Documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiVil0Fq0Io There's a fun new documentary out, or rather, "Twerkumentary", that says the phenomenon of twerking may have roots going back to the ancient Greeks. Italian filmmaker Spaghetto, along with cinematographer Gianfilippo de Rossi, tries to trace the roots of twerking and...

James Cameron, director of Hollywood box office hits like Titanic and Avatar, is set to be the executive producer of a documentary about the mythical island of Atlantis. The famous filmmaker will work with National Geographic Channel to shoot...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS4kOdTN2AQ Filmmakers Georgia Papadopoulou and Chrysovalantis Stamelos produced a new documentary called "Journey Through Smyrna", shot in Izmir, which aims to bring the classic Smyrneika genre back to its homeland. The film was shot over the course of one week, and depicts Greeks...

While working at Channel 7, journalist Helen Kapalos found that Australia's unregulated black market was allowing a situation where dealers where able to take advantage of sick and desperate people searching to illegally purchase marijuana for medicinal purposes. Kapalos set out...

The town of Levissi (known as Kayakoy) was once a bustling Greek Orthodox community. Greeks of the 5,000-year-old village were ethnically cleansed and then forcibly expelled in 1922, causing 10,000 people to leave behind the land of their heritage....

Former Earth Friendly Products CEO Van Vlahakis, who sadly passed away in 2014, is heavily featured in the important documentary "Green Giants", which focuses on corporations and CEOs working to help the environment and change how business is done. As...

Another successful Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival (TDF) has come to an end, with the 18th event wrapping up on Sunday March 20. The two documentaries that stood out and were voted by the public for prestigious awards for films...

The 18th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival "Images of the 21st Century" will be held on March 11th until the 20th. The annual international institution will host 72 documentary screenings and a plethora of events open to the public, viewers, volunteers...

A new documentary called "Hello Anatolia" followed the journey of Greek-American filmmaker Chrysovalantis Stamelos as he tries to reconnect with his ancestry and long-lost history in Izmir, Turkey. 90 years ago the ethnic population exchange between Greece and Turkey led to...

Almost 11 months with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras at the helm of Greece and the bailout is still here. In the fourth episode of Paul Mason's documentary "This is a Coup" Tsipras opened up about the Greek referendum and the bailout...