Showing posts with label society. Show all posts
Showing posts with label society. Show all posts

BBC Documentary: Too ugly for love


Documentary about three people with Body Dysmorphic Disorder - a serious psychological illness that makes people think they are grotesquely ugly. They are offered therapy with one of the country's leading BDD experts, Rob Willson, who makes them carry out tasks that force them to confront their deepest fear - the way they look.

BBC Documentary: American Muslim - Freedom, Faith, Fear


American Muslim: Freedom, Faith, Fear: In this video two journalists travel across America to see how Muslims are being treated ten years after 9/11. They start in NYC, then go to Carni, Indiana, Houston & Dallas, Texas, and Orange County, California.

BBC Documentary: Cuckoo - Laurel & Hardy



"A film in the BBC TV Omnibus series, first screened in December 1974 with a repeat the following year. This major project remains a key work among Laurel & Hardy documentaries, offering constructive examination (not analysis) of well-chosen clips, intelligent narration (delivered by Britain's top double-act, Morecambe and Wise),

BBC Documentary: Burma My Father And The Forgotten Army


Griff Rhys Jones learns about the army of West Africans his father served alongside.

BBC Documentary: Airport Live - scenes at Heathrow Airport


In one of BBC Two's most ambitious live broadcasts, Kate Humble, Dallas Campbell and Anita Rani go airside at Heathrow, the world's busiest international hub airport. More than 200,000 passengers travel through Heathrow each day. Everything and everyone is on a deadline. Unprecedented behind-the-scenes access allows viewers to witness this daily relay race first-hand. The programme shows air traffic control in action and explains the extraordinary science and logistics behind every flight.

BBC Documentary: Taxi To The Dark Side - Abo Graeb etc.


Watch Full Lengh BBC Documentary: Taxi To The Dark Side - Abo Graeb etc.

BBC Documentary: Waiting for a Heartbeat


Rachel is just 25, but already she has suffered six miscarriages. She represents the 1% of women who struggle to give birth to a live baby. She is a patient at St Mary's Hospital in London where, in Europe's largest recurrent miscarriage clinic, a team of dedicated scientists offer women like Rachel the hope of a precious new life.

BBC Documentary: Shot for Going to School - Malala Yousafi school girl shot in pakistan


School girl Malala Yousafi was just 14 when she was shot for campaigning for girls' education in Pakistan. Nel Hedayat travels to the areas where the Taliban are targeting schools to report Malala's story and meet other schoolgirls who have been attacked for wanting an education.

BBC Documentary: Teens Hooked On Porn


Documentary looking at how British teenagers are increasingly being tempted by the limitless porn available on the internet, with some becoming addicts.

Three of them tell their stories of differing use of porn and their battles to overcome its lure, providing a unique insight into a part of what it's like growing up today.

BBC Documentary: Jools Holland - London Calling


Jools Holland embarks on a personal journey through the streets, historical landmarks, pubs, music halls and rock 'n' roll venues of London to uncover a history of the city through its songs, the people who wrote them and the Londoners who joined in the chorus.

BBC Documentary: Behind the Rhetoric - The Real Iran


Documentary presented by Rageh Omaar which reveals the lives hopes and fears of the young generation of Tehran the most intriguing talked about but least ...

BBC Documentary: North Korea Undercover


While North Korea's 'Supreme Commander' Kim Jong-Un has been threatening thermo-nuclear war against the United States, Panorama reporter John Sweeney spent eight days undercover inside the most rigidly controlled nation on Earth.

BBC Documentary: Immigration Undercover


More than half a million foreign migrants are estimated to be hiding from the authorities in the UK. Some are failed asylum seekers who live in graveyards and abandoned garages or 'disappear' within their own communities. They include bogus students planning to work illegally and others who have crossed the Channel hidden in the back of a lorry.

BBC Documentary: Anders Behring Breivik - Killing Field


This World tells the inside story of the 2011 massacre in Norway, offering new insights into the life and mind of the perpetrator Anders Breivik, and exposing the hidden hatreds that inspired him. Through interviews with key players, including the Norwegian prime minister, survivors, the commander of the police response and the head of the Delta Force team that arrested Breivik, and including unique footage and unseen archive, the film pieces together, minute by minute, the course of the attacks and the response of the security services.

BBC Documentary: Rupert Murdoch - Battle With Britain


In the wake of the phone-hacking scandal, Rupert Murdoch has been accused of corrupting British media and contaminating politics. Yet the caricature image of him as the 'Dirty Digger', the sinister head of a global media empire, in fact obscures deeper, more significant truths - not least about Britain itself.

BBC Documentary: The Quran and The Kalashnikov


A Brilliant BBC Documentary on the History of Islam and the armed conflicts it has fought around the world with initially the backing of the western countries around the world to the situation we are in now where Islam is demonised throughout the world.

BBC Documentary: America's Poor Kids


In the United States, child poverty has reached record levels, with over 16 million children now affected. Food banks are facing unprecedented demand, and homeless shelters now have long waiting lists, as families who have known a much better life sometimes have to leave their homes with just a few days notice. This World asks three children whose families are struggling to get by to explain what life in modern America really looks like through their eyes.

BBC Documentary: India's Hospital Train


The story of a special train, the Lifeline Express. It is known as the Magic Train. With two state-of-the-art operating theatres, recovery rooms, offices and accommodation, each project requires a team of volunteer doctors, surgeons and nurses to give their services for free. For four weeks, cameras follow the Mandsor project as operations are carried out on poor rural people while the train is standing in a station in the middle of India. 

BBC Documentary: The Foods That Make Billions - Pots of Gold


This major new series tells the untold story of how big business feeds us by transforming simple commodities into everyday necessities and highly profitable brands.

This final episode tells the story of how yoghurt has been transformed from an unknown hippy food into a super food in 40 years. Along the way, yoghurt has driven a health revolution in the modern food business.

BBC Documentary: Air France Flight 447 Crash




Watch full documentary here.