Ο Άρθουρ Νεντ, εντελώς ανυποψίαστος βλέπει μια μέρα το σπίτι του στη βρετανική επαρχία να κατεδαφίζεται ενόψει της δημιουργίας μιας διαγαλαξιακής λεωφόρου που πρόκειται να αφανίσει και τον πλανήτη Γη. Σαν να μην έφτανε αυτό, ο κολλητός του, Φορντ Πέρφεκτ, αποδεικνύεται πως είναι εξωγήινος, τον βγάζει όμως από τα δύσκολα κάνοντας μαζί του οτοστόπ σε ένα διερχόμενο διαστημόπλοιο. Οι δυο τους θα βρεθούν να συνταξιδεύουν με τον Ζάφορντ, τον πρόεδρο του Διαστήματος, τη βοηθό του, την πανέμορφη Τρίλιαν, και το ρομπότ Μάρβιν που πάσχει από κατάθλιψη, προσπαθώντας να βρουν απαντήσεις στην ερώτηση για το αληθινό νόημα της ζωής.
A documentary on Al Gore's campaign to make the issue of global warming a recognized problem worldwide.
Η Γη είναι στα πρόθυρα ολικής καταστροφής, καθώς πρόκειται να συγκρουστεί με τον αστέρα Bellus. Ο Δρ Χέντρον, χρηματοδοτούμενος από τον κυνικό εκατομμυριούχο Σίντνεϊ Στάντον, κατασκευάζει μια σύγχρονη κιβωτό του Νώε, ένα πειραματικό διαστημόπλοιο ικανό να μεταφέρει 40 ανθρώπους. Αποστολή τους ν' αποικίσουν τον πλανήτη Zyra, που βρίσκεται σε τροχιά γύρω από τον Bellus.
A decade after An Inconvenient Truth brought climate change into the heart of popular culture comes the riveting and rousing follow-up that shows just how close we are to a real energy revolution. Vice President Al Gore continues his tireless fight, traveling around the world training an army of climate champions and influencing international climate policy. Cameras follow him behind the scenes—in moments private and public, funny and poignant—as he pursues the empowering notion that while the stakes have never been higher, the perils of climate change can be overcome with human ingenuity and passion.
An account of the last two centuries of the Anthropocene, the Age of Man. How human beings have progressed so much in such a short time through war and the selfish interests of a few, belligerent politicians and captains of industry, damaging the welfare of the majority of mankind, impoverishing the weakest, greedily devouring the limited resources of the Earth.
Martians come to Earth to build an H-bomb strong enough to blast Earth out of orbit so that Mars can be moved into its place in closer proximity to the sun. Super-scientist Larry Martin, inventor of the first stratospheric-flight spaceship as well as a jet-powered personal flying suit with helmet, is called upon by the government to investigate ramped-up UFO reports occasioned by the Martians' spaceships. The Martians, meanwhile, led by Marex, engage a renegade earth scientist and a gaggle of gangsters to help them steal supplies, operate a menacing robot, and build their bomb. This movie serial in 12 chapters was originally planned as a sequel to "Radar Men From The Moon" with Commando Cody as the hero but at the last moment the main characters' names were changed and all other references to that serial removed from the script.
In a dystopian 2054, three young rebels go on a journey to find traces of the long lost beauty of nature, hoping to discover what happened to their planet.
Italian documentary illustrating the xylella virus devastation of the olive-growing flora in Apulia by the xylella virus. In Apulia, a region in south-eastern Italy, the most serious botanical pandemic of the century is underway: a quarantine bacterium, Xylella Fastidiosa, is killing millions of olive trees. Disrupting landscape, economy and human relations. The Era of Giants narrates Giuseppe’s journey to his father’s land, in the Plain of the Monumental Olive Trees, where the epidemic is imminent. He will have to explain to the old farmer how their lives will be disrupted by this invisible bacterium, hitherto unknown in Italy.