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BBC – Our World 2019 Addicted Americas Opioid Crisis 720p HDTV

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BBC – Our World 2019 Addicted Americas Opioid Crisis 720p HDTV
English | Size: 326 MB
Category: Documentary


America’s love affair with opioids has had a devastating impact. Every 25 minutes a baby is born suffering from opioid withdrawal and a new generation is growing up with addicted parents. For years pharmaceutical companies made billions from the drugs, but now lawsuits are piling up and so are questions for regulators who should have prevented the crisis. Our World traces why so many Americans became addicted and meets children and workers on the front line who are now picking up the pieces. [Read more…]

BBC Our World – Forgotten Britain (2019) 720p HDTV

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BBC Our World – Forgotten Britain (2019) 720p HDTV
English | Size: 385 MB
Category: Documentary


In 2010, the UK government embarked on a major programme of public spending cuts, chopping tens of billions of pounds from many services, including policing, local government and public health. Local communities were expected to find other ways of providing vital services, but in some places it has been a struggle. Amid government claims that the decade of austerity is over, Michael Buchanan meets people in Hartlepool in the North East of England to find out how the cuts have affected them. [Read more…]

BBC Our World – The Fight for Rojava (2019) 720p HDTV

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BBC Our World – The Fight for Rojava (2019) 720p HDTV
English | Size: 366 MB
Category: Documentary


In 2017, 25-year-old Anna Campbell travelled in secret from the UK to northern Syria. She was heading for Rojava, the Kurdish territory in the north of the country. Anna went to the front line to fight with the Kurdish armed forces, YPJ. A month later she was killed by a Turkish air strike. [Read more…]

BBC Our World – Russia The Empire Strikes Back (2019) 720p HDTV

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BBC Our World – Russia: The Empire Strikes Back (2019) 720p HDTV
English | Size: 408 MB
Category: Documentary


Thirty years ago, the fall of the Iron Curtain was heralded in Europe as a new era of freedom and democracy. But for Russia, it marked the loss of an empire. Steve Rosenberg explores how Moscow views the tumultuous events of 1989 and how Vladimir Putin’s Russia is trying to regain its influence. [Read more…]

BBC Our World – Two Brains, One Skull – Separating Conjoined Twins (2019)

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BBC Our World – Two Brains, One Skull – Separating Conjoined Twins (2019)
English | Size: 347 MB
Category: Documentary


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Safa and Marwa are twin girls who were born joined at the head. They were brought, by their family, from Pakistan to London’s Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital for a series of highly complex operations to separate them. The BBC’s Fergus Walsh has followed them through the dangerous nine-month process aimed at giving independence to the girls, who have never been able to see each other’s faces. [Read more…]

BBC Our World – Inside China’s Camps (2019) 720p HDTV

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BBC Our World – Inside China’s Camps (2019) 720p HDTV
English | Size: 316 MB
Category: Documentary


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China is now thought to be holding more than a million Muslims in giant camps in its far west region of Xinjiang. The authorities insist that the facilities are not prisons but schools, where ‘thought transformation’ is taking place to combat violent extremism. Reporter John Sudworth gets rare, highly controlled access to go inside and, despite official supervision, uncovers important evidence about the nature of the system. [Read more…]

BBC – Our World 2019 Sudans Bloody Uprising 720p HDTV

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BBC – Our World 2019 Sudans Bloody Uprising 720p HDTV
English | Size: 296 MB
Category: Documentary


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In December 2018, the people of Sudan rose up against the thirty-year dictatorship of Omar al-Bashir. He stood down in April, but his supporters remain in control and in June they launched a vicious attack on unarmed protestors leaving over a hundred dead and scores raped and beaten. Namak Khoshnaw follows a young Sudanese doctor, who took part in the protests, as she celebrates the uprising’s success only to watch it collapse in the face of terrifying violence. [Read more…]

BBC Our World 2019 The Best Pakistani Transgender Retirement Home 720p

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BBC Our World 2019 The Best Pakistani Transgender Retirement Home 720p
English | Size: 385 MB
Category: Documentary


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In a country where it is expected that your extended family will look after you in your old age, what do you do if they long ago rejected you? That is a question for most of Pakistan’s transgender community. They have often spent their lives ostracised by their families, scraping a living together by dancing at weddings or as sex workers. Now, one member of the community, Guru Ashee, is setting up Pakistan’s first retirement home for transgender people. Mobeen Azhar has been to Lahore to meet her. [Read more…]