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Rylan Clark shares his experiences of homophobia and his complicated relationship with football. He also meets people involved in the sport to ask why it's not a wholly welcoming place for gay men and how homophobia has an impact on those exposed to it.

Teatro Brasileiro: Origem e Mudança

Documentary featuring interviews with director Sidney Lumet, "Fail-Safe" (2000) producer George Clooney, star Dan O’Herlihy and screenwriter Walter Bernstein.

This documentary-style short follows two impoverished teens performing on the streets of London in the days leading up to the London Blitz of 1940.

A "video action" in which Barney crosses the ceiling of the Gladstone Gallery using a harness and ice-climbing screws, propelling himself by the forces of muscle and will.

The film is about the formation of a music channel that has shaped modern pop culture. On August 1, 1981, the life of a whole generation of Americans changed forever - on this day MTV began its broadcasting day, making VJ a new teen hero and creating a canon of music video as a vivid artistic statement.

On February 2, 2011, Jussi Björling would have turned 100 years old. Just in time for the anniversary comes the film, a drama documentary about the legendary opera singer.

Salif Keita has been one of the best selling world music artists since he embarked on a solo career fifteen years ago. In this portrait we are treated to music that spans his wide-ranging repertoire, from spellbinding performances of his traditional Malian music to concerts that showcase his innovations in fusing his musical roots with jazz, funk, Europop, and R&B. Highlights include performances in Denmark and France, as well as an improvised session with Carlos Santana.

A look back at "La Cage aux Folles", which ran non-stop for five years, from February 1973, on the stage of the Théâtre du Palais Royal in Paris. At a time when homosexuality was considered a crime by the law, Poiret and Serrault achieved great success in boulevard theater. Their success continued on the silver screen, with three Oscar nominations and a Broadway musical. Combining never-before-seen archives from the play, extracts from the film, confessions by Poiret and Serrault, and interviews with witnesses, this is the story of a wild epic.

Screen icon Charlotte Rampling has fascinated the world of cinema, fashion and photography with her mysterious and almost inaccessible beauty. A major figure in genre and auteur films, she is unclassifiable: between presence and absence, shyness and audacity, she's always hypnotic, magnetic and fascinating. From her film debut in the mid-1960s in England, to her unconventional career path, through the tragic loss suicide of her older sister that will irremediably mark her acting, this film is a dive into the existential quest of a complex actress, whose every facet is discovered through her roles. Through a conversation with the actress herself, along with personal archives and extracts from her films, this documentary raws a dazzling portrait of her life and career.

Boj o Hřensko

The film "Eternal Mission" tells about the tumultuous fate of the delegation of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic sent to the Paris Peace Conference in January 1919 under the leadership of Alimardan Bey Topchubashov, the Speaker of the Parliament.

Explores the life both on and off the track of one of NASCAR racing's greatest and most beloved icons. The fast-paced documentary creates an in-depth look behind the man by spending one 24-hr-period with Jeff Gordon, as well as a documentary-style retrospective of his career and lifestyle. Get to know Jeff the driver, the family man, the adventurer, the entrepreneur, and the philanthropist.

Documentary directed by Jacques Peretti

ZhouZhou was born with a mental handicap on April Fool's Day to a cellist family. He loves to follow his father to attend all his performances. One day, after on interval of a concert, Zhou Zhou takes the baton and starts to conduct the symphony that he has been listening to for years. The result surprises everybody and obviously reveals his inner musician!

Some months after the fall of the Berlin wall, during the time of federal elections in Germany in 1990, Chris Marker shot this passionate documentary, reflecting the state of the place and its spirit with remarkable acuity.

Television plays an important role in the life of the people of Havana. Despite there being only one program - the daily broadcast of the Telenovela is a most welcome distraction from the boring everyday life in the capital of Cuba. The movie watches enthusiastic and less enthusiastic viewers, and the almost holy people who are repairing the precious, mostly Russian devices.

The last part of the series How to remember? Is concerned with the texts of the publicist Eike Geisel (1945-1997). At the center are Geisel's criticisms of German remembrance politics and his thesis on the "reparation of the Germans". Texts by Geisel from the 1990s, including the Neue Wache and the Holocaust memorial in Berlin, contrast with today's pictures of the memorial sites described. They show a normality that does not really exist.