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Megacity Mumbai - From slums to skyscrapers
Mumbai is a city of contrasts. Here, the super-rich and slum dwellers live side by side. As more and more luxury skyscrapers go up, slums are forced to make way for them. Conflicts ensue. So what is life like, in a megacity with 20 million inhabitants?
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David Attenborough's The Green Planet is the nature TV we need - it shows the power of plants
The presenter's latest documentary could nurture our bond with the very organisms that keep us alive
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Playboy bunnies blast ‘predator’ Hugh Hefner’s bestiality, ‘cult’ sex and worse
When bedding buxom bunnies became too boring for Playboy baron Hugh Hefner, he allegedly moved on to dogs. Hef’s purported penchant for bestiality is just one of the explosive claims made in the forthcoming A&E documentary “Secrets of Playboy,” out Monday.
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'Wuhan, I Am Here': Film follows volunteers in sealed city
The homeless, the sick, the elderly: For people who fell through the cracks of the official system, the then-unprecedented decision to isolate the central Chinese city of Wuhan and its 13 million people was a matter of life or death.
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Springboard: the secret history of the first real smartphone
A decade before Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone, a tiny team of renegades imagined and tried to build the modern smartphone. Nearly forgotten by history, a little startup called Handspring tried to make the future before it was ready. This is the story of the Treo.
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The People Who Were Sued for Downloading Music... What Ever Happened?
Lawsuits against downloaders were meant to scare people into buying CDs again. However in the late 2000s a pair of cases went way too far, with even the judge calling the outcome "monstrous and shocking." Interestingly, the fight against digital music began as early as the 1980s. Enjoy the full history of the RIAA vs digital music!
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Unhappy Little Trees: The Dark Legacy of Bob Ross
Bob Ross, the television painter known for his dandelion-fuzz hair and pizza-delivery approach to knocking out a landscape (30 minutes or less!) is still beloved, 26 years after his death, for the soothing way he dabbed what he called “happy little” trees and clouds onto his canvases. A new Netflix documentary about him—with an ominous title and even more disturbing trailer—has roused alarm among the Ross faithful that it will expose some horrific behavior that forever ruins those fond memories.
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Sisters with Transistors
Follows the story of electronic music's female pioneers, composers who embraced machines and their liberating technologies to transform how we produce and listen to music today.
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Knight of the night
“I came here to get a PhD in American literature, and here I am, with pictures of American writers on the wall—a chess vendor.”
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Belgian Congo
The Belgian Congo was a Belgian colony in Central Africa from 1908 until independence in 1960. The former colony adopted its present-day name, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), in 1964.
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The Men Who Sell Football
This documentary reveals how English football clubs can be bought by convicted criminals and become vehicles to launder dirty money. The football dealmakers – who link foreign buyers with British football clubs - tell undercover reporters how they can hide a criminal’s money and identity behind offshore trusts and use “dirty tricks” to deceive the football authorities.
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Britney Spears’ doctors back father’s removal from conservatorship
Britney Spears’ doctors have commented on her father’s continued role as her conservator. Earlier this week (Tuesday 27 July), Mathew S Rosengart, who was appointed as Spears’ new lawyer on 14 July, filed a petition in Los Angeles probate court asking for her father to be removed as her conservator.
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The Dark Reality of Anthony Bourdain’s Final Days
A new documentary about the celebrated chef and TV host reveals just how bad things got before he took his own life.
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Rudy Giuliani Doc in the Works from Rolling Stone, MRC
A documentary feature about Rudy Giuliani — the New York City mayor turned personal lawyer to Donald Trump — is in the works via MRC’s non-fiction unit and Rolling Stone.
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HBO's Crime Of The Century is a scathing look into the opioid crisis
The Crime Of The Century packs an incredible amount of striking, heartbreaking information as it charts the opioid crisis in the U.S. The HBO documentary is divided into two two-hour installments. The length can feel overwhelming because of the scope, but writer and director Alex Gibney’s challenging exploration of the subject matter justifies the runtime.
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A new documentary highlights the visionary behind space settlement
A new movie brings to life the legacy of a physicist who has played an influential—but largely unheralded—role in shaping the vision of space settlement. The documentary The High Frontier: The Untold Story of Gerard K. O'Neill takes its name from the 1977 book The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space authored by Princeton University physicist Gerard K. O'Neill. The movie will be released on April 17, and it's an excellent film for those seeking to better understand the future humans could have in outer space.
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The Seaspiracy Affect: Good Catch Lands a $26 Million Investment
The plant-based seafood company Gathered Foods, maker of Good Catch vegan tuna and crab cakes, just got an investment of over $26 million in its most recent round of funding. The company has seen steady growth as the demand for plant-based seafood is on the rise.
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Crumb
Robert Crumb is an American cartoonist and major contributor to the underground comix movement in the 1960s. He was inducted into the comic book industry's Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1991. His famous works include Fritz the Cat, Mr. Natural and Keep on Truckin'. These projects carry sexual themes bordering into scatological and pornographic comics.
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Electro-Glitch Pop in the 1960s: The Unreal Sounds & Story of Silver Apples
Silver Apples had a mind blowing electronic pop sound that would be replicated by indie bands decades later. Why haven't we all heard of them?
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New Amy Winehouse film to mark 10 years since singer's death
A new documentary about Amy Winehouse, in which her mother will share details about her late daughter’s life, will be released in July, marking 10 years since the British singer’s death at age 27. “Amy Winehouse: 10 Years On”, commissioned by Britain’s BBC Two and BBC Music, will be told through the narrative of the “Rehab” and “Back to Black” singer’s mother Janis, who has multiple sclerosis and wants to share her memories, the broadcaster said.
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