The Four Horsemen
The Four Horsemen is a 2012 British documentary film that criticizes the system of fractional reserve banking, debt-based economy and political lobbying by banks, which it regards as a serious threat to Western civilization....
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The Corporation – The Pathology of Commerce
Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational model is legally a person, it has become a dominant economic, political and social force around the globe. This film takes...
Earth Underwater – Worldwide Flooding | Sea Level Rise
Miami, New Orleans and New York City completely under water – it’s a very real possibility if sea levels continue to rise. In Earth Under Water we’ll see these events unfold as leading experts...
Status Anxiety
Status Anxiety (2004), presented by Alain de Botton and based on his book of the same name. In this documentary film, Alain de Botton discusses the desire of people in many modern societies to...
Explaining the Tech Boom in Emerging Nations
Smartphones remain a luxury for most, but nearly everyone logs on to social networks once they gain internet access. These are among the findings from a new survey from the Pew Research Center, which...
Photography – Disappearing Remote Tribes
Photographer Jimmy Nelson spent over four years documenting 29 cultures and tribes at risk of disappearing, often in remote parts of the world, using a 50-year-old camera.
Miracle Planet: Ep.2 – Snowball Earth
Miracle Planet is a five-part documentary series, co-produced by Japan’s NHK and the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), narrated by Christopher Plummer, which tells the 4.6-billion-year-old story of how life has evolved from...
Hooked: How Opium, Morphine, and Heroin Became Illegal
This episode of HOOKED: ILLEGAL DRUGS AND HOW THEY GOT THAT WAY examines the history of the poppy plant and three of its deadliest derivatives, Opium, Morphine, and Heroin. In ancient times, the poppy...
A New History of the 20th Century: Ep.5 – The Icebox
The series considers the unparalleled stretch of violence as a single, unrelenting “war of the world” that began with Japan’s invasion of Russia in 1904 and continued through the Korean War and all the...
Miracle Planet: Ep.5 – Survival of the Fittest
This episode chronicles primates that would evolve to become humans and why the Cro-Magnons succeeded over Neanderthals. Miracle Planet is a five-part 2005 documentary series, co-produced by Japan’s NHK and the National Film Board...
