The Worlds First Face Transplant

After being attacked by her dog in May 2005 Isabelle Dinoire's face was left mutilated. Later that year she became the first person to undergo a face transplant. In the documentary by BBC Horizon we not only follow the operation but also hear arguments for and against what was a controversial procedure that carried great risk to the patient.

Watch the full documentary now on Documentary Fans Release Date: 2006 Duration: 47 Minutes.

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The Truth About Vitamins

In this documentary BBC Horizon investigates the now billion dollar business of Vitamin supplements. More and more people are turning to Vitamins with the promise they can prevent and even cure viruses and disease but are they doing more harm than good.

Watch the full documentary now on Documentary Fans Release Date: 2004 Duration: 49 Minutes.

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Cancer: The Forbidden Cures

Cancer touches the lives of everyone, one in three people will suffer from cancer and it seems a cure is not getting closer. In this documentary Massimo Mazzucco claims a number of cheap and mostly natural treatments have proven effective in the past but the pharmaceutical giants and political will have blocked them. It's a controversial claim but Mazzucco sets out to prove his case by putting forward the cases for among others  a Herbal cure created by nurse Rene Caisse in the 1920's and Maximilian Gerson's 1940 treatment called Gerson Therapy.

Watch the full documentary now on Documentary Fans Release Date: 2010 Duration: 1 Hour 33 Minutes.

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Mental: A History Of The Madhouse

In this BBC Documentary we learn the harsh reality of Britain's insane asylums, how they operated for over 100 years and their eventual closure. Those who were locked up in these bleak Victorian buildings were held like prisoners and subjected to experimental treatments often comparable to torture. Among the extreme treatments were electroconvulsive therapy, insulin therapy and frontal lobotomies.

Many of the patients had simply been 'Dumped' in the asylums when family's could no longer, or no longer wanted to look after them even though their ailments were often minor. In the film we hear from ex-patients, doctors and nurses about the history inside the madhouse.

Watch the full documentary now on Documentary Fans Release Date: 2010 Duration: 59 Minutes.

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Secrets Of The Tobacco Industry

Smoking is on the decline in the western world and there is nothing the tobacco industry can do about it. Advertising cigarettes is banned in America and most European countries, huge taxes are added to every pack of smokes, strong ani-smoking campaigns run in all media and the practice of smoking has gone from fashionable in the mid 20th century to stigmatized in the early 21st century.

But were there is a will there is a way and the top tobacco companies have refocused their efforts on emerging countries that in many cases have no restrictions connected to smoking. In this documentary we travel to Indonesia the home of an upcoming tobacco sellers conference and witness first hand how smoking is growing faster than ever in a country of people bombarded with tobacco advertisements. We also go undercover at the conference to see what the big tobacco companies really think when they believe they are off the record.

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Super Size Me

Nominated for the Academy Award for best documentary feature in 2004 Super Size me follows one man on a strange mission.With an obesity epidemic across America documentary maker Morgan Spurlock decided to take a strange step to highlight how unhealthy Fast Food is, he ate nothing but McDonald's food for 30 days ! Fast Food restaurants have come under scrutiny with their high calorie meals and super size portions being blamed for a nation with over 60% of Adults overweight.

Spurlock has set himself some rules for the challenge which is completely against the advice of his doctor. He has to eat three meals a day from McDonald's and nothing else, He will not ask for the Super Size but if offered he must accept, He will try to go through every meal on the menu over the course of the experiment and he will try to walk about the average Americans do daily. With that we have a documentary and the results are startling.

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Stephen Fry : The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive

Stephen Fry is looked upon as a natural treasure in Britain but behind the jovel, wellspoken outer was hidden a man suffering silently silently with depression. This warts and all documentary was a brave move by Fry; a move he made in essence to let others that suffer from Depression know they are not alone. Personally as a big fan of the QI host The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive is a favorite documentary of mine.

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