See Full Film Here: http://www.booserver.com/projects.php?ProjectID=3243 We all know the mega rich pay much less tax than the rest of us but just how do they do it? After years working for a Liechtenstein bank, an employee turned whistleblower made off with thousands of incriminating documents. He then sold the data to a number of Western governme...

November 2008 Polluters BP and Shell are pioneering the cap and trade system to cut carbon emissions. Yet does it help the environment or is it just a money making tool? Plans are underway to move the system to Australia. So what is cap and trade? Businesses releasing greenhouse gases are issued carbon credits. A cap level is then set, to control ...

November 2008 General Martin Luther Agwais job is difficult - keep the peace in war-ravaged Darfur. But recently a new problem has presented itself the government-backed janjaweed has started targeting peacekeepers. Patrolling the vast, barren wastelands of West Sudan, General Agwais troops tread an uneasy line between rebels and government force...

November 2008 PNG is one of the most hazardous flying environments in the world. Recent years have seen a disturbing number of crashes. All were poorly investigated due to corruption and lack of resources. Safety standards have fallen off the edge. Air investigator Sydney OToole is concerned about PNGs inadequate aviation safety systems. In the pa...

November 2008 When Ann returned home at 10am one Tuesday to collect a forgotten notebook, what she found shocked her to the core. Her husband was with another man. What happens when one spouse admits to being gay? My husband was with this man and my life was over, as I knew it, Ann recalls. Like Ann, millions of heterosexual men and women unknowin...

November 2008 In the harsh conditions of Sao Paolo, graffiti artists are pushing street art in new and often dangerous directions. We investigate these artists work, amongst pools of filth and armies of cockroaches. Sao Paulo's art movement sometimes goes beyond the streets and into the citys sewers. This is a rainwater gallery in the sewage syste...

See Entire Film Here: http://www.booserver.com/projects.php?ProjectID=3238 This film tells the story of two sets of grandmothers one in a battered township of Johannesburg, the other in a quiet rural corner of Canada. This film is about how the extraordinary bonds of friendship between these two groups of women is helping to win the fight against...

November 2008 Haiti has been brought to its knees by famine and economic crisis. Now a series of hurricanes has left the struggling country in turmoil. A not-to-be missed account of a state on the brink of collapse.

March 1988 This stunningly-voiced footage features Makeba amongst the intellectuals behind 'Drum' magazine. Here she sings two songs for the small male-dominated crowd: the first has a sad and haunting tone and the next has a livelier feel. The footage is taken from the iconic film: 'Have you seen Drum Lately?', dubbed one of the most important f...

November 2008 The only escapee of North Koreas most brutal prison camp has lived to tell us a story of unspeakable horror. Starved of food and common humanity, Shin proves that gulags are still a tragic reality. We were always hungry. Shins most vivid memory of his life in the camp is the constant hunger he felt, food made me escape, even if it wa...

See Full Film Here: http://www.booserver.com/projects.php?ProjectID=3196 This is 'El Cartucho', one of the darkest corners of the Columbian capital. Its a place of drugs, violence, guns and prostitution. The police dont bother to investigate murders, and corpses are cleared from the street like trash. The high number of dead is tragic, but its goo...

November 2008 How do you rebuild a country from scratch? There's billions of oil dollars in the bank, but no infrastructure or expertise. Melbourne's Pires family and politician Steve Bracks are working on the problems. "Right now we have about three billion dollars in our fund." Emilia Pires is the Finance Minister. Her grandfather fled in 1975 d...

November 2008 Historian Anton Holzner searches the world collecting images of the atrocities committed by the Habsburg forces in WW1. They evoke the brutality and humiliation of the famous Abu Ghraib. You see this encircling of the victim, explains Holzner. Most commonly these victims are civilians. Civilians were commonly tortured and murdered by...

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See Entire Film Here: http://www.booserver.com/projects.php?ProjectID=3230 The collapse of the Twin Towers and the Herculean task faced by New Yorkers that terrible day has come to define contemporary New York. Seven years on, have they rebuilt the American Dream in this wounded city? A powerful doc which gets under the skin of todays New York. Th...

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See Full Film Here: http://www.booserver.com/projects.php?ProjectID=3223 Uri Gil is a Guinness World Record holder. At 61 hes the oldest active fighter pilot and hes waged battle in the skies for decades as hes pressed home Israels military agenda. A passionate painter as well as a soldier, Uri talks with surprising candour about his values and li...

October 2008 Mexicans are facing a horrifying increase in violence brought about by the governments decision to wage war on the powerful drug cartels. Each day sees more deaths and kidnaps, while corruption is endemic. The death toll so far this year is 4000, higher than Iraq. Around 4 people a day are kidnapped for ransom. Were assaulted every da...

October 2008 Beyond Southern Thailands beaches, lies Thailand's deep south. Crime and Islamic extremism are rife. Clashes between the Buddhist authorities and Muslim population have claimed 3,500 lives in four years. Tensions reach boiling point when villagers claim that the authorities have attacked a Muslim school. The bullets came from the back...

October 2008 Steam trains puff through the beautiful countryside of western Poland stopping at gingerbread stations. But who is driving them? Rail expert Howard Jones runs short courses, which lets tourists drive. When high maintenance costs threatened the last scheduled steam network, officials turned to Jones for help. His courses teach steam lo...

October 2008 Controversial photographer Larry Fink has studied the election campaign in the barren industrial state of Pennsylvania for Vanity Fair. Following its people with his lens, he found a strong affiliation towards Obama. Larry Fink lives on a farm in Pennsylvania. He blows into his harmonica, music is good for productivity, he says in a s...

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October 2008 In each new village the story is the same; the Taliban has just left. The soldiers march through dusty villages and rolling cornfields. They are spared the dangers of open battle, but psychological warfare is no easy option. In the wild and lawless lands of rural Afghanistan the Taliban are playing a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with...

October 2008 On September 23rd, student Matti Juhani Saari killed ten of his schoolmates and then shot himself at the Finnish school of Seinäjoki. How does a shocked community come to grips with such a tragedy? Police tape cordons off the grounds, candles litter the floor, and families and friends grieve for the students who lost their lives her...

October 2008 During the British occupation of Greece, Lord Elgin ordered his men to saw the Parthenons marble in half to decorate his home back in England. Now Greece wants to unite the halves in its modern museum. Between the Acropolis and a museum whose architecture is dedicated to it, stands two apartments facing the threat of demolition. One...

October 2008 With the elections coming up, pressure is on the candidates to convince voters that they can provide a solution to the economic meltdown. The finances of the average American will decide the outcome. Markets are still highly unstable and it enhances a feeling of panic that can easily upset the financial world within a few hours: you ...

October 2008 When Rita received death threats from her family, she was sent to the only safe place available jail. Many of Jordans women are held in protective custody for crimes such as being absent from home. In jail the women are allocated daily tasks such as embroidering and cooking, but many feel the strain of being cooped up behind bars.

October 2008 In this report we follow a US dust-off crew who use helicopters for medical evacuation in Afghanistan. Their hazardous rescue missions have saved the lives of many Americans and Afghans over the years. Weve seen some pretty messed up stuff, but you get a sense of doing good because youre helping a lot of people out, explains the crew...

See Full Film @ http://www.booserver.com/projects.php?ProjectID=3217 An eagle feather, lying on Annikas kitchen table. It had been given to her by a Native American visiting Sweden. For many Indians an eagle feather is a very sacred object and it should probably not be in her hands. What was she supposed to do with it? Should she return it and if ...

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October 2008 Young career women in Beijing arent looking for marriage, they just want to have fun. But thousands of worried parents have other ideas and are meeting at love markets to match-make their children. In a Beijing park, parents swap photos and vital statistics of their offspring. One mother confesses, My son is not in a hurry to get marr...

October 2008 The global financial machine has ground perilously close to a halt. This timely film explores what went wrong with economic globalisation. How could the financial world have miscalculated so badly? We chart financial liberalisation in East Asia, privatisation in Latin America, the reckless transition to capitalism in Russia and Chinas...

October 2008 The financial crisis is hitting middle-class America, as families are forced onto the streets. Some say its the end of the American dream but for others this is a chance to redefine whats important. In California, the credit crunch has had a devastating effect on families that bought expensive houses with no down payment and high inte...

October 2008 Tensions are growing over the Black Sea Fleet base and with the Ukraine trying to free itself from Russian dominance by seeking EU and NATO membership, the question is, could this be the next European war? Although Crimea was given to Ukraine in 1954, Russian is still the main language spoken here and taught in schools. But Ukraines a...

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October 2008 Who is Sarah Palin and what does she stand for? To find out, this report goes back to her hometown of Wasilla. We mix with locals in order to understand what makes her tick. As we quickly see, her supporters are very keen to demonstrate their enthusiasm. From local bars to campaign meetings, housewives to moose-hunters, Sarahs people...

See full film here: http://www.booserver.com/projects.php?ProjectID=3207 September 2008 Colourful, abrasive and fiercely provocative, Canadian Marc Emery is world renowned as The Prince of Pot. He has made a career out of picking fights with the powers-that-be, first as a libertarian activist, and now as a campaigner for the decriminalisation of ...

October 2008 After ten years of conflict, Nepals feudal system has finally crumbled. As one of the most violent Maoist leaders is voted Prime Minister, we ask, can Nepals new republic find the peace it so desperately needs? The struggle cost the lives of 13,000 people and denied the country millions of tourist dollars. Headmasters were executed i...

October 2008 A huge percentage of black South Africans remain unemployable, due to their lack of a good education. But thanks to people like James Motlatsi, founder of an education enterprise, the countrys uneducated have new hope. The apartheid left South Africas black population struggling without a proper education, black workers were prevente...

October 2008 Since the days of the Pharoahs, the Nile has been the thriving hub of Egyptian life and culture. But due to global warming the tides are turning and rising. Professor Soliman is on a mission to bring Al Gores message to his fellow Egyptians. Although climate change is scarcely discussed here, Egypt is among the countries most at da...

October 2008 Although civil partnerships are not on a totally even keel with heterosexual marriage, it is seen as a step towards a more equal society. What does the Czech Republic think of this new step? In 2006 the Czech Republics first civil partnership took place, with most people welcoming the growing tolerance.

A collection of the best moments from a fascinating and quite bizarre series.