Epic History makes videos about the most dramatic and important stories from our past, from the rise and fall of empires to global conflicts and revolutions. Our team have history degrees and decades of experience in documentary production, and regularly collaborate with specialist historians around the world, so you’re in safe hands as we explore some of the most epic moments in history.
The Tama River, where the water flows along the border between Tokyo and Kanagawa, pours into Tokyo Bay and the large sky spreads out. People who enjoy sports, lovers who are close to each other, students who practice singing, by the riverside, which is rich in nature, people who ride bicycles come and go as they please. Spring of 2020 corona disaster of people who spend their days along such a river.
During an unexpected, deadly second wave of the coronavirus outbreak in New York City, two neighbors, Rachel and Lily, navigate life in quarantine. While Rachel juggles her many telemedicine clients as well as a shaky, passionless marriage, Lily is upstairs just trying to convince her Wall Street clientele that her very specific skillset is still just as valuable over video as it was in person.
As the news of Covid-19 broke, no one knew what to expect. Shot in 21 countries, personal stories from the extraordinary first year of the virus that is changing our world.
Over the course of one winter, this 4-part documentary series observes an intensive care unit at Berlin's Charité hospital, at the height of the pandemic to date. The films offer an intimate insight into a world on the threshold between life and death, unknown to most. Around the clock, the staff on Ward 43 fight to save the lives of those seriously ill with the novel Coronavirus. Up close and without commentary, "Inside Charité: Covid-ICU 43" tells the story of this struggle in a microcosm that knows neither day or night, populated by glaring lights and beeping machines. Despite high-tech intensive care and immense personal dedication, the staff repeatedly come up against the limits of their human abilities. They are confronted with a completely new disease that can damage the entire body and defies tried and tested therapies. Time and again, the experienced doctors and nurses have to accept the inevitable and let their patients go
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Warm up to a different tomorrow with this short docuseries of personal reflections expressed through words, movement & dance. An experimental collaboration between writers and creative movers from around the world during the first covid-19 lockdown, in spring & summer 2020. From visualization to embodiment, from letters of love to sobering realizations, we're reminded in times of extreme uncertainty that a basic human need emerges... that of reimagining the future. Eight stand-alone episodes created together while being apart - in Lebanon, France, Iran, Jordan and the USA.
Akanksha visits her friend's Ex-Boyfriend's Flat to collect some stuff and the Prime-Minister announces Nationwide-Lockdown because of COVID-19 Pandemic, both develop a relationship during this lockdown.
This series gives access to the “red areas” of Europe, through the eyes of ordinary people whose lives have been changed dramatically by the global Corona-pandemic. A chorus of voices reveals how the Coronavirus has influenced our psychological and emotional states and has changed the way we live. Italy, that has been one of the hardest hit in Europe by the pandemic is the first port of call in the series, then the focus moves to the rest of the continent, with stories that repeat themselves and yet change in the various countries as different cultures react in various ways to the challenges to our health, work, education, and economy. Pain, anger, fear. But also the hope and desire to fight and change. The feelings and stories of the people who are struggling to contain the pandemic.
We all have our fantasies. We'd all like to believe that dreams do come true. At least once in our lives, we've dreamed of having the perfect love story. But life isn't a fairytale. One hopeless romantic. One emotionally unavailable. What could go wrong? After what was originally supposed to be just a hook up, JM aka @alt.media and Reb aka @trueloveskiss are made to look beyond their desires and genuinely get to know each other better when they’re forced to lockdown with each other. Will 14 days lead to forever?
Staying at home has become a form of survival in times of pandemic and the days seem to repeat itself. Now Murilo tries not to go crazy by touching life from the inside of the house.
Within the spectacular, complex and corrupt world of gladiatorial sports in Ancient Rome, follow an ensemble of diverse characters across the many layers of Roman society where sports, politics and business intersect and collide.
n 2019, the virologists took center stage, and for the first time on film, their methods, miscues and tragedy they have wrought are put under the spotlight, revealing the extraordinary leaps of fantasy buried in their methodology, the contradictions quietly acknowledged in their papers, their desperate effort to change language to justify their findings, the obvious incongruence of their conclusions and the extraordinary stakes for our entire society in whether we continue to blindly follow their lead into a full-scale war against nature itself.
Acclaimed filmmakers from around the world channel their creativity during COVID-19 isolation with this diverse, genre-spanning collection of short films.
A new crisis in a few days rewrote all plans, canceled business, destroyed dreams. How have we changed and our ideas about the world? What will happen next? Will it happen again? There are two views on the situation here: from April and August 2020. And the five key topics are work, family, medicine, debts, and the second wave of the epidemic. Journalists Alexander Urzhanov and Igor Makarov, together with experts, entrepreneurs and ordinary people, understand the new reality.
In 2029, just as we have learned to live with seasonal variants of Covid, a new variant of the plague bacillus is discovered in this southern city. With no treatment available, the central government decides to seal off the city and implement a mysterious "Plan D" with monstrous consequences in order to spare the rest of the country.
Scams, ethical dilemmas and Hollywood-worthy scenarios: Éric Bruneau dives behind the scenes of the pandemic and reveals what you didn't know about the management of COVID-19 in the country.
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The story of a succubus girl who faces a crisis in the days of the pandemic.
A funny and hopeful look at the search for love, sex and connection during this time of social distancing.