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Mark | imdb: 7.8 |
Genre | family, documentary |
Country | United Kingdom, Germany, USA |
Duration | 01:56 |
An astonishing journey revealing the awesome power of the natural world. Over the course of one single day, we track the sun from the highest mountains to the remotest islands to exotic jungles.
Mark | imdb: 7.4 |
Genre | horror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, drama, adventure, family |
Country | USA, United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:45 |
A man-cub named Mowgli fostered by wolves. After a threat from the tiger Shere Khan, Mowgli is forced to flee the jungle, by which he embarks on a journey of self discovery with the help of the panther, Bagheera and the free-spirited bear, Baloo.
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | family, documentary |
Country | Tanzania, United Kingdom, USA, Uganda |
Duration | 01:17 |
A nature documentary centered on a family of chimps living in the Ivory Coast and Ugandan rain forests.
Mark | imdb: 6.6 |
Genre | documentary, short |
Country | USA |
Duration | 00:40 |
A journey into the lives of a mother polar bear and her two seven-month-old cubs as they navigate the changing Arctic wilderness they call home.
Mark | imdb: 9.1 |
Genre | documentary |
Country | United Kingdom, USA, France, China |
Follow the true stories of five of the world's most celebrated, yet endangered animals; penguins, chimpanzees, lions, painted wolves and tigers. Each in a heroic struggle against rivals and against the forces of nature, these families fight for their own survival and for the future of their dynasties.
Mark | imdb: 5.5 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Dramatisation of Jean Rhys's novel set in 19th-century Jamaica. The tragic story of the first Mrs Rochester from Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre centres on an arranged marriage between a white Creole heiress and a brooding Englishman, who fall in love only to be torn apart by rumours, paranoia and a cultural divide.
Mark | imdb: 8.2 |
Genre | adventure, documentary, news |
Country | USA, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Mexico, United Kingdom, Japan |
Duration | 01:41 |
An unlikely team of activists and innovators hatches a bold mission to save endangered species.
Mark | imdb: 7.7 |
Genre | drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
The Village tells the story of life in a Derbyshire village through the eyes of a central character, Bert Middleton.
Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | documentary, short |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:34 |
In the mountains of Sichuan, China, a researcher forms a bond with Qian Qian, a panda who is about to experience nature for the first time.
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | documentary |
Country | USA, China, United Kingdom |
Exploring the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini's startling discovery that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces accurately, and her journey to push for the first-ever legislation in the U.S. to govern against bias in the algorithms that impact us all.
Mark | imdb: 6.2 |
Genre | action, thriller, comedy, drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom, Norway, China, Canada, USA, France |
Duration | 01:59 |
The quiet family life of Nels Coxman, a snowplow driver, is upended after his son's murder. Nels begins a vengeful hunt for Viking, the drug lord he holds responsible for the killing, eliminating Viking's associates one by one. As Nels draws closer to Viking, his actions bring even more unexpected and violent consequences, as he proves that revenge is all in the execution.
Mark | imdb: 7.7 |
Genre | drama, documentary, news |
Country | Bangladesh, Uganda, Italy, India, France, Denmark, China, Cambodia, USA, United Kingdom |
Duration | 02:44 |
Film from Andrew Morgan. The True Cost is a documentary film exploring the impact of fashion on people and the planet.
Mark | imdb: 7.7 |
Genre | documentary, biography |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:15 |
When National Geographic photographer James Balog asked, “How can one take a picture of climate change?” his attention was immediately drawn to ice. Soon he was asked to do a cover story on glaciers that became the most popular and well-read piece in the magazine during the last five years. But for Balog, that story marked the beginning of a much larger and longer-term project that would reach epic proportions.
Mark | imdb: 7.5 |
Genre | comedy, documentary, biography, history |
Country | USA |
The stranger-than-fiction true story of George Lazenby, a poor Australian car mechanic who, through an unbelievable set of circumstances, landed the role of James Bond despite having never acted a day in his life.
Mark | imdb: 6.6 |
Genre | documentary |
Country | United Kingdom, Germany, Denmark, USA |
From massive waves to melting ice, filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky travels around the world to capture stunning images of the beauty and raw power of water.
Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | documentary |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:23 |
A Beautiful Planet is a breathtaking portrait of Earth from space, providing a unique perspective and increased understanding of our planet and galaxy as never seen before. Made in cooperation with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the film features stunning footage of our magnificent blue planet — and the effects humanity has had on it over time — captured by the astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) Exclusive IMAX and IMAX® 3D engagements of A Beautiful Planet begin April 29th.
Mark | imdb: 7.4 |
Genre | documentary |
Country | United Kingdom, Germany |
Duration | 01:23 |
Deep Blue is a major documentary feature film shot by the BBC Natural History Unit. An epic cinematic rollercoaster ride for all ages, Deep Blue uses amazing footage to tell us the story of our oceans and the life they support.
Mark | imdb: 5.3 |
Genre | horror, action, thriller, crime |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:41 |
Five strangers face the unthinkable when they wake up and find themselves trapped. With no idea how they got there they frantically try to figure out how to escape. The disoriented group quickly realise the truth about their situation when they discover another room containing enough water to survive for 30 days… and a razor sharp surgical knife. The intention becomes quite clear. Whoever put them in this place wants to see just how long it will take before the hunger makes them commit unspeakable acts and cross a very deadly line.
Mark | imdb: 6.4 |
Genre | adventure, family, documentary |
Country | France, Brazil |
Duration | 01:22 |
Amazonia is an adventure in 3D inside the largest rainforest on the planet: the Amazon rainforest. Chestnut is a Capuchin monkey domesticated who survives a plane crash and finds himself alone in the dense forest. The monkey needs to learn to live in freedom, in a new world where animals of all kinds: Jaguars, alligators, snakes, tapirs, hawks. Gradually, Brown learns to live in the forest, making new friends, especially the monkey Gaia, their fellow species.
Mark | imdb: 8.2 |
Genre | adventure, documentary, sport |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:20 |
Iconic snowboarder Travis Rice and friends redefine what is possible in the mountains. Experience the highs, as new tricks are landed and new zones opened, alongside the lows, where avalanches, accidents, and wrong-turns strike.
Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | comedy, drama, biography, sport |
Country | United Kingdom, Germany, USA |
Duration | 02:30 |
Inspired by true events, Eddie the Eagle is a feel-good story about Michael "Eddie" Edwards (Taron Egerton), an unlikely but courageous British ski-jumper who never stopped believing in himself - even as an entire nation was counting him out. With the help of a rebellious and charismatic coach (played by Hugh Jackman), Eddie takes on the establishment and wins the hearts of sports fans around the world by making an improbable and historic showing at the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics.
Mark | imdb: 9 |
Genre | documentary |
Country | United Kingdom |
The remarkable and often perilous story of the journey through life. It is a story that unites each of us with every animal on the planet, because we all set out on this journey from the moment we are born. For animals there is just one goal in life – to continue their bloodline in the form of offspring. This series follows that journey through its six crucial stages: first steps, growing up, finding a home, gaining power, winning a mate and succeeding as a parent.
Mark | imdb: 6.9 |
Genre | drama, adventure, family |
Country | France |
Duration | 01:28 |
A young girl of about 10 years lives in a solitary peasant's house on the edge of the jurassic mountains in the East of France. One day in autumn, when she is on her way to school through the forest, she observes a hunting fox. Of course, the fox flees from her, but the girl feels a strong desire to meet the fox again.
Mark | imdb: 7.4 |
Genre | documentary |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 01:33 |
From the team behind Man on Wire comes the story of Nim, the chimpanzee who in the 1970s became the focus of a landmark experiment which aimed to show that an ape could learn to communicate with language if raised and nurtured like a human child. Following Nim's extraordinary journey through human society, and the enduring impact he makes on the people he meets along the way, the film is an unflinching and unsentimental biography of an animal we tried to make human. What we learn about his true nature - and indeed our own - is comic, revealing and profoundly unsettling.
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | action, thriller, drama, adventure, biography |
Country | United Kingdom, USA, Iceland |
Duration | 02:46 |
Inspired by the incredible events surrounding a treacherous attempt to reach the summit of the world's highest mountain, "Everest" documents the awe-inspiring journey of two different expeditions challenged beyond their limits by one of the fiercest snowstorms ever encountered by mankind. Their mettle tested by the harshest of elements found on the planet, the climbers will face nearly impossible obstacles as a lifelong obsession becomes a breathtaking struggle for survival.
Mark | imdb: 7.9 |
Genre | family, documentary |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:25 |
One Life captures unprecedented and beautiful sequences of animal behaviour guaranteed to bring you closer to nature than ever before, as well as a second disc packed full of never before seen extras including an exclusive making of featurette narrated by Daniel Craig.
Mark | imdb: 7 |
Genre | documentary, biography |
Country | United Kingdom, Spain, Germany, USA, Luxembourg, France, China, Hong Kong |
Duration | 01:18 |
The film traces the rise of one of the world's premier architects, Norman Foster, and his unending quest to improve the quality of life through design.
Mark | imdb: 6.5 |
Genre | fantasy, drama, adventure |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 02:18 |
A human child raised by wolves, must face off against a menacing tiger named Shere Khan, as well as his own origins.
Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | drama, family, documentary |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:17 |
A documentary that follows an Alaskan bear family as its young cubs are taught life's most important lessons.