Khadim is a young Italo-Senegalese fighter preparing alone for his upcoming match in a gym in Rome.

Time Travellers is a documentary series for HUMAN that explores how historical figures, ideas and conflicts continue to shape the present. In the Istanbul episode, we explore how Theodora and Hürrem Sultan—two women born outside the nobility—changed the course of empires, and how their influence can still be felt in the city today.

Time Travellers is a documentary series for HUMAN that explores how historical figures, ideas and conflicts continue to shape the present. In the Vienna episode, we examine the legacy of Sigmund Freud, whose revolutionary work on the unconscious laid the foundations of modern psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. A century later, in an age of pills and quick fixes, is there still room for talking therapy?

Time Travellers is a documentary series for HUMAN that explores how historical figures, ideas and conflicts continue to shape the present. In the Scotland episode, we explore how the cultural humanism of Robert Burns’s work continues to shape literature, poetry and music. Why does his work still resonate, and what made Scotland such fertile ground for his poetry?

Time Travellers is a documentary series for HUMAN that explores how historical figures, ideas and conflicts continue to shape the present. In the Brussels episode, we examine the story of Margaret of Parma and ask how far diplomacy can go when the highest authority ultimately chooses repression. From this historical rupture, we turn to the present: how do people try to hold a divided society together?

Young sarangi player Vanraj Shastri dreams of becoming a master, like his late guru Dhruba Ghosh. Following in his footsteps, he searches for the universal and timeless soul of Indian raga. But in an India changing at breakneck speed, the devotion this path demands clashes with Vanraj’s need to find his own voice.

A film investigating the unresolved authorship of one of the most influential artworks of the twentieth century: Fountain.

In her quest for success, a struggling young actor hopes to save herself by adopting an extreme form of role-playing off stage, transgressing the boundaries of reality, ethics, and her own sanity.

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