail of blood marked a path down the quite street, Pueblo Way, Las Vegas, Nevada. It was a trail that winded in betw
We Shall Not Die Now is a new feature length documentary film which chronicles the horrors of the Holocaust which saw over six million Jews and millions of others systematically murdered by the Nazi regime between 1939 and 1945.It is now 75 years since World War II came to a conclusion and in this film we not only explore the horrific human tragedy that occurred but what we can potentially lea
In 1845 and ambitious British expedition set out to find one of the greatest prizes in all of exploration, the elusive Northwest Passage, a sea route to the Pacific Ocean through the Arctic Ocean. Armed with the latest equipment Sir. John Franklin lead two ships into uncharted Artic waters, but they vanished never to return.There is no story in the history of British exploration that ends as t
Heroin overdose deaths in Virginia nearly doubled from 2011 to 2013 with every region having experienced an increase in heroin fatalities, these include a 164% increase in Northen Virginia, a 94% increase in Hampton Roads and a 50% increase in the Richmond Metro Area.Heroin: The Hardest Hit is a film which was put together by the VA State attorney's office in order to raise awareness about her
Originally released in 2002 and directed by John Hyams, The Smashing Machine is a film about the mixed martial arts career and personal life of Mark Kerr. This graphic documentary takes an unflinching look into the world of no-holds-barred fighting and the modern day gladiators who populate it, all through the eyes of Mark "The Smashing Machine" Kerr and his friend Mark "The Hammer" Cole
Louis Theroux’s latest documentary A Different Brain, saw the presenter spending time with staff and service users at the Brain Injury Rehabilitation Trust or BRIT, one of the UK’s largest providers of neuro-behavioural rehabilitation, in an effort to understand how individuals and their families come to terms with this life-changing condition.In his characteristically calm and empathetic mann
The most complex thing that we have discovered in the universe is the human brain and for the past 20 years American neuroscientist, Dr David Eagleman, has been attempting to understand how what happens in just three pounds of jello like material somehow becomes us.In a cubic centimeter of brain tissue there are as many connections as stars in the Milky Way Galaxy, what we feel, what m