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More than 10 million people in the world are behind bars with half of the world's prison population in Russian, Chinese or American jails. In the United States, where the prison population has risen sharply in recent decades. Artists are sounding the alarm: Jay Z, Denzel Curry and Meek Mill are calling for judicial reform.

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<p>More than 10 million people in the world are behind bars with half of the world's prison population in Russian, Chinese or American jails. In the United States, where the prison population has risen sharply in recent decades. Artists are sounding the alarm: Jay Z, Denzel Curry and Meek Mill are calling for judicial reform.</p>

More than 10 million people in the world are behind bars with half of the world's prison population in Russian, Chinese or American jails. 

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Tracks East interviews Ukrainians who refuse to take up arms and Russian men who have been living in fear of being called up since the call for partial mobilisation.

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As much of Western Europe worries about having enough gas for the winter, Tracks East looks at how people in Poland, the Czech Republic and Ukraine are facing the energy crisis and a cold winter ahead.

Winter of War

Tracks East looks at how people in Poland, the Czech Republic and Ukraine are facing the energy crisis and a cold winter ahead.

Daughter of legendary actors Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis, Jamie Lee Curtis struggled to emerge from her parents' shadow. But after making her Hollywood in debut in the genre-defining slash horror, Halloween, Curtis has pursued a singular career of great breadth and variety. Famous for comedy and serious roles, sitcoms as well as feature films, Jamie Lee Curtis has trodden her own path in a career spanning four decades.

Daughter of legendary actors Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis, Jamie Lee Curtis has trodden her own artistic path in a career spanning four decades.

Jamie Lee Curtis, Hollywood Rebel

La Nouvelle Vague is the cinephile movement for cinephiles. If you missed the boat: at the turn of the 1950s, Truffaut, Chabrol, Godard, Rivette, Rohmer and others revolutionised French cinema. 

La Nouvelle Vague

La Nouvelle Vague is the cinephile movement for cinephiles

Gymnastics

In this tenth and final part of Tracks East, Central and Eastern Europeans - journalists, artists, a male model and a former sex worker - hold up a mirror to Western Europeans.

The West Seen from the East

Who really were The Who? From the anonymous suburbs of London to worldwide fame, The Who were perhaps the most versatile of British bands during the 1960s. This is the story of Pete Townshend (guitar); Roger Daltrey (voice), John Entwistle (bass) and Keith Moon (drums) and the extraordinary creativity they unleashed onto the world of pop.

One Band's Explosive Story

Who really were The Who? From the anonymous suburbs of London to worldwide fame, The Who were perhaps the most versatile of British bands during the 1960s.

The Who

Bodybuilders get ever bigger bodies that look as if they could burst. What is behind the bigger is better mantra?

XXXL - Bigger is Better

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Lene lives in a remote fjord in Iceland. For more than thirty-five years, she has been creating art with organic animal material: skins, horse hair, bones. "When a skin is tanned and ready” Lene explains, “I can feel a little bit of the life coming back”.

The Female Directors Documentary Competition

To life - by Stefanie Gartmann

With sophisticated algorithms using deep learning, Youtube offers users irresistible video recommendations that become ever more sensationalist or even conspiratorial.

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At the end of the world, three men face the Southern Ocean and its dangers. They leave their families behind and brave the cold and storms to join the isolated fishermen who live on the inhospitable islands around Cape Horn off the southern tip of Chile.

By Benjamin Colaux

At the end of the world, three men face the Southern Ocean and its dangers. 

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French author Raymond Radiguet was just 20 when he died from typhoid fever, cementing him as a tragic, scandalous figure in French literary lore. His novel The Devil in the Flesh is the shocking story of Marthe, whose husband had gone to the front to fight in World War One. She embarks on a torrid love affair with a 15 year old boy with terrible consequences. Published just five years after the Great War; it shocked and outraged France.

The Romance that Scandalised a Nation

The Devil in the Flesh is the shocking story of Marthe, who betrays her husband on the front with a 15 year old boy.

The Devil in the Flesh by Raymond Radiguet

70 years of career in front of and behind the camera and still active at 90, Clint Eastwood is a Hollywood legend. A look back at his unique career through a portrait that explores the complexity of the Eastwood myth.

The Last Legend

70 years of career in front of and behind the camera and still active at 90, Clint Eastwood is a Hollywood legend.

Clint Eastwood

In 2019, Morocco celebrated 20 years of King Muhammad VI's reign. He's managed to impose his own style through gradual reforms. But the country is also deeply divided and unequal. Though the King wishes to reform, he must face opposing forces of tradition and common law. The challenges are numerous and the threats are significant. He must constantly walk a political tightrope to keep revolution at bay.

The King must constantly walk a political tightrope to keep revolution at bay.

Mohammed VI, The King With Two Faces

The Ring of the Nibelung at the Staatsoper Berlin is conducted by Christian Thielemann who is standing in for the indisposed Daniel Barenboim. This is only the second time that Thielemann, one of the world’s great Wagnerians, has collaborated with the Staatskapelle Berlin and it will actually mark his debut at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden!

Berlin State Opera

Christian Thielemann to stand in for the Staatskapelle’s own Daniel Barenboim, who is indisposed.

Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold

Why is femicide so prevalent across Europe? And what does it say about our societies? A look at the issue in Spain, France and Germany.

You Belong to Me!

Mapping the World turns towards Qatar, the small gulf state that is hosting the World Cup 2022. One of the richest countries on the planet due to vast oil and gas deposits, Qatar has invested heavily in soft power projects such as education and communication.

Mapping the World

Mapping the World turns towards Qatar, the small gulf state that is hosting the World Cup 2022. 

Qatar, World Cup Host

An English couple travels to Italy. After their arrival in Naples, cracks start to show in their relationship. This film is one of Roberto Rossellini's best works, which inspired a generation of French New Wave filmmakers. The couple is played by Ingrid Bergman, who made four other films with Rossellini, and George Sanders.

An English couple travels to Italy. After their arrival in Naples, cracks start to show in their relationship.

Journey to Italy

In the collective imagination, classical dance is about grace and lightness. But dancing is physically demanding and requires thousands of hours of training. By the time dancers reach their forties, they are close to retirement, but they have often reached the height of their artistic powers. Maturity holds great artistic potential, which increasingly calls into question the glorification of youth in dance.

Pushing the Limit

Professional dancers usually retire after the age of 40 but are often at the height of their artistic powers at this age. Should they dance on?

Dance On!

Joan Mitchell was a rare woman in post-war abstract art, born into a wealthy family in Chicago in 1925, who refused to theorise her works. Her artworks, which exude vibrant colour, seem to be able to cross the strata of the unconscious. Includes archive footage and interviews with those who knew her.    

A Woman in Abstraction

Portrait of a rare woman in post-war abstract art whose works are known for their vibrant use of colour. 

Joan Mitchell

Die Walküre, the second part of The Ring of the Nibelung tetralogy at the Staatsoper Berlin, conducted by Christian Thielemann.

From the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin

Part two of Richard Wagner’s monumental tetralogy in a new staging by Dmitri Tcherniakov

Richard Wagner: Die Walküre

Total is one of the five big oil multinationals with over 1,000 subsidiaries producing oil and gas in 130 countries. In 2021, they rebranded themselves as TotalEnergies and claim to want to become a serious player in renewable energy. But can oil giant really be a credible player in the green transition?

Anatomy of an Energy Multinational

Can the oil giant really be a credible player in the green transition?

The Total System

Church and sexual abuse of minors has long been an issue. But in addition to the paedophilia scandals, other revelations are shaking the Catholic Church: allegations from across the world of nuns being sexually abused by priests. In February 2019, Pope Francis acknowledged the abuse for the first time. This documentary gives an insight into an issue in the Catholic Church that has remained largely unreported.

All over the world priests are said to have sexually abused nuns. An investigation.

Sex Slaves Of The Catholic Church

Spanish choreographer Marcos Morau revisits Tchaikovsky's famous ballet Sleeping Beauty in a radical rereading from the Lyon Opera.

A Choreography by Marcos Morau

Sleeping Beauty

In Qatar, foreigners make up 90% of the population. They work in every sector from services to construction, and though the country is totally dependent on them, they are often treated like serfs. Due to international pressure, Qatar reformed its labour law, but workers say that while their rights have improved on paper they've since little real change.

Qatar: Exploitation of Workers

The foreign workers who helped build Qatar's World Cup buildings say they haven't been paid and are kept in substandard accommodation.

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Her joyful good humour and her distinctive voice has made Zaz popular across Europe. The French singer captivates the audience at the Baloise Session 2022.

Baloise Session 2022

Irish Travelers live on the fringes of society and their living conditions are on a downward spiral. A recent EU study revealed shocking figures: 11% of Irish travellers die by suicide and most die before the age of 65. No other minority in Europe faces such dire statistics.

A Minority in Danger

11% of Irish travellers die by suicide and most die before the age of 65.

Re: Irish Travellers

Are we on the brink of a space war? Power play, espionage, harassment - tensions between space-faring nations are growing and the arms race is in full swing. This documentary provides a deep insight into the geostrategic challenges of military spaceflight.

Tensions between space-faring nations are growing and the arms race is in full swing. Are we on the brink of a space war?

Space: A New Battlefield

Summer 1946. During a family holiday by the sea, Boris Vian wrote a fasionable noir novel full of sex, violence and rage in just two weeks. His hero is Lee Anderson, a young mixed race man out to avenge the death of his black brother. I Spit on Your Graves by Vernon Sullivan, supposedly a black author, came out that autumn. Vian pretended to only be the translator of the work, in an act of cultural and literary blackface. The novel still challenges and provokes readers to this day.

I Spit on Your Graves by Vernon Sullivan

White French writer Boris Vian pretended to be a black American to sell his novel I Spit on Your Graves.

Rage, Sex, and Jazz

In recent years, great advances have been made in LGBT rights in some countries: many European countries have legislated for same-sex marriages. However, in some parts of the world LGBT communities still face discrimination or persecution.  A focus on LGBT+ rights around the world.

LGBT+ Rights in the World

In recent years, great advances have been made in LGBT rights in some countries, while in others discrimination and persecution remain commonplace.

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