Black holes stand at the limit of what we can know. To explore that edge of knowledge, the Event Horizon Telescope links observatories across the world to simulate an earth-sized instrument. With this tool the team pursues the first-ever picture of a black hole, resulting in an image seen by billions of people in April 2019. Meanwhile, Hawking and his team attack the black hole paradox at the heart of theoretical physics—Do predictive laws still function, even in these massive distortions of space and time? Weaving them together is a third strand, philosophical and exploratory using expressive animation. “Edge” is about practicing science at the highest level, a film where observation, theory, and philosophy combine to grasp these most mysterious objects.
A strange story from Somerset, England about a filmmaking farmer and the inspiring legacy of his long-lost home movies.
Hosted by Tom Bergeron; featuring five divers partnered with sharks, including hammerheads and tigers; each routine is unique, with signature underwater moves; a winner will be crowned, but can all the competitors make it that far?
A Mexican fishing village faces fatal shark attacks on mollusk divers. Investigators arrive, capturing footage of a massive great white offshore. They discover the sharks may be using the village's waters as a nursery ground.
In the deep ocean, where darkness reigns, scientists uncover a hidden world that sustains life on Earth. From extraordinary creatures to invisible microbial processes, the abysses play a crucial role in regulating the climate and ocean balance. But as the race for deep-sea minerals intensifies, this fragile ecosystem is under threat. A breathtaking journey into the largest, and least known, environment on our planet.
Better Call Babs takes you on a ride-along with Babs Fry, exploring both her renowned work as a pet detective and the personal struggles that have made her the inspiration she is today. From high-stakes rescue missions to intimate moments of reflection, this documentary captures the chaos she embraces daily as a recovering addict turned hero.
Oscar-winning screen icon Susan Sarandon and Armenian painter Tigran Tsitoghdzyan discuss time and identity, and how the apparently in conflict values of beauty and aging are perceived in our modern society dominated by social media, as he limns her portrait during a timeless sitting session. With this film the director sets in motion his film theory on poetics of cinematic art, by re-creating a set of sense memories of an artist in a non-linear, challenging, yet intriguing story-telling scheme.
Responding to a shooting, authorities find an Ex-NFL player injured and another dead. They now face the question, was it self-defense or slaughter?
Fifty years after Jaws terrified beachgoers, marine biologist Tom "Blowfish" Hurd and ecologist Michelle Jewell dive with great whites to separate fact from fiction -- like whether skinny dipping is risky or if a shark could really chew through a boat.
Experts analyze shark encounters caught on camera, using forensics to review bite marks and behavior patterns as they wonder: What shark attacked?
In 1931, Germany was awarded the Olympic Games in the hope this would draw them into the international community and world peace would be promoted through sport. For two weeks in August 1936 cameras captured the world’s greatest sporting spectacle, including the Gold Medal triumphs of record-breaking sprinter Jesse Owens. The Berlin Olympics were groundbreaking – many innovations introduced in 1936 such as television coverage and the torch relay became part of every subsequent Games. Hitler’s Games in Colour tells the story of the remarkable amateurs who excelled, but also how Hitler used the Games as propaganda for his brutal regime, to show the Nazis as benign and their military ambitions as modest. Using black and white archive, transformed by cutting-edge restoration and colourisation, this is the story of 16 days that fooled the world…
Actor and comedian Ken Jeong and Grammy-nominated artist Rei Ami use the global power of K-Pop to transform perceptions of sharks across East Asia and beyond.
Directed by Patrick Gramm, 'The Pigeon People' (2023) takes you deep into Arizona's underground pigeon racing scene as racing rivals prepare for and compete in the Grand Canyon Classic - a 350-mile pigeon race from Utah to Arizona that crosses over the Grand Canyon.
A couple returns to Aghdam, the city they once fled 32 years ago due to the war. It's a story about memory held in people, and about the small, powerful ways the past resurfaces when you finally face it.
A brand-new quiz where contestants can win a million. But there's one huge secret twist in a night of drama, tension and life-changing outcomes. Would you take the shot?
Mat Fraser and Sophie Morgan invite members of the public to take part in a provocative experiment inside a brand new “progressive” residential facility. Visitors are encouraged to take a closer look, meet the residents, and discover a very different type of care. But as the experiment unfolds, nothing is quite as it seems. As events take an increasingly unsettling turn and troubling ideas begin to emerge, will anyone question what’s really going on?
A professional paranormal investigation team takes matters into their own hands, seeking to show that The Viaduct Tavern in London and The Skirrid Inn in Wales are two of the most haunted pubs in the whole of Britain.
Forrest Galante explores America's strangest alien sharks in celebration of the nation's 250th anniversary.
The story of how George Jung, together with the Medellín Cartel led by Pablo Escobar, established the billion-dollar cocaine empire in the United States in the 1970s.
When tech billionaire Slater King meets cocktail waitress Frida at his fundraising gala, he invites her to join him and his friends on a dream vacation on his private island. But despite the epic setting, beautiful people, ever-flowing champagne, and late-night dance parties, Frida can sense that there’s something sinister hiding beneath the island’s lush façade.