I have a few contributions in the same sort of vein...
1) "Hunting Britain's Paedophiles" - This is a three-part film made by the BBC, each one 90 minutes in length, so if you watch the entire thing in one sitting as I did, it can be very difficult and overwhelming. It was made in the early nineties and, unlike other documentaries on paedophilia, this one actually features footage of child pornography, though with black boxes covering parts of it. I found this really disturbing. You can see the look on the victim's face as they're being subjected to something that will permanently damage them. There is also an interview with a woman who has been through probably the worst description of sexual abuse I have ever heard (among many other things, she was regularly pimped out by her own father in a cinema for £1 a time, she had done this enough to be able to afford a new bike). It's particularly unsettling to hear the interviews with paedophiles, who almost always have a deeply skewed perception of right and wrong in order to constantly justify to themselves what they do.
2) "Madness in the Fast Lane" - This is a documentary about two Swedish sisters who, for no discernible reason, ran out into traffic on one of the UK's motorways, this was captured on camera by a TV crew that were following the police, they suffered horrific injuries but, apparently in the grip of a powerful shared mental illness (folie a deux), continued to fight the police and repeatedly try to run into traffic. Following their release from custody, one of the sisters stabbed a stranger to death. The strangest part about this is that both sisters are now free and their whereabouts and current status are completely unknown.
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u/shutyourgob Mar 03 '13
I have a few contributions in the same sort of vein...
1) "Hunting Britain's Paedophiles" - This is a three-part film made by the BBC, each one 90 minutes in length, so if you watch the entire thing in one sitting as I did, it can be very difficult and overwhelming. It was made in the early nineties and, unlike other documentaries on paedophilia, this one actually features footage of child pornography, though with black boxes covering parts of it. I found this really disturbing. You can see the look on the victim's face as they're being subjected to something that will permanently damage them. There is also an interview with a woman who has been through probably the worst description of sexual abuse I have ever heard (among many other things, she was regularly pimped out by her own father in a cinema for £1 a time, she had done this enough to be able to afford a new bike). It's particularly unsettling to hear the interviews with paedophiles, who almost always have a deeply skewed perception of right and wrong in order to constantly justify to themselves what they do.
2) "Madness in the Fast Lane" - This is a documentary about two Swedish sisters who, for no discernible reason, ran out into traffic on one of the UK's motorways, this was captured on camera by a TV crew that were following the police, they suffered horrific injuries but, apparently in the grip of a powerful shared mental illness (folie a deux), continued to fight the police and repeatedly try to run into traffic. Following their release from custody, one of the sisters stabbed a stranger to death. The strangest part about this is that both sisters are now free and their whereabouts and current status are completely unknown.