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Think smoking pot is a harmless pastime? Think again. According to the latest scientific research, it can cause psychosis, schizophrenia, depression and anxiety disorders. And worryingly, teenagers - the people who indulge most are those most at risk. In this eye opening documentary, young users now being treated for psychosis speak candidly about their experiences.

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The Ice Age
It's cheap, highly addictive and ultra-powerful. "Ice", or crystal methamphetamine, is now more popular than heroin. It plays havoc with the minds and the bodies of addicts, filling emergency wards with dangerous, psychotic patients. But little is known about the long term effects of the drug or even how to treat the addiction. And health services are not prepared for the chaos ice has just started to unleash. This documentary reports on the hidden epidemic.

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Killing Pablo
The inside story of one of the CIA's biggest manhunts of Colombian drug pin Pablo Escobar. Head of the infamous Medellin cartel, he was one of the world's most powerful criminals. After numerous failed attempts to catch him, desperate Colombian officials sought America's help. An exclusive documentary hearing from the US and Colombian participants, that draws on thousands of classified documents.

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Grass
The world of marijuana, now variously reported to be a $10 Billion to $30 billion industry in North America with more than 200,000 growers, comes vibrantly alive in this fact-filled, fascinating story of our love-hate relationship with that resilient weed variously known as grass, pot, or dope.
It is about the people who discovered and spread the use of marijuana as a recreational drug, the sailors, jazzmen, entertainers, blacks and Mexicans, poets and beatniks, as well as their antagonists in the Bureau of Narcotics, headed by Harry Anslinger, (author of Marijuana: Assasin of Youth), who sought to drive grass underground. Edited out of 500 hours of archival footage on the history of marijuana in North America, the film focuses on a long lasting and fierce prohibition that has seen the number of North American pot smokers rise from 60,000 (at the time it was outlawed) to 30 million. GRASS is an informative and entertaining kaleidoscope of the longest-running and most disobeyed prohibition in the history of the USA, an epic tale of how Government bureaucrats created a climate which turned literrally millions of users, at least technically, into criminals.

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The Transition (James Allen Smith)
The advent of computerized trading is forcing floor traders to make a sobering choice: adapt or get out. In 'The Transition', we meet Rob Proniewski, a trader faced with such a decision. It's a way of life, of ego and excess that can't be found anywhere else - but it's disappearing like so many parts of our increasingly digitized world. What path will he choose and what are the obstacles that stand in his way?

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Depression Diary
Depression Diary is a short drama highlighting symptoms, attitudes and emotions of manic depression. The film focuses around an unnamed teenage girl, a familiar stranger if you will, recounting her journey through depression whilst at school, be it in an abstract, analogous way. Most of her time is spent alone in her bedroom, her world and mind getting smaller around her each day though the big world wrapped around continues to spin regardless of this beings presence. The film suggests that perhaps through reflection and increased awareness, one can become closer to overcoming this prevalent, debilitating mental state.
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The Stockholm Solution
Is a century of psychoanalysis completely wrong? Ever since Freud, eating disorders have been considered psychiatric ailments. A revolutionary theory has turned this on its head. A Stockholm clinic is asserting that diseases such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia are not psychiatric illnesses at all, which means they require radically different treatment. In defiance of conventional medicine, the clinic offers what may well be the World's first ever cure. "This is on a par with the invention of penicillin".

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Fathouses
We investigate a very different perception of beauty in Nigeria, host to the Miss World Pageant in November 2002. Girls in the region of Calabar are fed six meals a day and massaged with chalk to make them as fat as possible so they can attract a husband. Although the practice is both frowned upon and illegal, there is no shortage of takers.

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OzDox: "The President Vs David Hicks"
What does it mean to set out on a filmmaking journey about a subject to whom you will probably never get access - and yet, who isn't dead? Someone who is incarcerated in the most securely guarded illegal institution in the world? About three months after Australian David Hicks was arrested in Afghanistan as a Taliban fighter, Curtis Levy embarked on such a journey. As he watched the relentless demonization of Hicks in the Australian papers, his curiosity about this man was piqued. How did this former young chicken processor become so drawn to Islamic fundamentalism that he felt compelled to take up arms?

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FLOORED Episode 8
A world that's more riot than profession, the trading floors of Chicago are a place where gambling your family's mortgage is all in a day's work. Floored offers a unique window to this lesser-known world of finance. These men may not have degrees, but they've got guts, and penchant for excess that solicits simultaneous feelings of revulsion and admiration. But like many aspects of our economy, technology is changing the way these traders do business, and these eccentric pit denizens aren't the type to take kindly to new tricks.

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FLOORED Episode 7
A world that's more riot than profession, the trading floors of Chicago are a place where gambling your family's mortgage is all in a day's work. Floored offers a unique window to this lesser-known world of finance. These men may not have degrees, but they've got guts, and penchant for excess that solicits simultaneous feelings of revulsion and admiration. But like many aspects of our economy, technology is changing the way these traders do business, and these eccentric pit denizens aren't the type to take kindly to new tricks.

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