A remote community in Africa, led by a woman chief, attempts to break the stranglehold of absolute poverty by waging a war on wildlife poaching. For decades illegal wildlife poaching by both subsistence and bush meat gangs has led to the government declaring this community’s homeland “depleted” of wildlife. The chief finds help in the form of a safari operator and they work together to bring stability to the community. But all was not well. Disease, food stability, and rampant alcoholism hamper basic needs like health care and education. Even young girls, just after reaching puberty, are sold by their parents as child brides in order to feed their family for one year. Dark forces including South African land speculators, criminal poaching gangs, and her own people conspire against the chief. Even elements from the modern world work against the chief’s wishes. Will the chief and her community see success?
In 1983 the most famous couple in the world arrived in Australia for a historic Royal tour. Admirers full of hope for the Prince and Princess. A closer look back on this royal tour reveals a much more foreboding and grueling tale.
Jason Kenzie ventures into the deep dark forests of British Columbia Canada searching for the legendary creature known as Sasquatch. Bigfoot, also known as Sasquatch, in Canadian folklore and American folklore, is an ape-like creature that is reported to inhabit the forests of North America...
'A JOURNEY TO SUNDANCE' is about the spirit, dreams and struggles of independent filmmakers from all over the world, as well as my own struggles to finish this enormous undertaking.
Seven days before leaving to make a documentary with Diveheart, his son dies of a drug overdose. He decides to go anyway but doesn’t tell anyone about his loss. He learns about healing and adapting from these adaptive divers.
What does it mean for a “black” person to say, “I’m an Israelite.” Why does this identification cause so much chaos? Are “black” people the original Hebrew Israelites the Bible spoke of? If not, then who are you? If not, who are they?
Who were the sons of God as mentioned in Genesis 6? A group of Biblical scholars and Church leaders explore different theories on these mysterious beings.
Near 140 birds filmed all over the Continent in their natural habitats, with their song or call .and/or the ambient sound. A narration about their features or behavior, 10 years of filming. for phone or desktop.
The story of organized crime in Las Vegas is an intriguing tale of murder greed and corruption. Learn how the mob built the most dazzling and decadent city in the West before being dismantled by federal prosecutors hell-bent on taking them down. Through newsreels, archival photos and first hand accounts from those who participated, American Mafia: Las Vegas takes you inside the story from the people who know it best.
On the 10th of June, 1940. Benito Mussolini declared war on France and Britain. It brought the war to the Mediterranean. This was Mussolini's war as Hitler was focused heavily on his ambitions in Eastern Europe. This war consoled of land, sea and air battle where the land battles were usually determined by the outcome of the sea battles.
The first combined army consisting of British and US troops banding together to push their enemy from North Africa for good. One of the most famous campaigns of the entire second world war. A harsh, physical environment tested the strength of all men on both sides of the war. The war in Tunisia.
In the early months of 1941, Italy's offensive had stalled and a Greek counter-offensive pushed into Albania. Germany sought to aid Italy by deploying troops to Romania and Bulgaria and attacking Greece from the east. Meanwhile, the British landed troops and aircraft to shore up Greek defences. A coup d'état in Yugoslavia on 27 March caused Adolf Hitler to order the conquest of that country.
The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it was the largest seaborne invasion in history. The operation began the liberation of German-occupied France (and later western Europe) and laid the foundations of the Allied victory on the Western Front.