by Steve Rhodes
Watch Award Winning Documentaries on Satellite TV
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HBO is more than just a hub of groundbreaking television series and critically-acclaimed movies, but it also plays host to a great number of award-winning documentaries. With that, it’s safe to say that anything HBO creates, funds or picks up is generally solid gold programming. To get an idea of HBO’s documentary-base check out some of the current documentaries playing on satellite TV.
For one, there is the Oscar-nominated documentary Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country, which gives viewers a look into the savage 40 year military regime that had long been blocked from the eyes of mainstream media around the world. The remarkable documentary focuses on the work of a video journalist known as “Joshua” (whose real name cannot be released for his personal safety) who