When a fire destroys Cobb's Comedy Club in San Francisco, defiant owner Tom Sawyer and his crew of comedians rebuild it, hoping to revive the struggling local comedy scene. As a breeding ground for young comedians, Cobb's could not be equaled. Jim Carrey, Dana Carvey, Paula Poundstone, Bob…
The writing and drawing of comic books has remained a little-known and under-rated area of New Zealand culture. Director Shirley Horrocks reveals it to us as a highly creative subculture with a rich local history. Despite a moral panic about comics in the ‘40s and ‘50s (recalled here by Eric…
The Comic Strip Hits 100 is a marvellous celebration of the art of the comic strip. Narrated by the American novelist Jerome Charyn, and featuring rare interviews with some of the masters of the art form including Moebius, Schuiten and Franck Pé, The Comic Strip Hits 100 traces the evolution of…
Whilst at home he rallies against Islamic extremists, Donald Trump is forging unholy business alliances with controversial political figures in Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim country. Four Corners reveals how Donald Trump, as he was closing in on his political rivals, was negotiating luxury…
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Negative public perception of the game in the 1980s nearly caused its early demise. Since the first game ever played on June 27, 1981, nearly a half billion people have played paintball! This is the story of those that created the game, preserved it and built its gear, playing fields, international presence,…
This is the remarkable story of the six young women who programmed the world's first all-electronic programmable computer, ENIAC, as part of a secret US WWII project. They changed the world, but were never introduced and never received credit. These pioneers deserve to be known and celebrated: Betty…
Are the claims made about computers exaggerated? Will they really be able to think? What about young fantatics who seem to prefer the company of machines to humans? Some of these have cracked the code of big businesses and educational concerns, illegally, and can cause havoc. Then there is the example…
The 2008 financial crisis seemed to hit the American landscape out of nowhere. But in reality it was both the inevitable conclusion to 40 years of Wall Street misconduct and a warning for the meltdown that threatens to engulf us now. In the gripping original five-part docuseries THE CON, filmmaker Patrick…
A documentary film by Luk Perceval. A fictionalized investigation into the very real stories lurking in the tunnels below Linz. Beneath the surface of the city Hitler wanted to turn into his cultural capital, the film feels its way through the darkness of the 14km underground network excavated by…
Initially I was never supposed to make this film. It was the testament of Torgny Anderberg. It was to be his last film. Torgny became very ill and be asked me to go to Peru to shoot some complementary material. While I was there, Torgny told me be only bad a few days left to live. I wanted to go to him,…
The Conductor takes the audience into the heart of classical music, and into the soul of one of its top, most beguiling artists, the internationally renowned conductor Marin Alsop. Alsop first saw the legendary Leonard Bernstein when she was nine-years old. That’s when she knew what she wanted…
