US Bounty Hunters takes you inside, up close and personal, on the craziest bounty hunting chases . Ride along with Fred The Enforcer, Denise The Huntress , and their team of Bounty Hunters as they track down some of the US’ hardened criminals.
Unschooled: Save Our Future
Save our Future founder Charlotte Austin Jordan began dedicating her life to reaching inner city teens after experiencing her own personal tragedies.
When inner-city charter high school Save Our Future is forced to close its doors, dozens of Los Angeles students rally to have their voices heard. The topic of education has suddenly gone from overlooked to centre stage.
As we continue to make difficult decisions in very tough economic times, which will be of greater funding priority: schools or prisons?
Undercover Asia
This award-winning investigative series goes undercover to expose the secret underbelly of Asia. Through these in-depth documentaries, we explore stories of crime, violence and injustice. Stories include hunting down pedophiles working in Cambodian orphanages, revealing the secret organ trade in the Philippines and exposing monks behaving badly in Thailand. Find out the untold stories lurking within these diverse Asian societies.
Tuna Hunters
At the age of 14, Intoy made the decision to become a tuna fisherman. But the life was harsh. Intoy earned nothing for a long time because he caught no fish and had his wages docked to cover his food.
However, life and fortune has changed for this young man who staked his family’s future on his chances at the sharp end of a tough industry.
Travelling Talkies
Indians love movies, but only city dwellers have theatres nearby. People in extreme locations must wait for a visit from a travelling cinema.
Trucks loaded with tents, projectors and film reels criss cross the countryside, periodically giving villagers a chance to catch a show. Among them is 32 year old Anup Jagdale. We follow Anup’s struggle to keep an age-old tradition of travelling cinema alive.
The Woman with 7 Personalities
Helen has Dissociative Identity Disorder, a rare condition more commonly known as Multiple Personaity Disorder. This causes her to have seven alter ego or alter personalities. Helen will switch from her self personality to one of the alter personalities at a moment’s notice and have no recollection of the time spent in another personality, some of which send her into states of destruction.
The Search for Tristan’s Mum
This groundbreaking documentary is about Tristan Dowse, an Indonesian child, illegally adopted and then abandoned two years later by his adoptive parents in an Indonesian orphanage.
Investigative journalist Ann McElhinney travels to Indonesia to try and find his natural mother, who is unaware of the international storm growing around Tristan. McElhinney’s investigation exposes the baby selling network and also raises disturbing questions about international adoption.
This emotional documentary of high and low points gives an insight into how some international adoptions are organised and how the role of money and corruption plays a big part in this process.
The Scholarship
The Scholarship follows five boys and their families as they chase the dream of securing a place in one of Ireland’s most prestigious schools through their Social Diversity Programme.
Applicants are selected purely on a basis of economic and educational disadvantage for a place at one of Ireland’s highly respected educational establishments and not for their academic, sporting or musical abilities.
The school sees its commitment to the bursaries as a living embodiment of the school’s Jesuit ethos and the importance it places on social justice. The personal stories of The Scholarship – captured on screen over two years – tells a poignant story about education and gives an insight into how one school endeavors to make a difference.
The Rest of My Life is for Sale
A 23-year-old girl opens an online shop selling “the rest of her life.” In her own words posted on the website: “It’s your right to arrange my life, and it’s my duty to serve you. I’ll fulfil your wishes. I’ll take pictures of the process and put them on my website so all people will know how I live with your arrangements.” The price for her life? USD1 for 8 minutes, USD3 for an hour, and USD15 for a day. Watch as she undertakes a myriad of requests – from bringing cat food to an old lady who takes care of 200 vagrant cats, to collecting 100 pictures of 100 smiling men for a girl’s birthday. From the day she opened shop, this girl has been living 2 separate lives – one is her reality, the other, her virtual world.