Unprecedented access into one of the world's greatest musical talents and his larger than life lifestyle: Elton John. With frank, funny, and touching filmmaking, this documentary is a fascinating and honest look at the complex character of a modern day composer and performing artist.
This large format film explores the last great wilderness on earth. It takes you to the coldest, driest, windiest continent, Antarctica. The film explores the life in Antarctica, both for the animals that live their and the scientist that work there.
An inside look as the 38-year-old prepares to perform at the famed Bridgestone Arena in his hometown of Nashville, featuring never-before-seen tour footage and interviews with the musician and those closest to him. It also shows how Jelly Roll balances life on tour with philanthropic work, including a visit to a juvenile detention facility where he was incarcerated multiple times to share his story in the hopes of inspiring positive change in others.
Wang Xilin, 86, is one of China's most important modern classical composers. During the Cultural Revolution he was the target of severe persecution, enduring beatings, imprisonment and torture. With excerpts from his Symphonies, he revisits for this film some of the horrifying events that still live on in his memory as testimony to an era that saw the dehumanization of the entire Chinese nation.
Cast and crew speak on adapting One Shot as the first Jack Reacher film, casting Tom Cruise, earning Lee Child's blessing, additional character qualities and the performances that shape them, Lee Child's cameo in the film, and shooting the film's climax.
The extraordinary life of playwright, singer, actor, composer, and director Noël Coward, who rose from poverty to stardom while keeping his sexuality a secret. Featuring Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith, Frank Sinatra, Michael Caine and Lucille Ball. Narrated by Alan Cumming. With Rupert Everett as the voice of Noël Coward. Directed by Academy Award Nominee Barnaby Thompson.
A couple of filmmaking friends decide to work together and choose "walruses" - lovers of winter swimming and tempering — as the theme of their new work. And although it is not so difficult to establish contact with them, questions about how deeply a person can penetrate into the community from the outside arise again and again, as well as about which way of representation would be the most appropriate. One thing clings to the other, and now, thanks to the walrus clubs in Strogino and Shchukino, new arguments about why to make a movie are surfacing.
A group of male celebrities strip down to raise awareness for prostate, testicular, and colorectal cancer testing and research in this daring two-hour special.
Return of the New Zealand Sea Lion. This is one of New Zealand's greatest wildlife comeback stories, as the locally extinct New Zealand Sea Lion reclaims the beaches along the South Island coastline for the first time in over 150 years. Join wildlife filmmaker JJ Emerson as he dives deep into the history of this iconic marine mammal, spending time amongst the Sea Lions in their newly reclaimed habitat, on the outskirts of Dunedin.
The singer has a fascinating back story, having arrived in Ireland in 1987. Within a year, she had won over the Irish people and became the biggest-selling female artist of the day.
In this new film from Arena, a cast of musical experts and admirers uncover the truth about the Maria Callas myth and the gift of her extraordinary voice.
The story of how Aurora Mardiganian (1901-94), a survivor of the Armenian genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire (1915-17), became a Hollywood silent film star.
A rarely seen 'rockumentary' made by Paul McCartney and his then band, Wings, at Abbey Road studios in London, in August 1974. The film features live performances and voiceovers with each member talking about their musical experiences up to that point.