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This BBC documentary gives a deep insight into Russian Politics and how power got transferred from the oligarchs to Vladimir Putins since the 1990s. Boris Abramowitsch Beresowski used to be one of the richest people in Russia – an Oligarch – and was called “Kingmaker” because he was known of bringing his friends into the [...]

Through the eyes of four women Rodrigo Dorfman shows us in this documentary film, what it means to live in exile and leaving his own home country behind. When Rodrigo Dorfman was 6 years old he hat do go into exile as well, after his father, a Chilean writer, got into troubles with the regime [...]

In this CIA Documentary 5 former CIA agents describe how their initial pride and enthusiasm at serving their nation turned to anguish and remorse, as they realized that they were actually subverting democracy and killing innocent civilians all in the name “national security” and promoting foreign policy agendas. The CIA is confronted with overthrowing governments, [...]

At the turn of the millennium, Randall Lane, former head of Forbes’ Washington bureau, knew what this decade would be about.  He started Trader Monthly – a slick glossy magazine that was to become the GQ of Wall Street. It portrayed a glamorous world of yachts and private jets, fine wines and lavish mansions. Meanwhile, trading floors were functioning [...]

In this dream-like video essay, the viewer travels from New York City’s ghostly Ansonia Hotel to the vital, boundless expanses of South America, Northern Africa and Belize. Roberta Allen, a prominent New York author and visual artist, travels back to her early years growing up the daughter of a mafia-connected gambler and a repressed over-anxious [...]

Filmed prior to the rise of the occupy movement Generation OS13 sought to ask musicians, artists, authors and journalist what had happened to the western dream. They were no longer portraying an idealistic vision of society but that of a fragmented and apathetic society ruled by mass media, pop and phony money. Framing the media [...]

It seems the legendary Ikarus comes alive wenn we watch this two documentations of peoply flying in jet-wings from one land to another (Great Britain to France) or even from one continent to another (Europe to Africa). From a marketing perspective these events were very interesting as well for Red Bull and Webtel.mobi, due to [...]

The first part of this independent documentary “Seeds of Deconstruction” examines many of the outstanding questions and conspiracy theories about the 7/7 2005 London Bombings. The second part Crime and Prejudice explores the 7/7 cold case via new evidence from the recent inquests and discusses the war on terror in the context of numerous miscarriages of [...]

What was once a great area for fishing became a dangerously poisened area full of oil spreading all over the Gulf of Mexico. In 2010 the BP oil platform Deep Water Horizon had an explosion and was leaking oil at around 5000 feet below sealevel. Overoll around 4.9 million barrels of oil leaked after the [...]

Documentary about the situation in Russian prisons and the people behind the bars. Especially the tattoos of the criminals and their meanings are in the focus of the producer. The documentary was filmed in some of Russias most notorious prisons, like the White Swan. The prisoners of the Stalinist Gulag, or “Zone,” as it is [...]