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Defying social pressure, a woman commits herself to lobster fishing and the sea
In this meditative short documentary, a woman who works on a lobster boat reflects on what keeps her doing a dangerous, male-dominated job despite pressure from friends and family to return to school or find a new line of work. Instead of caving to those pressures, she embraces living outside the ‘real world’, seeing beauty and clarity in a life connected to the sea, and finding meaning in the very act of defying expectations.
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Work
Emergency first responders meet chaos with dissonant calm in this gripping short
9 minutes
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The ancient world
Not a lost kingdom but a parable – how to read Athens in Plato’s story of Atlantis
24 minutes
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Public health
When two punk bands came to a psychiatric hospital, beautiful chaos ensued
27 minutes
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Design and fashion
Gear up for a stylish celebration of vintage motorcycle design
6 minutes
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The ancient world
A balanced account of Nero’s life reveals the ‘editing and destruction’ of history-making
27 minutes
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Film and visual culture
Shoddy filmmaking meets the miracle of life in a police training film turned cult classic
11 minutes
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Human rights and justice
The buzzes, clanks and whirrs of prison life form a meditation on freedom
17 minutes
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Cognition and intelligence
How a ‘periodic table’ of animal intelligence could help to root out human bias
5 minutes
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The environment
A climate activist living off-grid faces her toughest challenge yet – a new primary school
21 minutes