In Orbit: How Satellites Rule Our World
How the thousands of satellites orbiting the Earth have transformed the modern world.
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Genre: Documentary
Actors: Albert Yu-Min Lin, Bob Counts, Hiromitsu Oshima, Jacob Katz, Kosuke Heki, Maggie Aderin-Pocock, Peter Shaw, Robert Lang, Roger Launius
Country: United Kingdom
Dirty Pictures
Alexander ‘Sasha’ Shulgin is the scientist behind more than 200 psychedelic compounds including MDMA, more commonly known as Esctasy. Considered to be one of the the greatest chemists of the…
Handle with Care: The Legend of the Notic Streetball Crew
Largely composed of immigrants and first-generation Canadians from Vancouver’s suburbs, The Notic underground basketball collective overcame all odds to achieve global fame 20 years ago. In defiance of their high…
Everybody Knows… Elizabeth Murray
This tribute to the dynamic artist Elizabeth Murray, an intrinsic figure in New York’s contemporary art landscape from the 1970s until the early 2000s, highlights her struggle to balance personal…
David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive
Regular opening times do not apply as we accompany Sir David Attenborough on an after-hours journey around London’s Natural History Museum, one of his favourite haunts. The museum’s various exhibits…
Alumination
For nearly a century, the image of the Airstream travel trailer, with sunlight gleaming off the aluminum of its sleek silver-bullet body, has evoked the romance of escape and the…
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
Rolling Stone investigative reporter Greg Palast busted Jeb Bush for stealing the 2000 election by purging Black voters from Florida’s electoral rolls. Now Palast is back to take a deep…
The Wisdom of Trauma
One in five Americans are diagnosed with mental illness every year. Suicide is the second most common cause of death in the US for youth aged 15-24, and kills over…
Skin Deep: The Battle Over Morgellons
A nurse journeys to discover the truth behind a disease so bizarre, patients who suffer from it are regularly written off as delusional by doctors and loved ones.
Standing in the Shadows of Motown
In 1959, Berry Gordy Jr. gathered the best musicians from Detroit’s thriving jazz and blues scene to begin cutting songs for his new record company. Over a fourteen year period…
The Million Dollar Duck
Six artists from different walks of life vie to win the Federal Duck Stamp Contest, the only juried art competition sponsored by the U.S. government.
Stories We Tell
Canadian actress and filmmaker Sarah Polley investigates certain secrets related to her mother, interviewing a group of family members and friends whose reliability varies depending of their implication in the…
Cleanin’ Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters
The documentary that tells us the full story from where it all started through to the future of the “Ghostbusters” franchise.
