Documentary

In this trilogy, the preparations for, and the events of World War II are seen through the eyes of the German nation. Taken from a wealth of newsreel footage and private sources, this is an invaluable resource for understanding the Second World War through the perspective of Germany.

In the history of military aviation, there has never been an aircraft that could match the P-47 Thunderbolt for ruggedness and dependability. The piolts who flew it called it “The Unbreakable” and “The Plane that can do anything”. They were not wrong. P-47s often came back from combat shot full of holes, their wings and control surfaces in tatters, but in one piece. They flew more than 546,000 combat sorties between March 1943 and August 1945, destroying 11874 enemy aircraft , 9000 locomotives and 6000 armoured vehicles and tanks. Only 0.7% of these remarkable machines were lost in combat.

Auckland Harbour, New Zealand. July 10th 1985. French navy combat frogmen place two bombs against the hull of the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior. They explode at ten minutes to midnight, sinking the ship and killing photographer Fernando Pereira. The French government wants to stop Greenpeace protesting at Moruroa Atoll – the French military test site for nuclear weapons from 1966 to 1996. France is desperate to cover up both the attack on the Warrior and their nuclear weapons programme. So desperate that it is prepared to kill its opponents. The French Secret Service, the DGSE, sends a team of 11 agents to New Zealand to carry out “Operation Satanic”. Two of them, Captain Dominique Prieur and Major Alain Mafart, are arrested as they tried to leave New Zealand. Comvicted of conspiracy, arson and manslaughter, they are sentenced to ten years in jail. After less than three years they return to Paris. At first the French government deny involvement in the bombing, but eventually they are forced to admit liability. The Head of the DGSE, Admiral Pierre Lacoste, is sacked. Defence Minister Charles Hernu resigns. President Francois Mitterrand is widely believed to be implicated. France pays NZ$13 million compensation to the New Zealand government and NZ$8 million to Greenpeace. “The Boat and The Bomb” is a story of international espionage, government cover-up and the nuclear arms race. It’s a story which has disturbing parallels with today’s “war on terror”. It’s a story which won’t go away.

A celebration of the paragliding lifestyle around the world, as two top acro-pilots travel to spectacular aerial locations across the globe - in search of the perfect thermal.

In Bioko's Island, Equatorial Guinea, the crater of an inactive volcano has turned into a paradise. An expedition of scientists and climbers walk in for first time into this enigmatic territory in search of new species.

Deserts are more than dry and uninhabited lands. Deserts are full of life, full of essential species for the earth's balance; with a natural ecosystem that performs the function of regulating the climate.

M-F Brière a eu le privilège d'assister à la formidable histoire d'amour qui lie les chansons françaises et québécoises. Elle a vécu les rencontres et les collaborations des artistes de part et d'autre de l'océan Atlantique. Tous ont tissé un lien qui a changé l'histoire de la chanson. M-F Brière a souhaité nous raconter cette histoire, l'occasion d'entendre et de fredonner des chansons populaires. Avec Julien Clerc, Aznavour, Bruel, Luc Plamendo, Maxime Le Forestier, Maurane, Charlebois...

Sur l'un des murs de la salle de douche, en minuscules : « Quand je serai grande, je ne veux pas être riche mais je veux être tout en or », ou encore, « Des milliers d'heures d'horreur pour quelques millièmes de secondes de bonheur »... Bienvenue à l'INSEP, l'Institut National du Sport et de l'Education Physique, la Mecque du sport d'élite en France. 35 hectares de stade, de gymnases, de salles de classe et d'amphithéâtres universitaires, implantés dans le bois de Vincennes. C'est d'ici que sortent les médaillés olympiques et les champions du monde français. Une usine à l'excellence, qui propose une centaine de disciplines et où près d'un millier de sportifs de haut niveau passent tous les ans, des rêves de grandeur plein la tête.

Claiming the Memory uncovers a paradoxical generational battle for the right to pass on Holocaust legacy, through the conflicting responses of three Australian Jewish generations. From this moving, confrontational and unique perspective, the film explores the impact of the past on our contemporary world, questioning the future of this seminal collective memory.

On the night of 24th March 1944, seventy-six men took part in the world famous Great Escape from Stalag Luft III in Germany.  An escape of this scale was recognised as a grave threat to national security, and Hitler was informed.  An estimated five million people prepared to take part in the largest manhunt of the war – with tragic consequences. Almost one year to the day later, seventy German POWs escaped from the high security camp in Bridgend in Wales and were tracked by a motley collection of armed soldiers, Home Guard, dogs, local children and Girl Guides.  One of the largest manhunts of the whole war was dramatic, serious and comic in turn – but not tragic.

One of the classic "new wave" ice, rock and alpine climbing films, narrated by renowned mountaineer and author Greg Child. Eighteen of North America's leading young climbers take on routes such as the stunning Emporer Face of Mt. Robson, towering icy fiords in Greenland and the magnifcent Cardinal Pinnacle in the Sierras. With Lynn Hill, Abby Watkins, Rich Prohaska and Peter Croft.

Will Gadd leads the first paragliding expedition to attempt to cross the United States from coast to coast, California to North Carolina. An epic six- week thrill ride at altitudes as high as 17,000 ft., never fully knowing where they would land and what they would find on the ground, and always captive to the winds and the thermals.

Narrated by Edward Norton, this stunningly beautiful film documents an important environmental whitewater expedition down three epic rivers in the Chinese Himalaya, the upper Yangtze, Mekong and Salween.

National Geographic photographer Chris Rainier and filmmaker Ethan Boehm team up to bring Rainier's photographs and Boehm's cinematography of the sacred temples and Buddhist monks of Angkor Wat poetically to film. With music by Anushka Shankar.

National Geographic photographer Chris Rainier and filmmaker Ethan Boehm team up to bring Rainier's photographs of tatoos and scarring rituals around the world poetically to film. With music by Anushka Shankar.

Filmmaker Michael Brown and Chilean conservationist Pablo Sandor lead a magnificent, wild adventure through a "vertical forest" into an unknown spectacular Yosemite-like granite canyon -- an expedition recognized by the United Nations for its role in protecting the pristine Corcovado National Park in Southern Chile.

A boat fight for the conservation of cetaceans in the Mediterranean Sea

The world of the Great Barrier Reef in Australia and its delicate and complex biological community.

The diverse and threatened jungles of Costa Rica and the natural world found within.

New acquisitions allowed species to be more competitive. When it came to looking for food or avoiding being eaten and the penalty for falling behind was death.