Documentary

A filmmaker forges an unusual friendship with an octopus living in a South African kelp forest, learning as the animal shares the mysteries of her world.

"Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey" returns for a second season. Ann Druyan, original creative collaborator to Carl Sagan, serves as executive producer.

In Defense of Food tackles a question more and more people around the world have been asking: What should I eat to be healthy? Based on award-winning journalist Michael Pollan's best-selling book, the program explores how the modern diet has been making us sick and what we can do to change it.

Michael Pollan, a professor of journalism and a student of food, presents the history of four plants, each of which found a way to make itself essential to humans, thus ensuring widespread propagation. Apples, for sweetness; tulips, for beauty; marijuana, for pleasure; and, potatoes, for sustenance. Each has a story of discovery and adaptation; each has a symbiotic relationship with human civilization. The film tells these stories and examines these relationships.

Did you know the fact that the happiest camels in the world live on an island in the far north of Norway? When Torarin (9) and his sister Svalin (12) want a horse for riding, their parents buy two camels instead.

Docudrama about Empress Elisabeth of Austria told from the point of view of the imperial family's personal physician, Dr. Herman Widerhofer. We learn the truth about Elisabeth, as the doctor knew more about her than anyone else.

A documentary showcasing the world's many different animal species, both past and present.

From BBC Earth Films, the studio that brought you Earth, comes the sequel - Earth: One Amazing Day, an astonishing journey revealing the awesome power of the natural world. Over the course of one single day, we track the sun from the highest mountains to the remotest islands to exotic jungles. Breakthroughs in filmmaking technology bring you up close with a cast of unforgettable characters. Told with humour, intimacy and a jaw-dropping sense of cinematic splendour, Earth: One Amazing Day highlights how every day is filled with more wonders than you can possibly imagine- until now.

Paco and Manolo, a Catalan couple and photographers from Barcelona's outskirts, have been together for 30 years. They work as one photographer, capturing imagery for Kink magazine, a personal photography fanzine.

In 1976, Karen and Barry Mason had fallen on hard times and were looking for a way to support their young family when they answered an ad in the Los Angeles Times. Larry Flynt was seeking distributors for Hustler Magazine. What was expected to be a brief sideline led to their becoming fully immersed in the LGBT community as they took over a local store, Circus of Books. A decade later, they had become the biggest distributors of gay porn in the US. The film focuses on the double life they led, trying to maintain the balance of being parents at a time when LGBT culture was not yet accepted. Their many challenges included facing jail time for a federal obscenity prosecution and enabling their store to be a place of refuge at the height of the AIDS crisis. Circus of Books offers a rare glimpse into an untold chapter of queer history, and it is told through the lens of the owners' own daughter, Rachel Mason, an artist, filmmaker and musician.

Former leaders of the "pray the gay away" movement contend with the aftermath unleashed by their actions, while a survivor seeks healing and acceptance from more than a decade of trauma.

Friends and family of the late actor Heath Ledger remember his life and career.

Four kids - Gus, Ebony, Matt, Graham - navigate personal changes while the world debates same-sex marriage and if children with gay parents face risks.

A history of the gay porn industry, with four prolific on-camera performers interviewed about their work.

On February 12, 2008 in Oxnard, California, eighth-grade student Brandon McInerney shot his classmate Larry King twice in the back of the head during first period. When Larry died two days later, his murder shocked the nation. Was this a hate crime, one perpetrated by a budding neo-Nazi whose masculinity was threatened by an effeminate gay kid who might have had a crush on him? Or was there even more to it? Looking beyond all the copious news coverage of this tragic event, 'Valentine Road' tells the story of two victims: the murdered and the murderer. With keen insight, the film connects the human wreckage of Larry's and Brandon's troubled lives--both physically abused, both from broken homes, and both searching for a sense of belonging.

The story of two coalitions -- ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group) -- whose activism and innovation turned AIDS from a death sentence into a manageable condition.

Actor Stephen Fry has for two years seeking up some of the most homophobic persons in the world who spend most of their time fighting gays, and challenges their view upon their extreme homophobia.

Germany completely legalized prostitution over 10 years ago and now has one of the most liberal prostitution laws in the world. Over the course of ten years, Germany has become a destination for sex tourists from all over the world - including North America and Asia. By brothel owners and johns, Germany is considered to be Europe's biggest brothel. But who profits from this development and how does legalized prostitution change a society? The documentary 'Sex - Made in Germany' answers these questions through interviews with prostitutes, brothel owners, pimps, johns and government tax officials, who speak openly in front of a camera. 'Sex made in Germany' is a candid exposure of one of the most profitable legal sex markets in the world.

Survival of the Fabulous asks are gay men actually born gay? If so, how could homosexuality, a trait, which essentially prevents reproduction, evolve and survive generations of history? This conundrum has plagued the mind of openly gay filmmaker Bryce Sage for years so he sets out on a cross country adventure to get to the bottom of this evolutionary debate, with stops in Chicago, LA, Italy and Samoa. Bryce meets with the leading scientists working in the field to participate in their cutting edge research, including bombarding his brain with gay and straight erotica and even meeting gay sheep! It's a fun and frothy scientific adventure that follows Bryce on his determined quest to demystify an essential part of who he is.

A documentary about being among the LGBT community in modern society, told through interviews with LGBT celebrities and community leaders.

Non-fiction account of three men as they find their place in the Circuit Party Scene.

A documentary series focusing on sex in the twenty-first century.

Traces the Beats from Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac's meeting in 1944 at Columbia University to the deaths of Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs.

101 Rent Boys is shot on location in various motel rooms situated on the length of the Santa Monica Boulevard, and features 101 different hustlers. Although the film features 101 different people, it focuses on the lives (and loves) of a few key men. They have been chosen to reflect the immense diversity of the boys of the Santa Monica Strip. An amazing thing happens when you cross a video camera with award-winning directors, $50 and a hustler. The pieces are slickly grouped to cover certain themes; such as their first john, gay for pay, homelessness, drugs or the reason that they began to work as a rent boy. It also explores the variety of insiders' opinion on subjects such as; how a rent boy should dress, speak, act, think, give head, receive head, increase cash flow, keep safe, walk, eat, smoke, and flirt.