David Hahn in the mid-nineties was a teenage boy scout working towards his merit badges. One badge in particular, the Atomic Energy Merit Badge, caught his imagination when it required him to make a model of a nuclear reactor out of cotton buds etc. David went further and sought out household sources of the materials he would need to make his reactor. Here he talks us through what he did and the surprising results he got.

In November 1936, a few months since the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, the government of the S...

Documentary about Giger's work for the movie Alien (1979).

Dramatization of Russian ballet star Vaclav Nijinsky's diaries which detail his madness as well as h...

Working men and women leave through the main gate of the Lumière factory in Lyon, France. Filmed on ...

The portrait of the last cowboy Hollywood legend dives into the 65 years of an extraordinary career ...

Two-time Olympian and World Champion, the legendary Randy Gardner, explores his true identity throug...

A Documentary about the Swedish Comedian Tage Danielsson. He was one member of the "Hasse & Tage" d...

How the inventor of the detective story became his own greatest mystery.

"The Role of Chance" ("La part du hasard") focuses exclusively on drawing and painting techniques us...

Rare 1977 documentary short hosted by Christopher Lee on the occult. Topics range from witch covens,...

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

Charlotte Gainsbourg looks at her mother Jane Birkin in a way she never did, overcoming a sense of r...

Tian Soepangat joins the U.S. Navy out of a commitment to helping others. As a Muslim, Tian is uncer...

A lyrical recreation of Lightnin’ Hopkins’ decision at age eight to stop chopping cotton and start s...
This last testimony of Robert Kramer (1939-1999) is a moving documentary with the independent Americ...

To help visualize the dramatic final chapter in Cassini's remarkable story, NASA's Jet Propulsion La...

Tehran Is the Capital of Iran (1966-79) documents life in a deprived district in the south of Tehran...