In a remote village in Thailand, Sukwan, an 8-year-old autodidact, is building with her parents’ help a life-sized version of ‘Snowyaland’: an imaginary world she has conceived in her own mind. Against all odds, the modest family has been pursuing this colossal endeavour over the years while attempting to preserve Sukwan’s luxuriant inner world as she is soon approaching adolescence and its many temptations.
An epic journey forty years in the making, acclaimed filmmaker, Louie Schwartzberg, the director of Fantastic Fungi, takes us on a transformational, cinematic experience of how to live a more meaningful life full of Gratitude through his intimate conversations with everyday people, thought leaders, and personalities such as Norman Lear, Jack Kornfield, Luisah Teish, Alex Grey and other luminaries.
Sign The Show: Deaf Culture, Access and Entertainment is a feature-length documentary providing insight into Deaf culture and the quest for access to entertainment. It brings together entertainers, the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (HOH) community, and American Sign Language interpreters to discuss accessibility at live performances in a humorous, heartfelt, and insightful way.
Shot on 16mm film, Hardface explores the enduring bond between fighter and trainer, through the lens of fighter-turned-trainer Richard 'Hardface' Mason. The film follows two promising young fighters who embark on the journey to become the gym's next champions. The past merges with the present through family archive footage and interviews, revealing why John Falcone's fighters 'always come home.'
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.
Explores the world of body image through the eyes of children and covers topics including diversity, social media, photoshopping, the influence of media and positive role models.
Mike and Alanna drove a motorbike and sidecar from Alaska to Argentina and interviewed 120 couples about how to stay together for life. They also subjected themselves to scientific tests, to see if their marriage would last. They found out the results at the end of the road...
30 years on from the Chinese state's brutal put-down of a student-led pro-democracy protest in 1989, ABC Australia looks back through its video archive to unearth never-before-seen footage captured by its team on the ground. A watershed moment in a post-Mao China, the Communist Party has sought to erase all public discourse and memory of that day, making this record all the more significant.
"Coming Up from the Ashes" is the story of how a community found the courage, strength, and resilience to endure the toughest of times and together. On August 27, 2020, Hurricane Laura, a Category 4 storm, struck Southwest Louisiana.
In this cinematic view of Mongolia’s past and present, film director & novelist Robert H. Lieberman and long-time creative collaborators PhotoSynthesis Productions take us inside this vast but little-known land. New York Times best-selling author Jack Weatherford (“Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World”) delves into the extraordinary life and times of Genghis Khan. His Mongol Empire, which encompassed all of Asia, much of the Middle East and Europe continues to affect us even today. The film’s soundtrack weaves from ancient throat singing to Russian-influenced opera to contemporary Mongolian rock. Intimate stories told by Mongolians, from nomads to city dwellers, provide a rare insight into their psyches and the challenges they face in their post-Soviet world.
A Flash of Beauty: Bigfoot Revealed presents interviews from researchers and eyewitnesses. The film covers historical accounts of Bigfoot, the significance within the indigenous cultures, and the emotional impact of a Bigfoot experience.
From The Director of the acclaimed documentary, Steak (R)evolution, comes Look Back In Angus. A tale of culture, history and, crucially, great food, this is the extraordinary and compelling story of how a small Scottish cow came to dominate global cuisine.
Delve into the lives of four former gang members, drug dealers and ex convicts who share a narrative of pain, shame and the consequences of machismo. Although their stories may seem hopeless they are witness of a changing power not of this world.
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.
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.
Operation Watchtower by American forces was a military campaign fought between 7 August 1942 and 9 February 1943 on and around the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific theatre of World War II. It was the first major land offensive by Allied forces against the Empire of Japan.