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2016

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The Queen Mary: Greatest Ocean Liner
The Queen Mary: Greatest Ocean Liner
Documentary exploring the eventful life of the Clyde-built ship, RMS Queen Mary, from a symbol of hope to a nation, to the floating hotel of today.
The Queen Mary: Greatest Ocean Liner 2016
Secrets of the Gay Sauna
Secrets of the Gay Sauna
Gay saunas are places where men meet strangers to have sex. With exclusive access to one Nottingham business, this candid one-off documentary enters the often controversial and always secretive world of the gay sauna for the very first time. The programme meets the people who go there for sexual pleasure - from teachers to plumbers to Tory councillors - and the staff who clean up after them.
Secrets of the Gay Sauna 2016
They Came from the Swamp: The Films of William Grefé
They Came from the Swamp: The Films of William Grefé
Savage! Sadistic! Thrill hungry! When it came to independent filmmaking in the sunshine state, William Grefé was the wildest of the wild! During the 1960s and '70s, the Miami-based producer/director transformed the darkest corners of the Florida swamps into his own personal backlot. From rampaging crocodiles possessed by an ancient Seminole witch doctor (DEATH CURSE OF TARTU) to a slithering serpent named STANLEY, William Grefé would grind out low-budget exploitation films for drive-ins and hardtops around the world. Now, without the benefit of cages or other protective devices, the untold story of Florida's most daring moviemaker comes to the screen...IN PSYCHEDELIC COLOR!
They Came from the Swamp: The Films of William Grefé 2016
West Side Stories: The Making of a Classic
West Side Stories: The Making of a Classic
As the world prepares to celebrate the 60th anniversary of West Side Story in 2017, dancer Bruno Tonioli and broadcaster Suzy Klein go in search of the true stories behind the inception of this classic show. For the first time on television, they hear first-hand from those involved in the show when it opened on Broadway in September 1957, including Sondheim himself, producer Hal Prince and original cast members from both show and movie, including Chita Rivera Carol Lawrence and Rita Moreno. With the BBC Symphony Orchestra and specially cast singers, we re-live some of the wonderful music and, in the company of Suzy and Bruno, we discover how West Side Story placed the 1950s phenomena of racial tension and teenage gangs centre stage to create a hit that changed musical theatre forever.
West Side Stories: The Making of a Classic 2016
The Joy of Data
Prime Video
The Joy of Data
A witty and mind-expanding exploration of data, with mathematician Dr Hannah Fry. This high-tech romp reveals what data is and how it is captured, stored, shared and made sense of. Fry tells the story of the engineers of the data age, people most of us have never heard of despite the fact they brought about a technological and philosophical revolution.
The Joy of Data 2016
SHINee CONCERT
SHINee CONCERT "SHINee WORLD IV"
The fourth concert tour by Korean boy group SHINee, where they performed hits such as “Sherlock”, “Dream Girl,” “View”, and more.
SHINee CONCERT "SHINee WORLD IV" 2016
Spice Girls: 20 Years of Spice
Spice Girls: 20 Years of Spice
'20 Years of Spice' explores the meteoric rise to fame of the 90's pop phenomenon, the Spice Girls. 2016 marks 20 years since the Spice Girls' debut release, 'Wannabe', and the film covers the entire breadth of their careers both as a group; quintet and quartet, as well as their solo endeavors.
Spice Girls: 20 Years of Spice 2016
Europe, She Loves
Europe, She Loves
Europe on the verge of social and economic change. A close up into the shaken vision of four couples, daily struggles, fights, kids, sex and passion. A movie about the politics of love. Le cinéma politique fait l'amour.
Europe, She Loves 2016
A Trip to Unicorn Island
A Trip to Unicorn Island
Lilly Singh, YouTube's iisuperwomanii brings her happy place to life in an ambitious 27 city world tour where she hand delivers an inspirational message to her 7+ million fans while learning what it takes to become a world class live entertainer and boss. This feature-length movie gives fans an extraordinary look inside the life and journey of Lilly Singh as she embarks on a challenging 26-city global tour where she has to remember to practice what she preaches: happiness is the only thing worth fighting for.
A Trip to Unicorn Island 2016
Chasing Great
Chasing Great
Chasing Great is an insightful portrayal that weaves Richie McCaw's life story into his final season as an All Black, revealing the determination and mental toughness of an international sporting legend who still sees himself as an 'ordinary guy' from small town New Zealand.
Chasing Great 2016
Debra Paget, For Example
Debra Paget, For Example
A video essay where the author presumes motivations and insights in a fictionalized biography regarding Debra Paget, a contract player for 20th-Century Fox whom they groomed and coached for stardom.
Debra Paget, For Example 2016
Loretta Lynn: Still a Mountain Girl
Loretta Lynn: Still a Mountain Girl
Explore the country legend's hard-fought road to stardom. From her Appalachian roots to the Oscar-winning biopic of her life, Coal Miner's Daughter, Loretta Lynn struggled to balance family and her music career and is still going strong after more than 50 years. The documentary premieres the same day Lynn's first new studio album in over 10 years is released.
Loretta Lynn: Still a Mountain Girl 2016
The Weald
The Weald
Naomi Kawase returns to the mountains of her feature film Suzaku and portraits the people that inspired the movie.
The Weald 2016
77 Minutes
Prime Video
77 Minutes
A documentary by Charlie Minn about the McDonalds Massacre from 1984, when a man walked into a McDonald's restaurant in San Diego armed with guns and shot 40 men, women, and children. It took law enforcement 77 minutes to end the siege. This documentary focuses on the victims of the attack and its effects.
77 Minutes 2016
Equal Means Equal
Equal Means Equal
An unflinching look at how women are treated in the USA today examining issues such as workplace harassment, domestic violence, rape and sexual assault. It shows how discriminatory attitudes still prevail and influence society and argues for the need to improve laws that claim to protect women.
Equal Means Equal 2016
Billy Wilder: Nobody's Perfect
Billy Wilder: Nobody's Perfect
Biography on the famous writer-director, Billy Wilder.
Billy Wilder: Nobody's Perfect 2016
Louis Theroux: Drinking to Oblivion
Louis Theroux: Drinking to Oblivion
Louis spends time at King's College Hospital in London where he immerses himself in the lives of patients in the grips of alcohol addiction and the medical staff trying to make them better.
Louis Theroux: Drinking to Oblivion 2016
Mama Rwanda
Mama Rwanda
MAMA RWANDA is the story of two women mixing the wit of motherhood with the spirit of entrepreneurship to overcome extreme poverty. Drocella, a village wife, and Christine, a city widow, represent a new generation of women business-owners transforming post-genocide Rwanda into one of the top ten fastest growing economies in the world. A modern tale of the work/life balancing act, MAMA RWANDA illuminates the remarkable lives of two working mothers in the developing world.
Mama Rwanda 2016
Why Just One?
Why Just One?
Why Just One? 2016
Thierry Le Luron, l'humour de ma vie
Thierry Le Luron, l'humour de ma vie
Thierry Le Luron, l'humour de ma vie 2016
Brazilian Holocaust
Brazilian Holocaust
For decades, thousands of patients were hospitalized forcibly, without diagnosis of mental illness, in an enormous hospice in the city of Barbacena, Minas Gerais, southeast of Brazil. There they were tortured, raped and killed without anyone caring about their fate. Famous journalists, in the 1960s and 70s, made reports denouncing the ill-treatment. None of them - as Daniela Arbex does now - could tell the whole story. Sixty thousand died. Some managed to survive. And they now tell a little about the terrifying history of the Cologne Hospital.
Brazilian Holocaust 2016
Pride Ruler at Risk
Prime Video
Pride Ruler at Risk
Only few big cats have been as intensively studied as lions. We thought we knew everything about them. Yet some parts of their lives kept hidden in the dark. Cameras follow two prides and their respective females by day and by night, revealing astonishing behavioral patterns of Africa's largest lions. Symbols of courage and power, lions have been intensively researched for many decades. While hardly a single facet of their lives has gone unnoticed, certain things have remained hidden. Thanks to thermal imaging cameras, this two-part series reveals the last secrets of Africa's largest wild cats. We follow two prides in Southern Kenya and their respective females by day and by night, discovering astonishing behavioral patterns. Lean times face the animals as the huge wildebeest herds, which, until now have supplied the young families with ample food, are migrating south to the Serengeti. We will watch the daily struggle for survival as these mothers risk everything in order to rear ...
Pride Ruler at Risk 2016
Joe's Violin
Joe's Violin
A 91-year-old Polish Holocaust survivor donates his violin of 70 years to a local instrument drive, changing the life of a 12-year-old schoolgirl from the nation’s poorest congressional district, and unexpectedly, his own.
Joe's Violin 2016
Keep Quiet
Keep Quiet
Passionate in his anti-Semitic beliefs, Csanád Szegedi was the rising star of Hungary’s far-right party until he discovers his family’s secret—his maternal grandparents were Jewish. The revelation prompts an improbable but seemingly heartfelt conversion from anti-Semite to Orthodox Jew.
Keep Quiet 2016
Life In The Snow
Life In The Snow
In a seasonal special, Gordon Buchanan meets the animals who live in nature's winter wonderlands. He reveals their survival secrets, from the polar bear mother who gives her cubs the best possible start in life to the owl that finds food hidden beneath a blanket of snow, plus the plucky penguins that huddle together to keep warm. Gordon also unwraps the lives of our favourite Christmas characters - those wonderful reindeer and our very own robin redbreast!
Life In The Snow 2016
Normal Autistic Film
Normal Autistic Film
Through unique artistic approach, the director reveals the world of autism - bringing the audience closer to the main characters - talented and creative children with a fascinating way of thinking.
Normal Autistic Film 2016
A World Unseen: 'The Revenant'
A World Unseen: 'The Revenant'
A new documentary directed by Eliot Rausch exploring the production of Alejandro G. Iñárritu's The Revenant
A World Unseen: 'The Revenant' 2016
Der wahre Champion: Siegen mit Hightech
Der wahre Champion: Siegen mit Hightech
Every year, top athletes set new world records. But are today’s record holders really better than those of the past? Or do modern athletes get their edge from their high tech gear? Top sports scientist Steve Haake sets off on a journey to investigate. He travels to Canada, the USA, and Germany to meet five champions. Each athlete demonstrates how their modern training and equipment enhances their performance, and then Steve challenges them to compete against a legendary athlete using old-school vintage gear. Each experimental matchup has a surprising result.
Der wahre Champion: Siegen mit Hightech 2016
Maurizio Cattelan: Be Right Back
Maurizio Cattelan: Be Right Back
An art world upstart, provocative and elusive artist Maurizio Cattelan made his career on playful and subversive works that send up the artistic establishment, until a retrospective at the Guggenheim in 2011 finally solidified his place in the contemporary art canon. Axelrod's equally playful profile leaves no stone unturned in trying to figure out: who is Maurizio Cattelan?
Maurizio Cattelan: Be Right Back 2016
Homegrown: The Counter-Terror Dilemma
Homegrown: The Counter-Terror Dilemma
An insider’s account from the perspectives of those who helped construct America’s counter-terrorism machine -- and of its targets.
Homegrown: The Counter-Terror Dilemma 2016
The Making of 'The Visit'
The Making of 'The Visit'
Shyamalan looks back at his career and discusses returning to his roots in The Visit. The piece covers the challenges of the style and creating a "pure" experience, casting, the importance of listening to his inner voice, editing, and making the right movie in the right moment.
The Making of 'The Visit' 2016
10 Years with Bebe
10 Years with Bebe
This documentary follows the journey of beloved Spanish musician Bebe as she embarks on a tour to celebrate her first album's 10-year anniversary.
10 Years with Bebe 2016
A Good Child's History Anime: The Giant Turnip (Inc.)
A Good Child's History Anime: The Giant Turnip (Inc.)
Short animation made to celebrate Studio Khara’s 10th anniversary.
A Good Child's History Anime: The Giant Turnip (Inc.) 2016
Chasing Rewind
Chasing Rewind
A love letter to the video store.
Chasing Rewind 2016
Where Do You Stand Now, João Pedro Rodrigues?
Where Do You Stand Now, João Pedro Rodrigues?
João Pedro Rodrigues answers the question from the title with an autobiographical short-film.
Where Do You Stand Now, João Pedro Rodrigues? 2016
The Wandering Man’s Burden: Making The Loner
The Wandering Man’s Burden: Making The Loner
A half-hour documentary about the history of Rod Serling's The Loner. Produced for the Shout! Factory DVD release of the complete series.
The Wandering Man’s Burden: Making The Loner 2016
Spectrum
Spectrum
Through personal stories, the documentary approaches the issues of gender identity and legal gender recognition in Greece. The three main characters explain how society has treated them, by narrating their experiences from the past and the present.
Spectrum 2016
Generation '66
Generation '66
Documentary exploring the key events of 1966, a period when British pop music, fashion and sport was making waves across the globe, but when the nation's upbeat mood was undercut by darker sensibilities.
Generation '66 2016
Atatürk'ün Alev Çiçekleri
Atatürk'ün Alev Çiçekleri
Atatürk'ün Alev Çiçekleri 2016
Er Lars Skyldig?
Er Lars Skyldig?
Er Lars Skyldig? 2016