The City Addicted to Crystal Meth

The City Addicted to Crystal Meth is a British documentary by Louis Theroux. It was televised on 9 August 2009. Theroux filmed his documentary in Fresno, California which has one of the highest number of crystal meth users in the United States. 


Also check out this very interesting and artistic film about meth and meth addiction here.

Classic Film Recommendations!

Hello everyone. Maybe you've become tired of watching educational documentaries and need some quality entertainment time. I couldn't agree more. Follow the links below to some of my favorite films of all time.

Also, please install Adblocker before going to any site that streams movies that is not Netflix or Hulu just as a precaution. 

Alien (1979)
In deep space, the crew of the commercial starship Nostromo is awakened from their cryo-sleep capsules halfway through their journey home to investigate a distress call from an alien vessel. The terror begins when the crew encounters a nest of eggs inside the alien ship. An organism from inside an egg leaps out and attaches itself to one of the crew, causing him to fall into a coma. (Link)


American Psycho (2000)
In New York City in 1987, a handsome, young urban professional, Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale), lives a second life as a gruesome serial killer by night. The cast is filled by the detective (Willem Dafoe), the fiance (Reese Witherspoon), the mistress (Samantha Mathis), the coworker (Jared Leto), and the secretary (Chloë Sevigny). This is a biting, wry comedy examining the elements that make a man a monster. 


Rushmore (1998)
When a beautiful first-grade teacher (Olivia Williams) arrives at a prep school, she soon attracts the attention of an ambitious teenager named Max (Jason Schwartzman), who quickly falls in love with her. Max turns to the father (Bill Murray) of two of his schoolmates for advice on how to woo the teacher. However, the situation soon gets complicated when Max's new friend becomes involved with her, setting the two pals against one another in a war for her attention. (Link)

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Challenging Documentaries for C1+ (UPDATED!)

Like many of you, I am often curious about the world but have little funds and time to be able to explore and see EVERYTHING the world has to offer. Thankfully thats what Louis Theroux was born to do. Enjoy and let me know how these documentaries made you feel by commenting below! (Also this is great practice at understanding the British accent, ROIGHT?!) For other documentaries I've posted before please check this link.

Louie Theroux and the Ultra Zionists -

The Ultra Zionists is a British documentary that was televised on 3 February 2011. Louis Theroux investigates ultra-nationalist Jewish settlers in East Jerusalem, Hebron and Nablus. 

Wikipedia defines Zionism thusly: "Zionism (Hebrew: צִיּוֹנוּת Tsiyyonut IPA: [t͡sijo̞ˈnut] after Zion) is a nationalist and political movement of Jews and Jewish culture that supports the re-establishment of a Jewish homeland in the territory defined as the historic Land of Israel (roughly corresponding to Palestine, Canaan or the Holy Land)."

More interesting information about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict:

This American Life (Podcast): The Night in Question
Twenty years ago, the prime minister of Israel was assassinated. The killer was a lone gunman, Israeli and Jewish, just like the prime minister. Lots of witnesses saw it happen; the assassin confessed immediately, that night, and has never recanted. But today, oddly, lots of people don’t believe it happened that way. And a question hangs over the country: did this act change the fate of the nation?

Documentary: 5 Broken Cameras. (Also available on Netflix) Beginning in 2005, Palestinian Emad Burnet records his village's resistance to the encroachment of Israeli settlements. Also there is a connection here to a couple of scenes in Louis' documentary. 12 minutes into the Ultra Zionists you can see the Israeli side of the protests that people from the village pictured in 5 Broken Cameras go to every week to protest... 

Please let me know if you have any other interesting documentaries regarding the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Transgender Kids: 

Louis Theroux travels to San Francisco where a group of pioneering medical professionals help children who say they were born in the wrong body transition from boy to girl or girl to boy at ever younger ages.

At the Child and Adolescent Gender Center at UCSF Hospital Louis meets children who have been diagnosed with gender dysphoria. Louis is told that children as young as three can show signs of rejecting the gender they were assigned at birth, leaving parents with a difficult dilemma - do they start transitioning a child who is still developing their own identity or do they wait and risk making the change once their body has gone through the transformations of puberty?

It is a decision that can be the start of a complex series of medical interventions, from puberty blockers to hormone replacement therapy and eventually gender reassignment surgery. Louis spends time with children and their families as they negotiate their way along this life-changing journey.

Behind Bars, San Quentin:

Louis Theroux: Behind Bars is a television documentary written and presented by Louis Theroux about one of America's most notorious prisons, San Quentin. There, he meets and speaks to serial murderers, gang members, at-risk inmates and guards.