Documentaries : Society

2020 US 2011.05.06 Kill Shot Bin Ladens Death: "20/20" gives viewers the most complete picture yet of the death of Osama bin Laden, from inside the situation room in Washington, DC to inside the compound in Pakistan and inside the minds of the brave men who stormed it. With new details and behind-th...

Two days after Osama bin Ladens death FRONTLINE presents this special report with inside access to the two biggest fronts in the fight against Al Qaeda and the Taliban.First correspondents Stephen Grey and Martin Smith go inside The Secret War and uncover new details of CIA-funded Afghan militas tas...

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...

National Geographic: Taboo Prison Love: Love behind bars with some of the most dangerous criminals on earth. In Texas, an inmate in solitary confinement gets married with the help of a radio host as surrogate groom, while the prisoner listens over the radio. In California, a pregnant woman has a whi...

Hollywood at Home is an intimate look inside the homes of some of the entertainment industry's most intriguing celebrities. The celebrities themselves are your tour guide. Visit actor John Leguizamo's New York City brownstone'The Insider's' Lara Spencer LA home, country star Trace Adkin's secluded h...

Kate and William Wedding...

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....

National Geographic: The Girl in the Glass Casket: She is believed to be one of the best-preserved mummies in history Rosalia, a lifelike 2-year old girl encased in a glass-topped casket for over 90 years. Amazingly, her skin and delicate curls of hair remain intact. But Rosalia and the other mummie...

Could Jack the Ripper have been the world's first trans-Atlantic serial killer? Can 21st century techniques and CGI 3-D autopsies crack this 19th century crime spree, while reversing decades of investigative assumptions? Retired U.K. murder squad detective Trevor Marriott is determined to finally un...

Marx Reloaded is a cultural documentary that examines the relevance of German socialist and philosopher Karl Marx's ideas for understanding the global economic and financial crisis of 2008-09. The crisis triggered the deepest global recession in 70 years and prompted the US government to spend more ...