We follow French free solo climber Alexis Landot as he prepares to scale Paris’s Mercury Tower, discovering how skyscraper climbs bring him peace amid life’s anxieties.
Free-Climbing a Skyscraper
We follow French free solo climber Alexis Landot as he prepares to scale Paris’s Mercury Tower, discovering how skyscraper climbs bring him peace amid life’s anxieties.
Kasey Altman’s life in NYC changed when she was diagnosed with a rare juvenile cancer, rhabdomyosarcoma. She turned to TikTok to document her journey, finding community and becoming a leading advocate for the #CancerTok movement.
Peru’s cocaine industry is expanding beyond the VRAEM, bringing new violence to Indigenous communities in the Amazon and along the Brazilian border. We embed with traffickers, militias, and affected communities to see the impact firsthand.
A film shifts focus from former ISIS fighter Deso Dogg to civilians fighting terror groups in northern Syria. Volunteers join Kurdish forces to stop IS and build a society based on equality and freedom.
Damian Abraham explores Delaware’s ultra-violent world of Deathmatch wrestling. This brutal style uses weapons, light bulbs, and barbed wire for maximum bloodshed. The film follows wrestler David Markland (DJ Hyde) and his CZW Tournament of Death.
The Camorra, one of the world’s oldest criminal groups, is changing in Naples. Child gangs and social media stunts are replacing the old rule of omertà. We visit Le Vele Di Scampia and Parco Verde to meet a child gang and a social worker trying to stop them.
Tir Dhondy explores heroin users who claim to maintain normal lives while using the drug. The film asks whether it’s truly possible to be a “functioning” heroin user.
South Korean scientists are attempting to clone the prehistoric woolly mammoth using frozen specimens from Siberia. Shady tusk hunters aid the project by uncovering mammoths in the melting permafrost. We travel to Seoul, Yakutsk, and Moscow to explore humanity’s quest to profit from—and revive—this extinct species.
For the first time in centuries, young women in Japan are turning away from marriage as shifting gender norms and economic independence reshape relationships. In this documentary, Karley Sciortino travels to Tokyo to explore the rise of “à la carte” boyfriend services for the country’s powerful single women.
During the pandemic, a basement livestream turned Lyle into the viral “Therapy Gecko.” We uncover the man behind the costume.
YouTube sensation Shoenice22 explains why he's spent the past two years eating and drinking everything from sticks of deodorant, to tampons, to full bottles of grain alcohol.
We explore “CultTok,” TikTok’s obsession with cults, after a commune called The Garden goes viral. As online sleuths accuse it of being a dangerous cult, we investigate whether it’s real—or a digital witch hunt.