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The documentary explores the controversial use of marijuana and the evolution of mainstream society. From a dangerous narcotic, listed as a Schedule 1 Drug substance since the 1970s, to the rush to decriminalize it today. What has changed and why? What will the cannabis industry look like in five years? Will it retain its integrity as a homegrown industry or be co-opted by Big Business? Experts, growers, celebrities and politicians weigh in on the future of Cannabusiness.

Across the United States, a growing wave of censorship is turning libraries into battlegrounds. This gripping documentary follows a group of librarians in Texas, Florida, and beyond who refuse to stay silent as book bans spread through schools and communities. What begins as a local fight over reading lists becomes a powerful defense of free thought, truth, and democracy itself. Through emotional testimonies and scenes of quiet defiance, the film reveals how the right to read is being tested like never before.
As pressure mounts from political groups and extremist movements, these librarians stand their ground—facing threats, intimidation, and public outrage to protect the stories that shape us all. Their courage transforms a profession built on order and access into a movement for freedom, reminding us that knowledge, once lost, is the hardest thing to reclaim.

The film is a cinematic quest to find the '52 Hertz Whale,' which scientists believe has spent its entire life in solitude, calling out at a frequency that is different from any other whale. As we search for this elusive creature, we will explore the phenomenon of human reaction to its plight, while revealing its connection to the growing epidemic of loneliness in our interconnected world.

The Supermodels Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista and Christy Turlington will revisit the quartet’s modelling careers and how they disrupted the 90s’ fashion scene, including access to and interviews with all of them. The film show how these four women transformed the modeling industry, maintaining their dignity and respect in an industry that strips women of both much too often. Fighting off the critics, especially when it came to salary, making no excuses for demanding what they were worth, when women were told to shut up and just walk.
In the first episode, we rewind to the year 1983, where four teenagers—Naomi, Cindy, Linda, and Christy—took their initial steps onto the runway and in front of the camera. This pivotal moment ignited a seismic chain of events that would forever change the face of fashion. Get ready to witness these trailblazing women in a captivating journey into the past, sparking curiosity about the extraordinary impact and resilience of these iconic supermodels.

In the heart of southern France, the Mandrin Cave has drawn archaeologists for over three decades, its soils preserving an extraordinary archive of human life stretching back tens of thousands of years. Within its layers lie traces of fire, tools, and bones that tell the story of survival in a harsh prehistoric world. In 2015, the remarkable discovery of a Neanderthal individual—nicknamed Thorin—revealed that these ancient humans once lived side by side with the first Homo sapiens to arrive in the region.
Following an international team of scientists, the investigation uncovers fragile relics of the Palaeolithic era that are rewriting our understanding of how two human species encountered one another. With every excavation, new details emerge about resilience, adaptation, and coexistence, offering a powerful re-examination of what it meant to be human 50,000 years ago. This is not only the story of the Neanderthals’ fate, but also of the deep roots of our own identity.

The magnificent ancient city of pyramids at Caral in Peru is a thousand years older than the earliest known civilisation in the Americas and, at 2,627 BC, is as old as the pyramids of Egypt. Many now believe it is the fabled missing link of archaeology - a 'mother city'. If so, then these extraordinary findings could finally answer one of the great questions of archaeology: why did humans become civilised?" For over a century, archaeologists have been searching for what they call a mother city. Civilisation began in only six areas of the world: Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, China, Peru and Central America. In each of these regions people moved from small family units to build cities of thousands of people. They crossed the historic divide, one of the great moments in human history. Why? To find the answer archaeologists needed to find a mother city - the first stage of city-building. Caral, is so much older than anything else in South America that it is a clear candidate to be the mother city. It also is in pristine condition. Nothing has been built on it at all. Instead laid out before the world is an elaborate complex of pyramids, temples, an amphitheatre and ordinary houses. Scientists developed a number of theories. Some said it was because of the development of trade, others that it was irrigation. Some even today believe it was all because of aliens. Gradually an uneasy consensus emerged. The key force common to all civilisations was warfare. Crucially, there is not the faintest trace of warfare at Caral; no battlements, no weapons, no mutilated bodies. Instead, Ruth's findings suggest it was a gentle society, built on commerce and pleasure. In one of the pyramids they uncovered beautiful flutes made from condor and pelican bones. They have also found evidence of a culture that took drugs and perhaps aphrodisiacs. Most stunning of all, they have found the remains of a baby, lovingly wrapped and buried with a precious necklace made of stone beads.