Being a Human Person
At 76, Swedish auteur Roy Andersson is about to complete his last film. With the end of his career in sight, the central thematic concerns of Roy’s work – vulnerability, insecurity and mortality – spill over into his creative process.
Bowie: The Man Who Changed the World
Experience an inside look at David Bowie’s incredible influence on music, art and culture via interviews with some of the people who knew him best.
Blitz Spirit with Lucy Worsley
Lucy Worsley explores the lives of six real people who lived, worked and volunteered during the Blitz, highlighting the government’s reliance on ordinary people.
City 40
Hidden in the heart of Russia, there is a Soviet-era city where thousands of people live and work behind barbed-wire fences monitored by armed guards. It is Ozyorsk (Ozersk), located…
They Came from the Swamp: The Films of William Grefé
Savage! Sadistic! Thrill hungry! When it came to independent filmmaking in the sunshine state, William Grefé was the wildest of the wild! During the 1960s and ’70s, the Miami-based producer/director…
Umberto Eco: A Library of the World
A walk through the immense private library of Italian writer and thinker Umberto Eco (1932-2016).
Caligula with Mary Beard
What is true and what is false in the hideous stories spread about the controversial figure of the Roman emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (12-41), nicknamed Caligula? Professor Mary…
The People vs. Agent Orange
Two women fight to hold the manufacturers accountable for the Agent Orange catastrophe. Incriminating documents disappear. Activists are threatened. A helicopter technician secretly films the contamination exposing a massive cover-up.
Tisza: Autumn Sketches
The first signs of autumn are seen in a landscape along a river. Some villagers are stacking a bed of stone blocks on the river-bank to avoid more eroding. Others…
Ben Affleck & Jennifer Lopez: Never Say Never
The love story of pop icon Jennifer Lopez and movie star Ben Affleck began with a movie set meeting in 2002, then weaved to a Las Vegas altar 20 years…
The Fire That Took Her
Mother-of-two Judy Malinowski, then 31, was doused in petrol and set on fire by her crazed ex-boyfriend – and one of the first ever to testify from beyond the grave,…
Ukraine: The People’s Fight
Filmmaker Olly Lambert spends two months on Ukraine’s southern frontline with volunteer special forces as they begin the push to capture Kherson. The film follows “Hummer”, an experienced military commander…
The Baby Daddy
Ari Nagel, is a serial sperm donor and a father to more than a 100 children. Ari’s actions turn into a concerning Habit, jeopardizing his relationship with his eldest son,…