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May 15, 2012
What It's Like To Get A "Happy Ending" Massage As A 66-Year-Old Woman
January 3, 2010
Secrets of the Underworld: Viking Underground Dublin, via Hulu:
Dublin, Ireland is much more than pubs and pints. Pagan burial tombs, subterranean defense tunnels, and mysterious burial crypts line the underground below the rolling hills.
December 22, 2009
Super Size Me (Full Movie), via YouTube:
Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock makes himself a test subject in this documentary about the commercial food industry.
December 21, 2009
Brasil, Brasil - Samba to Bossa (BBC), via YouTube:
A documentary on Brazilian music and Brazilian musicians, looking for the true identity of Brasil through its music - music as a methaphor to the cultural and national true self. Very interesting and sometimes revealing even for us brazilians.(Part 1 of 7. Rest is here)
December 16, 2009
Frontline: Sex Slaves, via Google Video:
“Sex Slaves” is a gripping documentary expose inside the global sex trade in women from the former Soviet Bloc. The film takes viewers into the shadowy, multi-billion dollar world of sex trafficking. Part cinema verité, part investigation, Sex Slaves puts a human face on this most inhuman of contemporary issues. From the villages of Moldova and Ukraine, to underground brothels and discotheques in Turkey where many women are trafficked and forced into prostitution, we witness first-hand the brutal world of white sex slavery.
December 15, 2009
National Geographic Explorer: The Gorilla Murders, via YouTube:
National Geographic Explorer investigates the murder of six mountain gorillas in Africa’s Virunga National Park.
December 14, 2009
The Buena Vista Social Club, via Hulu.
The Buena Vista Social Club was a members club in Havana, Cuba that held dances and musical activities, becoming a popular location for musicians to meet and play during the 1940s. In the 1990s, nearly 50 years after the club was closed, it inspired a recording made by Cuban musician Juan de Marcos González and American guitarist Ry Cooder with traditional Cuban musicians, some of whom were veterans who had performed at the club during the height of its popularity.
