Bigger Than Africa
When the slave ships docked in North America, Brazil, and the Caribbean, hundreds of cultures, traditions, and religions landed with the Africans on board, one transcended slavery beyond imagination and remains alive till this day in the New World: the Yoruba culture.
Genre: Documentary
Director: Toyin Ibrahim Adekeye
The Importance of Being Oscar
A star-studded BBC film of Oscar Wilde’s glittering and controversial career before his trial for homosexual crimes and tragic fall from grace. Highlights from Oscar’s brilliant comedies such as The…
The Delta of Bucharest
In the 50s and 60s, in Bucharest, political prisoners give birth to their children in one of the most beautiful monasteries in Central and Eastern Europe, later transformed into Văcărești…
Women of Freedom
About 5000 women are murdered every year throughout the world in what are called ‘honor killings’. In many cases, it is relatives, even the parents, of the victim who perpetrate…
A Life in Waves
A Life in Waves explores the life and innovations of composer and electronic music pioneer, Suzanne Ciani.
It Might Get Loud
A documentary on the electric guitar from the point of view of three significant rock musicians: the Edge, Jimmy Page and Jack White.
Adele: 30 Greatest Moments
A countdown of memorable events from the singer’s career, from the time the north London teenager first burst onto the scene in 2008 to the present day. The programme visits…
Beware the Slenderman
In this horrifyingly modern fairytale lurks an online Boogeyman and two 12-year-old girls who would kill for him. The entrance to the internet quickly leads to its darkest basement. How…
The Matthew Shepard Story: An American Hate Crime
Twenty-five years ago, Matthew Shepard was tied to a fence and beaten. Days later, the unthinkable happened and his death sparked a national outcry for hate crimes protections. Today, his…
Winter, Go Away!
Ten director graduates from Marina Razbezhkina’s School of Documentary Film and Documentary Theatre lived with a camera for two months in order to chronicle the last “Russian winter” and its…
Creem: America’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll Magazine
Explores the seminal music magazine from its 1969 launch in Detroit to the untimely death of its publisher Barry Kramer in 1981.
Cern and the Sense of Beauty
An exploration of the link between science and beauty through the work of scientists at CERN, in Geneva.
Songs From the North
Interweaving footage from the director’s three visits to North Korea with songs, spectacle, popular cinema and archival footage, Songs from the North takes a different look at this enigmatic country…