Join a celebrity host as they travel to different capital cities, exploring the local attractions, experiencing the culture, and engaging in comedic banter along the way. Each episode follows their adventures over a 48-hour period, giving viewers a taste of what it's like to go on a whirlwind vacation.
In a tale of adventure and romance, D'Artagnan joins forces with the legendary Three Musketeers to stop a double agent and her employer from seizing the French throne. Betrayal, duels, and a love triangle ensue as they navigate a web of conspiracy and fight to save Europe from war.
Stockholm is a dark comedy based on the true story of the Stockholm Syndrome. Set in 1973 Stockholm, a criminal takes hostages in a bank vault and forms an unexpected bond with one of the hostages.
Maidan is a documentary film that captures the protests and events of the 2013-2014 Ukrainian revolution, also known as the Euromaidan. It gives a powerful and unfiltered look at the political unrest, struggles, and social discontent that led to the revolution.
A movie serial in 13 chapters, and Lionel Atwill's final film: Following the end of WWII, war-monger Sir Eric Hazarias sets the wheel in motion for WWIII. His search for Meteorium 245, the only practical defence against the atomic bomb, leads him to mythical Pendrang. Obstructing his sinister plan to rule the world are Rod Stanton, United Peace Foundation investigator, Tal Shan , Pendrang native, and Marjorie Elmore, daughter of scientist Dr. Elmore, unwilling assistant to Sir Eric.
This travelogue of Costa Rica, the second smallest of the American republics, starts at San Jose Airport. Transportation is key within the country, boasting among the best roads in the world. San Jose itself is the capital, a small city of about 70,000, with many recreational areas in its suburbs. Heading out of the city, we come to an orchid farm, there being said to be more varieties of the plant in Costa Rica than anywhere else in the world. Next, we move to the volcanic mountains, the range within Costa Rica which contains the largest crater in the world. We then move to the farmland, with coffee and bananas being the primary agricultural export crops.
A visit to Singapore, an essential port city in Britain's empire, established in 1813 when Raffles negotiated its separation from the independent Malay state of Jahor. The camera observes Singapore's traditional neighborhoods, trade, and small craft, which are dominated by people of Chinese ancestry. Then, we drive the modern causeway to Jahor's small capital, Johor Bahru, for a look at imposing buildings and a visit to the grounds of the sultan. The sultan's son invites the crew in, and we meet the sultan, "H.H." himself. The narrator relates the sultan's commitment to commerce, economic well-being, and tolerance, stemming in part from his European education.
Mayor is a documentary film that follows the journey of the mayor of Ramallah, Palestine, as he navigates the challenges of governing a city under occupation. It explores his role in the local government, his interactions with the Israeli authorities, and the impact of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on the daily lives of the residents. The film provides a unique perspective on the complexities of the situation and sheds light on the struggles faced by the Palestinian people.
Just out of prison, Tomáš, a taciturn loner, takes a job cleaning houses where people have recently died. Things take an alarming turn when he begins putting in overtime: hiding behind closet doors after hours to secretly watch the homes’ residents. His voyeuristic ways soon lead to a romantic obsession with a woman in distress—but in order to help her, Tomáš will have to come out of the shadows.
London and the City of London are not the same place. London is a metropolis of 8 million people. The City of London is the famous square mile in the middle, with about 7,000 residents but many more businesses. A Corporation older than Parliament, the City of London has played a key historical role in protecting and promoting the interests of finance capital. Secret City investigates the power wielded by the Corporation of London over British economic policy, through which it sustains London's prime position at the hub of global finance capital - not least through control of the majority of the world's tax havens.
With James A. Fitzpatrick, we visit Sydney's Bondi Beach, the Blue Hills and onto Melbourne.
This Traveltalk series short visit to Argentina includes a look at its capital Buenos Aires.
Over a series of still photographs the director asks ordinary people about their lives, hopes and fears.
City Out of Wilderness is a 1974 American short documentary film produced by Francis Thompson. Produced by the United States Capitol Historical Society, it chronicles the history and evolution of Washington, D.C., from its very beginnings to the then-modern era of the 1970s. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject.
"To make the film Goddaddy was a great challenge, because it covers almost forty years of Milan Bandić's activity, a seemingly hyperactive and Trump-like character of the Croatian political scene. Bandić has been elected six times as the mayor of Zagreb, which is not only the capital city of all Croats, but also the capital city of all Croatian criminals. Three times Milan Bandić has rejected to give us an interview for the film, so we made an audition to find him a double." - Dario Juričan
Alvorada is a 1962 West German documentary film directed by Hugo Niebeling. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature and was entered into the 1963 Cannes Film Festival.
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