Documentaries - TO WATCH

Werner Herzog obtiene acceso exclusivo para filmar en el interior de las cuevas de Chauvet y captura las creaciones pictóricas más antiguas que se conocen de la humanidad.

A documentary about people who drill dime-sized holes in their foreheads in an effort to improve health and mental capacity

Can the dream world be a fully functional parallel reality? Joseph Gordon-Levitt and leading scientists take you to the cutting edge of dream research in this documentary produced for Christopher Nolan's Inception.

Death is real, it comes without warning and it cannot be escaped. An ancient source of strength and guidance, The Tibetan Book of the Dead remains an essential teaching originating in the spiritual cultures of the Himalayas. Narrated by Leonard Cohen, this enlightening two-part program explores the sacred text and boldly visualizes the afterlife according to its profound wisdom. Part 1: A Way of Life reveals the history of The Tibetan Book of the Dead and examines its traditional use in northern India, as well as its acceptance in Western hospices. Shot over a four-month period, the film contains footage of the rites and liturgies for a deceased Ladakhi elder and includes an interview with the Dalai Lama, who shares his views on the book's meaning and importance. Watch The Tibetan Book of the Dead - Part 2: The great Liberation

Científicos hipotetizan sobre el futuro de vida y ecología según tendencias actuales.

Astrofísicos y biólogos se reúnen para imaginar cómo, dónde y qué tipos de formas de vida extraterrestre podemos esperar encontrar en un futuro próximo.

A team of scientists testifies that they found the remains of a sea creature with ties to human origins - a modern day mermaid. They claim a massive government cover-up is currently hiding the creature's existence from the general public.

Director Tamra Davis pays homage to her friend in this definitive documentary but also delves into Basquiat as an iconoclast. His dense, bebop-influenced neoexpressionist work emerged while minimalist, conceptual art was the fad; as a successful black artist, he was constantly confronted by racism and misconceptions. Much can be gleaned from insider interviews and archival footage, but it is Basquiat's own words and work that powerfully convey the mystique and allure of both the artist and the man.

Explores the history and mystery of Migraine, and its remarkable place in the human condition. Migraine is a devastating but fascinating neurological condition with a compelling story to tell.

Los cineastas utilizan cámaras ocultas para captar los diversos intentos de suicidio en el puente Golden Gate, el destino suicida más popular del mundo. Entrevistas con seres queridos de las víctimas describen sus vidas y su salud mental.

Chaos theory reveals how order emerges from disorder, explaining nature's patterns and complexity. Prof Al-Khalili shows how physics, not divine intervention, transforms simple systems into intricate structures like trees and humans.

Two Danish comedians join the director on a trip to North Korea, where they have been allowed access under the pretext of wanting to perform a vaudeville act.

A documentary of an expedition to Churchill, Manitoba to film the Northern Lights.

The film tacks together two tales: a historical account of Tesla's eventful life and his pioneering research into physics and bold experiments with electricity. Suffering from a fatal malady as a child the future great physicist promised his parents that he would recover under the sole condition...if they allowed him to become an engineer. And he kept his promise. Never ending yearning for knowledge, research practice, creative endeavor, discoveries that have unfixed all established notions - that's what was the characteristic of the great physicist. Nikola Tesla would always remain a scientist whose life was a sort of mystification rather than pure reality.

While being in Poland, Romanian Claudio Crulic is wrongly accused of theft. In jail he goes on a hunger strike.

An intimate portrait of a peasant-turned oil painter transitioning from making copies of iconic Western paintings to creating his own authentic works of art.

Un documental sobre la influencia del arte japonés en los trabajos de Van Gogh.

Telling the intriguing and poignant story of the closure of Britain's insane asylums.

Wonder, exploitation and a wish to preserve nature - Curiosity and Control examines our complex relationship to nature itself. A multi layered look at the world of Museums of Natural History and Zoological gardens, with voices from historians, authors, architects and zoo managers. It raises questions about how we perceive nature and our contradictory behavior of caging what we fear may be lost.

Follows an older Balinese man as he struggles with the intrusion of spirits into his consciousness and explores his experience with healers, the roles of violence and loss, and what role a psychiatric diagnosis of schizophrenia entails.

MENTAL is a feature-length documentary that observes the complex world of an outpatient mental health clinic in Japan, interwoven with patients, doctors, staff, volunteers, and home-helpers, in cinema-verite style. The film breaks a major taboo against discussing mental illness prevalent in Japanese society, and captures the candid lives of people coping with suicidal tendencies, poverty, a sense of shame, apprehension, and fear of society.

Can a candidate with no political experience and no charisma win an election if he is backed by the political giant Prime Minister Koizumi and his Liberal Democratic Party? This cinema-verite documentary closely follows a heated election campaign in Kawasaki, Japan, revealing the true nature of "democracy."

People from all walks of life are asked "What is God?"

Every human asks: who am I? What is my purpose? The answers are in the sustaining allegories of myths from human history. Mythic Journeys reveals how those myths can transform lives into journeys.

Whaledreamers is the heartfelt story of the return of an aboriginal whale dreaming tribe from the edge of extinction and the equally, long journey of the whales, not only to survive the slaughter by man, but to engage the human race into waking up in time.