Earth teems with a staggering variety of animals, including 9,000 kinds of birds, 28,000 types of fish, and more than 350,000 species of beetles. What explains this explosion of living creatures—1.4 million different species discovered so far, with perhaps another 50 million to go? The source of life's endless forms was a profound mystery until Charles Darwin brought forth his revolutionary idea of natural selection. But Darwin's radical insights raised as many questions as they answered. What actually drives evolution and turns one species into another? To what degree do different animals rely on the same genetic toolkit? And how did we evolve?
Materia oscura tells the story of a war zone in peacetime. The film location is the Salto di Quirra ...
A very personal and dynamic meditation on the current global refugee crisis through the eyes and voi...
In Japanese-occupied Hong Kong, a school teacher and her would-be-fiancé link up with Chinese guerri...
The space of the junkyard allows various ‘crash’ narratives to unfold, with the stories of actual cr...
A documentary on the once promising American rock bands The Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Dandy W...
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The retelling of France’s iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette. From her betrothal and marri...
40 years after inventing armored suits that protect divers from attacks by smaller shark species of ...
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The everyday life of a Belo Horizonte lower class neighborhood.
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Based on the play and subsequent operetta of the same name.
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A Zen priest in San Francisco and cookbook author use Zen Buddhism and cooking to relate to everyday...
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