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Armed with low tech gear and high minded notions that penguin populations hold the key to human survival, Ron Naveen lays bare his 30 year love affair with the world's most pristine scientific laboratory: Antarctica. Famed as a place that wants you dead, this film follows a rag tag team of field biologists to some of the harshest corners of the planet, where they track the impact of climate change and ocean health by counting penguin populations. From the tip of Argentina to the ominous Deception Island, 'The Penguin Counters' is a treacherous, heart warming journey by a 21st century Dr. Doliitle who dreams of conserving this stunning but fragile region for future generations.

Documentary about Raoul Walsh

Soul On Ice: Past, Present, and Future is a film that presents and retells the unknown contributions of black athletes in ice hockey. For untold decades, hockey was seen as a homogeneous sport, exciting to watch but played by one kind of player. But people deserve to now know of the exploits of athletes who dared to stand out, and dared to make the sport their own. These Black athletes dared to give their sport soul.

In February, 1968, José Ferragut, the most important architect of Mallorca, was found dead in a field. The case was closed for lack of evidence. During the 50’s and 60’s the beginning of tourism changed the reality of the Mediterranean countries. Amazing landscapes were transformed for tourism exploitation Ferragut fought against the corruption and uncontrolled development of the coast and got enemies by politics and developers. But Ferragut had another problem. He was gay in a society who criminalized and goes after the homosexuals. Therefore he lived a double life until his dead making him an introverted and depressive man. 50 years later, Life and death of an architect wonders how and why this man was brutally kill in 1968 by two man prostitutes.

The life and military career of Peter Brill, the last surviving Luftwaffe pilot who had trained for Hitler’s secret, aborted mission to bomb New York City.

As part of the 2017 UK-India Year of Culture, the British Council and British Film Institute share a unique collection of films documenting the sights and culture of a bygone India. Filmed between 1899-1947, and preserved in the BFI National Archive since then, these rare films capture many glimpses of life in India, from dances and markets, to hunts and pageantry.

We recall the bloodiest battle that has become a turning point in the European history of modern times - the Battle of Stalingrad: its causes, its main events. The film takes into account new research, uses little-known or previously unpublished materials of the Bundesarchiv and the Museum "Children of Tsaritsyn-Stalingrad-Volgograd".

At a moment in time, when humanity is obsessed with food - photographing every dish, worshipping cooks and flaunting trophy meals on social media, this documentary goes under the surface and offers an in-depth, honest and relevant view into the world and every day of Michelin chefs and restaurants. Telling tales from a grand menu of culinary temples as well as digging into the greatness and flaws of Guide Michelin in this golden age of gastronomy. Because we share a great love for the industry that also includes a realistic understanding of things behind the picturesque scenes of the--perhaps--greatest, most creative and dynamic industry in the world.

Recruiting for Jihad is an investigative documentary film about Norwegian ISIS recruiter Ubaydullah Hussain.

Lovecraftian film producer Chris Lackey discusses a number of Lovecraft adaptations for film and television.

Dominican filmmakers explore the most important theme in dominican film history: Migration.

A documentary about the Turkish Sephardic Jews' language Ladino and the cuisine they used to practice which is now almost extinct.

At the center of this documentary are Hamid Naficy, a historian of Middle Eastern and Iranian cinema and his family, who remained in Iran. Behind them, however, we see the shadows of thousands of other families whose offspring - artists, researchers, scientists - live far away from their homeland. In following Naficy's personal and professional life, this documentary reels in his generation as well, to explore identity, immigration, exile and the cultural purgatory that is created as immigrants try to preserve their ancestral sense of belonging while seeking to establish a new home.

Close-up stills of white Hollywood stars – including Elizabeth Taylor, Cary Grant, Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland, looking aghast and horrified – are intercut with news shots of boats crowded with refugees. Peering through slatted blinds and homing in with binoculars, the wide-eyed and troubled movie characters seem to survey crowded decks. The images of the refugees are manipulated, cropped, recoloured, sometimes reduced to almost abstract blobs. Vigil is short, terse and, with its increasing tempo, extremely powerful. The more you watch, the worse it gets. Stuck in their roles and behind their windows, the stars act out their emotions. Meanwhile, genuine human misery goes on, visibly manipulated for our consumption.

There are so many ways to travel, to explore the unknown. Here, rather than a tourist trail, we’ll follow a look, a smile, a wave of a hand, snippets of music or the curve of a wave...

Hady follows his grandmother Henriette as she ages and crosses the centenarian milestone to reach 104 years. He witnesses the transformation of her memory, her emigration from Lebanon to Brazil and the stories of love, children and suspended time.

Shot & hand processed in Salem + Beverly, MA on November 20, 2016. Using only in camera editing, fades, cross fades, multiple exposures, and backwinding, this film was shot on Winter Island on 100' of B&W 16mm film.

On March 11, 2011, Yasuo Takamatsu lost his wife in the tsunami.

180 records, 150 songs, music for 110 feature and documentary films, over 1'000 concerts ... He composed music for such films as Borsalino, Borsalino and Company, Potishe, basses "," Single "," Magnificent "," Police history "," Three need to be removed ", etc. Life and career of jazz pianist and composer Claude Bolling to the 60th anniversary of his musical creativity.

Mudzingwa and Ledwaba correctly seek no easy answer to this complicated question. At its narrative core is the Ditrupa, a celebration of military history held in Markapanstad, rural North-West – a filtered-down appropriation of Scottish tradition brought back by black South African troops who served in the Great War. As well as covering black military history, the film provides a telling juxtaposition of black memory against white history. Its portraiture of the craft and history of Diturupa, it needles in on an uncomfortable nostalgia that may be a basis of inquiry for future films on the subject.

On 16 June 2016 the murder of Jo Cox - in the heat of EU referendum campaigning - shocked the nation. Jo Cox: Death Of An MP tells the story of this horrific attack and events surrounding it through the testimony of those closest to it, including Jo Cox's family, eye witnesses and those who knew the murderer, Thomas Mair.

A group of unacquainted women, with no musical experience, have three days to learn an instrument, form a band and perform live.

The Forbidden City is the world’s biggest and most extravagant palace complex ever built. For five centuries, it was the power center of imperial China and survived wars, revolution, fires, and earthquakes. How did the Ming Emperor’s workforce construct its sprawling array of nearly 1,000 buildings and dozens of temples in a little over a decade?

Meet the men and women who make their living cleaning our shoes. From New York to Tokyo and beyond, The Art of the Shine travels the world to give you an insider’s view of this overlooked profession. People around the world have turned to shoe shining to provide for themselves and their families. These are their stories.

A filmmaker discovers her hometown was secretly involved in the Manhattan Project. Her investigation into this history triggers a chain reaction of encounters through which it becomes clear that the topic of nuclear waste has been more successfully buried than the waste itself.

In 1966, Gurindji stockmen & their families walked off the largest cattle station in the NT. Frank Hardy follows the story of the strike as told by the Gurindji people.

It is estimated that one in six men are victims of rape, but only 10% of these men report the crime to the police. This film tells the stories of three men who are now breaking their silence, revealing a unique perspective on male rape in Britain today.

In 2011, the National Gallery of Ireland closed its doors at Merrion Square, and two thirds of the building, to begin one of the largest refurbishment projects in the history of the state. Six years later, after numerous delays and costing close to €30million, the NGI finally reopened the historic Dargan and Milltown wings in June 2017. This special observational documentary film secured unique access inside the walls of the National Gallery of Ireland, the nation’s most visited cultural attraction, while the institution goes through huge change. Three and a half years in the making, director Adrian McCarthy and Wildfire Films observed the day-to-day running of the institution while witnessing the transformation of the dilapidated historic Dargan and Milltown wings. A mammoth challenge for architects Heneghan Peng, the OPW and the construction team as they renovate a protected 150 year-old and 110 year-old building, while also opening up new spaces never-before-seen by the public.

This film reviews the ups and downs of a woman named Alala from childhood to the age of 45.

For two years, Anatoli and Svetlana have been living under bombardments in their village, Pesky, not far from Donetsk Airport. Aged 72, they spend a large part of their days in the cellar of their house. They are the only ones that stayed in Pesky, which once had 3,000 inhabitants. They no longer have water, or gas, or electricity. But they resist and continue their activity as beekeepers.

Renowned Photographer Chris Floyd captured the tumultuous life of the iconic band The Verve from the inside, as they toured as relative unknowns on their first American tour, all the way through to their farewell tour in 1997 at the very top of their game. Using previously unseen photographs, self shot video from the band and interviews, this is an intimate look at an important moment in popular culture. Chris candidly talks about the relationship he had with the band and reveals incredible insight into his process, as well as explaining his views on the meaning of the relationship between photographer and subject and what can happen when that professional line becomes blurred.

One morning in June 2005, the guards of the National Museum of Fine Arts of Chile, noticed that a millionaire Auguste Rodin sculpture had been stolen. 24 hours after the event a shy art student returns the piece arguing that he had stolen it as part of an artistic project. A documentary that explores the dilemmas of the artist and contemporary art.

This film presents three generations of the Carr family waxing poetically about living and working in Salisbury, North Carolina.

A documentary made especially for the release of the DVD box set containing Parabola, The Monkey's Meal, and A Reality Per Second, telling the story of Okayss Prod through archive footage and interviews about the numerous shoots that took place over 10 years.

The main characters of the film are residents of Odesa who took part in hostilities in the anti-terrorist operation zone. Dmytro Olehovych, Yevhen Tytarenko, Roman Koldomasov, Yevhen Lata, Andriy Skorokhod, Viktor Pogodin, Dmytro Vasyliev. They are all very different, and everyone has their own reasons for going to the front. Everyone has their own "military history". Someone suffered severe moral and physical injuries. And someone even managed to find in the difficulties they had to go through, additional motivation for life and creativity. Someone is ready to return to the anti-terrorist operation zone and continue the struggle. And someone will never see their hometown again.

Marking the 20th anniversary of the death of Princess Diana in a car crash in Paris in August 1997, this documentary reveals how Diana learned to manipulate and control the photographers who pursued her ever since she started seeing the heir to the British throne, Prince Charles, in the early '80s. Contributions from tabloid editors, royal photographers, Diana's friends, and former Press Attaché and her royal bodyguard.

On May 18, 1936, Abe Sada, a former geisha, kills her lover by "erotic asphyxiation", then slices his sex and inscribes his name in his flesh. In an ultra-controlled and militarized Japan, the press is passionate about this transgressive incident, while the murderer defends herself, presenting her crime as an act of "crazy love". Relayed to the West, this murder conveys the image of a fantasized Japan, where all impulses are given free rein.

A documentary following the production of Isao Yukisada's Pigeon which looks into filmmaking, unity, fate, and history through the influence of the late Yasmin Ahmad.

A blind old lady threads an endless thread while her house floats in the sea. Sometimes, she asks her god to wake her up from the dream of being alive. Other times, she forgets which is the dream.

2017 marks the thirtieth anniversary of the year that Dundee United FC delivered on what many believed to be an impossible goal; reaching the final of the UEFA Cup. Tannadice '87 tells the remarkable story of this European adventure, a year in which dreams became reality, and Dundee, a city with a reputation for jam, jute and journalism added a fourth 'j' to its trademark: jubilation.

In 2009, Chilean police violently raided an ayahuasca ceremony in the Manto Wasi centre in Santiago de Chile. The public prosecutor was on a personal mission to see ayahuasca criminalized. and a long legal battle started. When two people, Rumi and Danae, are accused of endangering public health and drug trafficking, they argue that ayahuasca is a valid therapeutic tool, and struggle against not only the serious allegations leveled at them by the media and justice system, but also against the social stigma around ayahuasca.

This fascinating new cinema event, British Museum presents: Hokusai, is a groundbreaking documentary and exclusive private view of the forthcoming British Museum exhibition Hokusai: beyond the Great Wave. Filmed in Japan, the US and the UK, the film focuses on Hokusai’s work, life and times in the great, bustling metropolis of Edo, modern Tokyo. Introduced by arts presenter Andrew Graham-Dixon, and featuring artists David Hockney, Grayson Perry and Maggi Hambling, this is the first UK biography of Japan’s greatest artist. Using extraordinary close-ups and pioneering 8K Ultra HD video technology, Hokusai’s paintings and prints are examined by world experts who are at the forefront of digital art history.

Johnny (56) and Julia (87) only have each other. Despite their mental illness, they live an unconditional relationship of mother and child that transcends time and its effects.

The rise and fall of the Sandinista revolutionary dream estranged a daughter from her parents. Thirty years later, the daughter takes a camera to tell their story and, indirectly, the story of Nicaragua.

A boxer in Rio's favelas opens a club to help keep kids out of the burgeoning drug trade.

In the summer of 2016, Henrik Stenson won a golf major, something no Swedish male golf player had ever done (Annika Sörenstam has won plenty of course). The nerve-killing duel with Phil Mickelson at Royal Troon in the Open Championship 2016 is already a golf classics, and when expert Göran Zachrisson, who had been in place at 50 British Open openings, saw his countryman win he could not hold back the tears. Now the golfer and expert have met again to relive the magic moment. At a cinema in Gothenburg, they go through the last round battle for battle. It offers beautiful anecdotes, but is also serious - when Stenson tells how he played for his friend who died just days before Stenson went to the first round of Royal Troon. The film also travels back to Royal Troon, to meet those who were behind the scenes on the historic day. Stenson looks forward to the British Open 2017, hoping for a new victory.

Probably no one has explored solo climbing like Hansjörg Auer, whose memorable feat on the "fish route" has forever marked the history of this very peculiar kind of mountaineering. "The hardest thing to do when you're doing free solo," says Hansjörg, "is not the ascent. It is to go back home." Why? Because when loneliness strips you naked you understand the importance of the relationships you build with people around you. “No turning back” is an introspective and epic film, delicate and powerful: there is not only vertical life, there is not only performance. There is an all-round discovery of what makes a life worth living.

This project is a master archive of Pearl Jam TV performances from the first 25 years of their career. We have attempted to compile the very best sources available for all footage, searching many collections and archives.Much of the older footage has been remastered, to be restored to its closest possible original broadcast appearance. The standard definition footage was then up-converted for Blu-ray.

It’s time to embrace the shamanistic side of Christmas.

Mannequins examines the suburb as a state-of-mind through the eyes of a 7th grade teenage girl.

One second extended to its maximum length. A voice speaks about literature, love, futility and sadness.