With nearly 1.5 million soldiers and a budget of 700 billion dollars, the US army is the most powerful military force in the world. Present on all continents, it imposes American hard power abroad and helps manage natural disasters or national emergencies at home.
In his abbreviated one and a half terms as Prime Minister of Israel, Menachem Begin faced a maelstrom of challenges and made a handful of fateful decisions that led to both creating peace and launching a hubristic war. This multi-faceted portrait merges rare archival footage shown for the first time, as well as current interviews of key figures from Begin’s time as Prime Minister.
A brotherhood of downhill skateboarders battle negative public perception and a recent ban on the sport, while pushing their limits on the dramatic and dangerous mountain roads above Santa Barbara, California.
In 2012, one in three babies in America were delivered by c-section, despite the World Health Organization's recommendation that Cesarean births remain below 15 percent. How can these disturbing trend be reversed? In recent years, the idea of a collaborative care practice where doctors and midwives manage women's care together has begun to gain traction in the United States. The Mama Sherpas is a feature-length documentary film about women receiving their maternity care through midwife-doctor teams. We follow nurse midwives, the doctors they work with, and their patients to provide an investigative lens into how midwives work within the hospital system.
Think Thank goes straight to the dome with Right Brain Left Brain. Meticulously messy, precisely unpredictable and controlled chaos; snowboarding is everything and can do anything. Such a lofty pursuit takes both halves of one’s brain. Think Thank is taking the time this season to pull our brains apart, examine the differences and then put them back stronger than ever. Creative control concisely conjured for cuticle carousing co-opting corrosive comatose inducing creatures. Thanks again brain!
A retired military weatherman who worked at Area 51 from 1965 to 1967 recounts his encounters with extra-terrestrial beings while making wild claims about the influence aliens have on governments and other aspects of society.
Polish professional heavyweight Marcin Rozalski cuts a menacing figure with his shaved head, tattoo-covered body and his two pit-bulls, Stalin and Satan. 'Life of a Butterfly' takes an intimate look at the man behind the bellicose mask and what motivates him to fight everyday. At 33 he knows his career cannot last forever and part of him longs to begin a new chapter in life. On the other hand, he feels resigned to his violent fate.
On November 5th 2017 the largest mass shooting in Texas history occurred inside a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas. Although 26 were murdered that day, more than half the people survived, some of them miraculously.
Before he wrote the book that revolutionized the way people understood evolution, a young Charles Darwin found himself, by chance, on a strange sea voyage. This is the story of the HMS Beagle, which traveled from Great Britain to survey South America's coastline, but also became part of its Captain Fitzroy's flawed social experiment. It's a tale of bold exploration, tragic miscalculation, the death of a civilization, and the birth of Darwinism.
A documentary film focusing on the current state of the music business and on how "the brand" of a rock group, in many cases, has more power than the band members themselves.
An intimate portrait of reclusive poet/musician David Berman and his band the Silver Jews. In the midst of their first ever world tour in the summer of 2006, David, his wife Cassie, and the rest of the band--Tony Crow (keyboards), Brian Kotzur (drums), Peyton Pinkerton (guitar), and William Tyler (guitar)--stopped off in Israel to play two shows in Tel Aviv and visit Jerusalem.
THE HAPPIEST BABY reveals a secret used for centuries by the world's top parents...the calming reflex. It is almost an "off switch" for your baby's crying and an "on switch" for sleep. With just a little practice, you'll calm most crying fast...and add 1-3 hours to your baby's sleep! For over 30 years, Dr. Karp has taught his remarkable techniques to over a million parents.
In 2016, Nick Skelton won first place at the Summer Olympic Games in Rio. The Englishman did so on the back of a horse bred in the Netherlands. This documentary is in search of the secret of the Dutch horse breeder and discovers that success also has a flip side. The sperm of a winning horse is invaluable and therefore it leads to painful decisions in the world of sports.
«Izolyatsia» was a major art center in Eastern Europe, was transformed into a prison and torture camp after Russia's 2014 occupation of Donetsk. This film examines survivor testimonies, revealing the tragic dehumanization of a place once dedicated to art.
On the High Plains of Southwest Kansas, a thriving community sustained for decades by waves of immigrants becomes the target of white nationalists intent on killing the latest arrivals: Muslims. When they attempt to recruit a local man with a conscience, he infiltrates them. Partnering with the FBI, he risks his life to prevent the attack and bring the domestic terrorists to justice. Animated courtroom testimony of the plot is interwoven with the inspiring story of immigration and the determination of a community to welcome the world.