I Believe in Miracles (2015)

An exploration of the life and career of the Beatles superstar, with a look at the strange parallels between him and his killer Mark David Chapman.

During the week, they are white-collar professionals with responsible jobs, families and mortgages. Come the weekend, they transform into Lycra-clad super heroes; road warriors on expensive carbon framed bikes traveling…

Survivors and insiders recount March 11, 2004’s terrorist attack on Madrid, including the political crisis it ignited and the hunt for the perpetrators.

After starring in a dozen or so HBO Special Presentations, comedian George Carlin has amassed a substantial body of work in the cable channel’s vaults. Personal Favorites is a greatest-hits…

Steven Okazaki presents a deeply moving look at the painful legacy of the first — and hopefully last — uses of nuclear weapons in war. Featuring interviews with fourteen atomic…

This time-lapse documentary follows the last years of former President Václav Havel’s life, creating a multi-layered portrait of a world-famous political icon and important playwright, but also an ordinary man…

A vibrant investigation of the predicament of central Indian cotton farmers, caught up in biotech broker Monsanto’s genetically modified seed program. Refused loans by legitimate banks, the farmers borrow from…

Liz Bonnin introduces a cast of charismatic animals to reveal the remarkable strategies they use to survive, and even thrive, through the winter.

Luminous beings, creatures with their own internal light, enchant and astonish us. Anyone who has seen a firefly or a glow-worm cannot help but fall under their spell. The sea…

An unprecedented examination of the impact the Star Trek experience has had on the franchise’s most celebrated participants: William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy. These two stars have arguably embodied the…

In 1966, German film critic Theodor Kotulla — who would go on to become one of the New German Cinema’s most uncompromising filmmakers — visited the set of Robert Bresson’s…

The hunt for aliens is on! After a distinguished career in cosmology Professor Martin Rees, the astronomer royal, has taken up the search for extra-terrestrials. Looking for aliens is no…