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Dadá, Corisco's partner, talks about her experience among the cangaceiros of Lampião, highlighting their form of organization as a group, their habits and behaviors, in addition to the struggle for survival, codes of honor, guerrilla tactics and loves.
Filmmaker Corinne Cantrill traces her fascinating life story through hundreds of photographs. Formally rigorous and emotionally profound, Corinne's insightful narration explores how photographs both reveal and hide our identity.
A short film about Cuban women, post-revolution.
It seems highly unlikely that Colonel Sanders ever thought that he would be selling his Kentucky Fried Chicken to the Japanese, but Kentucky Fried Chicken, Japan, Inc. is doing just that, and doing it successfully. The company, headed by an American director and staffed by the Japanese, has raised the business of fast-food retailing to an art. Here West meets East as the Japanese are shown how to prepare the product and the Americans are introduced to the fine art of Japanese business. –cte.uw.edu
After Rome 78, Nares made a political documentary—a controversial 1980 video interview with an IRA member titled No Japs at My Funeral—but turned to other forms of art for much of the remaining decade, never realizing projects like a feature script he penned with Gary Indiana.
In 1988, the Cirque du Soleil toured the United States and set up its big top in New York City - a grand three-ring circus in itself! - garnering rave reviews. Behind the scenes, artists working in the fledgling Quebec circus talk about what it means to them to be a part of this success, and also the price they pay for sharing the American Dream.
Documentary about the resumption of the workers 'movement during and after 17 years of dictatorship, led by the metallurgists of ABC Paulista (Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva) that culminated in the creation of the Workers' Party - PT
In 1989, this film was part of the PAMEZ project in Senegal which was part of the sea program of the CCFD, Catholic Committee against Hunger and for Development. It presents the economic and social role of women in the Casamance region for the development of fishing. These women who process and market fish, who are responsible for management, have a voice and express their opinion.
It is a documentary joining 3 periods of filming in the Mouchouanipi, which is a faraway land in the North of eastern Canada.
Documentary about Venezuelan artist Antonio José Fernández.
A silent, Super 8 film by Joseph Morder.
The portrait of an 87 year old woman who has been writing poems for 3 years. The seven thousand poems she wrote in this short period show her strength and her will to live.
Pianists Kuo-Yen of Taiwan and Pierre Jasmin of Québec met and fell in love while studying music in Vienna. The film is a "letter" from Pierre to Kuo-Yen, who has made the difficult decision to return to her native land. Jasmin is sending her the images, words, and music of their last days as a couple ... in Moscow. They had come there for Kuo-Yen to compete in the 8th Tchaikovsky Piano Competition; how she fared determined her future.
Short documentary about condors
A documentary of the Inughuit people of Greenland. Qaanaaq a community of 450 people in Thule, the northernmost municipality of the world far up north in the west side of Greenland.
Pemp traces the 25-year struggle of the Parakatêjê (Gavião) to maintain autonomy in the face of huge development projects in the south of Pará, Brazil. From the initial recovery of their lands in 1957 through dealings with FUNAI in the 1970s and the appropriation of Brazil nut monopolies to their negotiations with the government in the eighties, Pemp shows the Parakatêjê’s most precious project; the preservation of their ceremonies and songs. The Kokrenum, chief and keeper of the group’s traditions, uses video to transmit them to future generations.
In 1930, workers and their children founded a club on Helmholtzplatz in Berlin. A store was rented and converted, giving the children a home where they could hang out during the day and pursue their interests. As young pioneers, they also made posters and banners there to support their fathers' strike.
Documentary about director and actor Eberhard Fechner
The story of Aleksandr Ivanovich - a former tank driver, party worker, and now a volunteer forester - about his life.
Explains that heat is really a form of motion, a form of kinetic energy and that it can be converted to other forms of energy and transferred through conduction, convection and radiation. Shows practical examples in which heat preserves lives and makes daily living more convenient.
Estonian Drama Theater actor Salme Reek about herself and others.
The film concerns Michael's decision to reveal his homosexuality to his family. It follows his preparation in coming out by his participation in a lesbian and gay male peer support group. In this session, several of the participants reveal their own actual experiences, both positive and negative, in coming out to their families.
Using the example of a number of farms in the Tula, Gorky regions, and the Estonian SSR, the film tells about the development of local industry in rural areas - one of the factors in solving the problem of securing rural personnel.
Starting with a scene of a refugee camp in Israeli-occupied Gaza in 1976, the film features shots of various districts, dispensing with narration and interspersing interviews with Palestinian people and fedayeen (guerrillas) in the rubble of Western Beirut. Children who lost their parents in bombings are educated to be soldiers at their orphanage. They say that they want to be soldiers or heroes. Boys and girls sing: "We don't want money. We don't want to play. We will carry guns and enter the Revolutionary Army." Two years after the filming began, the girls have grown but they have not changed their minds.
Ian Dury, singer/songwriter of Kilburn and the High Roads and the Blockheads, talks about how becoming disabled has affected his life and music.
Hardcore-metal pioneers D.R.I. let loose with a super-sized dose of their trademark sonic mayhem in this concert video, shot during a gig in New York City in 1987. D.R.I.: Live At The Ritz includes the band powering through "Five Year Plan", "Madman", "Argument Then War", "No Religion", "Commuter Man", "Couch Slouch", "Nursing Home Blues", and many more. Also included are five studio-shot promotional clips, including the tunes "Suit and Tie Guy", "Acid Rain", and "Syringes in the Sandbox"
One of the most controversial subjects of the 1980s, the AIDS epidemic ended thousands of lives across America. This video, entitled What is AIDS helps educate the youth of America about the deadly disease.
UCLA Student Television Production, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. A documentary mixed with a live taping of the UCLA Cable Access Show View investigates the fashion and hairstyles of the New Wave scene in Los Angeles in 1981. New Wave Hairstylist Atila Sikora is interviewed and performs a haircut live on TV, transforming the host into a New Wave Look. The crew visits Atila's salon and a New Wave clothing store, interviewing members of the scene about the aesthetic and its differences from punk. Features prominent members of the New Wave Theater Group including Atila and Taquila Mockingbird.
A posthumous portrait of the author Kurt Tuscholsky's life in exile in Sweden during the interwar period.
Interviews with Dr. Marie-Louise von Franz, eminent psychoanalyst who was a close collaborator with Carl G. Jung, in conversation with her student Fraser Boa, Canadian Jungian analyst.
"Essay on the Military and the Power", a phrase that also belongs to the title of "Gestures & Fragments", sums up the spirit of the film, based on three points of view on the same theme: Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho and Eduardo Lourenço, in their own roles, and the one played by Robert Kramer, as an American journalist bent on seeking explanations for the process of the Portuguese Revolution.
Haitian Song is an anthropological film about farmers in rural Haiti. The film follows Gustav and Zillmen and the everyday rituals that mark their lifestyle.
A documentary about tiger-shooting in Sumatra.
About young Soviet men who fought in Afghanistan and are trying to find their place in a peaceful life. They share their experience with older WWII veterans, talk about their post-war traumas and what they think now about violence. At the moment there are almost 2 years left before Soviet troops withdrawal from Afghanistan.
A warm story about the fight for a decent life. Deals with teenagers having problems with alcohol and drugs.
"I don't think that the chairman of the Bedul collective farm, if we had trusted his direct interview, would have told us something particularly interesting. His life had taught him well not to say too much, and if he did, it was without going beyond what was accepted in his circle. And when we were next to him day after day, when he didn't know whether we were filming him or not, he couldn't help but become not the way he would like to present himself for the screen, but the way he was in life." Marina Goldovskaya
A look at the life of André Bessette through expert interviews and interviews with people who knew him.
Workers at the Numax factory in Barcelona conduct an experiment in self-management.
When Raymond Carver died in 1988, he was mourned as a national literary figure and shortlisted for the Pulitzer prize yet only ten years earlier he was marooned in a drying-out clinic. From his experiences, his alcoholism, bankruptcies, years spent in trailer parks and motel rooms, BBC 'Omnibus' shows how Carver produced stories and poems about the other side of the American dream - about the people whose dreams go belly-up.
Documentary about a Sinti community in Duisburg, Germany.
A film based on an improvised narration by a young boy about war.
This BBC 47 minute documentary "Police in Montserrat" was shown on UK television back in the 1980's and it hasn't been broadcast outside of the UK. This version includes several clips that did not make one of the previous broadcasts. There is an extended intro, and additional footage of all three band members being interviewed. Other special features include two live tracks from October 1978's appearance on the "Old Grey Whistle Test" TV show , 'Can't Stand Losing You' and 'Next To You'. This was The Police's big break on UK television and showcases early Police at their best.
A documentary about how a motley band of – mostly female- retail workers took on a retail giant – Canada’s Timothy Eaton Company. In the tradition of socialist and feminist filmmaking of the day, we immersed ourselves in these women’s lives as they fought for a first contract, hanging out with strikers on the picket line, at union meetings and in their homes.
Documentary on the relationship between human beings and nature
Special TG3 by Giorgio Chiecchi of 8 May 1980.
A compilation of scenes from films, television and short-subjects going back to the 1920s regarding teen dating, sex and sexually transmitted diseases.
No One Here Gets Out Alive, The Doors' tribute to Jim Morrison is a full exploration of the controversial and quixotic singer, delving into his fascination with cinema and psychology, mysticism and sexuality, poetry and power. In addition to clips of the band in action, it features interviews with the surviving members of The Doors and many others who were instrumental in creating and maintaining the legend.
About the construction of the Rybinsk Reservoir.
Children visit the museum - they see exhibits important to Polish culture. They are accompanied by the text of "Catechism of the Polish Child" by Władysław Bełza. Young people learn the history of Poland and then present it in their paintings.
In Doug And Mike, Mike And Doug, Cindy Kleine probes the inner and outer lives of identical twins Doug and Mike Starn, whose collaborative painting and photographic work is rapidly gaining acclaim in the art world.
Romance novels comprise nearly half the paperback books sold in America. Chiffon-shrouded, jewel-laden, flower-bedecked Barbara Cartland has written hundreds of them. And filmmaker George Csicsery has given his heart to this fascinating subculture where all the women are beautiful, all the men are mysterious and all the endings are happy.
Documentary about the strikes that took place in São Bernardo do Campo, in the State of São Paulo, Brazil, circa 1979/1980. That moment was of utmost importance, since it revealed a Union leader, Luís Inácio "Lula" da Silva, who would later become President of Brazil. It was also the moment when PT, the Workers' Party, became a relevant political force in Brazil.
Peru had become independent from Spain but the coins of the viceroyalty were still circulating until the first coins of free Peru were minted 1821 – 1828.
Instructional Video on how to prepare and present a speech publicly.
An insight into the women fighting against the violent dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza in Nicaragua and how poetry underlies and expresses their passion for change and freedom from tyranny.