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Waiting To Inhale: The Health Benefits of Medical Marijuana

Waiting to Inhale is a documentary that examines the heated debate over marijuana and its use as medicine in the United States. Twelve states have passed legislation to protect patients who use medical marijuana. Yet opponents claim the medical argument is just a smokescreen for a different agenda– to legalize marijuana for recreation and profit. [...]

May 6, 2011 Marijuana 0 Comments

The Beautiful Truth

Raised on a wildlife reserve in Alaska, 15-year-old Garrett was interested in the dietary habits of the farm animals. After the tragic death of his mother, Garrett’s father decided to home-school his son and assigned a book written by Dr. Max Gerson that proposed a direct link between diet and a cure for cancer.
Fascinated, Garrett [...]

February 5, 2011 Food 1 Comment

The Secret Life of Your Body Clock

Why are you more likely to have a heart attack at eight o’clock in the morning or crash your car on the motorway at two o’clock in the afternoon? Can taking your medication at the right time of day really save your life? And have you ever wondered why teenagers will not get out of [...]

January 3, 2011 Health 0 Comments

Extraordinary Breastfeeding

Extraordinary Breastfeeding features three women at different stages of the breastfeeding cycle and questions why there is such a stigma attached to the amount of time women breastfeed their children.
In this challenging and revealing documentary we will witness the extremes, from one mother who stopped breastfeeding at six months to another who is still breastfeeding [...]

January 3, 2011 Health 0 Comments

The Business of Being Born

The Business of Being Born explores the contemporary experience of childbirth in the United States. Produced by Ricki Lake, it compares various childbirth methods, including midwives, natural births, epidurals, and Cesarean sections.
The film criticizes the American health care system with its emphasis on drugs and costly interventions and its view of childbirth as a medical [...]

December 8, 2010 Health 9 Comments

Taboo: Mind-Altering Drugs

National Geographic’s Taboo: Drugs explores drug cultures around the world where people use drugs to enter an “altered state” – sometimes with dangerous consequences. We visit a village in Venezuela where shamans use drugs to contact the spirit world, a festival in Nepal where hashish is temporarily legalized and a club scene in Amsterdam where [...]

October 3, 2010 Drugs 0 Comments

Waking Life

From Richard Linklater, the director of Slacker and Dazed and Confused comes one of the most imaginative animated features ever made. This funny, ingenious film, which Rolling Stone Magazine calls “nothing short of amazing,” explores the fascinating question: “Are we sleep-walking through our waking state or wake or walking through our [...]

September 27, 2010 Psychology 1 Comment

Carl Jung: Matter Of Heart

“The psyche is the greatest of all cosmic wonders and the “sine qua non” of the world as an object. It is in the highest degree odd that Western man, with but very few – and ever fewer – exceptions, apparently pays so little regard to this fact.
Swamped by the knowledge of external objects, [...]

August 22, 2010 Psychology 0 Comments

Illegal Drugs: How They Got That Way

Crack, Cocaine, Opium, Marijuana, Heroine, etc. – Illegal Drugs have an enormous impact on society. They make addictive, shorten our live-expectancy and change the way we interact with other people.
Drugs are therefore not only a risk for ourselves but also for others. But many drugs have not always been illegal, but were a medication against [...]

July 23, 2010 Drugs 0 Comments

Inside Ferrari’s Ultimate Factory

An inside look at Ferrari’s legendary factory in Maranello, Italy. Learn how the latest Ferrari models are hand-crafted and engineered with the precision of a space craft using state-of-the-art technology. Ferrari makes cars for the street and for the car racing track and has a long history of dominating F1 Racing. Few outsiders or cameras [...]

July 4, 2010 Sports 1 Comment

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