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The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Files

In 1971, Daniel Ellsberg, a high-level Pentagon official and Vietnam War strategist,
concludes that the war is based on decades of lies and leaks 7,000 pages of top secret
documents to The New York Times, hoping to help stop the war he helped plan.

The Most Dangerous Man in America is the riveting story of how one man’s profound
change of heart creates a landmark struggle involving America’s newspapers, president
and Supreme Court– a political thriller whose events led directly to Watergate, Nixon’s
resignation and the end of the Vietnam War.

Pax Americana: The Weaponization of Space

The prospect of Earth being ruled from space is no longer science-fiction. The dream of the original Dr. Strangelove, Wernher von Braun (from Nazi rocket-scientist to NASA director) has survived every US administration since WW2 and is coming to life. Today the technology exists to weaponize space, a massive American industry thrives, and nations are maneuvering for advantage.

PAX AMERICANA tackles this pivotal moment. Are war machines already orbiting Earth? Can treaties keep space weapons-free? Must the World capitulate to one super-cop on the global beat? With startling archival footage and unprecedented access to US Air Force Space Command, this elegant, forceful documentary reveals the state of play through generals, space-policy analysts, politicians, diplomats, peace activists, and hawks.

Underground Bare Knuckle Boxing

Once regarded as something that happens exclusively in Guy Ritchie films and on gypsy sites, bare knuckle boxing is fast becoming a thriving scene in the UK — the ultimate British bloodsport.

When Clive Martin embeds with the bare knuckle boxing elite, what he discovers is not dissimilar to Fight Club; IT technicians, builders, lifestyle coaches and even a solicitor, all throwing their unprotected fists into each other’s faces. It’s a subculture of honour, pride and violence.

As the UK prepares to play host to the first US vs UK bare knuckle title fight in 150 years — the biggest event the scene has known since it went underground in the 19th Century — Clive tries to find out if violence is a cause or effect for these angry young men.

The Corporation

The Corporation is one the most critically-acclaimed documentaries of this century. It examines the rise of the modern corporation as the dominant institution of our time. Once a minor entity, it now shapes economies, politics, and daily life across the globe.

Drawing on Joel Bakan’s book, the film investigates the corporation’s history, structure, and guiding motives. Through interviews with thinkers, insiders, whistle-blowers, and critics, it exposes how profit and power drive its behavior.

Voices like Noam Chomsky and Michael Moore help unpack its social and ethical consequences, highlighting the growing resistance challenging corporate influence and imagining possible alternatives.

Krokodil: Russia´s Deadliest Drug

A homemade drug called Krokodil is gaining popularity in Siberia and its effects on users are horrific. Krokodil is Russian for Crocodile, because of the way addicts’ skin begins to get scaly, dry and eventually rot right off their bodies. Even most heroin users are frightened by Krokodil and want nothing to do with this terrifying drug.

The World’s Weirdest Drug Market

New Zealand is a long way from anywhere, and drug cartels have traditionally not bothered sending them much cocaine or heroin. So, Kiwis have had to improvise – and they discovered a love for meth, and random new chemicals no one’s ever heard of.

This was all getting very dangerous, with rising addiction and biker gangs fighting over territory. Then one man – a steam-punk glam-rock musician named Starboy – decided to try and end New Zealand’s drug war once and for all. And he almost managed it!

Hunting Child Predators

Since the show, “To Catch a Predator” went off the air, a corner of YouTube has taken up the mantle: posing as underage kids online, waiting for older men to send sexually explicit messages and then filming a confrontation with the men in public. The Dads Against Predators duo has been making this content for years but is particularly controversial because law enforcement has publicly denounced them, telling them to leave this work to the professionals. We shine a light on the grey area this content inhabits. Are these vigilante YouTube creators helping expose predators or making it more difficult for law enforcement to do their jobs? Are they potentially saving lives or just risking their own?

10 Questions with a Squirting Instructor

The “world’s greatest sex hacker” takes our questions, teaches a hands-on course, tells us how he started as “sexually insecure Asian immigrant with an average-sized penis,” and explains why we should even listen to him to tell us how vaginas work.

Sugar Coated: The Case Against Sugar

How did the food industry get us to stop asking the question: is sugar toxic? It all starts with a secret PR campaign dating back to the 1970s. For forty years, Big Sugar deflected all threats to its multi-billion dollar empire, while sweetening the world’s food supply. As obesity, diabetes, and heart disease rates skyrocket, doctors are now treating the first generation of children suffering from fatty liver disease. The sugar industry is once again under siege. They dodged the bullet once. Will they do it again?

The Viagra Epidemic in Young Men

Why are more and more young men using Viagra?

Obi, a 24-year-old man who would like to stop relying on Viagra, explores what’s behind this new boner renaissance and whether young men like him really should be taking erectile dysfunction medication.

The Siberian Cult Leader Who Thinks He’s Jesus

Deep in Siberia’s Taiga forest is Vissarion, a cult leader who looks like Jesus and claims to be the voice of God. He’s known as “the Teacher” to his 4,000 followers, who initially seem surprisingly normal. Over time, however, their unflinching belief in UFOs and the Earth’s imminent demise made this group start to look more and more like some sort of strange cult.

Rebel Rabbis: The Anti-Zionist Jews Against Israel

We embed with the London branch of the Neturei Karta, a group of controversial Ultra Orthodox Jews who campaign against Zionism and for the immediate dismantling of the state of Israel.

Because of their unusual views, and support of people like ex-Iranian president Ahmadinejad and groups like the Hungarian far right Jobbik party, other Jewish people often label them as extremists.

Reporter Milène Larsson goes behind the closed doors of this secretive community to understand why this Jewish group’s anti-Israel sentiment has led them to join Palestinians protesting Israeli occupation and burn Israeli flags.