Kevin Rose interviews Kevin Systrom, Founder of Instagram.
After interning at Odeo (now Twitter) and working at Google, Kevin founded Instagram, the popular photo sharing app for the iPhone, which Facebook recently bought for a billion dollars.
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Richard Dawkins and Catholic Cardinal George Pell in a heated debate on religion, morals and evolution, broadcast on ABC, 10/04/2012.
Watch NowStephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive - Episode 2
Stephen Fry presents this documentary exploring the disease of manic depression; a little understood but potentially devastating condition affecting an estimated two percent of the population. Stephen embarks on an emotional journey to meet fellow sufferers, and discuss the literal highs and lows of being bi-polar. Celebrities such as Carrie Fisher and Richard Dreyfuss invite…
Watch NowHorizon – Who’s Afraid of a Big Black Hole
Black holes are one of the most destructive forces in the universe, capable of tearing a planet apart and swallowing an entire star. Yet scientists now believe they could hold the key to answering the ultimate question – what was there before the Big Bang? The trouble is that researching them is next to impossible….
Watch NowRichard Dawkins & Archbishop of Canterbury on Human Nature & Ultimate Origin
Philosopher Sir Anthony Kenny chairs a dialogue between the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, and Professor Richard Dawkins on the subject of “The nature of human beings and the question of their ultimate origin.” The event was held in the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford University on the 23/02/2012 and is hosted by the Sofia Europa…
Watch NowRoss Kemp at Royal United Services Institute
Ross Kemp has walked along the road to recovery with a number of British service personnel. In this unique event he shares some new dimensions of his experiences on the front line in Afghanistan during OP HERRICKS 6, 7 and 9 in the making of his landmark TV series; the effect of seeing men wounded…
Watch NowRoss Kemp: Middle East – Part 1
In this 2 part documentary series Ross Kemp follows Hamas to try and get a glimpse at what is sparking the violence between the two nations in some of the most politically fraught places in the world. He also examines the black market importation from Egypt into Gaza.
Watch NowBanged up Abroad – Kuwait (Scott’s Story)
The amazing and moving story of Scott White, whose party lifestyle as a young man in Kuwait during the late 1980s saw him using his wealthy father’s money to illegally brew alcohol and purchase hashish. He was eventually arrested for drug dealing and sentenced to half a decade in prison, but he was able to…
Watch NowPutin, Russia and the West – Ep 4: New Start
The final episode of the series tells the inside story of two relationships: Barack Obama’s campaign to win over Russia’s new President Dmitry Medvedev, and Medvedev’s own complex dealings with Vladimir Putin. Obama became president determined to rid the world of nuclear weapons. To begin the process he needed Russian help. So he set out…
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In this recent Whizin Center for Continuine Education program, leading advocates for atheism, Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris square off against Newsweek top rabbis, David Wolpe and Bradley Artson Shavit to determine what may or may not happen in the hereafter. The possibility of an afterlife has challenged believers and atheists alike for centuries. Because…
Watch NowA Universe From Nothing
Lawrence Krauss gives a talk on our current picture of the universe, how it will end, and how it could have come from nothing. Krauss is the author of many bestselling books on Physics and Cosmology, including “The Physics of Star Trek.” If you’ve ever wanted to answer that annoying question, “how could the Universe…
Watch NowWorld’s Strictest Parents
Unruly teenagers are sent abroad to live with strict families in an experiment to find out the right way to bring up a child. These series document the journey of unruly teens from different families as they are forced to adapt to the rules and regulations of very strict host parents. Living under different standards…
Watch NowWings of Evolution
Wings of Evolution is a film which revolves around the revolutionary educational system of Siragu Montessori School, a school for homeless and underprivileged children, located in the remote outskirts of Chennai in Tamil Nadu, India. For a long time, the focus of education in India has been one of compulsive learning procedures, rote learning and…
Watch NowWelcome to North Korea
The winner of the 2001 International Emmy award for Best Documentary, Welcome to North Korea is a grotesquely surreal look at the all-too-real conditions in modern-day North Korea. Dutch filmmaker Peter Tetteroo and his associate Raymond Feddema spent a week in and around the North Korean capital of Pyongyang — ample time to represent the…
Watch NowToronto G20 Exposed
Get the complete time line of what happened from the opening day of the summit; the anti-globalism demonstrations, the Black Bloc riots, the burning police cars and the ensuing mass arrests. The film highlights the apparent 1.2 billion dollar security failure and puts into question what kind of policies were in place to direct the…
Watch NowThis Film Is Not Yet Rated
Documentary filmmaker Kirby Dick launches an incendiary, full-frontal assault on the Motion Picture Association of America’s Classification and Ratings Administration (a.k.a. the MPAA’s CARA). This is the entity that assigns ratings to movies — the familiar G, PG, PG-13, R, and NC-17 designations. This secret, unregulated organization wields considerable power over the film industry and…
Watch NowThe Oasis
Every night across Australia over 22,000 young people have nowhere to sleep. Filmed over two years, this documentary follows Captain Paul Moldes of the Oasis Youth Network who has dedicated his life to saving them. With scenes that some viewers may find disturbing and frequent course language, this film tries to stay true to reality…
Watch NowThe Globalization Tapes
If we are united in our struggle against worker oppression, united in our search for truth amidst lies, united for a truly participatory democratic economic system, the possibilities are only limited by our courage, our determination, and our capacity to imagine. A collaboration between the Independent Plantation Workers’ Union of Sumatra (Indonesia), the International Union…
Watch NowThe Fort Fisher Hermit
Robert E. Harrill, The Fort Fisher Hermit, spent 17 years under the stars and scrub oaks of Fort Fisher, North Carolina. Surviving off the land and the contributions from thousands of visitors, the Fort Fisher Hermit became one of the areas largest tourist attractions. But Robert’s new life wasn’t as idyllic as he made it…
Watch NowThe End of Suburbia
Since World War II North Americans have invested much of their newfound wealth in suburbia. It has promised a sense of space, affordability, family life and upward mobility. As the population of suburban sprawl has exploded in the past 50 years, so too has the suburban way of life become embedded in the American consciousness….
Watch NowThe End of Poverty
Global poverty did not just happen. It began with military conquest, slavery and colonization that resulted in the seizure of land, minerals and forced labor. Today, the problem persists because of unfair debt, trade and tax policies – in other words, wealthy countries taking advantage of poor, developing countries. Renowned actor and activist, Martin Sheen,…
Watch NowThe Chinese Are Coming
Travelling across three continents, Justin Rowlatt investigates the spread of Chinese influence around the planet and asks what the world will be like if China overtakes America as the world’s economic superpower. In the first of two films, he embarks on a journey across Southern Africa to chart the extraordinary phenomenon of Chinese migration to…
Watch NowSudan: History of a Broken Land
It was the giant of Africa: a nation which once represented the greatest hope for peaceful coexistence between Arab and African, Muslim and Christian. That hope is all but gone. The promise of Sudan was just an illusion. It is already a fractured country and, in the longer term, this is unlikely to be an…
Watch NowStephen Fry in America: Mountains and Plains
Starting with the airborne border patrol agents at the Canadian border in the stunning mountains of Montana, and ending at the very different border with Mexico in Texas, Stephen explores the natural beauty of the Rocky Mountains, and America’s breadbasket beside them. He meets Ted Turner and some of his 50,000 bison, encounters Wyoming ranchers…
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Stephen begins his epic 2000-mile journey up the Mississippi in the sultry, voodoo soaked streets of New Orleans during its busiest day of the year – Mardi Gras. He meets a Jewish Voodoo priestess, an Iraqi war veteran experiencing flashbacks in the abandoned neighbourhoods destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, down-and-outs not living the American Dream, and…
Watch NowStephen Fry in America: Deep South
Here, Stephen Fry explores what it is that makes the south so distinctive. He joins coal miners deep underground in West Virginia, meets a young man with the state of Kentucky tattooed on his butt, and enjoys a delirious session of bluegrass music-making in Tennessee. He has an encounter with a bear in the Smokey…
Watch NowStatus Anxiety
Why doesn’t money (usually) buy happiness? Alain de Botton breaks new ground for most of us, offering reasons for something our grandparents may well have told us, as children. It is rare, and pleasing, to see a substantial philosophical argument sustained as well as it is in this documentary. De Botton claims that we are…
Watch NowRSA Animate
The RSA is an enlightenment organization committed to finding innovative practical solutions to today’s social challenges. Through its ideas, research and 27,000-strong Fellowship it seeks to understand and enhance human capability so we can close the gap between today’s reality and people’s hopes for a better world. At the heart of the RSA’s contemporary mission…
Watch NowRosling’s World
Hans Rosling is a professor in international health, who has made an unlikely global success. His presentations on global development evokes laughter, rejoice and reflections. In this SVT (Swedish Television) documentary, film maker Pär Fjällström lets Hans Rosling tell the story about his life and what has shaped his world view. A doctor for 20…
Watch NowRichest People of The Middle East
In this special programme being broadcast by Discovery Channel, viewers gain an exclusive glimpse into the extraordinary lives of four men who have made millions by making their mark across the Middle East region. Meet Abu Dhabi’s Sheikh Hamad Al Nahyan, who has one of the most unique car collections in the world. He’s spent…
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