What It Takes To Become A Freemason | Inside the Freemasons | S1E02 | @DocoCentral

Since WW2, Freemasonry has lost a third of its membership. Lodges are closing at a rate of 100 a year and with just 2% of Masons under the age of thirty, the fight is on to attract new blood into the Craft. We look at what the future holds for the world’s oldest fraternity. Documentary Central is the home for compelling documentaries tackling subjects like history, climate change, wildlife, conspiracy and more.

In the first episode we join 40 year old Bedfordshire farmer, James Wooton as he prepares to go through the infamous, secret initiation ceremony, complete with blindfolds, bared breasts and rolled-up trouser legs, which will see him become a 1st Degree Entered Apprentice. Documentary Central is the home for compelling documentaries tackling subjects like history, climate change, wildlife, conspiracy and more.

The 3rd Degree is the most powerful of all Masonic rituals – when a candidate is confronted with his own death. It’s also the moment Gary Hacking from Bolton has been looking forward to for years. A nurse in search of male company -he works alongside 50 women- Gary can’t wait to become a Master Mason. Documentary Central is the home for compelling documentaries tackling subjects like history, climate change, wildlife, conspiracy and more.

Reggie Yates gets up close and personal with three very different communities in contemporary Russia, exploring what it's like for young people there, 24 years after the fall of the Soviet Union.Award winning filmmaker Reggie Yates travels around the world investigating big issues such as gun violence, racism, gay rights and addiction.From Cape Town to Chicago, London to Moscow, Reggie explores controversial topics and goes on a journey through the extremes of life all over the world. In the last five years, Reggie has become synonymous with critically acclaimed documentaries. Documentary Central is the home for compelling documentaries tackling subjects like history, climate change, wildlife, conspiracy and more.

Missing Women and the Bachelor Time Bomb | Investigate Asia Asia is "missing" 170 million women because parents are choosing to give birth to boys and aborting daughters. This "gendercide" is the result of politically motivated population control policies imposed by the West more than 30 years ago. Today, millions of men of marriageable age are unable to find wives and more than ever before women are being traded like commodities. In China, mothers who were once expected to abort female foetuses are today desperately advertising their sons at marriage markets. In India, villagers who refuse to give birth to daughters themselves are pooling their money to buy a bride at auctions to marry one man but also serve other bachelors in the village. With the growing surplus of men, crime rates are rising and threatening the internal stability of these nations. Scientists expect other regions like Africa and the Arab world to follow suit as sex determination technology becomes ubiquitous and affordable. We are facing a humanitarian crisis which some scientists believe may threaten world peace. Zoning in on

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