Durante una missione su Marte, l’astronauta Mark Watney (Matt Damon) viene considerato morto dopo una forte tempesta e per questo abbandonato dal suo equipaggio. Ma Watney è sopravvissuto e ora si ritrova solo sul pianeta ostile. Con scarse provviste, Watney deve attingere al suo ingegno, alla sua arguzia e al suo spirito di sopravvivenza per trovare un modo per segnalare alla Terra che è vivo. A milioni di chilometri di distanza, la NASA e un team di scienziati internazionali lavorano instancabilmente per cercare di portare “il marziano” a casa, mentre i suoi compagni cercano di tracciare un’audace, se non impossibile, missione di salvataggio.
Due amici, Raju e Farhan, iniziano a cercare un amico, Rancho, che non vedono più da quando erano giovani. Nel corso della loro ricerca, i protagonisti avranno modo di onorare una scommessa fatta in gioventù e poi dimenticata, manderanno a monte un matrimonio e prenderanno parte ad un funerale dove le cose andranno completamente fuori controllo. Contemporaneamente, i due inizieranno un viaggio interiore attraverso i propri ricordi e le avventure trascorse insieme al loro amico Rancho.
Il telescopio spaziale James Webb stimola la fantasia con foto nitide di galassie lontane. Questo documentario ripercorre il suo storico percorso dalla progettazione al lancio.
Sophie fatica ad affrontare il dolore per la morte del marito, un lavoro a tempo pieno, e crescere la figlia devastata, ma quando un ex fisico rivela una macchina segreta per piegare il tempo, si trova di fronte a una scelta impossibile...
In una Tokyo del futuro flagellata da mutanti chiamati Engineer.La loro caratteristica principale è quella di trasformare le ferite ricevute in armi letali. Per contrastare gli Engineer viene formata una speciale squadra d'assalto capitanata dalla nostra protagonista, la bella Eihi Shiina. Purtroppo la polizia privatizzata e indipendente, non ci va leggera e spesso a farne le spese sono anche gli innocenti cittadini...
They raised children, baked cakes... and built world-class fighter planes. Sixty years ago, thousands of women from Thunder Bay and the Prairies donned trousers, packed lunch pails and took up rivet guns to participate in the greatest industrial war effort in Canadian history. Like many other factories across the country from 1939 to 1945, the shop floor at Fort William's Canadian Car and Foundry was transformed from an all-male workforce to one with forty percent female workers.
Lentamente la jeep attraversa il paesaggio maestoso della campagna del Kurdistan. La strada bianca avvolge con le sue curve gli alberi, le distese di grano, i morbidi picchi, le nuvole, i prati, i sassi, i pochi contadini, quasi smarriti, nello spazio vuoto e solenne. A bordo di un auto da Teheran arriva un gruppo di uomini che stanno cercando un villaggio isolato. A un bambino che li accompagna a destinazione raccontano, mentendo, che stanno cercando un tesoro nel cimitero, in cima alla collina.
A documentary interspersed with acted scenes, this portrait of John DeLorean covers the brilliant but tragically flawed automaker's rise to stardom and shocking down fall.
Anthropocene è il completamento, dopo Manufactured Landscapes (2006) e Watermark (2013), di una trilogia di documentari sull'impatto delle attività umane sul nostro pianeta. Un viaggio in sei continenti, narrato dalla voce di Alicia Vikander, per accostare i diversi modi nei quali l'uomo sta sfruttando le risorse terrestri e modificando la Terra come mai prima, più di quanto facciano i fenomeni naturali. La tesi dell'Anthropocene Working Group, che ha avviato i suoi studi nel 2009, è che gli ultimi 10.000 anni costituiscano un'era geologica vera e propria.
Treats drafting as a means of visual communication and a key to organized training and planning. Discusses the importance of drafting in various fields such as architecture, engineering, and industry. Drafting allows individuals to communicate their ideas visually, leading to accurate planning and construction. It is emphasized that drafting skills open up numerous career opportunities in different industries.
With building collapses happening around the country, activists band together to confront the real estate developers and hold them accountable for the construction destruction, lives they have destroyed, and deaths they have caused.
The Estonian national team is the first Baltic team to participate in the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge, the solar car world championship in Australia. This is a competition with a 35-year history, which has been launched to push the boundaries of both green technology and the capabilities of young talents. The documentary follows young Estonian engineers and software developers and tells the story through their eyes of how the solar car is developed, built and prepared for the challenge in one of the most complex competitions in the world. Young people have to face tough competition conditions, technical and mental challenges and competitors from the world's top universities.
Architect, engineer, geometrician, cartographer, philosopher, futurist, inventor of the famous geodesic dome and one of the most brilliant thinkers of his time. Fuller was renowned for his comprehensive perspective on the world's problems. For more than five decades he developed pioneering solutions reflecting his commitment to the potential of innovative design to create technology that does "more with less" and thereby improve human lives. He spent much of his life traveling the world lecturing and discussing his ideas with thousands of audiences. Now more relevant than ever, this film captures Fuller's ideas and thinking told in his own words.
Explore the 1928 collapse of the St. Francis Dam, the second deadliest disaster in California history. A colossal engineering and human failure, the dam was built by William Mulholland, a self-taught engineer who ensured the growth of Los Angeles by bringing the city water via aqueduct. The catastrophe killed more than 400 people and destroyed millions of dollars of property.
What caused Building 7 to collapse on 9/11? Dr. Leroy Hulsey from the University of Alaska Fairbanks may have the answer, following an exhausting four year engineering study.
The Sealab project, launched in 1969 off the shore of northern California, was the brainchild of a country doctor turned naval pioneer who dreamed of pushing the limits of ocean exploration like NASA did space exploration. The massive, 300-ton tubular structure was a pressurized underwater habitat, complete with science labs and living quarters for divers who would live and work there on the ocean floor for days or even months at a time. During the height of the Space Race, this daring program also tested the limits of human endurance and revolutionized the way humans explore the ocean.
BUILT FOR MARS: THE PERSEVERANCE ROVER goes behind the scenes at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to follow the birth of the Perseverance rover.
Classic Fighter – the story of the great piston-engined fighters of World War Two. A tribute to the men who flew them, and to the men and women who guided them and kept them in the air. Made in conjunction with the Imperial War Museum, Duxford, this programme tells the story of these great war planes. Stunning air-to-air flying sequences are intercut with interviews with pilots and aircrew of the British and American air forces. Some of the fighter aircraft featured are the Supermarine Spitfire, the Hawker Hurricane, the Messerschmitt Bf109, the P-47 Thunderbolt and the P-51 Mustang.
Author David Macaulay hosts CATHEDRAL, based on his award-winning book. Using a combination of spectacular location sequences and cinema-quality animation, the program surveys France's most famous churches. Travel back to 1214 to explore the design of Notre Dame de Beaulieu, a representative Gothic cathedral. The program tells period tales revealing fascinating stories of life and death, faith and despair, prosperity, and intrigue.
David Jones investigates how 1960s council housing came to be built so poorly that thousands later needed to be demolished.