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When a Norwegian rescue captain and an Australian Prime Minister collide over the fate of 433 asylum seekers, who will blink first - and at what cost?
Explore the rich legacy and evolution of diverse designs across Japan. DESIGN x STORIES digs into their origins and how they inspire creators today.
Women's wrestling is the fastest-growing sport in America. But it's still not fully sanctioned. In Ohio, a wrestling hotbed, girls must compete for their titles - and fight for their sport to be recognized.
A live-action short, using many avant-garde film techniques, that looks at American car culture in the late 1960s. The main section deals with the many trials and obstacles a teenager must face on the path to being able to drive. Surviving the driver's education class is only the first step, as the teenager must then pass his driving test, and then finally get permission to borrow the family car.
A look at some of Europe's and America's most horrific serial killers and how bizarrely simple blunders eventually brought them to justice.
Explore 8,000 years of history and culture through a bowl of noodles in the KBS documentary Noodle Road. Aired in 2009, this delicious six-episode program looks at the role and development of noodles in world civilization and culinary culture. Where do noodles come from? Who lived on them? How did they travel from the East to the West? The makers of the program traveled to eight countries in Eurasia including China, Uzbekistan, Bhutan, Turkey, and Italy to trace the cultural roots and trade routes that eventually brought noodles to dinner tables around the world today.
Die Fussbroichs is a German television series.
Explore the world created by America’s First Peoples. This four part series reaches back 15,000 years to reveal massive cities aligned to the stars, unique systems of science and spirituality, and 100 million people connected by social networks spanning two continents.
The year 2000, elsewhere. 12 months. 12 episodes. Weeks, days, single moments of different ways of life. Tradition and change. People of different cultural and geographical background. A film about their life. A journey through voices and sounds from elsewhere, with no commentary added. Landscapes, outlooks on the world, outlooks on life: Desert, snow, valley, jungle, ice, rainforest, stones, swamps, mountains, the sea, forests, a South-Sea atoll. An homage to humanity at the beginning of the 21st century.
A portrait of John Grierson, the first Canadian Government Film Commissioner and founder of the National Film Board in 1939. Interweaving archival footage, interviews with people who knew him and footage of Grierson himself, this film is a sensitive and informative portrait of a dynamic man of vision. Grierson believed that the filmmaker had a social responsibility, and that film could help a society realize democratic ideals. His absolute faith in the value of capturing the drama of everyday life was to influence generations of filmmakers all over the world. In fact, he coined the term 'documentary film'.
Actors Patricia Charbonneau and Helen Shaver discuss the making of with groundbreaking film of queer cinema, Desert Hearts (1985, Donna Deitch) and how it impacted their careers.
Dinosaurs! The very word conjures up fascination and intrigue with millions of us dreaming of becoming a palaeontologist when we were younger. Yet few of us realise that over 50 different dinosaur species have been found in Britain. Dinosaur Britain tells the amazing story of many of the dinosaurs that once roamed our country revealing how they hunted, what they ate and how they died from the evidence revealed from their bones.
Zach, a blue monarch butterfly, and all of his insect freinds, host a show where they aim to visit every single London borough, all 32 of them, they gather their research on the boroughs, and explain to viewers what's so special about the boroughs, what transport links they have, what landmarks they have, and if anything else is worthy enough of being told to the viewers. The show encourages people to visit London, and go explore the incredibly convoluted capital city themselves.
Two-part documentary series about the life and legacy of Walt Disney, featuring archival footage only recently released from the Disney vaults, alongside scenes from some of his greatest films.
See the earliest creatures of the Triassic Period to the monsters of the Cretaceous in a ‘life-sized’ IMAX ® presentation. Join renowned paleontologists as they discover new fossils and uncover evidence that dinosaur descendants are still among us. Realistic and scientifically-accurate computer generated animation brings dinosaurs back to life…in a big way!
On June 9, 2024, during the European elections, over half a million young voters backed Jordan Bardella, while others turned to Marion Maréchal. A new generation of leaders is emerging, reshaping old ideological foundations. From the youth wing of the Rassemblement National to student unions and Reconquête’s activists, we followed these key figures as they campaigned their way to the gates of power.
A powerful film about a 35-year-old man who talks directly to the camera about his cancer and the reactions of those around him.
Several billion tons of earth are moved annually by humans - with shovels, excavators or dynamite. Nikolaus Geyrhalter observes people in mines, quarries, large construction sites in a constant struggle to appropriate the planet.
No other band in rock'n'roll history has rivaled The Stooges' combination of heavy primal throb, spiked psychedelia, blues-a-billy grind, complete with succinct angst-ridden lyrics, and a snarling, preening leopard of a frontman who somehow embodies Nijinsky, Bruce Lee, Harpo Marx, and Arthur Rimbaud all rolled into one. There is no precedent for The Stooges, while those inspired by them are now legion. The film will present the context of their emergence musically, culturally, politically, historically, and relate their adventures and misadventures while charting their inspirations and the reasons behind their initial commercial challenges, as well as their long-lasting legacy.
In April 2014, Paris Zoo opens its doors to the public after two years of huge restoration works. Two years to invent a new kind of zoo. With the complicity of a veterinary and an animal or a group of animals, each episode of the series will tell the story of the arrival of an animal at the zoo or a particular event that marked its reopening, including all the stages and issues that characterize them. Each episode will focus on a central story with an emblematic animal but the other species will also be present in our series through sub-plots.
THE BLACK LIST: VOL. 2 profiles some of today's most fascinating African-Americans. From the childhood inspirations that shaped their ambitions, to the evolving American landscape they helped define, to the importance of preserving a unique cultural identity for future generations, these prominent individuals offer a unique look into the zeitgeist of black America, redefining the traditional pejorative notion of a blacklist.
However impressive the site is, however bossy the guides are, the visitors of the Musée Napoléon listen only absent-mindedly. Does this young lady really care about the tragic destiny of emperor Napoleon or Europe's changing face or isn't she more interested in her won reflection in a window case? And isn't the camera operator more prone to film the cornet wimples of visiting nuns than the fossilized remains of Napoleon's fallen grandeur...?
The documentary’s starting point is the discovery and restoration of a rare and unknown photography reel reproduced from a mutoscope film, made in 1901 in London, about Santos Dumont (1873 – 1932). The work approaches historic and artistic aspects from the beginning of Cinema (pre cinema, variety film) and a cinema that appropriates archive material (found footage, recycled films), through interviews, documents, visual metaphors and the articulation of a poetic essay.
A journey into the life of Elling Kvamme. He was arrested and send to KZ Buchenwald, 22 years old. What did he experience there, as a young "Aryan" medicine-student? And why was it so important to put away what role the doctors had in the development of the Nazism and the idea of removing "useless" lives?
Jack and his friend, actor Jay Mewes, hunt for Bigfoot in northern Idaho.
One Direction's first network special offers backstage footage, comical stunts and performances of some of the band's biggest hits.
The metamorphosis Of Brigitte Bardot from 50s to the 60s. Portrait of an Icon
aespa's Fashion Survival Show.
It was the most notorious terrorist incident since the Gunpowder Plot - an attempt by the IRA to wipe out the entire UK government on 12 October 1984 as it convened on the south coast. Award-winning journalist Peter Taylor remembers the carnage as special effects and emotional testimony from survivors combine in a tense reconstruction. Followed by The Hunt for the Bomber.
Comedian Anna Clifford hits the road to discover some of the most unique, picturesque and bizarre public houses around the country in search of Ireland's Perfect Pub.
A propaganda film about the beautiful country Norway, meant for tourists abroad.
The life and work of this visionary woman who carried out a valuable social, educational, and conservation work unprecedented in the history of Puerto Rico.