Best Online Documentaries

BBC World Service - The Silent War

2011-03-07T19:31:31Z

The world's biggest democracy is also home to the Asia's longest running insurgency – dating back to the 1950s. This conflict, in the seven states of India's north-east, has cost the lives of thousands of people.
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The Amityville Horror: The Real Story

2011-02-22T22:30:26Z

The true story behind the Amityville Horror.
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The Canary Effect

2011-02-15T20:12:40Z

The Canary Effect is a 2006 documentary that looks into the effects the United States and its policies have on the Indigenous peoples of North America.
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Missionaries of Hate

2011-02-15T20:19:42Z

The Anti-Gay Movement in Uganda and the Influence of American Missionaries on Uganda’s Laws and Attitudes towards homosexuality.
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BBC: Building the Great Pyramid

2010-11-17T21:20:57Z

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Life Running Out of Control

2010-09-30T11:22:01Z

In the mid-eighties science, with the help of genetic technology, finds the key to mastering the earth and especially its creatures. Suddenly, everything seems possible! Twenty years later we embark on a global journey to explore the progressive and continual genetic manipulation of plants, animals and human beings: Due to a disastrous crop with genetically modified cotton many Indian farmers face ruin, have to sell one of their kidneys or resort to committing suicide. In Canada genetically modified canola seeds blow onto the fields of neighboring organic farms, thus making ecological farming impossible. The Canadian company AQUA BOUNTY is just about to obtain market approval in 2004 for its sterile, genetically manipulated giant salmon, which grows six times larger in only half the time than the other members of its species living in the wild. Regardless of any fear harbored by consumers the genetically modified fish are soon to land in our pots and frying pans. Worldwide only a handful of idealistic scientists are defying industry, doing independent - without the financial support of industry - research on the effects of transgenic animals and plants on the environment and our health when we consume genetically modified food.
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The Rescue of Joseph Kony's Child Soldiers

2010-09-30T11:51:21Z

Synopsis: Journey with three young men from California as they retrace their efforts throughout the past six years working to end the longest running war in Africa. The Rescue of Joseph Kony's Child Soldiers documents their labor to expose the tragedies of war-affected regions while inspiring individuals in the Western world to use their voices for change. For the past 23 years, the region of East Africa has been consumed by conflict. Despite a ceasefire between the LRA and Ugandan government, efforts toward peace were stalled on several occasions by LRA rebel leader Joseph Kony's refusal to sign the final peace agreement. In early 2009, the Ugandan government launched a military operation intended to defeat the LRA and capture Kony. The LRA retaliated by attacking thousands of civilians, while abducting hundreds of children to fight as soldiers. A Ugandan civil war has now evolved into a regional crisis prompting massive international attention. This film tells this story.
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The Dark Ages - Part 1 - The Sacking of Rome

2010-09-21T22:23:12Z

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Shame

2010-09-06T12:29:40Z

"Shame" is part of the honor killing awareness-raising campaign in rural Sindh and southern Punjab. The directors take to the road, documenting shocking interviews that uncover a deep-rooted gender bias in rural Pakistan as well as the first ever footage of a karion jo qabristan, an unmarked graveyard where victims of honor killing are buried without any ritual. An important and timely film.
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Veils

2010-09-06T13:00:46Z

"Veils" is a modern-day London diaspora story about a Jewish bride and a Palestinian groom on their wedding day. Tensions run high as the grandparents try their utmost to sabotage the day, but it’s the parents of the bride and groom who face the greatest challenges. However, this is not a standard Romeo and Juliet story of forbidden love - as time begins to run out, the families race towards a surprising and thought-provoking climax. "Veils" boasts a stellar cast including Maureen Lipman ("The Pianist") and David Horovitch (reprising their Oscar-nominated partnership of 1999’s "Solomon & Gaenor"), Ray Panthaki ("Eastenders", "Kidulthood", "28 Days Later"), with original music composed by Chad Hobson ("Stardust", "Hannibal Rising"), and produced by Steve McLaughlin ("Die Hard", "Lethal Weapon", "X-Men").
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The Lives Of Others / Das Leben der Anderen

2010-08-27T20:49:43Z

A 2006 German film from Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck involving the monitoring of the cultural scene of East Berlin by agents of the Stasi, the GDR's secret police.
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Virgin School

2010-08-08T15:30:09Z

James is 26 years old and has never had sex. He enters a virgin school in order to become a man.
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The First World War Series (2003)

2010-08-08T04:17:57Z

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The Secret of Oz

2010-07-30T15:43:52Z

Great Banking Documentary
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The Fall of Saigon - Vietnam War

2010-07-17T14:12:13Z

Good opening credits!
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Mathamma: The Mother Goddess

2010-07-06T11:08:41Z

In the South Indian State of Andhra Pradesh, a young girl named Meena is raised in a long-entrenched tradition of community-sanctioned abuse. As a lower-caste girl, Meena can be forced into the role of a Mathamma (or Sacred Mother), a living goddess, and sexually abused by male villagers for blessings. As an adult, Meena fears for her own daughter Radha's safety. Village heads continue to forcibly select new Mathammas, usually between the ages of seven and 13. These girls are then publicly auctioned to men, and then dedicated to a life of sexual abuse. Afterwards, the Mathamma moves from home to home, where wives make way for her to share their beds with their husbands, considering the child rape a godly act. The HIV prevalence in these villages is unknown, but in the fall of 1995, Andra Pradesh reported an HIV infection rate of one in every two hundred people. Exposing the dark side of ancient traditions through the example of one victimized family, Mathamma leaves no stone unturned in speaking for the injustices committed in the name of faith.
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Einstein's Brain

2010-07-06T16:57:30Z

Story of Kenji Sugimoto, professor in Math and Science history at Kinki university in Japan on a pilgrimage to find Einstein's brain. Kenji Sugimoto is a professor in mathematics and science history at the Kinki university in Japan. He has spent thirty years documenting einstein's life and person. To complete his life's work, the professor travelled to America in search of the key to the mind of the great thinker.
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Detox or Die

2010-07-06T10:46:38Z

"Detox or Die" provides an in-depth portrait of a small-time drug addict seeking redemption. Addicted to opiates for almost 20 years, film-maker David Graham Scott decides to opt for a quick fix. The radical detox agent ibogaine puts the user into a gut-wrenching hallucinatory state for 36 hours, from which he emerges cleansed of his addiction. But several fatalities have been reported in connection with the unlicensed drug, and Scott must weigh up the options before embarking on the trip of a lifetime. Broadcast as part of BBC1’s ONE life strand.
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Destination Hitchcock - Making of "North by Northwest"

2010-06-25T02:38:21Z

Documentary about the making of Alfred Hitchcock's "North by Northwest"
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Escobar's Own Goal

2010-06-15T16:18:16Z

Medellin, the violent hub of Colombia's narcotics trade, was home to footballer Andrés Escobar, who was killed after scoring an own goal in the 1994 World Cup. Journalist and soccer fan Richard Sanders tries to gauge how a sporting error can have such appalling consequences.
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The Game Of Their Lives - Documentary about North Korea at the 1966 World Cup

2010-06-15T16:12:21Z

A rare documentary about the 1966 World Cup North Korea team that exceeded expectations.
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Mega Structures : Dubai's Palm Island

2010-06-15T16:22:01Z

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BBC News - Life Inside the North Korean Bubble

2010-06-15T16:20:23Z

Glimpses of real North Korean life in between the propaganda - watch Sue Lloyd-Roberts' film in full.
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Into The Universe With Stephen Hawking - Time Travel

2010-06-04T17:59:59Z

Hawking examines the real possibility of time travel.
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Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking: Aliens

2010-06-04T17:58:50Z

Hawking explores one of the most important questions facing humankind: are we alone in the Universe?
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