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The secrets of a lost archive of portrait photos showing the changing face of Bradford in the 20th century. Presenter Shanaz Gulzar tracks down people in the portraits.

Three years after their father passed, a documentary acts as the perfect stage for a family of four women to talk through their experiences of their loss. Somewhere between distance and time, phone calls provided each person the space to tell their own stories Ojumo To Mio and its director Simisolaoluwa Akande were the winners of the We Are Parable present Who We Are short film competiton, a contest to highlight the work of 16-19 year-old Black British filmmakers, part of We Are Parable's online takeover of BFI Player.

During the late 1960s, a wave of experimental public schools based on humanistic and anti-establishment ideas, began spreading across the United States. Community High School, situated in downtown Ann Arbor, MI and considered a "school without walls" by its founders, was challenged from its opening day in 1972. Maligned with a bad reputation, threatened regularly with closures, it was called "Commie High" by some that questioned its merits (and proudly by many within its culture). Fast forward twenty years later, Community High had became so popular that long lines formed to attend, culminating in a two-week camp out in 1996, and a subsequent lottery system for admission. Today "Commie High" remains one of the only schools from this movement to do school differently that survived and continues to evolve and thrive.

Junha is one of the most difficult children at the school. His autism causes him to attack his classmates and even teachers without warning. Each outburst further isolates Junha from his community as his teachers and peers struggle to find a way to live "with" Junha. The camera provides an intimate look into this society, leaving the question; what is human entity and how is it connected?

The story of the "Decima Mas", an Italian commando frogman unit of the Regia Marina (Italian Royal Navy) created during the Fascist regime.

The inside scoop on the murky world of the ice-cream business. Through the eyes of Pinky, the self declared 'king of the ice-cream men', we're taken into this unregulated industry.

This film explores one of the hottest categories of the Dutch ballroom scene. While preparing to walk at the Circus ball in Amsterdam, four dancers reflect on their journey within ballroom culture, and their relation to a category that is more than just seduction, sensuality, and sexual empowerment. Their stories will show what it means to be authentic and why these safe spaces are absolutely necessary in the world we live in today.

Los Angeles has had the most Alien and U.F.O. sightings in the entire world since the 1950's. This unique documentary takes an unparalleled look at several of those encounters over the years with shocking, previously unseen eyewitness interviews, evidence and re-enactments.

30 years on from the Chinese state's brutal put-down of a student-led pro-democracy protest in 1989, ABC Australia looks back through its video archive to unearth never-before-seen footage captured by its team on the ground. A watershed moment in a post-Mao China, the Communist Party has sought to erase all public discourse and memory of that day, making this record all the more significant.

Two-part documentary about the roots of the music of hope, the rebels, the lateral thinkers and the oppressed.

A look at David Tibet's first American gallery show.

This project is an oral history of London's dock workers focusing on the fascinating history of the people who worked on the docks of London from the 1930s up until the closing of the docks from the 1970s.

Using natural elements and sounds, this experimental film explores the connection between the body and land.

Holy Grail: The Search for WWE’s Most Infamous Lost Match aired May 13th, 2019 following Raw. It was a 30-minute documentary looking at the story behind the match between Tom Magee and Bret Hart, featuring interviews from the likes of Hart, Davey Boy Smith Jr., Tyson Kidd, Kassius Ohno, Sam Roberts, X-Pac and the man himself, Tom Magee. And of course, the match itself was aired as well.

Film by Kenji Onishi. With friends. Mr. Yamase as main character, Sasakubo and Shinojima. And the girls having a good time. The camera is all you need. Looking still at the Mt. Buko which is disappearing.

Travelling by boat from Broome to Darwin, this route in Australia's top end is a breathtaking coastline of open seas, bays, basins, islands and estuaries. This area is dubbed 'Australia's last great wilderness' and surprising stories of multicultural history abound - from Aboriginal cave paintings to Japanese pearlers, a Filipino missionary to a proposed Jewish refuge from the Nazis, Vietnamese boat people, WWII bombings, shipwrecks, and modern-day mining.

Yahweh Ben Yahweh, self-proclaimed Son of God comes to Miami promising salvation. His message spreads but so do reports of beatings, extortion, arson, and grisly murders. Was he really a Messiah or was he just the mastermind behind a deadly cult?

FLY ME TO THE MOON (2019), is a feature documentary by Jamaican independent filmmaker Esther Figueroa, that takes us on a journey into the unexpected ways we are all connected on Planet Earth, by following aluminum – the metal of modernity – around the world and into space. We travel for over one hundred years, visiting places as far flung as the Moon, Jamaica, India, Suriname, Canada, Cuba, Japan, Hungary, Iceland, Australia, Vietnam, the United States of America, encountering along the way human triumphs, technological innovations, multiple wars, societal upheavals, environmental devastation. And in the urgent here and now of the climate crisis, the film challenges us to to think about the consequences of our consumption, to reimagine the ways in which we live, and to change our material culture and political economy that is destroying the planet we all depend on.

Veronica and Alexander, the young family of Ukrainian artists, trapped in Saint-Petersburg, Russia, decided to escape to Vancouver, Canada. This film follows them while they wait for visa in the Fall of 2013.

This land is our only home, yet due to our addiction to fossil fuels, a finite, non-renewable source of energy to sustain our lifestyles, we are putting our future at risk. This Land takes us from the Texas and Mexico border, to the Dakotas, and then Northern Canada. As we profile methods of extracting fossil fuels and transporting them, we will meet native and local communities fighting against gas and oil pipelines and see what is at stake if we continue on our current path or decide to make a stand for our land, this land, our only home.

This movie is about an Iranian filmmaker called Davood Roostayi, whose all movies ( more than 100 movies ) have been banned both before and after the Islamic revolution of Iran and none of his movies have been screened.

Brazil is going through a political crisis which even representatives of our institutions reproduce speeches that seek to criminalize social movements by framing them as terrorists. The short "Teto Pra Quem" seeks to question the brutality of common sense fueled by the conservative wave by opposing it to the reality of thousands of families and their struggles in the pursuit of one of their most basic human rights: living under a roof.

With grace and purpose, Trey Sebrell runs one of only a few funeral homes in Mississippi for those dying from HIV/AIDS-related conditions.

Eleven-year-old Liberty is one of 13 siblings, each of whom lives in a separate foster family across the US. She looks forward to seeing some of them once a year, at a summer camp for natural brothers and sisters divided in the care system. For one week only, she'll reunite with a few of her biological kin and take on symbolic relationships, including one with 18-year-old Brandi, who is reuniting with her own natural sister. Filmmaker Audrey Gordon takes up both girls' perspectives, following Liberty and reading Brandi's diary entries, gently capturing the younger one's open heart and the elder's knowing experience of these precious shared days. Without pretense, cynicism or expectation, each child fully welcomes the other, recreating missed milestones like birthday celebrations and makeup sessions, soaking up the affection that will last them the year through. Thoroughly moving, this tender chronicle illuminates even the most solitary soul's deep need for familial connection.

On Sunday 1943, on day off, Marta want secretly to go with her friend prisoner Frenchman to Strasbourg. In the morning Ivan leaves the courtyard of the German owner and go with the same as he “Ostarbeiter”, to the East, in the direction of his homeland. The Italian resistance liberates Nicholas from the camp of forced labor and bring him to the detachment of the Garibaldians. What will happen to them further? The war does not know pity, but the memory is also merciless. Victims of two dictatorships: Hitler's and Stalin's with memory which never dies ...

Tomo, a radio host, records and archives the ganga songs because he is aware that it is going extinct so he wants the ganga to be placed on the list of UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage.

A marginalized people rose up from humble beginnings, with nothing but their talent, their guiding principles, and their determination to leave none behind. The public has heard so many sad stories, but Atautsikut / Leaving None Behind reveals another aspect of the true North. In their own words, raw and unfiltered, the Nunavik Inuit and Cree recount their struggle and how their co-ops came shining through – a message of hope.

33 years after the disaster, 5 days and nights illegally in the restricted area, in Pripyat, and on the Duga-1 antenna.

This is a lifelong love story that endures as times change in China. When Rao Pingru's wife Mao Meitang passed away, he began to paint memories of their lives – together and apart. He looked back and reflected, on love and sufferings, on happiness and death. In 2018, his painted book became a hit in countries including Britain, the U.S., France, Spain, and South Korea. CGTN has now reproduced his story, based on his life, words, and paintings.

Thousands of refugee women from the middle east endure the uncertainty of their future and face various psychological and physiological problems due to stress in their life. Intisar Foundation is helping these women overcome their trauma through drama therapy.

A swimmer is looking for her missing grandmother, who left without leaving any record of her existence. The swimmer reconstructs her in memories through the diluted memories of three older women: her two aunts and her mother.

THE RETURN chronicles the journey of Rocky Bleier, who won a National Championship at Notre Dame, was wounded in the Vietnam War, told he would never play football again, then went on to win 4 Super Bowls with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Five decades after being wounded, Bleier returned to Vietnam.

Warru, or black-footed rock-wallaby, is one of South Australia's most endangered mammals. In 2007, when numbers dropped below 200 in the APY Lands in the remote north-west of the State, the Warru Recovery Team was formed to help save the precious species from extinction. Bringing together contemporary science, practical on-ground threat management and traditional Anangu ecological knowledge, this unique decade-long program has celebrated the release of dozens of warru to the wild for the first time.

In the final days leading up to the Colombian national soccer finals, Jorge, a young man from the northeastern Colombia, travels 1,000 miles across the country with his friends to see his native Bucaramanga’s soccer team. Proving their commitment as loyal fans, they travel by illegally hopping onto tractor trailers to attend the most important game of the season — one that promises the team a chance to return to Division A of the Colombian professional soccer league after eight years in Division B.

Matti Breschel has been one of the wildest Danish riders in the professional field for the past fifteen years. As a rare photogenic character - he has a background as a photo model in New York and Milan - he has won two World Cup medals for Denmark. He is an old-fashioned rider type with no agent. He uses his father and his close surroundings to sit up to the races. His driving force has been the madness itself. It has been like living with a psychopath, his wife says. But now Matti is approaching the end of the career. No one needs a winner who no longer wins, he admits. In this intimate portrait, we get very close to anger and loneliness, hiding in it so welcoming face.

The story of a true and masterly poet who lived through war, heyday and tragedy of the end of the century.

How intelligent is artificial intelligence? Should we welcome it or fear it? Might it help humanity with its problems? And if so, to what extent? This documentary pursues these questions, while providing informative yet satirical insights into the current developments in the field. Futurist Amy Webb, AI scientist Yann LeCun, and others, share their hopes, fears and predictions.

A documentary about the life of E Street Band member Clarence Clemons

For over half a century, civil war paralyzed Colombia and kept much of its wild lands frozen in time. In December 2016, that changed. The war that resulted in the deaths of 220,000 and displaced 6 million people came to an end. And the land wars began. With the FARC officially gone, the forests of Colombia are open for business.

Sarajevo during the siege in 1992: A group of armed men walks along the banks of the river Miljacka. One man is led away, and the group crosses the river. The neighbouring Grbavica district is about to be taken by the Serbs. The footage was shot by a man from an apartment in an adjacent skyscraper without knowing who the armed men were. Are they Serbs, Bosniaks? His camera wobbles, searches, pursues and retreats. The artist Clarissa Thieme finds the man who shot the film and has him once again recount how it happened.

On Rikers Island, one of the toughest prison's in the country, Buddhist Chaplain Justin Von Bujdoss is changing the culture around spiritual care, and teaching meditation to the Correction Officers while also holding space for the inmates.

Created from the 16mm archive of the groundbreaking "You Got to Move" (a 1985 film about educating activists in the civil rights and labor movements at the legendary Highlander Center), "They Say I'm Your Teacher" focuses on another agent of change, Bernice Robinson. This hairdresser from South Carolina sought to extend voter registration by teaching at Citizenship Education Schools.

The second part of the trilogy consists of three short movies: Adresseavisen (1967), Vinter i Bymarka (1952) & Trondheim i går, i dag, i morgen? (1977).

Should the United States eliminate the penny? "Heads-Up: Will We Stop Making Cents?" is a documentary that explores the different sides of the debate, touching on the role of the penny in today's economy, predictive economic models of a penny-less future, and the cultural importance of the coin. Radio DJ and Actor Laurie Gallardo narrates the penny odyssey as we travel from Texas to Canada, stopping to speak with former Mint Directors, lawmakers, economists, and more than a few unique penny characters, including a coin-hunter, a former President*, and one very memorable penny prankster. * "Abraham Lincoln" appears in the film.

An hour long documentary about the Finders 'cult'. The group received very very brief attention in the 80's after its odd activities were thought to be related to Satanic child sex abuse, and possible trafficking. Connections between US Military Intelligence, Hong Kong, and the members was uncovered in an investigation, and then quickly re-covered, and abandoned.

Maria Bartiromo investigates the Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) industry and its future impact on your world, from jobs to healthcare and national security. Bartiromo travels across the country, gaining exclusive access to top business titans who are utilizing AI to break barriers.

Over the course of a ten-year postal correspondence, a pair of movie-going pen-pals share their thoughts on some of 90s cinema’s key traits: the rise of video, the need for speed, and of course the cliff-edge sense of global dread. But do decades have ‘key traits’ at the time? Or do we assign them these characteristics retroactively, trying to make sense of things in hindsight? Only Leonard Nimoy knows for sure.