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Sea Prayer - A Powerful Immersive Film Honouring Syrian Refugees 6 min
Sea Prayer - A Powerful Immersive Film Honouring Syrian Refugees
6 min · A 360° illustrated film by award-winning novelist Khaled Hosseini. Scroll to the right as the story progresses.
The Internet Warriors 21 min
The Internet Warriors
21 min · Why do so many people use the internet to harass and threaten people, and stretch the freedom of speech to its limits? Director Kyrre Lien meets a global group of strongly opinionated...
Ireland's Forgotten Mixed-Race Child Abuse Victims 15 min
Ireland's Forgotten Mixed-Race Child Abuse Victims
15 min · Rosemary Adaser was one of many mixed-race children considered illegitimate who was brought up in institutions run by the Catholic church in Ireland between the 1950s and 1970s. She...
Childless: Why Is Society so Frightened of Women Without Children? 3 min
Childless: Why Is Society so Frightened of Women Without Children?
3 min · The proportion of women not having children before the menopause has reached a record high in the last decade. Here, women from the UK, France and Spain discuss the taboo of...
Video Shows Shell Knew About The Dangers of Climate Change 25 Years Ago 2 min
Video Shows Shell Knew About The Dangers of Climate Change 25 Years Ago
2 min · In 1991, Shell produced a public documentary on global warming called Climate of Concern. It warned that trends in global temperatures raised serious risks of famines, floods and climate...
The Foiled Bomb Plot in Kansas That Didn't Make Trump's Terror List 5 min
The Foiled Bomb Plot in Kansas That Didn't Make Trump's Terror List
5 min · When a plot by a pro-white militia to bomb a Somali mosque in Kansas was foiled by the FBI last October, the aborted conspiracy received little national coverage - nor did it make Donald...
Artificial Ethics and the Search for Intelligence 5 min
Artificial Ethics and the Search for Intelligence
5 min · How to stop a robot turning evil.
Hans Rosling Brilliantly Explains Complexity of Population and Resource Issues Using Simple Tools 3 min
Hans Rosling Brilliantly Explains Complexity of Population and Resource Issues Using Simple Tools
3 min · Let me show you the world, says Swedish academic Han Rosling as he demonstrates the dynamics of population growth, child mortality and carbon dioxide emissions. The challenge for the...
Berets, Badges and BLM - Meet The Radical Monarchs 21 min
Berets, Badges and BLM - Meet The Radical Monarchs
21 min · Berets, badges, Black Lives Matter and social justice: the youth group for activist girls of colour The Radical Monarchs is an alternative to the Scout movement for girls of colour in...
Cassetteboy vs. Brexit 2 min
Cassetteboy vs. Brexit
2 min · Mashup artist Cassetteboy presents his take on one of the biggest news stories of the year, shining a humorous light on Brexit. The video lampoons a host of Conservative MPs - David...
Under the Surface - Naomi Klein and the Great Barrier Reef 10 min
Under the Surface - Naomi Klein and the Great Barrier Reef
10 min · In Under the Surface, a special Guardian film, the award-winning writer and environmental campaigner Naomi Klein travels to the Great Barrier Reef with her son, Toma, to see the impact...
Edward Snowden Makes Moral Case for Presidential Pardon 6 min
Edward Snowden Makes Moral Case for Presidential Pardon
6 min · NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden tells the Guardian’s Ewen MacAskill why he should be granted a pardon by the US government. He also discusses the dangers of Donald Trump’s rhetoric on...
The Epic Journey of a Refugee Cat to Find His Family 2 min
The Epic Journey of a Refugee Cat to Find His Family
2 min · Kunkush the cat was a beloved member of a family who became refugees when they fled Iraq for the safety of Europe. Travelling through Greece, family and cat became separated. Kunkush was...
The Last Job on Earth: Imagining a Fully Automated World 3 min
The Last Job on Earth: Imagining a Fully Automated World
3 min · Machines could take 50% of our jobs in the next 30 years, according to scientists. While we can’t predict the future, we can imagine a world without work – one where those who own the...
Gary Neville's Homeless Hotel: What Happened Next 5 min
Gary Neville's Homeless Hotel: What Happened Next
5 min · Back in October, a group of homeless people occupied a hotel, the former Manchester Stock Exchange building, which was awaiting refurbishment.  The squatters expected to be promptly...
The Yes Men's Solution to California's Drought: If You Eat Beef, Don't Wash 11 min
The Yes Men's Solution to California's Drought: If You Eat Beef, Don't Wash
11 min · Would you stop showering if it meant that was the only way you could keep eating beef? California's ongoing drought needs radical action. But in a state dependent on water-hungry meat...
Nas Presents the Real Hip-Hop 5 min
Nas Presents the Real Hip-Hop
5 min · Rapper Nasir 'Nas' Jones and director Adam Sjoberg take us on a world tour of breakdancing in the most unexpected places, as we visit the slums, shanty towns and ghettos of the world...
After Banksy: The Parkour Guide to Gaza 2 min
After Banksy: The Parkour Guide to Gaza
2 min · In response to graffiti artist Banksy's Gaza tourist video, the Gaza Parkour team show us what real life is like there and their dreams beyond the border. To the sounds of Palestine's...
Naomi Klein: This Changes Everything (excerpt) 10 min
Naomi Klein: This Changes Everything (excerpt)
10 min · This is an edited excerpt the feature length documentary This Changes Everything.
The NSA and Surveillance Made Simple 3 min
The NSA and Surveillance Made Simple
3 min · Confused about the NSA revelations? Do you wonder how this affects you? Why spies have been monitoring Facebook, Gmail and Skype? And even if we are being watched online, how does that...
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