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Lucy Worsley explores the lives of six real people who lived, worked and volunteered during the Blitz, highlighting the government’s reliance on ordinary people.

A cinematic, character-driven insight to what it meant to produce and to own a car in communist times: the Socialist propaganda dreams and the hard reality of living that dream. The freedom that these slow and clumsy vehicles were giving to their owners; the cars as an instrument in the Cold War battle; legends and homemade tune-ups as an attempt to stand at least a little bit off the crowd.

"Live fast, die young!" Yuri Khoy is the "perfect" embodiment of this famous rock and roll motto. A simple guy from the "left bank", the most dangerous and criminal district of Voronezh, Hoi has achieved incredible popularity in Russia and the near abroad. But Yuri himself was rarely recognized on the streets.

A year has already passed since the pandemic started but we still find ourselves waiting for something as time continuously ticks and as our hearts still beat. A reflection of loss and hope in the midst of uncertainties and fears in a time where it felt like the world stopped from its motion, but we did not.

Deep in Canada's remote Yukon, a dramatic coming of age story unfolds involving an adolescent grizzly named Sophie. Wildlife filmmaker Phil Timpany has chronicled her all her life. Now he's capturing her first steps into adulthood--and motherhood--and the many challenges threatening both her and her rambunctious cubs. Witness Sophie's journey as she learns the ropes, trying to balance her own needs with feeding and protecting her young. More than half of all grizzly cubs die in their first year, so Sophie has little room for error.

In a potpourri of sparkles, musical numbers and documentary interview, Bistro Girls uses animation to explore the inescapable passion that drives artists, no matter their walk of life.

For several years, the qualified biologist traveled around Innsbruck with his camera, looking for motifs and stories that describe the inevitable encounter between humans and wild animals in the Alpine region.

Rashid Irani once owned a traditional Irani restaurant, the kind that were invariably at the city's busiest crossroads and are now fast disappearing. But over the decades, Rashid's heart beat firmly at twenty four frames per second as he traversed many worlds, re-living Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, Werner Herzog, Abbas Kiarostami and more; along with books on cinema and poetry. This is a film about him, his cafe, his neighbourhood and a world of erasure, accelerating in the time of covid. A dedicated bachelor who 'lived life vicariously through movies', RIP, Rashid Irani.

A year has passed since the presidential elections in Belarus, when the current government harshly suppressed protests against falsified results. Thousands of people are still in prisons, tens of thousands were forced to go abroad. Among the new emigrants there are politicians, they are even called the government in exile. And there are ordinary citizens who could not even imagine that they would ever have to leave their homeland. The film tells how this Belarus lives, a huge community of migrants that has emerged over the past year. The stories of the heroes add up to a chronicle of what is happening in their country after the elections on August 9, 2020.

NEW YORK (July 14, 2021) – Now that the U.S. government can no longer deny the existence of UFOs, eyewitnesses feel emboldened to share their stories and there’s a renewed hope that we may learn the truth about whether we have been visited by extraterrestrials

Documentary woven together as the universal story of father and son, focusing on the ethnic Chinese Koreans who live outside the Korean Peninsula.

A documentary that analyzes the glorious Italian horror movies from the sixties to the nineties, featuring never-before-seen interviews with all the main auteurs, screenwriters, set designers and musicians of the time, such as Dario Argento, Cristiana Astori, Pupi Avati or Lamberto Bava.

The mysterious writer Mehis Heinsaar is on a journey. In such days, where he walks alone for days in a wild thicket towards the vast meadows, he calls the poor man's pilgrimages. The writer is surrounded by unusual and meaningful nature, he can still speak the language of animals and birds and see what is invisible to the eye. There will be seven meetings along the way for the traveler, which will open the magical inner world of Mehis Heinsaar to the viewer.

Bisexuality is often not understood within society, which is why many bisexuals still find it very difficult to come out of the closet. Bastiaan Rosman is bisexual and investigates how best to embrace his bisexuality. During his search, he discovers that there are few role models and that may be the basis for his insecurity. He engages in conversation with his bisexual best friend, whose orientation he himself did not always believe. He also speaks to experts by experience and talks to his mother about his bisexuality for the first time. Will Bastiaan manage to embrace his orientation?

Real Haunts: Ghost Towns reveals the secrets of America's most fascinating ghost towns with "The Beard of Knowledge", the residents and a family of ghost hunters.

Pioneering basketball coach Rob Selvig leads Montana's Lady Griz to success, building a legacy that went beyond the game.

Recent studies show that insects are in decline across the globe and there may be a direct connection between the current climate crisis and these declining populations. DESYNCHRONIZED focuses on Pope Canyon Queens, a beekeeping and queen breeding company in Northern California. Pope Canyon Queens is currently trying to rebuild after the 2020 LNU Lightning Complex fires destroyed their farm, shop, and half of their hives. Their crucial work to breed honey bee queens with stronger genes fortifies beekeepers' hives across the country while they face the effects of climate change and unregulated industries. Dr. Nicholas Teets, PhD Entomology, explains how shifts in phenology are predicted to cause bigger issues. Howard Goldstein, Senior Forest Ecologist at the Prospect Park Alliance explores how community gardens and green spaces in large metropolitan areas may help insect populations recover from loss of habitat and food scarcity.

Bing-kun Su is destined to be a name that will be mentioned repeatedly in Taiwan's judicial history after the year 1986. Being in the environment of martial law, his family and career were destroyed overnight due to the flaws of judicial judgment. As the vindicator with the longest period of unjust imprisonment in Taiwan's history, Su was constantly dragged down by the injustice, together with his family. The lives of his wife and four children were turned upside down by this tragedy, forcefully changing their goal of life into "the reversal of Su's injustice case". The seemingly peaceful not-guilty justice buries the family's choice of life, with all these hidden costs that judicial compensation can never pay off, casting shadows over S and his family for a whole lifetime.

What are the consequences for the city now that more and more people are choosing to live alone? How should we plan our cities and what is the importance of public meeting places? More than Houses: a depressing or liberating vision?

At the height of his fame, the French composer Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) decides to leave Paris without warning. The public becomes concerned and the press investigates. A portrait of an extraordinary musician, whose personality is as surprising as his work.

The village of Oshikamura in Nagano Prefecture with a beautiful view of the Minami Alps. On top of that deep mountain, Simon Piggott, 70, who moved from England 30 years ago, and his family live. As such, Oshikamura is a place that warmly welcomes newcomers and pursues a quiet, slow life where people help each other. However, since the start of the "Linear Shinkansen Project" for tunneling through the Minami Alps five years ago, many changes began to occur in Oshikamura. This film slowly observes these changes in Oshikamura.

Two young Syrian directors in the Za’atari refugee camp (Jordan) and two young indigenous Shipibo-Konibo directors in Lima (Peru) exchange intimate cinematographic correspondence, based on their daily experiences.

20 years after Dale Earnhardt's death in the 2001 Daytona 500, ESPN explores the legacy of the legendary NASCAR driver in an E:60 documentary airing just prior to the 2021 running of the event.

The history of prefrontal leucotomy, a brain intervention created by Portuguese neurosurgeon and scientist António Egas Moniz, Nobel Prize winner in Medicine.

At the age of 75, Gabriel Pitteloud is one of the few chimney masons who create handcrafted fireplaces in cut stones. For the man who, for 40 years, has been making the stones sing, the profession has distilled into a philosophy of life.

The opening session of the 10th edition of Green Years marks the return of Ana Vîjdea to this section. After having won the Doc’s Kingdom Best Green Years Director Award in 2017, she now presents December, Radio Romania. The film follows the celebrations of several national holidays in a Romanian public radio station. From live shows to backstage parties, the film guides us through a space haunted by a complex history.

Police have been killing people in Columbus, Ohio, with near impunity for more than two decades, leaving behind a community bound together by grief – and a system that refuses to call these killings murder. In a searing indictment of the police and justice system at large, educator and curator Ingrid Raphael and journalist Melissa Gira Grant have collaborated in this short film, which spotlights the testimonies and resistance strategies of the loved ones of Henry Green, Tyre King, Donna Dalton and Julius Tate. These are the mothers, sisters, and grandmothers of those who were killed by Columbus police, women seeking justice for their family members, despite knowing that it is unlikely to be found within the system that caused their wrongful deaths.

The novel “Fitness” by anarchic poet Stefanie Sargnagel is to be made into a film. The only condition on the part of film funding: Sargnagel should play herself. Surfacing alongside the author are numerous actors from the Viennese cultural landscape in cameo appearances to satirically dissect the Austrian culture industry and its mechanisms.

April 4 1968 was a day that changed the landscape forever. The life of the most influential voice of social justice was ended. No person has transformed a race's social standing as Martin Luther King Jr. He transcended racial barriers, serving as the spokesman for non violence during one of the most tumultuous periods in American history. But, the quest for equality came with consequences. The official account of Martin Luther King Jr's assassination points the finger solely at one long gunman. This documentary will challenge convention looking behind the scenes at who orchestrated and carried out the silencing of the most powerful voice of the 20th century. Was it the actions of a poor, crazed ex convict or...the working of a deeper conspiracy? Discover the concealed clues behind the assassination as we uncover the cover ups and follow the facts to find out, who killed MLK.

A group of teenagers who attend “La Firulata”, a circus school, prepare a show for the end of the year. The documentary contrasts the stillness of the town with the constant movement of this group of young people.

Working internationally with people with lived experience of voice loss, interdisciplinary professionals, arts venues, festivals and hospitals, The Sound Voice Project aims to expand our understanding of the value of the human voice. What is a voice and what happens when it is gone?

This fascinating short film follows a charismatic Québécois man who sells Christmas trees in Manhattan. An original outlook on New York society, matched by impressive storytelling and skillful editing.

Tourists flock to the west coast of Ireland to take in the breathtaking cliffs of Moher, but the real treasure lies in the soulful, acoustic sounds wafting out of pubs and living rooms of Doolin, County Clare. The denizens of this unspoiled coastal village of tight-knit neighbors and unlocked doors revel in the passion and history of their traditional folk songs, using music as a thread through generations to create community, connection and joy.

A documentary about the lives of eight trans people from different parts of Rio Grande do Sul, based on two narrative lines; the first, and main one, is composed of in-depth interviews that seek a multiplicity of experiences, addressing issues related to transition and also to other identity and intersectional crossings, such as class, race, age, sexuality, and body.

Frantz Fanon alone embodies all the issues of French colonial history. Martinican resistance fighter, he enlisted, like millions of colonial soldiers, in the Free Army out of loyalty to France and the idea of freedom that it embodies for him. A writer, he participated in the bubbling life of Saint-Germain with Césaire, Senghor and Sartre, debating tirelessly on the destiny of colonized peoples. As a doctor, he revolutionized the practice of psychiatry, seeking in the relations of domination of colonial societies the foundations of the pathologies of his patients in Blida. Activist, he brings together through his action and his history of him, the anger of peoples crushed by centuries of colonial oppression. But beyond this exceptional journey which makes sensitive the permanence of French colonialism in the Lesser Antilles at the gates of the Algerian desert, he leaves an incomparable body of work which has made him today one of the most studied French authors across the Atlantic.

The Faroe Islands are an ancient microcosmos of exciting products, Nordic history, tales, 37 words for fog and even more for fermentation, a thriving seafood industry, ravishing waterfalls, eccentric personalities, a native tongue, and the culinary pearl: KOKS. How is it possible to run a top restaurant like this at the end of the world? Prior to covid-19, people took immense detours to dine at this eatery serving food sourced from just 500 square miles of produce, in a rugged terrain and where the climate is subpolar, windy, wet, cloudy, and cold, with average temperatures close to freezing throughout the year, everlasting light in summer and a scorching darkness all through winter. In Nordic by Nature we dive into the poetic mind of young Faroese chef Poul Andrias Ziska, and seek to find the traditions, history and distinctive ancient practices that lie beneath the world's most remote fine dining experience.

Missing in Brooks County follows the journey of two families who have come to Brooks County to look for their loved ones who went missing. As they search for answers, they encounter a haunted land where death is a part of everyday life. A gripping documentary mystery, it is also a deeply humane portrait of the law enforcement agents, human rights workers, and activists who come face to face with the life and death consequences of a broken system.

Asia, America, Arabia, Africa! A Guide to Backpackers around the world! 827 days of adventure to the end of the world! From 2011 to just before the 2019 pandemic, and the people I met on the road. Venezuelan and Afghan refugees, Andean musicians, Arabian shepherds, Patagonia's Mapuche natives, Kilimanjaro's Maasai and countless people. A road movie that conveys the world's splendid joy and sorrow! It is said that a person who has traveled for a long time will live a life for the world and for others. Can I, who is timid and selfish, become a little better person after going around this earth?

Short documentary in which Ivan Barbosa follows Tarikh Janssen's career switch. The actor leaves the movie world behind and returns to top swimming. Together, Barbosa and Janssen explore taboo topics such as white innocence, Black identity and the Black Lives Matter movement to expose the absurdity and seriousness of today's racism debate.

[GE, 1626) conducts a mathematics-like exercise and observation. Filmed somewhere in the Chicago landscape, through a meticulous study of sound and speed, it describes a border between industry and nature, subtle and violent.

The filmmakers' 21-year-old daughter journeys from locked-down psych wards and diagnostic labels toward expansive worlds of creativity, connection, and greater meaning. Featuring insights from trauma experts and others, the film challenges the widespread idea that mental illness should be understood purely in biological terms, revealing the myriad ways that madness has meaning beyond brain chemistry.

A highly relevant and sensitively handled reflection on the dynamic between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. This film addresses the question of white privilege head-on and calls for dialogue.

Paty, a wirrarika woman scarred by violence fights to preserve her people's self-determination and, by facing her past, turns her pain into a new way of life for her family.

The Way of Miracles is a groundbreaking film that takes us on a journey of human healing and personal empowerment. Miracle recoveries and their underlying science are explored and uncovered in this thought-provoking documentary.

The Race To Save The World is a climate change film like no other. Instead of focusing on paralyzing facts and numbers this inspiring feature takes a unique approach by following passionate activists, ages 15-72, who are in the trenches fighting for a livable future. These brave climate warriors put their lives on the line to push for change, regardless of the personal cost. Emmy award-winning filmmaker Joe Gantz brings an urgent and intimate portrait of the protests, arrests, courtroom drama and family turmoil these activists endure as they single mindedly focus their attention on the goal of creating a more sustainable world for future generations. The Race To Save The World is an inspiring and energizing call-to-action to quit waiting on the sidelines and make our voices heard.

On the border between France and Switzerland, framed by four mountain peaks towering to 4,000 metres, the Aosta Valley offers unspoilt natural landscapes and a rich Alpine heritage. A little corner of Italy whose delicious gastronomy reveals all the flavour of its cheese, delicatessen meats and wine.

As a work for the Amazon Prime Italia Youtube channel, the Space Valley 'Regaz' went to Rome to meet the crew of Slim Dogs. This is a vlog about their trip.

A teenager on a motorbike finds his way back home, a remote village in northern Germany, before sunrise. A few children enjoy one of the last carefree summer days there. Under the clear blue sky, they do their first flight attempts and lose themselves playing games which the older ones have forgotten. Nevertheless, this day too is coming to an end and their siblings, who are barely older, take them to dinner and away from their childlike world.

After consulting with his relatives a 35-year-old father consents to the marriage of his 14-year-old daughter. As individuals with differing perspectives his family grapple with the decision.

Martin calls his family who lives in the United States. He has not seen his parents in over a year. Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, he has been in Canada. In this documentary, Martin explores isolation, pain, memories, and the importance of family through photomontage.

A heartfelt and uplifting portrayal about one young remarkable drag queen from Leith who, despite suffering from cystic fibrosis, lives life to the max. At 24 years of age, Jordan McKinley knows he is on borrowed time. This Leith-born-and-bred drama teacher, DJ and top Edinburgh drag artist faces his medical condition head-on and lives his life at 100 miles an hour.

Between Parc-Extension and the town of Mont-Royal, a scar in space creates a strange dichotomy between two neighborhoods.

A film crew travels across remote villages in Western Nepal looking for the perfect kid who can play the 'Hero' in their upcoming film.