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What would you do if you were confronted with death? What gives someone the strength to survive? Is it luck, chance, instinct? In a stripped-down, simple-yet-cinematic interview style, “I Survived…” allows survivors to explain, in their own words, how they overcame unbelievable circumstances — offering insight into what got them through the experience that changed their lives forever.
This riveting, behind-the-scenes look reveals the massive project to create the opening spectacle for Beijing's 2022 Winter Olympics. Set in the iconic 'Bird's Nest,' the story is told in the words of key figures involved, including director Zhang Yimou.
Grayson Perry, one of Britain's leading artists, brings the nation together through art, making new works and hosting masterclasses set to unleash our collective creativity during lockdown.
The multi-part project shows the main milestones of politics, television, advertising, music and nightlife, which distinguished the country at that time. Numerous interviews given by the participants of this incredible era helped to accurately convey the flavor and recall how things really were in the 90s. In addition, the film is based on home archives and personal diaries, as well as audio and video recordings.
Ibiza is moving upmarket. With access to clubs, villas and yachts as well as police and emergency services, Zara McDermott follows the money to discover what makes the island tick.
Feature documentary about humor and the Holocaust, examining whether it is ever acceptable to use humor in connection with a tragedy of that scale, and the implications for other seemingly off-limits topics in a society that prizes free speech.
Tinto Brass gives the stories behind his films.
A bunch of teenage boys in Mora, Sweden, who are torn between their great interest in cars and their girlfriends. The film especially follows Jan Broberg and his rebuilding of a Volvo Amazon, year model 1966.
In France, laughing at the powerful has become a risky business. Over the past thirty years, the country’s most outspoken comedians on television and radio have been systematically silenced, sidelined, censored, or even fired. In public broadcasting as in the private media, the same pattern keeps repeating itself: satire is tolerated as long as it doesn’t bite. The moment it takes aim at those in power, the microphone is switched off. From the sets of Canal+ to the studios of France Inter, through the corridors of France Télévisions, and from the presidency of Nicolas Sarkozy to that of Emmanuel Macron, this documentary traces the mechanisms of a systematic silencing—one that reveals much about the true state of freedom of expression in French broadcasting.
Beloved by children of all ages around the world, Elmo is an international icon. Few people know his creator, Kevin Clash, who dreamed of working with his idol, master puppeteer Jim Henson. Displaying his creativity and talent at a young age, Kevin ultimately found a home on Sesame Street. Narrated by Whoopi Goldberg, this documentary includes rare archival footage, interviews with Frank Oz, Rosie O’Donnell, Cheryl Henson, Joan Ganz Cooney and others and offers a behind-the-scenes look at Sesame Street and the Jim Henson Workshop.
In 2005, the sleepy community of Mineola, Texas, is thrown into turmoil when local children reveal shocking stories about a pedophile sex ring that took place at a local swingers club. As arrests are made, life sentences handed down, and lives ruined, it soon becomes apparent that there is a lot more to the story than meets the eye. Now, the startling long-term repercussions of the scandal are revealed.
The training programme of one of World War Two's most covert organisations, the Special Operations Executive or SEO, is resurrected.
A journey through the streets of Mexico City in search of capturing images of violent events that may be of public interest. Jaime Verde, a photojournalist specializing in crime news, drives through the labyrinthine metropolis, enveloped in its lights and sounds. His work consists of navigating daily life, waiting for the right moment; it is during this wait that the city reveals itself.
On a global scale, war is always either further away or closer. In the film we see the tragic day from many perspectives. The narrator talks, looks through photographs and documents, and talks about other wars, about other children: Japanese, Cambodian, Balkan, Rwandan, Syrian. Documentary footage mixes with animation to create a kind of inner world landscape.
In the middle of an economic crisis, in the shadow of Wall Street, an institution that represents a less well-known American tradition is booming. The Park Slope Food Coop: a cooperative supermarket where all 16,000 members work 3 hours per months to earn the right to buy the best food in New York at incredibly low prices. The success of this cooperative is a bad new for capitalism and aggro-alimentary business, and an opportunity to change the food production and distribution systems. We will see what has become of the Park Slope Food Coop, now a well-rooted institution in the heart of Brooklyn: the way it functions, its hundreds of rules, the diversity and eccentricity of its members. We'll see how the culture that has been created at the coop gives its members daily visceral lessons in democracy, how this could represent a potential change in mentality for Americans faced with increasingly difficult economic times.
Featuring songs from Niall’s two smash hit albums Flicker and Heartbreak Weather, this multi-camera event will see the former member of One Direction and his full band perform for fans around the world thanks to time-zoned live streams. In response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic that has put full-capacity live events on hold, all profits from the show will be shared between Niall’s touring crew who are currently unable to work and #WeNeedCrew relief fund.
A five-part documentary exploring the rise of Nazaré as the epicenter of big wave surfing. With intimate portraits of the surfers, rescue teams, and a community transformed by the power of the ocean.
Currently there are more than 6,000 languages spoken around the world. This five-part series traces the history and evolution of language and attendant theories and controversies while evaluating the scope of linguistic diversity, the dissemination of language, the expansion of language into written form, and the life cycle of language.
The film follows the band Slowdive as they come up in the flourishing Thames Valley shoegaze scene and chronicles the making of their classic album Souvlaki. It features interviews with all of the band members as well as Creation Records' Alan McGee, producer Chris Hufford, and engineer Ed Buller.
Pascal Marchand arrived in the mythical land of Burgundy to harvest the grapes at age 21. Now 30 years later, he is a renowned wine artist and innovator. Shot over the catastrophic 2016 season, the film is both a love letter and a cautionary tale.
Once upon a time, there was a film that played inside a museum. The museum had many paintings with people looking at them, beautiful and mysterious. There's a ghost and several suspects. This is a documentary experience about painting and human movements. A "Digital Tableau Vivant" that dismantles the solemnity of the museum and opens its interior to moving works that traverse time.
Series revealing the lives of the Dragons' Den Dragons
SUGA of the world-renowned group, BTS, works on a new album. He embarks on a journey to find his story to tell through music, while interacting with artists from various cities around the world.
Film that rescues the history of the origin of rock in the city of Santa Fe (Argentina) as part of the cultural movement that broke out and promoted the decade between 1965 and 1975 artistically and socially.
Supermodel friends explore careers, life and love in the Big Apple.
End of season review for the Manchester team, looking back at the 2004/2005 season, when Kevin Keegan was replaced by Stuart Pearce.
Programme maker Frans Bromet visits eight public libraries with camera and microphone and speaks to visitors, staff, and volunteers. The idea that libraries are boring institutions where you only go to borrow books and CDs turns out to be completely outdated. Everyone is welcome in the library, it is a pleasant place to spend time, and not unimportantly: the library is the only public place that is accessible for free all day long. From the homeless person to the millionaire and from the student to the pensioner: the library is a place where the whole of the Netherlands comes together.
A Year And A Half In The Life Of Metallica is a two-part documentary about the process of making the Metallica album (or "The Black Album"), and the following tour. It was produced by Juliana Roberts and directed by Adam Dubin. The second part runs approximately two-and-a-half hours and follows Metallica at the start of their Wherever We May Roam Tour in Europe through to the Guns N' Roses/Metallica Stadium Tour of 1992.
What happens when a man with virtually no experience making movies and no interest in politics is sent to make a documentary about the 2008 United States presidential election? For better or for worse, Halifax-based comedian Nathan Fielder is going to find out. What follows is one man's odyssey through the USA. Attending political rallies, conducting man-on-the-street interviews and leading focus group sessions, Nathan fumbles his way straight into the hearts and minds of the average American.
Bùi Thạc Chuyên travels around rural northern Vietnam to research about classical xẩm singing and its last surviving performer Hà Thị Cầu.
Twenty years after fleeing Afghanistan, a Hazara family in Pakistan must decide whether to stay together amid growing persecution or leave, separate from each other, knowing they may never meet again.
Documentary TV mini-series about the royalist movement in Serbia during WWII, led by general Draža Mihailović.
In the summer of 2023, Jimin and Jungkook decided to go on a trip to make unforgettable memories! From the US to Jeju and Sapporo, check out the precious memories of the two members enjoying free and fun moments during their unpredictable trip!
As we approach death, each of us encounters a unique set of experiences and impressions-the sum of our time spent and our choices. It has been said that death is like a wall; as we near the wall, our instinct is to turn and face the past. Through a series of interviews with terminally ill men and women, The View From Here is an exploration of how life looks after a terminal diagnosis and before a final breath- an unflinching attempt to undo the taboos that keep us afraid and alone at the end.
Description of a "hot street" and police methods: "raids", role of police assistants to stop the development of prostitution and "Nests", private works to rehabilitate prostitutes to normal life by teaching them a job.