MOVIES Page 14

Argan Oil: The White Gold Of Morocco

This report follows the process of making Argan oil, beginning with the harvest and ending with the cooperatives working for the international market. Made from the nuts of the Argan tree, which grows almost...

Diving Off Cape Horn

Mid-July, during the Antarctic winter when night-time temperatures sink to -20ºC, marks the beginning of the Centolla season on Tierra del Fuego. Spider crabs can grow up to a half meter long and may only be caught...

New Zealand's Race of Excesses

A plunge into New Zealand's Ultramarathon preparations, a tradition that comes from a Maori legend. 55 year-old Lilac Fley is an athlete and many times winner of the extreme race. A Maori legend dictates the course of...

Bhutan In The Pursuit Of Happiness

Nestled in the heart of the Himalayas, the small kingdom of Bhutan has decided to do away with the dictatorship of Gross Domestic Product and economic growth at all costs. A new wealth indicator has now become the...

The Mystery of Dark Matter

Le mystère de la matière noire (2012)

Dark matter, which is unknown and undetectable in our physical models, would appear to populate the cosmos on a massive scale. For the first time, a film portrays the wild scientific quest that dark matter gives rise...

Apple The Tyranny Of Cool

Apple, the brand that symbolises counter-culture, has become a giant that dictates cultural norms and trends. At the root of their success story lies the genius marketing ploy of making mainstream power look tacky by...

Journey to the Center of the Earth

Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)

Prof. Lindenbrook leads his intrepid party on an expedition to the center of the earth, via a volcano in Iceland, encountering all manner of prehistoric monsters and life-threatening hazards on the way.

Kentucky Murder Mystery: The Trials Of Anthony Gray

Kentucky Murder Mystery: The Trials Of Anthony Gray (2022)

In 2007, James and Vivian Gray were found shot to death in their home. Their only son, Anthony, is put on trial for this heinous crime.

The Devil-Ship Pirates

The Devil-Ship Pirates (1964)

A deserter of the Spanish Armada arrives on the British coast and terrorises the local inhabitants.

Grosslockner King Of The High Alps

The report accompanies Austrian farmers in the highest mountain of the country - the Glossglockner - from July until Christmas, throughout the changing seasons. It is mid-June and summer is finding its way into the...

Guano the Island of Agony

Millions of sea birds nest on the Peruvian coastline. Their excrement - guano - is highly valuable, and is exported as fertilizer all over the world. Guano farming is done manually, in the same way it was done during...

The Ploushare Tortoise Of Madagascar

The angonoka tortoise, as the local Madagascans call the ploughshare tortoise, is an especially elegant tortoise with a high-domed golden shell. Reaching an age of well over 100 years, they are found in the wild only...

The People That Time Forgot

(1977)

When Bowen Tyler was marooned on the lost island of Caprona in the year 1916 in the first film of this loose trilogy, `The Land That Time Forgot', he hurled a cannister into the ocean hoping someone would find it and...

The Guns of Navarone

The Guns of Navarone (1961)

A team of Allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held Greek island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British...

The Science of Magic

The Science of Magic

Our film follows researchers who are bringing magicians’ tricks into the laboratory. With impossible magic, amazing facts, and opportunities for viewers to participate in the magic tricks, this extraordinary...