No Half Measures begins with an edited, humorous and provocative well below that summarizes each season of the show, interspersed with a greatest hits compilation of cut-throat, blowing pump, the action of cooking methamphetamine. In less than 10 minutes, mounting its way through the concept and evolution of the series, season by season, playing in important details in a fast and compelling manner.
Using unexpected canvasses, JR’s intention is to give a global voice to everyday people through a genre-blending combination of public art, photography and large format spectacle.
To learn what the USA can learn from other nations, Michael Moore playfully “invades” them to see what they have to offer.
Creation of Electric Lady Studios by Jimi Hendrix, from nightclub ruin to state-of-the-art facility. Includes interviews, unseen footage and track breakdowns by engineer Eddie Kramer.
Explores characters at life-defining moments regarding gender issues like period poverty, child marriage, HIV stigma, family planning, and women’s empowerment.
In 2001, the tiny Pacific island of American Samoa suffered a world record 31-0 defeat at the hands of Australia, garnering headlines across the world as the worst soccer team on the planet. A decade after that humiliating night, they remain rooted to the bottom of FIFA’s World rankings, having scored only twice in seventeen years. They have lost every competitive game they have ever played. Against this backdrop of serial underachievement, the team face the daunting prospect of a qualification campaign for the upcoming 2014 World Cup in Brazil. It would take a miracle-maker or a madman to turn the team’s fortunes around – and in maverick Dutch coach Thomas Rongen the islanders somehow find both. As a loan appointment from the mighty U.S. Soccer Federation, with experience of playing alongside football greats like George Best and Johann Cruyff, Rongen is completely unprepared for what greets him on the island – in his own words it is “by far the lowest standard” of football he’s ever.
It is graduation day in Joplin, Missouri. As the Class of 2011 collect their diplomas, their hometown is hit by a rare EF-5 tornado. Believing it could be the end of the world, a group of teenagers find themselves in the eye of the storm.
Narrated by the only 5-time Super Bowl winning head coach in NFL history, the New England Patriots Bill Belichick. The World War II Foundation hired one of France’s top aerial Drone camera companies to film some of the most iconic locations in Normandy from D-Day. The result is some of the most spectacular scenes of the landing beaches and battlefields viewers have ever seen. In 2017 the WWII Foundation tells the story of these famous locations utilizing ONLY aerial footage, along with archival footage taken during the invasion on June 6, 1944. The WWII Foundation matches 1-2 D-Day veterans with each location where our drone filmed so these veterans can share their own personal stories of where they were and what they were doing on D-Day, one of the most important days in the history of the world.
A heart-racing documentary portrait of Carl Boenish, the father of the BASE jumping movement, whose early passion for skydiving led him to ever more spectacular -and dangerous- feats of foot-launched human flight.
A look at the life and career of professional wrestler André Roussimoff, who gained notoriety in the 1980s as Andre the Giant.
A crew of five people and one sea dog leave Panama on March 7, 2020. One week into their passage, they receive news on the satellite email that Coronavirus has created a global pandemic. Facing ever-changing government restrictions from different countries and finding borders closed across the Pacific, the crew must decide what to do and where to go as they find themselves in a “Quarantine at Sea.”
For many generations people in the Omo Valley (tribal southwest Ethiopia) believed some children are cursed and that these ‘cursed’ children bring disease, drought and death to the tribe. The curse is called ‘mingi’ and mingi children are killed. Lale Labuko, a young educated man from the Kara tribe was 15 years old when he saw a child in his village killed and also learned that he had 2 older sisters he never knew who had been killed. He decided one day he would stop this horrific practice. Filmed over a five year period we follow Lale’s journey along with the people of his tribe as they attempt to change an ancient practice.
