Jürgen Leppert, also known as "Der Dreher" or "der Kreisel" is a graduate engineer, speaker inventor, 360 degree dancer, gifted Frisbee player and thoroughbred 68er. Everything revolves around the Karlsruher legend, and not just on the dance floor. A declaration of love to music, dancing and rebellion. A portrait of a tough person who still swims against the stream and the living proof that 81 years is far from too old for hard raves.
Māori tribal leader Ned Tapa takes a group of friends and family on a breathtaking canoe trip down the Whanganui River in Aotearoa, as the Māori call New Zealand. The Whanganui is the first river to be recognized as a legal person. Together, this diverse group of people embraces the spirit of the river and tries to find what is needed to save the planet.
He was welcomed at the White House, met billionaires like Bill Gates and counted cricket legend Imran Khan as a friend. Silent since his 2019 dawn arrest at Heathrow Airport, tycoon Arif Naqvi is now seen and heard for the first time.
A skate video film that provides a fascinating insight into the unique and rapidly emerging subculture of skaters.
Skate video featuring Lyn-Z Adams Hawkins Pastrana, Cara-Beth "CB" Burnside, Vanessa Torres, Amy Caron, Mimi Knoop and others.
Interviews with Eva Dahlgren, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Anders Hillborg are shown inbetween performances from their concert from Stockholm Central Station in the summer of 1995.
A behind the scenes look at "The Godfather" from 1971.
Leyla and her six-year-old daughter Nila live in the holy city of Mashhad in Iran. Nila is the result of a temporary marriage, which allows a man to marry a woman even if he is already married. Children born from such a relationship are legally non-existent. As long as the father does not recognize the child, no birth certificate can be issued and Nila cannot attend school. The documentary depicts Leyla's tireless efforts to clarify Nila's legal status in order to offer her a perspective for her future. In a never-ending bureaucratic battle, Leyla fights not only against the legal system, but also against a judgmental society.
When Jair Bolsonaro was elected president this fall, it was with the support of Brazil's most conservative forces: the Christian right, the military and the landowners. With a program against abortion and same-sex marriage but for traditional family structures, the right to carry weapons and an expanded exploitation of the Amazon, Brazil is moving towards an increasingly repressive policy where dissidents are labeled as terrorists and where military and police powers are extended.
Dolley Madison lived through the two wars that established the U.S., was friends with the first 12 Presidents, and watched America evolve from a struggling young republic to the first modern democracy in the world.
You Remind Me of Me is about the varying lives of girls who love to ride - surfboards, skateboards, snowboards - viewed through a kaleidoscope of separate experiences and insights.
Hard rock and chicken farming have a common denominator spelled Hampus Klang – a middle-aged man who, with his dedicated commitment, makes it to the big rock stages as well as to the podium for the best-looking hen.
The fourth thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren.
This 1967 footage shows McLaren at a computer with Evelyn Lambart, Rene Pardo and two other technicians, followed by the animation test some call Birdlings. McLaren found computers still too primitive for his needs and continued to explored the optical printer in Pas De Deux, Synchromy and Narcissus. Silent film.
The fuse is lit when Jon, a chronic optimist, desperately seeks affirmation from his salty older friend, Daryl, by embarking on a cross-country road trip with an experimental motorcycle in an effort to realize Daryl's dream of seeing the Pacific Coast before he completely loses the remainder of his eyesight to a rare condition.
The fifth thematic mini documentary about revolutionary filmmaker Norman McLaren; this time with a focus on his collaborator Evelyn Lambart.
An in-depth look into the icon that is Mattel's most famous product, Barbie. Mary Portas explores the production of the doll from manufacture to sale, and also meets some of its biggest fans.
Discover the most complex and ambitious space mission ever undertaken, which aimed to understand the origin and evolution of our Solar System. On November the 12th, millions of miles from Earth, a spacecraft will make history by attempting to land on an icy rock nearly three-miles across, hurtling through space at 41,000 mi/hr. An international team of scientists will work around the clock to make sure the orbiter Rosetta, and lander Philae, will survive the journey to accomplish their mission. If successful, Rosetta and Philae could help peer into our past and unlock secrets from our very origins. The stakes couldn’t be higher.