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I Love the '80s Strikes Back is a miniseries on VH1 in which various music and TV personalities reminisce about 1980s popular culture in a mostly humorous manner. The series premiered on October 20, 2003 and is a sequel to I Love the '80s. The sequel designation is in reference to The Empire Strikes Back.
Explore the cultural and political milestones of the 2000s decade, including technological triumphs like the iPhone and social media, President George W. Bush’s war on terror and response to Hurricane Katrina, Barack Obama’s presidential election and the financial crisis, hip-hop’s rise to dominance and a creative renaissance in television.
Five programmes that trace a remarkable decade in British film-making through interviews with its stars and directors.
Caught on Dash Cam brings together some of the most spectacular, mind-boggling, and downright bizarre car crashes, near misses, and road incidents ever captured — filmed from the CCTV cameras, phones, dash cams, and mini-cams of motorists and pedestrians around the world.
Jack Hanna's Animal Adventures is a reality television series about animals and their exciting adventures. This series is hosted by Jack Hanna, Director Emeritus of the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium. It is shown weekly in syndication across the country on numerous stations and networks. It is particularly popular in part because of Hanna's mainstream name recognition as an animal expert, but also because the show meets programing criteria for federally mandated educational and informational requirements which all stations must follow. Because of this, some networks air the show five days per week, thus covering all but a half hour of the three-hour E/I mandate.
Shot in the format of a drama, it is the first documentary of its kind that explores a historical age in China more than 2,500 years ago. The documentary follows the heroic figures of the seven states Qi, Chu, Yan, Han, Zhao, Wei and Qin and retells the rise and fall of a nation through realistic depictions of the events from the demise of the Warring States Period until the unification under Qin rule.
Indie Sex is a 2007 American television documentary film directed by Lesli Klainberg.
Going back five thousand years, the "China" is a tragic China? The first season of the large-scale humanistic history documentary "China" will explore Chinese historical stories from the Spring and Autumn to the Tang Dynasty, digging out people and events that have a profound impact on China today, telling Chinese stories, spreading the voice of China, and showing the great evolution of Chinese civilization.
Legendary coach Pep Guardiola leads his Manchester City team through the 2017-18 football season.
Chris Hemsworth takes on epic challenges to reveal ways we can all live better today.
Epic problem-solving – MythBusters style! This hugely popular and iconic franchise returns with a spin-off series featuring themed episodes, each packed with handpicked myths on a particular subject - all drawn from the depths of the MythBusters archive.
A Cleveland grandfather is brought to trial in Israel, accused of being the infamous Nazi death camp guard known as Ivan the Terrible.
South Pacific is a British nature documentary series from the BBC Natural History Unit, which began airing on BBC Two on 10 May 2009. The six-part series surveys the natural history of the islands of the South Pacific region, including many of the coral atolls and New Zealand. It was filmed entirely in high-definition. South Pacific was co-produced by the Discovery Channel and the series producer was Huw Cordey. It is narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch. Filming took place over 18 months in a variety of remote locations around the Pacific including: Anuta, Banks Islands, French Frigate Shoals, Papua New Guinea, Palmyra, Kingman Reef, Tuvalu, Palau, Caroline Islands, Tuamotus and Tanna Island in Vanuatu. On 6 May 2009, BBC Worldwide released a short clip of big wave surfer Dylan Longbottom surfing in slow motion, high-definition footage as a preview of the series, attracting extremely positive reactions on the video sharing website YouTube. The series was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on 15 June 2009. At the end of each fifty-minute episode, a ten-minute featurette takes a behind-the-scenes look at the challenges of filming the series. The series was released by Discovery International in the USA under the title Wild Pacific, with narration provided by Mike Rowe.
An immersive look at how a young woman from a small village in 18th-century England became one of the UK's best-loved novelists.
From his humble origins to becoming champion of the world, this documentary series recounts the life and career of the iconic Argentinian soccer player.
The world's top bull riders juggle their families, faith, and a modern-day cowboy lifestyle as they compete for the inaugural team series championship.
Portraits of important people in Nazi-Germany.
In this docuseries, meet the heroes on the front lines of the battle against influenza and learn about their efforts to stop the next global outbreak.
The documentary follows Annabel Chong, former record holder for the world's largest gang bang, which she set in 1995 by having sex with 70 men. It focuses on her reasons for working in porn, and her relationship with friends and family.
Marcus du Sautoy, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford, escorts you through the most important of all intellectual disciplines: Mathematics, the Empress of the Sciences.
An urban documentary that explores economic inequality in Buenos Aires through the contrast between large mansions and skyscrapers that coexist with slums.
Throughout June 2022 ‘The Lock-In’, Stanley Schtinter's 96 hour edit of all the scenes shot inside BBC soap opera EastEnders' Queen Vic pub (1985-1995), played on the television screens of ten 'real' pubs across London's East End. Filmed only on the occasion of these screenings, After Time documents the people and pubs that survive in East London today.
Consists of musical performances, mostly Argentine folklore, many of which are accompanied by dancing. Several sequences were filmed in scenic locations throughout the country.
Andrew O'Hagan looks at a critical point in the life of Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac. In 1956 he spent spent 63 soul-searching days as a fire-watcher on Washington state's Desolation Peak. After this stint he was never the same creative force again.
A look at Canada's first national Ballet Festival.
Told in two semi-fictional acts, this 16mm film serves as an elegy for Europe’s last wallabies — a marsupial animal from Australia, introduced in Scotland in the 1940s. Reflecting on humanity’s enduring urge to record animals, from prehistoric cave art to early cinema, Alasdair Asmussen Doyle links the extinction of species with the evolution of image-making.
A landscape remembers how it developed into the mountain it is today. From glacial tongues to raging wildfires, the story is a reminiscence of the human impact on landscapes.
A young Spanish director is fired from his job in television. Taking up his dream of making films, traveling to India to "find" his first feature to discover his real quest is not in India but in Madrid. However, on his return home, things do not go exactly as he had hoped ... Recorded over several years with very limited budget, the film asks, as a "film-diary", daily situations of the filmmaker's life, recorded during that time and narrated in the first person.
Never let go.
The cast and crew of Roots (1977) recall its phenomenal success on its 25th anniversary.
A voice-over soundtrack repeats some common heterosexist lines: If only they didn’t flaunt it… It’s nothing personal but… A simple image, consisting of two women embracing, contradicts the soundtrack. This video examines the resilience of lesbian desire in the face of relentless homophobia.
Bouvet, a film actor, having in a moment of bewilderment accepted to perform at the theater, finds himself in exile in Clermont-Ferrand, facing a text of 15,432 recalcitrant words.
This documentary examines Borges' extraordinary life and work, using dramatizations of his most memorable stories and rare interview footage with the author at his Buenos Aires home.
This documentary tells the story of a group of young criminals from Lyon's working-class suburbs in the 1970s. Known as "Le Gang des Lyonnais," they carried out a series of daring heists in the Rhône-Alpes region, challenging the French police.
A pack of strays – seven dogs and one woman live in the shadows of Moscow. Hidden from the totalitarian authorities, two species share their existence on the verge of disappearance. They are straying in constant restlessness through a savage landscape where the city is cracking. Shot from the animal’s point of view, patterns of mutual dependence and taming begin to blur.