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wargames
Mar 16, 2008

official yospos cat censor

The Scientist posted:

I bet you haven't thought about these in forever:

http://www.youtube.com/show?p=s-Gqsjg9y-8
Terry Jones' Medieval Lives
Terry Jones, a dude from the original Monty Python comedy troupe, makes awesome documentaries. They're hilarious and delightful. These are about what life was really like for medieval people. edit: And for whatever awesome reason, they are apparently country-inspecific (you know the BBC usually tries to deny foreigners knowledge for some reason? You xenophobic bastards! :argh:)

Not blocked in America. :smug:

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BogDew
Jun 14, 2006

E:\FILES>quickfli clown.fli

The Scientist posted:

I bet you haven't thought about these in forever:

http://www.youtube.com/show?p=s-Gqsjg9y-8
Terry Jones' Medieval Lives
Terry Jones, a dude from the original Monty Python comedy troupe, makes awesome documentaries. They're hilarious and delightful. These are about what life was really like for medieval people. edit: And for whatever awesome reason, they are apparently country-inspecific (you know the BBC usually tries to deny foreigners knowledge for some reason? You xenophobic bastards! :argh:)

He's made some other documentaries:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=search_videos&search_query=terry+jones%2C+long&search_sort=relevance&search_category=0&page=

Run it through this.
http://www.daveproxy.co.uk/
Just untick the encrypt page option, tends to break YouTube.

Ropes4u
May 2, 2009

Baron Bifford posted:

Sex Slaves
A PBS Frontline documentary about sexual slavery in Eastern Europe. Watch a rescued slave's face break down as her pimp gets only 5 years probation for ruining her life.

I got some questions if anybody knows the answer:
1)How much does it cost for a pimp to acquire a foreign sex slave?
2)How much money does a sex slave bring in every month?

Dont know about cost, but there was a recent conviction on the news that claimed 20k a month for a teenager.

OhYeah
Jan 20, 2007

1. Currently the most prevalent form of decision-making in the western world

2. While you are correct in saying that the society owns

3. You have not for a second demonstrated here why

4. I love the way that you equate "state" with "bureaucracy". Is that how you really feel about the state
I checked the opening post and seems like this hasn't been suggested yet. I have a feeling that a lot of SA readers would find it both funny and educating.

Silly Money - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90TqPMAoiwg

A four episode mini-series by the British comedy trio Bremner, Bird and Fortune about the recent crecit crunch. It contains a lot of interesting facts and figures as well as hilarious sketches. Highly recommended to anyone who is interested in glocal econonomy and finance and appreciates dry British humour at the same time.

Benzene
Feb 1, 2007
So viel Spaß für wenig Geld.

Baron Bifford posted:

Sex Slaves
A PBS Frontline documentary about sexual slavery in Eastern Europe.

Jesus Christ, this is heartbreaking, especially at the end when Tania's little brother dies despite her returning to sexual slavery to pay for his medical treatment. Makes most problems look utterly trivial in comparison.

Baron Bifford
May 24, 2006
Probation
Can't post for 3 years!

Ropes4u posted:

Dont know about cost, but there was a recent conviction on the news that claimed 20k a month for a teenager.

Then a pimp can turn a profit on his investment in a matter of a few months. By the time the girl escapes or is rescued, he's already made his profit, and the chances of getting imprisoned are so weak. No wonder the sex trade thrives.

Rated PG-34
Jul 1, 2004




Baron Bifford posted:

Sex Slaves
A PBS Frontline documentary about sexual slavery in Eastern Europe. Watch a rescued slave's face break down as her pimp gets only 5 years probation for ruining her life.


A decent documentary but it doesn't provide any serious commentary on ideas for addressing the problems. For instance, the problem of human trafficking could be addressed through immigration reform, and not just locking up human traffickers, who often provide a desired service. When girls end up being enslaved, that could be addressed through legalizing prostitution, and not forcing the trade underground where girls are in a lot more danger.

JibbaJabberwocky
Aug 14, 2010

Selenite posted:

http://www.archive.org/details/chickenhawk

Chickenhawk: it's pedos openly talking about their "boy love". It's pretty drat creepy to see how these guys think and how they don't believe that they're the ones in the wrong, just the poor abused victims of a repressive society that doesn't recognize children's rights to sexual freedom(puke). Yeah, we already know about that but to actually see it is something else. Typically, the film will show one of these pedos talking earnestly about their "boy love". Then the scene cuts to a distraught parent, sometimes on the verge of tears. One scene has a couple of kids talking about how one pedo was "weird".

I know I watched this a long time ago, and I'm not entirely sure if I finished it. It's honestly pretty boring, and really creepy. All the men have deluded themselves into thinking that little boys are always flirting with them and trying to seduce them, so they don't feel badly for wanting to gently caress them. It's a really uncomfortable documentary. I guess Pedos have to pretend that the boys want it, otherwise they have to admit they are the bad guys and that their urges are seriously hosed up.

the kawaiiest
Dec 22, 2010

Uguuuu ~

Selenite posted:

http://www.archive.org/details/chickenhawk

Chickenhawk: it's pedos openly talking about their "boy love". It's pretty drat creepy to see how these guys think and how they don't believe that they're the ones in the wrong, just the poor abused victims of a repressive society that doesn't recognize children's rights to sexual freedom(puke). Yeah, we already know about that but to actually see it is something else. Typically, the film will show one of these pedos talking earnestly about their "boy love". Then the scene cuts to a distraught parent, sometimes on the verge of tears. One scene has a couple of kids talking about how one pedo was "weird".
Jesus gently caress I couldn't watch the whole thing. This is awful. Some guy actually describes raping a boy and claims that the kid "wanted it". What the gently caress is wrong with people? Jesus Christ. :gonk:

JibbaJabberwocky
Aug 14, 2010

the kawaiiest posted:

Jesus gently caress I couldn't watch the whole thing. This is awful. Some guy actually describes raping a boy and claims that the kid "wanted it". What the gently caress is wrong with people? Jesus Christ. :gonk:

It's the NAMBLA bulletin that :psyduck: 's me. I completely understand why some prisons wont let them get such mailings. NAMBLA masquerades as a "wholesome" organization but it's really shifty. And the nude fairy boy art. I don't know what the gently caress.

:smith: Also, Allen Ginsberg you upset me. I liked you more when I didn't know you were a pedophile.

Yeah I went back to rewatch it because I can't remember most of it. I basically don't care what pedophiles do as long as they're not purchasing porn or out molesting real children. It would suck to only be attracted to a type of person that couldn't legally consent (or morally I guess), but as long as they keep it in their pants they're not hurting anyone.

It's the guy that's always driving around who is the SUPER CREEPER. I don't doubt that some kids may be interested enough in sex to proposition adults, but the vast majority of them don't want anything to do with it. Even if the kids may think they're interested, they aren't considered competent to make those decisions. I love that this guy thinks the boys are flirting, even though the boys comment later that they thought he was just a retarded creepy fucker.

God this is so uncomfortable, I know why I didn't finish it last time. You can't believe anything that comes out of their mouths, they twist the truth so completely.

JibbaJabberwocky fucked around with this message at 02:36 on May 15, 2011

the kawaiiest
Dec 22, 2010

Uguuuu ~

JibbaJabberwocky posted:

It's the guy that's always driving around who is the SUPER CREEPER. I don't doubt that some kids may be interested enough in sex to proposition adults, but the vast majority of them don't want anything to do with it.
That's the fucker I'm talking about. He describes having anal sex with a kid and then says something like "he got what he wanted and I got what I wanted" and I was all AARGHH WHAT NO :gonk::smith::gonk: and that was when I stopped watching.

I understand that pedophiles, just as everyone else, can't really control their thoughts/desires and while they irk me I certainly don't blame them for being pedophiles, it's not their fault and it probably sucks. The problem is when they're like this rear end in a top hat, who openly talks about grooming young boys and testing their boundaries and then talks about loving them and how "they wanted it".

Red_Fred
Oct 21, 2010


Fallen Rib

WouldDesk posted:

Blood and Dust

Award-winning filmmaker Vaughan Smith spent 10 days with a US Medevac helicopter unit in Afghanistan.

Still raging, the war in Afghanistan claims victims every day. Yet overhead, medevac helicopters constantly flies to the burning points of those who need help. Civilians, Taliban or US marine, they are all treated in the medevac helicopters. Join in on DocumentaryStorm to witness the documentary Blood and Dust – the number one mission: Saving lives.


http://documentarystorm.com/war-military/blood-and-dust/

This was really good. Quite moving. Surprised me that they pick up everyone and anyone. Just a shame it was so short.

Does anyone have any other good documentaries about military medics? It's always been something that I have found quite interesting.

Ropes4u
May 2, 2009

the kawaiiest posted:

That's the fucker I'm talking about. He describes having anal sex with a kid and then says something like "he got what he wanted and I got what I wanted" and I was all AARGHH WHAT NO :gonk::smith::gonk: and that was when I stopped watching.

I understand that pedophiles, just as everyone else, can't really control their thoughts/desires and while they irk me I certainly don't blame them for being pedophiles, it's not their fault and it probably sucks. The problem is when they're like this rear end in a top hat, who openly talks about grooming young boys and testing their boundaries and then talks about loving them and how "they wanted it".

I made it about three minutes into this, when I mentioned the ten year old I was out's, probably scared for loving life now..

Ropes4u
May 2, 2009

Red_Fred posted:

This was really good. Quite moving. Surprised me that they pick up everyone and anyone. Just a shame it was so short.

Does anyone have any other good documentaries about military medics? It's always been something that I have found quite interesting.

Can't find It online but try

"fighting for life" http://www.fightingforlifethemovie.com

Fighting for Life is a powerful, sobering and emotional feature documentary portrait of American military medicine interweaving three stories:

Military doctors, nurses and medics, working with skill, compassion and dedication amidst the vortex of the Iraq War. Wounded soldiers and marines reacting with courage, dignity and determination to survive and to heal. Students at USU, the “West Point” of military medicine, on their journey toward becoming career military physicians.

HUNDU THE BEAST GOD
Sep 14, 2007

everything is yours

JibbaJabberwocky posted:

:smith: Also, Allen Ginsberg you upset me. I liked you more when I didn't know you were a pedophile.

So were (allegedly) Cary Grant, James Dean and Arthur C. Clarke.

WouldDesk
Dec 26, 2009
About the men porking young boys... :barf:

There are some other military medic docs, I will try to find and post.

WouldDesk fucked around with this message at 20:57 on May 15, 2011

Grapefist
Feb 11, 2007

*Beep Boop*
I AM a robot
*Beep Boop*
I found this HBO documentary about child beauty pageants after reading the thread about the mother giving her 8 year old daughter botox. Seriously, gently caress these people.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwttqXiCE-I

Selenite
Feb 17, 2011

WouldDesk posted:

About the men porking young boys... :barf:

There are some other military medic docs, I will try to find and post.

That's part of why I posted it. As revolting as it was, it can't be stressed enough that these people don't think that they're doing anything wrong. They will swear up and down that they love and understand children, even though they don't understand that no, the 10 yr old is not flirting with you and he doesn't want to screwed. It still gets me that after the pedo in a screamingly creepy yellow sweater talks about his .......encounters with "flirty" and "seductive" boys the camera cuts to an angry, distraught parent and solemn faced kid. Pedos are truly in their own universe, they can't see the damage they do to their victims.

De Nomolos
Jan 17, 2007

TV rots your brain like it's crack cocaine
I don't watch wrestling anymore (not because of pretentiousness, but because I genuinely don't like watching the soap opera aspect), but I still have to watch Beyond the Mat at least once a year:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=as3fkTbJe4A

quote:

Beyond the Mat is a 1999 documentary directed by Barry W. Blaustein. The movie focuses on the lives of professional wrestlers outside of the ring, primarily Mick Foley, Terry Funk, and Jake Roberts, as well as some aspiring wrestlers. It heavily focuses on the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), and follows Extreme Championship Wrestling during its rise in popularity and many other independent wrestlers and organizations.

quote:

Blaustein focuses on three famous wrestlers, one at the height of his career (Mick Foley, aka "Mankind"), one contemplating retirement (Terry Funk) and one at a career low (Jake "The Snake" Roberts). He begins by following Funk, a 53-year-old man in need of knee surgery who appears unable to retire, despite the mounting toll wrestling is taking on his body.

quote:

The careers of the three successful wrestlers are contrasted with those of wrestlers who have not yet achieved comparable success, such as two men getting started in the sport of wrestling, Tony Jones and Michael Modest, who are granted a tryout match for the WWF.[3] In addition, Darren Drozdov is a former NFL football player who is shown in an interview with Vince McMahon.[5] Drozdov, who can vomit at will, is called on by McMahon to vomit in a bucket as a demonstration of his ability—an ability which earned him the ring name "Puke"—which McMahon plans to use as part of Drozdov's new in-ring persona.[5] Drozdov becomes a WWF wrestler, but at the end of the film, it is revealed that Droz was paralyzed in an in-ring accident from a botched maneuver several months later.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_the_Mat

prinneh
Jul 29, 2005
prince of denmark

Pipski posted:

Dangerous Knowledge. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8492625684649921614
Couldn't find it posted in the thread, but it's brilliant in my not-a-mathematician opinion. It's about 4 mathematicians who basically went insane figuring out infinities. BBC4, so a proper, old-school doc without crazy amounts of gimmickry. It's pretty mind-blowing and I recommend it.
I just wanted to chime in and say that Dangerous Knowledge was amazing, it blew my non-mathematical mind in a lovely lovely way, kinda like Carl Sagans Cosmos did a few years back. I'm writing a huge paper on modernity these days and while the very end of the ending of Dangerous Knowledge was a bit sappy, the part where David Malone talks about these four mathematicians in conjunction with modernism (oh hi art-argument from a few pages ago) really resonated with me. Also, while I knew what the word entropy meant, I had no idea the word originated in physics, that's just, well, awesome! There's this American guy called Marshall Berman who wrote a great big book called All That Is Solid Melts into Air and Dangerous Knowledge made me think of a passage from this book in which Berman writes “[S]tability can only mean entropy, slow death, while our sense of progress and growth is our way of knowing for sure that we are alive. To say that our society is falling apart is only to say that it is alive and well.”. If Gödel had lived today and discounted the idea of the 'openness' of post-modernity, as Berman does, maybe he could have taken some solace in that. Berman, in case anyone is still reading, takes his titel from The Communist Manifesto and when Malone started talking about liquidity and solidity after explaining the beautiful madness of Cantors infinities (Did you know: Cantor is the brains behind "0,999... = 1"? I didn't!) I was actually expecting he'd bring in Marx, who continuously deployed these metaphors since before Cantor was born, but then Malone takes out his magic black hat and pulls up Boltzmann! Jeebus chrisis, I haven't been this enticed to do maths or physics ever before!

Got anymore like it?


EDIT: thanks for the chaos theory one \/\/\/, it was just what I was looking for

prinneh fucked around with this message at 12:42 on May 16, 2011

JibbaJabberwocky
Aug 14, 2010

Which Way Home is a HBO documentary about South and Central American children making the trip to cross the border into America. If you enjoyed the documentary about North Korean immigrants that was posted a few pages ago, this one is also a good one. I'd suggest it highly, especially if you are interested in how immigrants cross. I was never aware how many children made the trip alone, it's truly astonishing.

Some of the boys they about in the film did not make it, in that they died before or after they made it over the border. It's very sad at some points, but overall you can't help wanting the children to make it successfully to America.

I like this film mostly because you get to know the boys very well. You hear their stories and their reasons for traveling to America. It just brings you a lot closer to the boys in the documentary, and you feel like you understand why they're trying to leave their home countries. It's crazy how many of them are planning to be adopted in America. I wonder how often that actually happens, and how difficult it is to adopt immigrant children.

It's astonishing how friendly the authorities are, south of the border, to migrants. I guess it did not take long to realize it's better to try to help the immigrants, and to be nice when you deport them, than it is to be a cock about it. Admittedly, the cops are complete doucebags and gently caress the migrants over whenever possible, but the men and women in the government in immigration services all seem to be really nice.

:3: Yurico is a badass and he's my favorite, even if he is a really depressing drug addict. I wish his life would be better than it is. And Kevin's stepdad is a cock.

i am not zach
Apr 16, 2007

by Ozmaugh

prinneh posted:

Got anymore like it?

Not really related, but here's another mind-bending documentary about chaos theory.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HACkykFlIus

edit. Also I'll plug this one time here

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/manderson/fall-and-winter-a-documentary-film

i am not zach fucked around with this message at 15:58 on May 16, 2011

Lady Demelza
Dec 29, 2009



Lipstick Apathy

Selenite posted:

That's part of why I posted it. As revolting as it was, it can't be stressed enough that these people don't think that they're doing anything wrong. They will swear up and down that they love and understand children, even though they don't understand that no, the 10 yr old is not flirting with you and he doesn't want to screwed. It still gets me that after the pedo in a screamingly creepy yellow sweater talks about his .......encounters with "flirty" and "seductive" boys the camera cuts to an angry, distraught parent and solemn faced kid. Pedos are truly in their own universe, they can't see the damage they do to their victims.

I watched it all, amazed that they would actually agree to be on film and that they could be so deluded. How can they think that they, with their grey hair, beer bellies and unfashionable knitwear, are irresistibly attractive to the average teenager? I'm surprised the man with the loudhailer and the leaflets hasn't had his nose broken by an angry parent/former-victim of a paedophile.

One thing I couldn't quite work out from the film (and I'd never heard of NAMBLA before) is whether or not they support men who want to 'love' underage girls too. If ten year old boys are 'flirty' with fat middle-aged men, then ten year old girls must be too, right?

JibbaJabberwocky
Aug 14, 2010

Lady Demelza posted:

One thing I couldn't quite work out from the film (and I'd never heard of NAMBLA before) is whether or not they support men who want to 'love' underage girls too. If ten year old boys are 'flirty' with fat middle-aged men, then ten year old girls must be too, right?

I think there is a man/girl love equivalent of NAMBLA, but I cannot for the life of me remember their name. They aren't as well known as NAMBLA. For some reason, it seems like there are more man on boy pedophiles who are "out".

Butterfly Kisses is the name of the group for women/girl love though. Yeah, this exists.

Spiderjelly
Aug 22, 2006

Sign of evil.

JibbaJabberwocky posted:


It's the guy that's always driving around who is the SUPER CREEPER.

Yep. That guy made my skin try to crawl under the bed. Mega, mega creeper.

the kawaiiest
Dec 22, 2010

Uguuuu ~

Spiderjelly posted:

Yep. That guy made my skin try to crawl under the bed. Mega, mega creeper.
That's the same guy who said that the boys were flirting with him, isn't it?

God, I wish I could forget I ever saw that god drat thing, Jesus Christ people are hosed up.

Nuclear Tourist
Apr 7, 2005

I'm looking for a documentary I saw on TV once, but have never seen or heard of before or since. Looked on Youtube and Google, but couldn't find a word about it. If anyone knows where I could find it or if it's hiding on the internet somewhere than that would be awesome.

It was called Cannibal Island (but has nothing to do with the National Geographic documentary with the same name) and it was about the Nazino affair (link). Basically what happened was that in 1933 the Stalinist regime rounded up 6,000 petty criminals, illegal immigrants, social misfits, unwanted minorities and other undesirables and unloaded them all on an island half the size of Central Park, in the river Ob in Siberia. They were all already pretty bad off from dehydration and malnutrition and had no food, no tools and no shelter. It was one of the most frightening things I have seen and a sobering reminder of what human beings will do when they get really desperate, including cannibalism and necrophagia. About 2,000 left the island alive.

Wax On
Mar 22, 2007

drop a bat beat
Just wanted to thank everyone in this thread for posting these awesome documentaries. Helped me get through many a slow day at work.

Recommending Made in Sheffield by Eve Wood and Punk Attitude! by Don Letts for people into no-wave and punk history.

Tiny Faye
Feb 17, 2005

Are you ready for an ORGAN SOLO?!
About halfway through it and really enjoying the Frontline on high school football. A must watch if you've been following the news stories about how modern day football is hell on your body:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/football-high/

No way in hell am I letting a future kid of mine play.

Tiny Faye fucked around with this message at 03:29 on May 18, 2011

Lovely Joe Stalin
Jun 12, 2007

Our Lovely Wang

Red_Fred posted:

This was really good. Quite moving. Surprised me that they pick up everyone and anyone. Just a shame it was so short.

Does anyone have any other good documentaries about military medics? It's always been something that I have found quite interesting.

It's not quite the same thing, and it might have been posted already, but BBC have a very good one called Wounded. It opens with some footage from camera worn by a medic in the immediate aftermath of an IED strile. Then follows the treatment/rehabilitation of a couple of soldiers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-B1F5izOIY

MolierePumpsMyNads
May 2, 2011
New Adam Curtis starting Monday 23 May 9pm on BBC2 - "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace"

Teaser is online here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc-YMpgcqKg

Non-Brits keep an eye on youtube, I'm sure it will be up before long.

spirited
Nov 2, 2001

Time might lead me to nowhere; Fate might break me apart; I'll always be thankful that once, along life's journey I found the unchanging Imperishable in you.
Adam Curtis is awesome, and he does a fairly excellent job of detailing chronologically how elites create horrible disasters with their power.

Local Group Bus
Jul 18, 2006

Try to suck the venom out.
Derren Brown: Miracles for sale.

quote:

With the cameras in hot pursuit, Derren faces his toughest project yet, going in search of an unsuspecting member of the British public prepared to adopt the guise of a pastor and miracle worker.

His chosen one then has six months to learn the trade and flourish across the pond as a convincing pastor.

The final phase of the volunteer’s extraordinary challenge sees them attempt to perform faith healing miracles live in Texas, but will Derren’s new recruit be accepted as a faith healer or cast away as fake healer?

Basically just more Derren Brown goodness. Less on the magical side of things and more on the disgust he has for faith healers. A lot of debunking too which was very interesting.

Oh, and poo poo gets tense about 3/4 of the way in which might seem staged for dramatic purposes but really seemed like it was throwing a few uncomfortable questions of morality at everyone involved.

Link.

boner meter
Apr 27, 2006
I AM A SMUG ASSHOLE WHO BELIEVES IN RACIST PROPAGANDA. I DESERVE ONLY RIDICULE.
As mentioned, the new Adam Curtis thing was incredible, and is now here for brits. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b011k45f/All_Watched_Over_by_Machines_of_Loving_Grace_Love_and_Power/
There might be a way for septics to get round the region lock, I don't know.

Kehveli
Apr 1, 2009

Push It Like You Push Your Girlfriend
First part of All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace is now up on youtube.

edit: Seems like either the other parts are not there yet or have been removed. Anyway, here's Louix Theroux Miami Mega Jail episode 1 there instead.

Kehveli fucked around with this message at 11:04 on May 24, 2011

whose tuggin
Nov 6, 2009

by Hand Knit
Jeremy Clarkson, who's one of the current cast of Top Gear, apparantley made some awseome documentaries for the BBC called "Speed". He does some awesome stuff, on the BBC's dime (I guess they'll pay for anything), and I promise you'll even enjoy it if you're not particularly into cars.

And its uploaded to video.google.com so I'm pretty sure it doesn't matter what country you're in - well, except maybe China.


http://www.google.com/search?q=jere...962fefeca4d61a2

thehustler
Apr 17, 2004

I am very curious about this little crescendo
Jeremy Clarkson's out-of-Top Gear work is always pretty good. He's done some fine documentaries. Motorworld stood out for me, especially the trip to Cuba.

MolierePumpsMyNads
May 2, 2011

Kehveli posted:

First part of All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace is now up on youtube.

edit: Seems like either the other parts are not there yet or have been removed. Anyway, here's Louix Theroux Miami Mega Jail episode 1 there instead.

Part two airs Monday the 30th.

iCloud Strife
Jul 24, 2007

by angerbeet

Local Group Bus posted:

Derren Brown: Miracles for sale.


Basically just more Derren Brown goodness. Less on the magical side of things and more on the disgust he has for faith healers. A lot of debunking too which was very interesting.

This is fantastic just for showing how simple and common the tricks of that trade are. People are crying because a man's short leg was miraculously lengthened to match the other leg, but all they did was move the guy's shoe a couple inches. I think the thing that sets this Derren Brown show apart from his others though is that the guy he "casts" to play the fake faith healer isn't an atheist like Brown. He's invested in protecting religion as legitimate, so there are some interesting conflicts at play. The way he ties it up at the end is a :master: too.

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Aug 30, 2003

Louis Theroux: Miami Mega Jail - Part 1 is up on iPlayer

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b011k0xx/Louis_Theroux_Louis_Theroux_Miami_Mega_Jail_Part_1/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px2kTQKZaSU Youtube for the rest of you

Half the content seems to be Louis asking the inmates why they keep masturbating in front of female wardens

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