In 1949, as illness tightens its grip, George Orwell races to finish the novel that will define the modern age. This documentary traces his final months and the fierce clarity with which he distilled a lifetime of experience into a single warning about power, truth, and freedom. Drawing on letters, archives, and rare testimony, it reveals the personal cost behind the creation of the novel 1984 and the urgency that drove him to the end. The film then unpacks the ideas that erupted from that last act of vision—doublethink, Thoughtcrime, Newspeak, and the ever-watchful presence of Big Brother—showing how Orwell’s insights were born and why they matter more than ever. By connecting the writer’s life to today’s information wars and political realities, it becomes a gripping meditation on how fragile truth can be, and how easily 2+2 can be made to equal five.
A chilling investigation dives into the looming threat scientists call “Disease X” — an unknown pathogen capable of triggering the next global pandemic. Led by physician and broadcaster Chris van Tulleken, the documentary explores how modern life, global travel, and human–animal contact are creating the perfect conditions for a catastrophic outbreak. What begins as a scientific inquiry quickly becomes a race against time to understand how close we may already be to the next crisis. To uncover where Disease X might emerge, van Tulleken retraces the fault lines of past outbreaks, from the deadly Nipah virus in Malaysia to the spread of bird flu among dairy cattle in California. Through frontline reporting, expert interviews, and unsettling real-world examples, the film reveals how fragile global health defenses truly are — and why the next pandemic may not be a question of if, but when.
This gripping documentary revisits the rise and fallout of a controversial television experiment that brought hidden crimes into the spotlight. By examining the NBC series that staged sting operations to confront suspected online child predators, the film reconstructs how on-camera confrontations led to arrests, public outrage, and unprecedented ratings. Through archival footage and behind-the-scenes accounts, it probes the fine line between journalism, justice, and spectacle. As the story unfolds, the focus shifts to the ethical and legal storms that followed. Questions of due process, responsibility, and the human cost of public exposure collide with the show’s sudden cancellation, forcing a reckoning with how far media should go in the name of protection. The result is a tense, thought-provoking exploration of power, accountability, and the consequences of turning crime prevention into prime-time television.
Experience a wondrous adventure from the dinosaur age. Join Julie, an imaginative young woman, as she travels from a modern-day aquarium to the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. Explore an amazing underwater universe inhabited by larger-than-life creatures including the powerful Liopleurodon, long-necked Elasmosaurus and gigantic Shonisaurus which were ruling the seas before dinosaurs conquered the earth. Thanks to state-of-the-art ultra-photorealistic imagery in 3D or 2D, see science come alive in a unique and entertaining manner. Immerse yourself in a lost age, 200 million years back in time, and get ready for a face-to-face encounter with the T-Rex of the seas. Directed by Ronan Chapalain and Pascal Vuong.
This documentary tells the story a young polar bear's epic migration through the icy waters of Hudson Bay and his subsequent adventures on land, where he must spend the ice-free season. It is his first summer alone without his mother to guide and feed him. His struggle to survive is set against the biggest environmental story of our time: climate change. The stunning images were taken with more than eight different kinds of cameras including, for the first time, a polar bear collar-cam; a remote control Truck-cam; a mini Heli-cam, and several underwater cameras.
Fly across iridescent tropical reefs, brush through a cloud of a million jellyfish, visit an alien world where the closer you look, the more you see, where the tiniest creatures support the greatest predators... We think of reefs as exotic, distant places with little or no connection to our everyday world. Yet every reef is a living city beneath the sea with a parallel existence to ours, distant yet undeniably connected. Reefs are hotspots of biodiversity as vital to life on earth as the rain-forests. They have been shaping our shorelines, literally forming islands and mountains, for millions of years. The fossil record shows that given time they have recovered from all of earth's major extinction events. Even reefs pulverised by atomic blasts at Bikini Atoll have regenerated. Yet within our lifetime reefs have come to face their greatest threat...
The film then unpacks the ideas that erupted from that last act of vision—doublethink, Thoughtcrime, Newspeak, and the ever-watchful presence of Big Brother—showing how Orwell’s insights were born and why they matter more than ever. By connecting the writer’s life to today’s information wars and political realities, it becomes a gripping meditation on how fragile truth can be, and how easily 2+2 can be made to equal five.