At 82 years old, Jack Lowe attempts an extraordinary challenge: cycling 11 classic Tour de France cols in 7 days, finishing on the iconic Alpe d'Huez. Joined by marathoner Jiggs Barasara (50 years), who faces the Alps for the first time, their journey becomes a powerful story of resilience, courage, and camaraderie.
The heart-pounding adventure Team APS: A Decade of Racing, is a culmination of 10 years of planning and racing by a group of determined men from the far reaches of New Zealand who set out to conquer the unforgiving terrain of the Baja Californian desert on their motorbike. Against all odds, they embark on a gruelling journey across the treacherous desert landscape, battling not only the elements but also their own fears and doubts.
Two actresses, with an agent to a director audition. The director, the actress, the agent, the director's assistant each of them has a story to tell,Everyone has their own existential puzzles.
A crew of space-travelers rescues a ship of refugees from certain death. However they're intercepted by a military space-cruiser and are put in front of an impossible choice.
In the late 1940s, a 15-year-old girl is concubine of an older master. She waits for her husband every day and falls in love with a student who sings in front of her house. Imagine her disappointment that his song is for a girl next door.
Alix is Alix Cléo Roubaud, the heroine of Jean Eustache's film LES PHOTOS D'ALIX. The starting point for ALIX is a short Super 8 sequence shot in 1981. From this reduced material, through a structural and subjective montage of repetitions, loops and flashes, I succeeded in counteracting the coldness of the still image by creating an impression of movement and a kind of hypnotic spell, accentuated by Guillaume Esvelin's music.
The Blitz saw over 40,000 civilians killed and more than a million houses destroyed in London when the German's conducted mass air attacks. Eighty years on, we look at the build-up to the raids and detailed footage of the destruction that followed. With interviews from those who lived through it and stories of sadness and bravery, at a time when Britain held strong and swore not to surrender.
Racing For Recovery follows the journey of Todd Crandell and others who have transformed their lives through a unique sobriety program, challenging conventional perceptions of addiction and recovery.
A young Ugandan and a Colorado intern discover first-hand how charity models in Africa can create exploitation and dependance. Together with unexpected partners, they develop a model of local-ownership and micro-enterprise that could forever shift how the West views poverty relief.
Eveline Ndi (Mother Hen) is a regular African housewife. Blinded by love for her husband, she disregards all signs of his involvement in the death of their two kids. But, when the last child, Emily, was killed in a car accident.
Gerrard Gosens is set to become the first totally blind person to attempt the daunting 34+ km swim from Dover in the UK to Cape Gris-Nez in France. Battling the cold and unpredictable waters of the English Channel, Gerrard faces not only the rough conditions but also the need to swim in synchronization with his team of guide swimmers, Hayden, Phil, Jo, Rosie, Alexis, and Sarah by his side. Fewer than 3000 individuals have triumphed over the grueling 34km swim from England to France since the first successful attempt in 1875. Remarkably, more people have scaled Mount Everest than swum across the English Channel. Gerrard Gosens, having attempted climbed Mt. Everest, has now set his sights on conquering another extraordinary feat - the English Channel swim. His remarkable journey is driven by a profound motivation to inspire others to pursue their own dreams as Gerrard got closer to France than any totally blind (from birth) person in history.
This is a film that brings awareness to domestic violence in a way that is rarely spoken of. The main characters, Tracey and Robby are a married couple that are dealing with relationship issues and verbal abuse, but unlike most or common victims in an abusive relationship, the victim in this story is the husband who doesn't realize that he is being abused.
Six friends reunite after a friend's murder, facing psychological terror and confronting a long-buried past deed to survive, uncovering the haunting consequences of every action.
As the boundaries between victim and villain blur, Courtney's struggle for freedom becomes a haunting exploration of guilt, survival, and the question of true innocence. With every revelation, we must question who the real monster is.
Mysteries Beyond Chaco Canyon conveys to viewers the brilliant achievements of the Chaco civilization—many of which are in grave danger today. This new one-hour documentary reveals the astounding reach of the Chacoans across a region of the American southwest nearly twice the size of Ireland. Without modern tools, wheel or beast of burden, these ancient people built ceremonial Great Houses and connected them to places of spiritual power with massive "roads," remarkably straight and as wide as modern two lane streets. The Chacoans' feats have been long obscured in a fragile desert environment—only now to be recovered through beautiful aerial footage and with the new technology of LiDAR (aerial laser scanning) revealing the true expanse of the Chacoans' complex world.
Amidst the hills of Tuscany, three friends embark on a vacation which turns into an unexpected romantic adventure, as they discover love with three sisters running a picturesque bed and breakfast, igniting the fury of their grandfather