The Soviet Garden
A filmmaker from Moldova tries to discover the truth about Soviet experiments in atomic gardening.
Prowlers of the Everglades
Part of the “True-Life Adventure Series”; Disney filmmakers take their cameras to Florida, not to document the swamps that would become Walt Disney World, but to capture the lives of…
Shatner in Space
The special details the events before, during, and after Shatner’s life-changing flight – which made him the oldest person to ever travel to the cosmos – and the growing friendship…
Lucy Worsley’s Fireworks for a Tudor Queen
Historian Lucy Worsley teams up with artist and materials scientist Zoe Laughlin to explore the explosive science and fascinating history of fireworks, using an original pyrotechnics instruction manual, and other…
Gone Before Her Time: When the Music Stopped
Over the course of the two-hour special, GONE BEFORE HER TIME, we’ll celebrate the controversies, influences, and legacies of five iconic female performers whose lives tragically ended just as they…
Fasting
Fasting may serve as the solution to solve our epidemic of chronic illnesses today. However, most think of only one method of fasting when they hear the term ‘fasting.’ This…
The Volcano: Rescue from Whakaari
A close examination of the Whakaari / White Island volcanic eruption of 2019 in which 22 lives were lost, the film viscerally recounts a day when ordinary people were called…
Resistance Fighters – The Global Antibiotics Crisis
The UN General Assembly regards antibiotic-resistance as a “global and most urgent threat”. The WHO alarms that we could fall back into a “post-antibiotic age”. The film tells us how…
Accelerating America
Tells the story of a revolutionary school in Rhode Island that gives inner-city youths who are at risk of dropping out a second chance by accelerating their studies. At the…
The Real Mary Poppins
Explore the fascinating relationship between author P. L. Travers and her much-loved character, Mary Poppins. This is the story of a complex woman who escaped her upbringing in rural Australia…
Max Steiner: Maestro of Movie Music
A look at the life and work of the Austrian composer who pioneered the musical scoring of films – hundreds of them – from King Kong, to Gone with the…
Stalin’s Daughter
A shock wave started as Stalin’s daughter Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva fled to the West. During her childhood, she remained at the center of power and was her father’s favorite child….
Billy Connolly: Big Banana Feet
Billy Connolly was, in the 1970s, a sort of Scottish Lenny Bruce, who, with devastating humour, sliced through the hypocrisies he perceived. This 1976 documentary follows the singer-comic during his…