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In 2017 a schoolboy almost got shot by a stranger near school in the residential area of Novobilychi. Year later the case is still unsolved. In 2018 in this same area shooting is still heard.
Explores the definitive story of the Burning Man festival, filmed over three years with the co-operation of the Burning Man Project, the non-profit behind it, and featuring archive from the last 30 years.
El Remolino is a tiny community on the banks of the widest river in Mexico, it is home to unusual characters whose lives oscillate between an attachment to the paradise like surroundings and the uncertainty that looms year after year, when high floods cover their community. El Remolino is a reflection upon the human capacity to adapt and coexist with nature's changes.
For a decade, the unexpected theater group “Os Felizes da Fé” left its mark on the late 20 century’s art map. With its street happenings, the Felizes defied all forms of authority: civil, political or moral. However, their activity stopped suddenly in 1995.
Motion features host Greg Aiello as he explores a variety of outdoor activities. From the Channel Islands in California to Bryce Canyon National Park, Maui, and Big Sur, Aiello takes a Nature-lovers perspective on exploration. Often times filmed solely by Aiello himself, the show acts as a guide on how to adventure to less-traveled places. Camping on a budget, kayaking with friends, and hiking mountains with safety cables are examples of Aiello's hobbies that are documented for viewers to see. Each half hour episode takes viewers to a location off the beaten path, with directions on exactly how to get there. With summer and winter vacations highlighted, Motion is produced with the average outdoorsmen in mind. Aiello narrates throughout, providing an inside look into his climbing, hiking, photography, and general fitness abilities.
Secret networks, Wood Wide Web, superorganism… A scientific and discovery 4K series, Of Trees and Forests opens the doors to a world we only thought we knew. Committed scientists, researchers, indigenous people and more guides us in our quest to unveil the trees genius, their interconnections with other animal/vegetal species and the invisible but fully interdependent ecosystem behind it. Through one legendary tree, each episode explores a primary forest with its own climate, fauna and flora. By revealing their superpowers (purify water, stabilize the climate, stock energy, reduce flooding and erosion…), the series serves as wake-up call to remind how urgent and important it is to preserve our endangered forests.
Hollywood Greats was a BBC Television series, which began in 1977. The film critic Barry Norman wrote and narrated a series of in depth profiles on major Hollywood film personalities, in which he interviewed surviving associates. He later made a series called British Greats in 1980. A series of books, entitled The Hollywood Greats, The Movie Greats and The British Greats, which were authored by Norman were subsequently published. A series of the same name was later presented by Jonathan Ross from 1999 to 2006.
Drugs have been with 73-year-old non-conformist Ian all his life, but times have changed. Whereas in the 1960s they were part of the counterculture, today the lavender farm is a place far from the outside world where addicts flock, not looking for different or better company, but to bring their own traumas. Nikola Klinger used Super 16 to film not only Ian's memories, but also a nostalgic chronicle of social processes. His portrait of individual and collective memory shows that there are two ways to enjoy freedom, either as a medicinal herb or a poison drug.
Documentary about the life in Berlin in 1941. The planned premier was stopped by the national party due to the damages and painful changes to the city that soon followed. It thus premiered in 1950.
One of kind go pro footage takes you inside the world of 19 year old Kyrill Oreshkin, who has garnered a resputation for freeclimbing moscow's tallest structures.
A young penguin, driven by his instinct, embarks on his first major trip to an unknown destination.
Teenagers take their first summer holiday abroad without their parents, who are secretly watching everything that unfolds.
Follows parents confronting the unthinkable truth that their child has grown into a monster who committed horrifying crimes, featuring first-person interviews.
In a small coastal town, a group of people isolated during the COVID quarantine seek solace and meaning in poetry in the face of death, while clinging to the fantasy of rebuilding their shattered lives. The film intertwines reality and dreams, exploring cinema as a refuge and reflecting on human nature and the power of art to transcend despair.
A short documentary by Levon Grigoryan about the making of Parajanov's «Sayat-Nova», or «The Colour of Pomegranates».
Granada, Spain, 1922. The composer Manuel de Falla, who dreams every night of the ancestral songs sung to him by his nanny, fears that flamenco art will disappear, so with the help of his friend Miguel Cerón Rubio and the poet Federico García Lorca, he organizes a contest to revitalize and promote it.
This two-part documentary provides a fascinating glimpse into the making of the Oscar-winning box office phenomenon "Avatar: The Way of Water" and features exclusive behind-the-scenes footage, concept art, and interviews with cast and filmmakers.
To help visualize the dramatic final chapter in Cassini's remarkable story, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory produced this short film that features beautiful computer-generated animation, thoughtful narration and a rousing score. Producers at JPL worked with filmmaker Erik Wernquist, known for his 2014 short film "Wanderers," to create a stirring finale video befitting one of NASA's most successful missions of exploration.
In 1980s Spain, TV and movie star Bárbara Rey and circus personality Ángel Cristo fell for each other. This is the tale of their tumultuous relationship.
GW:s mord is a Swedish crime program. In the program, Leif G.W. Persson takes a look at well-known criminal cases, which he describes and analyzes in detail.
Portrays the exceptional life, career, and mental health challenges of living legend Robert Trivers, the evolutionary biologist TIME Magazine named as “one of the greatest scientists of the 20th Century”.
A wild and unpredictable journey into homicide investigations where the true identity of the killer comes as a shocking surprise. Combining unparalleled access, captivating interviews and stylish reenactments, each investigation starts in a familiar way - examining the crime scene, interviewing potential suspects… but then something unexpected changes everything. A new witness, an overlooked piece of evidence or even an innovation in forensic science sends investigators on a totally unexpected path that ultimately leads to the conviction of the real killer.
LUDO tries to reflect the social value of videogames and the potential of the media as an educational instrumental.
Following an elite crew of workers-- brakemen, engineers, construction crews, mechanics and train drivers – Railroad Alaska illustrates the battle against ferocious weather and treacherous terrain to keep the State of Alaska’s critical 500-mile long railroad rolling to deliver life sustaining supplies. From controlled avalanches to prevent catastrophe, to fascinating characters, like Jim James, the one-handed handy man, learn what it takes to keep this train on track.
March 1952, days after Puerto Rican Nationalist Party members made an armed assault on the U.S. Congress. Tomás, a journalist and former Party member, attemps to obtain an interview with Pedro Albizu Campos, the Party's leader, shortly before his arrest.
Have you ever imagined what it is like to support a team that hasn't won a title in 94 years? São Cristóvão de Futebol e Regatas, the birthplace of superstars like Ronaldo Fenômeno, resists against all expectations. More than football, this is a film about love.
The secret life of a young World of Warcraft gamer is vividly reimagined when his online friends contact his family after his death.
The Mexico City Metropolitan Train has many stories to tell: from archaeological findings during its construction, its underground museums and hospitals, and even its patents and special maintenance services. These are some of their stories.
An experimental anthology about mental turmoil. Nine subversive perspectives from young filmmakers from around the world who lament over depression, alienation, loneliness, and heartbreak as universal experiences.
In this eight-part documentary, Roman engineering expert Isaac Moreno Gallo takes you on a tour through the different techniques and architectural elements that gave shape and life to the Roman Empire.