Africa (TV Series 2013- )
Documentary
Eye to eye with the unknown – the world's wildest continent. David Attenborough takes a breathtaking journey through the vast and diverse continent of Africa as it has never seen before
Starring: Forest Whitaker, David Attenborough, Simon Blakeney
Creator: Mike Gunton
The Green Planet / Das grüne Wunder – Unser Wald (2012)
Documentary
Take a spectacular journey to one of Earth’s most beautiful and diverse natural habitats: The Forest.
Starring: Benno Fürmann
Director: Jan Haft
The Sheik and I (2012)
Comedy | Documentary
Commissioned by a Middle Eastern Biennial to make a film on the theme of "art as a subversive act," independent filmmaker Caveh Zahedi (I AM A SEX ADDICT) goes overboard. Told that he can do whatever he wants except make fun of the Sheik, who rules the country and finances the Biennial, Zahedi decides to do just that. He turns his camera on the Biennial itself and gleefully presses every culturally sensitive button he can find. But his court jester antics fails to amuse. Zahedi's film is banned for blasphemy and he is threatened with a fatwa.
Starring: Caveh Zahedi
Director: Caveh Zahedi
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Bully / The Bully Project (2011)
Documentary
A documentary on peer-to-peer bullying in schools across America.
Starring: Alex, Ja'Maya, Kelby, David Long, Tina Long, Kirk Smalley
Director: Lee Hirsch
Great Barrier Reef (TV Series 2012)
Documentary
Stretching a full 2000 kilometres in length and made up of 3000 individual reef systems and hundreds of islands, Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is breathtakingly beautiful. Selected as a World Heritage Site in 1981, it is one of the wonders of the natural world. These programmes offer a definitive guide to the secrets of the reef – how it was created, how it works, the intricate relationships between its inhabitants and how climate change and other factors might shape its future. Using the latest specialist filming and visual techniques, the series captures the magic of the reef as it has never been seen before.
Starring: Monty Halls, Karl Stefanovic
Director: James Brickell
Side by Side (2012)
Documentary
Documentary directed by Chris Kenneally and presented by Keanu Reeves which explores the ongoing debate between traditional celluloid and digital film. In conversation with a number of world renowned directors and industry experts including David Lynch, James Cameron, Martin Scorsese and Anthony Dod Mantle, the documentary tells the story of filmmaking and gives those on both sides of the debate the chance to argue their points and preferences as digital film begins to assert itself as a more cost-effective and accessible means of production.
Starring: David Fincher, Lars von Trier, Christopher Nolan, David Lynch, Robert Rodriguez, Danny Boyle, James Cameron, Martin Scorsese, Steven Soderbergh
Narrator: Keanu Reeves
Director: Christopher Kenneally
South Pacific (TV Series 2009)
Documentary
South Pacific is a British documentary nature series co-produced by BBC Natural History Unity and Discovery Channel. The six part series shows the history of South Pacific region islands including various Nova Zelândia. It was entirely filmed on high definition.
Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Mike Rowe, Richard Wollocombe
Creator: Fiona Pitcher
Space Dive: The Red Bull Stratos Story (2012)
Documentary
A documentary of one man's quest to freefall back to earth from the edge of space, to become the first man to fall faster than the speed of sound.
Starring: Shaun Dooley, Liev Schreiber, Felix Baumgartner
Director: Colin Barr
$ellebrity / Sellebrity (2012)
Documentary
Celebrity photographer Kevin Mazur gives an all access pass to life behind the velvet rope and in front of the camera.
Starring: Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer Lopez, Sarah Jessica Parker, Marc Anthony, Rosanna Arquette, Sheryl Crow, Bonnie Fuller, Salma Hayek, Elton John, Kid Rock
Director: Kevin Mazur
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Hottest Place on Earth (TV Series 2009)
Documentary
A team of experts and explorers venture into the Danakil desert in Northern Ethiopia to investigate the incredible geology of the area, and to find out how the people and their animals survive in the hottest place on earth.
Starring: Kate Humble, Steve Leonard
Director: Rupert Smith
Untamed Americas (TV Series 2012)
Documentary
Narrated by Academy Award-nominated actor Josh Brolin, this four-hour high-definition miniseries event explores the Americas like we've never seen them before, giving us an intimate look at some of the greatest wildlife spectacles and against-the-odds fights for survival ever captured on camera.
Narrator: Josh Brolin
Creator: Andy Mitchell
The Other Dream Team (2012)
Documentary
The incredible story of the 1992 Lithuanian basketball team, whose athletes struggled under Soviet rule, became symbols of Lithuania's independence movement, and – with help from the Grateful Dead – triumphed at the Barcelona Olympics.
Starring: Sarunas Marciulionis, Arvydas Sabonis, Rimas Kurtinaitis, Greg Speirs, Bill Walton, Jim Lampley, Mickey Hart
Director: Marius A. Markevicius
The Imposter (2012)
Biography | Documentary
A gripping thriller straight out of real life, THE IMPOSTER is an original film experience that walks the razor’s edge between true-crime documentary and stylish noir mystery. The twisting, turning tale begins with an unsettling disappearance – that of Nicholas Barclay, a 13 year-old Texas boy who vanishes without a trace. Three and a half years later, staggering news arrives: the boy has been found, thousands of miles from home in Spain, saying he survived a mind-boggling ordeal of kidnap and torture by shadowy captors. His family is ecstatic to have him back no matter how strange the circumstances – but things become far stranger once he returns to Texas…
Starring: Adam O'Brian, Frédéric Bourdin, Carey Gibson, Anna Ruben, Beverly Dollarhide
Director: Bart Layton
Asian Corridor in Heaven / Chamagodo (TV Series 2007)
Documentary
Part of the Insight Asia series, Asian Corridor In Heaven is a six-episode HD documentary series co-produced by KBS and NHK about the world's oldest trade route, the "Ancient Tea and Horse Caravan Road". Pre-dating the Silk Road by 200 years, the Ancient Tea and Horse Caravan Road crossed from the Sichuan and Yunnan provinces of Southwest China over mountainous terrain into Tibet, Nepal, and India. The Caravan Road was not only an important route for the trade of tea and horses, but also a corridor connecting Chinese and Tibetan language, people, religion, and cultures. The documentary "Chamagodo" — or "The Asian Corridor in Heaven" — takes viewers on a tour of a five-thousand-kilometer route from China's southwestern Yunnan Province to Tibet, Nepal and India. The HD documentary introduces the culture, history and civilization of the area. Chamagodo is known as the oldest trading route in the world that predates the Silk Road by 200 years.
Koyaanisqatsi (1982)
Documentary | Music
Koyaanisqatsi is a documentary (of sorts). It is also a visual concert of images set to the haunting music of 'Phillip Glass' . While there is no plot in the traditional sense, there is a definate scenario. The film opens on ancient native American cave drawings, while the soundtrack chants "Koyaanisqatsi" which is a Hopi indian term for "life out of balance". The film uses extensive time lapse photography (which speeds images up) and slow motion photography to make comparisons between different types of physical motion.
Starring: Lou Dobbs, Ted Koppel
Director: Godfrey Reggio
Samsara (2011)
Documentary
Filmed over a period of five years in twenty-five countries on five continents, and shot on 70mm film, Samsara transports us to the varied worlds of sacred grounds, disaster zones, industrial complexes, and natural wonders.
Director: Ron Fricke
Pretty Sweet (2012)
Documentary | Sport
This is an epic tale of two gangs, like The Jets and The Sharks. But Girl and Chocolate aren't even gangs. Some of them act tough and some of them act like babies. But they are even more unlike the Jets and The Sharks in that they aren't even battling each other for territory. They really don't know what the hell they are doing. They don't have a feud, most of them really like each other so that is another thing they don't have in common with the Jets and the Sharks. What they do have in common with The Jets and The Sharks is they love to dance. And when I say dance, I mean SKATE. And when I say SKATE, I mean really good. From the directors that brought you Mouse, Yeah Right and Fully Flared, another chapter in this tale with no plot, no ending but beautiful inner battles acted out on a little board with wheels.
Starring: Vincent Alvarez, Brian Anderson, Kenny Anderson, Elijah Berle, Brandon Biebel, Chico Brenes, Devine Calloway
Director: Ty Evans, Spike Jonze, Cory Weincheque
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Powaqqatsi (1988)
Documentary | Music
An exploration of technologically developing nations and the effect the transition to Western-style modernization has had on them.
Starring: Christie Brinkley, David Brinkley, Pope John Paul II, Dan Rather, Cheryl Tiegs
Director: Godfrey Reggio
Nature: The Himalayas (2011)
Documentary | Family
The Himalayan mountain system is the planet’s highest and home to the world’s largest peaks. NATURE explores the diversity of wildlife and habitats of this mountain chain, starring the mysterious snow leopard.
Starring: Chris Morgan
Creator: George Page, Thomas Lovejoy
The Imposter (2012)
Biography | Documentary
A gripping thriller straight out of real life, THE IMPOSTER is an original film experience that walks the razor’s edge between true-crime documentary and stylish noir mystery. The twisting, turning tale begins with an unsettling disappearance – that of Nicholas Barclay, a 13 year-old Texas boy who vanishes without a trace. Three and a half years later, staggering news arrives: the boy has been found, thousands of miles from home in Spain, saying he survived a mind-boggling ordeal of kidnap and torture by shadowy captors. His family is ecstatic to have him back no matter how strange the circumstances – but things become far stranger once he returns to Texas…
Starring: Adam O'Brian, Frédéric Bourdin, Carey Gibson, Anna Ruben, Beverly Dollarhide
Director: Bart Layton
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