It takes two or three generations for the monarch butterfly to reach the Canadian breeding grounds, but it is one "supergeneration" that makes the 2,000 mile return trip back south into central Mexico. The documentary film covers Dr Fred Urquhart's interest in monarch butterflies, with perspectives of Urquhart as a child wondering where the butterflies went, his years of research and study into their life and migration, to his time decades-later as a senior scientist looking back at his investigations and discoveries about the insect's life pattern.

A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a t...

Werner Herzog's documentary film about the "Grizzly Man" Timothy Treadwell and what the thirteen sum...

Adolfo Kaminsky started saving lives when chance and necessity made him a master forger. As a teenag...

“An Imminent Threat” follows a fisherman activist, Yngve Larsen, who fights against oil and gas dril...
This astounding documentary delves into the mysteries of the Tunguska event – one of the largest cos...

An investigation into the unfolding history of nuclear testing, uranium mining, and nuclear waste di...

This film aims to capture the stories of the aging Isabella, but also captures her condition and los...

Worldy renowned for his masterpiece The Housemaid (1960), Kim Ki-young debuts with his first short f...

While shooting “Flying over blue field” we lived in Birtonas sanatorium hotel. I was watching treatm...
"I can get closer to God only through love for a man," says 75-year-old sculptor Marta, who still re...

Rainer Werner Fassbinder reflects on the various stages of his career, discusses how his motives beh...

This profile of storied trumpeter of jazz, Tiny Davis, and her cohort pianist-drummer, Ruby Lucas, i...

A father killed his son. In a state of alcoholic delirium, a young man murdered his friend. A 21 yea...

Erik Satie’s work is at the heart of modern music. However, who was Satie? An elusive genius or a vi...
An early video work by Ivan Ladislav Galeta that underlines the perceptual presumptions of video-med...
How to make the most of a defeat. How to make money from Napoleon's fiasco at Waterloo.

A short piece that looks at the 2012 film's ensemble cast and the strengths they brought to the proj...
Natalie Portman reflects on how she was cast in the film Léon: The Professional (1994) at such a you...
A hotel in the centre of town is a war-time home and refuge for many of Sarajevo's homeless people. ...

The film chases a historical event when King Jungjo tried to replace hispersonal revenge on those wh...