Documentaries I've Watched (11-15)

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011. Sahara with Michael Palin (2002)
Episode 4
50 min
Creator: Michael Palin

In this four part BBC television series presented by British comedian and travel presenter Michael Palin, and broadcast in 2002. In it, Palin traveled around the Sahara Desert in Northern and Western Africa in four episodes: 1° Line in the Sand - from Gibraltar (British crown colony enclaved in Spain) to amazingly varied Morocco, Western Sahara (disputed by morocco and the Polisaro liberation movement) and Mauritania (another ultra-poor Sahel country, yet plagued by extreme obesity, even as a result of forced feeding of women as a status symbol); 2° Destination Timbuktu - Senegal and Mali; 3° Absolute Desert - Mali and Niger; 4° Dire Straits - Algeria, Libya, Tunisia, Ceuta (a Spanish enclave in Morocco where refugees hope to enter Europe) and back to Gibraltar.

012. Keys to the Castle: France (2009)
60 min
HGTV

Take a look at four of the most breathtaking chateaus and castles in France that are still lived in today. The best part is you can even spend the night in some of them and experience what it's like to live like royalty!

013. Big As Life: Obesity in America (2002)
60 min
TLC

The touching lives of obese individuals are revealed as they share their personal challenges. From clubs for fat people to surgeries that result in spectacular (but often temporary) physical transformations-- witness the pain and surprising joy

014. Sahara with Michael Palin (2007)
60 min
TLC

Four morbidly obese people struggle with their weight, their addiction to food and rapidly deteriorating health. Two men are bed ridden and require constant care. Two women are dangerously close to becoming housebound.