In the wake of the terrible events of 9/11, anger and suspicion about Islam and its teachings spread throughout the United States. For a few Americans, these events led to an awakening to the rich traditions of this major world religion. Curiosity turned to admiration of a faith that in its core offers peace and solace. How would these converts adjust to life as strangers in their own home towns? Twitter: Facebook - Instagram - @realstoriesdocs Content licensed from DRG. Any queries, please contact us at: owned-enquiries@littledotstudios.com Want to watch more full-length Documentaries? Click here: source
The truth of the damning charges made against this great race. They invented the alphabet and modern navigation and introduced wine to Europe. But after the sacking of Carthage by the Romans in 146 BC and the destruction of their famous library, the world was left with very little evidence of Phoenician life and culture. The Greeks and Romans describe them as a race of unscrupulous profiteers, grubby merchants – and worse. They were seen as a morally corrupt race who forcibly prostituted their daughters in sacred rituals and killed their own young in an attempt to win over their......
Islam Unveiled (Religion Documentary) | Real Stories Can Islam ever truly become part of the modern world? Why is a religion that claims over a billion followers across the globe now seen as the world’s greatest bastion of sexism and misogyny? And is this true? This major series takes the viewer on a dazzling ride across four continents and fourteen centuries, embarking both on a journey of the heart and a quest of the intellect. It is a quest that reveals surprising truths about women’s lives in the Muslim world today, and traces back to their cultural roots beliefs and......
We speak to girls as young as twelve whose childhoods are being spent working the streets of South Africa's capital. Facebook - Instagram - @realstoriesdocs Twitter: Content licensed from Journeyman Pictures. Any queries, please contact us at: owned-enquiries@littledotstudios.com Want to watch more full-length Documentaries? Click here: source
Jimmy Maketta terrorized a small farming community in Cape Town for months in 2005. Many of the victims could only name him the “Jesus Killer” because he apparently had a tattoo of Jesus across his chest. Farmworkers feared for their lives and gathered together in the evenings for fear of being the Jesus Killer’s next victim. The police did not take the murders seriously until the killer started leaving messages and maps about where to find the next body. When police finally captured Maketta they discovered that his reign of terror had lasted more than a year. Twitter: Facebook -......
Britain’s Wicca Man tells the extraordinary story of Britain's fastest growing religious group - Wicca - and of its creator, an eccentric Englishman called Gerald Gardner. Historian and leading expert in Pagan studies, Professor Ronald Hutton, explores the unlikely origins of modern pagan witchcraft and experiences first hand its growing influence throughout Britain today. Gardner’s story and the story of Wicca itself is a bizarre one. The film tells of a peculiar man who saw that the world was ready for a new religion based on magic, sex, nature and ritual - and gave it to us. Documentary first broadcast......
The Jonestown Massacre: Paradise Lost (Cult Documentary) This feature-length docudrama tracks the final build-up to a horrific doomsday: the infamous mass murder and suicides of Jim Jones’ cult followers in the jungles of Guyana, where over 900 men, women and children died on November 18th, 1978. Using extensive dramatic re-enactments, newly-released U.S. government information, as well as archival footage and interviews, Jonestown: Paradise Lost goes beyond ‘official reality’ to take the viewer deep into the inner workings of this monstrous cult and its apocalyptic end. Want to watch more full-length Documentaries? Click here: Follow us on Twitter for more -......
White Slums of South Africa | Reggie Yates Extreme | Real Stories Reggie Yates spends a week in South Africa's largest white squatter camp, Coronation Park. Are young white South Africans now the ones being discriminated against? Twitter: Facebook - Instagram - @realstoriesdocs To listen to Simon Chinn, the Oscar-Winning Film Producer, on The Doc Exchange podcast, click this link: From Reggie Yates: Outside Man Content licensed from Silver Lining. Any queries, please contact us at: owned-enquiries@littledotstudios.com Want to watch more full-length Documentaries? Click here: White Slums of South Africa | Reggie Yates Extreme | Real Stories source
South Africa's Millionaire Preacher | Reggie Yates Extreme | Real Stories Reggie Yates concludes his travels around South African communities by spending a week with Prophet Mboro - a charismatic yet controversial church leader who is adored by his thousands of followers, and renowned as much for his dancing as he is for the `miracles' he performs. Boasting a collection of expensive cars and wearing an array of jewelry, Mboro has emerged a millionaire from the boom in Pentecostal `mega-churches'. The former BBC Radio DJ asks if Mboro can possibly be a messenger from God and confronts some home truths......
Sponsored by Gala, see more here - The 'R.I.C.O.' investigation of the Nation of Yahweh and its former leader, Yahweh ben Yahweh. The decapitation of a young African-American male led the Miami-Dade police and the FBI along a trail of death. Authorities discovered that the man was a dissident member of a religious cult headed by a man who called himself Yahweh ben Yahweh, or 'God, Son of God'. Make sure you subscribe to get your regular crime fix: youtube.com/c/RealCrime From The FBI Files S3 EP10 Content licensed from New Dominion Pictures to Little Dot Studios. Any queries, please contact......