Eager for achievements, records and rankings, the sports industry has become a well-oiled grinding machine. Countless champions end up broken, forced them to keep pushing the natural limits of the human body.
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In China, where local Communist officials are omnipotent and everything from moving house to having a second child requires a permit, corruption has reached unprecedented levels.
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Neo-Nazis groups in Germany are spreading their message of hate and fear with increasing effectiveness. They have become media savvy and are using the internet to reach the new generation.
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On the 24th of April 2013 more than 1100 people were killed and hundreds were injured when the Rana Plaza building in Savar, Bangladesh collapsed
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The Uzbin Valley attack by Taliban forces was one of the most notorious ambushes of the war in Afghanistan. Mixing stunning animation with interviews, analysis and original footage, ’Ambush’ recreates what happened that fateful day.
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Anti-depressants, tranquillisers and sleeping pills are some of the most prescribed medicines in the world with a record number of us on the ’happy pills’. Many of these drugs come with a range of serious side effects. But is is their association with violence and suicide that has been most controversial.
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Every year, thousands of American teenagers are kidnapped from their homes and shipped to Christian reform schools abroad on their parents’ orders.
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We investigate the commercialization of the natural world. Protecting our planet has become big business with companies promoting new environmental markets.
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A new type of activism is emerging that uses an unusual weapon to condemn injustice; laughter. We follow some of this new generation of activists to see what they do and if it works.
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