How Ping-Pong Saved the World recounts the events of April 1971 when a Table Tennis team became the first Americans to enter communist China in decades. These unlikely diplomats were about to reshape history and make a breakthrough of historic proportions.
Manila North Cemetery in the Philippines is a place of rest for 3000 people, all of whom are alive. Gravekeepers grow gardens around tombs; chefs cook up hearty fare in pop-up restaurants alongside crypts; and children play basketball in between school and funerals.
Cape Wind would be the U.S’s first offshore wind farm but strange alliances form for & against. Contradictions & counter-claims emerge pitting environmentalists, NIMBYS & even Native Americans against one-another in a contest where nothing is as it seems.
Chain-smoking, opinionated, nihilistic and unscrupulous; Przemek will stop at nothing to get the picture that he wants. A self-proclaimed ‘motherfucker’, his actions and motivations seem deeply immoral, borderline criminal. But this is only half the story.
Fish out of Water dives into the underbelly of America, crisscrosses red and blue states and talks to ministers from every denomination to uncover America’s impassioned relationship with homosexuality and the Bible.
After 15 years behind the prison walls, Piotr goes on his first leave. Three Days of Freedom follows him as for the first time he engages with an outside world that has changed dramatically, and left hime behind..
A historic gathering of over 50 African heads of state in Beijing reverberates in Zambia where the lives of three characters unfold, the expanding footprint of a rising global power is laid bare
From the brewing discontent that preceded the Egyptian revolution, to the 18 days of brutally suppressed protests when success seemed far from inevitable, this film puts us in the centre of the action.
Quadrangle is a documentary about two couples that swapped partners and lived in a group marriage. This four-way affair became a domestic living experiment when the couples moved into one home with their children.
With the help of some of the world’s greatest writers, thinkers & professors, we push aside society’s taboos to find out what “race” really is. An entertaining exploration of the common myths and misconceptions about race.
In 1988, Olivier made a perilous journey across Afghanistan, under Soviet occupation, with a $50,000 donation in his backpack. He then had a car accident, amnesia and the new challenge of rebuilding his identity.
When Richard Symons asks MPs, “Should it be unlawful for parliamentarians to lie?” he has them spluttering. This serious film, disguised by its light-hearted tone, led to the Misrepresentation of the People’s Act.