The rise of NBA star Stephen Curry is told in Stephen Curry: Underrated. In November 2021, Stephen Curry, point guard of the Golden State Warriors, beat the record previously held by Ray Allen for the most 3-pointers made in NBA history. However, Curry had to fight for his position, as he spent his entire career…
An Italian woman attempts to break the world record for the incredibly dangerous sport of freediving in The Deepest Breath. Freediving is an extreme sport where swimmers try to descend to the deepest depths in a single breath. Alessia Zecchini is an Italian woman following in the footsteps of the world’s greatest freediver Natalia Molchanova….
The life of morticians is shown in a very tongue-in-cheek fashion in Undertaker for Life! If the world didn’t need undertakers, the people would be pretty happy. Director Georges Hannan tackles the taboo profession of preparing the dead for burial with earnestness and humour. This includes comparing embalming to changing the transmission on a car…
A pathologist spends decades with Albert Einstein’s brain in his possession in The Man Who Stole Einstein’s Brain. Dr. Thomas Stoltz Harvey was the chief pathologist of Princeton Hospital, who performed the autopsy on Albert Einstein following the scientist’s death in April 1955. During the autopsy, Harvey decides to take Einstein’s brain from the corpses,…
The timeline of Y2K concerns and paranoia is revisited in Time Bomb Y2K. In the mid-1990s, there was an explosion in information technology and the level that we corrected. However, with this interconnectivity came the fear of the “Millenium Big,” first brought to attention by Canadian computer engineer Peter de Jager, who expressed concerns about…
Filmmaker Penny Lane documents her experience donating her kidney to a complete stranger in Confessions of a Good Samaritan. Once considered taboo by the medical professions, altruistic or “good samaritan” donations involve living people deciding to donate one of their vital organs to give to a complete stranger. Penny Lane is preparing to make such…
The religious right’s influence on U.S. politics and the country’s relations with Israel are explored in Praying for Armageddon. In the United States, fundamentalist evangelical Christian Zionists believe that every word of the bible is literally true and that the apocalypse would start with the second coming of Jesus Chris and true believers being raptured…
A woman born with a rare physical disability tries to find other people like her while combating ableism in society in Is There Anybody Out There? Ella Glendining was born without hip joints, and very small femurs, and Ella’s disability is so rare that there aren’t even proper statistics. Ella joins various online groups to…
China’s status as an authoritative surveillance state is exposed in Total Trust. Using the latest technologies, such as facial recognition technology and even COVID health checks, the communist government of China can enact authoritative control over its citizens. Several Chinese citizens document their horrifying experiences with the Chinese surveillance states. The central story comes from…
The little-known history of Black Barbie is told in Black Barbie: A Documentary. For decades the image of Barbie was that of a slim white girl with long blonde hair. However, Lagueria Davis learns through her aunt Beulah Mae Mitchell, a former Mattel employee, that a special Black Barbie was released in 1980 and has…
