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With an anarchic and life-affirming heart, this documentary feature celebrates self-expression, friendship, life and death, and the power of the imagination to ignite, enrage, heal and inspire. With exclusive, intimate access to Michael Leunig - one of Australia’s most renowned artists - we reveal the man behind the household name.
The Leunig Fragments (2019 )
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An intimate look at Collingwood Football Club as it rebuilds itself and aims for glory over the course of the 2018 season.
Collingwood: From The Inside Out (2019 )
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Louis Theroux visits specialist psychiatric units which treat mothers experiencing serious mental illness whilst allowing them to live alongside their babies.
Louis Theroux: Mothers on the Edge (2019 )
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Louis returns to visit the Westboro Baptist Church in the wake of the death of its leader.
Louis Theroux: Surviving America’s Most Hated Family (2019 )
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At a religious reform school in Indiana, several former students share their heart-wrenching stories of what they allege to be physical and emotional mistreatment. But those who run the school, and another former student, say that what happened there is just the strict structure and discipline common to similar schools for troubled teens.
Living in Sin: Inside a Religious Reform School (2019 )
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Louis Theroux heads to American college campuses and comes face-to-face with students whose universities are accusing them of sexual assault.
Louis Theroux: The Night in Question (2019 )
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This film is an intimate portrayal of pioneering filmmaker Merata Mita told through the eyes of her children. Using hours of archive footage, some never before seen, her youngest child and director Hepi Mita discovers the filmmaker he never knew and shares the mother he lost, with the world.
Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen (2019 )
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Jamie Oliver takes a trip down memory lane with Davina McCall, discussing his career over the past 20 years, including his rise to fame, his campaigning and the closure of his restaurant chain.
Jamie Oliver: The Naked Chef Bares All (2019 )
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The Mangaung Prison opened in 2001 as South Africa’s first privately run penitentiary. Its operator, the multi-billion-dollar British security firm G4S, promised the most humane treatment and the best facilities for its nearly 3,000 prisoners—and naturally at the lowest cost. Testimonials from whistleblowers and former prisoners, and the findings of investigative journalist Ruth Hopkins expose the reality of prison privatization. Guards are underpaid, overworked and fear every day for their lives. Prisoners are a source of income, so rehabilitation isn’t a priority. Prison for Profit shows how this profit maximization system works, and what happens when governmental tasks like detention are outsourced to powerful international corporations. And what are the negative consequences for society at large?
Prison for Profit (2019 )
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50 years ago, Sydneysiders were shocked and the art world astonished by Christo's wrapping of the Little Bay coastline. Hungarian migrant and entrepreneur John Kaldor, who initiated this monumental work, has said “it all started with a stale sandwich, in Christo's studio in 1968 New York.” Now, Project 34 (by Asad Raza) is about to be unveiled, and UK artist Michael Landy is designing the exhibition to celebrate 50 years of Kaldor Public Art Projects.
It All Started With a Stale Sandwich (2019 )
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Until the 1950s, the Waorani were able to successfully defended their area of settlement – today’s Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon – with the aid of spears. Then Christian missionaries entered the thick rain forest and paved the way for an oil company. Nowadays many of the tribes are estranged as some want to benefit from the short-term money the company is offering while others fight to preserve their land, culture and independence under all circumstances.
Spears from All Sides (2019 )
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Upon realising her generation won’t have a future unless the world’s politicians act now on climate change, 15-year-old Greta Thunberg skipped school in August 2018 to protest outside the Swedish parliament. What started as a one person strike soon gained global momentum. We follow Greta and the organisers of the school strikes for climate as they are cementing a worldwide movement ahead of their first global protest that took place on March 15th, 2019. It was the biggest climate strike in history with up to 1.6 million students in more than 125 countries.
Make the World Greta Again (2019 )
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The church of Tonga demands donations, especially from those who have left the country. This personal documentary follows the family of Saia Mafile’o who, decades after moving to New Zealand, still dedicates his life and money entirely to his homeland.
For My Father's Kingdom (2019 )
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Crossing Australia from Perth to Sydney, the pivotal part played by the transcontinental railway line in linking the far-flung west coast with the eastern states is explored, including how the rail impacted Indigenous Australians on the Nullabor Plain, the new colony of South Australia, and the Indigenous trade route of the Blue Mountains.
The Indian Pacific: Australia’s Longest Train Journey (2019 )
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There are landscapes that hardly anyone has entered or seen: this film takes the viewer through New Zealand from the southern edge to the northernmost tip. High-quality images from the air, on land and in the water bring paradise to the other end of the world.
Fascinating New Zealand (2019 )
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The extraordinary price-tag of Jackson Pollock's Blue Poles - now considered one of the most expensive painting in the world which almost brought down the Australian government.
Jackson Pollock: Blue Poles (2019 )
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Ten years after Black Saturday, the traumatised survivors reveal how they found the strength to recover from the worst bushfire disaster in Australian history.
Aftermath: Beyond Black Saturday (2019 )
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The feature documentary film about the painter Milos Bajic and his life and art during the Second World War.
Line of Life (2019 )
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In 2008, feature documentary, The Oasis, shocked Australia with its gritty insight into the lives of homeless teens at a notorious youth refuge in inner city Sydney. An outpouring of social and political goodwill followed, with the then Prime Minister pledging to halve homelessness by 2020. A decade later, with social inequality and homelessness worse than ever, the original participants reflect on where their lives have taken them.
Life After the Oasis (2019 )
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The chaotic streets of Kathmandu may not seem like a typical breeding ground for world-class mountain bikers, but then again nothing is typical about Rajesh (RJ) Magar and his beat-up clunker.
RJ Ripper (2019 )
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Astronaut Andy Thomas is on a mission to have his boyhood heroes recognized among the world's greatest aviators for their pioneering 1919 flight from England to Australia.
The Greatest Air Race (2019 )
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The next Industrial Revolution is upon us, and scientists, entrepreneurs and policymakers are warning of an imminent paradigm shift in the future of work. In partnership with the Council on Foreign Relations, VICE talks to industry leaders and laborers to learn how radical developments in automation and artificial intelligence are set to change the world of work as we know it.
VICE Special Report: The Future of Work (2019 )
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Four very different women from Australia, India, Mexico and Turkey prepare for their weddings, each one with different significance.
I Am No Bird (2019 )
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Meet the men whose lives intersect in a prison reentry and addiction recovery creative writing program. Learn, from their own words, what lead them to commit their crimes, and witness the complexity of their ongoing stories on the outside.
In Their Shoes: Unheard Stories of Reentry and Recovery (2019 )
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Meet the millenials fighting back against unpaid work. Call Me Intern follows three interns-turned-activists who refuse to accept that young people should have to work for free to kickstart their careers.
Call Me Intern (2019 )
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First-time filmmaker Jason Schneider confronts the stigma of disability while coming to terms with his own limb difference in this documentary film.
Despite The Loss (2019 )
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This movie is a collection of portraits of residents of Russian countryside. Not a single word. Only long look into the camera. Landscape. Flow of time.
Portrait (2002 )
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This documentary follows the harsh and competitive life of Addo, a male lion born into a successful pride.
Addo - The African King (2002 )
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In 1994 filmmakers Jon Freeman and Dana Nicholson had been accumulating footage to showcase a behind the scenes expose of the lifestyle of an American pro motocross rider in action, 145ft plus jumps, 45ft high in the air soaring over sand dunes, mountains, houses, buses and anything else secure and steep enough to hold the weight of bike and rider. The end result was Fleshwound Films and the first video Crusty Demons of Dirt. The launch of this video was to change the face of motocross and create Freestyle Motocross (FMX). For over a decade, they took their dirtbikes around the world in search of unique locations and ultimately experienced the most ridiculous adventures. Exotic locations in nineteen countries : the ruins of Machu Picchu, packed arenas in Australia, the mysterious Easter Island, wild deserts in Africa no matter where we go, nothing is ever left the same.
Crusty Demons of Dirt (1995 )
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For just over an hour and a half, Two Billion Hearts takes the viewer back to the adventure of the world cup of the United States and packs the audience on a journey through emotion, the expressions of their protagonists, fans in the stadiums and in the streets to the stars on the lawns, the cameras walk an uneven and vibrant path to world history. Two Billion Hearts is much more than the official World Cup film in the United States, it is a journey, for the passion of football, for the soul of the fans, for the feat of their idols. The film shows the best moments of the Cup and accompanies the Show of the fans of 24 countries in the United States, where more than 300 thousand football lovers traveled around the world
Two Billion Hearts (1995 )
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Over the course of two centuries, seven million men, women and children abandoned their homeland for America's shores. In just one horrifying decade, two million left to escape a famine that left another million dead. This is the moving chronicle of the Irish immigrant experience.
Out of Ireland (1995 )
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Jennifer Saunders hosts a party of AbFab outtakes and behind-the-scenes footage.
How to Be Absolutely Fabulous (1995 )