A glimpse at the life of Dave Brubeck, a famous jazz musician, composer and performer from California. His story is told trough a number of interviews, old footage and commentary by family and fellow musicians.
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A Documentary examining Germany's economic power and the automobile industry at the heart of it. Across the world, the badges of Volkswagen, Audi, BMW and Mercedes inspire immediate awe.Even in Britain, where memories of Second World War run deep, we can't resist the appeal of a German car. By contrast, our own industry is a shadow of its former self.Historian Dominic Sandbrook asks what it is
Using Darwin’s own diary and field notes as a travel guide, retrace Darwin’s expedition beyond the Galapagos to uncover the forgotten evidence that inspired his revolutionary work. He wasn’t a mathematician. He wasn’t an inventor. He was just a 20-something guy who liked to poke around in the dirt.Yet, Charles Darwin developed a theory of evolution so significant that it forms the bedrock of b
A harrowing, hard-hitting documentary which shows the devastating effects of the “globalized” economy on the residents of a fishing village in Tanzania. The story starts four decades ago when a species of huge fish is introduced to Tanzania’s Lake Victoria. The fish are now harvested, chopped into filets and shipped to European and Japanese consumers while the Africans who catch and process them a
As a man who, when working out whether to marry, once reasoned that a wife was “better than a dog, anyhow” Charles Darwin is not known to history as a leading advocate of gender equality. Controversial though his views on other subjects may have been, historians have typically seen the great scientist as the epitome of the Victorian conservative when it came to gender. Famously, Darwin even stated
This stunning documentary tells the little-known story of how Darwin came to write his great masterpiece, On the Origin of Species, a book which explains the wonderful variety of the natural world as emerging out of death and the struggle of life.In the twenty years he took to develop a brilliant idea into a revolutionary book, Darwin went through a personal struggle every bit as turbulent as
How could the flag flutter when there’s no wind on the moon? During an interview with Stanley Kubrick’s widow an extraordinary story came to light. She claims Kubrick and other Hollywood producers were recruited to help the U.S. win the high stakes race to the moon.In order to finance the space program through public funds, the U.S. government needed huge popular support, and that meant they cou
Dark Side of the Chew is a film that sees the director Andrew Nisker examine how the habit of chewing gum which has been around forever, impacts our culture, threatens our health, erodes our economic stability, and damages the environment.Chewing gum is something that seems to attract millions of people from all around the globe. Gum itself is one of the most consumed products in the world bu
In this 10 episode series, we see VICE take a look at some of the most captivating pop-culture moments, trends, and personalities of the decade. The '90s were a time of extreme social change and pop culture shifts and here we explore the untold history, revealing secrets, perspectives, and first-hand accounts like you've never seen before.Episode 1: Trash TV: Dirty and Deadly TalkTelevision w