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Find my Phone (Netherlands)

A film student has his phone stolen. Decides to set up an operation to track a phone thief and make a documentary about him. This one has more humanity to it than you might expect.

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In 2013, allegations of sexual assault were made about Ó Lubhlaí (who has been compared as an Irish Jimmy Saville) spanning over decades, involving many young boys and in this documentary Liam Ó Maolaodha tells of his own experience.

https://www.tg4.ie/en/player/play/?pid= ... ode=603127
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Belfast born man interrogated decades later for abduction and murder of a girl in the 1950s. (Don't read the comments, it's a good one).
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Behind The Swoosh
Have you ever wondered what it is like to live on a Nike sweatshop wage? Watch the award-winning short film, Behind the Swoosh, and see Jim Keady and Leslie Kretzu attempt to survive on a Nike worker’s wage in the industrial slums of Indonesia.

https://documentaryheaven.com/behind-the-swoosh/
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The Occult Experience.
Australian documentary from the 80s that looks at satanism, witchcraft, paganism, christian exorcisms. A group of godess worshippers and a coven of witches from Ireland are featured too.
Contains some nudity.
https://documentaryheaven.com/the-occul ... ence-1985/
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One I haven't watched, but will next, is on Ireland's answer to Netflix https://www.volta.ie/#!/browse/film/13504/katie

"Accomplished doc provides insight into Ireland's most incredible - and private - athlete" Hot Press

"Beautifully crafted story of a supreme athlete who thrives by defying the odds" Screen International

"Ross Whitaker lands another knockout with this comprehensive character study. Katie is a beautiful, complex piece of cinema, as nuanced and fascinating as the superstar herself" Film Ireland
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The Cove.
https://documentaryheaven.com/the-cove/

A group of activists attempt to become the first to capture on film the annual dolphin hunt in the Japanese town of Taiji. 23,000 dolphins are slaughtered in a small cove there every year, Taiji also provides young dolphins to aquariums all over the world which are trained to perform in live shows.
Contains scenes of animal cruelty.
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Came upon this by chance - I did not watch, just listened to the audio while doing other work. I am a bit :o :shock: after it. If anyone still imagines or happily hopes governments, media, state institutions, police forces etc do not engage in massive psychological operations against the general public - aka psyops - then watch this recent documentary about Northern Ireland.

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This is a BBC Horizon special called 'Playing God'. It's a few years old now but thoroughly amazing! It's about genetics and DNA and how it can be modified.

The doc starts with goats that have been bred on a farm in Utah that have had a protein from a spider added to their DNA so that their milk can be spun into silk. Extremely strong silk!

It just get's more amazing from there.

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isha wrote: Mon Oct 04, 2021 3:28 pm Came upon this by chance - I did not watch, just listened to the audio while doing other work. I am a bit :o :shock: after it. If anyone still imagines or happily hopes governments, media, state institutions, police forces etc do not engage in massive psychological operations against the general public - aka psyops - then watch this recent documentary about Northern Ireland.
Just watched, and it's fascinating stuff much of which I remember from years ago but that's what the 'spying' game is all about - M15, Army Intelligence or whatever - it can't ever change by it's very nature. Perfidious Albion at its best/worst. I well remember the establishment trying to paint Colin Wallace as a Walter Mitty character at the time. Hard to take for this ancient Anglophile! :mrgreen:
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This documentary was made in 2004. It or anything similar could probably not be made today. But it was a collaborative work which involved participation by major studios such as Channel 4, France 2, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and many other significant studios from different countries.



''If the relationship between pharmaceutical groups and science is not challenged, other catastrophes could be in the making.'' - Bill Hamilton, recognised as one of the most significant evolutionary biologists / theorists of the 20th century.

The premise of the documentary is essentially to explore Ed Hooper's hypothesis that AIDS originated in a Polio Vaccine campaign conducted in the Belgian Congo in the late 1950s. The scientists involved in the Congo laboratories made a vigorous denial at a Royal Society conference in London in 2000, saying that polio vaccines had never been cultivated using chimpanzee tissue cultures.
Chimpanzees are known to be widely infected with SIV, Simian Immunodeficiency Virus, which is the closest relation to Human Immunodeficiency Virus which causes AIDS. Using chimpanzee kidneys to culture the vaccine would have likely been the origin of AIDS in the human population.
Watch the documentary if you would like to evaluate evidence presented by various researchers and witnesses to contradict the denials made at the Royal Society. Regardless of one's conclusions re the origins of AIDS, the documentary is an extraordinary look into this part of science.
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