Documentaries I've seen

Austrian girl Natascha Kampusch is kidnapped while walking to school and endues a long, traumatic captivity.

Interviews with family members, doctors and victims of 73-year-old Josef Fritzl, who held his daughter captive in a basement for 24 years and fathered seven children with her.

A BBC documentary about the daily lives of three male adolescents with autism disorders. The high functioning Oli, Alex who has Asperger's and Thonas.

A follow up episode on the BBC documentary 'The Autistic Me' from 2009.It shows the progress the three male adolescents with autistic disorders, Oliver, Alex and Tom, have made, one year later.

A documentary about the rising popularity of sex robots. In this, we meet a number of men who are attracted to robots and the pioneers who are making this fantasy, into a reality.

A unique drama about everyday athletes who join an extreme running race. Their dream and burden is to test their personal limits, heal their souls and release their demons.

Three women fight to break the cycle one life at a time.

FRONTLINE takes an in-depth look at multi-billion-dollar "persuasion industries" of advertising and public relations and how marketers have developed new ways of integrating their messages deeper into fabric of our lives.

Horizon interviews some experts and looks at the matters which can change our lives in the future, like: climate change, the future of transport, energy production, gene therapy, artificial intelligence, among other things.

Jean Kilbourne discusses the representation of women in advertisements.

A DVD-exclusive documentary about the making and production of The Matrix (1999).

Documentary on the impact of the wealth gap in the UK on a couple of teenagers.

3.5 million children are growing up in poverty in the UK. It's one of the worst rates in the industrialised world and successive governments continue to struggle to bring it into line. Struggling and without a voice, 'Poor Kids' shines a light on this pressing issue.

Documentary about four extreme protesters who are using direct action, risking their safety, their freedom and their futures, to force their way to change.

McLibel is the story of two ordinary people who humiliated McDonald's in the biggest corporate PR disaster in history.

How might your life be better with less?

Are we too materialistic? Are we wantonly destroying the planet with our pettiness? Where is the source of all that energy and endless consumer desires? The document calls for a direct confrontation with these questions. Focusing on the long-term deteriorating ecological and mental realm of American consumerist culture and all the chaotic materialism, he reaches beneath the surface of the commercial world to show that the consequence of growth is impoverishment - the slow and steady depletion of natural resources and basic human values. It shows the connection between the limits of consumerism and our own well-being, and encourages people to develop a critical view of the current economic situation.

Consuming Kids throws desperately needed light on the practices of a relentless multi-billion dollar marketing machine that now sells kids and their parents everything from junk food and violent video games to bogus educational products and the family car. Drawing on the insights of health care professionals, children's advocates, and industry insiders, the film focuses on the explosive growth of child marketing in the wake of deregulation, showing how youth marketers have used the latest advances in psychology, anthropology, and neuroscience to transform American children into one of the most powerful and profitable consumer demographics in the world. Consuming Kids pushes back against the wholesale commercialization of childhood, raising urgent questions about the ethics of children's marketing and its impact on the health and well-being of kids.

An unflattering look inside America's corporate controlled food industry.

In a Panorama Special, Paul Kenyon looks behind the special offers to examine the true cost of Britain's cheap food, visiting the mega-farms coming our way from the US.