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Mark | imdb: 7.4 |
Genre | family, documentary |
Country | Canada, France, Costa Rica, Germany, Netherlands, Turkey, USA |
Songbirds are disappearing at an alarming rate. The Messenger is a visually thrilling ode to the beauty and importance of the imperiled songbird, and what it means to all of us on both a global and human level if we lose them.
Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | documentary, history |
Country | Canada, USA, France, Germany, United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:30 |
Werner Herzog gains exclusive access to film inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France, capturing the oldest known pictorial creations of humankind in their astonishing natural setting.
Mark | imdb: 7.6 |
Genre | documentary |
Country | France, Germany, Chile, Spain |
In Chile's Atacama Desert, astronomers peer deep into the cosmos in search for answers concerning the origins of life. Nearby, a group of women sift through the sand searching for body parts of loved ones, dumped unceremoniously by Pinochet's regime.
Mark | imdb: 8 |
Genre | documentary |
Country | France, Spain |
Duration | 01:15 |
Once upon a time... consumer goods were built to last. Then, in the 1920’s, a group of businessmen realized that the longer their product lasted, the less money they made, thus Planned Obsolescence was born, and manufacturers have been engineering products to fail ever since. Combining investigative research and rare archive footage with analysis by those working on ways to save both the economy and the environment, this documentary charts the creation of ‘engineering to fail’, its rise to prominence and its recent fall from grace.
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | adventure, documentary |
Country | France, Canada, Luxembourg, Germany, Italy |
Duration | 01:34 |
Norman is not just an admirer of nature, he's a part of it. He survives the harshness of the climate and the wildlife by coexisting with it. With his wife Nebraska, they live almost entirely off the land, making money by selling their furs.
Mark | imdb: 7.7 |
Genre | documentary |
Country | Germany |
Duration | 01:36 |
In the center of the story is the life of the indigenous people of the village Bakhtia at the river Yenisei in the Siberian Taiga. The camera follows the protagonists in the village over a period of a year. The natives, whose daily routines have barely changed over the last centuries, keep living their lives according to their own cultural traditions.
Mark | imdb: 7.4 |
Genre | documentary |
Country | USA, Costa Rica, Croatia, France, Germany, Iceland, Norway, Luxembourg, United Kingdom |
An eye-opening documentary that asks the question: Are we going to let climate change destroy civilization, or will we act on technologies that can reverse it? Featuring never-before-seen solutions on the many ways we can reduce carbon in the atmosphere thus paving the way for temperatures to go down, saving civilization.
Mark | imdb: 7.6 |
Genre | musical, documentary |
Country | Germany, France, United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 01:43 |
Pina is a feature-length dance film in 3D with the ensemble of the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, featuring the unique and inspiring art of the great German choreographer, who died in the summer of 2009.
Mark | imdb: 6.4 |
Genre | fantasy, documentary |
Country | USA, France, Germany |
Duration | 01:18 |
A celebration of the universe, displaying the whole of time, from its start to its final collapse. This film examines all that occurred to prepare the world that stands before us now: science and spirit, birth and death, the grand cosmos and the minute life systems of our planet. (Wide release version with narration by Cate Blanchett.)