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The Ghost Ship of Portopalo

On the 25 December 1996, a tiny boat loaded with over 300 immigrants went down off the coast of Sicily. 283 men, women and children died. It was the Mediterranean’s worst shipping disaster since World War II.

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Revealed: France’s Criminal Underworld

Ever wondered how to steal a Merc? A BMW? Now’s your chance to find out. A team from Canal + France spent a year with professional criminals from some of France’s most problematic suburbs, finding out exactly how these people operate.

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My Holidays in North Korea

A travel agency specialising in ‘danger tourism’ regularly organises trips in North Korea for tourists keen to meet ‘the last Soviets’. We join a group of three and travel around the country.

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Designer Babies: The New Eugenics

The idea of choosing your baby’s hair and eye colour, IQ, height, weight and talents fills most of us with a sense of horror, evoking memories of Nazi breeding programmes from the 1930s. Yet some are willing to overcome the taboo in a bid to create ‘the perfect child’.

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Dive!

Every year in America, 43 billion kgs of food is thrown away. This multi award-winning film follows filmmaker Jeremy Seifert and friends as they dumpster-dive in the back alleys of Los Angeles’ supermarkets.

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Transforming a Continent: The Chinese in Africa

In just a decade, China has become a dominant force in many African countries. Police face a wave of illegal immigrants and an influx of Chinese prostitutes whilst locals object to the working culture of their Chinese bosses.

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Paparazzi: Sharks of the French Riviera

We join the paps as they stalk the stars from Cannes to St Tropez, using a host of creative methods and techniques to get a good shot.

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Iran’s Green Summer

Animated blogs and tweets from Iran form the backbone of this enlightening and sometimes shocking reconstruction of the 2009 Green Revolution.

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Sex Tourists: Tracking the Paedophiles

Every year, thousands of men travel abroad to have sex with children. Cambodia is a top destination for these ’tourists’. Thierry Darnaudet created an NGO composed of 50 Cambodian detectives to hunt down these paedophiles and arrest them in the act.

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