Clarkson, Hammond and May travel across the Middle East in a £3500 sports car to reach Jerusalem, and encounter all the political minefields (and the real ones) the Three Wise Men didn't.
Experimental Animator Helen Hill found more than 100 handmade dresses in a trash pile on one Mardi Gras Day in New Orleans. She set out to make a film about the dressmaker, an African-American seamstress who had recently passed away. The dresses and much of the film footage were later flood-damaged by Hurricane Katrina while Helen was still working on the film. Helen ...
The love between the American burlesque stripper Teri Lee Geary (aka Kitten DeVille) and her punk rock singer husband Shawn Geary is strong but rather complicated. They live in their own time bubble, hers from the 1950's and his from the 1980's. It applies to their looks, their home and their lifestyle. Teri looks like Marilyn Monroe and Shawn looks like Joe Strummer ...
Au début du siècle dernier, le tout jeune Leonard Percival Howell (1898-1981) quitte la Jamaïque, se fait marin et parcourt le monde. Sur sa route, il croise toutes les idées qui agitent l’époque. Du bolchevisme à la new thought, de Gandhi à l’anarchisme, du garveyisme à la psychanalyse, il s’agit de trouver sa terre promise. C’est avec le cocktail de ces idées que Leonard "Gong" Howell revient en Jamaïque pour fonder en 1939 la première Commune rasta, le Pinnacle. De là va s’élaborer le mode de vie et de pensée qui nourrira la culture du reggae que Bob Marley répandra à travers le monde. Trente ans après la mort du chanteur, il est grand temps de rendre hommage à Leonard Percival Howell Le Premier Rasta, dont le discours révolutionnaire, politique et social résonne avec les mouvements altermondialistes d’aujourd’hui.
Ce documentaire retrace la vie de la star du heavy metal Ozzy Osbourne, de sa jeunesse dans les quartiers pauvres jusqu'à sa célébrité, en passant par Black Sabbath, sa carrière solo et ses frasques.
A look at Charles Darwin, his book On The Origin of Species, and how his theory of evolution is explained. It includes Darwin's observations through work on the Human Genome Project.
A credible investigation of possible connections between UFO sightings in the past half century and secret flying saucer technologies developed by the Nazis in WW2.
Le bakchich généralisé à l'école permet-il d'avoir de meilleures notes ? Le prénom choisi par vos parents forge-t-il votre destin ? Les lutteurs de sumo sont-ils véritablement au dessus de tous soupçons ? Tout ce que vous avez toujours voulu savoir sur l'économie, sans oser le demander, Freakonomics vous le révèle.
A Jordanian family man living in the hometown of Muslim leader Al-Zarqawi struggles to support his family and define his identity in a tense political climate.
In a bleak attic in Munich, a German boxer is pounding the bags. His name is Jürgen "The Rock" Hartenstein. Once a champion, he is now aging and alone. The boxer eschews women, alcohol and any creature comforts, earning his meager living as a pub bouncer. With no manager standing behind him, he is forced to train in city parks and in a dark, seedy attic with his Afric...