Society

How Beer Saved the World takes a closer look at the critical role beer has played throughout the course of human history. It explores the most likely origins of the beverage, from its early beginnings to the development of a...

Hot Coffee presents the perspectives of four ordinary Americans who battled very different civil court cases against big business, and the toll these battles took on their once-normal lives. The infamous hot coffee case again...

Situated in Japan, the Aokigahara Forest is the most well-known suicide site in the country, with up to a hundred deaths reported each year. The site contains so many bodies that members of the Yakuza have reportedly paid hom...

Waiting for ‘Superman’ uncovers the failures of the US public education system by following students and documenting their struggles and triumphs within academic settings. It seeks to promote more stringent accountability for...

The Street Kids of Mumbai records the everyday lives of children living in one of India’s impoverished slums. The stories of Salam, Deepa and twins Hussan and Hussein reveal the desperation and determination of Mumbai’s stree...

Louis Theroux travels to the city of Fresno, California, which has one of the largest concentrations of crystal meth users in the United States. The City Addicted to Crystal Meth explores the dangerous reality of living with...

Miracle of the Hudson Plane Crash chronicles the extraordinary story of US Airways Flight 1549 and the pilot who heroically landed the plane in the Hudson River in 2009, thereby saving all 155 lives on board. Several passenge...

Married to the Eiffel Tower examines the unusual attraction that some women feel towards inanimate objects. They are drawn to certain objects rather than to other people. They fall in love with these objects and sometimes eve...

Despite being illegal in much of the United States, the marijuana business continues to flourish. The lucrative and rapidly growing trade in British Columbia is worth over $7bn CAD a year, with 85% of the supply exported to t...

God Grew Tired of Us is a memoir about the tortuous journey of three Southern Sudanese boys, John Bul Dau, Daniel Pach and Panther Bior, across Africa to the United States of America. The film’s title is based on a statement...