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Meet Mr Toilet

For those without access to a simple toilet, poop can be poison. Businessman-turned-sanitation-superhero Jack Sim fights this oft-neglected crisis affecting 2.6 billion people.Jessica Yu is the...

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The Landfill

Trash becomes energy at a small New York landfill where people are thinking differently about garbage.Gary Hustwit has won acclaim worldwide for his design trilogy Helvetica, Objectified, and...

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The Invisible Bicycle Helmet

Fredrik Gertten profiles two idealistic young female entrepreneurs who created a revolutionary 21st century design object everyone told them would be impossible to fashion.In February 2011 we had a...

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Remote Area Medical

Over three days in April 2012, Remote Area Medical, the pioneers of “no-cost” health care clinics, treated nearly 2 000 patients on the infield of Bristol, Tennessee’s massive NASCAR speedway.

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Newtown Creek Digester Eggs: The Art of Human Waste

An unusual marriage of form and function energises the jaw-droppingly beautiful Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant in Brooklyn, New York.David W Leitner is the Oscar-nominated producer of For All...

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The Bionic Eye

Dr Joseph Rizzo and Prof John Wyatt have pioneered a technology for restoring sight to patients who suffer from degenerative blindness.

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Good Bread

Bread can be considered many things: warm; delicious; sustaining. It’s also slang for money. This literal slice of life, which follows the typical day of an ex-gang member on his first job in the...

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Hilary's Straws

A moving portrait of Hilary Lister, a quadriplegic champion sailor whose metal-and-circuit-board navigational tool, invented with friends, led her to conquer the oceans of the world.Phil Cox is the...

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Heart Stop Beating

In March 2011, two visionary doctors from the Texas Heart Institute successfully replaced a dying man's heart with a 'continuous flow' device, proving that life was possible without a heart...

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The Honor Code

If we change the way we think about honor, could we make the world a better place? Philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah proves we can.

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Side by Side

A film exploring the relationship between traditional ways of making a film and digital technology of the 21st century. Directed by Keanu Reeves, Side by Side explores the relationship between...

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Please Subscribe

A film explaining the YouTube phenomenon and what it means to be a "YouTuber". Please Subscribe is a documentary explaining the YouTube phenomenon and what it means to be a “YouTuber”. The film,...

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Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope

A film following the lives of five attendees as they descend upon the ultimate geek mecca at San Diego Comic-Con 2010.Morgan Spurlock’s film Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope explores one of the...

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Big Easy Express

A film about the musical journey of an extraordinary tour. Departing on a historic train to play music across America, “Big Easy Express” documents the musical journey of an extraordinary tour. Mumford...

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Beauty is Embarrassing

A film highlighting the highs and lows of art icon Wayne White's career. Bringing humour into fine art, Wayne White touches people in ways they don’t know or understand. The joyful and inspiring...

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Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry

An inside story exploring contemporary China and one of its most compelling figures. Revealing a man of unrelenting sprit and defiance, China’s most famous international artist Ai Weiwei is on a...

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The International Space Orchestra

A film capturing the behind-the-scenes action during the creation of the world's first International Space Orchestra. Merging science, technology, design and opera, The International Space Orchestra...

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Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel

The story of one of fashion's most celebrated woman. Diana Vreeland, influential fashion editor of Harpers Bazaar, sensed the fashion world was on its way to something global and brought people into a...

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Food Design

Food Design looks at how form, colour, smell, consistency, manufacturing techniques and history influence food design. Food Design looks at how form, colour, smell, consistency, manufacturing...

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A Good Man

A film exploring what it means to be a good man, to be free and to be a citizen. A Good Man is the story of acclaimed director/choreographer Bill T. Jones as he and his company create their most...

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