Category: Entertaiment
Sin City. Forty million visitors a year come to be entertained, one way or another, to this oasis of pleasures in the middle of the Nevada desert. The city, with its thirty gentlemen’s clubs is now the striptease capital of…
This critically acclaimed documentary looks at what happens when a small English town is chosen as the site for an accommodation centre for asylum seekers. A protest group is formed and this very civil society begins to break down. This…
The Nagorno-Karabakh war left more than 4,500 Armenians dead and 15,000 injured. The peace deal of November 2020 represented a heavy defeat for Armenia. While they kept control of the areas they held within Nagorno-Karabakh, they were forced to return…
Nuremberg, Hitler’s “city of the Reich Party Rallies” has capitulated after a bloody house battle. At the end of April, the city and its surroundings are a preferred operational area for the camera teams of the “Special Film Project 186”.…
Germany has been defeated, but not yet occupied. While the Red Army is already on the Oder, the Allies in the West are making slow progress. Only when Cologne is conquered and the bridge at Remagen falls into the hands…
Winner of an international Emmy. Music elates, touches the soul and bypasses reason. Music is magic. But precisely this magic can turn it into an insidious weapon – for music and violence belong together. The brutal power of African war…
This documentary was produced by Storyline Entertainment and directed by Gary Lang. It was first released in 2021. ——- Bear witness to monumental moments in human history, and human’s most terrible crimes. Java Witness is home to incredible stories of…
In March 2019, the Islamic State was officially defeated with the fall of Baghouz, formally ending the caliphate’s claim to any territory. 27,000 men, women and children were taken prisoner. But the fall of Baghouz did not mean the end…
Located on the shores of the Baltic Sea, between Poland and Lithuania, Kaliningrad is a piece of Russia in the heart of Europe. A curious territory, isolated from Moscow after the fall of the USSR, today transformed into a military…
Hilarious, tragic, stirring, this fly-on-the-wall look at several weeks in an Iranian divorce court provides a unique window into the intimate circumstances of Iranian women’s lives. Following Jamileh, whose husband beats her; Ziba, a 16-year-old trying to divorce her 38-year-old…
The extreme right has won the European elections in France, Italy and Belgium and has gained about a quarter of MEPs in the new parliament. The xenophobia, patriarchy or authoritarianism that they preach are also present in the programs of…
Long considered the Switzerland of the Middle East, Lebanon is now going through the worst economic crisis in its history. 80% of the population lives below the poverty line. In one year, food prices have jumped 500% due to galloping…
On 24 February 2022, Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine. He claimed it was a “country in the hands of the Nazis” and threatens the use of his nuclear weapons to prevent any intervention by the West. But the invasion of Ukraine…
The North-West of the United States has become the new Eldorado for Americans in search of wide open spaces and for nostalgic Americans. freedom. In these breathtaking landscapes, the fewer rules and laws there are, the less the federal state…
For decades, marijuana was a key part of the counter-culture movement, dubbed ‘probably the most dangerous drug’ by President Reagan and detested by the establishment. But as the movement to ‘normalize’ it grows and more and more states chose regulation…
This documentary was produced by Dartmouth Films and directed by John Pilger. It was first released in 2016. ——- Bear witness to monumental moments in human history, and human’s most terrible crimes. Java Witness is home to incredible stories of…
In South Africa, four rhinos die every day at the hands of poachers. With one kilo is worth 60,000€, twice as expensive as gold and cocaine, taking on the mafia networks and poachers is extremely dangerous. Pit Track is one…
An exclusive look at the world of the Pashtuns, Afghanistan’s largest ethnic group. Fifteen years ago, when war broke out Merwais left his home in the Kunar Province for a new life in Europe. He returns to the notorious Valley…
Sudan, ancient Nubia, is home to many unique natural and archaeological treasures. This land of the black pharaohs has even has more pyramids than its famous neighbour, Egypt – yet there are no visitors, no tourists, and no foreign travellers.…
This documentary was produced by Many Rivers Films and directed by David Batty and Kevin Toolis. It was first released in 2005. ——- Bear witness to monumental moments in human history, and human’s most terrible crimes. Java Witness is home…
The Miami-Dade County Jail and the Miami Dade Boot Camp – the two toughest divisions of the Miami Dade prison complex but they couldn’t be more different. Boot camp doesn’t give its participants a minute to themselves, the inmates in…
This documentary was produced by Many Rivers Films and directed by David Batty and Kevin Toolis. It was first released in 2005. ——- Bear witness to monumental moments in human history, and human’s most terrible crimes. Java Witness is home…
Saturday, October 7th 2023: the world wakes up in shock. Over 1,300 Israeli civilians have just been massacred. While the population thought it was safe behind its walls, its iron dome and its barbed wire, protected by its invincible army,…
We infiltrate the Russian Neo-Nazi group “Autonomous Nationalists”, one of most brutal right-wing, extremist groups in the world. Shocking footage shows them attacking foreigners, setting fire to buildings and training to use knives. Even more worrying are the ties between…
Why are Europeans, children of immigrants like Coulibaly or the Kouachis brothers, attacking their countries of birth? What leads them to reject the values of the nation in which they grew up, to be reborn as extremists of Al Qaeda…
Sofia Central Prison – a Bulgarian detention center, crumbling foundations and fit for demolition – derelict conditions too much to ask of anyone – even a criminal. Multi-prisoner cells, bunks stacked three stories high as well as a large count…
The Dallas County Jail in Texas – a mega-jail with room for 7,100 inmates, where everyone from small-time criminals to serial killers wait for their day in court. Mass processing of new inmates occurs on a daily basis: Up to…
A prison with guards on the outside but not on the inside because they fear for their lives. On the inside, the prisoners are in control: murderers, violent offenders, drug bosses. This is the prison city of San Pedro in…
With a population of nearly six million, Cape Town is the second city of South Africa. Many of the richest people in the country have ocean villas there. But there is a dark side to this breathtakingly beautiful city. Three…
Desperate overcrowding, rats, disease – welcome to Antanimora Prison in Madagascar. A prison in the middle of the capital Antananarivo and bursting at the seams. Originally built for 800 prisoners, the complex houses more than 3,000 prisoners. They sleep crammed…
Tent City Jail – a prison in the desert of Arizona, USA. If you’re in this place, you are in for tough times. As the name indicates, tents instead of cells make up prison housing, old army tents left over…
With her almond-shaped eyes and striking cheekbones, Queen Nefertiti is regarded as a symbol of female beauty. Her bust is one of the most iconic images in the world — a crowd puller, attracting 500,000 visitors every year to the…
