Country: Germany
Genre: Documentary
For six months of the year renowned Spanish chef Ferran Adrià closes his restaurant El Bulli and works with his culinary team to prepare the menu for the next season. An elegant detailed study of food as avant-garde art EL BULLI: COOKING IN PROGRESS is a tasty peek at some of the worlds most innovative and exciting cooking; as Adrià himself puts it the more bewilderment the...
Country: United States
Genre: Documentary
Werner Herzog takes his camera to Antarctica where we meet the odd men and women who have dedicated their lives to furthering the cause of science in treacherous conditions. A scientist studies neutrinos which are everywhere yet elusive; he likens them to spirits. A researchers nighttime performance art includes contorting her body into a luggage bag. A survival guide teaches his students to...
Country: United States
Genre: Documentary
Enron dives from the seventh largest US company to bankruptcy in less than a year in this tale told chronologically. The emphasis is on human drama from suicide to 20000 people sacked: the personalities of Ken Lay with Falwellesque rectitude Jeff Skilling he of big ideas Lou Pai gone with $250 M and Andy Fastow the dark prince dominate. Along the way we watch Enron game Californias...
Country: United States
Genre: Documentary
This documentary examines the flaws in our systems and the mechanisms that work against democracy and the environment. From conflicts of interests in politics and unregulated corporate power to a news media that serves the interests of powerful elites; ETHOS explores the systems that lead us into over consumption and warfare. Too often the media celebrates aspects of our society that belong in...
Country: United States
Genre: Documentary
If we faced a countdown to destruction could we build a spacecraft to take us to new and habitable worlds? Can we Evacuate Earth? This documentary special examines this terrifying but scientifically plausible scenario by exploring how we could unite to ensure the survival of the human...
Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Documentary
Of all of pop cultures mainstays no media property created after the Golden Age of Hollywood has had more influence and staying power than the James Bond franchise. This film covers the story of that creation from the imagination of Ian Fleming seeking an escape from his boring intelligence job. From that literary success we follow the creation of the film series under the producer team of...
Country: United States
Genre: Documentary
Long before OReilly and Beck Morton Downey Jr. was tearing up the talk-show format with his divisive populism. Between the fistfights rabid audience and Morts cigarette smoke always in your face The Morton Downey Jr. Show was billed as 3-D television rock and roll without the music. Évocateur meditates on the hysteria that ended the 80s and ultimately its most notorious...
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