Documentary
Cocaine Cowboys
Submitted by Jray Nels on June 25, 2010 - 1:33amThe film explores the rise of cocaine and resulting crime epidemic that swept the American city of Miami, Florida in the 1970s and 1980s.
The Union: the business behind getting high
Submitted by Jray Nels on April 3, 2010 - 5:53pmEver wonder what British Columbia's most profitable industries are? Logging? Fishing? Tourism? Ever think to include marijuana? If you haven't, think again. No longer a hobby for the stereotypical hippie culture of the ‘60s, BC's illegal marijuana trade industry has evolved into an unstoppable business giant, dubbed by those involved as 'The Union'. Commanding upwards of $7 billion Canadian annually, The Union’s roots stretch far and wide. With up to 85% of all 'BC Bud' being exported to the United States, the BC marijuana trade has become an international issue with consequences that extend far beyond our borders. When record profits are to be made, who are the players, and when do their motives become questionable?
- Why is marijuana illegal?
- What health risks do we really face?
- Does prohibition work?
- What would happen if we taxed it?
- Medicine, paper, fuel, textiles, food, etc. Are we missing something?
Follow filmmaker Adam Scorgie as he dives head first into Canada's most socially acceptable illegal activity. Along the way, Adam demystifies the underground market and brings to light how such a large industry can function while remaining illegal. By interviewing experts from around the globe, including growers, clippers, police officers, criminologists, economists, medical doctors, politicians and pop culture icons, Scorgie examines the cause and effect nature of the business behind getting high.
Nobody's innocent in this exploration of an industry that may be profiting more by being illegal. Join Adam Scorgie as he unravels the mystery of The Union.
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The Advertising World and the Human Ego
Submitted by Jray Nels on January 31, 2010 - 9:38pmThis is a story about the magic of modern advertising, communication strategy in the United States, and how advertising is working on our human mind subconsciously and subliminally. Why and how are people attracted to advertised goods and services? With which tricks is advertising working to get you?
Cracking the Maya Code
Submitted by Jray Nels on January 28, 2010 - 8:33pmThe story behind the centuries-long decipherment of ancient Maya hieroglyphs. This one-hour program is divided into five chapters. The Forgotten Maya Temples. In 1774, Spanish explorer Jose Calderon rediscovers the temples of Palenque and the ancient hieroglyphs of the Maya, a people whose culture was decimated by the Spanish conquistadors.
A Hidden History. Toiling away in the basement of Harvard’s Peabody Museum, archeologist Tatiana Proskouriakoff discovers that Maya monuments contain a decipherable history rather than mere pictures and symbols.
Political Roadblock. Working behind the Iron Curtain, Russian linguist Yuri Knorosov posits that Maya glyphs may represent sounds, but his ideas are discredited in the West.
Child’s Play. David Stuart submits his first scholarly paper on glyphs at age 12 and later becomes a major player in Maya studies with his advances in script decipherment.
Cultural Revelations. An image of the ancient Maya comes to life, and their descendants in modern-day Mexico and Central America begin to relearn their lost language and history.
Blue Buddha: Lost Secrets of Tibetan Medicine
Submitted by Jray Nels on August 21, 2009 - 11:25pmBlue Buddha: Lost Secrets of Tibetan Medicine traces the odyssey of traditional Tibetan medicine from it's roots in ancient Tibet, to a worldwide interest in it's traditional medical wisdom. We meet several leading physicians in India, as the program introduces us to the basic concepts of this ancient system of healing. We also trace the fate of the 77 thangkas that comprise the Atlas of Tibetan Medicine, the great mnemonic device that encodes the entire system of healing. From the snows of Siberia and the Himalayas to the vital culture of Tibet in exile, in Dharamsala, India, this is a stunning look at where Tibetan medicine has come from.
The Truth About Aerial Hunting of Wolves in Alaska
Submitted by Jray Nels on August 19, 2009 - 1:17amA short film on aerial hunting of wolves in Alaska. Over the past five years, Alaska’s aerial hunting program has claimed the lives of more than 800 wolves. During these hunts, wolves are shot from the air or chased by airplanes to the point of exhaustion before the pilot lands the plane and a gunner shoots the animal.
Despite strong scientific, ethical and public opposition to aerial hunting, Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska has…
Proposed paying a $150 bounty for the left foreleg of each dead wolf.
Approved a $400,000 state-funded propaganda campaign to promote aerial hunting. Introduced legislation to make it even easier to use aircraft to hunt wolves.
New Swirled Order
Submitted by Jray Nels on July 26, 2009 - 4:13pmWhere does this mysterious crop circle phenomena come from? Is it done by man as a joke? So why do people have extraordinary experiences then? Flying ball of lights were seen in and around crop cirlces. Or is it an alien intelligence which try to communicate with us? The geometry which can be found in crop circles, inculed a lot of mathematics which can be also found in nature.
New Swirled Order deals with these questions and presents some very extraordinary crop circle formations in 2008, like the "Pi"-formation in Barbury Castle or the crop circle near Avebury Manor, which showed our solar system with the planetary constellation of December 21st of 2012.
Sastun: My Apprenticeship With A Maya Healer (PREVIEW)
Submitted by Jray Nels on June 8, 2009 - 7:40pmSastun tells the story of American herbalist Rosita Arvigo, whose quest to explore the healing powers of plants led her to the rain forest of Belize where she befriended one of the last remaining Maya shamans, Don Elijio Panti. While learning his secrets during her apprenticeship she unearthed her lifes work: to preserve Don Elijio's ancient healing knowledge and to bridge the gap between science and traditional healer's wisdom. Funded by the National Cancer Institute in New York, Rosita Arvigo is in a race against time, scouring the tropical rain-forests of Central America in search of cures for many deadly diseases like AIDS and Cancer, before they are wiped out by deforestation.
A Blank On The Map
Submitted by Kelly Clayton on May 29, 2009 - 3:04pmA Blank On The Map is a documentary by David Attenborough, where he and 110 other men travel to the heart Papua New Guinea to explore the area that has only recently been available to access.
"Until only a few months ago, it was thought that this area of central New Guinea was completely uninhabited, and then Luarry Brag the assistance district commission whose responsible for this part of the island, was looking at some ariel photographs that have been taken to try and map this area, to make sense out of this tangle of mountains ranges and rivers. And on the photographs he saw one or two tiny little pinpoints, which indicated to him that there, there were gardens, like this one, and houses, and people, people who have not been contacted ever, by the outside world, and so he decided to send and expedition to try and find them."

