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Billy Connolly's Tracks Across America
Billy Connolly takes to the rails for a six thousand mile trip through the backyard of America.
Califórnia Brasileira - O Hardcore Punk em Santos 1991 - 1999
In the 1990s, due to an enormous amount of independent bands in activity, the great public present at the shows, and of course, in its geography, in the city of Santos earned the nickname “California Brazilian ”. Approved by one, recovered by others, the fact is that the nickname captured and the importance of the local scene in this history and undeniable. In a decade, an island - yes, Santos is on an island - exported names like Garage Fuzz, Safari Hamburguers, White Frogs and much, much more. And it matters in real time as the main trends of American hardcore and punk, reaching the point of such styles playing the city's young music in the mid-1990s, all of this coupled with a lot of surfing and skateboarding, of course. This doc deals only with this period and phenomenon, showing Brazil as stories and peculiarities of the local scene under the vision and direction of directors Rodiney Assunção and Wladimyr Cruz (“Woodstock - More than a store”, “A new wave of ").
The Piano Guys: Fight Song/Amazing Grace Behind the Scenes
A behind the scenes look at the making of The Piano Guys' music video for their cover of "Fight Song" and "Amazing Grace". Filmed on location in Scotland, featuring an old castle on a loch, and a marching band of bagpipe players. The Guys though encounter a host of issues in the making of this music video, and it takes all their collective ingenuity to pull the whole thing off.
This Is Life
This movie depicts a tale of the extreme ordeals that four pregnant women and their families go through when giving birth in hospital: Placenta praevia centralis, twins, severe diabetes, hemorrhages and operations that cost RMB 50,000. Should a pregnant woman without medical insurance and with only RMB 5,000 insure herself or the baby? Strength of will, passion, tears shed in the ward. Doctors, patients, family members, friends, a desperate effort to raise cash, births and tales of life or death.
Reset - Restart
Documentary feature about an IT specialist who was adopted as a child by a Swiss family. As an adult he decides to look for his Korean roots.
In Pursuit of Peace
In Pursuit of Peace follows four Canadians on the front lines of international peace initiatives - in South Sudan, Turkey, Congo and Iraq. We experience the challenges of their work, exploring how their peace building strategies are put to the test in this new 21st century paradigm of conflict resolution.
Dante and the Invention of Hell
A rich and stimulating study into the themes, historical context and far-reaching influence of Dante Alighieri's Inferno, the first part of his 14th-century epic poem Divine Comedy.
Stanotte a Firenze
Tonight in Florence is a program by Alberto Angela, written with Aldo Piro, Etra Palazzi and with Carlotta Ercolino, Paola Miletich, Vito Lamberti, Emilio Quinto. Made entirely by Rai professionalism. The direction is by Gabriele Cipollitti.
After Spring, the Tamaki Family...
In an intimate and exciting journey to the root, the film follows a family based in Okinawa, Japan, that visits Taiwan to rediscover their family origins.
Flygplan till Haile Selassie
On November 18, 1947, a cargo plane crashes in fog above Scala on the Amalfi Coast in Italy. 20 young pilots from the Swedish Air Force die and 3 crewmen. It is the Swedish Air Force's biggest accident ever, but few know about it in Sweden. What had the pilots done in Ethiopia? Why did they fly straight into the Monte Carro mountain?
Why Not Home?
Dr. Michelle Minikel thought home birth was crazy--until she got pregnant. Turns out she's not alone. Join director Jessicca Moore on a compelling journey of discovery about maternity care in the US through the lens of doctors and nurses who attend birth in the hospital, but choose to have their own children at home. Through a balance of personal stories and the latest research, "Why Not Home?" challenges viewers to move beyond polarization and judgment and question what is possible for the future of maternity care.
Camila's Kids Company: The Inside Story
With astonishingly intimate and unique access, this film tells the dramatic, unfolding story of the demise of one of Britain's best-known charities and the ultimate fall from grace of its founder Camila Batmanghelidjh.
Out of Bounds (A)
In the high Alpine Valley of Engleberg, the film (split into two parts, A & B) follows two different teams of mountain workers, people who day in and day out perform the same tasks to make the mountain safe and pleasurable – they are the hidden labour that allows the mountain industry to function.
Auschwitz From The Air
The Nazi extermination camps at Auschwitz in Poland were photographed in extraordinary detail from the air. The vast site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp was only 8km from a large synthetic oil and rubber manufacturing plant. The film raises some uncomfortable questions - if Allied aircraft could photograph the concentration camps in detail, why did they not destroy them?
The Essential Cornishman
Mark Jenkin's 2015 short film is a homage to the spontaneous prose of The Beats, from the mythical Cornish west.
There’s a Hole in the Sky Part I
The video carries many of the threads that run though Cammock’s work, such as using photography and documentary film methods to explore the intimate bonds of history, often of colonialism, racism and cultural appropriation—in this case, tracing the slavery trade created to prop up the now-disappearing sugar production in the Caribbean—and first-person accounts of the disjointed experience of those ‘subjects’ who moved from the West Indies to the UK.
Mother With a Gun
Enter the disturbing world of Jewish extremism. Once one of America's most active terrorist organizations, the Jewish Defense League aims to prevent another Holocaust by any means necessary. Here, the threat of genocide lingers and preventative violence is justified. Privileged access to former leader, Shelley Rubin, exposes this unusual pathway to extremism. —Unicorn Films
DIY Country
Over a 2-year period, “DIY Country” captures the origins and evolution of the Donetsk People’s Republic in East Ukraine from hopeful and naive beginnings, to hate, destruction and infighting. In the first part we follow the sinister and at times comical mechanics of how our heroes make a Revolution that will immediately eat them up. In the second part we will see them trying to find a role to play in the new State, as power is once again taken away from the people.
Love is: A Message From Uganda's Gay & Transgender Community
In Uganda, being gay is illegal. In Uganda, members of the gay and transgender community face discrimination, violence, arbitrary arrests and forced evictions simply because of who they love. But in Uganda, there is hope. These are the voices of gay and transgender Ugandans. This is what love means to them.
The Auschwitz Museum
Here's the Auschwitz-Birkenau museum, as it appears to us: vestiges, ruins, traces. Some barbed wires, some barracks, some birches. A museum without any works of art, a cemetery without any graves, a Unesco listed site, yet without any trace of heritage. Thousands of visitors are coming here every day in numbers and from all around the world, without really knowing what they're looking for.
Peste Noire: À la Chaise-Dyable
An in-depth documentary about the french Black Metal band PESTE NOIRE.
Babymetal: Wembley to Tokyo
Japanese culture is all around us, from games to movies, comic books to fashion magazines and it’s something that’s fascinated Dev since he was a kid. The biggest cultural export from Japan in recent years has been the phenomenal rise of Babymetal; 3 school age girls fusing Metal with J-Pop, who recently performed a sold out concert in front of 12,000 fans at Wembley Arena. Dev heads to Tokyo to learn more about the pop-culture that’s spawned the band. He enters the world of traditional J-Pop idols (including Katy Perry endorsed Kyary Pamyu Pamyu), explores the Japanese rock scene (with Crossfaith), learns about kawaii fashion in Harajuku (Tokyo’s equivalent to Camden Market) and has a wild karaoke night with a band called Ladybaby.
The Path: Evolution
The Path: Evolution is the third film of The Path Series trilogy and explores the theory that human beings are living in a virtual reality system similar to the rules of an assimilated video game. The filmmakers follow former NASA nuclear physicist, Thomas Campbell, as he shares his knowledge and the results of his research of consciousness, physics, metaphysics and morality to explain mind and matter, normal and paranormal, life, death, and purpose, with all of this logically flowing from the concept of reality as information. The Path: Evolution will undoubtedly challenge the viewer's current belief systems and leave a lasting impression on human beings to re-evaluate how they are behaving, treating others, and existing in the world.
Golden Tuna - Montreal Sessions
Mockumentary short music film: After leaving Berlin, French multidisciplinary artist Golden Tuna surfs Montreal's cold and dark wave to find inspiration.
Isle Of Man TT: 2016 Review
Sit Back and enjoy the latest TT ever, filmed from multiple vantage points, and hosted once more by Craig Doyle, James Whitham, Steve Parrish, and former Senior TT winner Steve Plater - this is the essential memento of a truly remarkable TT meeting.