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Off-History is a video-essay which presents, as its central ‘character’, an unfinished building located at the port of Piraeus, Greece's main harbour. The narrative of the film departs from newsreel footage shot in 1972 documenting the 'sanctification of water' in the harbour of Piraeus during Easter celebration. Throughout the clip the Piraeus Tower appears repeatedly in the background of the image and thus situates the ”off” in relating to an already written history. The “off”, in Off-History constitutes a position that wishes to shift the focus within a historical document by focusing on its margins. As a way of reading history from the backgrounds of the images, that construct it. It takes a second look at already existing narratives inspired by the concept of ”the off-modern”, a term invented by Russian/American artist Svetlana Boym.

The film was inspired by the story of the life of Palaris who is a hero of Binalatongan. The writer relates the battle of Palaris against the Spaniards to the struggles facing by the Filipino people.

A philosophy professor travels giving lectures through the interior of Paraguay. His journey takes him to Nueva Germania, a rural community founded in the late nineteenth century by the sister of the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.

The story of Queen Pokou, Queen and founder of the Baoule tribe in West Africa.

Ancient History Documentary

Ancient History Documentary

The city of Belém and its cultural transformation in the 80s.

The Victorian era holds a unique place in British history. It was the age of the Industrial Revolution which swept the country along on a tide of invention, innovation and progress. It was the era of the genius of Dickens and Hardy of Stephenson and Brunel. It was the age of the colonial wars when Britain won an empire upon which the sun never set.

The Supermarine Spitfire - one of the most legendary aircraft of World War Two. Before World War Two the Germans had boasted that the Messerschmitt ME109 was the world's fastest fighter, but the Supermarine company set out to prove them wrong. Designed by R. J. Mitchell, the Spitfire was poised to replace the Bristol Bulldog fighter. Coupled with the development of the Merlin engine by Rolls Royce, the first Spitfire was delivered to the Royal Air Force in 1938. It was only the advent of jet powered planes that made the Spitfire obsolete, but it remains an iconic statement of design and engineering.

Supersonic Women: A Duel in the Sky

Artistic reconstruction of real events telling about the struggle of the Belarusian police against banditry in the first post-war years. 1946. A front-line scout, senior lieutenant Smolich arrives in the town of Porechye to strengthen the local militia: in the western regions of Belarus gangs terrorize the population. The bandits of the mysterious Freyshyutsa, a former Nazi collaborator, are especially rampant. Smolich and criminal investigation chief Krikunov have to neutralize the elusive enemy. However, the plan of the police operation is suddenly jeopardized by information leakage. It turns out that in the police station there is a traitor...

Part of the documentary series looking at the course of the First World War. This volume examines the events of 1917, when the Allies launched desperate attacks on the German lines with huge casualties, but with little result. By the end of the year, the Russians had withdrawn from the conflict following the Revolution, while the Americans were slowly becoming involved.

On a rainy night, a picture falls from a wall and a merchant is concerned about his braid, asking a barber to reattach it.

Cynthia and Celinde are two and one. They share the same space, inhabit the same bodily form, in a perennial embrace, yet have separate personas. Located in the surfaces and membranes of the visual, virocrypsis displays their desires, identities and gestures.

A man recieves a phone call concerning his estranged father; A Vietnam veteran plagued with post tramatic stress. This African American family is forced to examine the fragile nature of their existence amongst social and economic pressures in the United States .

China is currently marked by a phase of rapidly growing urbanization. The film in this context deals with two particular cities. Yum en a derelict ghost town and Or dos a mythic city of the future,both are deserted. They exist because of completely different reasons. The film shows through impressive images how these two cities and the relation of inhabitants to these cities are developing in China in times of urban growth.

Through interviews and images of festivals and popular traditions, the documentary aims to show the difficulties that Catalan culture, and in particular its language, faces in surviving between two cultural powers such as France and Spain.

Preserving American Jazz and the efforts of Dr. Albert Vollmer for his life's work in honoring Jazz's Senior Citizenry through the founding of the Harlem Blues and Jazz Band. Founded in 1973 by trombonist Clyde Bernhardt and jazz aficionado Albert Vollmer, the Harlem Blues & Jazz Band became the world's most authentic swing band. It stars veteran jazz and blues musicians (64 to 96 years old) whose roots reach back to the classic period of the 20's and 30's. These 'originals' actually did 'jump' at the Woodside and 'stomp' at the Savoy, with Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Count Basie, Lionel Hampton

Frente al mar (Oceanfront) is about a poor family in 1980, who lives on the oceanfront of Loiza, Puerto Rico where their only support is the ocean and their surrounding. As they raise six children the family faces a problem that threatens their way of living.

1938. During the Spanish Civil War, a soldier is executed along with his comrades. Under the corpses of his friends he discovers that he is not dead.

An Argentine plane disappears in Central America with 68 people on board. The crash of TC 48. The worst tragedy for the Argentine Air Force. More than 50 years after the incident, the pilot's daughter continues searching for the plane lost in Costa Rica.

After battling in late 1939 with British cruisers off the coast of Uruguay, Hitler’s prized “pocket battleship” and high-tech wonder, the Admiral Graf Spee was blown up by its own captain, Hans Langsdorff. Denounced by the Nazi regime, Langsdorff commits suicide shortly thereafter. National Geographic Channel reconstructs the first naval battle of World War II and retraces the events that led to the Graf Spee’s ultimate destruction.

An animation that tells the story of the migration of the Ewe people

Get a play-by-play of the incredible Six Day War in 1967, including the ins and outs of Israel’s strategy, leadership, and impressive military feats. But more than that, it opens the door to important questions and issues that Israel faced in the aftermath of the war, and still does to this day.

Seeing the Elephant is the term Civil War soldiers used to say they saw battle. The new high-tech digital movie experience in The Fiery Trial at the Kenosha Civil War Museum will allow visitors a glimpse at "the Elephant."

A young Kongfu master falls into the trap of an evil old spirit who enslaves dead little girls drowned by their own parents.

Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Give a man a video camera, and you will have a film in twenty years. Home videos are even funnier here as the cameraman – the director’s own father – was unaware he was filming.

This award-winning documentary tells the story of American soldiers who were poisoned by open-air burn pits on military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan.

"The Camouflage Closet" is a documentary project with that explores how LGBT veterans have been affected by PTSD, trauma, and recovery. The video footage was created and inspired by veterans themselves, who were provided with the tools and training to develop their own video narratives in collaboration with team members from the art, medical, and social work communities.

A journey across America’s Route 66 finds a country united in disappointment with the status quo in Washington.