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Creating music with artificial intelligence
Can artificial intelligence help compose a song that is just as successful as the winning Eurovision hit by Duncan Laurence? In the AI Song Contest teams from all over Europe and Australia compete attempting to create the next Eurovision hit with the help of artificial intelligence. Can computers blow us away with their creative power?
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CONSTANTLY WRONG: The Case Against Conspiracy Theories
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What a Nuclear Bomb Explosion Feels Like
The existential threat of nuclear war is no longer a Cold War memory. With nine countries armed with around 15,000 atomic bombs up to 53 times stronger than those dropped in the Second World War, the stakes are arguably higher.
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Colonial crimes
For more than a century, people were taken from their homelands and exhibited in human zoos. They were displayed alongside animals. This little known and deeply disturbing part of colonial history played an important part in the development of modern racism.
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Netflix’s ‘David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet’ Is The Most Important Documentary Of The Year
Vital viewing for 2020.
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The Social Dilemma
This documentary explores the dangerous human impact of social networking, with tech experts sounding the alarm on their own creations.
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Agent Orange’s devastating effects on Vietnam
The Vietnam War ended almost 50 years ago, but it’s still killing Vietnamese people. Children are born with severe birth defects due to Agent Orange, a defoliant sprayed by the Americans during the war. While some 5 million in Vietnam live with incurable or chronic diseases caused by Agent Orange, thousands are killed by unexploded ordnance.
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Magic Mushroom Medical Trial
Over two years we follow the first ever medical trial of psilocybin (the psychoactive ingredient in magic mushrooms) being used to treat a group of volunteers suffering from clinical depression.
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‘Tiger King’, ‘American Factory’ Among Grierson British Documentary Award Nominees
Nominations have been unveiled for the 48th edition of the Grierson Awards, the UK’s top documentary awards. A total of 52 films are nominated across 14 categories. Of those, 21 were broadcast on BBC channel, while Netflix has nine nominations and Channel 4 has five. ITV and Al Jazeera have two apiece whilst nominations newcomer YouTube Originals joins Channel 5, National Geographic and Discovery with one each.
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Made in Japan — Ishikawa and Gifu Craftsmanship
A documentary-style film exploring traditional Japanese handcrafts and artists from Ishikawa and Gifu, in partnership with Japan Tourism.
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Predator Bay
There is a place in Africa where two ancient predators come face to face - the shark and the crocodile. Usually worlds apart the two are forced to share the waters of a cozy bay and compete for the same prize. For many of the inhabitants this is a dangerous land. For a young crocodile life is particularly challenging. This is his story - a journey into predator bay.
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The Truth Game
John Pilger's penetrating documentary which looks at world-wide propaganda surrounding the nuclear arms race. When the two American atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, they were code-named Fat Man and Little Boy, and President Truman announced after the event: "The experiment has been an overwhelming success."
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At This Water Park Bloody Gashes Were the Price of Admission
The HBO Max documentary “Class Action Park” takes viewers inside Action Park, the New Jersey water park that “ended in a tidal wave of broken bones, lawsuits and fatalities.”
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I Saw The World End
Content warning: the following audio contains graphic language and first-hand accounts of the use of atomic weapons so discretion is advised.
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Nagasaki – why did the US drop the second bomb?
The first atom bomb destroyed Hiroshima on 6 August 1945. Just three days later, a second atom bomb flattened the city of Nagasaki, even though Japan had long been ready to capitulate.
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F for Fake
F for Fake (French: Vérités et mensonges, "Truths and lies") is the last major film completed by Orson Welles, who directed, co-wrote, and starred in the film. Initially released in 1974, it focuses on Elmyr de Hory's recounting of his career as a professional art forger; de Hory's story serves as the backdrop for a fast-paced, meandering investigation of the natures of authorship and authenticity, as well as the basis of the value of art. Loosely a documentary, the film operates in several different genres and has been described as a kind of film essay.
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Wolfgang Beltracchi: The German forger
Wolfgang Beltracchi is a German art forger and artist who has admitted to forging hundreds of paintings in an international art scam netting millions of euros.
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Upcoming Netflix Documentary Immigration Nation Reportedly Almost Blocked By ICE
A new documentary that gives Netflix NFLX +0.6% viewers an in-depth look at the machinations of immigration enforcement was allegedly - according to filmmakers Christina Clusiau and Shaul Schwarz - pressured by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to remove a number of scenes.
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Anatomy of a Bribe
Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit secretly films officials in Namibia demanding cash in exchange for political favours. It’s a story of how foreign companies plunder Africa’s natural resources. Using confidential documents provided to Al Jazeera by Wikileaks, . “Anatomy of a Bribe” exposes the government ministers and public officials willing to sell off Namibia’s assets in return for millions of dollars in bribes.
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Sexual violence as a weapon of war
Sexual violence and mass rape have long been used as a weapon of war. It is not only the victims and survivors who suffer trauma - an entire generation of men, women and children are affected. All too often, the perpetrators remain unpunished.
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