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  • False Confessions

    In U.S. interrogations, a powerful psychological tactic gets suspects to confess, often in unrecorded rooms. Trained interrogators have been hugely successful at securing confessions, frequently with little regard for the suspect's actual guilt or innocence.

  • Man Made

    This documentary offers an honest portrait of four transgender men preparing for the world's only all-trans bodybuilding competition. Moving beyond tropes of tragedy, this hopeful film reveals profound truths about gender, humanity, and love. It powerfully explores the universal drive to define a...

  • This Little Land of Mines

    During the Vietnam War, the US conducted a massive, secret CIA bombing campaign in Laos, making it the most heavily bombed country per capita in history. Decades later, Laotians live alongside over 80 million unexploded ordnance. This powerful documentary reveals the brave men and women risking t...

  • Ganz - How I Lost My Beetle

    The Volkswagen Beetle is a design classic. Celebrated by the Nazis, and championed by Hitler, the Beetle's true origins were obscured by a web of intrigue, espionage and slander. This extraordinary doc reveals the untold story of Josef Ganz, the Jewish visionary behind one of the world's most ado...

  • Ubiquity

    What if WiFi was lethal? Some claim electromagnetic radiation has devastated their health. These “electrosensitives” flee to wireless-free wilderness for relief. But with the IoT and total connectivity, their refuges are vanishing. A revelatory, urgent warning.

  • Inside Facebook - Secrets of A Social Network

    Facebook banned news in Australia, drawing global outrage. This documentary goes undercover inside its content moderation hub. It reveals a chilling reality: a company prioritizing profit over safety, where extreme content directly fuels massive earnings. A disturbing portrait of money over moral...

  • The Money Stone

    Hundreds of feet down, Ghana's outlaw 'galamsey' miners squeeze through tiny crevices for raw gold. This desperate rush feeds a global industry, drawing locals and foreign corporations. Impoverished families now face an impossible choice: educate their children or gamble with their lives in the d...

  • The Opium War

    Thousands of young people are dying from drugs in Kachin State, Myanmar. With the government failing to act, civilians formed “Pat Jasan” (meaning “Stop and Clean the drugs”) to eradicate the problem. This has led to violent clashes between the vigilante group and powerful drug lords.

  • Ghost Mountain

    After fleeing the Killing Fields, Bunseng's family was trapped in a new life-threatening crisis. They were saved from being another tragic statistic only by the heroic efforts of NGOs and officials. Decades later, while painting a rescuer’s home, Bunseng made an incredible discovery: he was worki...

  • Delay of Game

    "Delay Of Game" is a poignant film exploring football's profound impact on coaches, players, and families. It scrutinizes the tragic death of NFL Hall of Famer Junior Seau, linked to CTE. With growing health concerns over long-term effects, the sport's future is uncertain. Youth football bans are...

  • War Peace

    The documentary "War/Peace" re-introduces 1960s radical student activists. It features former Weather Underground leaders Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, long silenced by the government and press. The film serves as a crucial historical reminder of when young minds last organized to challenge an...

  • Murder On The Reef

    "Murder on the Reef" investigates the Great Barrier Reef's demise. With up to 50% of corals dead, the documentary explores culprits like pollution and starfish. But the true elephant in the room is climate change, leaving many scientists to believe the fight is already futile.

  • Serial Swindlers

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    Exposing the world's most conniving, creative, and criminally adept con men, Serial Swindlers goes inside their minds. While their crimes and exploits are a ready-made Hollywood script, their escapades have left a trail of heartache, poverty and destruction. Ordinary criminal minds they are not.

  • Cutting Barking

    Filmmaker Marc Isaacs and editor David Charap deconstruct their documentary, 'All White In Barking'. This behind-the-scenes look reveals the creative struggles between directorial vision and subjects' agendas, showing how the film found its own unexpected narrative path.

  • The Great Hip Hop Hoax

    With a Sony deal imminent, Scottish duo Silibil n’ Brains posed as Californian rappers to escape being branded “the rapping Proclaimers.” Their scam brought dream highs and crushing lows. This film tells their unbelievable story through confessions, victim interviews, and vivid reconstructions.

  • First to Fall

    Two students in Canada, Tarek & Hamid, return to Libya to fight Gaddafi in 2011. Neither is a soldier. The war changes them differently: Hamid thrives in the battle for Misrata; Tarek struggles with the danger. Their parallel journeys tell two of the conflict's millions of stories.

  • Letters for Peace

    In Brazil, the Spiritist movement is growing at a phenomenal rate. Followers believe that direct contact can be made with dead loved ones. In this film, we see the work of one of Spiritsm's proponents, Fernando Ben, as he claims to receive messages from a deceased man. Grief stricken relatives cl...

  • Killing Gävle

    In the city of Gävle, Sweden, there is an annual fight between local custodians and mischievous pagans for the spirit of Christmas. Each year since 1966, local business owners have paid for a 40ft straw goat to be made and displayed in the main square for the Holiday season. In 37 of those years,...

  • The Nip Tuck Trip

    We spend more than ever on appearances. Obsessed? Or just fitting in? Journey with women on a cosmetic surgery holiday to Kuala Lumpur to discover why they alter their looks.

  • The Singing Contest

    In Rio, an elderly man lovingly prepares his curió, an endangered songbird, for a prestigious singing contest. This cherished tradition spotlights a profound bond, but also casts a complex shadow, as the very birds celebrated for their beautiful songs are vanishing from the wild.

  • The Road

    In Marc Isaacs’ film, diverse London arrivals seek better lives: an aspiring Irish singer, a lonely ex-builder, a Kashmiri hotel worker, a Jewish WWII refugee, and a retired German stewardess. Blending humour and heartbreak, it’s a deeply affecting, non-polemical study of immigration.

  • Rat

    Through convicts' eyes, Britain's prison system is failing. It rarely rehabilitates, often worsening mental health and hindering return to society. The charity Landworks offers a solution, providing current and former prisoners with skills and community bonds to successfully rebuild their lives.

  • Men of the City

    "Men of the City" tracks London’s financial meltdown. Beyond brokers making money from money, it reveals a cleaner, a Bengali single father, and others striving for dignity amidst the crisis. Sensitive portraits of diverse lives.

  • Benefits Of A Toilet

    Toilets – over 2 billion people lack safe, sanitary access. For women and girls, this crisis fuels disease, insecurity, and lost opportunity, holding back entire communities.