Documentary

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.

Portrait de la communauté aborigène d'Australie, une communauté exclue qui a failli disparaître et qui renaît grâce à la peinture. Acte ancestral, rituel, acte politique, de survie-la peinture est « le lieu » par excellence pour appréhender et comprendre le mode de pensée et l'organisation sociale des aborigènes.

Le site de Choqe K'Iraw situé à 3100 m d'altitude dans les Andes péruviennes est souvent considéré comme « l'autre Machu Picchu » depuis sa redécouverte au milieu du XIXème. Aujourd'hui, il faut encore près de trois jours pour se rendre sur le site. Le chemin est vraisemblablement le même que celui qu'empruntaient les aventuriers qu'ils soient avides d'or ou de savoir. La rumeur proviendrait d'un manuscrit daté de 1710 mentionnant la localité de Choqe K'Iraw qui signifie en langue Quechua « le berceau de l'or ». Mais qui étaient les Incas ? A partir de l'analyse du site et des étonnantes découvertes qui y ont été faites dernièrement nous dresserons un portrait de la civilisation Inca qui sous des dehors parfois austère d'empire bureaucratique cache de savants observateurs du monde et de grands symbolistes.

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.

World paragliding record holder Will Gadd attempts the ultimate challenge: to paraglide across the Grand Canyon.

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.

An adventure with a Russian twist, two expedition kayakers, Becky Bristow and Dunbar Hardy, go in search of new whitewater in the far northeastern reaches of the Russian continent - at the invitation of the Russian Government. They have no idea what they are really in for. A humorous, spirited and touching film that takes you on a wild journey into the remotest corner of Russia and into Russian culture.

Kitty Cahoun, the first woman to summit 27,800 ft.

(8,473 meters) Makalu in the Himalayas and one

of America's top climbers travels to Norway to take

on "The Mother of All Ice." A harrowing climb in 70 mph winds. Kitty Calhoun also looks back over her amazing mountaineering career.

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.

Reinhold Messner, the world's greatest mountain climber, looks back over his career with surprising candor and self- revelation, with rare film footage of his astonishing climbs of the world's highest mountains.

This tribute traces the early career of Charlie Chaplin from utter destitution to his meeting with Fred Karno and his rise to stellar status. In 1913, Karno’s company was invited by Mack Sennett to join the Keystone Film Company. Using hilarious footage from the early Chaplin movies, this powerful documentary follows the early career of one of the world’s greatest ever comic geniuses.

Certains pays européens ont encouragé la production de bananes dans leurs ex-colonies et territoires tropicaux. Cette banane européenne et ACP (Afrique, Caraïbe, Pacifique) n'a pu se développer que parce qu'elle bénéficiait de mesures protectionnistes. Sous la pression des instances commerciales internationales, saisies par l'Amérique Latine et les multinationales américaines qui dominent le marché mondial, l'Union européenne a, peu à peu, dû déréglementer son marché.

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.

John Armstrong's beautiful elegy to white water

kayaking. One kayaker, a lush cascading

tropical waterfall in Mexico and a multiple Emmy

Award-winning cameraman.

A rare documentary about Sir Wilfred Thesiger, the legendary explorer and writer of the mid-20th century who was the first westerner to travel into the most remote and often hostile quarters of the Middle East and Northern Africa. The film features his renowned photographs and writings from such books as "Arabian Sands."

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.

Two-time Emmy nominated film of blind climber Eric Weihenmayer's renowed summit of Mt. Everest - a climb that earned him the cover of TIME magazine.

The F4U Corsair is regarded by many as one of the greatest combat aircraft in history. When conceived, it mounted the most powerful engine and biggest propeller of any fighter in existence, and was the first US combat aircraft to exceed 400 mph. The US Navy adopted the F4U as a shipboard fighter-bomber in 1944, despatching large numbers from the carriers of the Pacific Fleet. By the end of the war, it had established a destruction ratio of 11:1 against the enemy.

Comrade Philby: a traitor in his native Britain, but a hero in Russia. The Oxbridge gent was a senior agent in the British secret services during the Second World War. As one of the former KGB spies of the Cold War ERA, Philby infiltrated the higher echelons of the British MI5 like no-one in espionage ever has. But what do we now know about the man, other than his strong communist convictions? This documentary investigates the man, and what effects his spying activity had on the Second World War and the Cold War.

An astonishing insight into a group of Asians who have deliberately chosen a lifestyle that marginalizes them from mainstream society. Hadi became a skinhead when he was in his twenties. Not ashamed or apologetic for his chosen lifestyle, he talks about being an Asian skinhead. But skinheads are usually typecast as white racist males. Where does an Asian skinhead fit in? The story also takes us to Hanover, Germany, where skinheads originated. How is the German skinhead different from their Asian counterpart?