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Amazon and Hulu's algorithms are recommending conspiracy theory films, and the consequences could be more serious than you might think
Amazon and Hulu continue to recommend content that promotes conspiracy theories, despite an industry-wide effort to purge them.
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That Moment I Escaped North Korea
We talked with another advocate of the organization Liberty in North Korea, Geum Hyok Kim. Geum is a defector from the ruling class of North Korea who didn’t realize the nature of the regime until he left. He tells his beautiful, reflective story of growth, understanding freedom, and realizing what’s important.
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David Attenborough to present Netflix nature series Our Planet
Sir David Attenborough will front a new natural history documentary for Netflix, in the latest example of the streaming company muscling in on the BBC’s territory. The 92-year-old broadcaster has been synonymous with the BBC’s natural history output for decades but will now provide the voiceover for Netflix’s eight-part series Our Planet, which will be released in April.
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Iggy Pop is producing a new documentary on punk music
Iggy Pop has been named as the executive producer of an immersive documentary about punk music. The punk genre has one of the most interesting and storied histories of any musical genre, and stretches back further than you’d think. While bands like the Ramones and the Sex Pistols were blazing their own trail in the late ’70s, bands like Suicide had used the “punk music” phrase for years, and bands like The Stooges had planted the seeds of the genre since the late ’60s.
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The Syphilis Enigma (Medieval Disease Documentary) | Timeline
The true history of Syphilis.
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Aliens under the Ice – Life on Rogue Planets
Out in the vast coldness of outer space, there are planets that travel alone through darkness without the boundaries of a system. Here’s how this can happen – and why these frozen deserts might secretly harbor alien life.
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‘Untouchable’ Exposes How the Media Protected Harvey Weinstein for Decades
It was at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival that Harvey Weinstein, a crater-faced caricature of an asshole Hollywood movie producer, allegedly raped Rose McGowan. Following a screening of her film Going All the Way, McGowan, then 23, alleges that Weinstein invited her to a meeting at a restaurant that was then changed to his hotel suite. He was effectively her boss, since she’d already filmed a sizeable role in the sci-fi thriller Phantoms, which was to be distributed by the Weinstein-owned Miramax, as well as one of the most powerful men in the film industry, so she went.
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How IBM quietly pushed out 20,000 older workers
Age discrimination can be very hard to prove.In a ProPublica feature that collected the stories of over 1,400 former IBM employees, it was estimated that a staggering 20,000 American employees ages 40 and over have been eliminated by the company. How does one of the country’s largest tech giants quietly push out this many older workers? Don’t we have laws to protect people at the end of their careers?
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This Smart Gun Could Save Lives
Guns kill more than 30,000 Americans every year, far more than in any other developed country. While lawmakers and activists battle it out over legislative solutions, some are trying a different approach: integrating smart technology into guns. In this episode of "The Spark," Bloomberg follows 21-year-old inventor and entrepreneur Kai Kloepfer, who's created a "smart" handgun that could save thousands of lives.
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Review: ‘Active Measures’ Looks at Links Between Trump and Russia
Eager to make you uncomfortable, “Active Measures” piles on the ire as it outlines Russian efforts to manipulate world events, particularly the 2016 American presidential election. Directed by Jack Bryan, this documentary starts by summarizing Vladimir V. Putin’s career through the time of his election as Russia’s president. In the heaps of interviews, video clips and flow charts that follow, we hear of links between Mr. Putin and Donald J. Trump; of extensive work done by Paul Manafort, Mr. Trump’s former campaign chairman, for Russia; and of foreign shell companies that launder funds for organized crime.
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Gulper Eel Balloons Its Massive Jaws
Big gulp! The Nautilus team spotted a gulper eel (Eurypharynx pelecanoides) doing just that in Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument. Its pouch-like mouth can inflate in an instant, scooping up much larger prey just like a pelican--and giving it that muppet-like look! This gulper eel was likely a juvenile, as this species can grow up to three feet in length.
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Inside The Most Precise Atomic Clock in the World
From his basement lab in Boulder, Colorado, physicist Jun Ye and his team have built the world’s most precise atomic clock. The clock is so powerful it can measure otherwise imperceptible changes in the physical world.
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Samuel L. Jackson To Front Slavery Series ‘Enslaved’, Fremantle Boards Rights
The series will chart the horror of slavery through underwater archaeology. Created by doc outfit Associated, the series is being timed to coincide with the 400-year anniversary since the first African was brought to the New World as a slave.
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Death Metal Grandma
Death Metal Grandma follows the story of 96 year old Holocaust survivor, former WW2 spy and famous songwriter Inge Ginsberg as she decides to pursue a new career: Death Metal.
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Shredding the Girl and Balloon - The Director’s half cut
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Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook
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Frail Mikhail Gorbachev warns against return to the Cold War
Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, warned on Thursday against rising ten...
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‘Of Fathers And Sons’: “Atheist” Filmmaker Goes Undercover To Reveal Brutal Life Inside Radical Islamist Family
Deep in the credits for the documentary Of Fathers and Sons comes a startling notation—a mention of the firm that supplied kidnapping and ransom insurance. That’s an indication of just how dangerous the project was for director Talal Derki, who risked his life to get inside a radical Islamist family in Northwestern Syria.
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Documentary about Democracy in Hamtramck looks to raise money
The documentary, which followed the mayoral candidates throughout their campaigns, is looking to raise $55,000 by Jan. 31.
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A Vice Guide to Travel: Human Safari
Tourists on India's Andaman Islands are taken by the busload to watch the Jarawa tribe go about their daily lives. The Jarawa are treated like animals in a safari park, with large signs urging visitors not to feed them or give them clothing. Earlier this year, a crew from VICE Germany went to the Andaman Islands and brought back footage for this fascinating, if a bit depressing, documentary.
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The Gun That Aims Itself (Documentary, 24 min)
In spring of 2013, Texas-based start up TrackingPoint Solutions released the first ever precision-guided firearm, which is essentially a long-range, laser-guided robo rifle. Call it the gun of tomorrow: The technology is so advanced we've heard it can have beginners killing at extreme distances with single-shot accuracy in mere minutes.
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The Iceman Tapes - Inside The Mind Of A Mafia Hitman
Vicious, ruthless, remorseless, brutal, fearless, violent, disturbed and callous are just some of the words which can be used to describe serial contract killer Richard “The Iceman” Kuklinski. ‘The Iceman Tapes’ attempts to take the viewer into the broken mind of a cold-blooded paranoid psycho-sociopath through a series of interviews conducted by psychiatrist Michael Baden.
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This Film About A Sad 30 Year Old Case Needs Your Help
30 years ago something happened to a young boy that has…
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Kim Dotcom: The Man Behind Megaupload
In October 2013, VICE News was invited to visit the infamous tech mogul and creator of Megaupload, Kim Dotcom, at his palatial property in New Zealand. Even though Kim is under house arrest—since he's at the center of history's largest copyright case—he's still able to visit a recording studio in Auckland. So check out this brand new documentary we made at Kim's mega-mansion.
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The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara
The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara is a 2003 American documentary film about the life and times of former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara illustrating his observations of the nature of modern warfare. The film was directed by Errol Morris and features an original score by Philip Glass. The title derives from the military concept of the "Fog of war" depicting the difficulty of making decisions in the midst of conflict. ---wikipedia
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My brother, Teddy
A young girl’s connection to her brother with cerebral palsy is one not weighted down by a full understanding of all the ways in which he isn’t “normal.”
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Free to Play: The Movie (2014)
Free To Play is a feature-length documentary that follows three professional gamers from around the world as they compete for a million dollar prize in the first Dota 2 International Tournament. In recent years, E Sports has surged in popularity to become one of the most widely-practiced forms of competitive sport today. A million dollar tournament changed the landscape of the gaming world and for those elite players at the top of their craft, nothing would ever be the same again.
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SeaWorld lists '69 reasons why you shouldn't believe Blackfish'
A list shared by SeaWorld runs down and criticizes every statement made in 'Blackfish.'
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Documentary claims Putin was a lazy wife-beater who only turned his life around when KGB collapsed
Vladimir Putin was regularly violent to his ex-wife Lyudmila during their marriage, a German documentary on the Russian leader has claimed. Putin the Man, made by ZDF television and shown this week, claimed to have been given access to the unseen files of an unidentified Western intelligence agency. They included details of Mr Putin’s time as a young KGB officer stationed in Dresden in the Eighties, as well as his rise to power in Russia.
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Citizenfour (Full documentary, 2014)
A documentarian and a reporter travel to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden.
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Why some Indians want to 'Ban BBC'
The BBC is being targeted by angry social media users in India after a documentary featuring an interview with a rapist on death row.
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Smog documentary blocked by China after becoming viral hit
A hard-hitting video investigation into China's grave air pollution problem has been pulled from mainstream video sites, days after it garnered more than 100 million hits online. "Under the Dome", an independent documentary produced by former Chinese state media journalist Chai Jing, was no longer available on popular mainland video sites, including Youku and iQiyi, as of Saturday afternoon.
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Indian man responds to documentary on Indian rape with his own documentary on British rape
The furor over "India's Daughter," a documentary by British filmmaker Leslee Udwin that examines a horrific 2012 rape case in New Delhi, has been remarkable. Last week, an official release of the film was blocked in India after a police complaint, but the documentary had already made its way onto YouTube and made headlines around the world.
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HBO’s Scientology Exposé Going Clear Is Jaw-Dropping
The revelations in Alex Gibney’s new documentary Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief won’t come as a huge surprise to anyone who’s read Lawrence Wright’s devastating, similarly titled book-length exposé. But a movie is a very different thing than a book, for better and for worse. There were numerous books about SeaWorld’s shady practices before Blackfish came around; there was tons of literature on climate change before An Inconvenient Truth came out.
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Scientology’s Sneaky Google Ads Slam HBO Documentary?
The Church of Scientology is famous for attacking its critics in every way possible. Now, to discredit HBO's upcoming documentary, is it turning to…Google? Trying to learn more about Going Clear, the new HBO documentary premiering March 29 about the Church of Scientology? Maybe you’ve heard about the film and want to Google it out of curiosity. That approach, the one taken by just about everyone with an Internet connection, reveals Scientology’s own attempts to...