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Show scenes and interviews with the transvestites Viola, real name Kurt, and Belinda, real name Paulo. They all live and work in Hamburg.

In São Pedro (neighborhood of Vitória-ES-Brazil), thousands of people survived, in the 80's, living from the garbage. The scenes of women, children and men mixed with waste and vultures inspired the filmmaker Amylton de Almeida. The documentary shocked the country and put pressure on the authorities to start the process of urbanization and humanization in the region.

Thomas Bernhard rarely engaged in on-camera interviews and conversations. However, he was extremely taken with the television films created by Krista Fleischmann and recognized – both confidently and with foresight – their lasting value for posterity: “I feel this portrait is an entirely successful document whose usefulness will grow.”

The picture is about the anti-Hitler coalition of the USSR, England and America, which developed as a counterweight to the aggressive policy of Nazi Germany during the Second World War. The unique newsreel footage of these years, shot by operators of different warring countries, is connected with today's thoughts of the author about the fate of the post-war world, about the humanitarian losses of both sides and about gaining unstable hopes for the unity of the world in countering evil.

A documentary which shows, in great detail, the making of the 1985 Bernstein-conducted recording of the entire score of "West Side Story", featuring operatic stars.

How did ordinary Egyptians live in the time of the pharaohs? Renowned British Egyptologist John Romer explores the ruins of an ancient village just outside Thebes, where generations of craftsmen and artists built and decorated royal tombs. There, relics reveal the most intimate details of the people's daily lives: their meals, their loves, their quarrels, and even their dreams.

A documentary about American director David Lynch from the Cinéma, de notre temps series.

Lac La Croix First Nation is a small community located on the Canada-US boundary waters. It is surrounded by thousands of square miles of wilderness parkland - Quetico Park in Ontario and Superior National Forest in upstate Minnesota. The film is a self-portrait of a Northwestern Ontario First Nation, it's daily life and struggle for existence. When the parks were formed, ancestors were kicked out of their traditional lands within Quetico Park, enduring terrible hardships and upheaval. Elders speak of these treaty violations. The use of small motorboats to guide sports fishermen on a few isolated lakes is resisted by those who want an uninterrupted canoe-only wilderness park experience for tourists. The ironies are not lost on the guides, Elders and community members who tell Lac La Croix's story with grace, wit and lots of original music.

Immediately after David’s friend and mentor, photographer Peter Hujar, died of AIDS in a New York hospital on November 26, 1987, David took Super 8 images of Peter’s body and photographed Peter's face, hands, and feet. David created Unfinished film (sequence in memory of Peter Hujar), 1987, using these and other images. The unfinished, silent, black and white film includes: images of David's hands leafing through Peter's portfolios; David's AIDS Quilt square for Peter displayed in Central Park; urban and industrial street scapes; and several disparate images made in Peter’s East Village loft. “Everything I made, I made for Peter.”—David Wojnarowicz

A film about Dagestan and its main treasures - folk crafts. The first treasure is mountains and plains, the second is rivers, springs, lakes, the sea, and the third treasure is everything else. These treasures are the three precious feathers on the wing of Dagestan. From these three main jewels, the three goldsmiths created Dagestan.

Villagers from remote hamlets high in the Andes join together with people from the roadside village of Ocongate for the Peruvian Independence Day celebration. Festivities require that a wild condor be captured and pitted against a bull during a bullfight in the town plaza. Through this event power relations are revealed between the villagers of Ocongate and the highlanders, and of both of them to the Peruvian state.

This educational documentary for young people looks at the lives of the biggest creatures to ever walk the earth. Invasion of the Dinosaurs explains the difference between the different species, explores the environment in which they lived, and compares the most common theories about what led to their extinction.

An insight into a girls' group in a mining community in the Ruhr region.

Documentary chronicling the emergence of the religious New Right in the early Eighties, when, buoyed by the 1980 election of Ronald Reagan as President, conservative politicians and organizations launched nationwide attacks on communism, homosexuality, feminism, abortion, pornography and liberal politicians. By profiling such influential figures as religious broadcaster and Moral Majority founder Jerry Falwell, anti-Equal Rights Amendment activist Phyllis Schlafly, conservative Senator Jesse Helms, right-wing direct-mail fundraiser Richard Viguerie, and John LeBoutillier (R-NY), a representative of the new conservative breed of congressmen, the video offers a provocative portrait of the roots of a powerful force in contemporary American politics

A wildlife documentary highlighting some of the 300-over species of birds that were native to Singapore. It also addressed the diminishing population of birds due to Singapore’s urbanisation.

A study of concert-artist Richard Dyer-Bennet at work on Homer's Odyssey - that is, developing a strategy for performing, in English, and in 1978, with harp in hand, this monumental 24 hour poem, which, in Homer's time and Homer's life, only existed in oral form - a long song, performed in public as entertainment and as tribal history.

Documentary about the New Year’s Eve train Novi Sad-Sarajevo.

On April 6, 1980, the Canadian Farmworkers Union came into existence. This film documents the conditions among Chinese and East Indian immigrant workers in British Columbia that provoked the formation of the union, and the response of growers and labor contractors to the threat of unionization. Made over a period of two years, the film is eloquent testimony to the progress of the workers’ movement from the first stirrings of militancy to the energetic canvassing of union members.

Cinematic documentary made in 1982, which reveals the life and organization of some camps in the eastern zone of El Salvador. It shows images of combat, guerrilla training, and special forces, forms of political propaganda in cities like Ciudad Barrios, as well as meetings of leaders of the General Command and an interview with General Castillo, Deputy Minister of Defense at the time.

Starting in 1972, Law 19327 came into effect in Peru. Its main feature was the mandatory exhibition of Peruvian films, which had to accompany feature films in daily screenings across all cinemas in the country. This provision enabled film students, as well as professionals already working in production and filmmaking, to create their own works—generating both employment and a learning environment. Many of today’s established filmmakers began their careers under the opportunities provided by this law. MUJER, HOY (WOMAN, TODAY), composed of four short films also with three segments each and a total runtime of approximately five minutes, was shot on 35mm color film. It was one of the first newsreels to focus exclusively on cultural content. The diverse appearances and contributions of notable figures in MUJER, HOY collections represent a valuable resource for researchers across various disciplines.

A nuclear reactor and a factory canteen, the jargon of engineers, and the earthy language of cooks. In her film-survey, the sensitive observer Vihanová observes two contrasting worlds that meet at the Dukovany nuclear power plant during a hydrostatic test on Unit II of the EDU. Science and life are permeated by Badinerie, from Bach’s Orchestral Suite in B minor. Art gives both worlds greatness.

A documentary portrait of a traditional peasant woman, Om Said.

Bold, upbeat, and powerful, this 28-minute video spotlights eleven suburban women, ranging in age from 25 to 67, who speak easily and frankly about their families, friends, and loves. Out in Suburbia is perfect for raising lesbian issues and consciousness for the first time.

Here Come the Puppets! is a special that was taped for PBS during the 1980 World Puppetry Festival. Co-hosted by Kermit the Frog and Jim Henson, it featured performances by Burr Tillstrom, Shari Lewis, Bil Baird and the Muppets. Other performers included Sergei Obraztsov, Manteo's Sicillian Marionettes (from NYC), Albrecht Roser, Bruce Schwartz, Martin Stevens, and Frank Ballard's (at the time, Puppet Arts head at University of Connecticut) "Ring of the Nibbelung."

Animal and nature filmmaker Freimut Kalden spent six months traveling through Brazil by car. During his adventurous tour, he captured the landscape of the Amazon region up close with his camera, focusing primarily on the biological aspects of the region's typical vegetation.

The gestures, the words, the rites of a day like any other in the offices of a large insurance company.

Before shearing, done with electric devices and hand shears, lambs are separated from the flock. The lambs are not yet shorn but dipped in a disinfectant, parasiticidal liquid prescribed by law. For the auction, held in autumn, the sheep for sale are loaded on special trucks and transported from the pasture to the public sale.

Dino Labriola runs the small town of Montemilone in the deep south. He was elected the first Communist mayor. Now he faces the problems of a town dying on its feet. There are no jobs, the young emigrate, the old have given up hope and government aid often goes astray. While Dino is determined to fight for his town, his wife Angela sometimes feels that the struggle is not worth it. A massive dam is being built just outside Montemilone. It's a new threat to the town and to Dino's position as mayor.

Gerd Conradt's experimental documentary "Ein-Blick" from 1987 captures the rhythms of daily life along Elsenstraße's border in a time-lapse. Over the course of a day, a camera focuses on a house and watchtower within the border zone, snapping one image per second for twelve hours. What unfolds is a surreal ballet of reality, transforming into a slapstick grotesque, all set to the backdrop of evocative piano melodies.

The film combines two stories - "Vetranie drevenice" (Ventilating the Wooden House) and "Dovidenia mama" (Goodbye, Mom). Two wooden houses cover the lives of the people who lived in them for generations... In the first, they inspired the great poet P. O. Hviezdoslav to write the poem "Hájnikova žena", and the inhabitants of the second belong to the present day.

In WWII, many men who were professional athletes went to war. The women filled in on the baseball field like they did in the factories. See the ten teams and the women who made up the women's baseball league.

A documentary looking at the proposed redevelopment of the Forth and Clyde Canal in 1980s Scotland.

A look at the activities of the Tanglewood Music Center, America's renowned summer Academy for talented musicians, singers, composers and conductors.

"Melvin Goes Disco" is writer/director Mark Esposito's homage to MGM's popular "Pete Smith Specialties" of the 1940's. Famed character actor Irving Metzman is Melvin, a full time accountant and part time deodorant salesman, in this spoof of the "disco" craze.

A documentary chronicling the life and career of horror film actor Bela Lugosi, including interviews with associates and clips from and trailers for many of his films.

Norwegian film history narrated by Harald Heide Steen jr.

From Henry Chalfant, the director genre defining documentary Style Wars, comes a short film featuring original graffiti innovators Blade and Maze painting a mural in 80's New York.

Featuring interviews, live concert footage, and a feature on how punk was transformed from a trend to a way of life, UK/DK is a comprehensive look at the skinhead/punk movement. Some of the most notorious bands on the scene are featured, including The Exploited, The Vice Squad, The Adicts and many more.

One of the earliest documentaries to deal with AIDS.

Testimony from different women of different ages about housework, marriage, and gender roles: women cook, wash, and take care of the home, while men work.

An educational film about the life cycles of various types of pond life.

Long before Kim Gordon was a cooler-than-thou multimedia artist in Body/Head, she was a cooler-than-thou multimedia artist in Sonic Youth. In the ’80s, Gordon and her bandmates were fixtures of New York’s downtown art and music scene; one regular haunt of theirs was legendary nightclub Danceteria, which served as the setting for a short film Gordon made sometime around 1985. Now, as Dangerous Minds points out, said video has surfaced online thanks to filmmaker/designer Chris Habib (a.k.a. Visitor Design). “Excellent video I found in my Sonic Youth archive,” Habib writes on the clip’s Vimeo page. “I digitized it for Kim during her [early 2000s] CLUB IN THE SHADOWS exhibition at Kenny Schachter’s old space in the West Village.”

A documentary about the record of Man-Eating Tigers in India

Filmed on the war fronts of Chalatenango and Guazapa, the film is based on the construction of Local Popular Powers (PPL) in areas under guerrilla control.

Warren Zevon recorded live at the Capitol Theater in New Jersey in November 1982 in a concert broadcast on MTV. Songs include Johnny Strikes up the Band, The Overdraft, A Certain Girl, Jeannie Needs a Shooter, Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner, The Envoy, Simple Man, Charlie’s Medicine, Jungle Work, Play It All Night Long, Accidentally Like a Martyr, Poor, Poor Pitiful Me, Cadillac Ranch, Excitable Boy, Ain't That Pretty at All, Werewolves of London.

Jonathan Miller's acclaimed documentary on Clive Wearing - the man with the ten-minute memory.

1985 documentary made to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Coronation Street.

Women have always sought ways to terminate unwanted pregnancies, despite powerful patriarchal structures and systems working against them. This film provides a historical overview of how church, state and the medical establishment have determined policies concerning abortion. From this cross-cultural survey--filmed in Ireland, Japan, Thailand, Peru, Colombia, and Canada--emerges one reality: only a small percentage of the world's women has access to safe, legal operations.