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Half The Sky
Oppression To Opportunity
Episode 1 (1:53:46)
More: Half The Sky | Genre: Award Winners, Current Affairs, Series
This award-winning documentary follows celebrity activists including George Clooney, Eva Mendes and Meg Ryan to uncover the stories of inspiring, courageous women facing persecution. This episode focuses on rape, slavery and forced prostitution in Africa and South East Asia.
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Shadow Boxer
Shadow Boxer
(1:32:54)
Movie. Cast includes Helen Mirren and Cuba Gooding Jr. When Rose, a highly trained female assassin, is diagnosed with terminal cancer she decides to carry out one final, shocking killing, assisted by lover and stepson, Mikey.
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Kids In America
Kids In America
(1:31:11)
More: Kids In America | Genre: Comedy, Movies
A motley group of high school students join forces to finally stick it to their overbearing school principal who is trying to control all aspects of the students' academic and extra-curricular life. The Breakfast Club for a new generation.
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Air Crash Investigations
One Wing Left
Season 2, Episode 2 (52:02)
More: Air Crash Investigations | Genre: Travel, Investigation, Series
The left-side engine on Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 529 partly tore itself from its mounting, creating excessive drag which caused the aircraft to fall out of the sky killing nine people. A propeller, damaged by metal fatigue, caused the initial engine failure.
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Drug Wars
Drug Wars
(1:31:56)
The shocking true story of the rise and fall of The Bristol Boys, a group of suburban marijuana dealers from Connecticut described as the biggest drug ring in recent history, and their capture by the DEA in 2001.
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Meteor Strike
Meteor Strike
(48:05)
In February 2013, a meteorite bigger than a double decker bus, travelling at 40,000 miles an hour, crashed into planet Earth. This film shows previously unseen footage of what happened and asks when it might happen again.
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Naked Science
Close Encounters
Season 2, Episode 12 (50:14)
More: Naked Science | Genre: Science, Series
Many people remain adamant that aliens are abducting humans. But skeptics argue these claims are fantasies inspired by pop culture. But scientists now want to know if ET could even survive the voyage through interstellar space to get to us.
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What's The Problem With Nudity?
What's The Problem With Nudity?
(50:33)
Why are people embarrassed about their bodies? How and why did we get the way we are? This documentary takes a group of volunteers and subjects them to a series of psychological and physical tests to challenge attitudes to the naked human form.
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Generals At War
Rommel vs Montgomery
Episode 1 (50:00)
More: Generals At War | Genre: Military, Series
In 1942, two of the most charismatic generals of all time, Field Marshall Erwin Rommel, the Desert Fox, and General Bernard Montgomery face off over a barren stretch of rocky desert in Egypt. What resulted was one of the most dynamic battles of the Second World War.
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This Ain't No Mouse Music
This Ain't No Mouse Music
(1:31:50)
Genre: Music, Documentary
Chris Strachwitz is the guiding force behind the legendary Arhoolie Records, producing albums that inspired the Rolling Stones and many others. A hip-shaking stroll from New Orleans to Appalachia and right into very the DNA of rock’n’roll.
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Everest ER
Frostbite
Episode 3 (30:44)
More: Everest ER | Genre: Adventure, Series
Doctors battle to save the lives of climbers who run into trouble in the death zone. Midway through summit season, volunteer doctors treat the first major frostbite case, and UK scouts head for summit glory.
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Afghanistan: Behind Enemy Lines
Afghanistan: Behind Enemy Lines
(52:03)
Genre: Military
A documentary maker takes a path less trodden - across to the Taliban side of battlelines. His mission is to meet the roadside bombers, those responsible for making and planting the IEDs that have caused half of all Western troop deaths during the war.
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