“My Ride with Uber and Lyft” follows taxi drivers in Boston from 2012, through the transition to Uber, and ends at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2022.
The Last Bumblebee is a solution-based documentary featuring interviews with scientists, and environmentalists discussing the importance of bumblebees as pollinators and the various threats they face.
In an era of digital, streaming, cloud-based, and electronic entertainment, pinball is a paradox. With most forms of modern entertainment downloadable to the palm of your hand, how does a 300-pound box of wires and lights survive, and continue to thrive?
Kha, architect and builder of tombs for the pharaohs, must undertake the journey to the Underworld. Telling us the story of his voyage is Jeremy Irons, in the guise of a narrator. His words take us inside the secret world of Egyptian mythology, religion and funerary culture, interweaving the story with the history of the oldest museum in the world, the Museo Egizio in Turin, founded in 1824 and will soon be celebrating its 200th anniversary. In fact, the Kha’s own Tomb is to be found in Turin along with the most complete and most valuable private collection of grave goods outside of Egypt.
Renowned Canadian cave-diver Jill Heinerth, fueled by an insatiable curiosity about Earth's hidden depths, embarks on legendary expeditions - from Mexico's extensive caves to Antarctica's iceberg realms. Amidst hair-raising dive footage, intimate interviews, and animated flashbacks Jill's motivations are unveiled. Despite over 100 personal losses in the deep, each odyssey brings her closer to the woman she aspired to be as a child. This film is a captivating narrative of exploration and self-discovery.
Embark on the epic ride of Jim Phillips, the genius behind skateboarding and rock culture's electrifying art. Drawing inspiration from his life in Santa Cruz, CA, Jim helped shape the golden era of skateboarding. Jim's story is a profound narrative of resilience, passion, and enduring artistic vision. This documentary explores Jim's dynamic life and career, showcasing his iconic work that has defined an era and secured his place in modern art history.
New York City's beloved Ukrainian restaurant Veselka is best known for its borscht and varenyky, but it has become a beacon of hope for Ukraine. As the second-generation owner Tom Birchard reluctantly retires after 54 years, his son Jason faces the pressures of stepping into his father’s shoes as the war in Ukraine impacts his family and staff.
This observational documentary follows the lives of Nashville's most dynamic exotic dancers over the course of several days - highlighting their skills as dancers, upbringing, personal relationships and business acumen.
Nevada and New Mexico always get the attention when it comes to UFO sightings and crashes but, A neighboring state has incidents that are hardly discussed. We will take an in depth look into the top 5 UFO cases that have taken place in the state of Arizona.
Three teams in junk yard rescues prepare and head out on the world's largest amateur road rally, the Budapest-Bamako. The daring adventure begins by rebuilding three iconic vehicles - a communist era Skoda, an Indian road legend - an Ambassador and a 40 year old Renault 20, all bound for a grueling 10,000 kilometer (6250 miles) road trip from Central Europe to West Africa. Will they make it to the finish line? Trans-Saharan and African off-road rally racing come alive in this adventure documentary with breathtaking desert backdrops and vibrant African cultures.
When two young people mysteriously disappeared in police custody in mainland China, their families began a 20-year dangerous search for them within the communist state. What they encountered was merciless rejection, a shocking state crime, and eventually, a sense of hope as a renewal of traditional faith emerged in China. The atrocity of state-sanctioned forced organ harvesting in China is comparable to the holocaust in World War II, with tens of thousands of victims, but the difference is: it is still going on. From Peabody Award-winning Filmmaker and Emmy Award-winning Composer.
Examining the meaning and significance of the insights that WikiLeaks shared with the world, the resulting behaviour of the governments involved, the extraordinary personal risk taken by Assange, and the wider fundamental issues around press freedom that affect all of us and our right to know.
Two rock bands, The Dandy Warhols and The Brian Jonestown Massacre, navigate fame, friendship, and fierce rivalry in a raw journey through the music industry. The 20th anniversary cut adds fresh footage and new perspectives.
John Mew thinks we're all ugly. And modern living is to blame. For decades he's waged a lonely war against orthodontics and that teenage rite of passage - braces. With his son now taking up the fight, Mew's fringe theories suddenly find an enthusiastic audience online.
Past and present collide when an Iranian American trans man time-travels through an LGBTQ+ archive on a dizzying and erotic quest to unravel his own sexual desires.
Zack Weiner is an actor residing in New York City. When the film industry shut down in 2020, Zack and his friend Joe embarked on a unique project: to make a film about running for city council, while actually running for city council.
Transcending cultural barriers and consistently going against the grain, female Nepali climber Pasang Lhamu Sherpa attempted to summit Everest four times in the early nineties. Although she was not allowed to attend school as a child, Pasang did not let that stop her from pursuing her dreams. After founding her own trekking company in Kathmandu, she blazed a trail for Nepali women via her efforts to summit Everest. Proving how big you can dream and how far you can go to achieve those dreams, she left a legacy not only for the family she has left behind, but for the myriad women following in her footsteps.
Einstein proposed that time might not flow linearly, suggesting that spacetime bends and warps under powerful matter, seen as gravity's fluctuations. During the pandemic, people experienced this concept firsthand: shrinking horizons made time seem to both stand still and race forward. Daniel Cockburn’s video Ahead of the Curve reflects this surreal period when norms vanished, and internet rabbit holes drew people in—either as black holes for doomscrolling or wormholes to discovery. Through a darkly comic narrative, Cockburn spins a tale full of unexpected twists, linking past and present with disorienting shifts in tone, setting, and tempo, offering hints of what might lie ahead.