To his guests – artists, scientists, writers, philosophers and musicians – Wim Kayzer in Of Beauty and Consolation asks the philosophical question: What makes this life worth living?
Adventurers and their teams battle Mother Nature to build unique homes in remote areas. From unpredictable weather to encroaching wildlife, will they build in time to beat their deadlines?
Award-winning filmmaker Joe Berlinger sends documentary teams across the country to uncover the real reasons Americans can’t agree on what’s true and what’s not.
Riku and Tunna travel around the globe on a shoestring budget, carrying nothing but their backpacks and a camera, on a quest to reveal the most bizarre and dangerous secrets of the planet. No crew, no security, no limits.
During the 1970s the Middle East was a battleground for the Cold War; liberal pro-Western forces battled with pro-Soviet Arab Nationalists and Baathists.
But in 1979 a series of events – the Iranian Revolution, Egypt’s peace with Israel, the Mecca Mosque Siege, and the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan – contributed to a radical change in the mind-set of the region and its leaders.
It was the start of the meteoric rise of radical Islam.
A good-looking, delicious and fun documentary. Fresh, strange and colorful fruits transform and switch like a kaleidoscope; dynamic moments of fruit juice splashing and full of explosive power; the beautiful process of the quiet changes of the four seasons, showing things that cannot be detected by the naked eye.
Quarks? Raw, unfiltered footage. No format, no formatting. No limits, no taboos. A way of approaching reporting that begins precisely where television cuts out, exploring offbeat, marginal, subcultural, or extreme worlds with plenty of humor, irony, and a deliberately provocative tone, while maintaining an investigative character.
As told through clips from 183 female directors, this epic history of the cinema focuses on women's integral role in the development of film art. Using almost a thousand film extracts from thirteen decades and five continents, Mark Cousins asks how films are made, shot and edited; how stories are shaped and how movies depict life, love, politics, humour and death, all through the compelling lens of some of the world's greatest filmmakers -- all of them women.
The European Space Agency (ESA) has selected a new team of trained astronauts to go not only to the International Space Station, but also to the Moon with the Artemis mission. With the discoveries made by James Webb and new-generation launchers such as Ariane 6, there are many new developments in European space exploration.