Bondi Icebergs is the most photographed pool in the world. For nearly a century this spectacular 50 metre stretch of sparkling blue at the southern end of Bondi Beach has occupied a special corner in the hearts of millions. This is where generations of children have learnt to swim, where the diehard…
The Pioneer Health Centre in Peckham, in 1935 when it was started and now. One of the earliest examples of public health interventions in a disadvantaged community. The Pioneer Health Centre, better known as the Peckham Experiment, was opened Peckham, South East London, in 1935. Run as a family centre,…
Pope John Paul visited Nicaragua as part of a tour of Latin American countries. The film focuses on his visit but addresses the wider implications of the Catholic Church's role in Latin America. Many people had looked to the Pope for a lead in condemning the corrupt right-wing dictatorship of El…
For generations mysterious lights have been observed in the remote mountain valley of Hessdalen in Norway. The lights have varied in size, from large as a house to small as a soccer-ball, but very intense. They move silently up and down the valley, and have also been seen as large oval, silvery objects.…
Beijing-based journalist and part-time scuba instructor Steven Schwankert was looking for interesting wrecks to dive in northern China when he found HMS Poseidon on a list of unexplored dive sites. His private obsession with bringing wreck diving to China became a public and personally high-risk mission…
THE POSSESSED (HD) Not Rated. As seen on SyFy, Chiller and Destination America/Discovery. Winner of Best Paranormal documentary. Based on the True Story, The Watseka Wonder, America's first documented possession in 1870. A chilling story of a 13-year-old girl from the small town of Watseka, Illinois…
The Possibilities Are Endless details the recovery of Edwyn Collins, the singer/songwriter who fronted the Scottish alt-rock band Orange Juice, from two massive strokes that made him unable to use his right hand, sing, read, write or speak more that four phrases: "no," "yes," "Grace…
What is it that you film when you film a spirit? I was brought up to believe that spirits do not exist. Years of research on an Afro-Brazilian spirit possession cult taught me the limits of such euro-centric views. Refusing to choose between belief and disbelief, I embraced my not-knowing. The Possibility…
There's a turf war in suburban Australia, with gangs drawing enemy lines across postcodes. As gangs encourage teenagers to display a fierce sense of loyalty to their local areas, Australia's young people are being attacked, sometimes killed, for wandering into the wrong neighbourhood. Yet behind…
This experimental short film from Syria premiered in the prestigious Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival in Japan and then, screened in more than 60 countries, and received high critical acclaim. The camera rhythmically moves in and out of the stories of four married Syrian women in Syria’s…
THE POWER OF 2 is a real-life "drama-doc" revealing the ‘behind-the-scenes’ inner workings and emotional involvement revolving around the trials and tribulations and “blood, sweat and tears” of an equestrian team, as they struggle, ON THE ROAD TO GOLD, to achieve a medal…
A documentary chronicling the history & legacy of the notoriously “bad” Nintendo Power Glove, the first mass-marketed gesture-based video game controller. Released by Mattel in 1989, the Power Glove was the brainchild of the optimistic pioneers of the 1980s virtual reality frontier,…
