A film by STEVE THOMAS. Amal Basry watched “Titanic” at a cinema in Baghdad the night before she fled Iraq. 18 months later she was on a people smuggling boat which sank between Indonesia and Australia. Amal survived by clinging for 22 hours to the floating body of a dead woman. Now Amal…
This one hour "rockumentary" takes us inside the life of Bruce Cockburn - the man and the musician - and includes live performances of Bruce's hit songs: Lovers in a Dangerous Time, Wondering Where the Lions Are, If I Had a Rocket Launcher and They Call it Democracy. Bruce Cockburn…
FUTURE SHOCK! The Story of 2000 AD charts how the multi-award winning comic came to be, how it has survived for 37 years, and how it continues to be an innovator and game-changer in both comics and the wider cultural world beyond.
JL Ratchel had the good idea to knock on the door of PVS Company and ask them to produce a documentary retracing his career. It must be said that the boy has things to tell. Born in the Antilles, he arrives at the age of 12 (1998) in La Clusaz, France. It will take him little time to tame his skis and…
Trial and Error is a fundamental method of solving problems. It is characterised by repeated, varied attempts which are continued until success or until the agent stops trying. The season was dominated by new experiences, epic powder runs, major setbacks, injuries, awesome lines, annoying negotiations…
12.000 lions live in South Africa. However, 8.000 of them live in captivity behind bars, in breeding farms. They are part of a cruel industry reducing the king of the beast to a product used as tourist attraction for cub petting and for the purpose of a so-called canned hunt. International thrillseekers…
the fight for fair food
Children of the Arctic is a portrait of five Native Alaskan teenagers coming of age in Barrow, Alaska - the northern-most community of the United States. As they embark on their journey into adulthood, they strive to be both modern American kids and the inheritors of an ancient whaling culture. For the…
Multi-awarded Nikolaus Geyrhalter delivers stunning images from inside the immense CERN apparatus. Alternated with interviews with the experts who devised and operate this gigantic big bang machine, the film gives an insight into the complex experimental research institution.
Mark Harris and Mitch Corbett are two surfers on a mission; to discover how Californian cool arrived on Britain's bracing beaches, and grew from splashy summer fun, to a serious obsession with waves. They'll visit the most iconic surf spots around Britain's 5000 miles of rugged coastline;…
A solo bicycle and surfing journey across Bali, Nusa Lembogan, Lombok and Sumbawa. Sendiri is the Indonesian word for 'By yourself or Alone'. Dylan decides to continue his and Rians original journey that finished in 2009, cycling further east from Bali and exploring Nusa Lembogan, Lombok and…
No-one has succeeded in kayaking the length of the remote and stormy Aleutian Islands which stretch from Russia to Alaska. Explorers Justine Curgenven and Sarah Outen set out to paddle 2,500km along the archipelago to the nearest road confronting more than 20 long crossings which separate the tiny unpopulated…
