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Bluelighter
Somewhere there was a great disconnect between editorial/opinion films and actual objective documentaries.
I've been hearing/reading about Man on Wire forever now, I think it's time to take a look.
One in every ten people alive today will die in severe pain because the cheap medicine they need is derived from opium, one of the most controversial and controlled substances on Earth.
A group of intrepid filmmakers explore the abandoned subway tunnels beneath New York City in search of the mole people.
A cinematic portrait of the homeless population who live permanently in the underground tunnels of New York City.
The Face follows three people who are desperate for 'whiter' facial features. We also find out how westernisation surgery is thriving across the globe - from double eyelid and 'face smashing' surgery in South Korea, to nose jobs in Pakistan.
SERIES SYNOPSIS
Michael Jackson's radical facial transformation was shrouded in secrecy and became a contentious subject for discussion. Many saw him as a sell-out, betraying his ethnic heritage. For others he is a source of inspiration, paving the way for people to use surgery and science to change their race.
Part of the Race: Science's Last Taboo season, these programmes examine the emerging trend for deracialisation surgery through the stories of six people who want to go to extreme lengths to westernise their bodies and faces. The film also interviews the surgeons willing to make their dreams come true.
Whether it's a more Caucasian nose, longer legs, wider eyes, or even less body hair, plastic surgery and science are making anything possible. The programme asks whether it is right to want to erase your inherited ethnic features to fit in to a predominantly white society.
Before 1967, it was illegal in 16 American states for a black person and white person to marry. Right wing groups on both sides of the Atlantic continue to espouse that the mixing of races is destructive and against some kind of natural order.
Aarathi Prasad, a geneticist and mother of a mixed race child, sets out to challenge the ideas of racial purity and examines provocative claims that there are in fact biological advantages to being mixed race.
It's a controversial subject that has aroused much opposition from both ends of the political spectrum, but does greater genetic diversity confer advantages in humans, as seen in the breeding of plants and animals, or are lifestyle and environment the primary influences?
Here's one that you guys might enjoy.
One of a Kind: The Rise and Fall of Stu Ungar
"This is a documentary about the life of poker legend Stu Ungar who died in 1998 of heart related conditions due to heavy drug use."
**You don't have to know anything about poker to enjoy (in a sad way) this documentary.
The link below is the full version.
Please let me/us know what you thought of it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ7300Q74Fo&noredirect=1