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7 votes
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Hongkongers Seeking Freedom in Taiwan [28 minute video]
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Crime and Punishment is an interesting, hard to watch, docu about the UK prison system
Channel 4 describe the programme "Series that captures the work of police, probation, prison, prosecution and parole". Here's a link to the first episode:...
Channel 4 describe the programme "Series that captures the work of police, probation, prison, prosecution and parole".
Here's a link to the first episode: https://www.channel4.com/programmes/crime-and-punishment/on-demand/64655-001
Crime and punishment is a documentary series that looks inside prison to tell the stories of the criminal justice system from the viewpoint of those involved.
The first episode spends some time talking about the unjust "Imprisonment for Public Protection"[1] sentences (these are no longer given by the courts but there are thousands of prisoners still imprisoned on them), how they went wrong, and the awful effect they have upon prisoners. It's a difficult watch. It shows how severely the mental health of prisoners is when they're on this type of sentence, including their serious self harm.
Episode two talks about pressure inside prisons and how that results in "riots", about how prisoners use the only power they have available to them.
I like the programme because it avoids judgmentalism. The prisoners are not reduced to the bad guys; the officers are not simplified to the good guys. You hear a little bit about some of the offences committed by the prisoners
Here's a Twitter thread from someone working in the English NHS. She works in forensic services as a psychologist. https://twitter.com/SarahE_Davidson/status/1173707912981700608
I guess Channel 4 On Demand have geo-blocking. I don't know if it's available on other services, or on torrent.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imprisonment_for_public_protection
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Making Them's Fightin' Herds: The story of Mane6 and what goes into making an indie fighting game
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The history of Super Mario Bros warpless world records
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Brains on Film - Documentary about an 80s public access show that praised cult movies
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The secret of Monkey Island
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Caesar as King? (45 to 44 B.C.E.)
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Cracking the Code of Cicada 3301 [Episodes 1-4 Playlist]
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Everybody in the place: an incomplete history of Britain 1984 - 1992
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The Great Hack: A Netflix documentary on Facebook & Cambridge Analytica sheds light on one of the most complex scandals of our time
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The fall and rise of Hitman
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Third Crusade - The Beginning
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Where are all the Bob Ross paintings? We found them.
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India and Sri Lanka's violent fight over fish
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The history of Rainbow Road world records
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"13 Minutes to the Moon" - BBC documentary podcast on Apollo 11
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Digital Amnesia (2014)
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Nero: The last Roman emperor
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Cyprus Crisis 1974
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"Shipbreakers" A documentary about the people and communities involved in the dangerous and dirty industry of scrapping old ships. (2004, National Film Board)
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Siege of Damascus 634 AD: Arab - Byzantine Wars Documentary
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The retirement gamble
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My Name is TotalBiscuit - The Life and Times of John Bain
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The official history of Chex Quest
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M2: Complete Works - The history of Japanese game developer M2, who are well known for elaborately porting retro games to modern platforms
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The Heat: A Kitchen (R)evolution | Trailer 1
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God of War: Raising Kratos - Full length feature documentary
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Foster (2019)
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Inside Final Fantasy X|X-2 HD Remaster (Japanese, with subtitles)
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Delia Derbyshire - The Delian Mode | The unsung heroine of electronic music
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The vanishing of flight 370
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The Station
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Pakistan's blasphemy laws
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Shirley Curry: The gaming grandma documentary
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The heroin hearse in the OD capital of America
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