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2016

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Joshua Oppenheimer on Night and Fog
Joshua Oppenheimer on Night and Fog
The Academy Award-winning director of the heavy documentary 'The Act of Killing' discusses his philosophies in documentary filmmaking, the horrors of 'Night and Fog,' and what makes it the impactful film that it is.
Joshua Oppenheimer on Night and Fog 2016
Capability Brown's Unfinished Garden
Capability Brown's Unfinished Garden
Capability Brown is known as the founder of landscape design. In the 1700s, he created some of the most magnificent landscapes in England. He travelled the length and breadth of the country, improving more than 200 of the greatest estates in the land for some of the most influential people of the 18th century. But there is one plan that never got off the drawing board. The only land Capability ever owned was in Fenstanton, Cambridgeshire, but he died before he could carry out any plans for his own garden. Today, it is a piece of flat land bisected by the A14 dual carriageway. Landscape designer and Gardeners' Question Time regular Bunny Guinness travels across England to some of Capability's finest landscapes - Blenheim, Burghley, Milton Abbey and Castle Ashby - to understand what he might have created. Rediscovering plans and letters, and using the latest technology, Capability Brown's unfinished garden is brought to life.
Capability Brown's Unfinished Garden 2016
Gip
Gip
There are 4 juke joints left in the United States. On May 4, 2013, the last one in Alabama was raided and shut down. But Henry "Gip" Gipson, proprietor of Gip's Place, a gravedigger by day and hard drinking bluesman by night, had no intention of going down without a fight.
Gip 2016
Añoranza
Añoranza
On a Caribbean island, half a century ago, a revolution created a new frontier beyond which, little by little, the outside world became vaporous, invisible, forbidden. Now, three old men, Luis, Carmelo, and Ernesto, let their imaginations wander. All around them busses full of tourists, ambassadors of a never-never land, come and go, triggering in the old men a deep longing for vanished ideals; love, time and the places they have never seen.
Añoranza 2016
First Lady of Film
First Lady of Film
A short documentary on Alice Guy, the first female director in film history.
First Lady of Film 2016
Can't Stop the Show: The Return of KIX
Can't Stop the Show: The Return of KIX
The making of the band's first album in almost 20 years.
Can't Stop the Show: The Return of KIX 2016
Making the James Webb Space Telescope.
Making the James Webb Space Telescope.
Making the James Webb Space Telescope.
Making the James Webb Space Telescope. 2016
Malströmmar
Malströmmar
Malströmmar 2016
Incredible Fish
Incredible Fish
Incredible Fish 2016
Rise Up: The legacy of Nat Turner
Rise Up: The legacy of Nat Turner
In 1831 African American slave, and preacher, Nat Turner lead a bloody slave revolt in Southampton County, Virginia. It was a fight against the enslavement of African and American people of color who longed for freedom from tyranny. This one-hour doc follows Roger Guenveur Smith as he travels to Southampton County, Virginia to take viewers on a physical journey through the town, fields and farms where Turner lived, fought, and died; along the way meeting with academics, locals, and descendants to peel back the layers of one of the most misunderstood Americans in history. In addition to candid discussions on historical and contemporary racial tensions, Roger asks us to consider why Turner is not lofted up across America as an early black revolutionary figure who helped to shape the nation.
Rise Up: The legacy of Nat Turner 2016
Esto certifica que Enrique Symns está vivo
Esto certifica que Enrique Symns está vivo
Portrait of the Argentine journalist, writer and theater actor, author of chronicles, novels and biographies about Argentine and Latin American rock bands and composers, recognized as one of the contemporary literary exponents of the so-called "gonzo journalism" in Argentina.
Esto certifica que Enrique Symns está vivo 2016
Le Sang des Hardes
Le Sang des Hardes
Le Sang des Hardes 2016
Léon Blum, haï et adoré
Léon Blum, haï et adoré
Léon Blum, haï et adoré 2016
Shadowlands
Shadowlands
Shadowlands is an animated short film about darkness that won't let go. About the constant fear that something terrible might happen. It describes a journey into the inner world and psyche of a young person in distress, a world far from "normal".
Shadowlands 2016
Death by Rescue: The Lethal Effects of Non-Assistance at Sea
Death by Rescue: The Lethal Effects of Non-Assistance at Sea
In April 2015, two shipwrecks in the central Mediterranean resulted in over a thousand deaths. The first, on 12 April, occurred when an overcrowded boat was approached by a large commercial vessel. Less than a week later, on 18 April 2015, a similar incident led to over eight hundred deaths after an overcrowded vessel collided with a cargo ship that had approached to rescue its passengers. Both incidents are in part the result of changing EU policies toward at-sea rescue, particularly the retreat of state rescue operations and a resulting onus on commercial vessels to fill the ‘rescue gap’.
Death by Rescue: The Lethal Effects of Non-Assistance at Sea 2016
Memoria
Memoria
A mother tries to leave her memory of being a victim during the war in Timor Leste. A daughter tries to secure herself under a marriage. They are trying to find the real meaning of freedom. Maria is one of the female victims of sexual violence in Timor Leste in their dark years of independence. She sees that such possibility can happen as well to Flora just because of a bride price.
Memoria 2016
Juvenile
Juvenile
A year within the walls of a juvenile correction facility in Serbia.
Juvenile 2016
Natascha Kampusch, 10 años después
Natascha Kampusch, 10 años después
Natascha Kampusch, 10 años después 2016
Champs de bataille : La Hitlerjugend contre-attaque
Champs de bataille : La Hitlerjugend contre-attaque
Champs de bataille : La Hitlerjugend contre-attaque 2016
Victorinox : Le véritable couteau suisse
Victorinox : Le véritable couteau suisse
Victorinox : Le véritable couteau suisse 2016
Abenteuer Polarkreis
Abenteuer Polarkreis
Abenteuer Polarkreis 2016
Seann Walsh: One for the Road
Seann Walsh: One for the Road
Seann Walsh and Mark Simmons leave their cosy metrosexual life to go on a tour of the Scottish Highlands - with no tour manager, no internet, and definitely no map reading skills.
Seann Walsh: One for the Road 2016
Haymatloz - Exil in der Türkei
Haymatloz - Exil in der Türkei
″Haymatloz″ tells the stories of five German Jewish academics who emigrated to Turkey in the 1930s, to be welcomed with open arms. After 1933 a considerable number of German intellectuals emigrated to Turkey at the invitation of Atatürk and went on to definitively shape teaching and instruction in Turkish universities. Turkish-born filmmaker Önsöz accompanies the descendants of these German exiles and sheds light on a memorable piece of history whose meaning is still felt to this day, as these renowned Germans played a substantial role in the Europeanization of Turkey.
Haymatloz - Exil in der Türkei 2016
La plage des Shadoks
La plage des Shadoks
La plage des Shadoks 2016
Seeking Pluto's Frigid Heart
Seeking Pluto's Frigid Heart
Seeking Pluto’s Frigid Heart is a stereoscopic VR experience that brings viewers to Pluto. Watch the New Horizons spacecraft zoom through space, soar over rugged mountains and bright plains, and stand on Pluto’s unique surface as its largest moon hovers over the horizon.
Seeking Pluto's Frigid Heart 2016
Railway Nation: A Journey in Verse
Railway Nation: A Journey in Verse
Following in the footsteps of WH Auden's 1936 documentary Night Mail, six of Britain's best poets take the train from London to Glasgow, capturing the journey in verse.
Railway Nation: A Journey in Verse 2016
Proper Care
Proper Care
The staff of the Vera Hospice Foundation has been fighting for many years to alleviate the suffering of terminally ill people, both adults and children. Much has been achieved along the way, but much more needs to be done. How to make it so that not only to live, but also to die was not excruciatingly painful?
Proper Care 2016
Além do que se Vê
Além do que se Vê
Além do que se Vê 2016
Abused: The Untold Story
Abused: The Untold Story
Interviews with victims of sexual abuse, including some offences committed by the disk jockey and TV host Sir Jimmy Savile, talk about their long struggle to be heard and believed.
Abused: The Untold Story 2016
Scotland's Treasures
Scotland's Treasures
Documentary in which Muriel Gray, Alexander McCall Smith and Eunice Olumide explore some of the most outstanding treasures at the National Museum of Scotland.
Scotland's Treasures 2016
We've Been Around
We've Been Around
In this documentary, director Rhys Ernst tells the previously untold histories of transgender pioneers. Trans people have always been here, throughout time, often hidden in plain sight.
We've Been Around 2016
On the Brink of Famine
On the Brink of Famine
“On the Brink of Famine” takes you inside South Sudan in 360° to meet people battling a man-made hunger crisis. Experience the front lines of a famine in the making, in this VR documentary by FRONTLINE and The Brown Institute for Media Innovation.
On the Brink of Famine 2016
Here Come the Brides
Here Come the Brides
A personal documentary about gay marriage in Brazil that focuses on the filmmaker Fábia Sartori Fuzeti, who opens the film by proposing to her partner Gabriela Torrezani. The movie follows their footsteps from that moment until their big day. At the same time, it explores the lives various gay and lesbian couples that got tied the knot since the Brazilian Supreme Court legalised gay marriage in June 2011.
Here Come the Brides 2016
Why Should I Live
Why Should I Live
In 1985, the iconic Novi Sad punk band "Two Minutes of Hatred" broke up. One of their songs was called "Why should I live". Through the story of guitarist Saša Ivanović Sajla, the film tries to examine how 30 years later Saša and the other members of the original line-up answer the question they asked. Where are they now? Can Christianity and punk coexist? Can a man give up his youth? Which of them found the answer?
Why Should I Live 2016
Miznúci svet hlucháňa
Miznúci svet hlucháňa
Miznúci svet hlucháňa 2016
Ka-Ching! Pokie Nation
Ka-Ching! Pokie Nation
In this ground-breaking expose, industry insiders go on the record to explain how carefully Pokies are programmed for addiction. They’re joined by world-leading neuroscientists, taking you into the lab to reveal how these machines work on the deepest levels of our brains, leading some researchers to call them “electronic morphine”. And, we reveal how successive Australian governments have become the biggest addicts of all. This documentary puts the pokie machine on trial.
Ka-Ching! Pokie Nation 2016
Arnie's 50 Greatest Ever Stunts
Arnie's 50 Greatest Ever Stunts
Hollywood action man Arnold Schwarzenegger guides viewers through some of the world's most cunning stunts, including feats of strength, endurance, bravery, and sometimes just dumb luck. Using clips of the stunts themselves, in addition to commentary from fans, comedians, stunt coordinators and daredevils, this one-off show takes a behind-the-scenes look at some of the most famous, jaw-dropping stunts ever, with Arnie providing humour, shock, awe and delight as the programme counts down to number one.
Arnie's 50 Greatest Ever Stunts 2016
El río que se robaron
El río que se robaron
Documentary film about the water crisis that is leading to the extermination of the Wayúu Nation of La Guajira, Colombia.
El río que se robaron 2016
Beyssetay Daurenbekov and 12 Fates
Beyssetay Daurenbekov and 12 Fates
The film is based on a little-known story that happened in 1972. Then a ferry carrying fifteen boarding students sank in the Ili River. Three drowned. But twelve were saved-thanks to the young driver of the state farm Bisetai Daurenbekov… This film is about saved children. More precisely, already adults. About how their fates turned out. Some still live on the banks of the Ili - they will tell about themselves, about others, and about Bisetai.
Beyssetay Daurenbekov and 12 Fates 2016
Sin-é: Jeff Buckley's Irish Odyssey
Sin-é: Jeff Buckley's Irish Odyssey
Documentary-maker Steve Cummins tells the story of Jeff's connections with Ireland, unearthing a never-before-heard recording of Jeff’s first-ever Irish performance at the 1992 Trinity Ball in Dublin.
Sin-é: Jeff Buckley's Irish Odyssey 2016