Having already swum the full lengths of the Danube, Mississippi and Yangzte, the extraordinary manic obsessive Slovene Martin Strel, makes a 70 day attempt to repeat the effort in the Amazon. If what you expect is a super-athlete that's not what you get, this overweight 50-year-old eats horseburgers, drink drives and wires batteries to his head! What he is though is a hero, a man dedicated to and succeeding in extraordinary non-rational tasks. Fascinating stuff - more Herzogian than Aguirre or find out more...

An utterly gob smacking documentary that follows the wilfully suicidal three year journey of a group of surfers, intent on catching every monstrous wave that the globe has to offer. Billabong Odyssey is a stunning real life adventure, whatever your opinion of a man on a board, on a wave might be. find out more...

For the English, the French port town of Calais is the gateway to Europe or a place to buy cheap alcohol. For hundreds of refugees and migrants it is the final barrier in the desperate search for a new life in England. This intimate film weaves together character driven stories of refugees, migrants and English expatriates to build a picture of life in a transient town where the inhabitants dream of somewhere better. Original music by Mustafa Santic and Michel Duvoisin. Rented with kind permissi find out more...

Following Cobain from his earliest years in Aberdeen, WA, through the height of his fame, a visceral and detailed cinematic insight of an artist at odds with his surrou find out more...

Portraits of the people that occupy the small shops of the Rue Daguerre, Paris, where the filmmaker lived.

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'Until now, we've only touched the surface', that's what they say anyway. Apparently there's a lot of undiscovered stuff down in the deep blue sea that up until now, mankind just hasn't had the know-how to get a look at. Expect to see stuff that will have you leaping out of your armchair, shouting 'What the bloody hell is that?!' and 'Jesus, that thing looks like a bogey with fairy lights on it!'. One thing which threw me was the total absence of David Attenborough, his replacement is Michael Ga find out more...

While the Americans were trying to reach the moon the economically and politically suffering British had found a new sort of hero, long distance yachters. The Sunday Times put up a prize for the person who could make the fastest non-stop solo circumnavigation of the globe, a feat thought beyond the endurance of man or machine and so it proved for all but one of the Kiplingesque adventurers who stepped into the breech. This remarkable documentary, from the team that brought us Touching The Voi find out more...

The film focuses on three particular animals; polar bears struggling to survive, a herd of elephants crossing the Kalahari desert to the Okavango Delta, including the now famous shots of a group of lions attacking a lone elephant, and a humpback whale and her calf migrating from tropical waters to the Antarctic. find out more...

The greatest surf movie ever made. "On any day of the year it is summer somewhere in the world..." Go with Robert August and Mike Hynson as they follow the summer season to Senegal, Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Tahiti, Hawaii and California in search of the perfect wave. Still the ultimate surf film of all time!

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Shackleton's historic journey from the ice flows of the Antarctic to safe haven and his equally astounding return journey is recounted and re-created, featuring new footage of the actual locations and interviews with surviving relatives of key expedition members. There are also archived audio interviews with expedition members, and much of the footage and still photos shot on the expedition. find out more...