S7.E44 ∙ The Skincare Market Stretches Out/Non-Human Firefighters

A comment on the seemingly impossible prospect of a productive climate debate, and a satirical look at the impotence of (climate related) political art, and it's tragic failure to provoke or inspire real change.

The Gardener is a surreal film made using documentary-style techniques via the cameras of father and son (the Makhmalbafs) who go to Israel to learn about a religion (Baha'i faith) that they don't know much due to its taboo status in the country of both the filmmaker and the faith's birth - Iran.

The History Channel examines the Dark Ages from the fall of the Roman Empire to the First Crusade.

Beautiful Things is a journey into our obsessive consumption. The many objects we accumulate and we believe to be essential begin their production journey in silent secluded industrial and scientific sites. The film describes the hidden mechanical liturgy within four different remote locations where bordeline men work in complete isolation without any interference from the outside world. These men trigger, unconsciously, the long chain of creation, transport, commercialization and destruction of the objects feeding our bulimic lifestyle. They are monks inside temples of steel and concrete. They repeat the same liturgy every day. And we don't even know that they exist.

Examination of the events that led to the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.

A dramatization of the life of the acclaimed American musician Prince, who died from an accidental overdose at the age of just 57 in 2016.