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Shadeism: Filmmaker looks at discrimination among people of colour
'For centuries we have hidden from' the sun, says Tamil filmmaker Nayani Thiyagarajah. 'It makes us darker. And in my culture, dark ain't lovely.' Her upcoming documentary, which is currently finishing production, looks at shadeism, a form of discrimination by people of colour against each other.
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Destroying Bombs From World War
France's Department of Mine Clearance is responsible for collecting and destroying unexploded shells still found by the thousands nearly 100 years after the Battle of Verdun.
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The Putter
Ernest Wright & Sons of Sheffield, is the last remaining hand manufacturer of scissors . The film documents ' Putter ' Cliff Denton literally a putter togetherer of scissors .
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The Life And Death Of 'The Internet's Own Boy'
Programmer and activist Aaron Swartz was a "complex person," says filmmaker Brian Knappenberger. He tells Swartz's story, including his legal battle and suicide, in a new documentary.
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Making cocaine in Colombia
This segment from the documentary "The Cocaine Route" shows the picking, mashing and eventual reduction of coca leaves into a raw form of cocaine powder. The head of the production outfit, Pablo, grinds up the leaves with a weed whacker, mixes in some cement and dissolves everything in petrol. It's a pretty interesting watch
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'The Internet's Own Boy' knocked off YouTube temporarily by bogus copyright claim
In a bitter irony, a documentary celebrating the late Internet activist who helped create the Creative Commons has been taken down from YouTube by an apparently misguided copyright claim.
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Undercover Cop Tricks Autistic Student into Selling Him Weed
This is the story of Jesse Snodgrass, a kid with Aspergers Syndrome who was entrapped by an undercover cop posing as a student at Jesse's high school. This is the story of how the war on drugs preys on the most vulnerable.
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The 'Jiro Dreams of Sushi' of Bread & Butter: Razza Pizza Artiginale
Meet Dan Richer, the James Beard Rising Star chef semi-finalist and owner of Razza Pizza Artiginale in Jersey City, NJ. I remember his laugh the most. There's a quality, a character to it, as if he knows he's laughing at his own joke, poking fun at his own self-awareness. I find it charming, that Dan admits to being crazy. Crazy about ingredients. Crazy about sourcing. Crazy about everything that passes in and out of his kitchen.
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The Gentleman’s Guide to Cockfighting
In Naranjito, Puerto Rico, cockfighting is legal, but for many people, it is much more than just a sport. It is a cultural accent that defines the personality of those who practice it. For men like Edgardo Santiago, who has raised rosters for the better part of four decades, success in the ring can mean thousands of dollars in prize money, and invaluable payoffs in terms of pride.
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NO CAMERAS ALLOWED - Movie Trailer
Dude sneaks into a bunch of music festivals, films the whole thing and makes a documentary.
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L.A.'s Skid Row Through the Eyes of Pimps, Prostitutes, Dealers and Dope Fiends
The first night Australian filmmaker Shanks Rajendran visited Skid Row, he nearly got the crap beaten out of him. As he sat in his car at 5th and Maple, shooting through the windshield, a half-dozen or so pissed-off looking black men approached. "You can't be doing that here! You know that!" one shouted.
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Watch a cocoa farmer try chocolate for the first time
N'Da Alphonse grows cocoa in Ivory Coast. He harvests the pods, removes the pulp-covered beans, and dries them before selling them to brokers. He'd never seen or tasted the food made from his beans, until a Dutch TV show brought him a sample, as part of a story on class divisions and the global food trade.
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Deep as Hell with James Cameron
The trouble with making a documentary about the deepest, most remote place on the planet, five miles below the surface of the ocean, is that there really isn't a whole lot happening down there. There are no monsters, no sunken alien warships, just an endless, featureless expanse.
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The Pros and Cons of Living on a Sailboat in the Caribbean
David Welsford doesn't pay rent or have a full time job. Instead, he lives on a 50-year-old wooden boat. A few years ago, he gave up the luxuries of land for life alone in the sea. "For me, what's more important than having a big house is having a space that makes me feel good," he says.
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Steve Buscemi's First Passion
Steve Buscemi was lounging on a therapist's couch in an old firehouse, two days after he'd wrapped up shooting "Boardwalk Empire," the TV drama he's starred in for the past five years. Then his mind turned, as it often does, to his days as a New York City firefighter.
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The Rise of the SWAT Team in American Policing
Posse comitatus is not a phrase that trips lightly off every tongue. It is typically translated from Latin as “force of the county.” Anyone who has ever watched an old Western movie will instantly recognize the first word as referring to men deputized by the sheriff to chase down some varmints who went thataway. (Rappers and their tag-alongs later gave “posse” a different context.)
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Print the Legend - Main Trailer - Netflix [HD]
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Dungeons, Dragons & Documentaries: A Film Conjures a Battle
For a certain sort of fan, the crowdfunding pitch was impossible to resist. Here was a chance, it announced, to support a documentary about the immortal saga of the legendary game that all but revolutionized modern life. No pressure.
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Glass Blowing. Jeremy Maxwel Wintrebert (Heart of Glass Documentary preamble)
This film is the preamble of the documentary Heart of Glass. Heart of Glass is a journey. A road trip through several countries on two continents in pursuit of a story.
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Europe's Most Notorious Jewel Thieves
Everyone thought the Pink Panther gang would vanish—especially after the 2012 arrest of one of its leaders. Instead, the jewel thieves have started training new recruits as a way to take revenge on a world they feel has robbed them blind.
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