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Tea: The Drink That Changed The World

2024

Tea: The Drink That Changed The World

2024
Tea tells a fascinating story of how a humble beverage became humanity’s universal language. From its mystical Chinese origins to global dominance, tea shaped empires, ignited revolutions, and fueled industrial espionage. Filmed in China's forbidden tea region and historic Boston Harbor, this documentary unveils tea’s secretive past, including the audacious heist that transplanted it from China to India. Offering a fresh perspective, it reveals how tea has profoundly influenced art, culture, and trade—one cup at a time.
Between the Beats

2024

Between the Beats

2024
3.5
San Francisco was the epicenter of the American rave scene and witnessed some legendary events that began in the early ‘90s. These all-night electronic-music dance parties are culturally iconic and socially important.
Application To Be Lars Von Trier's "Female Girlfriend/Muse"

2025

Application To Be Lars Von Trier's "Female Girlfriend/Muse"

2025
Summer 2023 filmmaker and Dogme 95 founder Lars Von Trier posted a video on instagram seeking applications for a, "female girlfriend/muse." Later that week I visited Rose, my 72 year old neighbor, best friend, and possibly my muse to film an application and examine our relationship. Lars has yet to respond.
Sex, Drugs and String Quartets

2004

Sex, Drugs and String Quartets

2004
The Landau String Quartet come together to rehearse. Together they make wonderful music and yet each has traveled a very different path to become a musician. This dramatised documentary reveals each musician's intimate story centred around the long journey they have traveled with their instrument. Leon, the first-born son of Polish Jewish migrants to Australia is destined to become a great violinist, but his life moves in unexpected directions under the influence of his abusive teacher. Julia loses her innocence and discovers her own deep sensuality through her experience with music, and a handsome conductor. Richard plays the violin to escape his stifling suburban family. He encounters the dark and fearful world of his own psyche on his travels to the city to play.. Christie, a young cellist, throws off the shackles of her disciplined musician's life and escapes on an adventure with a handsome stranger, a journey that ultimately brings her face to face with herself.
Love Works: A Story of Healing and Hope

2022

Love Works: A Story of Healing and Hope

2022
Faced with his father’s explosive temper and impossible expectations, Chris walks away from a pro golf career to follow a calling to the ministry.
Losing Grace Finding Hope

2024

Losing Grace Finding Hope

2024
Grace Caroline Loncar was striking, brilliant, sarcastically funny, insanely talented, and popular. She came from a prominent family in Dallas. To anyone looking from the outside, she was the girl who had it all. The one you hoped to know. The one you dreamt to be. Grace was sixteen when she took her own life on November 26, 2016. Suicide does not discriminate, and the after-effects are just as earth-shattering as the tragedy itself. This documentary seeks to spread awareness by shining a light on the loved ones left behind. It is our heartfelt hope that anyone who has lost a loved one to suicide will be inspired by this family's remarkable journey and realize that there is purpose in their pain, & the possibility of healing & happiness after suffering devastating loss. Surviving and thriving after the death of a loved one to suicide is possible.
The Complete Taylor Swift Story

2023

The Complete Taylor Swift Story

2023
5.3
Swift is regarded as a trailblazer of the twenty-first century for her diverse musical ability, songwriting skill, and business acumen, all of which have inspired musicians, entrepreneurs, and businesspeople worldwide.
Autism in America

2015

Autism in America

2015
Autism in America: Putting the puzzle together, one beautiful piece at a time, is a genuine and straightforward look into the Autism Spectrum Disorder as told by the families and individuals living with Autism daily. Many parents are interviewed including Ruth Sullivan, Ph.D., the mother of a man named Joe who was the inspiration for Dustin Hoffman’s autistic character in the movie “Rain Man.” We also hear from a young woman named Alexis, the first autistic person to run for the title of Miss America.
Lands End

2023

Lands End

2023
A journey of ups and downs, following Barney Page as he rides the length of the British Isles on his skateboard in memory of his friend Ben Raemers. Lands End seeks to shine a light on the darkness of suicide and discusses how we can turn the corner on Mental Health.
A Journey Into the Holocaust

2015

A Journey Into the Holocaust

2015
7.3
A detailed and deeply personal exploration into genocide and how something this atrocious happened, and continues to happen again and again - even in modern times. First-time filmmaker, Paul Bachow, travels around the world and taps into a vast knowledge base of historians, psychology practitioners, and data derived from countless interviews with experts from around the world.
Seeking Fire

2022

Seeking Fire

2022
Filmmakers Ian Bawa and Quan Luong travel the world meeting with people that are financially free, while also exploring their own relationship with money.
Three Mile

2015

Three Mile

2015
"When you build a car with the Rolling Bones you are expected to be at Bonneville. . . that's what these cars are all about" Join Brian Darwas and the Rolling Bones Hot Rod Shop on a cross country trip full of roadside breakdowns, shop tours, parking lot parties and plenty of racing at what most people consider the birthplace of hot rodding, the legendary Bonneville Salt Flats. All thirteen hot rods embark on a life time adventure from New York to Utah, where Keith Cornell breaks the world record for the fastest Ford Y-block. With enough salt pit rebuilds, tech inspections, and race runs to keep even the most jaded gearhead one the edge of their seat. Be there to experience the sun on your face and salt in the air when it all comes down to that THREE MILE pass.
Emission Impossible: The Future of Flight

2023

Emission Impossible: The Future of Flight

2023
Without an alternative to fossil fuels for the aviation industry, one start-up keenly understands the urgency of reaching global climate goals by disrupting air travel. Sustainability for this company means not staying grounded but innovating the way we fly entirely and convincing policy officials, airlines and suppliers to come aboard. Their proposal? A hydrogen-fuelled, commercially viable plane that will replace ones fuelled by kerosene.
Propaganda Swing - Dr. Goebbels' Jazz Orchestra

2018

Propaganda Swing - Dr. Goebbels' Jazz Orchestra

2018
In the twisted annals of the Third Reich, few stories are so improbable as that of Charlie and his Orchestra. Even as Nazis campaigned against degenerate jazz music, behind the scenes the Propaganda Ministry was creating a jazz orchestra.
Put Your Heart on the Page: Plotting to Enrich Your Back Story

2014

Put Your Heart on the Page: Plotting to Enrich Your Back Story

2014
Learn to write a mystery novel from one of the masters... Anne Perry.
4 Days to End Cancer

2022

4 Days to End Cancer

2022
A group of strangers come together to do the impossible, create a business solution that will end cancer globally in just 4 days.
Adele: 30 Greatest Moments

2022

Adele: 30 Greatest Moments

2022
7
A countdown of memorable events from the singer's career, from the time the north London teenager first burst onto the scene in 2008 to the present day. The programme visits some of the key places in Adele's life, from her old school to the studios in which she has recorded her record-breaking albums, and hears from those who have known her along the way.
El niño gato

2022

El niño gato

2022
Jack Has a Plan

2023

Jack Has a Plan

2023
When Jack, a man with a terminal brain tumor for 25 years, decides to end his life, his family and friends struggle to accept his decision. Jack's best friend documents his three-year quest to die a happy man.
Imperfect

2021

Imperfect

2021
A professional company of actors with disabilities defies expectations by taking center stage in Chicago the musical.