Laika, a stray dog, was the first living being to be sent into space and thus to a certain death. A legend says that she returned to Earth as a ghost and still roams the streets of Moscow alongside her free-drifting descendants. While shooting this film, the directors little by little realised that they knew the street dogs only as part of our human world; they have never looked at humans as a part of the dogs’ world.
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An epic story of adventure, starring some of the most magnificent and courageous creatures alive, aw...
Travel into the world of aviation and explore the dreams of flight with the Smithsonian as they step...
Go higher, faster and farther with the Smithsonian as they explore the dreams of flight.
Hitler's invasion of Russia was one of the landmark events of World War II. This documentary reveals...
Every year, thousands of Antarctica's emperor penguins make an astonishing journey to breed their yo...
Examines the subject of homosexuality in animals. Scott Capurro visited various collections of capti...
Michael Kamer, dog trainer to the stars, will show you that you can teach old dog new tricks.
One of the most striking contemporary Czech film-makers and literary figures, twice over winner of t...
How can structures, which take up defined, rigid portions of space, make us feel transcendence? How ...
Love them or hate them, there are 33,000 urban foxes roaming Britain's suburbia. For the residents o...
A documentary exploring the experience of going to war with a Military Working Dog, trained to find ...
A frustrated Hollywood actress is doing an unusual “part-time job.”
Chelsea Bledsoe and her husband Graig throw a surprise intervention for her old high school boyfrien...
The captivating tales of the people and events behind one of humanity's greatest achievements in exp...
It’s the last dictatorship of Europe, caught in a Soviet time-warp, where the secret police is still...
It contains 99.9 percent of all the matter in our solar system and sheds hot plasma at nearly a mill...
It’s an ocean of giants. South Africa has a dramatic, rocky coast that’s raked by churning currents....
Archival material from the original NASA film footage – much of it seen for the first time – plus in...