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Reflecting Peter O'Toole's theatrical legacy, this feature documentary is structured into four acts, each introduced by a quote about O'Toole that encapsulates his life during a specific period.
A famous comedian and artist wants to display his work at an art museum. Just when he thinks he's lost his touch, a series of famous comedians drop by to help him rekindle his artistic and comedic spark.
Oculus-Spei, under the 2025 Jubilee, reimagines the Holy Doors through immersive art. Five portals explore disability, inner barriers, and hope through light. The film celebrates hope's power through art, spirituality, and technology.
The tuberculosis sanatorium was both heaven and hell within the same walls. The story of the epidemic includes death, shame and isolation as well as sanatorium romances, fun and survival stories. The film takes the viewer on a vivid journey into the sanatorium era: it gives the viewer a sanatorium experience full of surprises, and through documentary evidence, takes us to the heart of the secrets.
It has been said that no two sisters were ever less alike. One reserved and proper. The other lively and controversial. One the anchor of a commonwealth of nations. The other searching for purpose in life.
In 2020, seven Australians shared their hopes, dreams and fears and chose a landscape to reflect their experience of isolation. Three years later, they listen back with vulnerability and humour, confronting the universal question: can we use difficult times to become who we hope to be?
Intimate vérité, archival footage, and visually innovative treatments of poetry take us on a journey through the dreamscape of legendary queer poet Nikki Giovanni as she reflects on her life and legacy.
The full story of the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and the Israeli revenge operation 'Wrath of God.' The 1972 Munich Olympics were interrupted by Palestinian terrorists taking Israeli athletes hostage. Besides footage taken at the time, we see interviews with the surviving terrorist, Jamal Al Gashey, and various officials detailing exactly how the police, lacking an anti-terrorist squad and turning down help from the Israelis, botched the operation.
The Who were honored at the 2008 ceremony from the Pauley Pavilion at UCLA instead of the usual Las Vegas Mandalay Bay Events Center. The concert consisted of an hour-long performance by the band as well as tributes by Incubus, Pearl Jam, Foo Fighters, Flaming Lips, Adam Sandler and Tenacious D.
A film about life on the small island of Likiep in the Marshall Islands in Micronesia.
Amber Heard and Nicole Kidman discuss their characters Mera and Atlanna.
Near us, nature takes back what man has stolen. Within the environment of open cast brown coalmines and spoil tips which are the reminder of a lunar landscape, one finds paradoxically a true tale of an impregnable wild countryside.
The love story of a London-based Lebanese journalist and a Syrian activist and cameraman as told through 13 years of personal archives across revolutions, war, and exile.
This film essay proposes to consider feminism historically, connecting the past with the present. The images filmed today (March 8, 2024 in San Sebastián) interact with the sound and archives of the 1971 film "L'aggettivo donna," made by the Collettivo Femminista di Cinema-Roma.
Danish Documentary from 2015. Kim Larsen is Denmark's unconditional greatest songwriter. From his very first albums the slum poet from Christianshavn sings strait into the hearts of the Danes with his modern folk songs. But when Kim Larsen wants to take the next steps towards the stars, his talent paradoxically gets in the way of his success. Documentary about Kim Larsen with new versions of his songs by 'Kvamie Liv' and Carl Emil Petersen.
Brit Award-winner Sam Fender goes in search of a musical hero from another era - the late, great, Alan Hull of Lindisfarne, in this one-off BBC Four documentary.
Equatorial Guinea became independent 51 years ago from Spain. This African country lives under one of the longest-lived dictatorships in the world, Teodoro Obiang, a military man trained in Zaragoza. His regime strongly represses all freedoms, including sexual ones. Franco Spanish laws are still in force in the country, such as the «public scandal». It is not possible to protest on the street and the only LGTB organization in the country has not been able to legalize itself. In addition, the country’s Parliament is studying hardening the current penal code. To denounce the situation, the group «We are part of the world» has collected the voices of the community in a documentary that pays tribute to Fidel Lemoy, one of its best-known faces, who disappeared last year.
In 1993, 16-year-old Brandon Lee enrolled at Bearsden Academy, a secondary school in a well-to-do suburb of Glasgow, Scotland. What followed over the next two years would become the stuff of legend.
