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Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy 3

   2010    Art
Farrands, Hutson, and Kasch first worked together on the documentary film His Name Was Jason. According to Farrands, who reunited with Hutson, they jointly decided that it was time to tell the stories behind why the various Elm Street films were created and why they decided to fund the entire project independently.
Series: The Elm Street Legacy

New Blood

   2016    History
After becoming the most powerful mob boss in the country, Al Capone now finds himself locked up in America's newest and harshest maximum security prison: Alcatraz. Prohibition has recently been repealed and one of the Outfit's most important sources of income dries up. With Capone cut off from all communication, his most trusted men, Frank Nitti, Tony Accardo and Paul Ricca, must keep his organization from collapsing. With Americans flocking to theaters by the thousands, the movie business is raking in millions of dollars a month. To take advantage of Hollywood, Nitti recruits Willy Bioff. Acardo breaks into a new racket in Chicago: slot machines. With help from Ricca, Accardo builds a network of slots in Chicago bars, earning up to $20,000 a year. By the end of 1939, the Outfit is bringing in more money than ever before... But new problems start to appear.
Series: The Making of the Mob

Notes on Blindness

   2016    History
In the summer of 1983, just days before the birth of his first son, writer and theologian John Hull went blind. In order to make sense of the upheaval in his life, he began keeping a diary on audiocassette. Upon their publication in 1990, Oliver Sacks described the work as 'the most extraordinary, precise, deep and beautiful account of blindness I have ever read. It is to my mind a masterpiece.'
With exclusive access to these original recordings, Notes On Blindness encompasses dreams, memory and imaginative life, excavating the interior world of blindness.

Nowhere to Hide

   2015    Nature
The open arenas of grassland and desert make up half of all land on our planet. In these exposed habitats, predators like cheetahs, bald eagles and lions can usually see their prey. But it works both ways: their prey can see them too. With nothing but open vistas, the element of surprise is hard-won, and predators must make their own opportunities.
Series: The Hunt

NYC Mega Skyscraper

   2019    Technology
New York's Central Park Tower is the second tallest building in the US, and as engineers and builders race to complete this 1,550-foot-tall mega build, they use cutting-edge science and engineering to battle high altitudes and brutal weather.
From the world's longest tunnels to the world's most advanced skyscraper, the series Building Giants reveals the extraordinary innovations that help record-breaking superstructures to be built, and uncovers the inner secrets of how they work.
Series: Building Giants

Objectified

   2009    Technology
A feature-length documentary about our complex relationship with manufactured objects and, by extension, the people who design them. It's a look at the creativity at work behind everything from toothbrushes to tech gadgets. It's about the designers who re-examine, re-evaluate and re-invent our manufactured environment on a daily basis. It's about personal expression, identity, consumerism, and sustainability.
The Story of God

The Story of God

2016  Culture
Planet Earth III

Planet Earth III

2023  Nature
Ancient Apocalypse

Ancient Apocalypse

2022  History
Walking with Cavemen

Walking with Cavemen

2003  History
Wild Wild Country

Wild Wild Country

2018  Culture
The Jinx

The Jinx

2015  History
The Sky at Night

The Sky at Night

2024  Science
Leaving Neverland

Leaving Neverland

2019  Culture