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First love changes everything. A coming-of-age tale of life and love in the new millennium. Winner Best Mobile Short at the 2019 Independent Shorts Awards in Hollywood.
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The School of Magic follows the journey of three aspiring magicians from the College of Magic in Cape Town, South Africa, to Las Vegas where they compete in the World Teenage Magic Championship.
101 East meets India’s young athletes racing for a better future. A sporting initiative is helping tribal communities achieve athletic success and with it, recognition and acceptance. 101 East meets India’s young athletes racing for a better future.
In this first World Cup Countdown episode, we focus on South America, with special reports from Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires, as well as expert analysis from football broadcasters Juan Arango and Eli Mengem.
Meteorites may be the only truly extra-terrestrial items it is possible to find, buy or own on Earth.
Their rarity has created a global trade, fed by a fascination with these dark rocks from outer space. Most meteorites on the market come from Morocco, where the inky-black rocks are easier to spot in the arid mountain landscape.
Nomads welcome these “gifts from the sky” and sell them to dealers and researchers.
However, the prices obtained by Moroccan nomads in the High Atlas Mountains are a fraction of those in the fashionable rock and crystal shops in Europe.
Trailer for comedy following US Soccer superstar Keeley Jones as she visits England to find out a bit more about one of the oldest soccer teams in the world.
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Hosted by Peter Jackson, The Sci-Fi Boys shows the history of special effects, from the earliest days of the silent film up through all the digital advances in computer effects. Top directors contribute effects films they made as kids.
Al Jazeera investigates Senegal’s Sinking Villages. According to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) 200 million people will be displaced by 2050 due to shoreline erosion, coastal flooding and agricultural disruption.
Singapore’s street food is a vital part of the country’s cultural heritage and identity. But as COVID-19 hits hard, hawkers face a stark choice – innovate or admit defeat.
In this episode of Studio B Unscripted, Gurinder Chadha and Skin share their experiences of growing up as second-generation immigrants and coming to terms with their identities. They discuss marginalisation, empowerment, and what pushed them to forge new creative paths in the worlds of music and cinema.
Watch the official video for Shingai’s “Too Bold” (Diamond Remix), unifying a whole host of talent such as Nova Twins, and a lot more.
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Ella, Liv and Vin are sisters who lost their parents as kids and now discover they have super powers. They attempt to help their community by acting as vigilantes, but their heroic efforts make them vulnerable to their natural enemies.
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First love changes everything. A coming-of-age tale of life and love in the new millennium. Winner Best Mobile Short at the 2019 Independent Shorts Awards in Hollywood.
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The School of Magic follows the journey of three aspiring magicians from the College of Magic in Cape Town, South Africa, to Las Vegas where they compete in the World Teenage Magic Championship.
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Hosted by Peter Jackson, The Sci-Fi Boys shows the history of special effects, from the earliest days of the silent film up through all the digital advances in computer effects. Top directors contribute effects films they made as kids.
A reality series following North America’s top comic cons while showcasing the best of pop culture’s creative talent. Heroes Manufactured: Creators Unleashed explores the world of illustration, cosplay, toy creation, game development, and much more…
Watch the trailer for The Jitterbugs: Pioneers of the Jit, coming soon to Millennium Extra. 1970’s Detroit slang for criminal was the term, Jitterbug! This film highlights the founders of Detroit’s leading dance legacy featuring Motown’s own Kim Weston as she managed to bring the group from off the street and on to the stage.
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Ella, Liv and Vin are sisters who lost their parents as kids and now discover they have super powers. They attempt to help their community by acting as vigilantes, but their heroic efforts make them vulnerable to their natural enemies.
MILLENNIUM STEREO
Afropop artist and UN Goodwill Ambassador Yemi Alade is known for her electrifying stagecraft and edgy style. In this performance for TED she performs “True Love,” an energetic song about forgetting sorrow and finding optimism, followed by “Africa,” a ballad celebrating love of home.
Musician Michael Makembe journeys into the hinterland to record traditional sounds for all Rwandans to share.
Watch the trailer for The Jitterbugs: Pioneers of the Jit, coming soon to Millennium Extra. 1970’s Detroit slang for criminal was the term, Jitterbug! This film highlights the founders of Detroit’s leading dance legacy featuring Motown’s own Kim Weston as she managed to bring the group from off the street and on to the stage.
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This is the story of some of Baton Rouge’s most successful rappers; their struggle and survival in one of the deadliest cities in America.
Guitarist and vocalist Dave Matthews delivers an acoustic performance of “Dive In” as part of TED’s Countdown Global Livestream on October 30, 2021.
Legendary Scottish indie-pop band Belle and Sebastian give a bright rendition of Joni Mitchell’s “Big Yellow Taxi” and their own “Song for Sunshine” at TED’s Countdown Summit, a global gathering aimed at accelerating solutions to the climate crisis.
As part of TED Countdown, TED’s global initiative to accelerate solutions to the climate crisis, singer-songwriter Charlie Puth performs a cover of Stevie Wonder’s “You and I.”
Millennium Arts
French children recognise Hondo as the voice of Donkey in Shrek. But to a generation of cinema-goers, Hondo was a radical filmmaker who used his creativity as a tool to fight injustice, wherever he saw it.
Artist Adjaratou Ouédraogo is more famous abroad than at home in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. In The Painter, by filmmaker Ousmane Zoromé Samassékou, she organises a street art event called “My City In Painting” to encourage locals to celebrate and participate in art. In this thoughtful, immersive film we also see her at work in her studio while she contemplates her craft and shares the story of how she found her voice and her happiness through painting.
Ai Weiwei and Anish Kapoor Interview: The two global icons compare notes on freedom of expression, how art can challenge power, and what subversive art looks like today.
In this episode of Studio B Unscripted, Gurinder Chadha and Skin share their experiences of growing up as second-generation immigrants and coming to terms with their identities. They discuss marginalisation, empowerment, and what pushed them to forge new creative paths in the worlds of music and cinema.
Selma director, Ava DuVernay has teamed up with Mayfair Gallery Signature African Art for a new exhibition bringing the Black Lives Matter movement into the heart of London’s art world.
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Through the lens of three heart-tugging, riveting, and inspiring stories, Life Love Dogs explores the intense emotional bonds we share with our dogs and how these bonds inspire human and dog to mutually rescue each other.
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When three best friends head on a road trip into the American desert, events unfold that expose their seemingly solid relationships as a dark web of jealousy, deceit, and betrayal. Is it Raven Rock or is the only evil in the desert the girls themselves?
In 10: The Secret Mission, the CIA hire an extraordinary team of ten female mercenaries to rescue the daughter of the US ambassador who is being held hostage on a tropical island in Indonesia.
Alex and Jaime live a life long roller coaster of romance, set in seven acts where the title characters are played by diverse pairs of actors, proving that love is the universal story.
In an apocalyptic future, a group of soldiers and scientists takes refuge in Amsterdam to try to stop an army of robots that threatens the planet.
Watch the trailer for ‘A Dream called Death’. A young man struggling with mental illness searches for love in this drama. He thinks he finds the perfect cure to his mental illness in the woman of his dreams, but is she everything she seems?
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The School of Magic follows the journey of three aspiring magicians from the College of Magic in Cape Town, South Africa, to Las Vegas where they compete in the World Teenage Magic Championship.
Musician Michael Makembe journeys into the hinterland to record traditional sounds for all Rwandans to share.
101 East meets India’s young athletes racing for a better future. A sporting initiative is helping tribal communities achieve athletic success and with it, recognition and acceptance. 101 East meets India’s young athletes racing for a better future.
Meteorites may be the only truly extra-terrestrial items it is possible to find, buy or own on Earth.
Their rarity has created a global trade, fed by a fascination with these dark rocks from outer space. Most meteorites on the market come from Morocco, where the inky-black rocks are easier to spot in the arid mountain landscape.
Nomads welcome these “gifts from the sky” and sell them to dealers and researchers.
However, the prices obtained by Moroccan nomads in the High Atlas Mountains are a fraction of those in the fashionable rock and crystal shops in Europe.
Timbuktu is renowned for its ancient texts, which date back to when the Malian city was a vital scholastic centre over 500 years ago. Boubacar Saddeck Najim is one of the few remaining copyists who painstakingly replicates these precious manuscripts for posterity.
She Saw the Sea, an uplifting film by Karin Slater, follows the vivacious Kholofelo Sethebe, a marine biologist, as she braves the ocean to find a beautiful new underwater world.
Tarren-Lynn January is part of the Juliet Crew, the only all-female bush firefighting unit in Cape Town, South Africa. She and her teammates were recruited to encourage more women into firefighting. In this documentary we bunker down with the crew at their barracks on the Western Cape mountains.
French children recognise Hondo as the voice of Donkey in Shrek. But to a generation of cinema-goers, Hondo was a radical filmmaker who used his creativity as a tool to fight injustice, wherever he saw it.
Music Documentaries on Extra
Watch the trailer for The Jitterbugs: Pioneers of the Jit, coming soon to Millennium Extra. 1970’s Detroit slang for criminal was the term, Jitterbug! This film highlights the founders of Detroit’s leading dance legacy featuring Motown’s own Kim Weston as she managed to bring the group from off the street and on to the stage.
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This is the story of some of Baton Rouge’s most successful rappers; their struggle and survival in one of the deadliest cities in America.
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Experience 5 days of rocking, crowd-pumping Blues competition packed with passion, blues music, and suspense. Discover the people who keep The Blues alive on Beale Street and the powerful international impact of America’s musical gift to the world.
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Embark on a culinary journey and dig into the hidden history of four favourite foods from Andalusia to the Levant.
Two couples face adversities in their relationships. Ethan refuses to give Mia a child. Tariq and Ava struggle to see eye to eye about life. Self awareness forces tough lessons and they quickly learn what they put in, is what they get out of it
ENTERTAINMENT & LIFESTYLE
The Balcony – where real people discuss real life situations. A reality/ talk show where a group of people come together on the Balcony and give the ‘real talk’. Expect dramatic storylines, expect excitement, expect the unexpected!
They are unknown and underpaid, but Bollywood’s stunt performers take life-threatening risks to entertain movie fans. This documentary from Al Jazeera’s 101 East series explores why so many young Indian stunt performers are drawn to the bright lights of Bollywood for little reward.
This film from Al Jazeera follows the Slemani ultras. They have given a voice to women in a culture where they are often expected to adopt traditional female roles. These women have changed the face of football fans, as well as challenged cultural norms. They are non-violent, loud and proud, and most importantly they love football!
A short film about the first of Millennium TV’s Drive In events, our Black Panther screening on 26th September, with special guest Shingai.
A new government public awareness raising campaign highlights that if anyone is at risk of, or experiencing domestic abuse, help is still available. We interview Liz Kingsley, Operating Director of Safe Arms, researcher and Consultant in Domestic Violence in the Black Christian Community to discuss the campaign, domestic abuse issues and find out what support is available.
Glen Mackay was at a fashion show overseas and was told “the darker the skin, the uglier they’re considered”. He decided to call upon some of his friends in fashion industry to address this, and prove that beauty is all about feeling comfortable in your skin. ‘See Me Now’ is a fashion film with a social conscience.
‘Perfection Doesn’t Exist’ features Alice Liveing; Personal Trainer and 3x Bestselling Author of ‘The Body Bible’. In this episode Alice candidly discusses her struggles with body image, the concept of perfection and the responsibility that comes with having a large social media following.
Antoinette Alexis shows you how to make a detoxifying spring vegetable juice. Start your Spring right and make your body this delicious and healthy treat.
Antoinette Alexis shows us an easy super healthy recipe – Fuel your body with low-cholesterol rice free risotto!
Embark on a culinary journey and dig into the hidden history of four favourite foods from Andalusia to the Levant.
Featuring rare behind-the-scenes access, 101 East goes inside the secretive world of Japanese sumo.
The Balcony – where real people discuss real life situations. A reality/ talk show where a group of people come together on the Balcony and give the ‘real talk’. Expect dramatic storylines, expect excitement, expect the unexpected!
The Balcony – where real people discuss real life situations. A reality/ talk show where a group of people come together on the Balcony and give the ‘real talk’. Expect dramatic storylines, expect excitement, expect the unexpected!
The Balcony – where real people discuss real life situations. A reality/ talk show where a group of people come together on the Balcony and give the ‘real talk’. Expect dramatic storylines, expect excitement, expect the unexpected!
⭐️ Films for Kids on Millennium Extra
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Watch the trailer for The Secret of the Ice Flower. It is a charming children’s animation which has won several awards, now showing on Millennium Extra.
Watch Bee Geniuses: The Life of Bees children’s animation now on Millennium Extra Kids! Some bees live to make honey, but these young bees live to learn! Fly along through the forest with Zip and Zap, as they quench their insatiable thirst for knowledge, with the help of the smartest bee they know: Queen Buttercup!
Join Oink and Boink on their mystery-solving quest to find the hay! Watch the trailer for Down on the Farm, children’s animation.
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Wink is a an award-winning short film. A lonely and slightly repressed housewife discovers an unusual way to spice up her afternoon.
A woman’s ritual, a Caribbean tradition. In this short film, a Trinidadian woman who owns a restaurant in Brooklyn gives her recipe for the dish that every West Indian woman takes pride in.
Riot Club is an urban-comedy based around lead character Eddie Belmont, a former boxer, who now manages a boxing club for teenagers with his colleague Barry Rig.
Award-winning short film “8” is a poolroom romance set inside an isolated saloon in New Mexico. Jack, a selfish and sexist billiard player that hustles for a living, struggles to seduce Jessie, a quiet and mysterious 8 ball champion.
“Rooftop Law” set the rules for rooftop battlers. However, people are still drowning in rigid rules, struggling for survival. Yu-Lun Wu battled for Chao-Min Chen’s rooftop with his “rooftop challenge note”. After winning the rooftop, he got his “ownership certificate”. Ci-Ke Yu, with her fresh rooftop challenge note, came to battle for Wu’s rooftop. Unexpectedly, Wu found out that Yu was pregnant. Yu asked him to stay, he argued that she should observe the Rooftop Law as “one rooftop shall not accommodate more than one person”.
In the Son Shine short film in 1992 Los Angeles Riots erupt and a 13 year old boy must decide which side of the rebellion he stands on.
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Al Jazeera Close Up Documentary. Judo for Peace in the Central African Republic.
Watch the trailer for Miles in the Life – the first documentary told by an actual member of Black Mafia Family (BMF).
Singapore’s street food is a vital part of the country’s cultural heritage and identity. But as COVID-19 hits hard, hawkers face a stark choice – innovate or admit defeat.
101 East meets India’s young athletes racing for a better future. A sporting initiative is helping tribal communities achieve athletic success and with it, recognition and acceptance. 101 East meets India’s young athletes racing for a better future.
In this episode of The Stream, we’ll ask why the media treats women this way and look at what the broader impacts are for women’s health and safety.
Soly, an Egyptian filmmaker, rescues Layaly, a stray dog in Cairo, with help from a group of animal welfare volunteers before travelling with her to a new home abroad. However, just hours before the dog is due to face life-saving throat surgery, she escapes into the hills. Soly joins a 10-day search with support from local media and volunteers.
Taking on Everest is part of a larger battle to overcome centuries of discrimination against women who have lost their husbands to the mountain. 101 East meets the Sherpa widows defying tradition to conquer the world’s highest mountain.
Millennium TV’s Winston Bell-Gam was invited on Arise News’ Africa Wrap Show to discuss porous borders in East Africa and the importance of African Festivals
In a race against India’s looming water shortage, Anand Malligavad takes on his city’s water woes one lake at a time.
In the first episode of Generation Change, a new series looking at young people pushing for change around the world, we travel to the United States to meet two Generation Z activists. In this episode presented by Zahra Rasool, Chelsea and Samuel discuss police brutality, Black Lives Matter, organisation and how global networks of solidarity can be created using technology.
Twenty years after the 9/11 attacks, this special edition of The Listening Post looks at the climate of fear that undergirded the so-called “War on Terror” and how the US news and entertainment industries helped produce it.
This film from Al Jazeera follows the Slemani ultras. They have given a voice to women in a culture where they are often expected to adopt traditional female roles. These women have changed the face of football fans, as well as challenged cultural norms. They are non-violent, loud and proud, and most importantly they love football!
This investigation exposes how Pegasus works, how governments like Saudi Arabia and the UAE have bought the hugely expensive spyware, also how it has been used beyond the stated intentions of the NSO Group of “developing technology to prevent and investigate terror and crime” – including to target journalists.
Musician Michael Makembe journeys into the hinterland to record traditional sounds for all Rwandans to share.