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London Calling cracks the creative code underpinning the global ascent of British pop, to reveal the players that created brand Britannia.
Take strange occurrences, weird events, and unexplained happenings and put them all together. That is what you get with Beyond the Unknown. Each episode shows you something different.
Valérie Blais explores the secretive world of those that professionally offer pleasure, comfort or intimacy in Quebec. More than twenty escorts recount their stories, and some of the unusual, a little crazy, or downright troubling client requests.
Footage of real-life rescues captured by the rescuers themselves as they put their lives on the line saving others.
M6NIFESTGIRLS is a reality-entertainment series featuring the six members of the popular girl group as they navigate through life beyond the stage.
How do we treat elderly Quebecers, and how should we treat them? L'industrie de la vieillesse tackles this delicate but crucial topic that has become all the more urgent during the pandemic, as CHSLDs crack under the weight of the coronavirus crisis. Based on numerous interviews and carefully avoiding hypocritical positions, the web series calls out a broken funding system, questions the practice of moving elderly people rather than delivering services to them, and suggests some possible solutions as a neglected demographic continues to grow.
Filmmaker Eric Schaeffer is just a regular guy looking for love and unable to find it... or did he during his book tour from Portland, Oregon to Portland.
Chef José Andrés and his three daughters travel across Spain on an epic gastronomic adventure. Diving deep into the country's delicious food culture, they visit incredible locations to discover the culinary secrets and traditions of José's homeland.
The Academy is a reality television series that provides a behind-the-scenes look at police recruits of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Academy as they go through an 18-week training course to become deputies of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. The program premiered in May 2007 on Fox Reality Channel with class 355. As of fall 2007, the series is also aired on MyNetworkTV. There were 111 recruits to start out and 24 were separated. Separations occur when recruits fail make-up exams, simply decide to resign due to injury or by personal choice, or when the instructors feel the recruit shouldn't continue with training. The lead drill instructor was Deputy Miley a.k.a. "The Ramrod". Class 355 was mostly made of recruits for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, but there were recruits for other agencies as well such as the Los Angeles Port Police, Torrance Police Department, Inglewood Police Department, Redondo Beach Police Department, and the Pomona Police Department. The finale for the first season was on Thursday, August 2, 2007. Fox Reality started taping the second season of the show in early November 2007 at the STARS Center, the Los Angeles County Sheriff academy. The second season premiere aired on May 24, 2008, and the second season finale aired on July 26, 2008. The third season of The Academy, which premiered on October 24, 2009 provides a behind-the-scenes look at recruits of the Orange County Fire Authority, California.
I Love the '80s is a decade nostalgia television program that was produced by VH1, based on the BBC series of the same name. The first episode, "I Love 1980", premiered on December 16, 2002.
While serving a sentence for assault in Wheatfield Prison, young prisoner Eric Boylan began channeling his anger and frustration into one of his childhood passions: painting. Now that he’s been released, Eric has set out to pursue a career in fine art - while attempting to navigate the challenges of life as an ex-prisoner.
32 renowned Brazilian screenwriters of the contemporary Brazilian cinema talk about their creative processes. From the concept of script to their agreements and disagreements, going through their experiences with filmmakers, their reaction to the finished film, critic, and even controversies on auteurism.
Singapore GaGa is a 55-minute paean to the quirkiness of the Singaporean aural landscape. It reveals Singapore's past and present with a delight and humour that makes it a necessary film for all Singaporeans. We hear buskers, street vendors, school cheerleaders sing hymns to themselves and to their communities. From these vocabularies (including Arabic, Latin, Hainanese), a sense of what it might mean to be a modern Singaporean emerges. This is Singapore's first documentary to have a cinema release. With English and Chinese subtitles.
An experimental found-footage work constructed from audiovisual recordings recovered from VHS tapes. Through direct physical intervention on the medium itself, the original images are altered and transformed.
A meditation on memory and perseverance, this short film follows 75-year-old South Williamsburg resident Álvaro Brandon on his daily route to feed 40 stray cats in his neighborhood.
This feature-length RealD™ 3D experience was filmed with revolutionary aerial devices and techniques to fly right alongside birds. This breathtaking journey will take viewers across the world’s most iconic landscapes to the heart of the greatest animal spectacles on Earth: snow geese dash through Monument Valley and New York City, vultures ascend miles above the earth then dive down to huge wildebeest herds below, scarlet macaws race at breakneck speed through the rainforest. Using unique, state-of-the-art 3D cameras in barely accessible and highly dangerous places, the audience has never before been so close to the drama and beauty of nature until now.
Follows an octogenarian couple: Burt is losing his memory; his loving wife Ethelle wants him to retain their most meaningful memories together.
In 1977, a book of photographs captured an awakening - women shedding the cultural restrictions of their childhoods and embracing their full humanity. This documentary revisits those photos, those women and those times and takes aim at our culture today that alarmingly shows the need for continued change.
Yana's foreigner rental agency helps Chinese real estate developers turn ghost towns into temporary 'globalized booming cities' to lure in potential buyers. But when the real estate market starts to collapse, she is forced to sell her company and reassess everything she ever believed in.
Indigenous chief Juma Xipaia fights to protect tribal lands despite assassination attempts. Her struggle intensifies after learning she's pregnant, while her husband, Special Forces ranger Hugo Loss, stands by her side.
Develops from the life, work and memory of Gianfrancesco Guarnieri, one of the most important names in the history of Brazilian theater, to examine the courses of dramaturgy and politics in the last decades. Guarnieri, besides being a TV star, was also seen as the synthesis of the politically engaged artist in Brazil. His sons, also actors, saw a separation between art, work, and politics. As he investigates the portraits of two generations, grandson and director Francisco aims to understand the place of his own generation in history, in art and the world as a whole.
A notorious mondo film depicting unbelievable and bizarre rituals, animal killing and cruelty, and people being killed and eaten, all by either animals or humans against each other or themselves.
Journey alongside a young tigress raising her cubs in the fabled forests of India.
This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then from a number of 1944 releases.
China marks the beginning of the extensive Asian theme in Ottinger’s filmography and is her first travelogue. Her observant eye is interested in anything from Sichuan opera and the Beijing Film Studio to the production of candy and sounds of bicycle bells.
The definitive zombie culture documentary, brought to the screen by the makers of THE PEOPLE vs. GEORGE LUCAS.
Around Lake Como, a voyage interrupted by a series of brief, successive stops, as fleeting as musical phrases. Someone enters and leaves a telephone booth. Water and the lines that contain it.