Category: Entertaiment
Re-education Camps Or Torture Chambers? Secret Footage Of Russian Prisons | Witness | Documentary
Accounts are spreading of the extreme abuse that goes on in Russia’s penal colonies with claims the treatment is aimed at destroying people psychologically. This exclusive documentary goes inside Russia’s prisons to reveal the horrific…
Gaddafi’s Surveillance State: How The West Shattered Libyan Democracy | Witness | Documentary
Imagine a world where the government can read every email sent and listen to every phone call made. An entire country under constant surveillance. Actually you don’t need to imagine, because it’s already a reality….
Exploitation Rampant: Unmasking Thailand’s Sex Tourism | Witness | Documentary
As soon as Thailand reopened its borders to tourists, the pedophiles returned. And as poverty in the country has worsened, the successes achieved in the past decades in the fight against pedophile sex tourism are…
Miami Vice: The City Where Drug Lords, Refugees, & Investors Thrive | Witness | USA Documentary
Located at the tip of Florida, Miami is one of the most attractive cities in the United States. For many, it is also the most rebellious in America. Since the pandemic, Miami is the place…
The Lancaster Bombers: Why Hitler Feared the RAF’s Most Elite Squadrons | Witness | WWII Documentary
With most aspiring RAF pilots of the Second World War delegated the infantry after a rigorous selection process, the Bomber Boys formed squadrons of the most elite Bomber Command units across the Commonwealth. In a…
How The Allies Most Elite Commandos Recaptured Japanese Occupied Alaska | Witness | WWII Documentary
Montana – home to the most rigorous training grounds for the armys fighting the Axis in World War Two. The legacy of the Devil’s Brigade lives on in the Rockies to this day, with soldiers…
The Devil’s Brigade: The Allies Most Feared Commando Unit of WWII | Witness | WWII Documentary
Montana – home to the most rigorous training grounds for the armys fighting the Axis in World War Two. The legacy of the Devil’s Brigade lives on in the Rockies to this day, with soldiers…
The Battle of La Defensia: WWII’s Impossible Ambush | Witness | WWII Italian Campaign Documentary
Montana – home to the most rigorous training grounds for the armys fighting the Axis in World War Two. The legacy of the Devil’s Brigade lives on in the Rockies to this day, with soldiers…
Religion, Redemption, and Discrimination in El Salvador’s Harshest Prisons
Inside El Salvador’s brutal prisons, a remarkable transformation is underway as the government embarks on a mission to convert members of the country’s most violent gangs to Christianity. These inmates, serving time for heinous crimes,…
High Security Prisons in Japan
We gained unprecedented filming access to two Japanese prisons to find out if accusations that the system is inhumane are true. What we witnessed was staggering. Inmates must march to their worksites attached by a…
The Lancaster Bomber: Destined for Liberation and Destruction | Witness | WWII Documentary
With most aspiring RAF pilots of the Second World War delegated the infantry after a rigorous selection process, the Bomber Boys formed squadrons of the most elite Bomber Command units across the Commonwealth. In a…
How Montana Became the Training Grounds for Nazi Occupied Italy | Witness | WWII Documentary
Montana – home to the most rigorous training grounds for the armys fighting the Axis in World War Two. The legacy of the Devil’s Brigade lives on in the Rockies to this day, with soldiers…
Tattoos of Terror: El Salvador’s Deadly Crackdown on Gang Ink
In El Salvador, having tattoos can be a dangerous association. Authorities have launched a systematic crackdown, arresting anyone with ink, as tattoos often signify gang affiliation. These markings can reveal not only gang membership, whether…
The Bomber Boys: The Crew That Firebombed Germany | Witness | WWII Documentary
With most aspiring RAF pilots of the Second World War delegated the infantry after a rigorous selection process, the Bomber Boys formed squadrons of the most elite Bomber Command units across the Commonwealth. In a…
War Tourism: The Foreign Volunteers Fighting ISIS in the Streets of Raqqa | Witness | Documentary
Inspired by the mythology of the International Brigades of the Spanish Civil War, over 300 foreign volunteers chose to give up their comfortable lives and go fight ISIS in Raqqa. We filmed them there, fly-on-the-wall…
Santa Tecla: The World’s Most Dangerous Cemetary
Santa Tecla Cemetery, the final resting place for members of the notorious MS-13, also known as Mara Salvatrucha. This graveyard, one of the most dangerous in the world, stands as a chilling reminder of El…
The Dark Side of Boxing: Corruption Outside the Ring | Witness | Crime Documentary
Enter the world of boxing’s business in this investigative documentary, providing an exclusive glimpse into its high-stakes environment. Explore the inner workings of the fight game from all angles, shedding light on its complexities from…
Josef Fritzl: The Monster Who Fathered His Own Grandchildren | Witness | Crime Documentary
Following Elisabeth Fritzl’s freedom on the 27th April 2008, the world was confronted with the horrifying reality of the nightmare she had been forced to endure for 24 years. Held captive in a cellar by…
PKK: Hunted & Killed by the Turkish State? PKK Murders & Erdogan Documentary
Was Erdogan’s spy agency responsible for the murder of Sakine Cansiz, co-founder of the PKK, and two other activists in Paris? Following the murders, a young Turk called Omer Guney was arrested. He is suspected…
Defect North Korea: The Most Deadly Escape Route On Earth | Witness | North Korea Documentary
Dragon is a human smuggler who leads North Korean defectors across borders for a living. His latest undercover trip with Sook-Ja and Yong-hee takes an unexpected turn when they are left stranded in China, putting…
The CECOT: Inside the Fortress Holding El Salvador’s Most Violent Gangsters
President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador has declared war against the local Mara gangs, which have long plagued the small Central American nation. In response, the government has developed CECOT, one of the largest mega-prisons…
Destroy Paris: Hitler’s Raging Plan to Detonate the French Capital | Witness | WWII Documentary
By 1944, as the Reich was crumbling, Hitler gave detailed orders for the destruction of Paris. He wanted the monuments and all the bridges mined and the city reduced to a “pile of rubble”. Through…
Modern Pirates: Africa’s Vigilante Mafias Declare War at Sea | Witness | Modern Piracy Documentary
Kidnapping in Nigeria and Somalia is big business. The kidnappers see themselves as Robin Hood figures, targeting the hated oil companies who they accuse of plundering the country’s natural resources without giving anything back. They…
Clearing the Streets of El Salvador: Peace Amidst Gang Warfare
El Salvador’s villages are at the crossroads of the invisible borders where turf wars rage, leading to countless murders every month. This modern warzone sees people losing their lives over car thefts and extortion, while…
The Russian Spy in NATO: Soviet Union Espionage During the Cold War | Soviet Spy Documentary
His job was to protect NATO’s secrets but he ended up selling them to the Kremlin. This is the astonishing account of how Herman Simm, a former soviet militia officer, rose to become amongst the…
Marrying the Night Stalker: In Love with the Most Evil Serial Killers | True Crime Documentary
Why would someone fall in love with a convicted killer whose only hope of leaving prison is in a coffin? Notorious murderers like ‘Night Stalker’ Richard Ramirez still receive bags of fan mail. He ended…
The 1936 Olympic Games: A Competition in Nazi Propaganda | WW2 & Hitler History Documentary
On the 1st August 1936, 100,000 spectators watched as Hitler and the Olympic delegates arrived at the Olympic opening ceremony in Berlin. The Olympic flags hung cheerfully side-by-side banners bearing the Nazi swastika. With the…