In March 2011, Japan was struck by a catastrophic earthquake, with the devastating tsunami that followed causing a meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear power station that sent ripples of discontent throughout the country. Director Iwai Shunji's Friends after 3.11 (2011) is a deeply personal documentary which uses the statements of some of his closest friends to express the views of a society in a state of political despondency.

Follows the deadly Australian bushfires of 2019-2020, known as ‘Black Summer’. Burning is an explora...

Fukushima's Minami-soma has a ten-centuries-long tradition of holding the Soma Nomaoi ("chasing wild...

On 28 November 1979, an Air New Zealand jet with 257 passengers went missing during a sightseeing to...

Oscar winning composer Ryuichi Sakamoto weaves man-made and natural sounds together in his works. Hi...

Survivors, witnesses, and experts tell the story of the tragic fire that engulfed a residential towe...

Documentary short about the disastrous dangers of aging, ailing dams.

It follows a group of investigators as they return to the nuclear zone in Fukushima to uncover the s...

Also known as the "Kobe earthquake," the massive earthquake struck the southern Hyogo prefecture on ...
The definitive account of Japan’s struggle as it faced a nuclear catastrophe while still reeling fro...

How Stockton Rush's deadly dive to the fabled Titanic wreckage in the Titan submersible became a cau...

Africa's development is being held back by poor infrastructure and undersized power plants. Countrie...

On April 15, 2019 600 firefighters of the Paris Fire Brigade fought for over 7 hours to save the Not...

"Gerboise bleue", the first French atomic test carried out on February 13, 1960 in the Algerian Saha...

The "unsinkable" Titanic was a dream come true: four city blocks long and a passenger list worth 250...

On Christmas Eve in 1986, an Icelandic cargo ship sank in the North Atlantic Ocean. Of the eleven me...

Two students from the Czech Film Academy commission a leading advertising agency to organize a huge ...
This third part of the series focuses on Canada's participation in NORAD and the events leading up t...

An in-depth look at how Italy's largest cruise ship ran aground off the Italian coast.