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- The only doc to access Bowe Bergdahl's story.
- For 45 years East Germany was ruled by a strict and secretive communist government, on the geographical edge but political heart of the Soviet bloc. In 1987, a British film crew gained unprecedented access to film everyday life inside the GDR - but only the side of life the state let them see. In this doc the crew return to the places and people they visited then, to see how their lives have changed and how they recall the "workers' paradise".
- According to common belief, Ouzai is a militia stronghold. A place of extreme poverty and illegal trafficking of car parts, drugs, and criminals. Cut off by the Lebanese state, it became a safe haven for gangs and remained a neglected and impoverished slum for 40 years. Yet, for one visionary and a team of street artists and volunteers, Ouzai is a place to build dreams.
- Take an artful, startling journey into unexplored regions of feminine sexuality. A sensitive and lyrical film set to become a cult classic as it explores what it considers centuries of patriarchal oppression. The land of feminine pleasures has remained very much 'terra incognita'. Deep Waters opens the door on rare and precious spaces where words are freed.
- The Accident, The Image, The Obsession.
- An undercover operation sets out to understand the path to joining ISIS.
- Growing up in poverty as a child, Dylan dreamt of travelling the world on a motorcycle. Many years later he broke the shackles of a normal life and took to the road. After journeying 200,000km across four continents, the road from Panama to Colombia comes to an end, swallowed up by an impenetrable jungle. Dylan has no choice but to take to the sea, building a raft powered by his motorcycle engine in the hope of reaching Colombia's road network 700km away. He must brave strong ocean currents and storm batterings in his journey from Central to South America.
- Australia's universities are embroiled in a growing geopolitical storm amid rising concerns over expanding Chinese power abroad, with growing fears these lucrative arrangements may be putting academic institutions at risk.
- As Israel's hail of bombs falls on Gaza, this stirring documentary follows four Palestinian tunnel workers as they laugh their way through the worst job in the world.
- Migrant workers, factory bosses and nightclub dancers try to carve out a slice of the pie in the city the dollar store built. But China is changing. Selling cheap junk isn't what it used to be.
- Will we ever be immortal? Is living better, healthier, longer lives what science and technology have in store for us in the short run? Paraplegics can now start walking again thanks to robotic exoskeletons. Google has poached the best researchers of the planet to put a final end to diseases related to aging. In the meantime, a myriad of start-ups are testing new ways and drugs that could make us immortal. At a time when anti-aging medicine is on the rise, could old age one day become a curable disease?
- A first person chronological portrait of the recent revolution in Ukraine escalating with a war with Russia that threatens global stability.
- Although the EU promised to end overfishing by 2020, the Mediterranean remains the most overfished sea on the planet. Fishermen are doomed to catch dwindling numbers of fish in the era of climate change. Travelling through the Mediterranean and capturing the fishermen's lives on the shores where human civilization made its first steps thousands of years ago, Silent Fish shows how fishermen are in danger of ending up another 'extinct species' because of failed EU and national policies.
- The infamous 18 are El Salvador's biggest gang. They battle with the rival MS13 for control of the drugs market. They charge 'renta' to local businesses and kill those who don't pay. They are teenagers, the orphans of civil war, born in the heat of battle and unfazed by death. As we enter the desperate, death-defying world of the 18, we begin to see the political ingredients of one of the fastest developing gangs in the world.
- Australia's universities are embroiled in a growing geo-political storm as tensions between China and Hong Kong play out 7,500 kilometers away. Amid rising concerns over the Chinese Government's expanding power abroad, pro and anti Beijing activists have clashed on campuses. And while universities earn billions of dollars a year from student fees and research collaborations with China, there are growing fears these lucrative arrangements may be putting academic institutions at risk. This Four Corners investigation reveals how concerns extend far beyond attempts to spread propaganda.
- Following the lives of six young people that are prominent 'weblebrities' on a video site YouTube. The film explores the new media, its power and its future. Will the Internet overcome traditional media? Will new media and traditional media merge? The film documents the struggles and successes of characters and their hopes to become the new 'virtual' celebrities.
- In a smoky bunker in Leipzig, in what was once communist East Germany, skinheads gather for a clandestine concert. They call it a private party to avoid prohibition, but there's no guarantee the police won't raid. The band is Zensur. It's from the West. But it's here in the East that the right wing scene rules. Nine years ago, the people of Leipzig were at the forefront of the push for democracy in East Germany. Today however, the hopes and excitement of that time have for many people been replaced with disillusionment and insecurity. Mike Zimmerman is the spokesman for the Leipzig branch of the NPD, the National Democratic Party.
- Their names are George, Inge, Jo, Sepp, Paula, Walo, Anita, Klaus and Klaus. They were acolytes, pupils, wards and foster home children, who were sexually, emotionally and physically abused by members of the clergy.
- In the remote and forgotten villages of Eastern India, Dai is delivering a baby exactly as her ancestors would hundreds of years ago. An intimate glimpse into a disappearing world.
- When Jill Robinson held the paw of a caged bear in China, she became determined to help end this sort of cruelty. She really started the whole dream of the China Bear Rescue explains Jill tearfully, remembering her encounter. She started a goal that we are never, never going to give up on until we've ended bear farming in China. Yet the shocking treatment of bears is not restricted to China. In Russia bears are woken from hibernation and killed so their cubs can be taken and sold. Whilst in Turkey, metal rings are forced through the bears noses and they are prodded to dance for the tourists. A shocking and sad report.
- With faith as a prominent motif, OUI. juxtaposes the horrors of the Cameroonian Civil War with the Cameroonian refugees' hopeful visions of the future.
- From one of Honduras' most violent neighbourhoods, Fernando Lucena documents first-hand the brutality of MS-13. The infamously savage gang was born and bred in the streets of Los Angeles in the 70s and 80s, founded by refugees from Central American wars - wars that were themselves promoted and financed by the US. Today, tides of horrific violence generated by the deportations of these gang members to Central American countries - their "home countries" according to Trump - lies behind the massive exodus of migrants hoping to escape the plague of bloodshed.
- In Bangladesh, poverty and corruption have long been endemic. An Islamic state, minorities are under threat, with crimes against them rarely punished. How has Bangladesh become an extremist haven?
- The Amazon plays a vital part in regulating the planet's temperature. And yet, in the last year, forest destruction in the Brazilian Amazon soared by 85 per cent. The combination of illegal logging and slash and burn agriculture is decimating the land. With huge profits to be made, the Amazon is a dangerous place to ask questions. Despite the threat, the Amazonian tribes want the world to hear their message.
- Often forgotten in the Black Lives Matter narrative, the Aboriginal community tell their experiences of racism in Australia, and why the words 'I can't breathe' resonate so profoundly with them. Mr Floyd's death under the knee of a white police officer unleashed a wave of grief and anger across America. That wave reached Australia's shores with thousands of Australians coming out to protest in support of our Indigenous community.