Bitten by the 'Moonbug', photographer Steve Pyke set out on a journey across America in his search to meet and photograph the Apollo space pioneers. A journey in which he was to meet the adventurers, risk takers and dreamers who were behind one of the most historic endeavours of our time. From living rooms and moonscape deserts, to Cape Canaveral, Steve captures these men in frank, revealing portraits, while unravelling their very personal and divergent memories. With rare archive footage and an original score by Matt Johnson, Moonbug is both a photographic road trip and an exploration of how photographs become signposts for history. Moonbug
Secret operations at the North Pole, parachute agents in Ukraine and helicopter missions in North Korea the CIAs spying methods in the Cold War seem to come from a James Bond film. With revealing interviews and rare and spectacular archive film material, this startling documentary reveals many of the recklessly dangerous schemes undertaken by the CIA to win the undeclared war for hegemony in the world. Behind Enemy Lines
One of the most inspirational underdog stories in the history of science: Undaunted tells the stories of the people who faced relentless hardships and failures, and yet went on to found astrophysics and pioneer the invention of powered flight. Undaunted: The Forgotten Giants of the Allegheny Observatory
The poignant story of two young children who grew up in pre-WWII Czechoslovakia and the terrible events that they endured for being Jewish. Based on the internationally acclaimed book "Hana's Suitcase" which has been translated into 40 languages, the film is an effective blend of documentary and dramatic techniques. In addition to tracing the lives of George and Hana Brady in the 1930's and 40's, "Inside Hana's Suitcase" tells the present-day story of "The Small Wings", a group of Japanese children, and how their passionate and tenacious teacher, Fumiko Ishioka, helped them solve the mystery of Hana Brady, whose name was painted on an old battered suitcase that they received from Auschwitz, the notorious Nazi death camp built in Poland. The film's plot unfolds as told through contemporary young storytellers who act as the omniscient narrators. They seamlessly transport us through 70 years of history and back and forth across three continents, and relate to us a story of unspeakable sadness and also of shining hope. Inside Hana's Suitcase
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M.I.A. - Missing in Action

30.000 British and 12.000 American soldiers were displaced to unknown destinations during World War II and the Korean War. 900 US soldiers were sighted alive by several witnesses after the end of the Vietnam War before they disappeared without a trace. Several hundred thousands of European survivors of the Nazi camps, mainly Dutch, Belgian and French vanished in the Soviet Union after World War II. Yet to this day the fate of the victims is one of the darkest chapters of the Cold War.

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2007

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