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Hal Schmulowitz explains how he got up close to The Rolling Stones during their 1981 tour.

Pat O'Neill narrates his photographs.

Sara thought that the sadness was only a depression, but one year ago a diagnosis changed their life - an affliction between heaven and hell.

In the Forest of Dean is a community of people continuing the ancient practice of Freemining: a traditional way of mining for coal an iron ore in small scale mines. The detailed knowledge involved has been passed on by oral tradition since time immemorial. This film gives a snapshot of three of the last operational mines in the Forest and the people that work them.

Concertina is an interlocking narrative film that jumps between parallel realities as two sets of brothers discuss their dreams of one another. The film explores themes of ecology, family, and labor using magical realism as a narrative device to create dark, ethereal worlds that offer a glimpse into the power of the physical realm over our collective psyche.

Billy and Alexis expose serious problems with forensic experts’ testimony in the U.S. court system, citing multiple cases in which people were charged with murders they didn’t commit, based largely on an expert’s opinion.

Throughout the 1990s, many people in North Kurdistan were subjected to interrogations. This quickly turned into torture, and then murder, with their bodies then dumped into the forests, eliminated in vats of acid, or burnt in furnaces. Some of them were buried in “unknown” places with only a handful of soil to over them.

Actor Mark Bonnar is on a mission to understand more about the Scottish new towns in which he grew up, exploring the street sculpture made by artists such as his dad in the 60s, 70s and 80s. He discovers why the new towns are there and how they enticed people out of the bigger cities, and uncovers the surprising ways in which public art changed the new towns and the new towns changed public art. Mark's father, Stan, made sculptures that stand to this day on the streets of Glenrothes, East Kilbride and the Scottish new town that never was, Stonehouse. These new towns employed town artists to make artworks in the very housing precincts the new residents were moving into.

This is a film about touring musicians who don't care about making it in the music business and all of the hardships they face without the fame.

Jaydyn Coggins, the best cup stacker in Australia, travels to the World Sports Stacking Championships in Florida. Dogged by a series of setbacks, Jaydyn must call on all his skill and family support for a shot at his dreams.

Hardworking man fights to evict four freeloaders from his home.

Jacqueline van Vugt follows the Kurdish-Dutch Shapol Majid. She opened the first lingerie store in Northern Iraq in 2014. Various generations of women tell their vulnerable stories about love, sexuality, culture, faith, war and freedom.

A documentary following two filmmakers in the pursuit of understanding happiness as they set off and travel around the world. They share their personal journey as they interviewed 18 individuals along the way to figure out the key to happiness, only to find something deeper.

The film "Jazzist" tells about the formation of jazz in the USSR through the personal history and creative path of the musician, founder of the first in the Union jazz-rock ensemble "Arsenal" Alexey Kozlov.

Punta del Este was built upon a small, treasurable port town still alive in the memories of former residents and visitors. However, talk of progress has arised in present times. A kind of progress involving physical, historical, spiritual destruction. Bajo la Arena poses a crossroads between the passage of time and its ever-present traces in the landscape and in people's affections.

After losing her father at an early age, Tina Duran explores the rich history of her father, the story of her ancestors who migrated from Mexico to the United States, and the impact the Vietnam War had on their community.

Living in France, a Rwandan psychotherapist committed to rebuilding her country returns this time to learn to play the inanga, the traditional zither. A moving journey through a festive Rwanda, in search of her cultural identity.

The Danish war veteran Henrik returns home from Afghanistan with post-traumatic stress. After a series of failed treatments, he travels deep into the Amazon jungle to heal himself with natural remedies and the world's strongest hallucinogenic drink, Ayahuasca. 'The Soldier' follows Henrik's struggle in the jungle for three full years, and is an inner portrait of a broken man.

The Black Cop follows a former police officer’s experience of being both the victim and perpetrator of racism within the police. It’s a riveting confessional about compromise, fortitude and self-discovery - to find a way through systemic racism and homophobia, by pioneering and championing rights within the force and wider society.

A revelatory, biographical outline of the life and times of Ireland's greatest painter, Jack B. Yeats

Mario, a lonely and nostalgic man, receives a wrong call in which he is mistaken for a child, so he finds himself listening to a story by Gianni Rodari. This episode will trigger a series of reflections on his past, fantasy and friendship

9th CIRCUIT COWBOY is the story of Judge Harry Pregerson who, for almost half a century, served on California's famously liberal 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.

Is humanity truly free? Are there Universal Laws in effect that apply to human behavior? Does our knowledge or ignorance of these laws impact our collective freedom as a species? In this one-of-a-kind feature documentary film, Mark Passio will explore these questions, and our current understanding of Universal forces that affect the daily lives of each and every one of us.

The newest instalment in a series set in a small village in a mountainous region in China. In the winter marking ten years since the director began filming, she tries to get a new building constructed in the village. The girls, who had thus far been the subjects of her films, take up the camera themselves, and begin recording scenes of the village.

In Hong Kong, echoes of resistance and turmoil are sensitively captured on 16mm in this poetic rumination of public spaces and everyday life in a metropolis in upheaval.

During the twenty-year tenure of Head coach Zoran Terzic, the women's volleyball team of Serbia won 19 medals at the most important world and European competitions. This documentary is about him.

In 1969, a group of Native Americans took an abandoned prison, Alcatraz, and claimed it for their own. The 19 month occupation helped people across the country understand what was happening on reservations. After 50 years, we reveal how the story was covered with new footage that hasn't been seen in over 5 decades.

A movie by the experimental musician, Hal McGee. The movie is a cross between an art film and a documentary about Hal McGee's daily life in Gainesville, Florida.

The restoration of a lifetime! The incredible story of how Barrett-Jackson CEO and Chairman Craig Jackson and an elite team of automotive restoration specialists set out to restore the rarest and most desirable Shelby Mustang of all time, the 1968 EXP 500 Green Hornet. The Green Hornet's provenance of being a double prototype puts it into a unique category and represents a rolling history of what was happening within Ford and Shelby American in the heyday of the American muscle car era. The performance DNA of all modern Mustangs and Shelbys leads back to this very car, making this 1968 Ford Mustang Notchback Coupe – as Carroll Shelby once said – "the one and only Green Hornet."

Ordinary people suddenly find themselves face-to-face with a mysterious, silent camera operator.

The film is a kaleidoscopic portrait of Bilbao; six people who project their pride, their sense of belonging to a mixed, open and effervescent city. Six lives defined by their own rhythm that make the city flourish. This is the cinematic result of the sum of images and emotions. An organic creation of the ‘Bilbao’ concept. Being from Bilbao implies conveying through emotions why Bilbao is a wonderful city in which we live, feel, work, love, share and coexist.

When France rumbles, the strategy and control of public order become a crucial political issue. Between protecting institutions and guaranteeing the right to demonstrate: the right balance is subtle. At the beginning of the Yellow Vests movement, at the end of 2018, the principles of "French-style" policing were shattered. The ransacking of the Arc Triomphe, the hundreds of injuries among the demonstrators and the forces of order mark the minds. How did it come to this? In order to understand, the film questions the so-called "legitimate" force and confronts them with the images of these confrontations.

A documentary, filmed entirely in the Basque Country, about Basque mythology and the ancestral beliefs of its people. Created by writer Toti Martínez de Lezea and anthropologist Anuntxi Arana, Amari immerses us in a world of legends full of supernatural beings that formed and continue to form part of the Basque people's imagination.

The rise and fall of ancient Rome is one of the greatest stories in the history of the world. From a group of settlements huddled along the Tiber in Italy, Rome rose to conquer much of the Mediterranean world and Europe. Produced by One Day University

In France and Germany, a look back at the legacy of the New Right, a radical movement whose modern incarnations are becoming increasingly visible.

The Everyday Gamer is a documentary that explores the lives of everyday gamers and their gaming journey.

Siegfried Fischbacher and Roy Horn - the magician duo from Germany enchanted the world for decades. Millions of spectators attended their legendary show in Las Vegas. It was the best show in the world - with elephants, white tigers and breathtaking illusions. Siegfried and Roy, two simple men from Germany, lived the American dream. How did they manage it?

A documentary about student protests in Belarus. Gaudeamus igitur, Juvenes dum sumus! This is the slogan of all students, which originates from an old student song. Today we, the students of Belarus, instead of learning a variety of professions, are fighting for the right to live in a peaceful and free country.

Unfortunately, every year eight million people die quietly due to Mental Illness. It's urgent to decrease this number. It's urgent to help. It's urgent to listen, to observe and to speak up. It's urgent to break this taboo.

Pat O'Neill narrates his photographs made between 1965 & 1975 approx.

For years, people have wondered if Bigfoot is real, or just a myth. Today, reporter Madi Hewett is investigating weird sightings in the New Zealand bush. She is accompanied by New Zealand Cryptid Research And Bigfoot Sightings (C.R.A.B.S) as they investigate the try to prove the existence of Bigfoot in New Zealand.

1757 Three years into the French and Indian War, Fort William Henry was under siege. The French army, along with 1,800 Indian allies, bombarded the fort over six long days. The British subjects in the fort held out for as long as they could…and would ultimately suffer a fate worse than surrender. Using historic journals from men on both sides of the conflict, this documentary recounts the events. Through filmed reenactments and animations, the story of the siege and surrounding events come to life.

Mark Howard sits down with Nathan Lyon to discuss the Australian Test spinner's career and reflect upon his 100th Test match and 400th Test wicket.

Just as he's getting ready to celebrate the new year amid a global pandemic, a thirteen-year old's careless winter break is interrupted when an earthquake hits nearby.

Through an experimental method of spectating the spectator, the audience watches two young people who are sitting and watching a projection of photographs of public spaces, in moments when these spaces are empty or abandoned, when they can become intimate, followed by a voiceover of two older people reminiscing of topics of alienation and transience of belonging, of taken or borrowed, of given or landed, of personal experience in a world where a complete affiliation never truly exists.

A short and personal documentary attempts to understand broader meanings of life, attitude, emotions, and the environment by raising questions and exploring the notion of movement inside cars, inviting audiences to view their surroundings with a different point of view and an interesting angle.

Nearly 40 years since its demise, the North American Soccer League continues to linger in the memories and imaginations of soccer fans across the United States — and beyond. The colorful, oftentimes controversial league attracted some of the game’s greatest players: Pele, Best, Cruyff, Muller, Beckenbauer, to name a few. Crowds of 70,000-plus flocked to games as the NASL brought star power to a country where soccer had been virtually invisible just a few years earlier.

Experimental short by White Gardenia.

The essay perceives algorithms as a “living” species and gives them the space to co-create their own space, evoking reflections on naturalness and artificiality, the nature of habitus, and the border between fiction and documentation, in the scenery of a lyrical film shot within the computer games Grand Theft Auto 5 and theHunter: Call of the Wild.

ROAMERS accompanies different characters on their way through the countries and social media feeds of this world: From the celebrated video blogger from Palestine who quit his lucrative job at PayPal in favor of as much life experience as possible, to the former young top manager who gave up her business in Switzerland and her marriage for the adventure of a round-the-world trip, to the Argentinean couple who use their computer science skills acquired at IBM to distribute self-produced porn videos online "on demand" and thus finance their trip around the world. As digital nomads who become the creators of their impressive life stories on their own initiative, they are all sounding out the boundaries of a new era: between personal freedom and the dependence on algorithms and wifi, between self-fulfillment and self- exploitation - in search of meaning and support in a world that offers ever more possibilities and yet also seems increasingly fragmented.

A palliative care team visits homes of terminally ill patients to help them come to terms with the inevitability of death.