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This documentary tells the mythical story of the Chichonal hill, known by the natives as Piowachuwe (Burning Old Lady). It shows scenes of the celebration of the carnival in two villages which disappeared completely with the eruption of the volcano. It also brings together eloquent scenes of the eruptions and dramatic testimonies of those affected by the disaster.

Last Stand is a filmed account of the final concert appearance by Australian rock band Cold Chisel. It was filmed on 13 and 15 December 1983 at the Sydney Entertainment Centre, and released to cinemas in July 1984. It was then remixed, re-edited with additional footage and re-released on DVD in October 2005. Set list includes: Standing On The Outside, Cheap Wine, Rising Sun, Janelle, Khe Sanh, Twentieth Century, You Got Nothing I Want, Tomorrow, Star Hotel, Choir Girl, Bow River, Flame Trees, Saturday Night, Wild Thing, Goodbye (Astrid Goodbye) and Don’t Let Go.

Wildlife in the massive Central American rain forest stretching across parts of Belize, Costa Rica and Panama. Observed: three-toed sloths, army ants and a jaguar.

Documentary on aïta, a Bedouin musical style that originated in the countryside of Morocco. Women aïta singers are shown performing and discussing their nomadic lifestyle and profession.

In a society, which labels lesbians as masculine, man-hating and less than female, how are lesbians who choose to have children treated? This excellent film gives a voice to a variety of women from varying ages, races and class backgrounds. Some of the women were lesbians when they decided to have children; others became lesbians after being involved in heterosexual relationships. As lesbian mothers they all have to learn to cope with living in a hostile society, with the ever-present possibility of losing their children - if they still have them - their lovers, or their work. Breaking the Silence offers an engaging and compelling picture of an area of female existence which, for many, has had to remain hidden for fear of losing their children. From those who have been brave enough to speak out in this film what emerges is a voice of strength and courage in the face of outrageous bigotry.

Original film material from the Bauhaus dances of Oskar Schlemmer.

The pictorial investigations carried out by Pablo Macera and Francisco Stastny on the works of the Cuzco School and those of Modern Peru.

"Das Jahr 1945" is a documentary which describes the last 128 days of World War II in Europe. The film covers the course of the war in chronological order, and discusses military tactics and the Nazi ideology.

James contemplates the meaning of life on his birthday, as he tries to reconcile his Christian upbringing with the stark realities of life. The next day, a letter from his godfather provides much needed comfort

A documentary by Tony Palmer on English composer Sir William Walton (1902–1983), made shortly before his death. The film includes the only full-length interview ever recorded with Walton. Filmed at his home on Ischia and in Oxford, London & Oldham, it includes contributions from Laurence Olivier, Sacheverell Sitwell and Lady Susana Walton. Specially performed extracts of his music are conducted by Simon Rattle in his first substantial contribution to television when he was in his early 20s, with Simon Preston, Julian Bream, Yvonne Kenny, Yehudi Menuhin, Iona Brown, John Shirley-Quirk, Elgar Howarth & Ralph Kirshbaum, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Grimethorpe Colliery Band, Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Oxford & Los Paraguayos.

The Cologne Edelweiss Pirates were one of those proletarian resistance groups against the Nazi regime that are easily forgotten to this day. They were adolescent urban Indians who threw sand in the gears, who sang forbidden songs like: ...what can Hitler's life give us, we want to be Bundish, we want to be free of Hitler. At night, they added Nazi slogans such as "Wheels roll for victory" with "Nazi heads roll after the war! They derailed a supply train for the front and stole food for Russian foreign workers. On November 10, 1944, thirteen of them were publicly hanged in Hüttenstraße in Cologne-Ehrenfeld without a court verdict. The youngest was 16 years old. In the Federal Republic of Germany, the Edelweiss Pirates were not recognized as resistance fighters for decades, but defamed as criminals. The film was the contribution of all those involved in the film to the rehabilitation of the thirteen murdered people from Hüttenstraße.

Dutch filmmaker Roelof Kiers documents a reunion of the 509th Composite Group, the U.S. Army Air Forces unit that carried out the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Through interviews and observational footage, the film explores how former crew members recall their participation in the mission and reflect on the beginning of the nuclear age.

Using rare historical footage, vintage musical recordings, and interviews with 88-year-old Pedro J. Gonzalez and his wife, this film chronicles Gonzalez’s long and colorful life, from his early days with Pancho Villa during the Mexican Revolution, to his career as a popular radio personality in Los Angeles in the 1930s, to the controversial court case that sent him to San Prison, a victim of the repressive forces operating against the Chicano/Mexicano community during that period.

Film shot in Super 8 in 1984. Filming took place in a neighborhood in the city of Amarante/PI, located on top of a hill, in the courtyard of Mr. João Bitu's residence, with participation by Raimunda Pau Pombo, Nazaré Cambão, Ely Sibita, Tio Zuza, Joaquinzinho, Chico do Boné, among other pagodeiros.

The short film shows the process of oil extraction up to the delivery to the customer

Barbara Hammer’s Audience is a fascinating deep cut from the director’s prodigious filmography. Relatively raw in its design, this 16mm diary of audience reactions at retrospectives of Hammer’s work in San Francisco, London, Toronto, and Montreal in the early 1980s bears none of the distinctive visual flourishes and essayistic form one usually finds in her filmmaking. Today, Audience serves as an invaluable historical archive, providing quick but complex portraits of lesbian scenes in different cities and countries: the San Francisco women are bold and raucous, treating Hammer like a celebrity; the London crowd more reserved and tentative; the Canadians politely critical after initial hesitation. It also functions as a testament to the power of Hammer herself as a figure of lesbian culture, showing how fully she engages audiences to incite new forms of discourse about representation.

Menno de Nooijer had previously collaborated on Paul's films, but this one marks the launch of a directors' team that lasts until today. Two man stick their heads through a decor, photographs revolve around their heads. Unfettered reflection on their own work, the basic assumption being a quote from 18th-century writer Horace Walpole, which also appears in other titles of their films: 'Nobody had informed me that at one view - I should see a palace, a town, a fortified city, - temples on high places […]'. In 1989, this film was granted the jury award at the Holland Animation Film Festival. (filmcommission.nl)

A documentation about Werner Herzog's motif to do movies.

Short documentary by Karl Schedereit

DEADLY FORCE documents the groundbreaking investigations into the Burkholder killing including the Coroner's Inquest. The Police Commission's enacting a new gun policy. Interviews include, human rights activist and former Black Panther Michael Zinzun describes the urgent need for true accountability Police commissioner James Fisk explains why there is “a margin for error” when judging police misconduct. KABC news reporter Wayne Satz challenges the police department’s wall of silence. Former LAPD officer John Mitchell recalls one officer who used to “choke out the arrested person … on the way to the station” to give him a little extra justice. Five years after the shooting a Los Angeles jury awarded $600,000. to the family of Ron Burkholder in a wrongful death case against the City of Los Angeles. The judge over-ruled the jury and ordered the lawyers to face re-trial or accept a lower amount. A compromise was reached.

Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World belongs to a 35-hour film cycle, The Book of All the Dead, which comprises the bulk of Toronto-based Bruce Elder’s filmmaking from 1975 to 1994. In ancient Egyptian culture, the Book of the Dead consisted of religious texts intended to help preserve the spirit of the departed in the afterlife — but in Elder’s reading, that comforting idea of continuity takes on a rather darker cast. Lamentations is comprised of a complex audio and visual patchwork: a philosophical meditation superimposed as text throughout the film; vignettes featuring a comical but disturbing Franz Liszt, a debate between Isaac Newton and George Berkeley, an angry, deranged man in an alley, and an arrogant psychiatrist; and a final search for salvation in the forests of British Columbia, the American Southwest, and Mexico’s Yucatan.

Pupils in Year 9 at Mondoubleau High School discuss in depth female and male roles and gender equality.

From mountaintop to barrier reef, the tiny Central American country of Belize features one of the most diverse natural environments in the world. Journey into this exotic world and witness all the fascinating creatures.

The 1989 Chicago Cubs were not exactly the favorites to win the National League East championship. Fourth place finishers the season before, there seemed little hope beyond that for '89. But something magical and wonderful happened in 1989: Don Zimmer's team believed in itself and started winning. With a combination of youth and experience, coupled with a daring style of play, they simply went out and beat the favorites. This is the story of that team, and how they caught the imagination of Chicago and the country and became known as "THE BOYS OF ZIMMER."

A dream that was "left over" from Gently Down the Stream. Like many dreams, it transformed the familiar world into something more disturbing, contradictory and amoral.

In this incisive film document, the goal of Hare Krishna devotees to establish a cultural foothold and industry in the United States based on the Hindu vedic literature of India is detailed.

JFK documentary directed by Arthur J. Bressan Jr.

Award-winning documentary film tells the story of pediatrician author and activist Dr. Helen Caldicott.

Documentary on the implosion of the Travelers Building in Boston

Explores the subject of gender identity and the issues that rage around transsexuality. Problems do not go away once the operation has been performed: non-recognition of their new role, and and fear of exposure, especially in the popular press, continues to affect the lives of transsexuals.

“Fear enters the management style.” Banned by McDonalds, this Channel 4 film has never been shown before. After working in McDonalds, Jane Gabriel was given full access to film the McDonalds outlet which held the world record for the amount of money taken in one hour, and to Hamburger University in London. This observational documentary reveals why McDonald employees run, and how the shouting and the “warm fuzzies” and “cold pricklies” affect the employees. They describe what it’s like inside McDonalds as it plans to open a new McDonalds in the UK every mile for the next 25 years.

An essay on contemporary Italian poetry with the works of Dario Bellezza and Amelia Rosselli.

Experimental portrait of New York's 42nd Street in the late 1980s set to Miles Davis' "On The Corner."

Shot in the US between November 1979 and September 1980 in Connecticut's South Norwalk region, this documentary focuses on the city's economic downturn and its collapse under such difficult conditions. Through raising perplexing questions about the sustainability of the then relevant popular solutions for the prevalent conditions, the film brings forward the conflicting perspectives of the local residents, former and current shopkeepers, artists, politicians, environmentalists, urban planners, and developers.

Helena Rubinstein is rightly seen as one of the pioneers of a market worth millions - the female beauty market. Born in Krakow, Rubinstein started her career in the early years of the twentieth century in Australia, from where she quickly went on to conquer Europe and the United States. What began with twelve jars of her mother's beauty cream was to develop into a company with 100 branches in 14 countries and a workforce of 30,000 employees.

Description of the various engraving techniques in an artists' workshop that recovers the best of the tradition of this art with machines and tools from the 18th century.

Examines "hard metals disease," cobalt poisoning among workers in the tungsten carbide machine tool industry. Alpert focuses on workers suffering from this debilitating, incurable lung disease who were exposed to cobalt dust at three plants of the Valenite Metals Corporation. Establishing a close rapport with the workers as they tell their own stories of Valenite's negligence and subsequent cover-up, Alpert departs from standard television reportage in his powerful and unapologetic indictment of industry.

Video by Croatian artist Sanja Iveković, a performative stripping of personal identity by the interpolation of excerpts from public service TV shows.

Documentary showing how dinosaurs have been used in films. Trailers and scenes from moving about or with dinosaurs are shown.

At the age of twelve Helena Valero was kidnapped by the Yanomami Indians, with whom she spent 24 years in Brazil's Oneroque Basin. Upon returning to her own people in Manaus, she was rejected because of her children's mixed blood.

East German documentary about the 20 July plot.

Irish Ways focuses on daily confrontations between the British Army and Irish Nationalists. It reveals discrimination in housing and employment, and laws permitting arbitrary arrest and imprisonment of Irish nationalists. The film investigates the pervasive atmosphere of fear and mistrust - constant surveillance of neighborhoods and business districts, television advertisements encouraging citizens to report suspicious neighbors to British troops, and the commonplace bombings and shootings. Giving voice to soldiers on both sides and to ordinary citizens who must live in wartime circumstances, Irish Ways provides important background to the continuing civil war over Ireland.

The catalyst for this unusual documentary, which took the Silver Plaque at the 1980 Chicago Film Festival, was the attempt by Toronto striptease artists to form a union. The film is structured around the strippers themselves, as they speak directly to the camera about their attitude toward striptease, as work.

It shows a day in the life of children who live on the street.

Filmmakers travel through war-torn Nicaragua to document the conflict between the Sandinista government and U.S.-supported Contra forces. Through interviews with soldiers, farmers, and policymakers, the film examines the human and political realities of the escalating Central American war.

A Complaint of Rape made news around the world and inspired then British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, to question the procedure as well as the attitude of those involved. The woman was asked deeply inappropriate personal questions about her sex life, menstruation and her mental health. The officers dismissed her claims and told her directly that they didn’t believe her. The film instigated a public outcry and as Graef noted on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row in 2014, the ‘film came after three very controversial rape cases the week before and the police quietly changed the way they handled rape.’

Experimental short film by Barbara Sykes

A solo show whose subject - the controversial Scottish psychiatrist Ronald David Laing - has largely faded from public view, starring an actor who doesn't impersonate him. Scottish actor explores Laing's life and work from the perspective of an unnamed genial ad mirer who says he has just come from Laing's funeral in 1989.

Bob Quinn's 1981 film on the decline of the Gaeltacht, written and presented by Desmond Fennell.

Lucifer and Derrepente, are danzaqs (dancers) of Tijeras from Huancavelica, who perform an Atipanakuy (competition).

Thorsteinn Jónsson is a living legend in both the aviation world and the "regular" world. When he flew his last flight in 1988, after 46 years in the air, he was the pilot with the highest amount of flight time in the world: most of it employed in adventurous and dangerous flights. This film follows Thorsteinn in his last flight, and walks down memory lane with him where his sparkling recital, and period footage, tells of his years as a pioneer aviator in Iceland, fighting pilot in the second world war, salvation flights into war-torn Biafra, and numerous other interesting and amusing tales.

Dvořák's "Rusalka" in a production by David Pountney at the English National Opera in 1986. Mark Elder conducts the orchestra, accompanied by the English National Opera Chorus in English.