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Description: Starcrash wanted to be the next Star Wars. But with spaceships made out of yoghurt pots and monsters made from cardboard and papier-mâché could the audience suspend their disbelief? No. But thanks to its lovingly crafted DIY special effects, it has a special place in B movie history.

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B Movies (3/10)

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"Starcrash" (1978)

Starcrash (Italia, 1979)

Starcrash wanted to be the next Star Wars. But with spaceships made out of yoghurt pots and monsters made from cardboard and papier-mâché could the audience suspend their disbelief? No. But thanks to its lovingly crafted DIY special effects, it has a special place in B movie history.

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Starcrash wanted to be the next Star Wars. But with spaceships made out of yoghurt pots and monsters made from cardboard and papier-mâché could the audience suspend their disbelief? No. But thanks to its lovingly crafted DIY special effects, it has a special place in B movie history.

Starcrash

Starcrash wanted to be the next Star Wars. But with spaceships made out of yoghurt pots suspended on wires, could the audience suspend their disbelief?

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The 1980s: the age of the blockbuster, or in the case of Megaforce, the flopbuster. With a production budget twice that of Star Wars and with a scenario created to sell merchandise to 12 year olds, Megaforce was a commercial and artistic disaster. And yet the train wreck of a film has its fans...

Megaforce

The 1980s: the age of the blockbuster, or in the case of Megaforce, the flopbuster.

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What do you need for the perfect monster-horror flic to rival Jaws? A giant 25 foot spider made out of a Volkswagen of course! Director Bill Rebane recounts the making of The Giant Spider Invasion (1975), affectionately known as The Giant Spider Disaster. One thing is sure, there has never been a film quite like this before.

The Giant Spider Invasion

How do you make a monster-horror movie in 1975 to rival Jaws? With a giant spiders of course! 

B Movies (2/10)

Süpermen Dönüyor (1979) is a quintessential example of Turkish remake cinema. Indistinguishable from the US blockbuster except that Superman soars like a bird thanks to the director’s wife’s hair dryer.

Süpermen Dönüyor

Süpermen Dönüyor (1979) is a quintessential example of Turkish remake cinema. 

B Movies (4/10)

Love at first sight between a woman and a gorilla: A deranged screenplay by Ed Wood, 1950s Hollywood B Movie genius obsessed by Angora wool jumpers.

The Bride and the Beast (1958)

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Karate versus Mafia is famous for being the very worst film in Spanish cinema history. A very personal and naïve tribute to Hong-Kong cinema.

Karate versus Mafia

B-Movies (6/10)

Iranian exile John S. Rad spent twenty years of his life making one movie in his adopted California, filming it scene by scene when he had the money. The result is Dangerous Men, an incoherent police drama that baffled cinema audiences like no other film.

Dangerous Men

Iranian exile John S. Rad spent twenty years of his life making one movie in his adopted California. Results? Not so good. 

B Movies! (7/10)

Rats: Night of Terror (1984), shot in a dingy Italian studio by the prolific Bruno Mattei is a low budget Mad Max. The young cast have live rats regularly and mercilessly thrown at them as they fight for their lives against the murine hoard! They may survive the night, but will they save their acting careers?

Rats of Manhattan

Rats: Night of Terror (1984), shot in a dingy Italian studio by the prolific Bruno Mattei is a low budget Mad Max.

B Movies (8/10)

Phantom Soliders (1987) was inspired by the many Hollywood Vietnam War movies of the 1980s. Made in the Philippines by a mostly local crew and a few American actors such as Max Thayer, its trump card was being able to work with the real Philippine army.

Phantom Soldiers

Phantom Soliders (1987) was inspired by the many Hollywood Vietnam War movies of the 1980s. 

B Movies! (9/10)

Truly awful films are still being mad today: Ted Chalmers’ Disaster Wars: Earthquake Vs Tsunami imagines what would happen if a seismic event took on a tidal wave in a fight. Welcome to the world of the mockbuster.

Disaster Wars: Earthquake vs. Tsunami

This film imagines what would happen if a seismic event took on a tidal wave in a fight.  Not a classic.

B Movies (10/10)

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Five years after its theatrical release, documentary filmmaker Rémi Lainé tells the story of the making of award-winning film I, Daniel Blake, the social drama that became a worldwide phenomenon and exposed the reality of the punitive benefits system in Britain. With interviews with filmmaker Ken Loach, screenwriter Paul Laverty and their production team.

Once Upon a Time...

Five years after its theatrical release, documentary filmmaker Rémi Lainé tells the story of the making of I, Daniel Blake, the Ken Loach social drama that became a worldwide phenomenon.

I, Daniel Blake

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August 15 2021: The Taliban take Kabul. As the international coalition leaves after 20 years of intervention, there is chaos at the airport with Afghans trying desperately to get out. ARTE follows four Afghan civilians in the last few days before the fall of Kabul as their worst nightmares become reality.

Afghan Civilians in Danger

ARTE follows four Afghan civilians in the last few days before the fall of Kabul as their worst nightmares become reality.

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From an incredibly varied selection of 19th century postcards, the Paris of the Belle Epoque (1871 – 1914) comes to life. Street-photography captured Parisians from all walks of life and conveyed the optimism and elegance of the period.

From an incredibly varied selection of 19th century postcards, the Paris of the Belle Epoque (1871 – 1914) comes to life.

Paris in the Belle Epoque

The historian Herodotus in the fifth century BC said that Egypt was "a gift from the Nile", and from the pharaohs to Nasser, the Nile has played a vital role in Egypt's fortunes. But Ethiopia now intends to remind leaders in Cairo that the Nile is not just an Egyptian river.

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Ethiopia wants to remind Egypt that the Nile is not just Egyptian

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Stanislaw Lem is Poland's most famous sci-fi writer who predicted smartphones and virtual reality decades in advance. Yet his life is shrouded in mystery and full of paradoxes. How did he manage to survive the Holocaust? What were his true feelings towards communism? How did he manage to keep up with international science and technology with such outstanding accuracy - whilst living on the outskirts of Krakow, behind the Iron Curtain? And why did he write for the Catholic weekly “Tygodnik Powszechny”, while being openly atheist?

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Stanislaw Lem is Poland's most famous sci-fi writer who predicted smartphones and virtual reality decades in advance. 

Stanisław Lem

After eight years of restauration, one of the greatest works of art ever made looks once again as its creators intended. The monumental tableau that is the Ghent Altarpiece, also known as the Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, captures the viewer with its intense realism and complicated symbolism. A full immersion into this revolutionary work that looked forward to the modern world.

The monumental tableau that is the Ghent Altarpiece captures the viewer with its intense realism and complicated symbolism.

Secrets of the Ghent Altarpiece

25-year-old Sibel lives with her father and sister in a secluded village in the mountains of Turkey’s Black Sea region. Sibel is a mute, but she communicates by using the ancestral whistled language of the area. Rejected by her fellow villagers, she relentlessly hunts down a wolf that is said to be prowling in the neighbouring forest, sparking off fears and fantasies among the village women. There she crosses path with a fugitive. Injured, threatening and vulnerable, he is the first one to take a fresh look at her.

25-year-old Sibel, rejected by her fellow villagers, relentlessly hunts down a wolf that is said to be prowling in the neighbouring forest.

Sibel

With its grand churches, palaces and ruins, the Eternal City has a majestic architectural heritage that bears witness to its past grandeur. This subtle charm, which captivates millions of tourists from all over the world every year, is nevertheless a challenge for city planners and conservationists.
Can Rome become a modern metropolis while keeping hold of its glorious past?

Can Rome become a modern metropolis while keeping hold of its glorious past?

Enchanting Rome

From Chur, Switzerland’s oldest city, to Tirano in Northern Italy, the Bernina Express winds its way through deep valleys and wild gorges, crossing some 196 bridges and going through 55 tunnels in its journey through the Graubünden Alps. A journey to discover one of the most spectacular railway lines in the world and an audacious feat of engineering.

A Train through the Alps

 A journey of discovery on one of the most spectacular railway lines in the world, and an audacious feat of engineering.

The Bernina Express

This documentary, co-written with the chairman of the parliamentary commission of inquiry, Georges Fenech, looks back on how lives could have been saved if decisions made at the head of French police and the government had been different.

On the horrific night of 13th November 2015, French bureaucracy contributed to the terrible death toll

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There are an estimated 1,500 active volcanoes on Earth and in the 20th century, 437 of them erupted in places like the United States, Russia, Indonesia and Japan. Both a blessing and a curse, they have shaped our world on land and at the sea.

A World of Volcanoes

20 years later, the survivors of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York are still deeply scarred by their experiences. This report meets these forgotten people as they struggle to overcome the trauma of that tragic day.

Arte Reportage

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284 Russian soldiers are still missing in Afghanistan from the Soviet-Afghan War, a conflict that ended in 1989. ARTE Reportage goes in search of these lost red army soldiers

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In 2016, Colombia the country signed a historic peace treaty with the FARC rebels. This was intended to mend the deep rift in Colombian society, which has long been divided into two extreme camps: on the one hand the Marxist revolutionary guerrilla, on the other the ultra-conservative right and paramilitary militias. But the violence that has shaped the recent history of the country is far from over.

Colombia is still struggling to control violence from extreme groups and drug cartels

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Nobody captured the atmosphere of 1990s Berlin better than than German photographer Daniel Josefsohn.

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Report from a dogs’ home that specialises in unmanageable and dangerous hounds.

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In Greece, the coastguard has taken to pushing back asylum seekers into Turkish waters, in violation of EU law

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War photographers explain what drives them, and their sometimes traumatic experiences in the field

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