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Breaking Silence Season 1 Ep 4 Jeremy Eparaima
Can abusive men change their behaviour? Simonne visits Jeremy Eparaima a reformed domestic abuser, to find out. Jeremy was a serial abuser until, in his mid 40's, he joined a friend on an anger management course and realised that he too needed help. After going through the 20-week course twice he...
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Breaking Silence Season 1 Ep 3 Diamonds In The Ring
Can boxing help domestic abuse survivors regain their self respect? Daniella Smith, a former world champion boxer, believes so. She runs Diamonds in the Ring, a boxing gym for women. And, many of the women who train there are former clients of women's refuges. Shonie is one of them. She survived ...
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Breaking Silence Season 1 Ep 2 David White
In 2009 David White's daughter, Helen, was shot dead by her husband Greg Meads. That murder become national news, largely, David believes, because Greg is a wealthy man. David has since become a staunch campaigner, fighting to end domestic abuse. He travels around New Zealand to spread his messag...
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Breaking Silence Season 1 Ep 1 Simonne Butler
In 2003 Simonne Butler survived an horrific attack at the hands of her abusive partner. The attack shocked New Zealand and the story made national headlines. But much of the coverage focused on the perpetrator and not Simonne, the victim. Now, after years of physical, emotional and spiritual reco...
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The Illusion of Abundance
Three women share a common goal: Carolina, Bertha and Maxima are leading today's fight against modern conquistadors. Whereas governments and corporations, trapped in a global race towards unlimited growth, need to get the cheapest raw materials, these three women tell us a story of tireless coura...
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Jaffa - A Guide To Gentrification
Jaffa, once a major port in the Middle East and the sister of Tel Aviv, "the most expensive city in the world" per the Economist, has grown into an international tourist centre, a coveted destination and last but not least a true real estate gem. Tourists, partygoers and its residents are charmed...
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300 Trillion - The Debt Trap
The worldwide mountain of debt is more than 300% of the world's annual economic output. Since the pandemic, debt expansion is out of control. Will the system collapse under its weight? The film explores the significance of our debt situation, looking at true stories behind the situation, from a d...
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Inside Antifa
They are faceless. They are nameless. They are feared and hated. And they make no apologies. Antifa is notorious for their radical and often divisive tactics - but what’s it really like to be a member of this anti-fascist movement? In the weeks surrounding the 2021 Inauguration, a group of Antifa...
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Mata Hari - The Naked Spy
A 100 years ago, Mata Hari faced the firing squad as a convicted German spy. Was she a dangerous spy, whose boldness and sexuality threatened the establishment, or a victim entangled in a climate of blame and desperation as WWI dragged on?
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The Last House Standing
It is about the stories about people who lost everything in natural disasters. Every year people lost their homes and many rebuild the exact same way. Most people had no idea if their insurance will actually get them whole again after a major disaster. If they have to evacuate, and their house...
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Haunted Lake Lanier
Dive into the murky secrets of Lake Lanier, where restless spirits haunt its waters. Uncover forgotten graves, encounter the mysterious Lady of the Lake, and witness ghostly apparitions. This exploration delves into the eerie history of Lake Lanier.
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Haunted New Orleans
In the heart of the Big Easy, restless spirits reveal chilling tales-voodoo curses, spectral jazz, and forgotten secrets. Ghosts, cryptids, and eerie history explore the supernatural secrets of New Orleans in this chilling documentary.
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The Spider's Web - Britain's The Second Empire
The Spider’s Web: Britain’s Second Empire, is a documentary that shows how Britain transformed from a colonial power into a global financial power. At the demise of empire, City of London financial interests created a web of offshore secrecy jurisdictions that captured wealth from across the glob...
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Far Away From Home
A group of children and adolescents, from different Latin American countries are living in shelters in Tijuana. They are all waiting for a response to their request for asylum to enter the USA. The wait is long and uncertain, they are childhoods on hold.
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Lawyers For Justice
Lawyers (F)or Justice? is an exploration of the contemporary viability of socially conscious law in Ontario. It follows lawyer and director, Yavar Hameed, in his journey to understand the relationship between law and justice from the perspective of social activists, established socially conscious...
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Honeymoon in Oak Ridge
Emmy-winning filmmaker Joe Tripician delves into the complex legacy of the Manhattan Project in his poignant documentary. The film follows Tripician's parents, two of the 1,200 Army personnel unknowingly tasked with creating the first atomic bomb during World War II. In 1998, 53 years after the H...
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SHEOL
The film reveals little-known aspects of the Nazi organization implemented in a camp hidden in Poland, Sobibor. Sobibor was not a concentration camp but a death camp. The film follows an archaeologist as he tries to understand and reconstruct the workings of the camp. The other side of his task...
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Margin Of Error
Pioneers of a new kind of Polling that combine the breadth of data found on social media with the power of artificial intelligence, claim to be able to accurately predict voter behavior, among other things. If this is true, does this give politicians the intel they need to respond to voters need...
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This Little Land of Mines
During the Vietnam War, the US bombed Laos more heavily than any other country had been bombed before. Spanning over three presidential terms, it was the largest covert CIA operation in US history. Today, the Laos people live among, and risk their lives to clear, over 80 million unexploded bombs ...
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Decadece & Downfall
In 1971, the Shah of Iran, the self-proclaimed 'king of kings', celebrated 2,500 years of the Persian monarchy by throwing the greatest party in history. Money was no object - a lavish tent city, using 37km of silk, was erected in a specially creeated oasis. The world's top restaurant at the ti...
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The Man Who Knew Too Much
A documentary film about Colin Wallace an intelligence officer who blew the whistle on fake news and was framed for a murder. The Man Who Knew Too Much is a documentary film by Michael Oswald about Colin Wallace, a former Military Intelligence Officer involved in psychological operations in Nort...
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Downfall
On January 6 2021, the sacred symbol of American democracy was stormed by armed supporters of Donald Trump, unleashing violence and destruction and leaving five dead. Trump's grip on the Right's psyche was well-known, but nobody could have prepared for this assault on democracy that rattled Ameri...