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18th Street Gang Story	18th Street gang is considered to be the largest transnational criminal gang in Los Angeles, California. It is estimated that there are thousands of members in Los Angeles County alone. There are approximately 200 separate individual autonomous gangs operating under the same label within separate barrios in the San Fernando Valley, the San Gabriel Valley, the South Bay, South Los Angeles, Downtown Los Angeles, Pico Union, Inglewood, Cudahy, and Orange County, according to the latest figures from (More Info) Categories: Law Enforcement, Society Duration: 00:55:31 Date Added: 2011-07-15 13:41:54 Views: 676 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist

Ancient Secrets - The Sphinx	Discover the Ancient Secrets behind the world’s most enduring – and infamous – structures, legends, and icons. Unearthing historical evidence and revealing new theories, the series features expert testimonials and dramatic recreations to separate the truth from the myth, while also painting a picture of the ancient lives that brought each of these fabled items into being. From well-known mysteries like whose face adorns the great sphinx to lesser known stories such as an intrig (More Info) Categories: Mystery, History, Society Duration: 00:45:12 Date Added: 2011-01-09 00:00:00 Views: 538 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist

Aryan Brotherhood	The Aryan Brotherhood, also known as The Brand, the AB, or the One-Two, is a white prison gang and organized crime syndicate in the United States with about 15,000 members in and out of prison. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), although the gang makes up less than 1% of the prison population, it is responsible for up to 18% of murders in the federal prison system. The AB has focused on the economic activities typical of organized crime entities, particularly drug traffickin (More Info) Categories: Law Enforcement, Society Duration: 00:47:29 Date Added: 2010-11-25 00:00:00 Views: 1109 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist

Blood Diamonds: The True Story	The documentary series exploring infamous historical events continues. Earlier this year, Leonardo di Caprio starred in the Hollywood blockbuster ‘Blood Diamonds’. This documentary goes behind the story of that film to explore how the worldwide diamond trade has funded wars across western and central Africa, leading to the death and displacement of millions of people. Sierra Leone on Africa’s west coast is one of the poorest nations on earth, with an average income of just 2 (More Info) Categories: Society, Disaster, Economics Duration: 00:46:26 Date Added: 2011-08-04 20:28:37 Views: 479 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist

Born Into Brothels	A tribute to the resiliency of childhood and the restorative power of art, BORN INTO BROTHELS is a portrait of several unforgettable children who live in Calcutta's red light district, where there mothers work as prostitutes. Spurred by the kids' facination with her camera, Zana Briski, a New-York-based photographer living in the brothels and documenting life there, decides to teach them photography. As they begin to look at and record their world through new eyes, the kids, who society refused (More Info) Categories: Economics, Society Duration: 01:23:20 Date Added: 2011-03-06 00:00:00 Views: 424 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist

Born Rich	Born Rich is a 2003 documentary about the experience of growing up as a child in one of the world's richest families. It was created by Jamie Johnson, heir to the Johnson & Johnson fortune. It was purchased by HBO. The film was described as "a documentary on children of the insanely rich, directed by one of their own, Johnson & Johnson Inc. heir Jamie Johnson." It consists primarily of Johnson interviewing his friends and peers about the experience of living life free of financial con (More Info) Categories: Society Duration: 01:07:49 Date Added: 2010-10-27 00:00:00 Views: 423 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist

Chasing Mummies - 5 Chambers	If you thought archaeology was for mild-mannered folk who like standing around in fields digging up old coins, then think again. Angry archaeologist Dr Zahi Hawass runs 250 digs throughout Egypt – and makes Indiana Jones look like a wimp. This brand new ground-breaking series follows the master at work, as he and his crew explore the pyramids, crypts and tombs of the ancient land. A nightmare boss Dr Hawass may be, as he runs his teams of interns ra (More Info) Categories: History, Society Duration: 00:40:17 Date Added: 2011-09-02 17:21:01 Views: 502 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist

Chinas Ghost Army - The Terracotta Army	Nothing like China’s Terracotta Warriors has ever been created anywhere else in the world. Since being unearthed in 1974, experts have attempted to resolve an enduring enigma about one of archaeology’s greatest finds. Now, with the help of 21st century technology, the once mighty army with its life size warriors rises from the dust of two millennia. The tomb of China’s Terracotta Warriors is one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of the 20th century. N (More Info) Categories: History, Society, Mystery Duration: 00:45:03 Date Added: 2011-06-22 00:00:00 Views: 658 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist

Congo - White King, Red Rubber, Black Death	The Belgian government has denounced this documentary as a "tendentious diatribe" for depicting King Leopold II - still a heroic figure in Belgium - as the moral forebear of Adolf Hitler, responsible for the death of 10 million people in his rapacious exploitation of the Congo. This true, shocking, astonishing story of what the Belgians did in the Congo was forgotten for over 50 years. Congo:White King, Red Rubber, Black Death describes Leopold II, King of the Belgium's private colony (More Info) Categories: Disaster, Economics, Society Duration: 01:49:34 Date Added: 2010-10-23 00:00:00 Views: 415 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist

Crude	The discovery of crude oil and a look at its future existence. (More Info) Categories: Disaster, Economics, Society Duration: 01:29:18 Date Added: 2011-01-14 00:00:00 Views: 406 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist

Deadliest Journeys - Brazil	Meet 14-year-old Jesse. Like the other "riberinhos," or river dwellers, he learned to swim and paddle before he could walk. Alongside other children as young as five, he rows for hours a day on the Tajaparu River, risking death trying to fasten his tiny canoe onto fast moving tourist boats and freight barges. The children hope to earn a few pennies for their families, selling jungle delicacies to the passengers and crew. But what happens when Jesse pushes his luck too far? (More Info) Categories: Survival, Travel, Society Duration: 00:21:56 Date Added: 2010-11-25 00:00:00 Views: 442 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist

Declassified - The Taliban	Originally produced for The History Channel, Declassified: The Taliban documents the historical actions of the United States and the Soviet Union in their attempts to gain control over Afghanistan. Their activities helped give rise to the religiously strict organization that eventually became responsible for acts of terrorism around the globe. (More Info) Categories: Military, Society Duration: 00:44:09 Date Added: 2010-11-25 00:00:00 Views: 342 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist

Decoding The Past - Cults - Dangerous Devotion	From the bizarre prophecies of Charles Manson to the desperate paranoia of Jim Jones, cult leaders draw us into worlds of power, paranoia, and death. Through interviews with world-renowned scholars and the survivors of cultic tragedy, we will unmask the mystery of cults. From Jim Jones' pursuit of a socialist paradise to Warren Jeffs' Yearning for Zion ranch, cult leaders have twisted the quest for purity into an obsession with madness and murder. (More Info) Categories: Society, Psychology, Religion Duration: 01:30:06 Date Added: 2010-12-02 00:00:00 Views: 568 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist

Desert Nights	Fighting human trafficking in Dubai. Together with the Hetq Investigative Journalists of Armenia, SNFF set out in 2004 to fight human trafficking in Dubai, where numerous Armenian children and women were forced to engage in prostitution. Exposing their lives to danger, Ara K. Manoogian, Artsakh representative of the SNFF, and Edik Baghdasaryan, editor-in-chief of Hetq, eventually succeeded in setting a number of victims of human trafficking free and preventing thousands from tread (More Info) Categories: Sexuality, Law Enforcement, Society Duration: 00:49:46 Date Added: 2011-07-04 00:00:00 Views: 677 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist

Desperate Virgins	Losing your virginity is one of the most talked about, agonised-over rites of passage. People worry about when it'll happen and what it will be like. It can be embarrassing, frightening, exciting and can, ultimately, be liberating. Whatever it's like, the first time is never forgotten. Desperate Virgins is a touching intimate investigation into the lives of three very different people who have yet to experience one of life's most important rites of passage: having sex for the first ti (More Info) Categories: Sexuality, Society Duration: 00:50:43 Date Added: 2010-11-08 00:00:00 Views: 1032 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist

Dirty Jobs: High-Rise Window Washer	DIRTY JOBS profiles the unsung American laborers who make their living in the most unthinkable — yet vital — ways. Our brave host and apprentice Mike Rowe will introduce you to a hardworking group of men and women who overcome fear, danger and sometimes stench and overall ickiness to accomplish their daily tasks. In This Episode: Mike travels to Hawaii where he harnesses up and hops into a bosun's chair to clean windows 40-stories above downtown Honolulu. (More Info) Categories: Comedy, Health, Society Duration: 00:42:02 Date Added: 2011-09-16 15:03:44 Views: 359 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist

Dogtown And Z-Boys	In the early 1970s, a group of young surfers from a tough neighborhood south of Santa Monica took up skateboards and offhandedly changed the world. At least it appears so after watching Dogtown and Z-Boys, a documentary about how twelve "Z-Boys" (including one girl) resuscitated a dead sport and created a lifestyle that spread infectiously to become a worldwide counterculture phenomenon, namely high-flying "vert" (i.e. vertical) skateboarding and punk rock abandon. Director Stacy Peralta, one of (More Info) Categories: Sport, Society, History Duration: 01:24:08 Date Added: 2011-03-23 00:00:00 Views: 390 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist

Doomsday Preppers	Unique in their beliefs, motivations and strategies, explore the lives of four families preparing for the end of the world as we know it. From bunkers to fortified off-the-grid locations, these doomsday preppers will go to whatever lengths they can to make sure they are prepared for any of life’s uncertainties. And with our expert’s assessment, they will find out their chances of survival if their worst fears became a reality. (More Info) Categories: Disaster, Society Duration: 00:44:44 Date Added: 2011-07-07 11:42:39 Views: 1784 Rating: 9.00/10 Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist

Drugs Inc: Meth	Some call methamphetamine the "Devil's Drug." Often made in less than an hour from a common cold remedy, this powerful stimulant is sweeping across the U.S. and Asia. Follow a raid on a suspected meth lab, stake out a neighborhood pharmacy where addicts attempt to accumulate cold and flu pills, and meet a neuroscientist urgently searching for a cure for addiction. See the dangers of meth and the unexpected physical damages caused by the drug. (More Info) Categories: Drugs, Law Enforcement, Society Duration: 00:45:56 Date Added: 2011-01-16 00:00:00 Views: 730 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist

Earthlings	Since we all inhabit the Earth, all of us are considered earthlings. There is no sexism, no racism, or speciesism in the term earthling. It encompasses each and every one of us, warm or cold-blooded, mammal, vertebrae or invertebrate, bird, reptile, amphibian, fish, and human alike. Humans, therefore, being not the only species on this planet, share this world with millions of other living creatures as we all evolved here together. EARTHLINGS is a feature length documentary about humanity’s ab (More Info) Categories: Society, Nature Duration: 01:35:28 Date Added: 2011-01-21 00:00:00 Views: 405 Rating: N/A Watch Full Documentary Here! Add To Playlist