Vajont 9 ottobre '63

A look at the state of the global environment including visionary and practical solutions for restoring the planet's ecosystems. Featuring ongoing dialogues of experts from all over the world, including former Soviet Prime Minister Mikhail Gorbachev, renowned scientist Stephen Hawking, former head of the CIA R. James Woolse

Runtime

1h 35m

Director

Nadia Conners, Leila Conners

Cast

Leonardo DiCaprio, Kenny Ausubel, Sylvia Earle

Takes us to locations all around the US and shows us the heavy toll that modern technology is having on humans and the earth. The visual tone poem contains neither dialogue nor a vocalized narration: its tone is set by the juxtaposition of images and the exceptional music by Philip Glass.

Runtime

1h 26m

Director

Godfrey Reggio

Cast

Ed Asner, Lou Dobbs, Ted Koppel

The story of the conception of a new British weapon for smashing the German dams in the Ruhr industrial complex and the execution of the raid by 617 Squadron 'The Dam Busters'.

Runtime

2h 4m

Director

Michael Anderson

Cast

Richard Todd, Michael Redgrave, Ursula Jeans

MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES is the striking new documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. Internationally acclaimed for his large-scale photographs of “manufactured landscapes”—quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines and dams—Burtynsky creates stunningly beautiful art from civilization’s materials and debris.

Runtime

1h 30m

Director

Jennifer Baichwal

Cast

Edward Burtynsky

This astounding documentary delves into the mysteries of the Tunguska event – one of the largest cosmic disasters in the history of civilisation. At 7.15 am, on 30th June 1908, a giant fireball, as bright the sun, exploded in the sky over Tunguska in central Siberia. Its force was equivalent to twenty million tonnes of TNT, and a thous...

Runtime

44m