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With fresh reporting and analysis from journalists, historians and policymakers, go beyond the sensational headlines and behind the velvet rope to examine the church's long pattern of covering up misconduct to protect itself.
An in-depth, intimate character portrait exploring the life and career and mysterious circumstances surrounding the tragic death of 90’s actress and rising star, Brittany Murphy. The series goes beyond the conspiracy theories and headlines, featuring new interviews by those closest to Brittany and new archival footage.
The origin stories and turbulent journeys of the tech titans who shape our world. We track how tech became the dominant industry in the world, from the dawn of internet to the present day.
An observational documentary series following Humberside Police's custody suite, which hosts Hull's young offenders.
Dian Fossey's life story from childhood and her early days researching in Congo, through to her arrival in Rwanda, where she spent 18 years studying and protecting the mountain gorilla population. Through extensive and rarely seen archival footage, dozens of Fossey’s letters, interviews with friends and colleagues, and narration by Sigourney Weaver, the event series explores Fossey’s murder and the investigation and trial of her research student Wayne McGuire, who was found guilty in absentia of her murder by the Rwandan courts.
Serdar Kılıç travels around the world and explores the nature by witnessing the culture and traditions of people living in the wild.
Nacho Nieto, a journalist specialising in paranormal activity, is at a professional and personal low. After a failed suicide attempt he comes back to life accompanied by the ghost of his mentor, doctor Estrada, iconic communicator of mystery, who died more than 20 years ago.
Award-winning journalist Mariana van Zeller investigates new emerging underworlds, including the trade in body parts, hired assassins, sextortion and the smuggling of people across the U.S.-Mexico border, to meet the players and learn the business.
The six-episode series shows the authentic Tony behind the neurotic characters he plays — a passionate food lover who makes bread and breaks bread with local bakers, top chefs, home cooks and everyone in between.
Seventy years after the liberation of Auschwitz, we have not finished accounting for the destruction of Europe's Jewish population. One question remains today: not why, but how was the Shoah possible?
Short by Jomard Muniz de Britto
Three young friends from Belgrade drive from New York to Los Angeles in a Yugo – a cult relic of a car from the 1980s. A docu-comedy and a road trip with many unexpected encounters.
The end of World War II brings Europe a new political system, reshapes national and personal identities. Three women from Milan, Paris and Berlin report on the days of liberation in their diaries. Their personal stories expand the historical picture and make LIBERATION DIARIES a chronicle of female self-empowerment, resistance and resilience.
Hang Sou and his family, preliterate tribal farmers, await resettlement in a refugee camp in Thailand after fleeing their war-consumed native Laos. "Becoming American" records their odyssey as they travel to and resettle in the United States. As they face nine months of intense culture shock, prejudice, and gradual adaptation to their new home in Seattle, the family provides a rare insight into refugee resettlement and cultural diversity issues.
Behind the Taj Mahal, one of India's most iconic symbols, flows the sacred Yamuna River. However, its waters are among the most polluted in the world. The Yamuna is a severely compromised ecological system. And yet, we remain there, immersed, like boiled frogs…
The film juxtaposes/compares two museums: The Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel, which Samuel Bickels (1909-1975) built there in 1948, and The Menil Collection in Houston, Texas, built by Renzo Piano (b. 1937) 1986 . The method of natural lighting in Bickels‘s construction was the direct model for Piano, who adopted for his construction at the request of its patroness Dominique de Menil.
CICLÓN is a coverage of hurricane Flora's sweeping the Cuban provinces of Camagüey and Oriente in October 1963: the damage, the evacuation of the villages, and the aid to victims.
In this home movie collection of gay men, memory serves as an act of hope, power, and above all, resilience.
More than 40 years on, the ex-survivors revisited prison camp in Plantungan, Central Java. A place they were isolated because they were and assumed as members of Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) in a New Order era. They told a story about their suffering in silence, memories about loss, unspeakable trauma and human consciousness to remember the violence in a different period.
Turkish arabesque, with its bitter, fatalistic, and reproachful lyrics, first emerged as the rebellion music of the slums during the industrialisation era following the establishment of the republic. With the cultural destruction of the 1980 coup, it became a music genre for the masses. The film features pioneers of the genre, such as Orhan Gencebay, Ali Tekinture, Muhtesem Candan, and Burhan Bayar, who explain the birth of this cultural-musical phenomenon, while its evolution is interpreted by Ezel Akay, Kadir Copdemir, Haluk Cobanoglu, and Serhat Koksal. The soundtrack was selected from a wide range of venues, from beer houses to high-end restaurants, from amateurs to well-known producers.
For his first film in fourteen years, animation director Isao Takahata embarked on a visually sumptuous adaptation of The Tale of the Bamboo-Cutter. A dream project for the director that would hopefully establish the recently formed Ghibli Studio 7, created to meet the demands of a new type of modern animation process. But, almost immediately, the epic production is faced with difficulties and falls dramatically behind schedule. In this compelling and insightful documentary, we follow Isao Takahata and his dedicated team of artists as they frantically strive against adversity to make their vision a reality and bring Studio Ghibli into a new era.
A lovesick misfit, a mysterious beauty, a retired civil servant, a randy fortuneteller and a couple of doubtful, young, charismatic lovers meet in late summer on a Russian river cruise. They have one thing in common – similar emotional problems of suffering and doubts. However, they’ve come to the right place. River cruises in Russia are colloquially called “floating matchmaking agencies”. What does fate have in store for them?
This documentary focuses on the love story between Dr. Tian and Mrs. Tian. And how fought for democratization of Taiwan.
Film chronicle that captures 100 year jubilee event of Oktoberfest in Munich in 1910.
In a world where cities are becoming more important than countries, Rotterdam, Liverpool, Marseilles and Naples could form a 'cities gang'. All four are working class, multicultural and internationally oriented, and have been influenced significantly by urban planning and nineteenth-century and modernist urges to demolish. They share a clichéd sense of inferiority and often top 'the wrong charts'. They are currently undergoing an international re-evaluation, including ongoing processes of gentrification. Their shared characteristics could form the basis for a gang of cities capable of taking on the world. Or even showing the world how it could be done.
Dance for Your Life is a powerful testament to the transformative power of dance, where every leap is a story, every setback a lesson, and every moment a chance to be seen.
Julia meets Daniel, a musician who is stranded in Cuxhaven. She is immediately drawn to his talent and vulnerability and decides to make a film about him. However, the project takes an unexpected turn when Daniel begins to communicate with Julia through long video messages, expressing his desire to run away with her. At first, she is intrigued but as time goes on she becomes overwhelmed by his demands and begins to question the power dynamics of their relationship.