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Born to Explore
Born to Explore with Richard Wiese is a first-run syndicated educational program airing weekly on ABC. Host and explorer Richard Wiese travels the world on this adventure travel show in search of unique stories, people and wildlife. An educational vehicle, Born to Explore introduces and highlights cultures around the world to an audience of children and families.
In each episode, Born to Explore travels to unpublicized corners of the world. Its stated mission: to seek out unique people, celebrate the diversity of world cultures, explore the animal kingdom and discover the natural wonders of the planet. In addition, the series strives to dispel cultural stereotypes and promote a more unified worldview.
Born to Explore fuses science, travel and storytelling against a backdrop of exotic locations. Ranging from Morocco’s Atlas Mountains, where Wiese became the first foreigner to visit an isolated nomadic village, to taking part in aboriginal rituals in Australia’s Northern Territory, and tracking polar bears while researching climate change with the Inuit in Canada. The show examines cultural traditions through food, music, dance and art.
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Not Born Yesterday
Kenji Fukuma, who was active as a poet, film director, and critic, passed away in April 2023. This is his seventh feature film as a director. The film depicts the interaction between a 77-year-old former sailor who lost his wife and a 2nd-year middle school girl who longs for freedom from her family and school.
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Where Champions are Born
Travel guide to the regions of Russia with the stars of Russian sports. The documentary project will show the unique places of the country and tell the stories of becoming champions. The film crew travels to different parts of Russia from North Ossetia to Kamchatka to show where the champions grew up. In four issues, the program will tell you how St. Petersburg became the capital of basketball, what the childhood of the strongest wrestler was like, how the harsh climate brought up the famous skier and why North Ossetia is called "little Brazil".
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The Pogmentary: Born Ready
A glimpse into the life of Paul Pogba, the influential world-class French footballer.
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Born to Spy
Yu Na and Min Park want more excitement in their lives, but they don't realise just how crazy things will become when they discover that their once unremarkable parents are actually international spies and have disappeared in suspicious circumstances!
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Feather: Natural Born Climber
35-year-old Andrew Feather is regarded as one of the top riders in Hill Climbing within the UK. To excel in this unique discipline of the sport takes a huge commitment to unique training, the fitness levels of a pro and an extremely high pain threshold. With over 4000 King of the Mountains to his name on Strava and a time up the infamous Alpe d’Huez, within a minute of leader Romain Bardet, there's more than meets the eye to Andrew's 'hobby'. We followed him for the short 2 month Hill Climb season in the UK, culminating in his attempt at the National Championships in October.
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NAVI. Born To Win
Five star players, five world-class pros with fabulous fees. They are 20 years old, they already know what it means to win. This is the NaVi esports team. The filmmakers talk about a difficult time in their life associated with a major defeat and loss of champion status. Ahead of the guys is the final of the 2020 championship in Poland, which can once again raise them to the top.
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Born in Evin
Follows filmmaker and actress, Maryam Zaree, on her quest to find out the violent circumstances surrounding her birth inside one of the most notorious political prisons in the world.
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Born to Be
Soon after New York state passed a 2015 law that health insurance should cover transgender-related care and services, director Tania Cypriano and producer Michelle Hayashi began bringing their cameras behind the scenes at New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital, where this remarkable documentary captures the emotional and physical journey of surgical transitioning. Lending equal narrative weight to the experiences of the center’s groundbreaking surgeon Dr. Jess Ting and those of his diverse group of patients, BORN TO BE perfectly balances compassionate personal storytelling and fly-on-the-wall vérité. It’s a film of astonishing access—most importantly into the lives, joys, and fears of the people at its center.
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Born with a Thunderstorm
The autobiographical texts and letters by film director Manuel Guimarães, and exchanged by him with friends, are the axis for the intimate narrative of his life, social concerns, passion for movies - while revisiting many movies of the 20th century and his complete filmography. One segment documents the epic way directors attempted to bypass official censorship to show their movies out of the country.
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