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Carts of Darkness
In the picture-postcard community of North Vancouver, filmmaker Murray Siple follows men who have turned bottle-picking, their primary source of income, into the extreme sport of shopping cart racing.
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Witness: Eviction on Millionaire Street
St. Petersburgh. Founded by Peter the Great in 1703. Home of Dostoevsky, Pushkin, and the Tsar. Renamed “Leningrad’ under Stalin. Enter a society of millionaires and families trying to hold on to their coveted real estate in a capitalistic market. 25 minutes long.
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North Korean Labor Camps
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
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
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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Panorama: Poor America
Hilary Andersson meets the school pupils who go hungry in the richest country on Earth.
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J is for Junkie
A group of crack addicts in Atlanta who live outside in a small cove behind a Texaco, infamously dubbed as the “Living Room”, share their stories and tell us what it’s like to battle with a deadly addiction to crack-cocaine.
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Homeless Interview
Four homeless men share their stories to a camera, depicting life on the street and how they ended up there.
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Dark Days
The documentary is about a group of homeless people who live in an abandoned New York subway tunnel in makeshift houses. They range from hopeless crackheads, to guys who were just sick of doing it tough above ground.
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Streets of Plenty
This 65 minute documentary follows one man’s 30 day experiment of joining the thousands of homeless, ill, and addicted, who survive the streets of Vancouver’s cold, wet December. He starts off with nothing but a pair of underwear. Where he ends up is a place he never knew existed, even though its a place he passed by every day.
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