76 Days Adrift

For many boating enthusiasts, the ocean represents a sanctuary where they can find an inner peace that everyday life does not afford them. For a select few, that sanctuary can become a nightmare. 76 Days Adrift tells the story of Steve Callahan, an avid sailor who found himself stranded in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and more than a thousand miles from land....

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How People Live: Venezuela

Venezuela is widely known as one of the most dangerous regions on the planet. How People Live: Venezuela travels through areas where unknown hazards could be hiding behind every corner and exposes the harsh realities of daily life endured by its brave and downtrodden people. As soon as the host enters the country, he is warned of recent acts of violence against...

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Water: The Shape Shifter

Water plays an essential role in the development of weather. Itќs also a master of transformation that comes in many forms. The variations of water, and its power to both nurture and destroy, are explored in Water: The Shape Shifter, another installment of the popular wild weather series hosted by journalist Richard Hammond. The film addresses a series of basic yet...

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Truther or: I Am Not a Conspiracy Theorist

Perhaps no single event has set off more conspiracy mania than the tragic attacks of September 11, 2001. Truther or: I Am Not a Conspiracy Theorist explores this movement by profiling some of the central figures who have successfully spread their doubts and theories throughout the globe. The film opens at Ground Zero, where conspiracy activists continue to preach...

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The Age of Disconnection

Connection is the key to our survival. In this fast-paced world of endless commotion, we have lost touch with the natural environments that defined the origins of our species. That void has left a massive space we seek to fill with mindless distraction and harmful addictions. The subjects of The Age of Disconnection understand this dynamic all too well. Childhoods of...

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Trump, QAnon and the Return of Magic

Common sense ain't so common anymore. That's the overriding message of Trump, QAnon and the Return of Magic, a lively, but distressing portrait of our current state of disrepair. The film issues a scathing critique of our cultural and sociopolitical climate, which is being driven by harmful and irresponsible rhetoric, social media proliferation, and lack of...

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Wind: The Invisible Force

Wind rotates around our daily lives unseen. It is the most powerful force behind the world's most catastrophic weather events. But for such a consequential element, few people know where it originates. To address this, host Richard Hammond participates in a series of risky experiments involving live tornadoes, whirlwinds of fire and a journey into the center of a...

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From Romania with Love

The fall of the Soviet Union left a segment of largely unknown victims in its wake: Romanian orphans. Now young adults, many of these orphans are heading back to their home countries to trace the steps of their troubled foundations and to track down the parents who gave them up. In December of 1989, the Romanian people overthrew their brutal dictator Nicolae...

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Endgame 2050

For many years, we have all been warned about the approaching doom promised by climate change. But what might that future actually look like? Endgame 2050 looks three decades into our future to visualize the fate that awaits us all if we do not act now. The film opens with a 15-minute narrative short that imagines that potential future. In these scenarios, we have...

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