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This month’s selection of documentaries celebrates what can happen when humans decide to think – and dream – a little bigger, from changing the fate of our entire planet to exploring the vastness of space.
This month’s selection includes:
In the Shadow of the Moon
What happens when the whole world looks up? For the first time, In the Shadow of the Moon brings together the last surviving crew members of every Apollo lunar mission and lets them tell their amazing stories in their own words.
Sepideh
Sepideh wants to become an astronaut. She spends her nights exploring the secrets of the universe while her family do what they can to keep her on the ground. The expectations of a young Iranian woman are very different from Sepideh’s bold ambitions.
This Changes Everything
What if confronting the climate crisis is the best chance we’ll ever get to build a better world? Filmed over four years in nine countries and five continents, This Changes Everything is an epic attempt to re-imagine the vast challenge of climate change.
Chasing Ice
The planet is changing before our eyes. Chasing Ice follows National Geographic photographer James Balog across the Arctic as he deploys time-lapse cameras designed for one purpose: to capture the world’s changing glaciers.
The Human Scale
Half of the world’s population lives in urban areas and by 2050 it will be 80%. The Human Scale brings together academics, architects and urban planners from across the globe to question our assumptions about modernity and to ask what happens when we put people at the centre of planning.
