David Cairns and Fiona Watson offer a personal, witty and comprehensive study of the Hal Roach era of legendary Hollywood comedy duo Laurel and Hardy, including a film-by-film review of every short subject the team produced in the year 1928.
Churchill, Manitoba, the polar bear capital of the world, draws tourists, photographers and scientists from all over the world. But community members of this awe-inspiring destination are on edge as the warming Arctic endangers polar bears and residents' way of life. The WCCO Original documentary, "On The Edge: The People and Polar Bears of a Warming Arctic," brings you up close to polar bears in the wild with behind-the-scenes footage and unforgettable polar bear encounters. Discover how climate change in this small Canadian town is a warning for us all, and what we all can do to ensure the future of polar bears and northern communities.
Canadian Corporal Léo Major (1921-2008) took on a leading role in the liberation of Zwolle during the night of 13 to 14 April 1945. He was almost independently responsible for the withdrawal of an German occupier. This short film contains interviews with family members, war historian Joël Stoppels and residents of Zwolle, including former mayor Henk Jan Meijer. In addition, historical events filmed in Zwolle and Calgary are re-enacted.
A documentary about the inspiring story of Shayne Smith, an Olympian and motivational speaker, whose connection to professional wrestling has been key in overcoming life's greatest challenges.
Imelda May explores the legacy of Susan and Elizabeth Yeats, two sisters who played a significant role in the revival of Irish literature in the 1920s.
The film about the Sami is a cross-section of modern life, shown through the example of a small indigenous people of the Kola Peninsula. And in this life, everything is closely intertwined - joy and sorrow, faith and despair. It has a place for a fairy tale, and a difficult life, and the search for Hyperborea, and the history of mystic scientists executed during the years of repression. But next to this, we see attempts to preserve the Sami language and reindeer herding, to support the Sami way of life, we see children happily adopting family traditions. And, finally, we are surrounded by the amazingly beautiful and severe nature of the North, which calms, reconciles and instills hope ...
Geoffrey Baer is back to traverse the length and breadth of Chicago’s world-famous “front yard” to explore everything from beloved birds to submerged secrets along Chicago’s lakefront. A fascinating journey from the history of Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable to modern-day hikes on Northerly Island, fishing for lake trout, and snorkeling on a prehistoric reef, Touring the Lakefront with Geoffrey Baer Geoffrey takes viewers on a journey to discover how our lakefront was envisioned, built, and defended, and how it has evolved over the centuries.
A documentary-poem, a letter sent to someone one admires. Constructed as a musical composition, it alternates fragments of concerts filmed at Renée's home with archival footage, paintings she painted, drawings, photos, and interviews. Seated on a bench in her garden, she awaits us. She tells us a few secrets: what it's like to live traveling back and forth across the Atlantic, between Paris and Montevideo, her two loves. Rodolfo Panzacchi, a good friend, comes over for tea. They talk about music, about children who love pizzicato, and about the soul of violins. She converses with a thrush, reveals the secret of electroacoustic scores, and, on her piano, offers us a wonderful milonga. This documentary doesn't aim to tell us about the life of a famous musician, but rather to bring us up close to her as if on tiptoe and allow her soul, like that of violins, to reveal itself through her art.
This film fable is not presented as an attempt to stop the natural course of existence, but as a way of approaching life and reconciling ourselves with its rules. Director Carolina Campo Lupo and Eliana were friends since they were teenagers, they grew up together and always accompanied each other, learning how to become women, mothers, friends and political beings. One day Eliana falls ill and, not knowing what to do, Carolina gives her her film camera as a way of dealing with the uncertainty. From that day on, together they begin to film their last encounters. With the camera as a witness, free and shared between adults and children, they go through the small moments of life; the everyday becomes transcendent and love emerges as the only thing capable of sustaining us.
Go behind the scenes with the cast and crew of “Stranger Things: The First Shadow”, the award-winning live stage show that expands the Hawkins universe.
The life and work of French puppeteer Philippe Genty are marked by the power of his visual poetry. His childhood traumas and dreams led him to become one of today's greatest exponents of theater and visual arts. At 83, he finds himself in his studio in a Brittany forest, where he inhabits both his hells and his paradises. This journey begins when Philippe opens the doors to that world for us.
Pioneering Australian bio-artists SymbioticA showcase their “Sunlight, Soil & Shit (De)Cycle” project, the latest in a long line of potential technological solutions to the looming global food crisis. Will it save humanity from its doom? Where are the investors?