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May 11 2012

15:00

Suicide Forest in Japan

Suicide Forest in JapanThe Aokigahara Forest is a lonely place to die. So dense is the vegetation at the foot of Japan’s Mount Fuji, it is all too easy to disappear among the evergreens and never be seen again. Each year the authorities remove as many as 100 bodies found

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May 09 2012

11:57

Trance-Formation

Trance-FormationCivil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders and millions have been killed because of this obedience. Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in

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May 04 2012

11:00

Occupy Wall Street: The History and the Survival

Occupy Wall Street: The History and the SurvivalFault Lines tells the definitive history of Occupy Wall Street from its early days through the movement’s rapid spread up to the brutal crackdown by state authorities. In the fall of 2011, New York’s Zuccotti Park grabbed the world’s attention as the hub of Occupy Wall Street,

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April 28 2012

11:00

Owned and Operated

Owned and OperatedOwned and Operated is a mosaic of the world through the lens of the internet. Showing our lives as consumers, under the thumbs of privileged individuals and their methods of control. But the world is awakening, and the experience is something outside the normal rules of social

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April 21 2012

12:16

Inside Islam: What a Billion Muslims Really Think

Inside Islam: What a Billion Muslims Really ThinkInside Islam: What a Billion Muslims Really Think explores the expertly gathered opinions of Muslims around the globe as revealed in the world’s first major opinion poll, conducted by Gallup, the preeminent polling organization. Gallup researchers began by asking the questions on every American’s mind. Why is

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April 14 2012

11:00

Punishment and Profits: Immigration Detention

Punishment and Profits: Immigration DetentionImmigration is a key issue in the US presidential election, with the Republican candidates trying to demonstrate their tough stance on undocumented immigrants. But under the Obama administration, the detention and deportation of immigrants has reached an all-time high. Every day, the US government detains more than

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April 11 2012

12:25

The Codes of Gender

The Codes of GenderWritten and directed by MEF Executive Director Sut Jhally, The Codes of Gender applies the late sociologist Erving Goffman’s groundbreaking analysis of advertising to the contemporary commercial landscape, showing how one of American popular culture’s most influential forms communicates normative ideas about masculinity and femininity. In striking

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April 01 2012

11:00

Paradise or Oblivion

Paradise or OblivionParadise or Oblivion is a documentary created by The Venus Project. This documentary details the root causes of the systemic value disorders and detrimental symptoms caused by our current established system. This video presentation advocates a new socio-economic system, which is updated to present-day knowledge, featuring the

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March 30 2012

11:00

North Korean Labor Camps

North Korean Labor CampsFounder of VICE Shane Smith spends an eternity on a train and hops out at the end of the line in Siberia to investigate logging camps that use North Korean slave labor. While on his way to uncover labor camps setup by Kim Jong Il and North

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March 22 2012

12:00

The VICE Guide to Belfast

The VICE Guide to BelfastThere was a time when the conflict in Northern Ireland suffused popular culture, with its easily explicable cast of Catholics and Protestants and its deceptively simple narrative of joining the Republic of Ireland versus remaining under the protective wing of Great Britain. The IRA loomed large—an irregular

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March 19 2012

12:00

The VICE Guide to Congo

The VICE Guide to CongoThe Democratic Republic of Congo is one of the poorest countries in the world and thanks to an insanely complicated mix of politics, armed conflict, and corruption… it’s also one of the most under-reported. It also happens to be home to a nondescript black rock known as

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March 17 2012

11:29

The Crisis of Civilization

The Crisis of CivilizationThe Crisis of Civilization is a documentary feature film investigating how global crises like ecological disaster, financial meltdown, dwindling oil reserves, terrorism and food shortages are converging symptoms of a single, failed global system. Weaving together archival film footage and animations, film-maker Dean Puckett, animator Lucca Benney

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March 15 2012

13:07

The Love Competition

The Love CompetitionThe Love Competition is an unusual hybrid of a short documentary film and scientific study. Brent Hoff, a filmmaker and editor of the video magazine Wholphin, teamed up with Stanford University’s Center for Cognitive and Neurobiological Imaging to investigate the neurochemical nature of love, with a competitive

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March 14 2012

14:00

Horn of Africa Crisis

Horn of Africa CrisisHave US counter-terrorism policies contributed to the deadly crisis in the Horn of Africa? The worst drought in 60 years has thrown some 13 million people across the Horn of Africa into crisis. In Somalia, ravaged by two decades of conflict, the consequences have been disastrous. For

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March 09 2012

12:00

Sudan: The Break-Up

Sudan: The Break-UpSudan was the giant of Africa which once represented the greatest hope for peaceful coexistence between Arab and African, Muslim and Christian. That hope is all but gone. As Sudan is split into two, the government of Omar al-Bashir in the North faces growing public resentment over

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March 04 2012

12:00

Education for a Sustainable Future

Education for a Sustainable FutureEducation For A Sustainable Future presents information on how today’s practices in schools are socially unsustainable. The documentary film critically analyses what is considered socially relevant in a new education system which brings out the most potential in all of humanity whilst also detailing specific educational methods

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February 22 2012

16:47

Risking It All

Risking It AllBrazilian children at the Tajaparu river risk getting cut to pieces as they fasten their canoes onto fast-moving tourist boats in order to sell their goods. They are risking death in order to make a few pennies selling sweets and jams. We follow Pakistani truck drivers facing

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February 20 2012

13:59

The Right to Roam

The Right to RoamUnwanted, marginalised, defiant – the Roma people have become the target of governments across Europe. In France and Italy they have been thrown out in their thousands – accused of illegally overstaying their welcome and blamed for increases in crime. They say that in their countries of

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February 17 2012

11:19

Assange: Facebook, Google, Yahoo are Spying Tools

Assange: Facebook, Google, Yahoo are Spying ToolsIn Julian Assange’s exclusive interview with RT he discusses everything from the uprisings in MENA, to his extradition fight, the Guantanamo and US Cable files, his relationship with The Guardian and The New York Times, global political youth movements, the current state of mainstream media and Bradley

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February 15 2012

15:51

There’s No Tomorrow

There's No TomorrowThere’s No Tomorrow is a half-hour animated documentary about resource depletion, energy and the impossibility of infinite growth on a finite planet. Inspired by the pro-capitalist cartoons of the 1940s, the film is an introduction to the energy dilemmas facing the world today. “The average American today

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