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ACID TEST: The Global Challenge of Ocean Acidification

Animals, Environment, Natural Phenomenon, Nature, Survival

Acid Test, featuring Sigourney Weaver, looks at our oceans and what’s happening to them. Marine life is struggling as the water in the oceans becomes more and more acidic. This creates unique challenges for the wildlife who call the Oceans home. “ACID TEST: This groundbreaking NRDC documentary explores the startling phenomenon of ocean acidification, which may soon challenge marine life on a scale not seen for tens of millions of years. Featuring Sigourney Weaver”

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Body Parts – Denmark

Anatomy, Surgery, Survival

Imagine that all you need to live is a new heart. The surgeons are standing by. People are dying all around you. The procedure is simple. But no one has ticked ‘donate my organs’ on their card. So you wait. Then you die. This happens every day. This documentary explores the dilemma.

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City Under the Sea: the future of humanity?

Future, Ocean, Science, Society, Survival, Technology

The Earth has its share of problems: too many humans live on its crust. There are earthquakes, hurricanes, and tidal waves. Humans are looking for alternatives. Space is often mentioned, but the far more realistic new world is under the sea.

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Suicide: Now What? The Aftermath

Mental Disorder, Staying Healthy, Survival, The Human

This documentary looks at children who lost their parents to suicide at a young age. When your father or mother – the people who teach you about the world – take their own life, what is that teaching you? How do you go on without your parents? In French with English subtitles.

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Surviving Alone in Alaska

Explorers, Nature, Survival

Have you ever wondered if you would survive in the wilderness, on your wits, alone? Heimo Korth did. Now, he’s the last man standing in an Alaskan wilderness. His neighbor is a polar bear. His other neighbor is a caribou. Say goodbye to civilization.

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Across Mexico: Chasing an Impossible Dream

Culture, Survival

More than a million people attempt to cross the river that forms as the border between Mexico and Guatemala. Fleeing from countries like Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua their first quest is to enter Mexico with their ultimate destination being the United States. This is an extremely dangerous mission. 25 minutes long.

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Around the World For Free

Survival, Travel

Imagine travelling around the world with only a backpack. No access to your bank accounts, no special funding, but instead relying solely on the kindness of strangers. For Alex Boylan this was a reality. 11 minutes long.

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The Shape of the Future

Battlefields, Christianity, Culture, Governments, Historical Wars, History, Islam, Judaism, Modern Era, Political History, Politics, Religion, Survival, War

The constant war in Israel/Palestine breaks my heart. I have my own opinions, but rather than take sides and get caught up in a debate that seems to have no end in sight: I will take this opportunity to present a documentary that has one goal in mind: PEACE. Peace that does not threaten the existence of either party.

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North Korean Labor Camps

Community, Conspiracy, Coverups, Crime, Culture, Homeless, Kidnapping, Lifestyle, Society, Survival, Trafficking

The Founder of VICE travels for 15 hours by train to finally arrive in Siberia and investigate logging camps that are using North Korean slave labor. Filmed in December 2011, it is shocking to see that this sort of thing still happens in Russia long after Communism has fallen.

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The Empire in Africa

Battlefields, Culture, Homeless, Humanitarianism, Political Movements, Politics, Society, Survival, War

Sierra Leone sits in Western Africa. It is a nation caught between crushing poverty and wealth beyond the imagination of most people on earth. Diamonds are ripe in the land and harvested by the Western World. In 1991, a civil war broke out. Enough was enough.

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A Walk to Beautiful

Culture, Environment, Homeless, Humanitarianism, Society, Survival, Travel

A Walk to Beautiful is an award-winning feature documentary about five Ethiopian women reclaiming their dignity. Rejected by their husbands, having undergone horrifying childbirths, and alone, these women go on a walk and find true beauty.

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Shackleton’s Antarctic Adventure

History, Modern Era, Survival

A retelling of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ill-fated expedition to Antarctica in 1914-1916.

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Aberrican Me: Ross Capicchioni

Crime, Survival

Through a powerful tale, Ross Caphicchioni tells his story of how he was shot by his best friend and survived.

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Man vs Wild

Culture, Survival

Hosted by Bear Grylls, Man vs Wild is all about surviving in the most extreme nature environments on Earth.

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Little Dieter Needs To Fly

Survival, War

In 1966, Dieter Dengler was shot down over Laos, captured, and, down to 85 pounds, escaped. – Barefoot, surviving monsoons, leeches, and machete-wielding villagers, and against all odds, he survived. This is his story.

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Alone in the Wild

Culture, Survival

Ed is not a survival expert. He is a very competent outdoorsman, but has no particular survival skills or knowledge. Ed’s just a guy who lives in London and loves the outdoors. Alone in the Wild will bring this adventurous cameraman to the edge of his technical and physical abilities, and see just how long his passion for living wild will last.

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