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Leader of a revolution at 21. Lawmaker at 23. Most Wanted at 26. With intimate access to the leaders of Hong Kong's Umbrella Revolution, Who's Afraid of Nathan Law? chronicles one of the world's most famous dissidents in his fight for democracy against a superpower.
Cast out of his monastery and displaced in his reincarnation, a Ladakhi boy of noble birth must go in search of his past life in Tibet, with the help and sacrifice of his aging godfather.
How tough do you think you are? It's the coldest day of the year in the coldest place in America. Contestants have 60 hours to run, bike, or ski 135 miles at -40 degrees Fahrenheit. Can they survive the frostbite and fatigue to make it to the finish line?
Three-time ice climbing World Champion Angelika Rainer is at a crossroad in her career. After having competed all her life and having won almost everything there was to win, Angelika Rainer decides to give up competing and start a personal journey, to her relationship with the past and with nature.
The Conductor takes the audience into the heart of classical music, and into the soul of one of its top, most beguiling artists, the internationally renowned conductor Marin Alsop. Alsop first saw the legendary Leonard Bernstein when she was nine-years old. That’s when she knew what she wanted to be in life: a conductor. Told that girls can’t do that, Marin struggled against enormous prejudices and institutional obstacles for decades to become one of the world’s most renowned classical music conductors.
Rodney Stotts is one of the few African-American falconers in the United States, and yet the path to this ancient practice was not an easy flight.
A meditation on our relationship to the world through a cross-continental, cinematic journey into our cosmic origins and our future as a species.
A no-nonsense Hasidic lawyer creates the first all-female ambulance corps in New York City, something that has long been the province of men.
Cuban boxer Namibia Flores Rodriguez defies age and naysayers to pursue her dream of Olympic glory.
A group of interns do a nine-month apprenticeship at one of the best restaurants in the world, Mugaritz.
Ashley Bell and a team of elephant rescuers, led by world renowned Asian elephant conservationist Sangdeaun Lek Chailert, embark on a daring 48-hour mission 500 miles across Thailand to rescue a 70-year old captive blind Asian elephant and bring her to freedom.
A WWII infantryman smuggles his portable camera into battle to create one of the most comprehensive and intimate records of the war.
Follows a group of athletes as they wrestle with complex identities and team dynamics on their journey to the National Gay Flag Football Championship.
Maxwell Colonna-Dashwood's and his wife Lesley share a love of coffee. They devote their lives to it. In his quest to explore the limits of coffee, Maxwell decides to compete for the World Barista Championship.
Shocked to discover her high risk of Alzheimer's, 85-year-old CNN veteran Jean Carper lays bare a disease shrouded in mystery and branded with doom.
A love letter to the game of baseball from the place you'd least expect. The true story of the first African team to play in the Little League World Series.