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Portrait of the Rostock-based singing group “Aparcoa” and their songs. Political comics illustrate the junta's coup and the role of the USA. The film shows the solidarity of progressive humanity with the Chile of the Unidad Popular and calls for solidarity.
Documentary by Dmitry Davydov
As a gay man, filmmaker Arshad Khan examines his troubled relationship with his devout, Muslim father Abu. Using family archives and movies, Khan explores his struggle with his identity and compares it to his parents attempts to fit into Canada.
Blending behind-the-scenes footage with eerie undertones, the documentary captures the making of Off Kid with the same unsettling and sensory atmosphere as the short. A journey between the real and the uncanny.
Albert Lin and National Geographic Channel unearth the terrible secrets that lie hidden in the tomb of China's first Emperor. The Terracotta Warriors are just the tip of the iceberg in this mausoleum the size of Manhattan, that has gone largely unexcavated…until now. These silent statues guard explosive, macabre findings that rewrite history and paint a very different picture of the ancient world from what we thought we knew.
The film is based solely on footage shot in Warsaw in 1939 by Julien Hequembourg Bryan. This American filmmaker and photographer documented life in Poland, the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany between 1935 and 1939. Following the outbreak of the Second World War, he arrived in Warsaw, where he shot a number of films documenting the city under siege, and is said to be the only foreign correspondent in the Polish capital at the time. Bryan also took the first colour photographs of wartime Warsaw.
Documentary about Anton Chekhov and his descendants in Moscow. Vera Tschechowa, who is the great-grandniece of the poet and writer, meets with family members, writers, and theater professionals. Past and present merge into a poetic journey of discovery into a country that, until then, had been little known in the realm of artistic sensibilities.
74-year-old dancer Sonja Vukićević moves through socialist-modernist spaces, her body echoing Yugoslavia's last mass performance.
Embark on an epic journey through time and faith with 'The Apocalypse of Saint John.' Join the Apostle John in a stunning visual narrative that unravels the visions of the End Times. Experience each vision like never before, with striking visual effects and epic scenes that immerse you in the apocalyptic narrative.
PFC Benjamin Tollefson was killed in action during Operation: Iraqi Freedom. His mother tells the story he never got a chance to share.
Composed of 28 static-camera scenes from everyday (occupied)-Tibetan life, each picture (without narration) a "narrative" lasting several minutes, these 28 views explore the contradictions between the traditional way of life and modernism's obvious invasion of Tibet.
Documentary about the revolutionary flamenco-rock album "Omega", composed by maestro Enrique Morente and the Granada group Lagartija Nick in 1996. A groundbreaking album with great impact on the national and international music scene in which Morente adapted songs by the singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen and he put music to poems by Federico García-Lorca.
Series "Polyvinyl 33 1/3", was created three years ago, aims to bring together all their broadcasting those whose hobby of collecting plates showed different approaches and attitudes toward, compared to today, when there is a huge variety of sound . Given the fact that today's young people do not even know what a single plate, what is the album, and what a record player, the show itself is the story of more than a hundred previous participants in this series had an opportunity to become familiar with the basic concepts of Hi-Fi technology and the development of sound records on 78 rpm to latest mp3 editions.
Konstantin Stupin or just Stupa - rock-n-roller from Orel. He is 44 years old, we take him out of the madhouse and start making a film. Stupa in the last years of the existence of the USSR, as a schoolboy, decided to make music. He became the leader of the Oryol group Night cane: performances at school with songs about hell, sex, drugs, with texts like “take the Communist Party forgotten by everyone, drop two letters and get the SS”. Then the big scenes of the city and, as a result, the “Festival of Hopes”, organized by Artemy Troitsky, where the Night Cane, being the only non-Moscow group, receives a prize of audience sympathy. The texts for the festival have already become different, much deeper and more serious, but with constant protest in content and form.
Making of "hortelã", MARO's latest acoustic album.
When the former Social Democratic mayor of Düsseldorf flips over to a new populist party, his daughter gets out her camera and observes her family.
Karina was just 12 years old when she was trafficked into sex work. Now 45, she has no standard education qualifications, but what she has witnessed and experienced, in a society that has been hostile to her ‘kind’, has resulted in a new career path opening up for her. She has established O.T.R.A.S., a union for current and former sex workers, to which her friends and colleagues need little persuading to join.
Colonia Comandante Andresito, in the northeast of Misiones, Argentina, has two particularities: It houses the newest town in the country and protects some of the last vestiges of the Paraná Jungle. An approach to the intimacy of the Procopio family, of three generations of Colonists, shows us the daily life of a region traversed by different points of view.
The Museum of the Revolution in Belgrade is actually a building that remained unfinished for 60 years and 'inhabited' only by the homeless and marginalized. The director observes the precarious (but proud) daily life of a girl and her mother around the symbolic ruins of a utopia.
The four-part series takes an awe-inspiring look at the world around us, shot with ultra-high-definition cameras that capture sweeping panoramas and extraordinary close-ups of Canada’s majestic terrain and diverse species.
This six-part series unpicks the events that led to the most devastating disasters of the past 60 years, shining a spotlight on the human cost of the tragedies while seeking to explain the wider political, cultural and institutional context that contributed to them – and looks at the changes made in the wake of each disaster.
Exploring the harrowing journey of a narco semi-submersible carrying 3000 kilos of cocaine from the Amazon to Europe, following its three-man crew as they battle storms and breakdowns before ultimately being apprehended.
25 youngsters, aged 10 to 12 years, probe political party leaders on a range of topics.
The incredible stories of how some of Scottish football’s biggest stars made their names on the pitch... and off it.
As futures hang in the balance, what would you decide? An eye-opening look at Britain's parole boards, making complex, life-changing decisions for prisoners - and their victims.
Weird Nature is a 2002 documentary television series produced by John Downer Productions for the BBC and Discovery Channel. The series features strange behavior in nature—specifically, the animal world. The series now airs on the Science Channel. The series took three years to make and a new filming technique was used to show animal movements in 3D. Each episode, however, tended to end with a piece about how humans are probably the oddest species of all. For example, in the end of the episode about locomotion, the narrator states how unusual it is for a mammal to be bipedal. In the episode about defences, the narrator explains that humans have no real natural defences, save for their big brains.
Taking a personal look at the American Music Award winner's journey to superstardom and the fallout from his personal struggles with sobriety and the tragic deaths of his two children and first wife, Whitney Houston.
With Nicholas Rowe, Helen Rappaport, Lucinda Hawksley, Matthew Sweet.
Join Rachel Khoo as she immerses herself in Melbourne’s rich, multicultural food scene. In this new Kitchen Notebook series, Rachel gathers cooking inspiration and discovers quirky culinary treasures.
With the help of Victorian steam enthusiasts across the country, historian Ruth Goodman and archaeologists Peter Ginn and Alex Langlands journey back in time to the era of steam which shaped modern Britain.
From savage deserts and active volcanoes to immense lakes and rivers, Africa is a land of extremes. Across this awe-inspiring continent, nature's beasts battle for survival in some of the world's harshest conditions.
Follow UK's SAS operations during incidents such as 'Operation Nimrod', the Iranian Embassy siege in London in 1980. Each episode of Most Daring Missions will celebrate a real life assignment undertaken by an elite military force.
As the Archibald celebrates its centenary with an ambitious exhibition; art lover and acclaimed actor Rachel Griffiths embarks on a cultural romp through our most coveted and controversial arts prize.
Athens, Alexandria, Tikal and Rome: these legendary cities are some of the world's most famous archaeological sites. And yet, they still have not revealed all their secrets. The ambition of this series is to resuscitate the first megalopolises of universal history.
The 2020 AMA Supercross season features talented and renowned riders - will Cooper Webb, Ken Roczen and half a dozen others be destined to dominate and prevent rookies from succeeding?
Romesh tries get to the bottom of some of the most mysterious celebrity deaths that shocked a generation. Will his curiosity and sub-optimal investigation skills find the truth?