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70 Million Animal Mummies: Egypt's Dark Secret
The team investigate the use of modern medical technology to scan Egyptian animal mummies from museums across the world. By creating 3-D images of their content, experts are discovering the truth about the strange role animals played in ancient Egyptian belief. Horizon meets the scientists working in Egypt who are exploring the ancient underground catacombs where mummies were originally buried to reveal why the ancient Egyptians mummified millions and millions of animals.
Go, Sebastien, Go!
On June 11, 2013, Sebastien de la Cruz stepped onto center court, dressed in his traditional mariachi charro suit, to sing the national anthem before Game 3 of the NBA Finals between the San Antonio Spurs and the Miami Heat. Sebastien’s performance ignited racial tweets and hate-filled comments, but when he returned for Game 4 to sing once again, the cheers in the stands turned from “Go Spurs Go” to “Go Sebastien Go!”
Talks on Sri Ramana Maharshi: Narrated by David Godman - Papaji
Part 1 covers most aspects of Papaji's early life and his relationship with Ramana Maharshi Part 2 details some of the interactions that took place between Papaji and Ramana Maharshi and the relationship that existed between them.
The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills
This experimental documentary contrasts the daily life of a nanny in buzzing Berlin with the tranquil existence of a group of pensioners in provincial Poland. A reflection on female biographies that draws a line between the beginning of life and its end.
My Transgender Summer Camp
Features exclusive access to an American camp for transgender adolescents and their parents. The film My Transgender Summer Camp explores the difficult next steps faced by a group of ordinary girls who were born boys. As well as summer fun, they must face huge dilemmas including whether or not to begin hormone blockers to halt male puberty.
The Real Wealdstone Raider
Exclusive behind the scenes access to the internet sensation the Wealdstone Raider aka Gordon Hill, finding out what he is really like and how his life has been turned upside down by 'that' video.
Lampedusa im Winter
The Italian “refugee island” of Lampedusa is in the firm grip of winters tristesse. Tourists have left, the remaining refugees fight to be taken to the mainland. As a fire destroys the worn down ferry, that connects the island to Italy, the mayor Giusi Nicolini and the local fishermen struggle for a new ship. The tiny community at the edge of Europe is engaged in a desperate struggle for solidarity with those who many consider the cause of the ongoing crisis: the African boat people.
Original Copy - Verrückt nach Kino
The heroes, heroines and villains of Bollywood cinema act out their parts in the hand-painted, one-of-a-kind movie posters that Sheikh Rehman still makes for an old Hindi movie palace in Mumbai. But modernity is taking over and the audiences that have come in for generations for refuge and entertainment are dwindling. With the theatre facing potential demolition, marketing has turned to more plastic movie posters to lure in more people, replacing the need for Rehman’s original work. But Rehman is still lord and master over his workshop, ignoring the theatre managers’ instructions and bossing around his assistants so that he can paint the perfect movie scene.
Last of the Elephant Men
A people's struggle to save the animal at the heart of their culture. For centuries the Bunong indigenous people on the Cambodian-Vietnamese border lived with elephants, believing they shared the same destiny. Today, as the forests and rivers both man and animal depend on are threatened, their fates seem even more inseparable. Last of the Elephant Men follows over a period of time several members of the tribe as they attempt to save the animal that once defined their way of life and may hold the key to their own survival.
American Denial
Follow the story of Swedish researcher Gunnar Myrdal whose landmark 1944 study, An American Dilemma, probed deep into the United States' racial psyche. The film weaves a narrative that exposes some of the potential underlying causes of racial biases still rooted in America’s systems and institutions today.
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The Age of Hubble
A force of high-tech telescopes, led by Hubble in space, has delivered an unprecedented chain of discoveries about how galaxies took shape, how stars live and die, and how life began. What are we learning about the universe and ourselves in this Age of Hubble?
This is Hammarby: Bad Weather Fans
Supporting Hammarby is more than just watching a winning team, these supporters are some of the most loyal in Sweden. This is their story.
Nuremberg. Blood-drenched Money. Industrialists' Trial
At Nuremberg the Soviet side demanded that the list of the accused should include financial and economic figures. And first of all Hjalmar Schacht, the chief banker of the Third Reich, the man who brought Hitler to power, the mastermind behind the German economic miracle of the 1930s. At the same time he took part in the attempted murder of the Führer, was a prisoner of the concentration camp. But can one make money on war and keep one’s hands clean? Kill millions and sleep serenely?
Ghostumentary
Why is it we never actually see a ghost in the dozens of documentaries out there, yet people claim they see them daily. A non believer, and his film friends seek out to find the truth.
Talks on Sri Ramana Maharshi: Narrated by David Godman
A series of talks on the life of the 20th Century Indian sage Sri Ramana Maharshi, narrated by David Godman.
Salut et fraternité : les images selon René Vautier
Generation Maidan: A Year of Revolution & War
They took on a powerful autocrat and won Ukraine's Maidan Revolution by putting their lives on the line in Kyiv's main square. But that was only the first battle of the young idealists of Generation Maidan. Now they are battling corrupt oligarchs and bureaucrats in the capital and pro Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine. From the first days of the protest a team of Ukrainian filmmakers called Babylon'13 volunteered to capture history in the making on their DSLRs. While the smoke and emotions were still smoldering, Director Andrew Tkach interviewed medics, musicians, self-defense volunteers, civic activists and torture victims who appeared in Babylon's rushes. The front-line footage and interviews with young members of Generation Maidan are woven together to tell an unforgettable story.
Buy Buy St. Pauli - über die Kämpfe um die Esso-Häuser
Christian Louboutin: The World’s Most Luxurious Shoes
Channel 4 has unprecedented access to red sole connoisseur Christian Louboutin for a whole year for this fascinating documentary. The result is an insightful look at one of the world’s most famous shoe designers, how he works, how he lives and how he has become so successful.
Who killed Ali Ziri ?
This documentary follows 5 years of struggle for truth and justice after the murder of 69-year-old Ali Ziri by the french police, covered by the judicial institutions.
Paul Smith: Gentleman Designer
An intimate and provoking portrait of Lord Paul Smith, quirky designer and formidable businessman, through exclusive access to a poet of British fashion. Paul Smith has 400 shops and outlets in 35 countries, 12 clothing lines, 400 million Euros in yearly revenues, sales topping Chanel's, partnerships with Evian, Apple, and Austin, and prestigious bicycle and race car brands. The secret of his success? Who is Paul Smith? How has he managed to get millions of men interested in fashion? How did a modest man from Nottingham become synonymous with elegance in men's fashion?
The Wardrobe of Gender
Is it unquestionably natural for the human race to express itself as men and women only? This documentary short film makes us rethink this binary point of view in each scene that occurs before our eyes through three Dutchs who explore the limits of their gender and sexuality in their daily life. An observational approach allows us to enter the intimate spaces of these characters, who tell us the discriminations the have had to face, their doubts and the difficulties they must overcome in their process to listen to what their body asks them to represent. Watching The Wardrobe of Gender is to look at three little stories that represent one of the most exciting human quests in history, where gender and identity are ambiguous items in constant transformation.
Bettans Taxi
About the taxi driver Els-Beth "Bettan" Aspås, 84 years old. A tough woman from the village of Härkmeri in Ostrobothnia who traveled to Sweden in 1950 and chose a career in the extremely male-dominated taxi industry.
Contra-Internet Inversion Practice #2: Social Media Exodus (Call and Response)
"Social Media Exodus (Call and Response)" is part two of Zach Blas's "Contra-Internet Inversion Practice" series. "Contra-Internet Inversion Practice" confronts the transformation of the internet into an instrument for state oppression and accelerated capitalism. Invoking a practice of utopian plagiarism, "Contra-Internet Inversion Practice" experiments with queer and feminist methods to speculate on internet futures and network alternatives.
Playground
A battle between nature and culture, between organic rye-grass and artificial turf. American football is played on rectangular fields, 120 yards long and 160 feet wide. These dimensions defined the framework for this film. Made with images found in Google Earth. With music by Michel Banabila.
I am Dublin
Ahmed lives in hiding in Sweden after fleeing from Somalia. He has been in Europe for six years. When Ahmed arrived in the Italian island of Lampedusa he was forced to leave fingerprints. In that moment, he became a so-called "Dublin case".
Once Upon a Dream
An announcement echoes on the streets of a quiet village: looking for assistants! A mini-sized Hollywood comes alive in the desert of Spain. The times of grandeur as the filming location for spaghetti westerns are over, but new production makes the dream feel revived again. Claudia Cardinale is coming.
The shadowless valley
A dark night of 1985 a huge avalanche mixed, in only one mass, children, women, elderly, animals, tractors. More than 25,000 people and an entire village were buried in only 15 minutes. It was an announced tragedy.
Our Little Lifes
Dreamland Nature School, located in Mullae-dong, Seoul, provides an environment where children can run and play freely with their friends while taking children from 4 to 7 years old to a forest, vegetable garden, and playground not far from the city. Children of nature school find a play they want to immerse themselves in without any restrictions, and enjoy the time by challenging new play.
Indecision: What It Once Meant
Indecision's “What It Once Meant“ documentary, directed by Derek Morse and edited by Rob Soucy, explores the life and times of the Brooklyn hardcore band with an inside look at what the band went though touring in the 90's. Indecision started in 1993 in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, touring full time until 2000 when the band imploded in the middle of the tour in the desert town of El Paso, TX. In 2006, the band reunited for a one off show at the Superbowl of Hardcore in New York and the band has been playing a few shows per year ever since.
Lost in Manboo
A four-square-metre box with a screen and computer. This is what Japanese cyber-cafes offer, around the clock. Most customers just spend an hour or two here. But there are thousands who spend their lives in them. The Manboo in Tokyo has its own permanent residents: Masata and Hitomi. It is a home for them, even though they sleep on the floor.
Camino de Santiago - Eine Reise auf dem Jakobsweg