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 In 2001, four Pakistani Britons, Ruhal Ahmed, Asif Iqbal and Shafiq
Rasul and another friend, Monir, travel to Pakistan for a wedding and
in a urge of idealism, decide to see the situation of war torn
Afganistan which is being bombed by the American forces in retaliation
for the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Once there, with the loss of Monir in
the wartime chaos, they are captured by Northern Alliance fighters.
They are then handed them over the American forces who transport them
to the prison camps at the Guantanamo Bay base in Cuba. What follows is
three years of relentless imprisonment, interrogations and torture to
make them submit to blatantly wrong confessions to being terrorists. In
the midst of this abuse, the three struggle to keep their spirits up in
that face of this grave injustice. |
 Arctic Tale takes you to the top of the earth and the polar bears ice
kingdom. This is a National Geographic film that is narrated by Queen
Latifah. The movie follows the beginning lives of a polar bear cub,
Nanu, and a walrus pup, Seela. The story takes us along their journey
from birth to maturity, eight years later, with all the struggles
in-between. We see that the mothers will do anything to protect their
young from other predators in this life or death struggle. The biggest
threat for Nanu and Seela is surviving the harsh, changing habitat
climate of the north which delivers the possibility of not finding
food. The ice kingdom which has given them life is literality melting
away in front of them. Their future survival depends upon the ice. |
 Documentary look at health care in the United States as provided by
profit-oriented health maintenance organizations (HMOs) compared to
free, universal care in Canada, the U.K., and France. Moore contrasts
U.S. media reports on Canadian care with the experiences of Canadians
in hospitals and clinics there. He interviews patients and doctors in
the U.K. about cost, quality, and salaries. He examines why Nixon
promoted HMOs in 1971, and why the Clintons' reform effort failed in
the 1990s. He talks to U.S. ex-pats in Paris about French services, and
he takes three 9/11 clean-up volunteers, who developed respiratory
problems, to Cuba for care. He asks of Americans, "Who are we?" |
 Martin Scorsese and the Rolling Stones unite in "Shine A Light," a look
at The Rolling Stones." Scorcese filmed the Stones over a two-day
period at the intimate Beacon Theater in New York City in fall 2006.
Cinematographers capture the raw energy of the legendary band. |
 Ben Stein stars in this satirical documentary which examines the
criticisms and hostilities that exist in today's scientific field (both
academic and professional) towards peers and journalists who subscribe
to or even entertain the perspective of Intelligent Design in science. This
documentary shows Ben Stein mostly hosting or introducing interviews to
help the audience understand his point (lack of academic freedom) and
then to get the perspective of scientists on both sides of the issue. The
movie credits lists about thirty interviewees who are mostly
scientists, a few journalists, and one US congressman. Scientists on
both sides of the issue come from a multiple of universities located
mostly in the US and Britain. One scientist residing in Paris and one
scientist from Poland are also included. Dr. Richard Dawkins
(author of "The God Delusion") and Dr. P.Z. Myers (who has the
"Pharyingula" blog) are two notables amongst the interviewed scientists
who do not wish to allow the discussion of the possibility of an
intelligent designer into science classrooms, scientific papers, or
other scientific professional or research venues. Dr. Guillermo
Gonzalez (author of "The Privileged Planet" and co-discoverer of
various planets) and Dr. Alistair McGrath (author of "The Dawkins
Delusion") are two of the notables amongst those interviewees who wish
to allow the discussion of the possibility of an intelligent designer
into the scientific arenas noted above. The documentary is
interspersed with B&W clips either made in old film style or used
from old movies. These clips usually humorously illustrate Mr. Stein's
spoken point or offer visual, humorous commentary on an interviewee's
spoken words. A couple minute color computer animation of many
activities going on in one cell is included and is set to music. |
 During the winter of 1975 in Hawaii, surfing was shaken to its core. A
group of young surfers from Australia and South Africa sacrificed
everything and put it all on the line to create a sport, a culture, and
an industry that is today worth billions of dollars and has captured
the imagination of the world. With a radical new approach and a brash
colonial attitude, these surfers crashed headlong into a culture that
was not ready for revolution. Surfing was never to be the same again. |
 After 40 years of planning and construction, the biggest science experiment in history is ready
to be tested. The "Large Hadron Collider" is an experiment created by the greatest minds in physics.
It cost $10 billion and its resulting data has the potential to explain why we and the Universe exist.
Their idea is to smash protons towards one another at the speed of light, trying to mimic what happened
in the milliseconds after The Big Bang. Viewers will go on an amazing journey involving the struggles to
plan and build the LHC, how it was constructed and what are its mechanics. Explore the future of what's
possible through the geniuses of today.
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 They soar through the heavens, fly through the oceans and glide along land. But these are not
creatures found on a wildlife safari. These are life forms from another planet. Armed with
scientific fact and a little imagination, experts come together to take you on an unprecedented
journey to the edges of our imagination. Scientists, astrobiologists and astronomers create five lines
of extraterrestrial evolution, and explain how creatures on the surface of Earth offer a helping hand to
understanding life in The Universe.
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 Tour the globe in search of the world's seven natural wonders. Meet
the experts on these extraordinary geological features, discover the extreme
conditions that characterize them and explore their deepest mysteries.
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 What secrets lay buried in the never-before-seen files of a famous UFO investigator?
In the early 1950s, James McDonald, a senior physicist at the University of Arizona, changed
the entire course of UFO research. For nearly 20 years he examined UFO reports in great
detail--interviewing over 500 witnesses, uncovering important government documents, and
testifying before Congress in 1968. He challenged skeptics, performed scientific analysis, and
led the charge for UFOs to be properly studied. After his tragic death in 1971, his investigations
and files were sent to the University archives, where they lay dormant...until now. The team brings
these lost UFO files back into the public eye for the first time on television, and looks at evidence
long thought lost to history.
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In space travel there is a saying that the first 50 miles and the last 50 miles are the
most dangerous. Explore the controlled explosion of launch, the fiery crucible of
reentry and everything in between. See how a single spark inside a spacecraft or a micrometeoroid
less than an inch wide hitting a space station can turn a routine mission into a lethal nightmare.
As the missions become longer, venturing to Mars and beyond, the potential disasters will only become
bigger. What would happen if a spacecraft ventured too close to a black hole or was hit by a gamma ray burst?
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 There's a mystery out there with lots of theories from aliens to time-warps.
Hundreds of boats and planes have disappeared leaving little or no trace at all. Most of
these can be explained easily enough, but a few still remain a genuine mystery.
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