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Documentary Movies

Metamorphisis

Metamorphisis

They have several lives, several forms, they know many worlds. They are the insects. They lived underwater, they will walk the earth. They were crawling, they will fly. They waited underground, they will climb into the sky. Metamorphosis reveals the story of a larvae that couldn\'t resist an irresistible call. Cicada, swallowtail, dragonfly, ant, mosquito: our brave heroines will go through the scariest moment of their life to make it to a new world.

Duration : 52m
Maturity Level : all

Mummies: Secrets of the Pharoahs

Mummies: Secrets of the Pharoahs

Journey to the royal tombs of Egypt and explore the history of ancient Egyptian society as told through the mummies of the past. The film follows explorers and scientists as they piece together the archeological and genetic clues of Egyptian mummies, and provides audiences with a window into the fascinating and mysterious world of the pharaohs. To unwrap the secrets of the pharaohs is to perhaps glimpse the future of our own civilization.

Duration : 38m
Maturity Level : all

Tuzgle

Tuzgle

November 2008, Swiss climber Nina Caprez travels with 9 french guys to explore a new climbing spot in Argentina: an Altiplano littered with boulders and crags nested at 4200 m of elevation under the Tuzgle volcano. The movie illustrates the daily life of the group in this unexplored wonderland. As days fly by, they realize that the true value of their discoveries is way beyond their expectations... One of the best bouldering destination of South America has been unveiled...

Duration : 21m
Maturity Level : all

Ticket to the Future - The Evolution of Travel

Ticket to the Future - The Evolution of Travel

The sky is the limit: step into the future with new forms of transport. Innovation in transport technology will defy the boundaries of physics. Nothing is as closely connected to the advancement of humankind as the way we travel. Industry and globalization have been preoccupied with technologies that allow us to travel faster and farther into the world. Consequently, mobility has garnered great economic importance.

Duration : 59m
Maturity Level : all

Out of Place

Out of Place

Explore the underground surfing community of Cleveland, Ohio dating back to the early 1960\'s. In the film, Vince Labbe and his close friends endure harsh weather and dangerous conditions amidst a city recovering from a legacy of lost industry, lost jobs, and a river polluted enough to catch on fire, to surf the elusive waves of Lake Erie. Out of Place is a surfing documentary directed by Scott Ditzenberger and Darrin McDonald that follows the lives of several surfers.

Duration : 1h 10m
Maturity Level : all

From the Sky

From the Sky

A pioneering initiative in Europe. Twenty-two villages and cities in southwestern Spain have Special Bird Protection Zones because of the importance of the species living between the walls of their churches, palaces, and streets.

Duration : 51m
Maturity Level : all

Vikings: Journey to the New Worlds

Vikings: Journey to the New Worlds

They came from the North and soon the legend would say that they didn\'t know fear. For hundreds of years, they were another name for \"terror.\" They were warriors, slavers, traders, explorers but also farmers, settlers, poets, loyal family members, and skilled craftsmen. Vikings tells their story.

Duration : 40m
Maturity Level : all

Ocean Oasis

Ocean Oasis

Plunge into the wildly spectacular Sea of Cortes and join beautiful naturalist Iliana Ortega to swim with whales, dolphins, sharks, and giant manta rays. Then venture into the boiling hot desert to see Baja\'s drier side, and up snow capped mountains as you explore the peninsula\'s wonderful balance of life. Winner of Best Theatrical Program at Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival. Inspired Mexican President Vicente Fox to declare a new nature preserve.

Duration : 39m
Maturity Level : all

Java In Jeopardy - Exploring the Volcano

Java In Jeopardy - Exploring the Volcano

Scientists regard it as one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world. Time and again, it has proved its deadly potential – Merapi, the Fire Mountain of Java. The risk of another serious eruption is high and could even have consequences which would be felt globally. Now scientists are looking for a thus far unknown tectonic disturbance: what is the crack which suddenly winds its way through the centre of the volcano? And what danger really lurks in the ground beneath the island of Java?

Duration : 51m
Maturity Level : all

Grey Seals, A Journey of Survival

Grey Seals, A Journey of Survival

Grey seals are adept at hunting fast, elusive prey and are one of Europe\'s largest predators. But as fish stocks decline and they suffer attacks from fearsome predators and legal culls, their world is changing ... along with their behavior. Recent improvements in annual surveys and animal tagging have revealed precious information about where grey seals go when the leave the coast and how they spend their lives.

Duration : 51m
Maturity Level : all

Spring, The Return of Life

Spring, The Return of Life

A documentary about the most spectacular spring in the last forty years. Five months of filming in the Iberian Peninsula, great forests, lakes, plains, saltworks, the awakening of the flora and especially of the fauna. We witness unique moments like the mating of the viperine water snake and the long journey into maturity of the natterjack toad.

Duration : 48m
Maturity Level : all

Chicken Planet

Chicken Planet

The love story between chickens and men has lasted for over 5000 years. How has this humble forest animal managed to conquer all continents, all territories and become the most abundant and diversified feathered species on our planet?

Duration : 49m
Maturity Level : all

Chamje Khola

Chamje Khola

The story about opening one of the biggest canyon in the world. The Chamjé Khola canyon is located right in the heart of Nepalese Himalaya, between the Annapurnas (8091m) and Manaslu (8163m) mountains. The Himalayan Canyon Team, a French association, opened there more than 30 canyons since 2004, but they had to wait until 2011 to be ready to face the monster whom is Chamjé Khola.

Duration : 51m
Maturity Level : all

Amazing Journeys

Amazing Journeys

Experience the world\'s greatest animal migrations from zebras in East Africa, to millions of red crabs on Christmas Island, to gray whales in Mexico\'s beautiful lagoons, and monarch butterflies in the Mexican highlands. Travel back in time among exotic tribes of Africa to explore the roots of human migration.

Duration : 39m
Maturity Level : all

Black Gold Rush, A New American Dream

Black Gold Rush, A New American Dream

Painting an epic and compassionate picture, this film plunges viewers into the heart of the North Dakota oil rush and follows the paths of the men that came from all over the United States.

Duration : 52m
Maturity Level : all

Cephalopods: Conquest Of the Seas

Cephalopods: Conquest Of the Seas

Cephalopods are taking over the seas. Travel around the world, from the abyssal trenches to remote coral reefs to unveil the secrets of their success.

Duration : 51m
Maturity Level : all

Cosmic Flows

Cosmic Flows

Man has always sought to seek further afield. After the seafaring explorers of the 16th century, 21st century cosmologists today navigate more celestial oceans with each mission providing an ever-broader cartography of our surroundings. At the avant-garde of modern technology, they use powerful and spectacular telescopes, on the Earth or in space, constantly widening the limits of our knowledge and giving form to our dreams of infinity.

Duration : 53m
Maturity Level : all

Africa: The Serengeti

Africa: The Serengeti

Chronicles a spectacle that few humans have ever witnessed, the Great Migration, taking viewers on a journey with over 1.5 million animals as they travel more than 500 miles across the Serengeti plains in Tanzania and Kenya.

Duration : 39m
Maturity Level : all

Pauline Bewick: Yellow Man Grey Man

Pauline Bewick: Yellow Man Grey Man

In this documentary Maurice Galway explores how the artist, Pauline Bewick\'s, Grey Man series of a drawings, work in complete contrast to her more well known Yellow Man drawings. Whereas Pauline\'s Yellow Man drawings represent an ideal world, her Grey Man drawings explore a darker philosophy. This is an intimate documentary that sheds light on the lesser known works of an internationally renowned artist.

Duration : 54m
Maturity Level : all

Jimmy Murakami Non-Alien

Jimmy Murakami Non-Alien

Non-Alien is one of the most personal projects yet, a reflection on Jimmy\'s childhood spent in an interment camp in California during World War II. A reflection on memory and identity, this moving documentary culminates with Jimmy returning to the site of his imprisonment.

Duration : 1h 13m
Maturity Level : all

A Mother\'s Madness

A Mother\'s Madness

Five miniature heart-shaped tomb stones can be found in the graveyard on a dusty village in Pampierstad. All five had been killed by their mother. Is it madness which would lead a mother to commit such a crime, or does society at large have a role to play in preventing it? This thought-provoking film explores the dark side of the maternal bond, when love turns to hate in an instant.

Duration : 25m
Maturity Level : all

Action Asia

Action Asia

This exciting new adventure travel program takes four young professionals, ranging from an office manager to a Taiwanese pop star on amazing journeys to experience some of Asia’s most exotic terrain through adventure sports.

Duration : 46m
Maturity Level : all

Birdmen Chronicles

Birdmen Chronicles

Wingsuiting is an activity that probably comes the closest to realising man’s age-old desire to fly. Participants don a specially designed jumpsuit that adds surface area to their bodies, enabling a significant increase in lift and controlled flight. As the sport is only a few years old, little information is available on how many people take part in it, and high publicity around fatal accidents has led to it being labeled as “probably the most dangerous sport in the world.\"

Duration : 51m
Maturity Level : all

I Love Venice

I Love Venice

Venice attracts 30 million tourists each year. Meanwhile inhabitants are fleeing the town. Venice is too expensive to live in, stores predominantly cater to tourists and property is sold to rich foreigners. Demographers predict that by 2030 there will not be a single full-time Venetian resident left. I LOVE VENICE tells the story of the people still living in the most beautiful city in the world and of its citizens taking protest to the streets to save the city as a real community.

Duration : 1h 11m
Maturity Level : all