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Media logic investigates the difference between image and reality. Media serve as a guide to get a grip on reality. But to what extent are they a reliable guide? How is public opinion formed? And what influence does this have on the actions of administrators, journalists and citizens?
From his breakout role in Risky Business with his unforgettable slide and famous grin, to saving the movie business with Top Gun: Maverick, Tom Cruise has pushed himself and those around him to make the best movies possible.
When a controversial cult leader builds a utopian city in the Oregon desert, conflict with the locals escalates into a national scandal.
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Historian Patrick Boucheron revisits the most important dates in history through the prisms of memory and collective imagination.
Former FBI profiler Candice DeLong interviews convicted killers from prison about their crimes.
When Will Ferrell's good friend Harper comes out as a trans woman, they take a road trip to bond and reintroduce Harper to the country as her true self.
The documentary by gourmet Shen Hongfei, Chen Xiaoqing as the general counsel; Visit the streets, smell and taste, with simple images and family taste, looking for authentic Chinese breakfast. Each episode features a traditional breakfast, an interesting shop, a group of self-indulgent diners, and the owner's "breakfast philosophy."
Housos is an Australian comedy television series created by Paul Fenech for SBS, that screens on SBS One. The series is a satirical parody of low income Australian residents of fictional suburb Sunnyvale, who are living in Housing Commission public housing. On 1 November 2012, a film based on the series was released in Australian cinemas, titled Housos vs. Authority. On 9 September 2012 it was announced that Housos would return for a second series, which premiered 22 July 2013.
Coaches with championship résumés share their personal rules for success in sports and life in this reflective and inspiring documentary series.
Experts dive deep into the secrets of Ancient Egypt, and use cutting-edge archaeological technology to reveal the hidden truths that could potentially answer questions that have befuddled Egyptologists for generations.
Dr. Paolo Macchiarini is world famous for his revolutionary stem cell-infused windpipe transplants. There's just one problem: His patients keep dying.
Oli London, English, in his thirties, is fascinated by South Korea and especially by Jimin, a world star of K-pop. For years, he has spent a fortune on plastic surgery to look like him. His personal journey is staged via a Korean tale, which is the founding myth of a shamanic mask dance.
Nicolas Deocampo--a prominent Filipino filmmaker, academic, historian and activist--goes down memory lane in this intimate vignette and paints through his piercing poetry and gripping visual images—the wins of the LGBTQIA movement as he retells his own struggle in finding love and belonging.
Ryan McMahon is on a quest to uncover the truth in the deaths of numerous Indigenous people in Thunder Bay, Ontario – a city known as the homicide and hate crime capital of Canada.
Three cleaning maids share their experience after a decade working in a Motel. Through this testimony we enter a daily world that little by little start to become paranormal.
When Ginger Spice announced her departure from the Spice Girls, many predicted the end of the group. During the group's visit to the U.S. for their highly anticipated tour, Andi Peters goes to Miami to find out the whole truth. Is it the end, or will the fabs four live forever?
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Pedro Costa, Manoel de Oliveira y and the film's director, with their own personal views, share that thin line that links life with cinema.
Victims of romance scams try to reclaim their lives with help from "The Tinder Swindler" target Cecilie Fjellhøy and private investigator Brianne Joseph.
The act of seeing wars is a construction. This is where it starts. Hotel Machine is a reflection on the production of representations of conflicts. Hotel Machine is the story of a hotel that remembers.
A a blood-soaked documentary on gorehounds. An in-depth look at the bowels of underground horror like you've never seen. Get to know the artists behind some of the most subversive and gory films being made today. Tony Newton presents this uncensored look at true underground horror, featuring exclusive trailers, short films, and interviews with the filmmakers that are pushing the boundaries of visceral and gore-forward cinema.
Sea life in a whole new way. Deep Sea 3D, an underwater adventure from the filmmakers behind the successful IMAX® 3D film Into the Deep, transports audiences deep below the ocean surface. Through the magic of IMAX®; and IMAX 3D, moviegoers will swim with some of the planets most unique, dangerous and colorful creatures, and understand this inspiring underworld.
Today, like a ship entering the storm, the world faces climate change induced collapse. Once You Know, by director Emmanuel Cappellin, is a poetic and poignant exploration of how four of the world’s leading climate scientists and energy experts find truth, chaos, and hope in their work.
Documentary on the making-of Tati's Playtime (1967)
All the incredible diversity of animal life sprang from a single organism. Every animal, no matter how weird, is related to every other. And behind each species is an incredible story of the millions of generations that gave rise to it - every animal we know and love today sprang from creatures that looked nothing like it.
A coming-of-age story about three youngsters who find an escape from life's ordeals by working on the Budapest Children's Railway. While they enjoy playing at being responsible adults on the train, at home they are forced to mature abruptly.
This movie takes a unique look at Baghtcheban School, the special school for deaf children, how it deal with teaching the kids and how they lives are effected by it.
A rarely-screened trilogy of short films by the great Paraguayan filmmaker Paz Encina.
The first of two Latinas to represent Texas in Congress, Veronica Escobar, and the only African-American woman to run for city council in Austin in 2018, Natasha Harper-Madison, lead a diverse group of progressive voices across Texas as they fight decades of institutional racism and policies of discrimination along the border. The battle over immigrant rights, land seizures to build the border wall, and the troubled racial history of the state form the backdrop to a film that explores how a place once known for its reactionary politics is becoming more liberal, more diverse—and more at risk for violent conflict.
A documentary that tells the stories of women, each of whom changes their lives based on the cycle of violence. But these changes are a long and difficult process of self-working. From calling the police, living in a shelter to returning to themselves, women dare to go this way for themselves and their children.
In recognition of the 4th of July, several celebrities and politicians of differing ideologies join to read the historic documents which laid the foundation for the United States of America.
Explores every aspect of Sparta's culture, lifestyle, history and legacy. Author Steven Pressfield reflects on the significance of the Battle of Thermopylae, where a force led by 300 Spartan warriors stalled the advance of a hundred-thousand-plus strong Persian army for nearly a week. Scholars explore the factors that drove the Peloponnesian city-state to strive for martial excellence. Ancient accounts explain how Sparta's warriors were trained and detail their prowess in battle.
How the cinema industry does not respect the author's work as it was conceived, how manipulates the motion pictures in order to make them easier to watch by an undemanding audience or even how mutilates them to adapt the original formats and runtimes to the restrictive frame of the television screen and the abusive requirements of advertising. (Followed by “Filmmakers in Action.”)