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Documentary on movie special effects.

A report on the exhumation of the remains of the victims of Stalinist repression in the 1930s. The bodies of the prisoners shot by the NKVD in a nearby prison were buried in the area adjacent to the present-day Irkutsk airport.

This video takes an analytical and humorous stab at the plethora of “pro-feminist” advertising that followed the emergence of the “new woman” and the increasing presence of women in the workforce during the 1990s. Conventional television genres are appropriated to show how the language and sentiments of feminism have been exploited by the advertising of an industry which cares little for the rights of its own female workers.

Widely acclaimed as one of history's most influential figures in the photographic field, Henri Cartier-Bresson, now in his 90th year, gives a revealing interview about his life, work, ideas and beliefs to coincide with three major London exhibitions. Contributors include fellow photographers Eve Arnold and Lord Snowdon, art historian Ernst Gombrich and Lord Healey.

A film portrait of the artist Viktor Tuzov (1954 - 1995), one of the founders of the New Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg.

Tsuneo Okazaki, a Japanese man who has lived in Poland for nearly 30 years, invites you to an extraordinary journey through his homeland. In the six-part documentary series, he will talk about various aspects of life in modern Japan, such as: tradition, family life, education, industry, agriculture and ecology.

A travelogue through the Mississippi delta searching for the heart and the spirit of the blues.

1997 documentary, part of the Taiwan-produced series "Personal Memoir of Hong Kong", is both a self-portrait and a depiction of Hong Kong during the 40 years preceding the handover by the United Kingdom to China.

From Academy Award-winning filmmaker Freida Lee Mock, ‘Bird by Bird with Annie’ offers an intimate portrait of a writer and her craft, interweaving the story of Anne Lamott's life—in itself a deeply moving tale of addiction and redemption, grief and joy, intellect and faith—with a year's worth of interviews, public lectures, and footage of the writer at work, focusing particularly on Lamott's candid, humorous, and disarmingly straightforward advice on the struggles and joys of writing. The author's reassurance and guidance concerning the process of writing—which has little resemblance to its glorified image—becomes a stirring call to action celebrating the potential of each individual, the silencing of our inner critics, and the courage to create something honest and meaningful. Poignant and inspirational, ‘Bird by Bird with Annie’ takes us deep into Anne Lamott's intoxicatingly brave world, one in which writing is a means of finding out who we are, how we live, and why we're here.

NATO has attacked bridges in Yugoslavia. Capitalism against communism has not stood the test of history. War remains the unchangeable law of the world. People against people, continent against continent.

A moving documentary. The life stories told by immigrants in Paris are often saddening. The hardships they went through and their current uncertainty and difficult situation. No residence permit, fear of the gendarmerie, little money, poor housing. The quality and background of the musicians is many times amazing.

Documentary about the Woman in Ingmar Bergman's Movies

Lisl Ponger creates an imaginary map of the twentieth century on which the stories of emigration are engraved like well-worn tracks of occidental memory. The pictures, made by observant tourists, are revealed, in their tensile relationship to the soundtrack, as a post-colonial journey. A journey through exactly those countries which long ago have been shrunk together in space and time. Finally the wonderful neon signs of the “Hotel Edison” and “Radio City” remind one of the origins of this form of appropriation of the world, of the time of great expeditions, of Benjamin‘s shop-windows and passages, and of the time when technical apparatus and means of transportation fundamentally altered the perceptions of modern man.

Discover the inspirational, personal stories of Canada's hockey heroes and their families through triumph and disappointment on their journey to the 1998 Winter Olympics. This action-packed film follows the players from the excitement of the 1997 World Championships, to Olympic training camp in Calgary and on to Nagano, Japan, for the first-ever women's Olympic hockey tournament.

An experimental work about the association APSOLUTNO conducting an investigation into the deaths of two transoceanic liners under suspicious circumstances.

January / February 1993 marked the 50th anniversary of the German surrender at Stalingrad. On the occasion of this anniversary, a television documentary was produced in German-Russian cooperation, which, following a classic documentary pattern, allows 6 contemporary witnesses, former opponents of the war, to recount their personal experiences in front of the camera.

Finalist for the 1991 Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival. The pottery produced in Penyao Village, Henan Province, is black, which is the same texture of the exquisite pottery of Longshan culture in China in 2000 BC. In the village, these black pottery basins and black pottery jars are indispensable to life. Wang Zhengcheng began to learn how to make pottery at the age of 13. He has always wanted to become an excellent craftsman like his grandfather in order to restore the glory of his family.

The cod fishery off the east coast of Newfoundland was a way of life, the backbone of society -- until it collapsed. A review of the history leading up to the crisis and the subsequent call for a moratorium of the northwest Atlantic cod fishery.

A major presentation of the life and deeds of the Vikings - seafaring Scandinavians that raided and traded from today's Iran, along the Russian rivers, all over Europe and over the oceans to Greenland and America, five hundred years before Columbus. Here scientists from around the Viking world explains how modern international archaeology works, and illustrates the amazing discoveries about who the Vikings were and what they actually achieved, founding cities like Dublin and countries like Russia.

Uses first-person accounts from Missourians who went to the Fair in 1904, interviews with historians, archival motion pictures, and photographs to situate the St. Louis Fair in the social, political, and cultural context of American society in 1904. Covers American civilization at the turn of the century; the representation of history; authenticity; modernity; dress and body language; oral history and childhood memories; world fairs as experiences; and receiving information through visual symbols, words, and exhibits.

In 1986, a controversial high security unit was opened in an underground chamber of Kentucky's federal prison. Its three female prisoners received sentences of unprecedented length for nonviolent crimes.

The film investigates how allegations of racism are handled by the Brazilian justice, reporting the unprecedented story of persistence and dignity of a black man: Vicente do Espírito Santo became an exceptional case for being the first victim of racism to break the siege and arriving victoriously at the Superior Labor Court and at Rede Globo's prime time.

In the 1920s and 1930s, thousands of Jews from Eastern Europe, Turkey and the Middle East emigrated to Mexico. Their stories are told through archival photographs, film footage, and contemporary interviews with Jewish octogenarians who describe their journeys and their perception of Jewish life in the New World.

This 56-minute documentary on America's most controversial and unique composer manages to cover a great many aspects of Cage's work and thought. His love for mushrooms, his Zen beliefs and use of the I Ching, and basic bio details are all explained intelligently and dynamically. Black Mountain, Buckminster Fuller, Rauschenberg, Duchamp are mentioned. Yoko Ono, John Rockwell, Laurie Anderson, Richard Kostelanetz make appearances. Fascinating performance sequences include Margaret Leng-Tan performing on prepared piano, Merce Cunningham and company, and performances of Credo In Us, Water Music, and Third Construction. Demystifies the man who made music from silence, from all sounds, from life.

Oscar nominated documentary short from 1991

About the mysterious circumstances of the suicide of the famous artist Alexandra Korsakova, the widow of one of the leaders of the Russian avant-garde artist Vladimir Tatlin.

A diary film about Kawase's relationship with her grandma and her search for her father, whom she has not seen since her parents divorced during her early childhood.

Beautiful documentary by Osvaldur Knudsen about the eruption on Heimaey in the Vestmann Islands in 1973 (South of Iceland). The eruption destroyed some 30% of the town's houses and lasted for more than 5 months. Nice narration like in the old days and some nice sound(track) by Magnus Bl. Johannsson.

A documentary about the composer who made Czech music famous all over the world.

Three stories of female action in social movements, close in their struggle but distant in the geographical space: the Jardim Uchôa Residents Association, in Recife; the Rancho Fundo Residents Association, in Rio de Janeiro; and the Popular Legal Prosecutors group in Bom Jesus, Porto Alegre.

This video examines the killer whale, one of nature's greatest predators. It is part of a multi-volume Time Warner series that markets the ferocious, killing aspects of various wild animals.

The documentary follows the two brothers in their daily lives, in their relationship with the other children in the institution and their teachers. The film has the form of a short story. The dramaturgical structure of this story of “the minimum” is inspired by the in-depth observation of everyday events and their orchestration into an “other reality” through editing.

The construction of a traditional Finnish log house.

Amar Kanwar’s A Season Outside is a thought provoking quest to investigate the futility or validity of violence. The film employs several codes of conflict and discord—from the territorial border of India and Pakistan to visuals of Tibetan refugee settlement— to satiate the curiosity to posit violence as a credible response to hurt and harm. It questions its worthiness as device to exact revenge on the transgressor.

This documentary traces the folklore, stories, and reality of living under the hurricane force winds, that beat down upon the residents of the Acadian region of Western Cape Breton Island, between Margaree Harbour and Cheticamp. The film contains stunning landscapes shot in winds of 130 miles per hour. While there is often serious damage from these Suêtes, roofs blowing off buildings and even homes blowing apart, there is also a good dose of local humour surrounding life under these harsh environmental conditions. Residents from young to more than 90 years old tell their tales of life under these winds.

A Khorasani saffron grower struggles to fertilize the saffron plant with dehydration and the risk of losing the dull flowers of the saffron in order to obtain the flower stigma or saffron root.

Learn the fascinating story behind groundbreaking Polish musician Wanda Landowska, whose performances and writings helped to revive interest in the harpsichord in the early 20th century. This absorbing documentary chronicles the unconventional woman in many stages of her life: her childhood in Poland, schooling in Berlin, life in Nazi-occupied France and relocation to New York City, where she reconstructed her career.

HF032 - Super 8 (Color) film by Helga Fanderl

Zimbabwean musician, Biggie Tempo, talks to a number of UK folk musicians about their work and their views on traditional music.

Petr Vaclav's documentary Pani Le Murie (Madam Le Murie, 1993) depicts the last survivor of an aristocratic family who refused to bow to Communism.

Documentary of the band R.E.M. writing and recording their 1996 album "New Adventures in Hi-Fi.

A documentary capturing the moment when the Manchester indie band Oasis unexpectedly transformed into a major stadium act, just months after their first shows in prestigious London clubs. The film features 17 songs performed at Earls Court in London and Maine Road in Manchester during 1995 and 1996.

Some of Frank Sinatra's final film ventures in the changing world of Hollywood and America. Although he lost his parents during this time, his children made him proud by following his footsteps in their careers. Sinatra attempted to retire for a while, but the old itch came back and he returned with the record Ol' Blue Eyes is Back.

Documentary film tracing the Republic of Ireland's road to the Italia 90 World Cup

Blows the roof of Barbie’s “Dreamhouse,” revealing generations of people obsessed with the world’s most popular toy. At Barbie conventions and anti-Barbie demonstrations, from San Francisco’s gay pride parade to Croatia’s bunkers, Barbie fans, foes, fetishists – and Barbie’s creator Ruth Handler – reveal the history and fantasy behind the icon.

A documentary about the life and work of José Cardoso Pires. The information was gathered through a series of interviews made by the journalist Clara Ferreira Alves during autumn and winter of 1997 and also by people who were close to him.

The mocumentary about famous clockmaker Dragan Saldziev in Skopje.

Come On Over aired on November 25, 1999. Twain performed for a crowd of 40,000 people following a Dallas Cowboys and Miami Dolphins game at the Texas Stadium in Dallas, Texas. Most of her hit songs at the time made the setlist cut, including Rock This Country!, whose music video was taken off the special.

A documentary on the photographer Jan Saudek