A film by STEVE THOMAS. Amal Basry watched “Titanic” at a cinema in Baghdad the night before she fled Iraq. 18 months later she was on a people smuggling boat which sank between Indonesia and Australia. Amal survived by clinging for 22 hours to the floating body of a dead woman. Now Amal…
FUTURE SHOCK! The Story of 2000 AD charts how the multi-award winning comic came to be, how it has survived for 37 years, and how it continues to be an innovator and game-changer in both comics and the wider cultural world beyond.
The fascinating true story of Andrew J Paris, the Bubble Gum King and how he, as a single businessman, cornered the latex market for the entire western hemisphere and ruled the bubble gum world.
JL Ratchel had the good idea to knock on the door of PVS Company and ask them to produce a documentary retracing his career. It must be said that the boy has things to tell. Born in the Antilles, he arrives at the age of 12 (1998) in La Clusaz, France. It will take him little time to tame his skis and…
For ballet fans, as well as those interested in the dance arts, A Life for Ballet offers a stunning look at the master Pierre Lacotte and his impressive career. Lacotte and his wife and dance partner, Ghislaine Thesmar, influenced the world of ballet with their work, including adaptations of romantic…
12.000 lions live in South Africa. However, 8.000 of them live in captivity behind bars, in breeding farms. They are part of a cruel industry reducing the king of the beast to a product used as tourist attraction for cub petting and for the purpose of a so-called canned hunt. International thrillseekers…
In February 2014 a group of amputee military veterans set forth on a monumental goal for physical and spiritual recovery. They would train and climb the world's tallest free-standing mountain, Mt. Kilimanjaro (19341ft) in Tanzania, Africa. Consisting of six amputees and five wing man climbers, the…
the fight for fair food
Children of the Arctic is a portrait of five Native Alaskan teenagers coming of age in Barrow, Alaska - the northern-most community of the United States. As they embark on their journey into adulthood, they strive to be both modern American kids and the inheritors of an ancient whaling culture. For the…
Multi-awarded Nikolaus Geyrhalter delivers stunning images from inside the immense CERN apparatus. Alternated with interviews with the experts who devised and operate this gigantic big bang machine, the film gives an insight into the complex experimental research institution.
Nominated for a Goya, this short film tells the story of four men who - after spending years of their lives on Death Row for crimes they did not commit - were exonerated and freed. Ron, Shujaa, Greg and Albert. Four men who have experienced first-hand the injustice of America’s Death Row. “We’ve…
Elephant poaching worldwide has reached epidemic proportions. In Kenya, the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust provides a sanctuary for baby elephants who are its greatest victims, left to die without the nurture and protection of their matriarchal herds. In 2010 a baby elephant named Sities was rescued…
