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Regreso a la Alcarria
In June 1946 the writer Camilo José Cela toured Alcarria on foot. The book “Viaje a la Alcarria” was published from his journeys through that region. 70 years later, a traveler follows the same itinerary that Cela outlined in his novel.
Battling the Ndrangheta Mafia
The Ndrangheta is the most powerful branch of the mafia which has a stranglehold on Southern Italy.
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The Rise of the Houthis
A gripping doc by a brave female journalist operating in a harsh testosterone riddled region. In Yemen, the Houthis have seized control but still face formidable opposition from groups linked to Al Qa'ida and Islamic State. The reporter fearlessly crosses the front-lines seeking to understand this complex proxy conflict. The doc reveals Yemen's remarkable turn around, from Saudi backed Sunni rule, to Iran supported Shia dominance.
Monteverdi in Mantua - The Genius of the Vespers
Monteverdi in Mantua tells the story of the Duke of Mantua and his court composer Claudio Monteverdi during the turbulent times of the late Italian renaissance. From their volatile relationship would come one of the most revolutionary collections of music ever published: The Vespers of 1610. The programme is presented by Simon Russell Beale who visits Mantua and, together with conductor Harry Christophers and his choir “The Sixteen”, explores this major turning point in Western Music.
Lilit
A little girl suspended in the air. An angel amidst the whispers of the thick night.
Larisa's Crew
In recent years, a special "folk craft" has developed in Russia: in-line production of paintings, which are then sold at markets, highways, street vernissages. The film tells about the artel of artists working in this most popular and democratic genre of fine art.
Norilsk in the First Person
Producer Aleksey Pivovarov and director Alexander Rastorguev started working on a documentary film dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Norilsk Nickel, moving away from the traditional form and choosing the web-doc genre. As a result, the project team created an interactive website, norilskfilm.com, filled with many short stories, archival materials and virtual panoramas.
Hitler's Last Secrets: Hitler and Wagner
From the moment in 1906 when he heard the first note of Lohengrin at Linz opera house until his death in the burning ruins of Berlin in 1945, Hitler was obsessed by the music and mythology of Richard Wagner. The latest research into the often overlooked relationship with musician August Kubizek, his only boyhood friend, has provided clues which have reveal the overwhelming importance of Wagner.
Sicily Jass. The World's First Man in Jazz
2017 will mark a century from the recording of what is historically considered the first Jazz record, but very few know that it was recorded by a Sicilian emigrant to New Orleans: Nick La Rocca. The record sold a million and half copies! Featuring exclusive interviews to American music critics, historians and archivists, as well as amazing archive picturing New Orleans at the beginning of the century, Sicily Jass takes us on a journey through music and history, telling the story of the world's first man in Jazz.
Hospital in the Sky
Orbis volunteers work alongside local staff amid the chaos and emotion of screening, surgery and recovery.
Jihad: A Story of the Others
An unflinching but sensitive and personal examination of jihadism and radicalisation, its causes and its possible solutions.
George for Real
Founder and leader of one of the world's largest missionary movements, Operation Mobilization, George Verwer takes you on his travels all over the world, driven by a passion to see men and women come to faith. Discover how George Verwer's hunger for God was ignited during his turbulent teenage years and how God led him to ignite a dynamic global missionary movement.
King and the Crook
How could Gulosten, who was a major criminal during prohibition, and a resistance fighter during WW2, get away with the murder of two Germans in peacetime Norway? And what part did his friend, king Haakon of Norway, play in this?
AKB48 Manatsu no Tandoku Concert in SSA 〜Kawaei-san no Koto ga Suki Deshita〜
Kawaei Rina Graduation Concert
Winona: A Copper Country Ghost
Winona, Michigan, a former copper mining town is fast becoming a "ghost town." This film tells Winona's story from the mouths of the old timers who lived through the boom and bust era.
Out of the Blue
Cyprian, Filip, Ola and Kuba – four, out of fifteen of young patients who are in a long-term coma. Their parents are determined to help the and bring them back to life. The film presents an unusual story of people, who are not giving up in the face of tragedy. They are filled with hope and fight for the health of their children at the “Alarm Clock” clinic located near Warsaw. Most Polish hospitals serve as a sort of a checkroom to children in a comma, while the Alarm Clock clinic is a worldwide phenomenon – it offers just fifteen beds, but managed to wake up eight patients in one year.
Catching Haider
How can it be that, despite the corruption scandals he has been associated with, Jörg Haider is portrayed as a hero after his accidental death? Nathalie Borgers goes to investigate in Carinthia. Her discoveries range from the comically bizarre to the strangely vexing.
About Jonas
Director Jonas Vaitkus speaks boldly, openly and politely in front of the cameras. This is how he talks about his long career. It dares to expose itself, without missing the creator's suffering, nor the endless doubts, nor the indescribable joy of success. Fights with actors and Shakespeare remained side by side in the memory of the 70-year-old Maestro. This is his story. From the first premiere to the last performance.
Antony Sher and Greg Doran in Conversation with Sue MacGregor
Sue MacGregor talks to Antony Sher and Greg Doran about their stage work together and their shared passion for Shakespeare. Over the last two decades the actor and director have collaborated on ten shows including Macbeth, Henry IV pts 1 and 2 and Death of a Salesman. In 2016 Doran will direct Sher in King Lear for the RSC, the company Doran runs. This is a rare chance to be in the audience for an intimate insight into a professional and personal partnership that is probably unique in British theatre.
Ile de Groix from the Sky
Go and live on an island in the third millennium? Far from the teeming cities and their overwhelming influence? Deliberately deprive oneself of mainland rhythms and access to anything, anywhere, any time? What an idea! And yet some have taken up the challenge. A crazy, offbeat, out of date challenge, or maybe one that is ahead of its time because life on an island is one that you create for yourself. Three new islanders realize that and have dropped anchor on Groix, an island in Brittany, rebellious but welcoming those who come to fulfill their project with an open heart: a doctor, because the island needs one; a divorced teacher who wants to rebuild her life; and an immigrant born of another Atlantic, who is so adaptable that he will be able to integrate. And so goes life on the island, which adopts unhesitatingly and offers its insularity as an identity.
Land of Tears
The film is not constructed as a lineal story, instead, each scene works as a painter’s brush freely tracing a distinctive shape; the lifestyle of the Raramuri people, the particular way in which they relate within the family, the community and their surrounding nature. Nararachi’s warm, intimate and profoundly human insight of the indigenous lifestyle and culture is so powerful that it enables the viewer to expand her horizon.
Eurovision at 60
Hosts and competitors tell the behind-the-scenes story of 60 years of Eurovision, the greatest and maddest song contest on earth.
Anthology of the Plot
This is a film about a time that we will never be able to return into. In the 1990s, cult cafe Suokalbis in Vilnius was already riding into the sunset of its existence, though it was still a gathering place for various artists of all ages, visitors and students of all kinds.
Stories from Our Land Vol. 2: Finding Home
This short film chronicles filmmaker Nyla Innuksuk's emotional journey to Nunavut to connect with the land of her ancestors and with her Inuk father, whom she has not seen in over 20 years. Nyla's return to her Igloolik birthplace culminates with a lesson on lighting a qulliq, the traditional Inuit oil lamp.
Fedor
This is the story of an ascetic artist who is preparing for death. He betrayed all those who loved him, exchanged a happy family life for vegetation in poverty in an abandoned cellar, whispered to the whole of humanity with its morals and foundations and challenged God. He wanted to proudly call himself an artist and draw pictures that to this day no one has ever seen. The story of the hero's life, narrated in three chapters from birth to death, turns into a metaphysical quest and test of the spirit, a global revelation of what life is.
Ishtwan Konyr Mandoki
Istvan (Atlan) Mandoki Konyr is an outstanding Turkologist of the 20th century, the founder of European Kypchak studies, the author of unique works on the history, culture and language of the Turkic peoples. He died at a creative peak in 1992. The Kazakhs called him "Konyr". This name became symbolic in Kazakh society in the 80-90s of the last century.
Left Behind or Led Astray?: Examining the Origins of the Secret Pre-Tribulation Rapture
Take a fascinating journey with us as we examine the shocking origins of the secret, pre-tribulation rapture doctrine. You will be amazed as we look into admissions by pre-tribulation leaders who admit that the theory is without clear biblical and historical merit. Join us as we discover the origins of this relatively new doctrine, explore its possible origins among mystics, Jesuits and theologians, and how this doctrine was ultimately disseminated throughout the church. You will be surprised by our stunning conclusion.
Meine Reise in die DDR - 25 Jahre später
About a journalist and his cameraman visiting East Germany, former GDR, 25 years later again after their journey which took place in January 1990, just between the Fall of the Wall and the reunification with West Germany, comparing the old pictures with the present of 2015 and meeting former interview partners a second time. An impressive work of time documentary showing seemingly surreal scenes about the changings of cities, industrial locations and lifes in different political and economical systems.
The Wolf's Lair
Every family has its secrets, the family of Portuguese filmmaker Mourão included. As the granddaughter of the well-known writer Tomaz de Figueiredo, she picks apart several of them in an intimate yet universally meaningful way. As such, her film also becomes a portrait of dictatorship and resistance and of the urge to create art.
Betinho: Hope on the Line
Documentary on the life of Brazilian sociologist Herbert de Souza, engaged in the struggle against hunger, SIDA and military dictatorship.
Jerusalem Conflict: The Ali Jiddah Story
The Conflict between Jews and Arabs in the Old City of Jerusalem dates back many years. Since the birth of the State of Israel in 1948, there has been an influx of violence in the Old City. But is it really a religious war, or is it political? In this documentary Ali M. Jiddah, an Afro-Palestinian whose participation in the national struggle lead to him doing a lengthy prison sentence unveils truths and facts regarding the Old City, like never before heard on mainstream media.
Ed Sheeran: VH1 Storytellers
Singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran will kick off an all-new season of “VH1 Storytellers” LIVE from Dublin, Ireland on Saturday, January 24, 2015. VH1 is rewriting the script on its critically acclaimed music franchise “VH1 Storytellers,” and for the first time in network history, the series will be broadcast LIVE from a venue of special meaning to the performing artist. In this tradition, Sheeran will perform and share personal stories from his life that have inspired his chart-topping songs from Whelan’s in Dublin, the venue where he first saw the artist that made him want to pursue music — Damien Rice. “It’s amazing to come back to perform at a place that means so much to me personally,” says Sheeran. “I was only about 11 or 12 years old when I saw Damien play at Whelan’s, and that night literally changed my life. The time he spent talking with me after the show made all the difference. It inspired me in a way that I only hope to do for someone else.”
Nature's Boldest Thieves
Presenter Lucy Cooke sets out to explore the phenomenon of seagulls, foxes, squirrels and badgers which are now living in our towns and stealing our food.