Andrew Graham-Dixon

Sister Wendy Beckett

Neil MacGregor

Andrew Graham-Dixon explores the ancient Christian practice of preserving holy relics and the largely forgotten art form that went with it, the reliquary. Fragments of bone or fabric placed inside a bejewelled shrine, a sculpted golden head or even a life-sized silver hand were, and still are, objects of religious devotion believed to have the power to work miracles. The documentary features interviews with art historian Sister Wendy Beckett and Neil MacGregor, director of the British Museum.

When an academic unearths a forgotten history, residents of the small township of Pukekohe, including kaumātua who have never told their personal stories before, confront its deep and dark racist past.

In 1900, the eyes of the whole world are on Paris. The World's Fair welcomed 50 million amazed visitors, and the city celebrated itself in a glamorous era. This period went down in history as the "Belle Époque." Elaborately restored and colorized historical photographs bring to life the exciting life in Paris between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of World War I in 1914. Bicycles, cars, airplanes, moving pictures, newly founded film studios, revolutionary composers and painters, avant-garde ballet performances, fashion houses, summer resorts on the Atlantic coast – life was intoxicating. People celebrate in the variety shows, cabarets, and revue theaters of Paris. Moulin Rouge, Folies Bergères, Bal Tabarin—in Paris, the nights are long and life is too short to sleep through. It is a dance on the volcano, given the political developments in the world.

Every year, thousands of German citizens travel to India, hoping to have a spiritual awakening  of their own. In turn, they end up taking bits and pieces of Indian culture back home with  them, creating a distorted version of Indian religion that’s practiced widely across Europe.  The number of yoga institutes, ashrams, and Sanskrit institutes in Germany indicates that  younger generations are far from giving up on this trend. Some are so enamored by this  version of Indian culture that they travel thousands of kilometres to meet their spiritual  advisors in tents, attend yoga sessions at 5 in the morning, and, in some cases, even adopt  Indian names and clothes to try and connect more with this Eastern way of living.  But exactly how prevalent is this trend?

A paralysingly beautiful documentary with a global vision—an odyssey through landscape and time—that attempts to capture the essence of life.

Through testimonies and images, the crude reality of human rights in Argentina in democracy is portrayed  and the role of the hegemonic means of communication to make causes and protests invisible ...

Kirby Dick's provocative documentary investigates the secretive and inconsistent process by which the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) rates films, revealing the organization's underhanded efforts to control culture. Dick questions whether certain studios get preferential treatment and exposes the discrepancies in how the MPAA views sex and violence.