This brand new series will be presented by Danny Dyer, star of the feature film, The Football Factory and will portray both the historic and contemporary face of football hooliganism around the world.
The Pad Piper
This is the story of a man who invented a low cost sanitary napkin machine in India which brought about the change of menstrual hygiene for thousands of women. Most important, giving them their dignity.
The Netherlands from Above
How does the Netherlands work? If you look at the Netherlands from a normal point of view, many things simply escape your eye. This series shows The Netherlands from a spectacular perspective.
Through data visualizations, impressive aerial images and portraits of people on the ground, we show who we are and how time changes and has changed the country.
The Mummy Thief
In Toraja, Indonesia, Rambu Solo, is an expensive funeral rite, held for ancestors regardless of the expense, has become an absurdity, leading to the desecration of ancestral burial ground. They will save and work for years to prepare a suitable funeral rite.
This unique culture has maintained the tourism industry. The excess of tourism business led to commercialization. With no better economic development, the burial objects trading becomes an easy way to get extra cash. Poverty forces them to become the mummy thief.
This documentary features a villager who turns into a mummy thief, when he is trapped in the vicious cycle of debts after his family throws an expensive funeral for an ancestor.
The Great Indian Arranged Marriage
In an era of modernization in India, arranged marriages have become a multi-billion dollar business. Elaborate match-making meetings complete with websites and screening systems have emerged, making the choice of the ideal marriage partner a business and not an affair of the heart. The complexities of Indian society have never been more explicitly shown in this very personal yet strangely macro view in The Great Indian Marriage Bazaar.
Having a multicultural upbringing, Indian filmmaker Ruchika puts herself in the process of an arranged marriage to take a look at the realities of the system.
The Girl Whose Muscles are Turning to Bone
This moving documentary focuses on a bubbly seven year old girl called Luciana who suffers from Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva or FOP. This rare degenerative disease triggers her muscles and tendons to turn into bone, immobilizing her body. The film follows Luciana and her mother as they confront the reality of the condition worsening and we see her dream come true as she is taken to Florida to swim with dolphins.
The Game of Desire – Horse Fighting
This documentary follows three Miao men, living in the northern part of Guangxi province, Southern China, who participate in horse fighting – a custom which started about 600 years ago. We see the repression of the minority Miao people against the majority Han people juxtaposed against one of the men’s inner conflicts that he undergoes when he lets his horse fight. What’s the meaning of living a repressed life as a minority race in a huge continent of China? And the irony of making another repressed – the horse.
The Eccentrics
A trip around the world to discover the most original and eccentric people on the planet and learn more about their exceptional life.
The Day James Dean Died
Marking the 50th anniversary of his death, family and friends shed light on James Dean’s controversial racing career and love of speed. Cutting edge science re-investigates the tragic accident that killed a star but spawned a legend.