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- DirectorClaire WaldingStarsMarieluise BeckNadja BerlinghoffJill BidenThe conflict in the Donbas, a secessionist region of Ukraine, began in 2014, after the fall of pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych and the election of Petro Poroshenko. Playing on the divisions in the country, Moscow annexed Crimea and encouraged the Donbas region to declare its secession. Since then, the war has claimed more than 14,000 victims and no political solution has yet been found in this complex issue.
- DirectorMarta PulkRodrigo BaptistaAgustin BarrutiaStarsPääsu-Liis KensJoonas TagelAt a time when people are feeling so much but have few outlets to express it, 19 filmmakers from 12 countries have set up a series of voicemail boxes around the world. People are encouraged to call and leave messages with anonymous thoughts or feelings - be it stories or songs, laments or proclamations, these calls are brought together as a unique portrait of humanity in isolation.
- DirectorPawel LozinskiComposed from the conversations that the director holds with people passing by in the street under his Warsaw apartment, each story in 'The Balcony Movie' is unique and deals with the way we try to cope with life as individuals. All together, they create a self-portrait of contemporary human life, and the passers-by present a composite picture of today's world.
- DirectorSergey LoznitsaStarsHans FrankDina PronichevaAnastasya OsmachkoNazi troops massacre 30,000 Jews over a three-day period in September 1941.
- DirectorKallie FellJennifer LahlStarsBrynneNatasha ChartElizabethDocumentary film featuring interviews with experts, activists, parents, and educators discussing the medical and surgical gender transition of children.
- DirectorRick RowleyStarsA.C. ThompsonSusan BroLucas WaldronIn the aftermath of the assault on the U.S. Capitol, FRONTLINE examines how far-right groups were emboldened and encouraged by former President Trump and how individuals were radicalized and brought into the political landscape.
- 2009– 1h 10m7.4 (13)TV EpisodeDirectorAnne PoiretStarsRa'id Al-MaslahJihan AliArya OsmanThere are about a hundred thousand children, left to their own devices after the fighting against Daech. They are orphans wandering the streets of Mosul, but also "children of Daech", those whose families have pledged allegiance to the caliphate, and who no longer have a legal existence. Without papers, they have no access to school, medical care or food aid. There are also tens of thousands of children locked up in camps after the fall of Daech, along with the most radicalized women, in catastrophic humanitarian conditions, further weakened by the Covid-19 crisis. An unpublished investigation on a generation of children victims of the war against the Islamic State. How can we help them regain faith in the future and a place in society, and prevent them from becoming a threat to the international community?
- DirectorHuaqing JinA work of visual awe and matter-of-fact spiritual inquiry, Dark Red Forest is a majestic documentary portrait that details the annual retreat of thousands of Tibetan nuns to small wooden houses on the vast Tibetan Plateau. With extraordinary intimacy, the camera nestles in with the women of the Yarchen Monastery, who, during the 100 coldest days of the year, learn about-and in some cases experience-profound matters of life and death, suffering and healing, karma and consequence. A document of the experiences of a group of increasingly politically embattled people, Jin Huaqing's film is also a clarifying work of faith and philosophical inquiry, set against a forbidding landscape.
- DirectorElizabeth D. CostaStarsSuma AkhtarAyesha AkterRifa AkterBangla Surf Girls is an immersive documentary that takes us into the heart of Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh, where young girls join a local surf club and dare to dream of freedom and escape from a life of drudgery and abuse.
- DirectorVera KrichevskayaStarsNatalia SindeevaAleksandr VinokurovVera KrichevskayaIn 2008, Natasha, a newly rich woman, decides to open an independent TV station in Russia and builds an open-minded team of outcasts. By 2020, Natasha has lost everything to Russia's war between Propaganda and Truth.
- StarsNorman SwanMatt CooperKirsty ShortA gripping science series that tracks global epidemics and explores the way that science has helped us fight back against the world's most deadly infectious diseases.
- DirectorAlain LewkowiczStarsXi JinpingJoseph WuIng-wen TsaiThey are hackers, programmers, developers, ministers. Their project: to make Taiwan the world laboratory of direct democracy.
- DirectorÀngel LeiroAiry MaragallStarsGervasio SánchezEnric MartíEdo Osvicic25 years after the siege of Sarajevo, the Spanish war reporter Gervasio Sánchez returns to the scene. There he meets the adults he photographed as a child, having chosen to capture life rather than death and destruction on film. What memories do these survivors have of this period as children? How did this incomprehensible and absurd war change their lives? What scars did it leave on them forever?
- DirectorTheo AnthonyStarsTheo AnthonyKeaver BrenaiRobert CunniffA far-ranging look at the biases in how we see things, focusing on the use of police body cameras.
- DirectorAli El ArabiStarsMahmoud DagherIbrahim ElhefnawyFawzi QatleeshTwo best friends trapped in the Za'atari Refugee Camp in Jordan have an undying dream of becoming professional football players. When a world renowned sports academy visits the camp, they now have a chance to make this dream come true.
- DirectorAnna AntsaloStarsRob ArnoldShigeo HayashiLonneke BeukenholdtBeachcombers are people who search for treasures on shorelines. Ocean currents carry all sorts of stuff to the beaches.
- DirectorKristina LindströmKristian PetriStarsKristina LindströmLuchino ViscontiMario TursiIn 1971, due to the world premiere of Death in Venice, Italian director Luchino Visconti proclaimed his Tadzio as the world's most beautiful boy. 50 years later, that shadow still weighs upon Björn Andresen's life.
- DirectorMohamed El AboudiStarsMohamed AbderrahmaniMohamed BelhajHassan ChemlalIn the vast expanse of desert East of Atlas Mountains in Morocco, seasonal rain and snow once supported livestock, but now the drought seems to never end. Hardly a blade of grass can be seen, and families travel miles on foot to get water from a muddy hole in the ground. Yet the children willingly ride donkeys and bicycles or walk for miles across rocks to a "school of hope" built of clay. Following both the students and the teachers in the Oulad Boukais Tribe's community school for over three years, SCHOOL OF HOPE shows students Mohamed, Miloud, Fatima, and their classmates, responding with childish glee to the school's altruistic young teacher, Mohamed. Each child faces individual obstacles - supporting their aging parents; avoiding restrictions from relatives based on traditional gender roles - while their young teacher makes do in a house with no electricity or water.
- StarsDan SnowOnyeka NubiaMax HastingsBeginning in Spring 1943, this documentary follows squadron leader Guy Gibson as he assembles and trains a crack team of 133 young airmen whose mission is to destroy the great dams of Germany using a revolutionary new bouncing bomb.
- DirectorThomas BlomMisha WesselStarsMisha WesselMuammar GaddafiErik GoaiedInside the relentless hunt for the late Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's money. On the trail of bounty hunters, corrupt politicians and spies. A story of greed, corruption and deceit, up to the highest circles.
- StarsAnna FrielUma ThurmanJohn D. LiuHumanity's relationship with nature and wildlife and how scientists and conservationists study ways to restore the planet.
- DirectorElvis Sabin NgaibinoStarsLeón DepeAndré IkpeouPauline MokayaThis documentary shows an outsider community struggling against the odds for education.
- StarsSimon SchamaPiotr AnderszewskiHarriet WalterHistorian Simon Schama explores the enduring and powerful legacy that the Romantics have left on the modern world.
- DirectorVirpi SuutariStarsAlvar AaltoAino AaltoElissa AaltoThis captivating exploration of Alvar Aalto, the defining figure in Scandic design and one of Europe's greatest modern architects, focuses on his remarkable and loving partnership with wife, Aino. Theirs was a profoundly humanist vision that put people at the centre of design, and ranged from work in furniture design through to huge architectural projects. They mixed with, and influenced, major figures of modernist art and design including Le Corbusier, Gropius, Moholy-Nagy, and Frank Lloyd Wright. Come on a cinematic tour of their iconic buildings all over the world, from a library in Russia, a student dormitory at MIT, an art collector's private house near Paris, to a pavilion in Venice. Narrated by experts in the field and featuring never before seen archive footage, Aalto tells the love story of an extraordinary couple with a great passion for human scale architecture.
- DirectorAlmut FaassStarsJérôme ArnaudisInka BartschPeter BieringerAlgae - they pollute our beaches and contaminate our waters. But what if they were also the super substance of the future? What if they could replace oil and create a world without plastic and feed the world? This documentary shows what scientists are already making a reality of this today.
- DirectorGiedre ZickyteStarsWalter CronkiteSimas KudirkaRichard NixonIn 1970 Lithuanian sailor Simas Kudirka made a desperate leap for freedom from his Soviet vessel to a US Coast Guard cutter, but the Americans sent him back - inciting one of the Cold War's most complex and suspenseful political blunders.
- DirectorAnat TelStarsSamuel AghoyanArchbishop of Jerusalem AntoniosArchbishop of Hierapolis IsidorosThe Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Old City of Jerusalem - the most sacred place in Christendom - is shared by six different Christian sects: Greek Orthodox, Catholics, Armenians, Copts, Syrians and the Ethiopians - all of whom are constantly trying to maintain the ancient, fragile Status Quo. The guardians of the key to the Church are two Moslem families, both of which claim to be the key custodian. And one Israeli Police officer, Johnny, who's responsible for keeping the peace in the Church.
- DirectorValérie MüllerStarsAnnieJean-Marc ErnstBéatrice GirardChoreographer Angelin Preljocaj hasn't worked with amateurs before. The five prisoners haven't danced recently. Together they prepare a performance for festival audiences.
- DirectorEmilia MelloStarsLuciano de Jesus CampoLucimara de Jesus CampoIsmael José CostaAn ode to nature and human relations, No Kings explores the freedom of one of the last Caiçara communities.
- StarsAndres WilliamsSofia ApadulaAntoine GondetReveals the engineering secrets built into six modern wonders - from Europe's fastest passenger train and largest luxury cruise ship, to North America's toughest bridge and the world's mightiest heavy-lift aircraft.
- DirectorNatalija YefimkinaIn Russia's north, garages stretch out into endlessness. Behind rusty doors everything can be found, except cars. They are the refuge of the Russian man, the vanishing point out of bleak daily life and a signal of hope for big dreams.
- DirectorDitte FeukStarsThomas HampsonMalin ByströmMagda Wirdefeldt FransénAnimated music documentary about "the World's First Superstar", the Swedish opera singer Jenny Lind. Opera star Thomas Hampson guides us through her life, telling about her success, the hysterical audience and her contacts with the greats of the time, such as Chopin, Mendelssohn and H. C. Andersen. Soprano Malin Byström sings Jenny Lind's most popular arias and the young talent Annie Ternström plays Jenny Lind herself. Conductor Evan Rogister leads the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra with classical repertoire and Swedish folk songs.
- 1983– 1h 55mTV-PG7.6 (414)TV EpisodeDirectorJames JacobyStarsWill LymanJeff BezosJoshua WeinsteinAn examination of Jeff Bezos, his extraordinarily successful online business, Amazon.com, and its increasingly questionable business practices.
- StarsSean NichollsTedros Adhanom GhebreyesusLi BinIn China Feb. 2020, almost two thousand people have died as a result of corona-virus with tens of thousands more infected. Authorities are resorting to extreme measures to try to halt the contagion.
- StarsFlorence PernelLouisa GummerGary WhitakerSoviet prison camps were a criminal system of oppression that was widespread and long-lasting. The writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn named it the Gulag Archipelago.
- DirectorMatthew TaylorStarsMarina AbramovicWilliam AnastasiBradley BaileyThe film explores the life, philosophy and impact of one of the most influential early 20th century modernists, Marcel Duchamp. The film breaks down Duchamp's ideas and applies them to both historical events and the modernist explosion that blanketed the early 20th century. Art of the Possible isn't simply a biopic; rather, the film shows how Duchamp's ideas changed the public consciousness, and our understanding of aesthetics, art, and culture. The film highlights the singular impact of Duchamp's philosophy on art, and, more importantly, examines how Duchamp's revolutionary ideas from the early 20th century have shaped the 21st century and modern day.
- DirectorMaija BlåfieldStarsMaija BlåfieldTaedeog GhimSolha KimNorth Korean exiles reminisce their first impressions of watching forbidden foreign films.
- DirectorAnna-Karin GrönroosStarsJames S. KahaneEmilia HovingSusanna MälkkiConductivity is a film about creative leadership told through the story of three young conductors at the prestigious Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland; I-Han Fu (Taiwan), Emilia Hoving (Finland) and James Kahane (France). When stepping on the podium, they are put under a magnifying glass. Conductor training, in essence, is leadership training.
- DirectorSam SokoStarsBoniface MwangiNjeri MwangiKhadija Mohamed-ChurchillPolitical activist Boniface "Softie" Mwangi runs for office in a regional Kenyan election, which puts pressure on his young family and his convictions.
- DirectorIryna TsilykStarsDanylo DydenkoGanna GladkaOlena GladkaTo cope with the daily trauma of living in a war-zone, Anna and her children are making a film together about their life in the most surreal surroundings.
- DirectorMladen KovacevicStarsCui JiaojiaoLuo JiaqiFang LibaoCommunist ideals have long lost their value in Yiwu, a city with 600 Christmas factories, in which Christmas as we know it is produced for the entire world. With rising wages, the workers in Christmas factories can now afford newest iPhones, but they still live in crowded dormitories. All migrants in their own country, nostalgic for some place far away, some miss their families left in hometowns, other miss their friends and lovers from the factories when they go home for holidays. Young generation is already tired of long factory hours, chemical fumes and glitter particles, and they do not care for their parents' wishes to get educated. Stuck in between Chinese tradition and the newly discovered Chinese dream, they want their own businesses, to be rich, to be independent, to be in love.
- DirectorJérôme FritelThey call it 'blue gold'. Around the world, demand for water is exploding. By 2050, at least one in four will live in a country suffering from water shortages - creating ideal conditions for a new market - Banks, investment funds and hedge funds are all rushing to invest billions of euros in anything related to water. A real monopoly has begun. The financialization of water is a battle taking place on many fronts: ideological, political, environmental, and of course, economic.
- DirectorTonje Hessen ScheiStarsMax TegmarkZeynep TüfekçiElenore PauwelsThe documentary follows the booming artificial intelligence industry, what opportunities and challenges it brings and its impact on the global community.
- DirectorMarija StojnicStarsIvana DjordjevicLjiljana CekicZarko ObracevicConjuring reality and wonder, "Speak so I Can See You" takes us to a seemingly different era, by exploring the world of Radio Belgrade. One of Europe's oldest radio stations and a true institution of the city, the station still broadcasts original programming and helps keep history, culture and critical thought, as well as everrelevant questions about ourselves and the world, from slipping out of memory and mind. Set at the intersection of an observational documentary and a unique sensory experience, the film conjures everyday scenes at the station and immersing interludes exploring the relationship between sound and the space it inhabits. Through a synesthetic blend of sounds, words, notes, echoes and light, we are taken into a unique cinematic soundscape that doubles as a love letter to radiophonic art and its disarming insight into what makes us remember, understand, think, discover, and feel.
- DirectorMarta PulkStarsAlissija-Elisabet JevtjukovaHenrik KalmetGrete LõbuA young woman takes on an audacious human experiment while trying to find her place in the world and struggling with the past of her family.
- DirectorSandrine RigaudStarsThierry BaubetJanine BergLukas BiewaldArtificial intelligence is developing and the digital economy is expanding. To enable this millions of people are doing underpaid work that insults human intelligence.
- DirectorArno BitschyStarsChristinaAnandiLaurenThe film follows the life-journeys of two women living on the fringe in a rapidly changing country. A quest for identity, freedom and finding one's place in the world.
- StarsRichard ChanFernando Chiu Hung CheungHolden ChowOn the frontlines of Hong Kong's uprising for democracy and human rights.
- StarsBuzz AldrinMike CollinsFreeman DysonFascinating behind-the-scenes look at the moon landing, blending scientific innovation, political maneuvering, media frenzy, visionary zeal, and personal stories in the space race.
- DirectorOlivier MagisStarsSabrina JeanSerge AristideThomas DochertyFifty years ago, the entire Creole population of the Chagos Islands was expelled by the British authorities. This secret operation took place to facilitate the leasing of the main island, Diego Garcia, to the US government so that it could build one of its largest and most secretive military bases overseas. As the military lease is about to expire, Chagossian exiles are attempting to recover their home in the middle of the Indian Ocean from Great Britain. The charismatic woman leading their fight in the UK is Sabrina Jean. Through unrelenting activism, including the exile community's improbable participation in the World Football Cup for Stateless People, she strives to keep the flame of hope alive in her community with one single goal: to return home. But as the elders disappear and memory fades, time is running out.
- StarsCatrin MaraRichard BlairSteve KingA BBC2 Documentary exploring the mystery of the tide in four continents.
- StarsBrian CoxFran BagenalJohn GrotzingerWelcome to the greatest story that's never been told. In a new, ground breaking series we'll be telling the story of the planets as never before.
- DirectorBarnaby O'ConnorMatthew O'ConnorStarsRobert BeckMaximillian BergerLinda BoisvertThe Pickup Game is an inside look at the emergence of the 'pickup' industry - an business where self-styled seduction coaches travel the world, charging a small fortune to teach men skills they claim will guarantee success with women. For the instructors who are successful, it is a highly lucrative occupation, with many companies earning millions of dollars a year. It is also an industry rife with controversy and scandal. Several teachers have been deported from countries for their contentious methodologies and pickup businesses are often the subject of fierce public criticism. Despite this, men the world over collectively spend hundreds of millions of dollars to attend seminars, download online courses and have one-on-one coaching sessions with instructors they feel can give them the dating life of their dreams. In the minds of students, many of these instructors become more than just teachers. They become idols. From the glossy exterior, where courses are packaged as self-improvement, to the dark underbelly of sexual assault, pyramid scheme marketing and secret collusion The Pickup Game pulls back the curtain to reveal a world that is fascinating and horrific in equal measure.
- DirectorJamie KastnerStarsKevin HearnJonathan SommerJim WhiteA painting, apparently the work of an iconic Native artist, leads the rockstar who buys it into the tragic, brutal world of an art forgery ring in Canada's far north.
- CreatorDoug Mackay-HopeNick Smith-BakerStarsChiwetel EjioforBilly EllisLilian PinteaCameras in space tell stories of life on our planet from a brand new perspective, revealing new discoveries, incredible colours and patterns, and just how fast it is changing.
- StarsJim Al-KhaliliDanielle GeorgeJames MeigsTake a mind-blowing journey through human history, told through six iconic inventions that modern people take for granted, and see how science, invention, and technology built on one another to change everything.
- DirectorPierre-Henri GibertStarsTsar Nicholas IICécile Pichon-BoninKazimir MalevichThis film documents the rising of new artistic movements inspired and formed by the Russian Revolution.
- DirectorJoonas BerghällStarsAri KauttoJani TepsaJoonas LaaksoA documentary about gender roles, in which men, including the director himself, are given the chance to express their feelings.
- DirectorAlina RudnitskayaStarsLidaVikaDiana'School of Seduction' follows the three Russian women, Diana, Lida and Vica, who are on the same mission. They're searching for security, a higher social status, and plain, simple happiness. This isn't an easy task in post-communistic Russia, where an extremely patriarchal culture is ruling, the general perception of being happy equals a life with a successful man and where women outnumber the male population in outright numbers. Our three heroines take matters into hand and start at a course called "The School of Seduction", where they learn how to live, think, and behave in order to be loved. But is this really what they dream about and want? Director Alina Rudnitskaya, herself a Russian woman, followed her protagonists for seven years and has remarkable footage of their development, struggling in a country which always put the man before the woman. In a time where political and cultural reactionary movements are fast-growing all over the world, this is a more relevant story than ever to tell.
- 1971– 1h 30mTV-G7.6 (14)TV EpisodeDirectorThomas VoigtWolfgang WunderlichStarsBirgit NilssonVictor CallegariFranco CorelliOverview of the career and life of soprano Birgit Nilsson, with brief samples of her singing.
- DirectorWaad Al-KateabEdward WattsStarsWaad Al-KateabSama Al-KhateabHamza Al-KhateabFOR SAMA is both an intimate and epic journey into the female experience of war.
- DirectorNikolaus GeyrhalterStarsTrent WellsPaul MellorSteven KuzarSeveral billion tons of earth are moved annually by humans - with shovels, excavators and dynamite. 'Earth' observes people, in mines, quarries and large construction sites, engaged in a constant struggle to take possession of the planet.
- DirectorMinna LångströmStarsVandana VermaRobert ManningJanet VertesiNASA roboticist and Curiosity -rover driver Vandi Verma works on Mars on a daily basis from her desk at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Los Angeles. Her work is entirely relying on images and the technologically advanced use of them. The film creates a philosophical journey into the intriguing world of Mars science. Through the lenses of various experts we learn how NASAs' images are made, used and manipulated for the sake of science, but also public information. Mars is the ideal place for an investigation into our paradoxical relationship to photography. Do images reflect reality or shape it?
- DirectorTamara KotevskaLjubomir StefanovStarsHatidze MuratovaNazife MuratovaHussein SamThe last female bee-hunter in Europe must save the bees and return the natural balance in Honeyland, when a family of nomadic beekeepers invade her land and threaten her livelihood.
- DirectorReetta HuhtanenStarsAatos FloresAmine Mohamed BennaaFlo CharlierThe district of Molenbeek-Saint-Jean in Brussels has become world-famous as a center of jihadism, but for six-year-old Aatos and his friend Amine, it is a familiar home. Here, they listen to spiders, discover black holes, and fight about what is going to steer a flying carpet. Together they search for the answers to life's big questions. But the brutality of the adult world makes itself known when terrorists detonate a bomb in the neighborhood. Aaatos envies Amine's Muslim faith and looks for his own gods, although his classmate Flo questions him; she is strongly convinced that anyone who believes in God is completely nuts. Gods of Molenbeek is a wonderful portrayal of childhood friendship, inquiry and the creation of meaning in a chaotic time.
- DirectorHalina DyrschkaStarsErnst Peter FischerJulia VossAnna Laestadius LarssonThe first abstract artist was a woman, misjudged and concealed, Hilma Klint rocks the art world with her mind-blowing oeuvre.
- DirectorDan ReedStarsMichael JacksonWade RobsonJoy RobsonAt the height of his stardom, the world's biggest pop star, Michael Jackson, began long-running relationships with two young boys, aged between seven and ten, along their families. They now allege that he sexually abused them.
- DirectorBeniamino BarreseStarsBenedetta BarziniBeniamino BarreseLauren HuttonA once-iconic fashion model strives to escape the world of images and disappear for good, but her son's determination to make a final film about her sparks an unexpected collaboration and confrontation with the camera's gaze.
- StarsLaura WilkinsonAnnemarie JaeggiClaudia PerrenHow has the Bauhaus school of architecture and design, Germany's best-known art-school, shaped the world we live in today?
- StarsHolly HunterBarbra StreisandElliott GouldIngmar Bergman is one of the most celebrated, multifaceted and productive artists in the history of film, yet a person with many other, less known and sometimes troubling character traits.
- DirectorClarissa CappellaniStarsGaia GiraceMargherita MazzuccoAntonio CaloneA unique portrayal of two young amateur actresses embarking on a journey that will forever change their lives as they star in the most eagerly anticipated new show of 2018-Elena Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend. Naples 2017. The news spread fast. Ferrante's saga, a worldwide phenomenon selling over 13 million novels, is about to become a major TV series for HBO and RAI. Thousands of young girls audition for the parts of the main characters Elena and Lila...but only two succeed. The lives of Margherita Mazzucco and Gaia Girace, cast as Elena and Lila, are about to change in an unimaginable way. An event within the event, this remarkable documentary captures the adventure these two non-actors will go on-from the open casting call of 2,500 hopefuls, through to the show's Venice Film Festival premiere. This is an exclusive look into them experiencing a true Cinderella story, where two unknown, ordinary teenagers embark on roles of a lifetime. The documentary is an intimate portrayal of this unique story, starting with the girls as complete strangers through to their journey of becoming close friends. It documents the transformation of two 15-year-old actresses, their friend-ship, the highs, the lows, the challenges, the rewards, the ordinary and the extraordinary. It is a genuine coming-of-age story as they learn their craft and become embedded in a world they only ever dreamed of. It not only explores the rapport between the two actresses, but also draws parallels to Elena and Lila's relationship and how at times the lines between reality and fiction, person and character, can blur.
- How the Mediterranean and its coasts became the home of animals from three continents and seas.
- StarsGordon BuchananSergei PazhetnovKatya PazhetnovExpert wildlife cameraman Gordon Buchanan joins a family of Russian biologists, the Pazhetnovs, to take part in their incredibly successful program of raising and rehabilitating orphaned Russian bear cubs in the frozen Russian wilderness.
- DirectorHans PoolStarsEliot HigginsJay RosenClaire WardleBellingcat: Truth in a Post-Truth World explores the promise of open source investigation, taking viewers inside the exclusive world of the "citizen investigative journalist" collective known as Bellingcat.
- DirectorGabe PolskyStarsWayne GretzkyJerry RicePeléThrough the eyes of the greatest athletes of all time, IN SEARCH OF GREATNESS is a cinematic journey into the secrets of genius.
- DirectorCarl JavérStarsJenny AndersenRakel Mortensdatter BirkeliTorje HansenIn a series of reconstructions four survivors from the terrorist attack at Utøya in 2011 show what happened to them and how they survived.
- StarsTilda SwintonAdjoa AndohJane FondaA documentary that spans 13 decades and five continents to give a guided tour of the art and craft of movies as told by female filmmakers.
- 201852m7.0 (27)TV MovieDirectorAnnette BaumeisterStarsMatthias FanckCarl LaemmleArnold FanckShe is the most radical and controversial artist of the 20th century - Leni Riefenstahl. He is the inventor of the mountain film, camera designer and film avant-gardist of the 20s - Arnold Fanck. In May 1932, both board a ship and depart on a five-month film-making voyage to Greenland. Their mission is the first ever German-American feature film production: "SOS Eisberg". It's the hitherto riskiest and most expensive film project in history.
- StarsWaldemar JanuszczakA history of American art with Waldemar Januszczak.
- StarsDean BaquetElisabeth BumillerMaggie HabermanA look at how The New York Times covered President Trump's controversial first year in office.
- DirectorBenoit FeliciStarsFranck AllatinBianca BoskerMr. LiuLas Vegas isn't the only city adorned with architectural replicas. Today, you can admire the London Bridge near Shanghai, visit St. Peter's Basilica in Côte d'Ivoire, or take selfies with one of China's Eiffel Towers. These large-scale copycat monuments can seem like mirages conceived by clever real estate investors, but what do they say about imaginary geographies, modern tourism and globalized urban planning? Do they herald a world where travellers won't cross borders, or are they proof of heightened cultural exchange and new transnational identities? A captivating and poetic meditation, THE REAL THING elegantly journeys from one corner of the globe to the next-capturing a strange postcard here, an unexpected slice of life there-and collects philosophical musings from the people who design and inhabit those places. It creates an intriguing mirror game that plays with the viewer's perception and reflects an unexpected image of the world.
- DirectorSophie HuberStarsRobert GlasperAmbrose AkinmusireMarcus StricklandA revelatory, thrilling and emotional journey behind the scenes of Blue Note Records, the pioneering label that gave voice to some of the finest jazz artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.
- DirectorDoug Robert BrownStarsBeau BeasleyJustin BroadrickScott CarlsonGrindcore is the worlds fastest most aggressively intense music. Fusing the anarchistic and leftist attitudes of the UK Punk scene with the speed and drunken aggression of American Death Metal, Grindcore continues to challenge and offend most listeners.
- DirectorGiulia ClarkStarsAdrian BowerEve MacDonaldBill MahaneyThe true story of Carthaginian general Hannibal crossing the alps- with 40,000 men, 9,000 cavalry & 37 elephants- is revealed thanks to extraordinary new discoveries.
- DirectorMartti KaartinenNiklas KullströmStarsFrank SkogMichael O'FlahertyA journey through Mongolia, Japan, China and South Korea, narrated by the journals of Finnish linguist, diplomat and journeyman G.J. Ramstedt (1873-1950).
- DirectorJulian HendyStarsAndrew Graham-DixonJay VinczeBob SharganArt historian Andrew Graham-Dixon uncovers the truth behind the greatest art heist of the 21st century. In December 2002, two priceless paintings were stolen from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam in a brutal and audacious robbery.
- DirectorAlexandria BombachStarsNadia MuradMurad IsmaelSimone MonasebianNadia Murad, a 23-year-old Yazidi, survived genocide and sexual slavery committed by ISIS. Repeating her story to the world, this ordinary girl finds herself thrust onto the international stage as the voice of her people.
- DirectorNathaniel KahnStarsJeff KoonsPaul SchimmelLarry PoonsWith unprecedented access to pivotal artists and the white-hot market surrounding them, this film dives deep into the contemporary art world, holding a fun-house mirror up to our values and times.
- DirectorMaxim PozdorovkinStarsEmin AgalarovDmitry ButuzovBill ClintonThe story of Donald Trump's election told entirely through Russian propaganda, including Youtube videos by common Russians and Russia Today, the most popular and unashamedly manipulative TV news network.
- StarsSaskia ReevesBruce RiedelAli ShihabiA look at the role of Saudi Arabia in recent years in politics and international conflicts, in particular at the changes in politics in recent years, as the kingdom is changing under the rule of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
- DirectorSaskia BoddekeStarsPeter GreenawayPip GreenawaySaskia BoddekeAn intimate portrait of painter and filmmaker Peter Greenaway, directed by his wife Saskia Boddeke. Together with his daughter Pip, Greenaway formulates an alphabet that represents his personality and thoughts about art and life.
- DirectorNils Petter LöfstedtStarsElisabeth ArvidssonMicke BergBjörn BorgAll people are beautiful when they work. Respectfully, Jean Hermanson photographed workers, mainly of the Swedish engineering and industrial divisions, and the images later became part of our modern cultural heritage.
- DirectorStephen Nomura SchibleStarsYellow Magic OrchestraRyuichi SakamotoA portrait of genius music composer Ryuichi Sakamoto.
- StarsJames FoxYoshiaki NakamuraDaikô MatsuyamDr James Fox examines the art and culture of Japan, exploring the links between culture, the countryside, urban landscapes and religion.
- DirectorTerje ToomistuStarsValya HitchhikerAksel LampmannAlexander LipnitskyThe hippie movement that captivated hundreds of thousands of young people in the West had a profound impact on the other side of the Iron Curtain.
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- DirectorAlexandra DeanStarsHedy LamarrMel BrooksJennifer HomThe life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy Lamarr.
- DirectorZiad KalthoumStarsTia AlkerdiYara IbrahimSyrian construction workers build skyscrapers in Beirut while their homes are being bombed.
- DirectorLars Feldballe PetersenStarsEsad LandzoSuljo LandzoSevda LandzoGuard of a prison-camp Celebici during Bosnian war, Esad Landzo, convicted for war crimes, is looking for redemption.