Bright Lights: what one woman's 25-year gambling addiction really cost

Told through animation to protect her identity, 'Sharon' recounts twenty-five years of poker-machine addiction in Australia, from the machines' arrival in 1992 to the day her seven-year-old daughter's piggy bank pushed her past a breaking point. It uses animation to get at a shame most people addicted to gambling never say out loud on camera.

Why it's free: Free on The Guardian's own channel; The Guardian made it.