This hard-hitting investigation goes to the very centre of organized crime by infiltrating a network of drug traffickers over a two year period.
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For the past 15 years, the phrase ‘War on Terror’ has been used to justify everything from mass surveillance and spying to the use of drones to kill suspected terrorists without evidence or trial. Academy Award nominee James Cromwell presents a documentary on the War on Terror’s impact on civil liberties.
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Thirteen years after a vicious civil war forced him to flee his childhood home of Sierra Leone, director Raouf J Jacob’s returns to find meaning in a place once forsaken by the rest of the world.
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What, and who, powers the internet? If the internet were a country, it would be the fifth largest consumer of electricity in the world. A whopping 247 billion emails are sent through the web every day, and growing.
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For the Tizianos the family business is gondoliers, and it is a lucrative one at that. Countess Enrica on the other hand opens the gates and the kitchens of her palace to a few privileged wealthy tourists who want to see what happens behind those mysterious walls. And they aren’t the only ones profiting from the swarms of tourists here in historic Venice...
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In 2008, Rodrigo Vazquez made ‘Child Miners’ profiling the lives of 10 year old Alex and his best friend, 13 year old Jorge. Over the past six years, Vazquez has returned regularly to film the boys as their lives have taken radically different paths.
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The young people of today’s Moscow never lived under strictly controlled Soviet rule and are trying to find their identity in the largest city in Russia. We meet various young residents and see the divergent paths they have chosen.
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With more than 15 millions visitors a year, Disneyland Paris is the biggest tourist destination in Europe. Christmas is especially busy, with the number of visitors soaring during the festive season.
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In China paid holiday time is still a relative novelty, having only been introduced 15 years ago. The 2 weeks of leave are so precious that they are called the ’Golden Weeks’ and 400 million people take advantage of them every year
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