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<title>Cartels and Police Corruption - Inside Mexico's Drug War</title>
<link>http://www.factualtv.com/documentary/cartels-and-police-corruption-inside-mexicos-drug-war</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In today's Mexico, drug cartels have become so powerful, they're threatening the stability of the country. For the past two and a half years, President Felipe Calder&oacute;n has been waging open war on the drugs cartels. 10,000 people have been killed; some regions in Mexico are now more dangerous than Baghdad. Making the government's job more difficult, many local police officers have been bribed by the cartels. To combat them, the government has recruited incorruptible policemen and installed secret cameras in police stations. We investigate Mexico's drugs war.]]></description>
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<title>XXL - Extra Large Lives</title>
<link>http://www.factualtv.com/documentary/xxl-extra-large-lives</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[More than 300 million people worldwide are obese. According to the WHO, obesity will become the major health issue of the third millennium. In Italy, a special hospital has been set up to treat people suffering from this disease. We follow five patients through the five week programme as they take the first few steps to recovery.
Some cases can be linked to genetics, Giada, 20 eats very little but is still overweight, as is her father and brother. More often though, sufferers are caught in a vicious cycle of dieting, over-eating, depression and despair. Maria Rosaria, 21, has struggled with her weight since she was just 12. She lost her mother when she was very young and suffers from loneliness and poor self esteem. Silvia, 32, has spent years trying to overcome her obesity. She had a gastric band fitted which caused her constant pain, and spent time at a health farm where she followed an extreme diet. Back home she couldn't keep it up and turned to appetite suppressants. Her skin started to peel off and her mouth bled.
Beating obesity is a life-long process. There are no quick-fix cures. The goal for programme's participants is to slim down and to stabilise for a year before losing the final 10 or 15% of their excess weight. Once they have achieved this they can start losing the last few kilos, but, they must accept that even when the weight is lost, they will never be entirely free of the disease. There is every risk that it could come back to haunt them.]]></description>
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<title>Tomi Ungerer versus America</title>
<link>http://www.factualtv.com/documentary/tomi-ungerer-versus-america</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[One morning in 1968, New York woke up to a new slogan: &ldquo;Expect the Unexpected&rdquo;. It was a slogan of a new campaign for the Village Voice. And it was to become the slogan of sixties New York. It was a time of a cultural revolution: the anti-segregation movement, political riots and anti-Vietnam war protests, but also Peace and Love, the Rock revolution, the miniskirt. New York was in the center and every day you could&hellip; expect the unexpected.
The author of this slogan was a young French artist Tomi Ungerer. He not only designed the Village Voice campaign and many others, he also published a dozen books for children, created political posters and wrote social satire. This film takes you on a journey to the New York and the America of the 60s with a very unique guide &ndash; Tomi Ungerer. He brings us back to the heart of what would be called the golden age of American culture. But it's not a nostalgic trip. Instead, it's an explanation of the forces that shaped today's America and predicts how the US will develop in future.]]></description>
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<title>Ukrainian Brides 8 years later</title>
<link>http://www.factualtv.com/documentary/ukrainian-brides-8-years-later</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In 2000, Nili Tali produced a film about Israeli men traveling to the Ukraine in search of young wives. Eight years on, she returns to see what's happened to the couples since. Perhaps unsurprisingly, many of these relationships did not survive. One bride ended up homeless and alone in Israel. Another was forced to return to the Ukraine, leaving her baby behind. But other couples are still together. How were these wives able to overcome the cultural and religious divides and adapt to life in Israel? Can anything be learnt from these relationships?]]></description>
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<title>This Dust of Words</title>
<link>http://www.factualtv.com/documentary/this-dust-of-words</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A hauntingly beautiful meditation on genius and madness. Even at a young age, Elizabeth Wiltsee was different. With an IQ of 200, she was reading classical Greek at ten and taught herself Mandarin for fun. After graduating, the world should have been Elizabeth's oyster. But she shunned what she called &lsquo;the fancy life' to live on the fringes of society. A decade later, parishioners in a small farming community would find her sleeping in the doorway of their church, apparently mute and adverse to all offers of help. Then she calmly walked into the wilderness and waited to die. Why? &lsquo;This Dust of Words' is an elegy for a life lived differently, right to the end.]]></description>
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<title>Tasmania Chainsaw Massacre</title>
<link>http://www.factualtv.com/documentary/tasmania-chainsaw-massacre</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[We investigate how demand for cheap paper is fuelling the destruction of Tasmania's lush primary forests. For thousands of years, the primary forests of Tasmania remained untouched, providing a home for a number of endangered species. Then, in 1970, the paper industry moved in. Around 8 million cubic metres of wood are cut down in Tasmania each year, lining the coffers of the timber companies but emptying the forest of trees.
Ecologists have denounced this as a literal &lsquo;chain saw massacre', and have mounted a spirited resistance, hiding out in tree houses and blocking heavy machinery from entering the forests. They remain dedicated to their cause, even when faced with violence and abuse. But these environmentalists have moved way beyond these artisanal methods. They have also launched an international internet campaign against Gunns, the biggest player in the wood industry, urging investors not to fund the company's new pulp mill project.
As both protestors and industrialists resort to more and more extreme methods, who will be the winners in this increasingly bitter battle?]]></description>
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<title>Playground</title>
<link>http://www.factualtv.com/documentary/playground</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Co-produced by George Clooney, Steven Soderbergh and Grant Heslov, this is a groundbreaking investigation into the multi-million dollar pedophilia industry. Filmmaker Libby Spears infiltrated the brothels of Asia, then traced the sex tourists back to America. What she discovered was that it is as easy to buy a child in the US as it is in Asia. Speaking to pimps, victims and police officers, she exposes how young children are pushed into prostitution. Running alongside the investigation is the personal stories of the victims. We follow the main character, Michelle, over a five year period.]]></description>
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<title>Pablo Escobar - The Great Hunt</title>
<link>http://www.factualtv.com/documentary/pablo-escobar-the-great-hunt</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[He was once the most wanted man in the world, controlling 80% of the global cocaine market and running one of the greatest crime empires in history. He had a personal fortune of $5 billion, a private zoo, his own army of soldiers and hardened criminals. For years, he defied the US and Colombian governments, killing thousands of people while at the same time generously donating to the poor. A myth in his own lifetime, he was transformed into an icon after his death. Even today, the fascination with Pablo Escobar continues.
In this gripping new film, we reveal the true story behind the hunt for Pablo Escobar. Featuring unseen private footage and interviews with his family and the police officers who tracked him down and killed him, this is the definitive story of the rise and fall of Pablo Escobar.]]></description>
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<title>Muti Murders</title>
<link>http://www.factualtv.com/documentary/muti-murders</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[London, 21 September 2001. In the murky waters of the Thames, a passer-by discovers the lifeless body of a 5-year old African child. Its the arms, legs and head have been removed. For Scotland Yard, this discovery sparked the most intensive and most unusual murder investigation ever conducted. Information from a unique police unit, specialising in occult crimes, lead investigators to deduce that the boy had been sacrificed in a ritual murder of a type which, up to this, had been practised predominantly in southern Africa. These mysterious "muti" murders are an extreme form of occult belief: the body parts or blood of a killed person are ingested as a "muti medicine", in order to grant another person health, power, wealth or strength. We follow Scotland Yard's investigation and investigate the links between the historical, religious and criminological backgrounds to ritual murder.]]></description>
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<title>Marbella - The Hidden Face of Dirty Money</title>
<link>http://www.factualtv.com/documentary/marbella-the-hidden-face-of-dirty-money</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[With its idyllic location and Mediterranean climate, Marbella aspired to be the Spanish San Tropez. It catered to the wealthy, attracting elites from the Middle East and East-Europe.
But it wasn't just Marbella's stunning scenery that attracted immigrants. For years, authorities issued construction permits recklessly, allowing the anarchic building of luxury blocks. Land and apartments could be paid for in up to 50% cash - enormous sums of money that facilitated the laundering of drug money. And Marbella location, just a few miles from Morocco, placed it at one of the major crossroads of the drug trade. Jet-setters, traffickers, cash&mdash;it's an explosive cocktail. And two years ago, the Spanish police decided to clean it up.]]></description>
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<title>Low Carbon - The Economics of Climate Change</title>
<link>http://www.factualtv.com/documentary/low-carbon</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The Earth is warming, oil reserves are running out, our way of life is unsustainable. For years, environmentalists have been lecturing us to reduce our carbon footprint or suffer the consequences. A survey commissioned by the British government concluded that climate change will account for a 5 to 20% loss in Gross World Product within the next 30 years.
But reducing our use of carbon doesn't have to mean a rejection of capitalism or turning our backs on the niceties of modern life. From driving electric cars to producing ethanol from waste products, controlling carbon change is in fact creating new economic opportunities. In the words of Jeremy Rifkin, author of "The Hydrogen Economy", a move to a low carbon economy is &lsquo;the biggest extension of capitalism in history, empowering people'.]]></description>
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<title>Secret History - Gulag Archipelago</title>
<link>http://www.factualtv.com/documentary/gulag-archipelago</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It was one of the most important books of the twentieth century. An account so shocking few believed it could be true. But the real story of how Solzhenitsyn's &lsquo;Gulag Archipelago' came to be published is just as remarkable as the manuscript itself. Terrified he would be arrested by the KGB, Solzehenitsyn wrote his novel in secret safe houses, regularly changing location. Each section of the book was hidden in a different place. A network of selected friends, known as the 'invisibles', then had to smuggle the manuscript to the West in the form of microfilms. Filming in Moscow, Lithuania, Bremen, Stockholm and Paris, 'Secret History: The Gulag Archipelago' is an unbelievable trip to the other side of the Iron Curtain.]]></description>
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<title>Freeing Ingrid Betancourt</title>
<link>http://www.factualtv.com/documentary/freeing-ingrid-betancourt</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The sensational story behind the liberation of Ingrid Betancourt. On the 2nd July, 2008 the Colombian army rescued Ingrid Betancourt, FARC's most valuable hostage. It had taken more than six years to secure her freedom. Six years of negotiations, parallel diplomacy and double bluff. On that very day, our journalists were filming a FARC unit in the jungles of Colombia. Witness their reactions as they learn of Betancourt's release. How did she come to be finally freed? Was a ransom paid and what role did the Colombian government play in her release? For the first time, the military officers involved explain what really happened. Unpublished pictures, taken by Colombian Special Forces, reveal the last days, the last hours and the last minutes of the captivity of Ingrid B&eacute;tancourt...]]></description>
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<title>Faking it - The Rise of the Counterfeit Goods Trade</title>
<link>http://www.factualtv.com/documentary/faking-it-the-rise-of-the-counterfeit-goods-trade</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It's said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. But not in the case of the counterfeit goods market, which has moved far beyond merely copying designer bags and clothing. No longer content to be just an economic menace, the counterfeiters are putting our health and safety at risk.
Who makes these fake products? How do they get into Europe? This enquiry takes us to China, Hong Kong, and Cambodia as we meet the counterfeiters and their opponents; crack teams of customs specialists who employ radical methods to stop this illegal practice which puts lives at risk.]]></description>
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<title>Facing Anorexia</title>
<link>http://www.factualtv.com/documentary/facing-anorexia</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A confronting look at the world of anorexics. 11 year old Tessa has been fighting anorexia since she was 7. Her condition went undiagnosed for years because doctors thought she was too young to have an eating disorder. In this emotional film, Tessa and other sufferers open up to the cameras as we follow them through their treatment. They describe becoming addicted to pro-anorexia websites, being too weak to walk and how every day has become a battle for survival. We also hear from their families on the impact of living with anorexia.]]></description>
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<title>Comrade Evo</title>
<link>http://www.factualtv.com/documentary/comrade-evo</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Three years in the making and featuring rare access to Evo Morales, this film explores the inner workings of power in Bolivia. Morales' reforms, aimed at helping the poor, threaten the interests of rich landowners and the business elite. There have been numerous plots against him. Filmmaker Rodrigo Vazquez spent three years following Morales, from his presidential campaign through the years of bitter struggle for constitutional and economic reform.]]></description>
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<title>Bruna</title>
<link>http://www.factualtv.com/documentary/bruna</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Twenty years ago, an Israeli family adopted a baby Brazilian girl called Bruna. After two years, the biological mother turned up, claiming Bruna had been kidnapped and that she had never consented to the adoption. With the help of a television crew, she petitioned the high court for her daughter's return. Despite allegations that the mother had sold Bruna, it was decided Bruna would suffer no irreversible damage if she were to be returned. She left Israel's suburbs for the favelas of Brazil. What has happened to Bruna since then? Was the intervention of the television crew justified and was she really kidnapped? We return to Brazil to uncover the truth.]]></description>
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<title>Babies Made in India</title>
<link>http://www.factualtv.com/documentary/babies-made-in-india</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[India is rapidly becoming the world's baby factory. It's one of the few countries in the world which authorises payment for surrogacy. For &euro;10,000, you can receive fertility treatment, IVF and have the resulting embryos impregnated in a surrogate mother. Nine months later, you return and collect your new baby. On the surface, it seems to be a win-win scenario. Infertile couples get to have a baby while impoverished women receive enough money to pay for their own children's schooling or buy a small house. But with so many ethical issues at play, can surrogacy really be treated like any other business?]]></description>
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<title>Arc of Fire</title>
<link>http://www.factualtv.com/documentary/arc-of-fire</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[They call it &lsquo;Arc of Fire'. It's the biggest operation against illegal logging in Brazil's history. And its mission is to save the Amazon. Since April 2008, Federal Police, National Security Force Agents and the Environmental Protection Agency have been conducting joint operations against the timber mafia. It's been dubbed the first ecological war of the 21st century. Hundreds of armed policemen scour the Amazon by helicopter, looking for signs of illegal deforestation. Already, they've imposed millions of Euros in fines, dismantled illegal sawmills and razed thousands of charcoal ovens to the ground. But locals, who rely on the lumber industry, claim Operation Arc of Fire is driving them to destitution.]]></description>
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<title>An Island Calling</title>
<link>http://www.factualtv.com/documentary/an-island-calling</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The brutal murder of John Scott, Head of Fiji's Red Cross, and his gay partner is still clouded in rumour and political mystery. In a country that has become increasingly fundamentalist, many regarded the couple with hostility. Allegations of drug use, pornography and rent boys circled. Shortly before his death, Scott came to international acclaim helping hostages during the 2000 coup. Was his murder a political assassination; the result of a soured love affair or an act of insanity? This award winning documentary uses the murders to examine Fiji's history over the past 50 years. Narrated by Scott's brother, it's a moving tale of colonial privilege, evangelical Christianity and a country still deeply divided.]]></description>
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