This Academy Award-winning documentary explores issues facing elders who raise their grandchildren. Big Mama, 90, takes on Walter, 9, after convincing welfare officials that "age has nothing to do with love."
What happens when hungry people discover a massive pot of gold in one of the poorest places on earth? In 2007 US-based Kosmos Energy discovers the first oil in the history of the West African Republic of Ghana. What follows over the next five years is a twisting tale of greed and deception, which…
Executive produced by Brad Pitt, Big Men follows what happens when a Texas oil firm makes an enormous discovery off West Africa’s coast. Gaining unprecedented access to reveal big business in oil, it took six years to make and takes viewers around the world, from inside Wall Street boardrooms to…
Four residents of an Appalachian Valley relay their stories of rural American living. ‘Big Moccasin’ tenderly portrays the lives of four residents of an Appalachian Valley in an effort to uncover sidelined American stories. The 25-mile stretch of road in Virginia is brimming with tales of…
The life and music of George Rrurrambu and the Warumpi Band. BIG NAME NO BLANKET tells the extraordinary story of George Rrurrambu, the former lead singer of the pioneering Warumpi Band of the 1980s. George was the charismatic frontman, who combined rock and roll, reggae, pop and traditional culture…
Big oil companies, like ExxonMobil or Shell, deliberately covered up the truth about global warming. Their own research reveals they had known about the disastrous impact of their products for more than 40 years. Big Oil spent millions setting up and fueling a strategy of misinformation to wage war against…
The trials of Mary Kelly, peace protester. The mis-trials of Mary Kelly. In January 2003 the American build-up for the attack on Iraq was intensifying daily. Shannon Airport had become a refuelling stopover for the war. Mary Kelly, newly returned from hair-raising experiences as a volunteer nurse…
Miami Airport in the late 70s and early 80's was the place to see large numbers of big propliners hard at work in the service of exotic operators serving Caribbean islands and Latin America. What makes this programme so special is the amazing access obtained by Martin Houweling. At times he’s…
“Big Pun: The Legacy” is a moving bio-pic that tells a story of a New York rapper who rose to fame and glory in the 90′s and tragically passed away at the age of 28. Directed by Vlad Yudin, it celebrates the short-lived career of a young artist named Christopher Rios who rose from…
Joan Carles y Sandra, una pareja de investigadores paranormales que lleva varios años tras la verdad sobre lo oculto, hacen un alto en el camino para explorar lo que significa nuestra existencia, la posibilidad de no estar solos en el universo y la fantasía de que seres extraterrestres…
A journey through American art with Waldemar Januszczak. Episode 1 is set in the Wild West and begins with the sublime art of the Hudson River School, whose 19th-century evocations of the vastness of America did so much to fuel the myth of the promised land. Another huge influence was the mysterious…
Synopsis: In the last store in a defunct shopping mall, 91-year-old Sonia Warshawski—great-grandmother, businesswoman, and Holocaust survivor—runs the tailor shop she’s owned for more than thirty years. But when she’s served an eviction notice, the specter of retirement prompts…
