Duration: 4.23
A museum in Denmark draws on years of academia on the different theories about the nature of happiness.
This film was originally published on 22 December 2020 on the BBC website for its BBC Reel strand.
Category Archives: Culture & Sport Films
The Disgusting Food Museum
Duration: 2.13
A museum in Sweden is helping visitors embrace so-called disgusting food from around the world – and aims to break down stereotypes and prejudices.
This film was originally published on 3 November 2018 on NowThis’s social media channels including Facebook and Twitter.
Spain’s newest female bullfighter: from dancer to matador
Duration: 4.31
Conchi Rios is one of only four women out of 820 matadors fighting bulls in Spain.
The twenty-five-year-old former contemporary dancer spoke about what appeals in bullfighting to her and how she almost gave up trying to be a success in the male-dominated industry.
This film, originally published on 3 December 2016 on bbc.co.uk, that day become the fourth Most Watched Video on the BBC News website. It was also broadcast on BBC World News TV channel and a shorter version featured on the BBC news app for mobile.
The World’s Oldest Powerlifter
Duration: 4.17
Pensioner Svend Stensgaard had a thrilling career as an immigration officer in Denmark. But life in retirement just wasn’t exciting enough – so he took up powerlifting.
Now 93, Svend is the world’s oldest licensed powerlifter, entering top competitions across the world and lifting up to 150kg. Even a heart attack three years ago hasn’t stopped him.
This film, originally published on 9 February 2016 on bbc.co.uk, that day became one of the Most Watched videos on the BBC News website and it was broadcast on the BBC News TV channel.
Behold the Family Bicycle: electric motor, sidecar or cargo carrier
Duration: 2.31
In the world’s self-proclaimed bicycle capital, where half the population cycles regularly, manufacturers at Copenhagen Bike Show reveal their latest creations in a bid to boost flat cycle sales throughout Europe.
This film, originally published on 18 March 2015 on wsj.com, on that day was the highest video entry in the Popular Now top ten page list throughout the website. The story’s corresponding article (behind a subscription paywall on wsj.com) can be read here.
Glastonbury music festival’s Hank the bin painter
Duration: 4.37
Glastonbury festival near Pilton, Somerset, is the UK’s largest annual music event. One man, Hank, has contributed every year since the mid-80s by hand-painting hundreds of steel drums, ready to be used as bins by the 250,000 attendees
‘The Civil Wars’ live music session: ‘Barton Hollow’ song
Duration: 5.53
Grammy Award-winning duo The Civil Wars, alias Joy Williams and John Paul White, perform their song Barton Hollow in the Guardian’s music studio.
Why Colm Tóibín’s The Testament of Mary should win the Booker prize
Duration: 3.13
Guardian Books writer Paul Laity argues his case for Colm Tóibín‘s The Testament of Mary to win the Booker prize 2013. (If you are wondering, it eventually didn’t.)
Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto on his Serpentine pavilion
Duration: 3.46
Every summer the Serpentine pavilion in London’s Hyde Park is designed by a guest architect to create a special temporary structure. In 2013, Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto is the youngest person to design the annual building. The Guardian’s architecture critic Oliver Wainwright speaks to Fujimoto about his creation and explores the latticework
London 2012 Olympics: The man who starts Usain Bolt
Duration: 6.46
Athletics starter Alan Bell fired the starter gun for this summer’s 100-metre race that featured Usain Bolt, Yohan Blake and Justin Gatlin. But as Alan – the Youth Sport Trust’s international development co-ordinator – reveals here, he already knows Olympic champion Bolt well.
Here, Alan discusses disqualifying the Jamaican runner at the 2011 World Athletics championships in South Korea and seeing Bolt setting a 100 metres world record of 9.58 seconds at the 2009 World Athletics championships in Berlin.