Shinrin-Yoku – literally, forest bathing – is the mindful absorption, observation and appreciation of the forest atmosphere through all our senses (smell, sight, hearing, taste, touch): a process intended to improve the state of mental and physical relaxation – a simple and effective technique to recover from modern-day “technostress” by connecting with nature instead with our phones.
In Canada’s history, there are few people who signified the nation’s modern confidence in its arts more than Gordon Lightfoot. This singer-songwriter’s singular talent in music changed the world’s opinion of Canada’s culture with his tremendous variety of songs that both celebrated the nation and touched its soul. Sparing nothing about Lightfoot’s personal weaknesses and failures as well as his triumphs, this film covers Lightfoot’s career from his own words and his closest associates with recordings of his greatest hits.
Get ready to go back 65 million years and come face to face with the largest creatures ever to roam the landscape with this BBC documentary series. Amazing computer graphics and the latest scientific data tell the story of how the dinosaurs lived, thrived and ultimately perished. Kenneth Branagh narrates this multi-awarded series.
Each episode of Walking with Dinosaurs focused on the lives of one or moreprotagonists, depicting fictional and speculative events based mainlyon inferences and the behavior of modern animals, produced in a stylethat mimicked traditional wildlife documentaries.
A cinematic and musical odyssey that explores the remarkable relationship between humans and rivers.
If you ever wanted to know what really goes on backstage, this is the definitive inside look – uncut and uncensored. Complete with on-stage performances you’ll see an intimate view of what life is like at one of the biggest Rap Concert tours of all time. It shows life on the road, in hotels and off stage in a way you’ve never seen before.
The film will explore society’s obsessions with the pursuit of happiness and will be presented by Mark Manson alongside Disappointment Panda, a character from the book whose superpower is to tell people the harsh truth.
A film following Australian band King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard on their European Tour. A musical road movie dipped in turpentine.
The first film to uncover the extent of the FBI’s surveillance and harassment of Martin Luther King, Jr. Based on newly discovered and declassified files, the documentary explores the government’s history of targeting Black activists, and the contested meaning behind some of our most cherished ideals. From Emmy Award winning director Sam Pollard and featuring interviews with Andrew Young, James Comey, Clarence Jones, and more.
Alabama Snake explores the story of Oct. 4, 1991, when a violent crime was reported in the town of Scottsboro, Alabama. Glenn Summerford, a Pentecostal minister, was accused of attempting to murder his wife with a rattlesnake. The details of the investigation and the trial that followed have “haunted Southern Appalachia for decades.” Alabama Snake features local historian and folklorist, Thomas Burton, who has spent his life studying the culture, beliefs, and folklore of Pentecostal snake handlers, painting a “Southern Gothic portrait” of Summerford and his tale of demon possession.
A tale of a small boy with dreams and his journey to becoming the God of Cricket and the most celebrated sportsperson in his country.
28 lost adventurers must fight for their lives after their only lifeline is destroyed in the most uninhabitable place on Earth – Antarctica.
A documentary that follows the efforts of “Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently,” a handful of anonymous activists who banded together after their homeland was taken over by ISIS in 2014. With deeply personal access, this is the story of a brave group of citizen journalists as they face the realities of life undercover, on the run, and in exile, risking their lives to stand up against one of the greatest evils in the world today.
