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- Danish director Mads Brügger and Swedish private investigator Göran Björkdahl are trying to solve the mysterious death of Dag Hammarskjöld. As their investigation closes in, they discover a crime far worse than killing the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
- As the disaster of yet another school shooting hits, some parents are faced with a brutal fact: their child was the one pulling the trigger.
- Today, all anybody needs to run is the determination and a pair of the right shoes. But just fifty years ago, running was viewed almost exclusively as the domain of elite male athletes who competed on tracks. With insight and propulsive energy, director Pierre Morath traces running�۪s rise to the 1960s, examining how the liberation movements and newfound sense of personal freedom that defined the era took the sport out of the stadiums and onto the streets, and how legends like Steve Prefontaine, Fred Lebow, and Kathrine Switzer redefined running as a populist phenomenon.
- It follows the relationship between film icons Romy Schneider and Alain Delon.
- Robert De Niro is famous for his award-winning portrayals of gangsters, criminals and socially disturbed men who show surprising traces of vulnerability. By analyzing his astonishing roles in iconic films through the years, the documentary reveal the complex actor behind these extreme characters. Because the public knows little about the man who is largely silent about his own life and emotions, this film tries to unwraps one of the most fascinating and enigmatic American actors of all time for the audience. For this the filmakers use clips from his feature films, archive footage of his sparse interviews and probe into his background to illustrate De Niro's methods for becoming the characters he plays and the reasons he's able to do so. All of this culminates in a rare exposé of the genesis of the hidden pain that enables the masterful actor to bring such intensity to the big screen.
- Soviet prison camps were a criminal system of oppression that was widespread and long-lasting. The writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn named it the Gulag Archipelago.
- The story of the Dutroux criminal case in Belgium told by the generation of children, now grown up, who were exposed far too early with ignominy in the privacy of their homes in the mid 90s.
- Wheat has been a staple food of humanity, and a foundation of our diet, dating back to the first civilizations on Earth. Today, a growing segment of wheat products have become tainted, and people have taken up the task of finding out why.
- Faced with climate change, many countries have embarked on the energy transition. Since the COP21 in 2015, which set demanding targets for reducing greenhouse gases, green energies have been on the rise. The electric car has thus become the mascot of this revolution. But manufacturers remain discreet about the carbon footprint of their cars marked "zero emission". Because not only do they consume electricity that is not always clean, but they also consume rare metals such as cobalt or lithium, the extraction of which causes havoc on the other side of the world. In China, for example, champion of rare metals, in Heilongjiang province, a carpet of toxic dust covers agricultural regions.
- When The Satanic Verses were published in 1988, no one yet perceived the rise of Muslim fundamentalism or its consequences. Not even its author, who will live 30 years under the threat of a fatwa pronounced by Ayatollah Khomeini.
- In the heart of the Arctic, the Yamal peninsula is the world's largest gas exploitation zone, a symbol of Russia's energy hyperpower, which caused the appetite of oil corporations. But the Yamal peninsula is also the ancestral home of the Nenets, who have been pasturing here with their droves for over 200 generations. Every year the nomads undertake a journey of 1500 km. But for how much longer can they survive? Today in Yamal, pastures have given way to gas fields. Growing towns, a railway, an airport, the deep scars on the landscape caused by extraction of gas and oil, and the new nuclear-powered icebreakers, which will create busy shipping lanes in the Arctic, are all changing the local ecosystem. With the industry dramatically modifying the landscape, accelerating the effects of global warming, the Nenets way of life is under threat. The documentary gives a unique insight into a vanishing way of life, enhanced by stunning aerial footage and rare access to an extraordinary people.
- Alain Kassanda's debut film begins as a self-examination. How well does he know his grandparents? What does he know about his native Congo, which was partly imposed on his identity by colonizer Belgium? And what does he know about himself with that? In Colette et Justin, he travels through time and his personal family history - in which he also beautifully brings the history of postcolonial Congo to life. He lets his grandparents look back on their lives, from their youth and first meeting to a complex political period. The Congo's first independent years pass by as a layered history, in which good and evil intertwine and Justin was assigned an important role.
- Was it genocide? Epidemics? Climate change? Interbreeding? Competitive replacement? In order to find out, this ambitious team examines the evidence as it would a criminal investigation. They take us around the world to forensic labs and explore the main regions Neanderthals inhabited.
- This documentary about addiction is seen through the eyes of a mother and her son.
- In this acclaimed new documentary, Emmy and BAFTA award-winning director, Gilles Cayatte, and expert on Turkish affairs Guillaume Perrier, profiles President Erdogan. Featuring an exclusive new interview with Fethullah Gulen, the man accused of instigating the coup, as well as insights from Erdogan's supporters and opponents, it portrays a leader whose sense of identity seems rooted in his power.
- An in-depth account of two assassinations that occurred in the Democratic Republic of Congo in March 2017.
- Live recordings of various relevant and popular groups and artists produced by Belgian TV RTBF.
- Communist ideals have long lost their value in Yiwu, a city with 600 Christmas factories, in which Christmas as we know it is produced for the entire world. With rising wages, the workers in Christmas factories can now afford newest iPhones, but they still live in crowded dormitories. All migrants in their own country, nostalgic for some place far away, some miss their families left in hometowns, other miss their friends and lovers from the factories when they go home for holidays. Young generation is already tired of long factory hours, chemical fumes and glitter particles, and they do not care for their parents' wishes to get educated. Stuck in between Chinese tradition and the newly discovered Chinese dream, they want their own businesses, to be rich, to be independent, to be in love.
- A trip to Belgium from ordinary villages where Black Metal concerts take place, violent and brutal rock with ambiguous messages.
- The moving story of how a small band of Jewish poets and writers saved priceless collections of Jewish books and manuscripts from destruction during the Nazi occupation of Lithuania, and then again during the Sovietisation of the Baltic states.
- It showcases how scientists are discovering the interconnections of natural disasters and how one is triggered by the other.
- In the village of Lussas, France, some people meet up in an old house which used to be the town grocery. Today, it is transformed into the headquarters of a SVOD platform for art house documentary films.
- North Korea has covertly developed a weapon whose secret the superpowers believed they alone possessed: the nuclear bomb. How has this country, ostracized by the international community and one of the world's poorest nations, managed to build up such an arsenal? Five years of investigation will reveal, clearly and simply, the secrets behind the financing of North Korea's nuclear weapons. A film revolving around the testimonies of the men and women at the heart of the system: the financier of the regime, the diplomat as well as the 'little hands', these North Korean workers sent abroad, who make the regime between 1,2 and 2,3 billion euros a year (according to UN estimates). Each year Pyongyang sends tens of thousands of North Korean workers outside the borders of the 'Hermit state', and rents them out to more than 40 countries across the world where they will be working in very difficult conditions, in isolation, permanently monitored by agents of the state in order to prevent them making contact with the outside or defecting. First-hand accounts of men and women who have played a role in this well-oiled system are extremely rare because defections are rare. Those who flee not only put their lives at risk but those of their families back home. This documentary reveals an ongoing tragedy, that of the Dictator's Men working in the wings to bring cash into the country at all costs and ensure the regime's survival.
- During the Pinochet-dictatorship, Jorge Lübbert escaped from Chile and left behind a frightening period of his life. But he forgot everything. With his son Andrés he decides to remember what happened and confront his past.
- By questioning sexuality, Nina and Yéléna are propelled into the heart of the feminist movement. An unsuspected pleasure is revealed, that of pursuing a collective emancipation.
- Men between 20 and 40 who have been confronted with an unforeseen pregnancy. In most cases, abortion followed. They reveal their feelings and thoughts about this event. Through these life stories, the film reflects on a man's place in the relations between women and men.
- In this film, veterans of recent wars offer first-hand accounts of their experiences, and of the psychological scars and personal losses that are inflicted on war's participants, military and civilian.
- In the spring of 1941, two strikes shocked the Liege region in Belgium, and then the north of France. Supported 2'000 women, about 200'000 workers and miners, driven to extremes by unbearable living and working conditions, challenge the fascist invaders.
- Explores the intense competition between Elon Musk's SpaceX and Jeff Bezo's Blue Origin as they battle for the top spot in the U.S.'s space travel business.
- This music documentary follows the Belgian band dEUS on a European tour celebrating the 20th anniversary of their landmark album 'The Ideal Crash', through testimonials from their fans on notable moments in their lives since 1999, the year of release of the album.
- Reveals the origins and particularities of Belgian rock through extracts from concerts, archives and interviews. Presents a panel of artists from the rock scene of Belgium like Arno or the Girls in Hawaii, Deus and Hollywood Porn Stars.
- In Abidjan, in full social mutation, we discover an Ivorian youth lacking benchmarks after the political and economic crises of recent years. We follow Rolex the Portuguese and his companions, young people in their daily activities, scam and small business to survive. They introduce us into the crazy nights of Abidjan and their whirling lives. Ages between 15 and 25 years old. Scam, sex, alcohol, fetish, sacrifice. For them, scamming the Europeans is collecting the colonial debt.
- It follows Jair Bolsonaro's career and his reputation while also showing him to be more complex than he is portrayed in this election year for Brazil.
- Arthur Langerman, Belgian diamond dealer, has almost collected about everything throughout his life. One day, encouraged by dimension of Holocaust tragedy and motivated by his personal story - his family was deported - he left his other collections and focused his energies on obtaining all kinds of material about anti-Semitism.
- When one begins to understand that social injustice, racism and hatred exist, one turns to Jean Ziegler's books. In this film he traces a double portrait: his own, and the world's.
- TV Mini SeriesLet your viewer explore the science, engineering and technology that are helping athletes maximize their performance for their next championship. Show them how top swimmers are learning to master the basics of fluid dynamics through the observation of shrimps. The quest to win in a championship demand an incredible amount of preparation time and effort on the part of the athlete. The coach makes most of the decisions concerning how to train them but sometimes they need help to increase the probability of success. To this purpose, special scientific programs are working to optimize athletic performance. By the same creative team of Science vs Terrorism, this 4-parter will have access to the labs and training sessions around the world, where scientists measure and analyze performances, friction, materials, interactions with the ground - in order to define the best movement and design the most adapted equipment. While aiming to increase the number of medals, these studies can have positive effects in other fields: for example, the understanding of how muscle fibers work can also help to identify muscle disorders at an early stage.
- Presents the 10 greatest Belgians of all time - selected after a public vote in the media.
- One of the 20th century Belgian artists who was the most idolized, exhibited, published, sold... Yet the artist himself, Jean-Michel Folon (1934-2005), whose work became controversial because deemed insipid, with its mannerisms, pastel tones and colors, remains little-known. Through previously unseen archive footage, Gaëtan de Saint-Rémy offers him a voice.
- In October 2018, a European intelligence services informer entrusted Kamal Redouani, a leading reporter, with the GPS coordinates of the living quarters of French jihadists in Syria. This will be the first stage of a film that will provide a better understanding of the journey and life, under the Caliphate, of Western jihadists and their families who left for Syria. This work is urgent. In a country in ruins, the evidence left by Western jihadists is disappearing. And without evidence, there can be no justice.