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This educational film cynically explores the causes and depressive effects of tourism on the physical and social environment of the Alpine region.

The film’s protagonist, P. Pūras, has dedicated his life to working diligently at the Žiežmariai clinic. He is not a doctor, yet the institution’s daily operations would be unimaginable without him—he is a jack-of-all-trades: driver, electrician, plumber. He performs every task willingly and joyfully, never engaging in conflict with others or himself, never questioning whether helping someone will bring him any benefit. He simply works, and that brings him satisfaction. Šablevičius portrays a man who maintains his optimism and inner clarity in any situation.

The composer, famous for bridging Japanese traditional music with the European avant-garde, shows off his culinary skills while discussing his artistic practice. Kyoko Michishita: “The internationally acclaimed composer demonstrates how he makes soba dipping sauce, which he takes as seriously as he does music. That speed, that dynamic! It was delicious.”

Rein Maran's film about one of the most beautiful and mysterious animals in our forests. Maran was assisted by cameraman Tõnu Talpsep, artist Ants Säde, sound cameraman Enn Säde, composer Urmas Sisask and others.

A film portrait of Władysław Szypuła, a farmer from the village of Sołonka in the Rzeszów region, who is a man with a specific philosophy of life. Here he is, at the end of the 20th century, cultivating the land solely with his own muscles, with self-made tools, “independent” of the general economic and market climate. Although his life passes in toil and hardship, he is full of inner peace and kindness to others.

Fasten your seat belts and prepare to lift off on the spectacular flight you'll ever take, as the secrets of Kauai unfold before your eyes... places in time, that only the most experienced helicopter pilots can find.

Revaluation of the dance and popular music of the highlands in the folk competition in homage to the Virgin Mary.

Some Women of Marrakech is an ethnographic documentary that explores the everyday lives, social roles, and personal experiences of Muslim women living in Marrakech, Morocco. It was made by an all-female film crew, which was unusual for its time, allowing access to women’s private, domestic, and social spaces not typically filmed by male crews.

A documentary about what takes place in the yards and streets of Merihaka, Helsinki, after the school day is over.

Short film by the basque filmmaker Iñigo Silva. Documentary on the Basque Country based on a Walt Whitman poem.

Documentary explores the history surrounding the destruction of Pompeii and its inhabitants in 79 A.D. by the volcano Vesuvius.

Documentary about a mental institution for children and youth in Veternik.

A time-capsule of Liverpool in the early 1980s, made by Photoflex Studios to promote tourism in the city.

1989. An examination of how the UN protected and revitalised the Khmer Rouge.

Combining documentary footage and performance clips, the film traces the origins of Plume Latraverse's career and reveals, through his musicians, some of his hidden aspects. Filmed during the musician's show presented as part of Québec mer et monde 84. "With a look, a glance, a roar, Plume gives himself to the camera. Whole as Haddock, our Captain Harrock'n'Roll finally opens up." (Franco, Nuovo, 1985)

Believing that the spirits of their ancestors dwell in the mako shark, shark callers are not only hunting but also maintaining a connection with their past.

Jazz legend Archie Shepp toplines this unique and informative documentary. It intercuts performance footage of Shepp with interviews where he speaks candidly about such topics as Jazz's African origins, the genre's "revolutionary" purpose, and the social isolation of African Americans today.

An experimental film about life on earth as a cosmic experiment and the curiosity and naivete of reaching out to alien life.

Documenting the process of writing and submitting a song to Melodifestivalen, the Swedish national final for the Eurovision Song Contest. It follows Torgny Söderberg who wrote the 1984 winner Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley as he tries to get a new hit with the unknown singer Sofia Källgren for the 1989 contest.

A poetic documentary by Alfredo Nagib, it outlines a futuristic vision of electricity through the musical universe of Kodiak Bachine, a composer and performer, a cybernetic character with punk hair. Kodiak Bachine is a pioneer of Brazilian electronic music and a founding member of Agentss, the country’s first electronic music band. Bachine plays himself as a man from the future who, although he has learned to control machines with his mind, has also become dependent on them.

The inhabitants of Zbrosza Duża and their parish priest go to a meeting with John Paul II.

Footage of video game machines and rides from a Disney park in 1980.

Anti-war feature documentary uncovering America's support of Hitler and the role of big business in the development of the atomic bomb, the Cold War, and nuclear power.

Week of Finnish barbecue lifestyle in Pori.

An electronic edition of some Super8 film intended to be projected at the concerts of Steven Brown.

Short doc on the making of the Otto mail-order catalog.

Retrospective of TIME's reporting of the personalities and events of the past six decades. Made in collaboration with TIME editors and representatives of the publisher's office, and checked for accuracy by reporter-researchers in the manner of TIME stories. Includes March of Time archival film and quotes from TIME's contemporaneous judgments. Provides behind-the-scenes insights into the publication's history, like the origin of Man of the Year, TIME's early writing style of backward-running sentences and neologisms like "tycoon" and "socialite" that are now English vernacular, and canceled cover stories.

Raphael, Yervant Gianikian's father, survived the Armenian genocide in 1915 in Eastern Turkey. In April 1988, while living in Venice, he sat for his son's camera and read an excerpt from his memoirs, translated from Armenian into Italian.

In Layaly Badr’s documentary short, Road to Palestine, seven-year-old Layla – who has been badly injured in an air raid – lives in a refugee camp outside Palestine. Layla and her friends describe how they imagine Palestine, despite never having seen it.

Running Out of Patience documents the Victorian nurses' strike of 1986, revealing various myths and stereotypes which have managed to pigeonhole women as saints first and unionists second.

The spotlight is shone upon the Goler family when a 14-year-old female member of the family flees the family and reports her lifetime of abuse. The Goler family lived together in two dilapidated shack shacks in a remote wooded area on South Mountain, located south of the community of White Rock, outside the town of Wolfville. Their ancestors occupied the area since at least the mid-1800s and due to their isolation, this caused generations upon generations of incest. Charles and Stella Goler, the patriarch and matriarch of the family, lived together with their five sons and grandchildren in the shack.

This is the story of two cultures and two technologies. An American navigator is taught the skills of navigation by a traditional Micronesian navigator on Satawal island. The American tries to navigate a boat through dangerous waters, without Western technology, while the traditional navigator watches him. The making of the film brought out interesting conflicts within the Micronesian community and in the interactions with the American navigator.

Portrait of an outstanding Polish athlete - Waldemar Marszałek.

Restricted area in the middle of Lower Austria's Waldviertel region: Allensteig military training area: on the map, a patch mostly shaded in red. The little-known history of this landscape of ruins begins in 1938, when, in the wake of the annexation by Hitler's Germany, the area was declared a military training ground. As a result, more than 40 villages were resettled between 1938 and 1942.

Horror Sigma Project, Humans Kidnapped by Aliens!! It's no longer a matter of not being there! !! World premiere! !! Super clear UFO live-action video and photos! !! Finally get the national top secret document!! A living ET in the US base! Real!

Reframing the farmers’ movement in Jeon-Nam Province with a reconstruction of interviews and events.

Secrets of the Unknown daringly showcases the bizarre, the terrifying, and the unmistakably real. First, explore the scientific cause behind the unnatural disasters of twisters with testimony from survivors and "storm chasers." Then, speak with people who believe they've spotted UFOs - as well as those who claim to have been abducted by aliens and subjected to painful tests, before being safely returned to their homes.

The story of the restoration in the 1980's of the wall paintings in the tomb of Queen Nefertari, wife of Pharaoh Ramesses II.

Short educational film about television

A moving portrait of traditional Finnish American culture in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, highlighting that fragile community of memory connecting ourselves with parents and grandparents. It uses the “biographical model” of folklore filmmaking to tell the story of Erikki Vourenmaa, a 92-year-old Finnish immigrant, and his family living near Ironwood, Michigan. This three-generation farm family works, celebrates, reflects, and grieves together. The film explores the meaning of family, ethnic history, aging and intergenerational bonds. It contrasts between the immigrant elder, his American-born son and the partially assimilated grandchildren to illustrate change and continuity in the "sauna belt" of the Lake Superior Region. As Dr. Sharon Sherman concluded, “Loukinen’s focus on the bonds between generations will strike emotional chords about family relationships and ethnic identity for numerous cultural groups.”

The Information Society (1980) - PBS film about the exciting future of computers

Howie Snyder is an archetype: a retired Marine colonel in his mid-40s, a prototypical American entrepreneur struggling to make his business go. Howie's Shakey's Pizza franchise in Muncie, Indiana employs his whole family: wife, nine children and Howie himself. He is the representative of the American Dream: the chance to invest long hours and hard work in exchange for financial security for oneself and family.

A reckoning and a warning against deforestation, blending poetic landscape photography, scientific discourse, and rural testimonies. On their way to Pico Duarte, the filmmakers meet Juan Canela, protector and guardian of the Cordillera Central, as described in the merengue composed for the film: the man who came and learned to talk to the pines.

Based on interviews with Ray himself, and packed with clips from his films, as well as rare-to-come-by footage of his recording sessions, the documentary follows Satyajit Ray’s journey as a music director and composer of his own work on screen.

This film is a portrait of New York in the 1980s by famed photographer Steven Siegel, including footage of the subways, the parks, Times Square and other neighborhoods. The film is narrated by teenagers of that era.

This documentary traces the history of the Yiddish anarchist newspaper that published it’s final issue after 87 years—as told by it’s now elderly, but decidedly unbowed staff.

The fourth part of the Wittstock cycle is not only a continuation of the cinematic chronicle of the "Ernst Lück" tricot factory, but also a first summary of the development of the company since its almost ten-year existence. Edith Rupp takes center stage. She is now a master craftswoman and has become engaged, but is still skeptical about what the future will bring.

CAMBODIA: THE PRINCE AND THE PROPHECY explores the years of Prince Norodom Sihanouk’s rule, his juggling for peace, his charisma and contradictions. Following the Prince’s overthrow in 1970, the film traces Cambodia’s destruction during the five years of war before Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge came to power and launched their revolution… As a central theme, the film and its sequel CAMBODIA/KAMPUCHEA feature exclusive interviews with Prince Sihanouk, and focus on his pivotal role in shaping Cambodia’s fate.

A documentary about the post-war struggle against "bourgeois nationalists".

“La Zerda and the songs of oblivion” (1982) is one of only two films made by the Algerian novelist Assia Djebar, with “La Nouba des femmes du mont Chenoua” (1977). Powerful poetic essay based on archives, in which Assia Djebar – in collaboration with the poet Malek Alloula and the composer Ahmed Essyad – deconstructs the French colonial propaganda of the Pathé-Gaumont newsreels from 1912 to 1942, to reveal the signs of revolt among the subjugated North African population. Through the reassembly of these propaganda images, Djebar recovers the history of the Zerda ceremonies, suggesting that the power and mysticism of this tradition were obliterated and erased by the predatory voyeurism of the colonial gaze. This very gaze is thus subverted and a hidden tradition of resistance and struggle is revealed, against any exoticizing and orientalist temptation.

A portrait of the scientist Pedro Paulet (1874-1945), from the memory of his daughter

A guide on how to watch football, designed for women.

We learn about arbitrary rule under the dictatorship, the torture, the ill-treatment in prison and the plight of the Tupamaro hostages, told in the words of former political prisoners, psychologists and family members who had their lives turned upside down in a raid, or who suffered the anguish of searching for someone who had been “disappeared”.