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An affective, emotional, intimate and, above all, funny record of this great Brazilian comedian, from childhood to his early death, at age 43, during the 2006 World Cup in Germany.
New York City natives and rap personalities Alec “Despot” Reinstein, Ashok “Dap” Kondabolu and Aleksey “Lakutis” Weintraub invite their friends to join them at the edge of nature to commune in deserts and swamps in a valiant effort to reveal unknowable truths from the dreamstate of the shared human existence.
This documentary series showcases how key technological innovations enable giant superstructures to be built. Footage filmed during construction along with CGI reveal the building process with astonishing detail.
A cinematic ode to jazz legend, Wayne Shorter. Depicted in 3 portals, the viewer is transported into prolific periods of Shorter's life and how through adversity, he grew to greatness, shattered the limitations of jazz, and became one of the most influential musicians and composers in American music.
A look inside the United States Men’s National Soccer Team in the leadup to the 2026 FIFA World Cup in North America in June. Filmed over the course of four years, the series follows Christian Pulisic, Tyler Adams, Tim Weah, Weston McKennie, and an array of U.S. players on their personal and collective journeys toward their sport’s biggest stage.
Poet-filmmaker Jørgen Leth taps his own earliest inspirational veins by free-floating through a camera/microscope-enhanced set of poems with love as their first and final subject. For example, how a tropical island woman prepares for a meeting with her lover. The film was shot partly in the South Pacific with more than a nod to social anthropoliogist B. Malinowski's historical work The Sexual Life of Savages.
The year 2000, elsewhere. 12 months. 12 episodes. Weeks, days, single moments of different ways of life. Tradition and change. People of different cultural and geographical background. A film about their life. A journey through voices and sounds from elsewhere, with no commentary added. Landscapes, outlooks on the world, outlooks on life: Desert, snow, valley, jungle, ice, rainforest, stones, swamps, mountains, the sea, forests, a South-Sea atoll. An homage to humanity at the beginning of the 21st century.
In a Chile marked by transition and disillusionment, the National Stadium erupts in a roar to the rocking rhythm of Los Prisioneros.
A single-shot film of a performance by Australian drone-rock musician Lisa MacKinney (AKA Mystic Eyes).
Behind the scenes footage from 'Solitær' and 'Dan Lehwer' is combined in essayistic fashion as the director of both films bids farewell to the short film format and welcomes new opportunities.
Nickelback is one of the most successful acts in music history — they're also the number one band haters love to hate. This intimate portrait surveys the Canadian stadium rockers' rollercoaster career.
Told by the mothers and children who were separated from one another, this landmark documentary reveals the full scale of the UK's forced adoption scandal. Over four decades, 250,000 unmarried mothers were forced by the British state to give up their babies. Their first-hand accounts expose the system that tore families apart, its lasting impact, and the fight to uncover the truth that led to a moment of national reckoning.
The film forecasts future loads on the network, and shows plans for future integration of computers into telephone switching. This film explains automatic dialing with a core sequence of infographics, bookended by dancers who interpret the history of switching and the happy network of "today".
Surfing is supposed to be an individual act. It's supposed to elicit creativity and take place in a natural environment. It's supposed to have moments familiar and original. It's supposed to be both elegant and raw. Surfing isn’t supposed to be choreographed. The surfer and board do what they want. Let them be seen as they want to be seen; let them be heard through only their motions. Let them surf in climates warm and cold, on waves big and small, on boards long and short, in countries near and far. Let the camera capture what it can. Let there be Sight Sound. From the surfer-director of Picaresque, is another film without dialogue. Another group of talented individuals doing what they do best, with an eclectic soundtrack mixed-in to enhance the vibe.
Documentary about life and works Salvador Elizondo, a Mexican writer regarded as one of the creators of the most influential cult noirè, experimental and intelligent style literature in Latin America.
A genealogist and a cop: a great team for uncovering the origins of the crime. On a murder case, genealogist Margot Laurent teams up with Arthur Du Plessis, a young and self-assured cop. Who committed the murder? And why? A murder always has its dark side: a fabricated family history that becomes an urban legend. And who can claim that their family has no secrets? Margot and Arthur strip away the hidden mysteries to shed light on the murder. Arthur is the no-nonsense one, here to arrest the culprit, while Margot, the genealogist, is more interested in the past, in the prehistory of the murder, in what prefigured the tragedy before it happened. Between them, Margot and Arthur bring the events into focus. Here lie hidden family traumas, stories sometimes ignored by those who must endure the aftermath, which give multiple layers to the whodunnit.
Lorena, Federico and Sergio are siblings who perform a play in which they evoke their dead father's printing workshop, a place to which they cannot return. With the arrival of the pandemic, they can no longer perform either, and have to invent another way to continue telling their family story.
Overview of the life and career of the great Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti.
Gentle or rough, blonde or shaved, cis or trans, long term inmates or those newly admitted: women re-enact their lives in a Buenos Aires prison, in trance and balance, voguing and singing. A hybrid musical and charming piece of collective empowerment.
A documentary about the Khanty people. At the same time, the film is also a study about cultural identity in a globalizing world. Every autumn a helicopter flies over the remote marshes and bogs of Western Siberia. Native children who have grown up surrounded by forests are taken away. They enter a new world of school uniforms, an unfamiliar Russian language, education and knowledge.
Reality, glowing with anxiety, is dissected and reconstructed through editing to generate blocks of pure image-sound through a precarious camera that, for several years, travels incessantly from the confines of underdevelopment to the heights of European prosperity. From a working-class neighborhood in Buenos Aires to St. Mark's Square in Venice. From prison to the plains.
Questions of race, poverty, politics and religion hurdle towards each other in DESERT BAYOU, the story of 600 Hurricane Katrina evacuees who find themselves evacuated and deplaned from New Orleans and deposited into an isolated military installation in Utah. The lives of evacuees are undone; response from government officials, the military, local citizens and a Jewish rabbi astonish.
An unauthorized chronicle of the life of Roman Polanski.
Virikuta is an astonishing documentary where we will have the opportunity to accompany a group of Huichol Indians in their annual pilgrimage to Virukuta hunting ritual peyote cactus that ingestion causes hallucinogenic effects. Before our eyes see a millennial pilgrimage, will accompany men, women and children in a community in its journey. The Huichol are a traditional people, who have a mature relationship with the natural elements that lead to ecstasy. This is a touching ritual, one of the live testimony deeper meaning in indigenous Mexican tradition
Comedians Jay Larson and Sean Patton explore bars featured in Esquire magazine’s annual rundown of the best in the country. With stops in Milwaukee, Chicago and San Francisco, Jay and Sean drink their way through neighborhood dives and swanky bars alike. More than just a cross-country bar crawl, this is a happy hour any self-respecting man should experience in his lifetime.
With visitor numbers approaching 70 million every year, Paddington is one of the UK's busiest transport hubs.
The Body of Netball assistant coach Solomon Reid is found in the woods having been beaten to death.
An unfiltered look at Wendy Williams' life following the end of her iconic talk show.
Sir Tony Robinson, the history presenter and former Black Adder star, tells the story of the Great War. How it started, how it changed the world and how it finished with a 100 day flourish of military brilliance, which finally put an end to four years of incompetence and slaughter. With the aid of hundreds of amazing archived 3D images of the Great War which chronicle WWI from start to finish and breathe new life into the story, Tony Robinson's World War I allows modern audiences to see the war in a completely new way. Robinson will also show how the Great War changed British people for generations to come – liberating large portions of the working class, powering the rise of the Labour party and breaking the old ties of service to the aristocracy.
How, from 1974 to 1993, Totò Riina (1930-2017), supreme boss of the Corleone family, ruled by blood and terror over the Sicilian Mafia. An implacable account, based on the testimony of his men and those who fought against them.
Brita Zackari and Kalle Zackari Wahlström have long dreamt of a new life, to leave all anxiety and stress of citylife behind and move to the countryside with their family. Now the dream has come true: Brita and Kalle have bought a little farm.
Renowned dog behaviorist Cesar Millan visits towns across America, taking on multiple cases at each stop. Some are quick fixes and some are high stakes, but every case ends with life-changing results for the dogs and their owners. And while Cesar is always the leader of the pack, his son and fellow dog behaviorist Andre joins dad for a father-and-son adventure packed with humor and heart.
Every day, 3 million airline passengers travel into the United States— and every one of them is screened and their baggage checked by one of the 40,000 officers who work on America’s front line. This series documents the challenges faced by CBP at four of the busiest airports in the US including Atlanta, Honolulu, Detroit, San Francisco and Newark. From career drug smugglers and human traffickers to less serious visa and passport defaulters, everyone who comes into the United States by air is subject to scrutiny.
Intelligence operatives from MI6 to the CIA share insider stories of spy craft, Cold War campaigns, and coups carried out by covert agents.
Santos Bravos is a Latin American reality series produced by HYBE Latin America to form a new boy band. The program features 16 later 17 contestants from across Latin America, the United States, and Spain, and follows their training and performances in pursuit of a debut lineup. Santos Bravos combines Hybe's structured artist training system with Latin America's cultural and artistic influences. The series follows contestants' growth within the company's global production model.
