Curtain Up! (2020)

A documentary on the expletive's origin, why it offends some people so deeply, and what can be gained from its use.

Clarissa Dickson Wright tracks down Britain's oldest known cookbook, The Forme of Cury. This 700-year-old scroll was written during the reign of King Richard II from recipes created by the king's master chefs. How did this ancient manuscript influence the way people eat today? On her culinary journey through medieval history she reawakens recipes that have lain dormant for centuries and discovers dishes that are still prepared now.

Num país onde os assassinos são celebrados como heróis, o realizador e a sua equipa desafiaram os líderes impenitentes dos esquadrões da morte a encenar o seu papel no genocídio. O resultado alucinante é um delirante sonho cinematográfico, um mergulho perturbador nas profundezas da imaginação de assassinos em massa e no chocante regime de corrupção e impunidade banais em que vivem.

Brooklyn Boheme is a love letter to a vibrant African American artistic community who resided in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill Brooklyn during the 80's and 90's that included the great Spike Lee, Chris Rock, Branford Marsalis, Rosie Perez, Saul Williams, Lorna Simpson, Talib Kweli just to name a few. Narrated and written by Fort Greene resident Nelson George, this feature length documentary celebrates "Brooklyn's equivalent of the Harlem Renaissance" and follows the rise of a new kind of African American artist, the Brooklyn Boheme.

The film explores the history of the word throughout its inception to present day. Woven into the narrative are poetry, music, and commentary from celebrities about their personal experiences with the word and their viewpoints. Each perspective is unique, as is each experience... some are much more comfortable with the word than others.

Through the lives of professionals working at Tsukiji Fish Market in Tokyo, the film portrays how Tsukiji has been the center of fish culinary culture and helped Japanese food culture to flourish as we know it today.

The Water Protectors at Standing Rock captured world attention through their peaceful resistance. While many may know the details, this film captures the story of Native-led defiance that forever changed the fight for clean water, our environment and the future of our planet.

The city of Ordos, in the middle of China, was build for a million people yet remains completely empty. Ordos is not so much a place but a symbol of babylonic hype. But nothing will change - as long as people believe.

In the most dangerous country in the world for journalists, Newsweek Middle East editor, Janine di Giovanni, risks it all to bear witness, ensuring that the world knows about the suffering of the Syrian people.

Raising Bertie is a longitudinal documentary feature following three young African American boys over the course of six years as they grow into adulthood in Bertie County, a rural African American-led community in Eastern North Carolina. Through the intimate portrayal of these boys, this powerful vérité film offers a rare in-depth look at the issues facing America's rural youth and the complex relationships between generational poverty, educational equity, and race. The evocative result is an experience that encourages us to recognize the value and complexity in lives all too often ignored.

An account of Orson Welles' 1938 radio drama broadcast that inadvertently started a mass panic.

Stuffed full of all our favorite brands, this feature length documentary is a new and entertaining way of looking at history - with a powerful nostalgic punch! Join consumer historian Robert Opie as he unwraps the meaning of our branded life, unleashing a flood of treasured memory moments and fascinating facts to excite young and old alike. It's both a journey of discovery and the ultimate nostalgia trip.

Com base no aclamado livro "Why Walk When You Can Fly?", este filme inspirador e transformador ensina você a subir além de seus medos. Descubra a liberdade que se encontra dentro e aprenda a amar-se incondicionalmente, já que Isha Judd compartilha parábolas e histórias que irão fazer você rir em voz alta, e no próximo momento você chegará às lágrimas. Ao ensinar-lhe as poderosas facetas do sistema Isha Judd, você iniciará uma jornada de auto-descoberta diferente de qualquer coisa que já tenha experimentado antes. Explore o cenário deslumbrante do Uruguai, já que Isha apresenta verdades profundas derivadas de sua experiência de unidade. Conheça os animais fascinantes que ela usa para explicar a beleza - e também a insanidade cômica - da nossa experiência humana, e aprender que a felicidade e a paz mundial são responsabilidade de cada indivíduo. Vá para além da dúvida e insegurança, e mergulhe nas profundezas de seu ser. Chegou a hora de espalhar as suas asas... E voe!

Sandy Doyle is an outspoken no nonsense business woman. She became a worldwide celebrity with the creation of her diner Blondies Burgers.

Schools in the Netherlands are challenging the traditional models of education and democracy, taking us to new possibilities of organising ourselves and our communities.

Traces the making of UC-Davis professor Darrell Hamamoto's first-ever Asian American porn movie ("Skin on Skin") from planning to production. Hou interviews filmmakers Justin Lin ("Better Luck Tomorrow") and Eric Byler ("Charlotte Sometimes"), professor Elaine Kim and playwright David Henry Hwang to get at whether Asian America truly needs its own "porno practices" as a way of decolonizing the community's collective sexual imaginations and confronting how sexuality and masculinity are treated in the Asian American community.

Pushed to his breaking point, a master welder in a small town at the foot of the Rocky Mountains quietly fortifies a bulldozer with 30 tons of concrete and steel and seeks to destroy those he believes have wronged him.

A collective born by the love for Hip Hop culture, in one of the most contradictory places of all. They tirelessly seek to foster and strengthen this culture in the region, taking their name all over on Brazil and the world. Facing all kinds of prejudices, together, they persist in the battle to be better for others. Because they believe that culture is not about what we like, but what can really change lives.

The novohispanic equestrian statue of Charles IV of Spain is relocated in Mexico city.