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Four years in the life of Muhammad “Misha” Alsheikh, a teenage pianist living between Palestinian, Russian and Jewish cultures. It takes Muhammad three hours to get to his piano lessons, but his dream is bigger than borders. Between checkpoints, auditions and his father’s will that he become a doctor, he tries to fulfill his dream of becoming a professional pianist – and also of staying happy.
Follows four members of a Tana Toraja family: Ne’ Minda, the grandfather; Ma’ Adel, the mother; Pong Kenny, the uncle; and Marsel, the son. We follow Marsel’s childhood over seven years, as his grandfather reveals his ancestors’ way of life — Aluk To Dolo, one grounded in the maintenance of environmental equilibrium.
In 1948, four large, wealthy Belgian families sell all their belongings and embark on a voyage to Patagonia. Slowly most of them return, but Gabriel, one of the fathers, stays until his death in 1988.
“What were you doing last year, when I took this photo from a train passing by your house?”
A daughter attempts to pull the monster of her childhood out from under the bed in an original, deeply personal and creative film about her mother's mental illness.
Punk legend turned pop sensation Billy Idol bares it all in this electrifying documentary, revealing his rise to fame, battle with addiction and triumphant comeback that captivated millions of fans worldwide.
Every human being knows it: privacy. Where do intimate moments occur, moments in which intimacy is openly expressed. In search of these moments, a gay-porno production firm, the Wa(h)re-Liebe television reporting team from Berlin, flew to Majorca with Lukas Schmid, a documentary film director. Intimitaeten is a cinema-direct documentary film in which various ways of approaching and analysing intimacy are explored.
The documentary "Guest in Cairo," (The Shah's funeral ceremony) part of Manoto’s documentary series, delves into the final days of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in Cairo, Egypt, using never-before-seen footage. A king who, after being exiled from his country, was abandoned by almost all his friends and allies. Among them, Anwar Sadat, the President of Egypt, was the only one who refused to sacrifice his friendship with the Shah for political gains and deals. While no one else was willing to accept the ailing Shah, Sadat offered refuge to him and his family and appointed Egypt’s most skilled doctors to care for him. After the Shah’s death, Anwar Sadat held an official and grand funeral, showcasing his unwavering loyalty and friendship with the fallen monarch.
A group of teenagers looking for meaning and feeling a lot during a few beautiful days in March away from the real world.
Gifted artist Raul has been stuck in a wheelchair for 15 years due to his life choices and his paintings have been the only way to express his feelings and desperation.
The beginning of a teenager's sexual life triggered an eating disorder. Through memories and emotions, he explores how these changes affected his body perception, his mental well-being, and his relationship with his partner.
Short films with big ideas. Take a break and learn more about everything from faith, hope, and love to war and death. Talented film directors interpret research from Denmark's brightest minds.
The American military forces has a long tradition of cooperation with the movie industry. Movie studios can save millions of dollars by securing use of military stock footage, equipment and manpower. But there will only be cooperation if the scripts are depicting the armed forces in a favorable way. The most realistic and successful war movies has generally been made without the military's support.
Four close friends' seemingly perfect lives unravel after one vanishes on a hunting trip. Nearly 20 years later, the truth emerges with devastating consequences.
In this documentary, recovering addict and amputee John Wood finds himself in a stranger-than-fiction battle to reclaim his mummified leg from Southern entrepreneur Shannon Whisnant, who found it in a grill he bought at an auction and believes it therefore to be his rightful property.
Based on years of research into the mass rapes committed by the Red Army at the end of the Second World War. In the first part of the documentary Helke Sander interviews multiple German women who were raped in Berlin by Soviet soldiers in May 1945. Most women never spoke of their experience to anyone, after 46 years of silence they talk for the first time publicly about their violent experiences that have left such a mark.
On September 6, 2021, private security guards burned down a Guarani Kaiowá house at the Ava'te Tekoha ("place for living the culture") in the Dourados Indigenous Reserve in Mato Grosso do Sul. The act was captured on video by the Guarani Kaiowá.
Brasil Paralelo's new documentary brings together testimonies from residents, experts and former members of criminal organizations to show how the public security crisis took hold in Rio.
Explores lives undone by unthinkable betrayals and the courage it takes to survive scandalous confessions, secret lives, terrifying acts of violence, financial ruin and more, showing that when loyalty turns to lies, the truth does more than break hearts - it changes everything.
A back-to-basics live music show where the focus is on the music, the artists and their performances.
Sex, lies and murder – what happened to Travis Alexander? This three-part special examines the most salacious murder case in American history. We explore the investigation and trial that captivated the nation with interviews from central figures.
Explore the Bush family’s internal dynamics: the influential matriarchs, sibling ambitions and unceasing competitive spirit which drove them to power. Through archival footage and interviews with historians, journalists, political figures and Bush family members, the series reveals a story of triumph, tragedy, heroism, faith, and an evolving conservatism.
There are rivalries, and then there is the Celtics versus the Lakers. “Celtics/Lakers: Best of Enemies,” a five-hour, three-part 30 for 30 film event, chronicles the storied franchises’ epic clashes and relives the Boston-LA battle from both sides with sensational footage and fresh, insightful interviews.
Carla Hall travels around the world to track down the unexpected lineage and international origins of America's favorite dishes.
NBC News correspondents Keith Morrison, Josh Mankiewicz, Stephanie Gosk and Andrea Canning examine the final day of a victim’s life – the split-second decisions and pivotal moments that made the difference between life and death. Detectives retrace those crucial hours looking for clues to solve the mystery.
Hailey Gates explores global fashion and issues the industry often ignores, showing us what the world wears, and why.
Skeptics and others discuss widely held conspiracy theories involving aliens, government cover-ups, secret assassinations and other intrigues.