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- It's important not to think of this as prisoner and guard in a real prison. The important issue is the metaphor prisoner and guard. What does it mean to be a prisoner? What does it mean to be a guard? And the guard is somebody who limits the freedom of someone else, uses the power in their role to control and dominate someone else, and that's what this study is about. In the summer of 1971, Philip Zimbardo, Craig Haney, and Curtis Banks carried out a psychological experiment to test a simple question. What happens when you put good people in an evil place-does humanity win over evil, or does evil triumph? To explore this question, college student volunteers were pretested and randomly assigned to play the role of prisoner or guard in a simulated prison at Stanford University. Although the students were mentally healthy and knew they were taking part in an experiment, some guards soon because sadistic and the prisoners showed signs of acute stress and depression. After only six days, the planned two-week study spun out of control and had to be ended to prevent further abuse of the prisoners. This dramatic demonstration of the power of social situations is relevant to many institutional settings, such as the Abu Ghraib Prison in Iraq.
- "Search For The Mothman" is a documentary that explores the unusual disturbances, odd sightings, bizarre occurrences, and strange eyewitness reports connected to a creature known as the "Mothman" (first sighted in the Point Pleasant, West Virginia area in the sixties). Strangely, the sightings and disturbances seemed to reach a peak with several area residents sharing the same nightmare of a river disaster. On December 15, 1967, the Silver Bridge - spanning the Ohio River between Point Pleasant and Gallipolis, Ohio - collapsed into the frigid water (sending 46 people to their deaths). Many of those who lost their lives had reported seeing the Mothman. Perhaps most disturbing, there were no reported sightings after the bridge accident.
- This documentary recounts the dysfunctional state of the death penalty in the state of California by revisiting the crimes, arrest, trial and appeals of Lawrence Bittaker, a convicted serial killer who has been on death row at San Quentin since 1981.
- A fairy is a tiny being with wings that looks like a person but possesses powers of magic and enchantment. According to legend, fairies can change the weather, alter aspects of nature and bestow magical gifts such as intelligence and plenty. They can also lure humans to their islands where all is happiness and no one ages or gets sick--however, once brought to these mystical places, there is no escape. Join filmmaker John Walker on a quirky and compelling journey through Ireland, England, Scotland and Cape Breton in search of the child's imagination in a rational world. This unique look into the realm of fantasy traces the popular fascination with fairies and is vividly brought to life with gorgeous cinematography and an enchanting soundtrack.
- Shows uncensored portions of the highly emotional Dec. 1984 videotaped confession of Bernhard Goetz, known as the "subway vigilante", who opened fire on four teenagers he feared were about to rob him on a New York subway train. Also discusses Goetz's attempted murder trial at which he was subsequently acquitted.
- Vincent Simmons is a life prisoner at Angola State Prison in Louisiana, where he was sentenced to 100 years in July 1977 after being convicted of the "attempted aggravated rapes" of 14-year-old twin sisters Karen and Sharon Sanders of Marksville.
- Former Met Police Officer and TV Presenter, Rav Wilding, re-traces the story of Damilola Taylor, the young boy who bled to death in a stairwell on a South London estate. At the time Rav was a police officer and working on the investigation into Damilola's killing and it remains his most vivid memory of his time with the Met.
- Could Alaska's uninhabited frontier be hiding monsters and mysteries? Witness tell the stories of their encounters with the unknown.Hundreds have claim to have witnessed Sasquatch, 1000 pound trees turned upside down and driven into the ground, with tree roots pointing upwards.
- In the towering peaks of the Himalayas, he is known as Kang-mi, Temu and Yeti. To the Western World, he is the Abominable Snowman. Venture high into the snowy slopes of the world's tallest mountains in search of this mythical beast. Probe the long history of purported sightings, and meet with Tibetan monks and Sherpa villagers who claim to have seen Yetis in the wild. Hear the opinions of mythologists and anthropologists who have studied the sightings and stories of the Yetis, and explore the findings of a team of Chinese and American scientists who examined hairs that indicate that some form of undiscovered ape roams the Himalayan foothills. And see remarkable video from tourists in Nepal that makes the strongest case yet for the existence of the Abominable Snowman.
- Just for a moment, imagine a universe awash with life, where we humans are not the only intelligent beings around. What might these alien races look like? Could we communicate with them, or even recognise them as intelligent? And what would they make of our violent and dangerous species? Might they take one look, and decide not to bother with such primitive beings? A planetary nursery filled with spiteful, galactic infants. On the other hand, in our imaginary scenario, they may enrich us with scientific knowledge beyond our imagination. Or could an encounter with aliens have a more destructive outcome? It could be a bad day for human kind. But relax, it's just make believe, it could never happen, could it? A mysterious crash in Roswell, New Mexico during the 1940s convinced many that our planet is being visited by space aliens. Crop circles in Britain have only added fuel to the fire. Few scientists doubt that life indeed exists elsewhere, but some believe we're more likely to make contact via radio waves. Join the search for extra-terrestrials and hear from scientists who think we are on the verge of making contact.
- Faster than a speeding bullet, six times hotter than the surface of the sun, it can turn sand to glass, and lasts less than a fraction of a second. Lightning strikes our planet up to eight million times every day. It is one of nature's most well observed events but also one of the most mysterious. To unlock its secrets, Naked Science follows a lightning bolt on its incredible journey from outer space to deep inside the human body. Australia's own Darwin is host to some of the most violent lightning storms on earth. Venture into the heart of a monster storm cloud to observe the mysterious forces that trigger a lightning bolt. Dramatic new research and shocking experiments reveal lightning is one of the strangest, most destructive and important phenomena on Earth.
- In July 1916 a lone Great White left its usual deep-ocean habitat and headed in the direction of the New Jersey shoreline. There, near the towns of Beach Haven and Spring Lake--and, incredibly, a farming community eleven miles inland--the most ferocious and unpredictable of predators began a deadly rampage: the first shark attacks on swimmers in U.S. history.
- On this episode of Human Prey, three horrific stories of people savaged by distant cousins of household pets. On a camping trip in the Canadian wilderness, a family is unwittingly stalked by a hungry and opportunistic wolf; while mowing the lawn on a Sunday afternoon, a suburban Virginia man is repeatedly attacked by a rabid coyote; and, a mountain bike excursion in a California wilderness park becomes a life-and-death struggle when a cyclist is pounced upon by a cougar.
- 2014–201742mTV-147.4 (6)TV EpisodeJorge Ruerda Landeros, a native of Juarez, Mexico, and one-time stock broker, allegedly murders American University accounting professor Sue Ann Marcum. A stock broker is the prime suspect in the murder of a Maryland accounting professor after he uses her in a scheme to take advantage of her life savings and their relationship. However, despite DNA evidence linking him to the crime, he has managed to avoid justice by hiding in his native Mexico in order to avoid extradition and claiming innocence.
- In 2002, armed with DNA and a license plate from a particularly violent rape case in California, a detective thinks he has an easy case to crack. But neither provides a match. The case goes cold until the groundbreaking Combined DNA Index System finds a hit 5 years.
- In 1995, charred bones and a skull with three bullet holes were found inside a burnt antique trunk in the Nevada desert. Despite the full arsenal of cutting edge forensic tools at investigators' fingertips, it was a method first developed in the era of Sherlock Holmes that helped convict the killer.