Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost is a 1996 documentary film
directed by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky about the trials of three
teenage boys in West Memphis, Arkansas for the murder and sexual
mutilation of three prepubescent boys.
The boys on trial for the crime are: Jessie Misskelley, Damien Echols and Jason Baldwin, also known as the West Memphis 3.
Despite
a lack of any significant evidence indicating that they are connected
to the case at all, the three boys are charged and tried for the
murders.
A common theme throughout the film is
the treatment of the boys based on their appearances and tastes in
music, possibly as a Satanic ritual abuse.
During
the course of the filming, John Mark Byers, the stepfather of one of
the victims, gives the filmmakers a knife which has blood in the hinge.
The
filmmakers turn the knife over to police, who examine it; the DNA is
similar to that of himself and the boy but the evidence is nonetheless
inconclusive since the DNA evidence produced was fragmented and can not
provide concrete links. Other evidence is lost. All three teenagers are
convicted.
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Taboo Mating
How far would you go in the name of love? Would you drink your
partner’s blood to secure your bond? Or carve their hand print into
your flesh to show your devotion?
Could you marry someone behind
bars, knowing you may never be able to be together? Or risk your life
to steal another man’s wife?
Delve into rituals, ancient and
modern, used to bond one human to another and uncover the extremes of
human passion and devotion.
The desire to find a mate is one of
humanity’s fundamental instincts, but what happens to men and women
when their love is taboo?
Taboo takes viewers on a journey beyond
their comfort zones and across cultural borders to explore addictions
and lifestyles that are acceptable in some cultures but forbidden,
illegal, or even reviled in others.
Source:-http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/taboo-mating/
Tank On The Moon
During the 1960s, the United States and the Soviet Union were
engaged in a feverish competition to be the first to set foot on the
moon.
We know who won this race, but less about a secret chapter.
The Soviets many not have sent a man to the moon, but they successfully
guided two small robots by remote control from the earth.
For 16 months between 1970 and 1973, these
Lunokhods traveled more than thirty miles over the moon’s surface.
With
the declassification of the former USSR space archives, along with
recollections by several of the key participants in the Lunokhod
program, the true story of the Russian lunar robots can finally be told.
Source:-http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/tank-on-the-moon/
Do I Drink Too Much
Alcohol is by far the most widely used drug – and a
dangerous one at that. So why are so many of us drinking over the
recommended limits? Why does alcohol have such a powerful grip on us?
How much of our relationship with this drug is written in our genes?
What
are the real dangers of our children drinking too young? Addiction
expert John Marsden, who likes a drink, makes a professional and
personal exploration of our relationship with alcohol.
He
undergoes physical and neurological examinations to determine its
impact, and finds out why some people will find it much harder than
others to resist alcohol.
Even at the age of 14 there may be a way of determining which healthy children will turn into addicts.
John
experiments with a designer drug being developed that hopes to
replicate all the benefits of alcohol without the dangers. Could this
drug replace alcohol in the future?
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Million Dollar Traders
Eight ordinary people are given a million dollars, a fortnight of
intensive training and two months to run their own hedge fund. Can they
make a killing?
The experiment reveals the inner workings of a
City trading floor. The money is supplied by hedge fund manager Lex van
Dam: he wants to see if ordinary people can beat the professionals, and
he expects a return on his investment too. Yet no-one foresees the
financial crisis that lies ahead.
The traders were selected in
spring 2008, before the US credit crisis gathered pace. The successful
candidates were chosen, trained and dispatched to their specially
created trading room in the heart of the Square Mile. Among them are an
environmentalist, a soldier, a boxing promoter, an entrepreneur, a
retired IT consultant, a vet, a student and a shopkeeper.
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Secret Pakistan
Two part documentary series which explores accusations by CIA
officials and western diplomats that Pakistan is failing to live up to
its alliances in the war on terror.
In May this year, US Special
Forces shot and killed Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan. Publicly Pakistan
is one of America’s closest allies – yet every step of the operation
was kept secret from it.
Filmed largely in Pakistan and
Afghanistan, this two-part documentary series explores how a supposed
ally stands accused by top CIA officers and Western diplomats of
causing the deaths of thousands of coalition soldiers in Afghanistan.
It
is a charge denied by Pakistan’s military establishment, but the
documentary makers meet serving Taliban commanders who describe the
support they get from Pakistan in terms of weapons, training and a
place to hide.
The second film in this timely and enthralling
two-part documentary series reveals how Britain and America discovered
compelling evidence that Pakistan was secretly helping the Taliban and
concluded they had been double-crossed.
It tells the story of how
under President Obama the US has waged a secret war against Pakistan.
Taliban commanders tell the film makers that to this day Pakistan
shelters and arms them, and helps them kill Western troops – indeed one
recently captured suicide bomber alleges he was trained by Pakistani
intelligence.
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http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/secret-pakistan/
Shocking Movements of Word Cup
Richard Bacon and guest presenter Peter Crouch look back on the 50
greatest shocks in the history of the World Cup, covering the last six
tournaments and including moments such as Maradona’s
Hand of God, Zinedine’s Zidane’s head-butt in the 2006 final and England’s penalty pain.
Featuring
first-hand accounts from people who were there, such as David Seaman
talking about getting lobbed by Ronaldinho, John Barnes exclusively
revealing how Gazza nearly rapped on World in Motion, and Graham Poll
talking about his infamous three yellow cards moment.
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http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/world-cups-most-shocking-moments/
The Future is Wild
Imagine a world far, far into the future. A world very different
than our own where people have been wiped out by massive climatic and
geological changes, nearly destroying the Earth. What would the world
be like, and what kinds of creatures could survive?
An
international team of eminent scientists was formed to predict the
future and its new life forms in five million, 100 million and 200
million years.
The scientists predicted that the Earth would go
through several phases, including Ice World after five million years,
Hothouse World at 100 million years and New World at 200 million years.
To portray the scenery as accurately as possible, a camera crew traveled to remote locations around the world.
State-of-the-art
animation helped bring to life such freakish beings as Flishes
combining the characteristics of birds and fish, the giant slimemold
known as the Slithersucker, the Toraton tortoise bigger than any
dinosaur, tree-dwelling squids called Squibbons, the spewing Spitfire
Bird and many more!
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http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/future-is-wild/
Bill Gates: How a Geek Changed the World
The Money Programme’s Fiona Bruce gains exclusive access to Bill
Gates as he prepares to step down from full-time involvement with
Microsoft, the company he helped found.
Gates’s company has
changed the world, but he’s a controversial figure, with his ruthless
business leadership contributing to Microsoft being sued by the US
government.
In a special one-hour edition of the Money Programme,
Fiona Bruce presents the definitive profile of Bill Gates as he embarks
on his latest challenge: giving away the billions he’s amassed.
She
examines the fortunes of Microsoft as it faces up to competition from
Internet-based companies, and the programme asks an array of well-known
friends, colleagues and rivals what the future holds for the company in
a post-Gates world.
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http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/bill-gates-how-a-geek-changed-the-world/
The Secret Iraq Files
In the biggest leak of military secrets in history, WikiLeaks, the
whistleblower website, has released 400,000 secret US files detailing
every aspect of the war in Iraq, copies of which have been obtained by
Al Jazeera.
The sheer magnitude of data contained in the secret
files reveals a graphic narrative of the war that goes far beyond any
information about the conflict ever released into the public domain.
Using
thousands of classified US military reports, Al Jazeera is now able to
tell the inside story of a war which left thousands dead and a country
fractured along sectarian lines.
Working with the Bureau of
Investigative Journalism in London for the past 10 weeks, Al Jazeera
has analysed tens of thousands of documents, finding facts the US has
kept hidden from public scrutiny.
What has been uncovered often
contradicts the official narrative of the conflict. For example, the
leaked data shows that the US has been keeping records of Iraqi deaths
and injuries throughout the war, despite public statements to the
contrary.
The latest cache of files pertains to a period of six
years – from January 1, 2004, to December 31, 2009 – and shows that
109,000 people died during this time. Of those, a staggering 66,081 –
two-thirds of the total – were civilians.
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http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/secret-iraq-files/
Life and Death in the War Zone
Medical personnel more accustomed to treating patients than handling weapons prepare to head to Iraq. The 21st CSH (
cash), or Combat Support Hospital, sets up a full-service mobile hospital at an airbase in Balad, northwest of Baghdad.
The
first patients, both American and Iraqi soldiers, are treated for
battle wounds. With their own health-care system in disarray, Iraqis
turn to the U.S. military for help.
Doctors
dedicated to healing the sick must turn away some Iraqi patients. As
her mother looks on, doctors of the 10th CSH struggle to save an
injured and badly malnourished eight-year-old girl.
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Tears of Gaza
In a rough style, by way of unique footage, the brutal consequences of modern wars are exposed.
The film also depicts the ability of women and children to handle their everyday life after a dramatic war experience.
Many of them live in tents or in ruins without walls or roofs. They are all in need of money, food, water and electricity.
Others
have lost family members, or are left with seriously injured children.
Can war solve conflicts or create peace? The film follows three
children through the war and the period after the ceasefire.
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http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/tears-of-gaza/
The Secret Life of Adolf Hitler
This documentary offers an intimate look at one of the world’s most
wicked minds. First aired in the 1950′s, The Secret Life of Adolf
Hitler includes contemporary interviews with Hitler’s sister, Paula
Wolf and a prisoner who was once incarcerated with Hitler.
This
documentary is famous for showing Eva Braun’s home movies for the first
time.Eva was Hitler’s girlfriend and future wife. Can these videos
shed some light on such a dark period in our history? At the time this
documentary first aired the world was trying to come to terms with what
had transpired. Berlin, London, and much of Europe sat in ruins. German
society was desperately looking for some way to explain the carnage and
move on with their lives. The United States and USSR had emerged as the
uncontested super powers of the world. Great changes were happening!
It
is the home movies that make this documentary so compelling: Hitler in
his most private moments. Surely, it is here that we will catch a
glimpse of what motivated such a man?.
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http://documentarystorm.com/the-secret-life-of-adolf-hitler/
The Women who Thinks Like a Cow
Dr Temple Grandin has a unique ability to understand the animal mind
– and she’s convinced her skill is down to her autistic brain.
Temple
believes she experiences life like an animal. Her emotions are much
simpler than most people’s and she feels constantly anxious. It’s this
struggle with overwhelming anxiety that led her to discover just how
much she has in common with animals and, in particular, cows.
Using
her ability to observe the world through an animal’s eye, she has been
able to make an enormous impact on animal welfare. Her greatest
achievement has been in the area of slaughterhouses – she has
fundamentally changed the way animals are held and slaughtered.
Today she’s an associate professor of animal science, a best-selling author and the most famous autistic woman on the planet.
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http://documentarystorm.com/the-woman-who-thinks-like-a-cow/
Blood and Dust
Award-winning filmmaker Vaughan Smith spent 10 days with a US Medevac helicopter unit in Afghanistan.
Still
raging, the war in Afghanistan claims victims every day. Yet overhead,
medevac helicopters constantly flies to the burning points of those who
need help. Civilians, Taleban or US marine, they are all treated in the
medevac helicopters. Join in on DocumentaryStorm to witness the
documentary Blood and Dust – the number one mission: Saving lives.
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http://documentarystorm.com/blood-and-dust/
