Heat Morrissey

The interwoven lives of seven people whose relationships are forged in the white heat of the 60s through to the present day.

In restaurant kitchens, tight quarters, high pressure and hot tempers combine to create toxic conditions that make it difficult for anyone to survive, let alone climb the ladder to head chef. For women, the situation is even worse. Running a …

In Buenaventura-Colombia, Harvey and his three friends are doomed to a life of poverty and uncertainty. While attempting to escape their reality, they use music and urban dance to overcome and defy their violent destiny.

New research in India suggests heat can double the risk of stillbirth and miscarriage.

Story centers on the aftermath of a suicide bombing in Indonesia, where a reckless American posing as a grad student is bent on vengeance but quickly finds that the world's problems can't be solved with violence alone.

A gambling-addicted mercenary comes to Las Vegas in hopes making enough cash to visit Venice, Italy. While there he becomes a bodyguard, tussles with the mob, and generally bets himself into trouble. One day a small timid stranger comes to town and asks the burly bodyguard to teach him how to be tough.

Over 16 hours, in February, 1987, a man confronts jealously and rage as a love affair falters. Photojournalist Mel Hurley returns home to San Francisco on the eve of his birthday, expecting his lover, Carmen, to meet him at the airport and tell him if she will be exclusively his. She's not there, she wants more time. Almost 20 years ago, he'd photographed civil war in Biafra, wanting to tell a story that would save people. He now equates that war with his personal struggle: can his photographs save this relationship? He goes to Carmen to talk to her; first he acts the fool, then they seem to connect. But, can he control his jealousy and not force things with her?

Fertile lands keep transforming into deserts, ice caps are melting. The Earth’s climate is hotter now than it has been in the last 100,000 years. There are many frightening consequences of climate change. In Yemen, increasingly hot summers make farmers’ lives unbearable. Climate change has devastated the lives of Yemeni farmers: rising temperatures reduce the water supply to the point where families have to leave their land to survive. In the Norwegian Arctic, average temperatures have risen by 4-5 degrees, making the icecap gradually melt. How to live in the era of global warming?

Fertile lands keep transforming into deserts, ice caps are melting. The Earth’s climate is hotter now than it has been in the last 100,000 years. There are many frightening consequences of climate change. In Yemen, increasingly hot summers make farmers’ lives unbearable. Climate change has devastated the lives of Yemeni farmers: rising temperatures reduce the water supply to the point where families have to leave their land to survive. In the Norwegian Arctic, average temperatures have risen by 4-5 degrees, making the icecap gradually melt. How to live in the era of global warming?