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Monkeys of Bioko
Monkeys of Bioko
Roughly 20 miles off the coast of west Africa, sits a volcanic relic now completely blanketed in equatorial rainforest: the island of Bioko. It's home to some very rare species, including the drill -- one of the most endangered primates in the world. Join us on a jungle expedition as we uncover the secret life of these reclusive primates and track down the seasonal migration of the goby -- a plucky fish battling its way upriver past strong currents, deadly predators, and even a 100-foot waterfall, to reach the spawning grounds of its youth.
Monkeys of Bioko 2020
Das geheime Leben der Rothirsche
Das geheime Leben der Rothirsche
Das geheime Leben der Rothirsche 2020
1903: Relived: Stage 1 Of The First Tour
1903: Relived: Stage 1 Of The First Tour
On the 19th of July 1903 60 cyclists left Paris for the maiden stage of the very first Tour de France, racing 467km through the night to the line in Lyon. 116 years later, two modern-day riders attempted to recreate the feat of endurance using bikes and equipment from the early 20th century to fully experience the highs and lows of the early Tour pioneers. Endurance cyclist Mark Beaumont and GCN presenter James Lowsley-Williams are pushed to the limits of their physical and mental ability, struggling with the midsummer heat, bikes borrowed from museums and a lack of sleep. How did they compare to the Tour’s first heroes?
1903: Relived: Stage 1 Of The First Tour 2020
Migrations: Frequent Flyers
Migrations: Frequent Flyers
Half of all bird species undertake annual migrations, everything from heavy-bodied swans to delicate hummingbirds. Migration is one of the most remarkable phenomena on the planet, hosts of animals of all shapes and sizes demonstrating incredible feats of endurance.
Migrations: Frequent Flyers 2020
Covid-19 : le virus ou la vie ?
Covid-19 : le virus ou la vie ?
Covid-19 : le virus ou la vie ? 2020
Puntapié
Puntapié
“Puntapie” is kicking the ball with the tip of the foot. Eight of the best Latin American football players face each other in a special documentary.
Puntapié 2020
One Piece of the Puzzle
One Piece of the Puzzle
A visual portrait of a boy with autism, told by his mother.
One Piece of the Puzzle 2020
Sea Lions: Life By a Whisker
Sea Lions: Life By a Whisker
Between a jagged cliff face and a roaring ocean, lives a colony of Australian Sea Lions. In an environment equally as harsh as it is beautiful, be immersed in a classic coming of age tale guided by one of Australia’s most unique, intelligent, and playful animals. Take an intimate journey inside the colony where a life of great intimacy, tenderness, and clumsiness, must often give way to a life of great sacrifice and bravery. Dive into the world of an endangered Australian Sea Lion pup - and meet the people that are trying to save her species.
Sea Lions: Life By a Whisker 2020
Battle for Hong Kong
Battle for Hong Kong
With unique access inside the battle for Hong Kong, FRONTLINE follows five protesters through the most intense clashes over several months of pro-democracy protests. The film examines their struggle against what they say is growing influence from the communist government of mainland China.
Battle for Hong Kong 2020
Mörtfors-Tarzan
Mörtfors-Tarzan
Dark as ebony and agile as a panther was Tom Alandh's father. Many said that the darkness and wildness of him made him look like Tarzan, even though he only came from Åmål.
Mörtfors-Tarzan 2020
Das Flechtwerk des Lebens
Das Flechtwerk des Lebens
Das Flechtwerk des Lebens 2020
The Spider and the Bee
The Spider and the Bee
Two deadly insects, locked in a battle to the death; the Spider (determined to devour prey) and the Bee (armored to fight back).
The Spider and the Bee 2020
Seeing Red
Seeing Red
After fourteen years, Leo is released from jail, but he remains imprisoned by an idea: to avenge the death of his brother, Ale. The blood in the eye is the continuation of Orione. The second act of a drama that reunites two brothers in crime and punishment.
Seeing Red 2020
La saga du rail
La saga du rail
La saga du rail 2020
Our Sarah Jane – Elisabeth Sladen Tribute
Our Sarah Jane – Elisabeth Sladen Tribute
A feature-length look at the life and career of Sarah Jane Smith, played by Elisabeth Sladen.
Our Sarah Jane – Elisabeth Sladen Tribute 2020
Infinite Potential: The Life & Ideas of David Bohm
Infinite Potential: The Life & Ideas of David Bohm
INFINITE POTENTIAL takes us on a mystical and scientific journey into the nature of life and reality with David Bohm, the man Einstein called his "spiritual son" and the Dalai Lama his "science guru." A physicist and explorer of Consciousness, Bohm turned to Eastern wisdom to develop groundbreaking insights into the profound interconnectedness of the Universe and our place within it.
Infinite Potential: The Life & Ideas of David Bohm 2020
Modeles Noirs, Regards Blancs
Modeles Noirs, Regards Blancs
Modeles Noirs, Regards Blancs 2020
Los Jaivas: Todos juntos
Los Jaivas: Todos juntos
Los Jaivas are the most important rock band in the history of Chile. 55 years of music and friendship. Memories emerge note by note, song after song, tour after tour. An intimate portrait of their musical life where for the first time they share their archives that have been accumulated for years on the shelves of a small apartment in Santiago.
Los Jaivas: Todos juntos 2020
Inner Wars
Inner Wars
Since the uprising of a pro Russian insurgency in eastern Ukraine in 2014, hundreds of women joined the army. Only a few made it to the front line. Filmmaker Masha embeds herself in the war zone to follow the daily life of three of them. By sharing the intimacy of these fighters, Masha soon becomes a victim of this brotherhood conflict jeopardizing this film and her life.
Inner Wars 2020
Ecos
Ecos
Ecos 2020
Queens of Orango
Queens of Orango
A matriarchy rules on one of the Bijagos Islands off the coast of Guinea-Bissau. The tribe of the same name lives on Orango, one of the most populated islands in the archipelago.
Queens of Orango 2020
Nomad Meets the City
Nomad Meets the City
Currently Mongolia’s capital has 1.5 million inhabitants - half the population of the country. 50-year Tumurbaatar is only one of many coming to the city to fulfil their dreams of a better life.
Nomad Meets the City 2020
The Life We Know
The Life We Know
Cláudia Ribeiro spent seven months – since the time of plantation till the crops – capturing the work in the fields of the sisters Ana e Glória, in Passinhos de Cima, between the rivers Douro and Tâmega. It is an isolated place, where the baker, the fish seller, the grocer and their sons visit once a week. This a film on a way of life, the subsistence agriculture, but also about the humour and the ironies of representation and hospitality.
The Life We Know 2020
Bernard Blier, façon puzzle
Bernard Blier, façon puzzle
In a career spanning more than half a century, Bernard Blier has shot more than 180 films. He alone represents a history of French cinema without having spent his time cultivating its legend. He crossed his century as an actor with the modesty of a craftsman. He believed in learning, know-how and transmission. He considered himself, like the butcher or the cabinetmaker, as a man useful to his fellow men. Bernard Blier found in Louis Jouvet, who was his teacher at the Conservatory, a master at playing, a mentor and even a spiritual father. Jouvet taught Blier the love of acting, theater and Molière. And if he knew how to take hold of Michel Audiard's best tirades like no one else, notably those of the "Tontons Flingueurs", it is to this apprenticeship that he owes it.
Bernard Blier, façon puzzle 2020
What Happened to Crow 64?
What Happened to Crow 64?
A documentary about a long lost N64 game.
What Happened to Crow 64? 2020
This Is Halloween
This Is Halloween
Shock Docs: This is Halloween combines an impressive set of experts/historians and stars from many of the Travel Channel’s most popular series such as Ghost Nation, Destination Fear, Ghost Brothers, Kindred Spirits, Expedition Bigfoot, and The Holzer Files to reminisce on not only the history/origins of the holiday, but also recall their favorite memories of the celebrations, costumes, and scares.
This Is Halloween 2020
Věřím, že více světla potřeba nebude
Věřím, že více světla potřeba nebude
Věřím, že více světla potřeba nebude 2020
Life Is Dream
Life Is Dream
At the end of the 1960s, Vanesa’s parents fled the Franco-regime’s deep poverty to pursue their dream in the Netherlands. Working their blue-collar jobs for hours and hours, for over 45 years, their purpose was to return to Spain wealthy and comfortable. There, in a house full of Dutch porcelain and shiny gold, they can now finally rest. Vanesa was raised as Dutch, but still feels trapped in their expectant illusion, even with the distance between them. Torn between two homes, she starts to re-examine her past.
Life Is Dream 2020
Pierre Gasly, le jour de gloire
Pierre Gasly, le jour de gloire
Pierre Gasly, le jour de gloire 2020
We almost lost Bochum
We almost lost Bochum
We almost lost Bochum 2020
The ram's nap
The ram's nap
Lucía and Valeria take out three Tarot cards that reveal the first two dishes of a menu that takes them from Embún, Spain to Llanquihue, Chile; the towns of their grandmothers. Among improvised still lifes, maps and video calls, the friends try to discover the meaning of the third card through a ritual that connects both continents.
The ram's nap 2020
Herbst 1929 - Schatten über Babylon
Herbst 1929 - Schatten über Babylon
Herbst 1929 - Schatten über Babylon 2020
For Walter and Josiah
For Walter and Josiah
The Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana is shaken to its core by a teen suicide epidemic that claims 22 Native lives in a single year - including two high school basketball team members. 'For Walter And Josiah' follows the team during their season as the surviving members play to honor their fallen brothers and uplift their community.
For Walter and Josiah 2020
Bosko and the Rebirth of Tiki
Bosko and the Rebirth of Tiki
This documentary portrait of Bosko Hrnjak follows the artist through his childhood in Los Angeles, education at Art Center College of Design and his unsung, pioneering work as the first individual to revive the lost art of carving Tikis, sculpting Tiki ceramics and building the first proper home Tiki bar. Based on extensive interviews with Hrnjak and his wife and collaborator Truus de Groot, the film contains further commentary from fellow Polynesian Pop luminaries such as Jeff "Beachbum" Berry and Sven Kirsten.
Bosko and the Rebirth of Tiki 2020
Pandemic: COVID-19
Pandemic: COVID-19
Expert Epidemiologists and Virologists explain the rapid spread of the SARS CoV2 Virus as the Symptoms COVID 19.
Pandemic: COVID-19 2020
Gwangju Video: The Missing
Gwangju Video: The Missing
There are people whose lives have been shaken by the 'Gwangju Video'. On May of 1980, the course of their lives changed in front of a huge wave of truth in Gwangju. The people who made and spread the 'Gwangju Video' are also the people who had their bodies on the waves. The hidden stories of these people, the 40th anniversary of the Gwangju Uprising, and the pursuit to trace the missing 4 hours of mass shooting will be revealed for the first time.
Gwangju Video: The Missing 2020
Faceless
Faceless
This short documentary follows the process of monument installation of the first Croatian president, dr. Franjo Tudjman, in Zagreb. It is an aesthetic observation of the wrapped sculpture as an overlay that reveals a new surface. By exposing it to different weather conditions it brings out the changes in sonic, visual and tactile experiences. The film combines video footage of the monument taken just few days before its unveiling, when it was still wrapped in a thick layer of nylon, and takes us through a wide range of dynamic actions performed around the statue, from construction preparations to the protests of masses of people.
Faceless 2020
The Queen and the Coup
The Queen and the Coup
Planned by Britain’s MI6 and then executed by America’s C.I.A., the coup d’état which follows will destroy Iran’s last democracy, and relations between Iran and the West until the present day. Most shocking of all, the truth about Her Majesty’s role will be hidden from the Queen herself, and even the all-powerful Shah who will be used by Britain and American to replace Iran’s last democratic Prime Minister. The coup will lead to political upheaval all over the Middle East for decades to come, eventually resulting in the Islamic Revolution of 1979 which will end the reign of the Shah, and British and American influence in Iran, inspiring countless other Islamist revolutions around the world.
The Queen and the Coup 2020
7 Years of Lukas Graham
7 Years of Lukas Graham
When the Danish group Lukas Graham were starting out in 2012, they could never in their wildest dreams have imagined the journey they were embarking on. A journey, which would transport them from their humble roots in Copenhagen to performing on the GRAMMYs stage in Los Angeles.
7 Years of Lukas Graham 2020
Inside the Mind of Agatha Christie
Inside the Mind of Agatha Christie
Surpassed only by the Bible and Shakespeare, Agatha Christie is the most successful writer of all time. We all know her characters and incredible plot twists, but what do we know about Agatha herself? Combining rare access to Agatha's family, her personal archive and speaking to those who know her work best, discover what made the world's most successful crime writer tick.
Inside the Mind of Agatha Christie 2020