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- In an audacious investigation, Freightened reveals the mechanics and perils of freight shipment; an all-but-visible industry that holds the key to our economy, our environment and the very model of our civilisation.
- Funk Queen Betty Davis changed the landscape for female artists in America. She "was the first..." as former husband Miles Davis said. "Madonna before Madonna, Prince before Prince". An aspiring songwriter from a small steel town, Betty arrived on the 70's scene to break boundaries for women with her daring personality, iconic fashion and outrageous funk music. She befriended Jimi Hendrix and Sly Stone, wrote songs for the Chambers Brothers and the Commodores, and married Miles - startlingly turning him from jazz to funk on the album she named "Bitches Brew". She then, despite being banned and boycotted, went on to become the first black woman to perform, write and manage herself. Betty was a feminist pioneer, inspiring and intimidating in a manner like no woman before. Then suddenly - she just vanished. Betty Mabry Davis is a global icon whose mysterious life story has until now, never been told. Creatively blending documentary, animation and nonfiction techniques, this movie traces the path of Betty's life, how she grew from humble upbringings to become a fully self-realized black female pioneer the world failed to understand or appreciate, revealing the mystery of her 35-year disappearance and her battle with mental illness and poverty. After years of trying, the elusive Betty, forever the free-spirited Black Power Goddess, finally allowed the filmmakers to creatively tell her story based on their conversations.
- Is sand an infinite resource? Can the existing supply satisfy a gigantic demand fueled by construction booms? What are the consequences of intensive beach sand mining for the environment and the neighboring populations?
- This 10-part mini-series is a sweeping account of the rise of Earth's continents. They are the product of a grand waltz of plate tectonics and the continual evolution of the earth's crust, assembling and separating.
- The movie briefly covers NSA analyst-turned whistleblower Edward Snowden and his escape from American authorities to Hong Kong and later to Russia, after leaking classified information about global surveillance programs used by the American government to spy on people around the world and other nations activities. The movie also presents the journalists who had an exclusive access to Snowden and also the members of WikiLeaks, who helped him in moments of his escape.
- This documentary explores the incredible life of Merian C. Cooper, from his time as a soldier and pilot in three different wars, to his exploits in Hollywood, as a director, producer and cinematic innovator.
- This is the story of a young girl who did not want to make a film and who became a myth of the 7th art. It is the story of an intimate and violent secret that shaped his dazzling career. It's the story of Claudia Cardinale.
- At a time when modern societies are increasingly dependent on high-speed Internet and data transmitted by satellite, a new space race is upsetting the global geopolitical balance. 550 kilometers from Earth, American entrepreneur Elon Musk is gradually deploying his Starlink constellation, already comprising over three thousand satellites designed to bring the Internet to the remotest corners of the globe. But as Musk builds up his network, pressure is mounting on governments: will they let a private player corner the market? While Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is also demanding his share of the pie, China and the European Union - with the Iris project, announced for late 2022 - have also entered the race.
- In 2013, the giant Airbus was prosecuted for suspicion of corruption. By revealing the underside of the case, this investigation shows how justice has become one of the instruments of the economic war waged by the United States.
- A people's struggle to save the animal at the heart of their culture.
- Field experts and cutting-edge technology are deployed to follow the painted lady butterfly, Eleonora's falcon, Nathusius' pipistrelle bat and blackcap warbler as they undertake mysterious migrations crisscrossing thousands of miles.
- Rodolphe Burger is a free musician, complex but accessible, without taboos, he mixes with others without ever losing himself on the road. He is a man who shares everything, including the stage. Including his friends and they are numerous, poets, writers, rockers, painters and philosophers.
- An unexpected Eden in the heart of Paris, a peaceful, well-preserved Eldorado and a necropolis surrounded by greenery, Père Lachaise is an internationally renowned cemetery. What's not generally known however, is that it's also a refuge for wildlife, a memorial site where time and nature are king.
- Despite its familiarity, the concept of time raises many difficulties whose number grows as we attempt to analyze it. For example, it is very difficult to define the time. However, physicists have managed to make time an operative concept. - What time is? Time is first an indefinable word. - Does time exist? What kind of existence we attribute to him? - How to compare, oppose, objective time and subjective time? - The time he runs evenly? Compared to What does it flows? Has it an original? Will it end? Is it reversible? Is it cyclical or linear? - The arrow of time, second law of thermodynamics, entropy - The relativistic revolution duration are not absolute, the concept of simultaneity between two events loses its meaning. - General relativity, gravitation theory: space-time couples to matter and energy. Problem of the origin of time. - The fact of operating a measurement on a quantum system he introduced irreversibility? - Can the particles back in time?
- Communicating with animals: once a popular myth, it may now be the new frontier of science. New experiments shed an astonishing light on the animals we think we know so well. You'll never look at your cat or your dog the same way again.
- Follows how in the 19th century, the American paleontologists, in their frantic race to discover the remains of dinosaurs, engage in a merciless struggle.
- Taking us on an inward adventure, Mind in Motion probes the mechanisms that enable us to apprehend the world. Amazing experiments on perception, learning and attention reveal aspects of brain function that will transform how we understand human beings and society.
- These women are specialists in astronomy, immunology, nano-chemistry, and so much more. They are all determined to make a mark in the development of the African continent and the world at large. And slowly but surely, they are doing just that. This is their silent revolution.
- Why is the Moon now more than ever at the center of geopolitical and economic discussions? Decades after man's first step on the moon in 1969, this satellite of the Earth is now more than ever at the center of new challenges. A point to future missions to Mars, a land of opportunity for a new kind of investor, the promise of new energy sources. The conquest of the moon has already begun. After the Americans and Russians plan to develop the moon, the Chinese, Koreans and Indians, along with companies financed privately by billionaires, also see it as their new Eldorado. The boundaries between geostrategic and economic interests are becoming increasingly fluid.
- Geologist from around the world provide a guided tour of the geological formations that convinced them Africa was once the center of the super continent Gondwan and for a time located at the south pole. The evidence ranges from tiny diamonds and iron crystals to petrified trees to a 30 km wide crater and an entire mountain ranges. Their tour also includes Madacascar for you lemur lovers.
- When the super continent Gandwana began to break up into the modern day continents, Africa separated from Europe forming the Tethys Ocean. But Africa changed it's mind. It is now traveling north to rejoin Euope reducing the Tethys ocean to what is now the Mediterranean Sea leaving behind many curious anomalies such as whales and other marine fossil in the African desserts. But of most interest to most humans, oil formed from the Tethys Ocean's wildlife is found in North Africa and Arbian peninsula. Meanwhile, Africa is breaking apart as parts of east Africa follow Madacascar to drift into the Indian Ocean.
- North America has a storied history which local geologists are happy to explain. It still bears part of the continent of Africa from the collision that joined it to Pangea and formed the Appalacian mountain range. After separating again stray bits of continental crust collided in the west causing a depression that produced an inland sea running from the Artic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico and eventually left a treasure trove of dinosaur fossils. An anomalous seduction zone created a parallel pair of mountain ranges; the Sierra Nevada and Rocky mountains. Just for fun add a hot spot the fires a super volcano in Yellowstone.
- Central America and the Caribbean Islands formed from the Farallon Tectonic Plate which was previously subducted in a collision with the conjoined North and South American Tectonic Plates. As the Americas separated, the Farallon Plate slid between them. Then the Atlantic and Pacific Tectonic plates subducted beneath the Farallon Plate forming Central America and the Antilles Islands. Now, squeezed between these four massive tectonic plates, the region is riddled with volcanoes and fault lines with their accompanying earthquakes.
- 900 million years ago South America, part of the super continent of Rodina, was finally compete and remains together today. After separating from Rodinia it collided with Africa joining Gandwana and forming a mountain range that has now nearly eroded away. But remnants of the mountains sill remain on both continents as small peaks such as the famous Sugarloaf in Rio de Janeiro. As South America broke away from Africa is underwent an unusual collision with the Pacific Tectonic Plate building the longest mountain range in the world, the Andes, and the uniquely biologically diverse Amazon basin.
- 2012–20158.3 (10)TV EpisodeAustralia is the most stable continent on earth. That makes it an ideal location for scientists to study the early earth with 4.4 billion year old zircons and 2.6 billion year old stromatolites and thrombolites that created our oxygen atmosphere. But now the Australian Tectonic Plate is colliding with the Pacific Plate joining the ring of fire. In the north the collision created the Vanuatu Archipelago of 80 volcanic islands. In the east the collision is raising New Zealnd causing some 14,000 earthquakes each year.
- 2012–201551m8.2 (10)TV EpisodeAsia was involved in two of the greatest mass extinctions on earth. 251 million years ago the Siberian traps erupted in a massive two million year long volcanic eruption. Scientist speculate that life on land may have survived this cataclysm only because and large island, now south China, drifted apart from Gandwana. More recently India passed over a hot spot opening up the Deccan traps, another major eruption that occurred the same time the dinosaurs went extinct.
- 2012–201551m8.2 (10)TV EpisodeScientists examine geological formations of Asia to understand their impact on the people living there. The collision of India with Asia is squeezing the Tibetan Plateau between two mountain ranges and pushing China to the east creating faults leading to severe earthquakes that have cost many lives in Tibet and Sichuan Province. After breaking off from Asia Japan now sits at the collision point of three tectonic plates making it prone to volcanoes, powerful earthquakes and tsunamis. And Indonesia has a large collection of volcanoes.
- 2012–201551m8.4 (12)TV EpisodeEurope is a continent of mountain ranges. Multiple collisions with other tectonic plates created multiple mountain ranges covering much of this relatively small continent, Some are so large they extend to other continents. One range, the Alps, is still being created by the collision with the African Techtonic Plate. The rest, due to erosion, are past their prime and one has almost completed eroded away.
- Africa's on again off again dance with Europe causes dramatic changes in the Medeterranean region and ongoing dangers from earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunamis. In the not so distant past the sea was cut off from Earths oceans causing it to evaporate before being refilled when the Strait of Gibraltar reopened.
- 2016– 1h 31m6.8 (21)TV EpisodeThe Bayeux tapestry is a priceless and very special jewel. Although fragile, it has miraculously survived the centuries to reach the present day. Created in the 11th century, this giant 70-metre-long work recounts the capture of the kingdom of England by William the Conqueror, the man who would become one of the most powerful kings in Western Europe. Since its rediscovery in the 18th century, the Tapestry has intrigued with its apparent inconsistencies, its mysteries yet to be unraveled. Today, archaeologists, historians, biologists, anthropologists and even astrophysicists are pooling their research to keep the tapestry "talking".
- There are more people who have walked on the surface of the Moon than people who have dived below a depth of 800 feet.