Flight Risk

Tyranny is timeless, but terrorism is its new weapon. As the world faces a global plague of assassinations and hostage scenarios, a new breed of warrior has emerged: the commando. Fearless and equipped with massive firepower, their operations are covert and their missions deadly. These are the untold stories of elite Special Forces.

This film depicts the story of the flights of Chinese astronauts, and the film spans from the conclusion of the Shenzhou 7 to the launch of the Shenzhou 11. The plot begins following the Shenzhou 7 back up crew, Zhang Tiancong, Zhou Guan, Li Dawei. The trio are unsuccessful in making the flight on the Shenzhou 11. Zhang Tiancong’s wife, daughter and family at home are extremely disappointed. After some time away to resolve some family issues, Zhang returns to training and splits from his former crew mates. The team now includes several new astronauts of the second generation, including two women pilots. Zhang is joined with a group of several second generation astronauts involved in preparations for the flight to the first ‘space station. The training is difficult and in the final decision on the Shenzhou 10, the command decided to change the game rules, so that the best crew becomes the backup crew. Zhang Tiancong’s group are held back and another team is chosen, the reason being because of the risk considerations, around Shenzhou 10, and if there is trouble in space, the other crew should perform any difficult and dangerous rescue mission. During an operation in space the Shenzhou 10 is suddenly hit by an unknown object, causing damage to the power systems. The Zhang Tiancong team are scrambled and the Shenzhou 11 launches from the Hainan launch site. Zhang emerges from the capsule to the space station to repair and ensure the safe return of the Shenzhou 10…

Across America a new breed of urban treasure hunter is making his mark. These profiteers search for precious metals in unlikely places hoping to turn junk into gold. Today the struggling economy has turned the melting of precious metals into a billion dollar industry. The search takes them from back alleys to the world of high technology. It’s a high stakes game where one false move could spell disaster. But these melters risk everything to seek their fortune.

This series tells the true stories that would be any travelers worst nightmare – when a holiday in paradise becomes a journey into hell that ends up in prison abroad.

Special Forces Heroes uses real footage, interviews, re-enactments and graphics to reveal four action-packed 50-minute tales, made by Dangerous Films in association with Empire Media Productions shown on channel five.
Focusing on missions that range from Sierra Leone to the Oman, it illustrates key tactics that a crack-force unit rely on to fulfill their orders. Well made documentary showing the planing and execution of 4 high risk rescues.

In Louis Malle’s captivating and philosophical My Dinner with André, actor and playwright Wallace Shawn sits down with friend and theater director André Gregory at an Upper West Side restaurant, and the two proceed into an alternately whimsical and despairing confessional on love, death, money, and all the superstition in between. Playing variations on their own New York–honed personas, Shawn and Gregory, who also wrote the screenplay, dive in with introspective, intellectual gusto, and Malle captures it all with a delicate, artful detachment. A fascinating freeze-frame of cosmopolitan culture, My Dinner with André remains a unique work in cinema history.

Werner Herzog is an Academy Award-nominated German film director, screenwriter, actor, and opera director. One of the most eccentric figures in the New German Cinema, Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man) has been characterized as the “romantic visionary” of the movement as well as its most notorious selfpromoter who possesses an almost legendary need to confront danger in making his films. Through his well documented production difficulties - dragging a ship over a mountain, attempting to film the eruption of a volcano, hypnotizing an entire cast on set and Herzog’s obsession with quasi-mystical images and landscapes, it is not surprising that many consider his “documentaries” to be his best work.

British couple Fiona and Nigel Dobson are sailing to Istanbul en route to India. They encounter a beautiful French woman, and that night Nigel meets her while dancing alone in the ship's bar. Later he meets her crippled American husband Oscar, who tells him their story.