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Documentary about Gijón through the eyes of acclaimed singer-songwriter Nacho Vegas

The career of French comic author René Goscinny was a living blend of cultures and an expression of the great importance this artist attached to the production and dissemination of sophisticated popular culture. Goscinny left behind an extremely extensive body of work: "Asterix", "Lucky Luke", "Isnogud", "Little Nick" and many more.

Once one of the world’s biggest lakes, the Aral Sea has all but vanished. Marcin Sauter’s film focuses on what remains in an area that once flourished, on the fates of people who had to adapt to life in the desert and now ponder over their solitude among the wrecks of ships and port cranes.

Documentary shedding light on the emotional fallout of the murder of Sarah Payne, the eight-year-old girl who was kidnapped and killed in Kingston Gorse, West Sussex, in 2000. Two weeks after her disappearance, Sarah's body was found, and after a high profile police investigation, Roy Whiting was convicted of her murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. Testimonies from friends, family, police officers, key witnesses and experts in criminology are combined with an interview with Sarah's mother, to illustrate the tragic toll the case took on those closest to the victim.

After having spent more than 25/30 years in music, six rockers, each in their own way, walk this winding and mysterious path of creation. How difficult it is for them to get out to work in the face of a changing system. The film tells his deepest thoughts about music. We see them at home, in small shows where only a few friends and a few fans attend. Also great shows, where the whole world applauds them. The film portrays the problem of being geniuses and how difficult it is to make a living from music while being authentic.

A journey to experience the waves coffee has had on our culture.

Yagorihwanirats, a Mohawk child from Kahnawake Mohawk Territory in Quebec, attends a unique and special school: Karihwanoron. It is a Mohawk immersion program that teaches Mohawk language, culture and philosophy. Yagorihwanirats is so excited to go to school that she never wants to miss a day – even if she is sick.

Old women prepare for an event. They are told how to walk, they wear numbers and try to succeed in the selection process. These women are Holocaust survivors. And the event is a beauty pageant.

Finally forensic and historical proof that the Illuminati existed and is still with us today.

The final days of the late singer, George Michael.

Chinese President is on his official 3-day visit to Serbia. Government of Serbia is celebrating this visit, representing it as “historical”- the beginning of economical rescue of Serbia, thanks to Chinese investments, guaranteed by Chinese President himself. 20-years ago numerous Chinese community in Serbia is today hardly visible, hidden from media and politics. Same as a middle class of Serbia, whom they provide in their low-cost shops, Chinese workers remain overlooked and untouched by this important visit. In these 3 days we witness scenes from the lives of ordinary people, isolated in foreign country and culture, which is just their passing stop until the next temporary homeland. Farmer’s family fighting with their own ignorance and state bureaucracy; young couple, with shop in province, torn between obligations toward family in China and their personal ambitions; female ensemble of middle-aged shop owners, escaping the monotony of their moldy shops in a dance...

Produced by CBN Documentaries and Biblical Productions, "In Our Hands" tells the story of the Battle of Jerusalem in the Six-Day War through the eyes of the IDF's 55th Paratrooper Brigade

In an age when disinformation muddles the truth, a newly discovered voice cuts through the historical haze. She is Rhea Clyman, a young Canadian reporter who traversed the starving Soviet heartland when Stalin’s man made famine was just beginning in Ukraine. Clyman’s newly discovered newspaper articles for Toronto and London newspapers in 1932 show her remarkable resourcefulness and courage. After she was banished from the USSR for writing about the Holodomor and the Gulag, this brave woman went on to cover Hitler’s early lethal years in power.

For over 40 years, Iran has defied the world — isolated, sanctioned, and feared. This documentary delves into the heart of a nation torn between modern aspirations and revolutionary doctrines. A striking immersion into a theocratic republic, where the country's future will depend on its ability to reconcile openness and sovereignty.

Jenni has an ordinary life of simple patterns revolving around family and work. Her daily routine is seemingly unremarkable yet is of great interest to someone she doesn’t know—but who knows everything about her. Harvest is a thrilling and inventive depiction of the hidden value in mundane routines.

Kati Pohler was abandoned in a market in China when she was three days old. Her parents left a note saying they would meet her on a famous bridge 10 or 20 years later. When the time arrived, it became a huge story in China, but Kati was living in America and had no idea. This is how she finally met her biological family.

In her own words, this documentary profiles renowned opera singer Soňa Červená and how the tumultuous events of 20th-century Europe impacted her life.

Looking for a long lost friend, Madeleine talks to a Stalker so that he can take her to «the zone» and help her look into her memories to find him at last. Essay-film hommage to Chris Marker.

A documentary about new trends in reproductive technology. Language: mainly in Swiss German and German.

He was one of the most notorious Nazi war criminals, infamous for his assassination attempts on twins. But at the end of World War II, he simply disappeared...

In a hospice, every day is somebody's last day alive. The sheets are changed, and someone elsebrought in to die. Before the end, hands are held, and there is time for coffee. And for some of us, all this dying is just the usual everyday life.

A video essay by Anni Puolakka and Alexander Iezzi, connecting monsterhood, post-fossil transgression and forms of refusal in the lives and practices of artists.

A committed vegan, David, follows 73-year-old colonial relic Guy Wallace to South Africa as he fulfills a lifelong ambition to bag a Cape buffalo. It’s Guy’s last chance to relive his glory days and finally lay down his guns. The oddball relationship between David and Guy is the central drive of the film as the director explores the ethics of big game hunting and questions his own animal rights stance when lured in by the thrill of the hunt. THE END OF THE GAME is a compelling character study of a bizarre eccentric undertaking his last big game hunt in Africa.

Includes the digitally remastered edition of the album plus five bonus tracks, a DVD that includes never before seen interview footage from Nikki Sixx, Tommy Lee, and Doc McGhee about the making of the album and the most explosive era of their career and the unedited versions of "Girls Girls Girls", "Wild Side", and "You're All I Need" music videos.

Documentary about thrift shops in Berne, Switzerland and how they want people to recycle and re-use instead of throw away.

Filmmakers (and canyon residents) Alexander and Anne Christine Von Wetter filmed this documentary for German Television in the early 1970s as a revealing close-up of an extraordinary period in America. The camera masters and 16mm negative were consequently lost to a devastating fire. Luckily, a lone VHS copy had been made, which spent the next 30 years on the studio shelf. The VHS was found heavily damaged, but a restoration team managed to salvage a fair grade of quality, which has since been remastered.

For the past 12 years, journalist Paul Moreira has travelled extensively in Iraq. In this film, he goes in search of the men he filmed back in 2003 at the very beginning of the American occupation. Through their stories, and by tracing the roots of ISIS to the arrival of Abu Mousab Al-Zarqawi and America's handling of the resistance, he tells the story of how Iraq became such a fractured nation.

A boy plays with his balloon. Something unexpected happens.

One of the best concert halls in the world is to be built. The development process of the Elbphilharmonie. Over a period of eleven and a half years, the largest construction site in Hamburg is documented by all its ups and downs.

Re-Animator: The Musical lyricist Mark Nutter discusses adapting the cult classic for musical theater.

The portrayal of a city that refuses to die along with its defunct Soviet-era nuclear power plant. The mainly Russian speaking citizens there face identity issues in modern Lithuania. This portrayal inevitably raises questions of democracy, inclusion, citizenship, and freedom of expression.

Set amid the global news-storm of September 2015, when the worldwide press descended on the refugees to cover their migration across Europe, Another News Story looks beyond the headlines to tell the stories of both the news teams and refugees who have undertaken this journey. As the film pans out you understand the story is an intimate display of what life is really like for both the migrants and the reporting journalists. It travels the fine line very carefully between criticism and emotional blackmail allowing the viewer to begin to understand how it is that these two juxtaposed roles coexist in such a tragic and unfathomable situations. The film follows in particular the stories of three characters. Johny and Bruno the news characters you meet at the beginning and Mahasen a Syrian woman, travelling with a family of 9, in a bid to reunite with her children. Set against the backdrop of the archive news reports which guide the narrative, we follow the story as it sweeps across the ...

This documentary tells the story of the Andalusian group "No me pises que llevo chanclas" and explores the history of comedy music in Spain.

A documentary about June 2013 protests in Brazil aiming to refresh our own memories of struggle by listening to the stories from another part of the world from the view point of a Gezi protestor from Turkey.

A collage film documenting dissociation, sexual assault, and all the times I didn't have words for myself.

Documentary about Time to Die

Exodus documents the harrowing journey of Syrian refugees as they cross the Aegean Sea from Turkey into Greece. Over three thousand refugees attempt this treacherous crossing everyday, seeking asylum in Western Europe. It's a life and death gamble that they are willing to take for a chance at a new life away from their war-torn homeland.

Made on a crowd-funded, shoestring budget, The Doom Doc offers a visceral, immersive look into a hazy black hole that lies at one extreme of the musical spectrum.

Minecraft: Through the Nether Portal takes you on a journey through the ever-evolving, epic game of Minecraft. Its popularity is opening up a whole new world for this generation, with millions of new players signing up each week. With exclusive interviews from industry experts and Minecraft’s biggest YouTube players, Dan TDM and Ali-A, we look at how the game is now being used as a tool for education and teaching while digging deeper into the creativity behind the game.

Lech Wałęsa. One of the most important and at the same time most colourful figures in Polish history. In communist Poland he was a simple electrician, then he led the downfall of communism in Poland, and consequently in other countries of Eastern Europe. Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize 1983, President of Poland from 1990 to 1995. The film tells the incredible story of Lech Wałęsa and his wife Danuta.

Martin indulged in his excessive use of drugs. He recorded his frenzied life in his diaries while his friend Ivo passionately captured everything on film with his Super 8 camera. Both sought for the absolute – average was not an option. Through the lens of this journal, Ivo Zen tells the story of his generation, a story about friendship and the desire to fly higher than anybody else.

A working-class mobile home park in Silicon Valley faces imminent closure. Notes From Buena Vista glimpses into the lives of low-income families in one of the wealthiest places in the world.

Super 8 (Color) film by Helga Fanderl

Her father fled Mao's Cultural Revolution, going to Hong Kong. Not long after, he joined the great Chinese exodus to the West and started a restaurant in Maastricht. But was his personal story really so closely interwoven with the history of China, Yan Ting Yuen wonders in this family portrait.

The use of antibiotics has made more and more bacteria resistant to the medicine. Dr Michael Mosley goes in search of the cause and new solutions to overcome the superbugs.

"Finding Joseph I" is a feature documentary chronicling the eccentric life and struggles of punk rock reggae singer, Paul "HR" Hudson, a.k.a. Joseph I, the legendary lead singer from Bad Brains.

Give them massive numbers, that’ll impress them. The Secret Life of the Long Haul Flight (Channel 5) is one of those documentaries that does that, right from the off: each year, 300 million passengers fly more than 6bn miles on long-haul flights. Some of them on an Airbus A380, which costs £280m, carries 484 passengers, is 73 metres long, 25 metres high ...

Playwright Philip Barry and actor Katharine Hepburn, both experiencing career downturns in the late 1930s, worked closely together to create the iconic character of Tracy Lord, Philadelphia “Main Line” socialite, for Barry’s play “The Philadelphia Story.”

BBC Threes shines a light on Joe Heron, aka Shogun, a nineteen year-old MC from Paisley, Scotland. With no connections - but plenty of talent - Shogun has racked up 1.75 million YouTube hits for his brand new track and supported acts such as Bugzy Malone and Pharaoh Monch.

An in-depth discussion of the movie's editing process and, like the music piece, it discusses rather intelligently how the process makes and enhances the film.

Dramatized documentary of the early hours of Finland's Civil War in January 1918.

Life on one of the most modern submarines in the world is not for the faint of heart. The tasks of the crew push even the hardened soldiers to their limits.

An intimate, amiable and yet unforgettable symphony of the life of every country town in the world in several vignettes – even if this focuses on Colón, a couple of hours north of Buenos Aires. Both lyrical and modest.