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The Story of APEX 2015: A Splendid Tragedy
The Story of APEX 2015: A Splendid Tragedy
Murphy’s Law states that, “If something can go wrong, it will.” Nothing epitomizes this more than the story of APEX 2015.
The Story of APEX 2015: A Splendid Tragedy 2021
The Swim
The Swim
If the mind is strong it can take the body anywhere. – Ben Lecomte The Swim is about Ben Lecomte’s unprecedented attempt to survive the 5,500+ mile gauntlet from Japan to San Francisco. His mission – to be the first man to swim across the Pacific and show the world the affect humans are having on our oceans. Ben and his crew faced countless challenges including typhoons, sharks, equipment failure and far more plastic than they ever could have imagined.
The Swim 2021
VALORANT FOR 65 HOURS: The Film | Solo Iron-Radiant in One Stream
VALORANT FOR 65 HOURS: The Film | Solo Iron-Radiant in One Stream
This special shows iiTzTimmy's 65-hour solo queue challenge from the lowest rank in Valorant to the highest (without stopping). Over 90 matches, countless crazy rounds and one surprise ban later, here are iiTzTimmy's best ups and downs throughout that journey.
VALORANT FOR 65 HOURS: The Film | Solo Iron-Radiant in One Stream 2021
Tuskegee Airmen: Legacy of Courage
Tuskegee Airmen: Legacy of Courage
Robin Roberts explores the legacy of the Tuskegee Airmen, the legendary group of African American pilots—including her father—that served in WWII, revealing how these warriors for change helped end segregation in the military and pave the way for the civil rights movement.
Tuskegee Airmen: Legacy of Courage 2021
Home from School: The Children of Carlisle
Home from School: The Children of Carlisle
“Kill the Indian to save the man” was the catchphrase of The Carlisle Indian Industrial School, a boarding school opened in Pennsylvania in 1879. It became a grim epitaph for numerous native children who died there. In 2017, a delegation from the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming attempts to retrieve the remains of three Northern Arapaho children buried far from home in the school cemetery, on a journey to recast the troubled legacy of Indian boarding schools, and heal historic wounds. This documentary film is produced by The Content Lab LLC, with support from The Wyoming Cultural Trust Fund, The Wyoming Humanities Council, and Wyoming PBS.
Home from School: The Children of Carlisle 2021
Synonymous With
Synonymous With
A student's increasingly intimate line of questioning causes his interview with a local horror host to take a vulnerable turn.
Synonymous With 2021
BTS 2021 WINTER PACKAGE in Gangwon
BTS 2021 WINTER PACKAGE in Gangwon
The 2021 WINTER PACKAGE in Gangwon by BTS follows the format of a winter vlog. Following the group's activities in Gangwon, the DVD features the members partaking in photoshoots around various locations, along with behind the scenes to the '2021 WINTER PACKAGE in Gangwon' photo book and merchandise collection.
BTS 2021 WINTER PACKAGE in Gangwon 2021
Erna, Helmut and the Nazis
Erna, Helmut and the Nazis
Germany, 1929. Helmut Machemer and Erna Schwalbe fall madly in love and marry in 1932. Everything indicates that a bright future awaits them; but then, in 1933, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party rise to power and their lives are suddenly put in danger because of Erna's Jewish ancestry.
Erna, Helmut and the Nazis 2021
Ashes to Idols
Ashes to Idols
The journey from ashes to idols through the eyes of a teenager who has created many jobs in the process The documentary shows how a teenager decided to get rid of temple's waste by making idols from them and how few jail inmates became his helper in the process.
Ashes to Idols 2021
The Neutral Ground
The Neutral Ground
With sharp humor and a critical sense of curiosity, comedian CJ Hunt documents the fraught removal of four Confederate monuments in New Orleans. As the scope of his film expands, Hunt investigates the origins of a romanticized Confederacy and confronts hard truths much of America has yet to face.
The Neutral Ground 2021
YouthMin: A Mockumentary
YouthMin: A Mockumentary
"YouthMin" is a mockumentary following an attention seeking youth pastor and his small group of Christian teens at Bible camp.
YouthMin: A Mockumentary 2021
s1mple formula — 5 years with NAVI
s1mple formula — 5 years with NAVI
Documentary about professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Player Oleksandr "s1mple" Kostyliev. S1mple's story is about earning 15 MVP awards, becoming the number one player in the world, being on NAVI for five years with one main goal: to win a Major. Device, Sadokist, Thorin, casters and analysts, parents, teammates, team coach — each of them sees Sasha differently and we talked to all of them to try and figure out his formula.
s1mple formula — 5 years with NAVI 2021
Yalda: de langste nacht
Yalda: de langste nacht
Yalda: de langste nacht 2021
Les Damnés de la Commune
Les Damnés de la Commune
Les Damnés de la Commune 2021
Radio Silence
Radio Silence
Mexico, March 2015. Carmen Aristegui, incorruptible journalist, has been fired from the radio station where she has worked for years. Supported by more than 18 million listeners, Carmen continues her fight. Her goal: raising awareness and fighting against misinformation. The film tells the story of this quest: difficult and dangerous, but essential to the health of democracy. A story in which resistance becomes a form of survival.
Radio Silence 2021
Catching a Predator
Catching a Predator
With exclusive access to Greater Manchester Police's 2017-19 investigation, this is the story of serial male rapist Reynhard Sinaga’s conviction – the biggest rape case in British legal history. From his flat in Manchester, mature student Sinaga would target lone men who’d been on a night out and invite them into his home. Once they were inside, he would drug, assault and rape them. As evidence of the horrific scale of Sinaga's offending was uncovered, the film tells the detailed inside story of how detectives pieced together an unprecedented prosecution.
Catching a Predator 2021
Imperial
Imperial "Peace": Jallianwala Bagh
An animated documentary short about the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, which took place on 13th April 1919 when the British Indian Army relentlessly open fired onto a crowd of unarmed peaceful protestors consisting of thousands of Sikh, Hindu and Muslim men and women.
Imperial "Peace": Jallianwala Bagh 2021
40 Years of Fantasporto
40 Years of Fantasporto
A journey through 40 years of life of the most important Film Festival in Portugal, through the voice of its President and Director, Mário Dorminsky and Beatriz Pacheco Pereira. Born at a coffee shop table in the "Invicta" - Porto City, with a subsidy of 15 "contos" (75EUR), since 1981 it hasn't stopped bringing us cinema, and given its weight and peculiarity, The project developed and soon became a reality, with the screening of several sessions a day, the realization of retrospectives and, also, in parallel, the promotion of concerts and art exhibitions. It is considered the biggest film festival in Portugal, and internationally recognized as one of the most important worldwide, and is now entering its 40th edition.
40 Years of Fantasporto 2021
Men Who Sing
Men Who Sing
This humorous and melancholic portrait of a male voice choir begins when the filmmakers’ father, widower Ed, 90, sells the family home and arranges his own funeral. His only remaining solace is Tuesday night practice, but with an average age of 74 and suffering a haemorrhaging of the bass section his beloved choir is facing a crisis of its own. So the hunt begins to find ‘brown-haired men’ in their 40s and 50s who can take the choir forward.
Men Who Sing 2021
Slava Komissarenko: Neat, Fresh and Clean
Slava Komissarenko: Neat, Fresh and Clean
Slava Komissarenko's first solo stand-up special. The concert was filmed in Moscow in October 2021.
Slava Komissarenko: Neat, Fresh and Clean 2021
4 mois sur ma biosphère
4 mois sur ma biosphère
After traveling the globe to highlight low-tech, Corentin de Chatelperron has set himself a new challenge: to live independently, alone for four months, on a bamboo raft floating in Phang Nga Bay, Thailand. On his 70 square meter platform, the engineer, passionate about ecology and system D, puts into practice what he has learned in order to feed himself and produce his own energy.
4 mois sur ma biosphère 2021
The World's Biggest Drug Lord: Tse Chi Lop
The World's Biggest Drug Lord: Tse Chi Lop
Dubbed Asia’s ‘El Chapo,’ Tse is alleged to have built the largest drug trafficking operation in history, that stretched from drug factories in the Golden Triangle of Southeast Asia to involve the Italian mafia, Yakuza in Japan and motorcycle gangs in the U.S. His capture, as he attempted to fly from Taiwan to Canada via Amsterdam, required the cooperation of more than twenty government agencies and was coordinated by the Australian Federal Police.
The World's Biggest Drug Lord: Tse Chi Lop 2021
Downwinders and the Radioactive West
Downwinders and the Radioactive West
In the 1950s and ‘60s, the U.S. government conducted a series of nuclear tests in the Nevada desert. The resulting fallout would kick off a decades-long debate over cancer rates, the costs of patriotism, and the responsibility of a nation to protect its citizens.
Downwinders and the Radioactive West 2021
Coextinction
Coextinction
Impending extinction comes to a tipping point for one of the world's most iconic species — the Southern Resident killer whales. For two filmmakers, this crisis sparks a stunning journey across the Pacific Northwest, joining activists, scientists and Indigenous leaders, to uncover corruption and stop injustice before it’s too late.
Coextinction 2021
A Year in the Ice: The Arctic Drift
A Year in the Ice: The Arctic Drift
An intrepid team of 300 scientists spend a year in harsh conditions deep in the Arctic, on a pioneering expedition to secure vital answers to help us deal with climate change.
A Year in the Ice: The Arctic Drift 2021
Die Zwanziger - Das Jahrzehnt der Frauen
Die Zwanziger - Das Jahrzehnt der Frauen
Die Zwanziger - Das Jahrzehnt der Frauen 2021
Shots Fired
Shots Fired
Amid record police shootings in Utah, an investigation into the use of deadly force in the state with Frontline's local journalism partner The Salt Lake Tribune.
Shots Fired 2021
The Forever Prisoner
The Forever Prisoner
The chilling story of Abu Zubaydah, the first high-value detainee subjected to the CIA’s program of Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, later identified as torture by those outside the agency. Having never been charged with a crime or allowed to challenge his detention, Zubaydah remains imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay in Kafkaesque limbo, in direct contravention of America’s own ideals of justice and due process.
The Forever Prisoner 2021
Worship
Worship
Worship is premised on a hard reality of the poor in Thailand: the only way for them to climb the economic ladder is not with hard work and financial prudence, but by winning the game of chance—lottery. Many of them thus stay devoted to their faith out of fervent hopes that the deities would reciprocate their devotion by endowing them with luck and prosperity.
Worship 2021
My Name Is Gulpilil
My Name Is Gulpilil
Diagnosed with lung cancer, legendary Australian actor David Gulpilil boldly explains the journey that is his extraordinary, culture-clashing life.
My Name Is Gulpilil 2021
Une histoire extraordinaire
Une histoire extraordinaire
Une histoire extraordinaire 2021
In Anticipation of Jan Myrdal's Death
In Anticipation of Jan Myrdal's Death
Documentary about the author Jan Myrdal and his strange friendship with Lasse Diding, founder of the Jan Myrdal Society.
In Anticipation of Jan Myrdal's Death 2021
Closed
Closed
The March came, with him came the birds, the sun, the first petals of flowers, the buds on the trees... but also, the people were gone from the streets, from the squares. Overnight, there are empty cafes, shops, shopping malls, churches, mosques, classrooms, stations, railways, roads ... There was silence and silence that sometimes breaks the birdsong, the barking of dogs, the buzzing of flies and the sound of ambulances!
Closed 2021
Especiales Star+. En primera persona: China Suárez
Especiales Star+. En primera persona: China Suárez
Especiales Star+. En primera persona: China Suárez 2021
The Mushroom Speaks
The Mushroom Speaks
The film takes on a walk alongside parasites, symbionts and decomposers offering ideas of both interconnectedness and collaboration. Driven by a vision of resistance, the encounters seek possibilities of renewal and question what connects us when the world seems to be falling apart. With mushrooms and their allies the film invites to imagine a myco-cultural (r)evolution. What if the fungus could help us address and radically change our relationship to this world?
The Mushroom Speaks 2021
UFO Disclosure Part 1: The Coming Great Deception and the Luciferian Endgame
UFO Disclosure Part 1: The Coming Great Deception and the Luciferian Endgame
UFOs have gone main stream! There was a report on “60 Minutes” where it was stated that the US government has verified that UFOs are real. On Fox News, Tucker Carlson has had a series of guest on discussing the validity of the phenomenon. The Pentagon stated that we have in our possession off-world vehicles not made on the earth. In short, UFOs are real, burgeoning and NOT going away.
UFO Disclosure Part 1: The Coming Great Deception and the Luciferian Endgame 2021
Uluru and the Magician
Uluru and the Magician
Follows the incredible journey of Dave Welsman, a Sydney kids' magician determined to reboot his life with a grand illusion to make Uluru disappear. As Dave works alongside the Rock’s traditional owners and Indigenous Custodians to pull off this spectacular stunt, he discovers the profound cultural and spiritual significance of Uluru, and his own illusions about fame and success begin to disappear.
Uluru and the Magician 2021
Marilyn Monroe: Beauty is Pain
Marilyn Monroe: Beauty is Pain
Marilyn Monroe is easily the most iconic woman of 20th Century Hollywood. Born Norma Jeane Mortenson and raised in Los Angeles, Marilyn reached the height of fame in Hollywood, leaving behind the troubled world that Norma Jeane had once lived in. Her undeniable sex appeal and star quality still has as much influence today as it did then, and her image can still be seen in major cities around the world. Marilyn created a legacy that continues decades after her tragic death, and has a history of iconic moments that will keep her at the forefront of Hollywood forever.
Marilyn Monroe: Beauty is Pain 2021
Vinyl sellers
Vinyl sellers
Vinyl record sellers talk about their audience. A documentary about music lovers in the era of streaming platforms. Owners of famous St. Petersburg music stores share stories of triumph and failure. Who buys and who needs vinyl in the streaming era? 10 heroes of different generations, views and tastes talk about how they are trying to save a rare business in a crisis.
Vinyl sellers 2021
Elon Musk: Aiming for the Stars
Elon Musk: Aiming for the Stars
It seems that for Elon Musk, not even the sky is the limit. There are no limits. This is the story of an individual who is building the future.
Elon Musk: Aiming for the Stars 2021