Sasha, Ira, Nina and Lyosha are orphans who graduated from an orphanage. They got apartments, but they are absolutely not adapted to independent life, although some of them already have children. What does love and responsibility mean for people who have never been taught this, and family for someone who did not have it?
A documentary series about three boys from Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan who live in the same entrance of an ordinary St. Petersburg house. Their families came to Russia for typical migrant reasons — no money, no job, no future at home. But the boys don't care about that yet: they go to school, fall in love, play and grow up — in short, they have a lot of adventures and fun while they are warmed by friendship and youth.
A unique look at one of the oldest professions and cultures in the world. The director-observer travels with the circus, revealing to the viewer the joys, sorrows, adventures and realities of a sometimes harsh and sometimes touching wandering life.
Russia's top athletes will show their world closed from prying eyes. They will introduce you to your family, tell you how to live when your body fails, and answer the main question — why do they need all this?
It is no secret to the creative environment that ballet dancers are more likely than others to face harassment and blackmail from teachers and theater managers. Despite this, all active dancers claim that theaters and ballet schools are "monasteries with their own rules", which the artist is obliged to accept, and for years they have tolerated the clause about sexual obedience to masters and mentors inscribed in this charter. For what reason are ballet dancers silent about the dark side of the profession and what is really hiding their silence?
The key line of the project is the story of Sergei Kutovoy, one of the first bloggers with disabilities, who achieved deafening popularity at the time. Each episode will feature several more characters reflecting the theme of the series.
Cult Justice explores the magnetic power of criminal cult leaders—and the dramatic investigations that finally brought them to justice. Through the lens of the criminal justice system, every episode takes viewers deep inside a different modern-day cult. And—from sex trafficking and forced labour, to extortion, polygamy, and even murder—introduces the journalists, law enforcement agents, and prosecutors who gradually built the case against them. Meanwhile, brave survivors share first-hand accounts of how they were born or lured into the fold by twisted ideologies and false promises—and how they ultimately helped bring down these false prophets who thought they were above the law.
A down-and-dirty, up-close look at the rugged, blue-collar heroes that keep America's centuries-old sewer systems running so the rest of us can stay out of the muck and the mire.
In a riveting character-led narrative full of unimaginable twists and turns normally reserved for fiction, detectives discover two depraved men who killed at least 25 people in pursuit of their macabre sexual fantasy to enslave young women at a remote cabin in the woods, and who documented their horrifying crimes. All these years later, mystery still swirls around the facts of this case and the possible involvement of a third person, whose story the show will seek to uncover.
In this documentary series, interspersed with historical reconstructions, Tom Waes investigates what has happened since the arrival of the first Homo sapiens, on the 14,000 square kilometers that we today call Flanders.