Documentaries : Economy

A documentary about the Baha'i Faith that focuses on faith in action: "Let deeds not words be your adorning" (Baha'u'llah). This documentary profiles the lives of three South African Baha'is from different social and racial backgrounds who each exemplify at least one principle of the Baha'i Faith in...

National Geographic: How To Build A Volcano: Science partners with Hollywood special effects to build the world's largest model volcano. The plan: Create a four-story-tall, 150-foot-wide volcano that can erupt and spew simulated magma and ash. Scientists test cutting-edge scientific theories on the ...

Follow DEA agents on their quest to track down and bust narco-submarines in one of the most violent regions of Colombia- the coastal town of Tumaco. NGC joins the investigation, taking to the streets and swamps with armed marine patrols. We'll meet a drug sub informant who ventures out to mark a sub...

Sri Lanka's Killing Fields: Jon Snow presents a forensic investigation into the final weeks of the quarter-century-long civil war between the government of Sri Lanka and the secessionist rebels, the Tamil Tigers. With disturbing and distressing descriptions and film of executions, atrocities and the...

Surviving the Tsunami: The earthquake that hit the northern coast of Japan on March 11th, 2011 marked Magnitude 9.0 - the worst ever recorded in Japan. It generated a tsunami of an unprecedented scale, obliterating coastal villages and towns in a matter of minutes. In some areas, the tsunami reached...

In the 1960s a radical group of psychotherapists challenged the influence of Freudian ideas in America. They were inspired by the ideas of Wilhelm Reich a pupil of Freuds who had turned against him and was hated by the Freud family. He believed that the inner self did not need to be repressed and co...

In this episode Curtis tracks the effects of Ayn Rands ideas on American financial markets particularly via the influence on Alan Greenspan.Ayn Rand was born in Russia and moved to America in 1928 and worked for Cecil B. DeMille and realised some of the plot for what became The Fountainhead from thi...

The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts: Two of three - A MUST WATCH for anyone interested in international economics/social/political subject in the context of Computer and the influence they have had on our lives.All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace is a three part BBC documentary serie...

Discovery Channel Killing Bin Laden: "Bin Laden Dead." For ten years - since Osama Bin Laden masterminded the 2001 attack on the World Trade Center - it's been the headline Americans have waited for. On Sunday, May 15 at 10PM ET/PT, Discovery Channel will premiere KILLING BIN LADEN, a one-hour speci...

Saudi, French, US invstmnt funds & multinationals buying up best farmland in poor countries dependent on food imports to feed people & govts allowing it. GMOs grown for internat markets, vast profit- not local folk. FAO head indicts agrarian neo-colonial....