Movies: Real life

"Myth" was the callsign of Vasyl Slipak, the world-famous Ukrainian opera singer, a soloist of the Parisian National Opera, who left the big stage to become a volunteer, a warrior fighting in the East of Ukraine. The Hero of Ukraine, the Knight of th...

When Werner Herzog was still a child, his father was beaten to death before his eyes. His mother was overwhelmed with his upbringing and thereupon shipped him off to one of the toughest youth welfare institutions in Freistatt. This was followed by a ...

"Nû Jîn", New Life, with the slogan ' Woman is life. Life is resistance and resistance is Kobanê', depicts the daily life of women guerillas, Elif Kobanê (18), Vîyan Peyman and Arjîn, joining in the Women's Protection Units (YPJ) in their battle agai...

Producer Samuel Cummins, along with five participants in World War I, discuss the key events of the war as illustrated by an assemblage of battlefield and other documentary footage. This film is not the same as, but seems likely to have either inspi...

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"TDS, derrière l'écran des travailleuses du sexe" is a deep dive into the lives of Betty, Anaïs, Noochka, Manon, and Barty. They have all ventured into the world of selling sexual content online. What pushes someone to take the step of signing up on ...

Every now and then, we get a teacher who doesn't just connect with us -- they make us a better person in the world. Jeffrey Wright of Louisville, Ky. is one of those teachers. He uses wacky experiments to teach high school kids about science and the...

Presented by former Samoa rugby player Dan Leo, who sacrificed his own career to confront corruption in his national union, Oceans Apart looks at the bond between the Pacific and modern Rugby and reveals the darker side of the sport....

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The film tells the stories of three protagonists, which are intertwined in one story about the Master: a rural school pupil who dreams of ballroom dancing – Makar, world champion in ballroom dancing – Alex Ivanets, and his first teacher – Petro Horho...

With unprecedented access to NZ Customs' Child Exploitation Operations Team, this documentary reveals the complex & lifesaving work of our investigators at the frontline of online child abuse crimes....

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There are 20,000 New Zealanders currently eligible for detention and deportation from Australia. Meet the 501 deportees fighting for their lives and rights in a place they don’t call home. Made with support from NZ on Air....

A series of short films where 32 Mr Beast contestants are hired by two hopeless MI5 Agents to track down and catch international terrorist Harry Bedi....

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In 1989, Sabrina, a young woman full of dreams, meets Romeo, a boy talented in the art of making snacks. Impressed, she proposes that they open a savory company together. With the help of Edu, a marketing specialist, and Sam, a renowned businesswoman...

At 78 years old, Oscar continues to be passionate about technology, during his long life he has shared his knowledge on television, radio and press, following every step of the technological world, but a skin cancer stopped all his journalistic proje...

Olivia is an introvert and shy teenager who uses notebooks and post-its to express what she cannot do in her daily life. Living in a problematic household, feeling that she has no friendships to trust; Olivia’s emotional state will be taken to the br...

A young Italian doctor thrust into a COVID-19 ICU ward grapples with isolation and uncertainty with no end in sight....