Comuneros
The Revolt of the Comuneros was an uprising by citizens of Castile against Charles I until they lost the Battle of Villalar on 23 April 1521, the leaders Juan de Padilla, Juan Bravo and Francisco Maldonado were captured and executed.
Jack B. Yeats: The Man Who Painted Ireland
A revelatory, biographical outline of the life and times of Ireland’s greatest painter, Jack B. Yeats
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
An account of the many tribulations that Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, known for his subversive art and political activism, endured between 2008 and 2011, from his rise to world fame…
Moments Like This Never Last
Dash Snow rejected a life of privilege to make his own way as an artist on the streets of downtown New York City in the late 1990s. Developing from a…
Vietnam, Love Is the Final Destination
This documentary is narrated in the first person by Mei‑Chen Chalais, who recounts her own life story — a childhood marked by the Vietnam War, her mother’s courage, and their…
Shoah
Director Claude Lanzmann spent 11 years on this sprawling documentary about the Holocaust, conducting his own interviews and refusing to use a single frame of archival footage. Dividing Holocaust witnesses…
American Nightmare: Becoming Cody Rhodes
This intimate and revealing documentary follows professional wrestler, Cody Rhodes, from leaving the WWE to his eventual return to WrestleMania and his journey chasing the WWE championship一a feat his father,…
American Mirror – Intimations of Immortality
Oscar-winning screen icon Susan Sarandon and Armenian painter Tigran Tsitoghdzyan discuss time and identity, and how the apparently in conflict values of beauty and aging are perceived in our modern…
Gold: A Journey with Idris Elba
This documentary film explores the varied and often surprising ways in which gold and the societies it is part of have transformed over time. Join Idris Elba on a global…
Before Macintosh: The Apple Lisa
Explores the history, technology, people, stories and industry influence of this lesser-known personal computer. The film profiles important individuals involved in the creation of the computer, plus its life after…
Hitler’s Riches
How rich was Hitler really, and how did he waste his money, both while living and in his will?
Pride & Protest
In the wake of the Birmingham protests against LGBTQ+ relationship education in primary schools, a team of queer community reporters of colour challenge homophobia and call out racism in LGBTQ+…
Shark Queens
In the ocean, female sharks often make the rules. In fact, scientists are trying to understand if the biggest and baddest sharks in the world’s waters are female.
