A look at several recent train crashes, their causes and a technological solution which should make such events occur much less often.
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A look at several recent train crashes, their causes and a technological solution which should make such events occur much less often.
A look at the subculture of sex tourism in Buenos Aires, Argentina, that focuses on the motives and ideology of the clients who are part of it.
After 21 years I return to my city of birth in order to find out what would have occured to my family if we hadn't fled the war.
During another work day, Sara pieces together fragment of her prejudices.
At the age of 12, Janny, Lisa, Debby and Michelle leave their home for a sports school in the East German province to become wrestlers. A documentary about coming-of-age between boarding school corridors, wrestling gyms and boy band posters.
The lack of show does not dampen the spirit of Distra Budaya members to keep practicing kethoprak, until one day they have an idea to make a performance to upload on Youtube, to be seen by them who can ‘see’ and can be known by the public. One spirit: to entertain the people.
Alfred Greven was the head a French movie studio founded with Nazi money producing propaganda and the most subversive masterpieces of French Cinema. Greven's intentional disappearance after the war and his silence until his death in 1973 maintain a certain mystery. To date, no photos or other record of him are available. Yet the 40 films produced by Continental Films remain. Who was he?
Clare Balding uncovers the remarkable hidden history of women's football, which briefly dominated the game, attracting crowds of up to 60,000, before a Football Association ban in 1921
When 24-year-old athlete Sam Fox launches a highly publicized campaign to break the speed record on the Pacific Crest Trail and raise $250,000 for Parkinson's disease, he quickly learns what it means to struggle in the spotlight.
On a Knife Edge is a father-son story about Guy and George Dull Knife that unfolds over the course of George’s coming-of-age journey. Under his father’s guidance, George becomes an activist and organizer, and begins identifying with the role of traditional Lakota warrior, which he views as his family legacy. He commits himself to the fight for social justice, but struggles with adapting the old ways and his father’s expectations to the modern-day realities of growing up on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Told largely through George’s eyes, the film offers a privileged glimpse into the youngest generation of the American Indian Movement, as well as George’s own evolving notions of Native identity, manhood, and duty. His story is interwoven with animated sequences that depict five generations of family history, narrated by his father and based on paintings he has created to explore the continuum of their fight through the generations.
Documentary about Los Angeles.
This documentary uncovers the facts behind the tragedy of the RMS Titanic, a British passenger liner that sank on April 15th, 1912. Directed by: Top5sMedia
An experimental documentary about dead turtles, crab swarms, decaying tennis courts, and microscopic histories. The filmmakers shot their explorations into the abandoned golf courses, factories, and resorts of Sarasota, Florida and spoke to local youths who are using them for new and strange purposes. What would the Surrealists and Situationists think of a suburban, subtropical tourist town? What goes on in a storage unit in the dead of night? What is the afterlife of a decommissioned train car? What ghosts haunt a ruined hotel? What is the life cycle of a city? When will waters wash it all away?
Nikolay Kozlov, honored coach of the sambo school "Uralmash", brings up not only athletes from street boys, but also real men with a strong, strong-willed character.
They want to overthrow democracy and kick out people who they believe do not belong to the Nordic race. The Nazi organization The Nordic Resistance Movement (NMR) has in recent years become known for its extreme attitudes. Focus has been on the inside of the organization and followed key players for two years.
Chasing The Lion is the story of Lionel Sanders' ascent from drug abuse and mental illness to one of the best up-and-coming long-distance triathletes in the world.
Max Gimblett: Original Mind documents the life and process of eccentric, creative genius Max Gimblett. One of New Zealand’s most successful and internationally prominent living painters, Gimblett has been working in America since 1962. The filmmakers spent a week in Gimblett’s Soho loft where he and his devoted studio assistants generously revealed the techniques and philosophy behind his beautiful art.
A western Cosplayer (costume player) of the popular cyber diva Hatsune Miku moves to Tokyo and gets to know the otaku community - obsessive manga fans. Her journey explores identity through cosplay and the fandom of the cyber diva Hatsune Miku, epitomizing collective fantasy as she is fan created. The film demonstrate the relevance of this behavior globally in terms of collective fantasy, with voice overs woven of lyrics fans wrote for Hatsune Miku.
In the dying days of apartheid, three generations of women in a village in South Africa came together to create a community garden. They called it “the thinking garden” – hleketani in the local xiTsonga language – a place where women gather to think about how to effect change. Twenty-five years later the garden is still going strong, providing fresh vegetables and new opportunities for local people while helping to confront the ravages of climate change, poverty, and HIV/AIDS in a community pushed to the edge.
In 2017, Japanese rock band Yogee New Waves plays a solo concert at the LIQUIDROOM in Tokyo, Japan.
An internet personality takes a journey through the small, obscure, and downright bizarre conventions happening every weekend around the country as he tries to fit in and find the common link that unites these communities.
In Rwanda, Africa, a new era is dawning after a brutal civil war ripped through the country, killing close to two million people and wiping out its most iconic wildlife: the regal lion. Now, 25 years later, the big cats are being reintroduced to the region to reclaim their throne. Follow this magnificent seven, a collection of five females and two males, as they travel thousands of miles from South Africa to Akagera National Park and attempt to figure out their new land, form relationships, and restore the pride of a nation.
Five years ago Kisilu, a Kenyan farmer, started to use his camera to capture the life of his family, his village and the damages of climate change. When a violent storm throws him and a Norwegian filmmaker together we see him transform from a father, to a community leader and activist on the global stage.
After having consensual sex with a younger boy while she was a still a teenager, Shawna Baldwin found herself one of the 800,000 people on American's sex offender registries. Now in her mid-thirties and a mother of two, this short documentary explores the effects that sex offender registration has had on her life.
In this documentary we follow 21-year-old Cynthia Stomphorst and her retarted mother for a year. At first sight, Cynthia is a perfectly normal, calm MBO student from Vlaardingen. In practice, she sleeps during the day and is absorbed in games and music at night. Cynthia is no ordinary girl of twenty from Vlaardingen. She is the only one of the Stomphorst family who is normally gifted, and has lived in twelve different places since her infancy: foster families, host families, weekend and crisis families and children's homes. When she is sixteen, she can go to a Assisted Living project. But after a conflict with a roommate, she is forced to move in with her gifted mother. Here she celebrates her 21st birthday. Twenty years ago, Cynthia was the main character in an episode of the TV show Zembla.
"Où en êtes-vous ?" (Where do you stand today?) is a project initiated by the Centre Pompidou, which commissions its guest filmmakers to make a free-form film in response to a question simultaneously retrospective, introspective and focused on their future ideas and projects. Here Christian Petzold is joined by Christoph Hochhäusler as they analyze a sequence from Hitchcock's The Wrong Man (1956) through a series of photograms. With this tribute to Harun Farocki, who died in 2014, Christian Petzold endeavors to revive and perpetuate the spirit, taste and methods of his former teacher and friend.
On September 15, 2017, Cassini, the biggest interplanetary spacecraft NASA has ever built, will make a fatal dive into Saturn's atmosphere, collecting unprecedented science to end 13-years of discovery at the ringed jewel of our solar system. MISSION SATURN, a one-hour special will tell this story and chronicle the epic end designed to protect any potential for life at Saturn's moons - places of future exploration.
A visual work at the intersection of cinema and performance, game and documentary approach. The project refers to the corporeality of human nature, the teachings of Mikhail Bakhtin about the carnival culture of the Middle Ages, quantum physics and the theory of relativity. Filming took place in the summer and autumn of 2015 on the wild beaches of the Crimea, where there has long been a culture of seasonal nudist settlements. Residents of these settlements voluntarily became participants in the project.
The film looks at people transformed by a democratic revolution, who give up their normal lives to fight a Russian invasion, in a war which has killed 10,000 and displaced 1.9 million Ukrainians.
A documentary on the events when a bomb went off at the Ariana Grande concert.
Life and work of Carlos Garaycochea, one of the great Argentine comedians and capocomics. A life to make people laugh.
From time immemorial, the people of the island used to leave the clothes of their dead to the sea, so that the mother of the sea could turn them into imaginary people. The ignorant Musa finds the gold-embroidered pieces of southern women's trousers among the clothes thrown by the sea on the shore, and with the colorful soils of the island, creates paintings that are his gateway to the fantasy world.
A 2017 interview with actress Hope Holiday, who portrayed Margie MacDougall.
A waterway, at night. A beach, children. During the day, people strolling along the river bank. A poem in three parts, inspired by the myth of Orpheus and the filmmaker’s childhood landscapes on the Franco- Swiss border.
Known for his campy, totally funky music videos, Todrick Hall—a vibrant, lovable, and fabulously gay artist bursting with creative energy—takes you behind the scenes as he launches his most ambitious project to date: the original stage musical "Straight Outta Oz."
In the intimacy of a small family-run funeral home in Burgundy, filmed twenty years apart. Part chronicle of daily life, part observation of funeral rites, this documentary tells the story of the passing on of a vocation and the evolution of our relationship with death.
Using the cover of an Atlanta limousine driver, Jabari Hayes trafficked large quantities of cocaine across the United States for the then largest African American drug organization in the South East known as the Black Mafia Family, or BMF.
The Story of Danish/French holocaust-survivor, Arlette Andersen, told from her horrifying point of view. From being a normal teen in Paris to her imprisonment in the infamous concentration camp, Auschwitz, she gives the younger generations a look into, a not so distant past of true horror.
A meeting with Michael Krohn, the vocalist of legendary Norwegian rock group Raga Rockers, where he tells about his life before and with music.
Interpersonal relationships in a dysfunctional family under the microscope of the camera.
Returning home, the young rapper Yarik thinks about who would again borrow money for food. Yarik writes a new track-the stakes are high, he wants to change his life. But a series of failures haunts the guy, the financial collapse is compounded – he is fired from his job. Yarik continues to work on the track. He admits to his girlfriend that he was cut, now she does not know how they will make ends meet, but the rapper assures that the release of the track will change everything. The day before the premiere of the song in periscope, Yarik learns that his PR agent will no longer be engaged in its promotion. The next day, Yarik and a friend prepare for the presentation of the song themselves...
Examining the foreign policies that have shaped the modern world and meeting people living through today's major conflicts.
In rural Turkey, a mismatched film crew guns for international acclaim with a topical melodrama
A story about the most mysterious and, possibly, the most significant of the living Russian-speaking writers - "Russian Salinger". Sasha Sokolov is a classic of Russian literature and Russian modernism, who influenced writers such as Mikhail Shishkin, Vladimir Sorokin, Vladimir Sharov, Viktor Pelevin. True, so far little has been known about Sokolov itself.
An artist with an exuberant imagination, a painter of the most extraordinay gardens and terrifying hells, a respected public figure of Hertogenbosch, and a man of faith – Hieronymus Bosch is certainly the most fascinating and mysterious artist of the Renaissance.
On the dishonest practices made by corporations to extract more money from their customers.
As a teenager, Sergei Eisenstein signed his drawings with "Sir Gay". Mark Rappaport sees clear signs of his sexual preferences throughout the Russian’s film oeuvre. Numerous asides illustrate how Hollywood productions likewise frequently played with nods and winks and typical motifs from gay culture.
Revealing bio-documentary giving an exclusive look into the life of one of the world's most admired and respected musicians as Bruce Springsteen explores and explains his greatest influences
The true story of the greatest turnaround in college football history.