The Conquest of Everest
A documentary of the first successful expedition to the summit of Mount Everest. New Zealand’s Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay climb Mount Everest in 1953.
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Genre: Documentary, Drama, History
Release: 1953
All the World’s Memory
A documentary about the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. It presents the building, with its processes of cataloguing and preserving all sorts of printed material, as both a monument of cultural…
Enthusiasm. Symphony of Donbas
An audiovisual symphony that delves into the industrial, agrarian, and cultural fabric of the Donbas region during the inaugural Soviet Five Year Plan. It spotlights anti-religious campaigns, propagandistic marches, and…
Nature’s Half Acre
The strange and wonderful world that lies beneath our feet, under leaf, log and rock, peopled by millions of weird and fascinating creatures. Released theatrically alongside Alice In Wonderland.
People of the Po Valley
A documentary short detailing the life of Italians living on the Po River in the 1940s.
Loyalties
Ignition puts you in the driver’s seat of the automotive world’s latest car, truck and SUV offerings, courtesy of Motor Trend. Watch as our team of experts throttles, track tests…
Sky Above and Mud Beneath
In September, 1959, six Europeans leave Cook’s Bay on the southern coast of Dutch New Guinea, now West Papua or Irian Jaya, to trek north to the far side of…
The Master of Apipucos
Documentary about influential Brazilian sociologist Gilberto Freyre, made in his country house in Apipucos, Pernambuco (Northeast Brazil).
We Are the Lambeth Boys
Seminal piece of documentary filmmaking by New Wave director Karel Reisz following the daily activities of members of the Lambeth Youth club in late-1950s London.
Flying Padre
Stanley Kubrick’s short documentary about Father Fred Stadtmueller, a Catholic priest serving a vast 4,000-square-mile parish in rural New Mexico. To reach his scattered congregation, he pilots his own Piper…
Macabre
A compelling, innovative true crime series focused on the role of forensic science in solving some of the most perplexing crimes of our time. Looking at how examination of DNA,…
Garrincha: Joy of the People
Documentary about the most famous dribbler in Brazilian Soccer (some say in Soccer’s history!) at the zenith of his career, showing classic scenes of 1958 and 1962 World Cup. Garrincha…
Anniversary of the Revolution
A chronicle of the Russian Revolution of 1917, from the bourgeois democratic February Revolution to the great socialist October Revolution and the final triumph.
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