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The Star, The Princess, and The Legend. Was her life really picture perfect?
Intimate Portrait: Grace Kelly
This heartwarming docu-drama chronicles the relationship between Russian pairs figure skaters Sergei Grinkov and Ekaterina Gordeeva, whose chemistry on the ice earned them three World Championships and two Olympic Gold Medals, and whose off-ice relationship yielded a happy marriage and a beautiful daughter. Their bliss was shattered when, on November 20, 1995, Grinkov collapsed and died of a massive heart attack on the ice. Based on Gordeeva's eponymous memoir.
My Sergei
Documentary featuring the British alternative rock band Bush on tour.
Bush: Alleys and Motorways
A journey to seven of the most geographically dynamic locations on earth. The film features spectacular land forms, diverse wildlife and the people and cultures indigenous to these places. Distinct geographic places include the great island of Madagascar, home to unique limestone pinnacles and the playful lemur; and the greatest desert—the Namib—home of the largest sand dunes in the world that tower majestically over its western border, the Atlantic Ocean. Other locations featured are the great icecap of Greenland, Iguazu Falls in Brazil, the Okavango Delta in Botswana, the Chang Tang Plateau in Tibet, and the Amazon River in South America.
The Greatest Places
The GREATEST : Bruce Lee
Starting with "The Wolf Man" (in 1941), Universal Studios made five movies featuring The Wolf Man, a character portrayed by Lon Chaney, Jr. Monster by Moonlight! explores these movies. Rick Baker explains how the make-up was done on Chaney's character. Screenwriter Curtis Siodmak took very little from earlier werewolf legends, providing his own story for some of the films. This documentary displays clips from several other movies, including "Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein" (1948) and "House of Dracula" (1945).
Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man'
Musical documentary about the life and music of Paul Simon.
Paul Simon: Born at the Right Time
Celebrate 12 new ways to enjoy each and every day of the year with Playboy's annual celebration of the world's most desirable women!
Playboy Video Playmate Calendar 1998
Kathie Lee Gifford hosts a report on children born under extraordinary circumstances. Profiled: conjoined twins Shannon and Megan Fanning, who survived separation surgery in 1994; Celeste and Timothy Keys, New Orleans twins who were born 95 days apart.
Miracle Babies
The Lover's Guide offers details on how to expand one's physical approach to lovemaking. Over 60 positions for lovers to try are presented including advanced positions that help to increase the adventure within any sexual relationship.
The Lovers' Guide
Air Disasters exposes some painful truths behind the world of flight, using actual footage of real incidents to look at why planes crash; in aerodynamic and technical terms and in the way the industry is run.
Air Disasters
“I Have to Make the Word Be Flesh” is an insightful and candid interview with the man himself about his films and his motivations. Cronenberg is cheerfully frank about his often grotesque images and controversial subject matter, and clearly relishes in the opportunity to explore the themes and motifs behind each one.
David Cronenberg: I Have to Make the Word Be Flesh
At 7'1' Shaquille O'Neal is currently the biggest NBA superstar. This profile is narrated by Samuel L. Jackson and features exclusive on-court action, intimate commentary from the big man himself and original songs from Shaq's debut rap album 'Shaq Diesel'.
Shaquille O'Neal: Larger than Life
The closing of a student film program serves as a paradigm for interrogating the corporate ideology that guides the largest public university in the USA: the University of Texas at Austin.
University, Inc.
Designed primarily for non-Turkish viewers, Tolda Örnek's documentary has a portentous narration by Sir Donald Sinden, focusing mostly on Atatürk's qualities as a leader as well as an inspiration to others. His shortcomings (drinking and smoking too much, as well as an inability to relate to his wife) are not overlooked, but Örnek suggests that they were chiefly due to his obsession with work. He had a lot to do in a very short time and achieved it.
Atatürk
Cérémonie de clôture des 16èmes Jeux Olympiques d'hiver à Albertville
A documentary following five young artists from around China, who travelled to Beijing in the 1980s to work as freelancers, exploring their lives, careers, and what aspirations they may have for the future.
Bumming in Beijing: The Last Dreamers
Penn and Teller play with mirrors, teach 900 people to make a hankie disappear, play with clear acrylic boxes, turn marshmallows into tools of violence, do some erotic fire-eating, become the King of Animal Traps, produce bees without end, make Jane Curtin do a magic trick with a needle, dental floss, and her pierced ear, and drive a truck filled with concrete over Teller.
Don't Try This at Home!
Executions 2
Home video about storm chasers released in 1995 by The Weather Channel.
The Chase
Documentary on the making of Gus Van Sant's "Psycho." Featured at the Berlin Film Festival, 2000.
Psycho Path
A behind-the-scenes look at Rangers in 1996
Rangers- Every Other Saturday
Denis Villeneuve created this film during his participation in the third season of La Course Destination Monde, a show broadcast on Radio-Canada in which contestants travelled to different regions of the world to make short films about their journeys. During the penultimate program broadcast on March 25, 1991, the young filmmaker presented Terra Des Hommes as his closing film. Shot in Tibet, the short introduces us to a community that lives among Yaks, large ruminant mammals. Chantal Jolis, a judge of the competition, said of the film: "What I felt there was a farewell to something essential, at the same time as a testament to the race." Villeneuve ulitmately won that year's edition of La Course Destination Monde. Notably, the film features the track "Trip to Arrakis" by TOTO, composed for David Lynch's 1984 adaptation of Frank Herbert's DUNE. Villeneuve would later go on to helm his own adaptation of the novel and it's sequel, DUNE Messiah.
Land of Men
Lucy, who is already human-like, claims that the first humans were mothers: The mother built a nest to secure the child when it became too heavy to carry. This is how she invented the house. She penetrated the dense branches with her voice to maintain contact with the child. That's how she invented language. Today, Lucy shakes her head and asks: "How did you let yourself be dragged down like that?".
Muttertier - Muttermensch
Filmmaker Victor Erice follows Spanish artist Antonio Lopez in his painstaking attempt to paint the image of a tree.
Dream of Light
An underwater exploration beneath kelp forests in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Southern California. The film captures the birth of a shark, squids mating, a lobster molting, a fish protecting its nest from an octopus and a sea urchin, and the sea bed covered with brittle stars.
Into the Deep
A behind-the-scenes documentary about the Christmas calendar 'Mysteriet på Greveholm', a very technically advanced TV production for its time.
Greveholm's Secret
Jeremy Clarkson drives a wide range of vehicles as he attempts to find the "best car, in the world, ever."
Clarkson: Unleashed on Cars
Corin Redgrave presents a portrait of his father, Michael Redgrave, exploring his personality, nature and what he was like as a father. He uses family photographs and letters and his father's diaries and autobiography, and produces a picture of a complicated and troubled man who was bisexual, a heavy drinker and emotionally distant and cold as a father. Includes contributions from Vanessa and Lynn Redgrave and Rachel Kempson, as well as Harold Pinter and Diana Menuhin. Also contains clips from several of Michael Redgrave's films.
Michael Redgrave: My Father
Porn... It's a Living
After producing several experimental video art pieces, Tsuchiya first came to prominence with A New God, a personal documentary shot on video about his relationship with a right-wing, neo-nationalist punk rock band. Even though Tsuchiya is on the left, he ended up marrying the singer for that band, Karin Amamiya, who has since emerged as a spokesperson for disaffected Japanese youth in the media. The New God won an award at the 1999 Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival.
The New God
"This tape is an exploration of my latent heterosexuality with porn star / performance artist Annie Sprinkle as instructor and sage. After assuaging my fears that I can have sex with a woman & still maintain my gay identity, Annie warms me up with some playful, sensual wrestling. She then instructs in the use of a tampon while relating men's need to make war with their inability to menstruate. For the rest of the tape, she guides me through the specifics of sexual exploration, positions of coital congress as well as post- coital ritual."
A 25 Year Old Gay Man Loses His Virginity to a Woman
Experience the thrill, precision and aerial artistry of the Blue Angels. Host Dennis Quaid opens the cockpit on the legendary squadron as they take off on their first European tour in 20 years.
Blue Angels: Around the World at the Speed of Sound
National Geographic documentary about several families living in Alaska
Braving Alaska
Jim Charlesworth, director of Princeton University's Dead Sea Scrolls Project believes that a large number of scrolls have yet to come to light. The programme is about his quest to track them down, an undertaking not without risks. The cliffs of Qumran still attract scroll hunters with non-academic motives - the scrolls are much sought after by private collectors and the shady figures of the black market who supply them.
Traders of the Lost Scrolls
A documentary short on the making of Rebel Without a Cause.
Rediscovering a Rebel
Amiable and unassuming, Fred MacMurray went from small-town boy to one of Hollywood and television's most enduring stars.
Fred MacMurray: The Guy Next Door
A young man, who served as a peacekeeper in Bosnia and Herzegovina for a few months during the war, recounts his experiences. Throughout the film, we only see his face filmed in close-up, along with a few photos. The interview acts as a strong testimony to the failure of the international community in the Yugoslav crisis.
Blue Helmet
Aussie boys of Asian descent candidly discuss their status as a "minority within a minority".
China Dolls
In this incisive dispatch from the newly collapsed Soviet empire, bullet holes from WWII still pockmark the old stone buildings. Akerman journeys from East Germany to Moscow between the late summer and winter of 1993 ('while there’s still time'), chronicling in deliberate tracking shots, circular pans, and domestic tableaux yet another moment of radical upheaval in the 20th-century, the faces and bodies of Poles, Ukrainians, Germans, and Russians weighed down with obedient resignation and uncertainty.
From the East
Billed as a humanitarian event, the "Jackson Family Honors" taped in Las Vegas. The event was to salute outstanding humanitarians and to raise money for charities.
The Jackson Family Honors
A documentary on the history of Doctor Who (1963) featuring new interviews with cast and crew, transmitted as part of "Doctor Who Night" on BBC2.
Adventures in Space and Time
This 1994 home video release by The Weather Channel, narrated by Charlie Welsh, is another special that highlights storm chasing and looks back at catastrophic tornadoes. These include the Tri-State tornado outbreak in 1925, and the Xenia, Ohio, tornado in 1974.
Target: Tornado
An informative, historical overview of the computer graphics field.
The Story of Computer Graphics
A document of Neil Young and Crazy Horse's 1996 concert tour. Director Jarmusch conducts interviews about the band's long history, interspersed with backstage footage from the 1970s and 1980s.
Year of the Horse
In this mesmerizing collage of silent Italian melodrama, found-footage filmmaker Peter Delpeut (Lyrical Nitrate) affectionately captures the spirit of the World War One-era cinema diva. In all-but-lost gems such as La donna nuda (1914), and Tigre reale (1916), superstars such as Lyda Borelli and Pina Menichelli portrayed heroines teetering dangerously between defiant indulgence in sexual passion and hysterical remorse at their own cruelties. Delpeut’s inventive celebration of Black Romanticism is both striking and heartbreaking in its composition—a beautifully woven narrative of tempted fate and self-torment, elegantly guided by Loek Dikker’s original score. Zeitgeist Films is proud to present Delpeut’s stunningly experimental work in all its heaving bosomed, luridly tinted glory.
Diva Dolorosa
The astonishing life-story of “Lili Marleen“ composer Norbert Schultze.
The Devil Kissed from Behind
Documentary tribute to actor and former bodybuilder, Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Arnold Schwarzenegger: Hollywood Hero
A documentary about the life and work of sleight-of-hand artist Ricky Jay, with appearances by Ricky Jay, David Mamet and Steve Martin.
Hustlers, Hoaxsters, Pranksters, Jokesters and Ricky Jay
The ferry crosses the river, transporting people from one shore to the other, from one country to another. It runs year round, never stopping. The footage was filmed on the Latvian-Belarussian border in the early 1990s - a time when the Soviet Union began to crumble and Latvia regained its independence.
The Ferry
African drummer leaves village, makes it big in the world. Great drumming!!
Djembefola
A story about the significance of Goethe’s Faust in the development of Latvian literature, language, publishing, culture and theatre. The video highlights the intersection of world cultures and their mutual development, as well as the courage of the people to break the boundaries of stereotypic attitudes.
Eternal Faust
Documentary that features many interviews and other footage of the cast and crew for the film American Graffiti (1973)
The Making of 'American Graffiti'
Tourfilm (1990) is a documentary-style concert film by American rock band R.E.M. The film chronicles the band's 1989 Green tour of North America. Produced by frontman Michael Stipe and director Jim McKay, the black-and-white film features aspects of avant-garde and experimental filmmaking, including handheld camera shots and stock footage.
R.E.M. Tourfilm
An excellent comprehensive look at all the music that came out of Cincinnati, Ohio. Cincinnati "Rock Legends" "James Brown" "King Records" "Pure Prairie League" "Lemon Pipers" "Syd Nathan" WEBN "Bootsy Collins" "Lonnie Mack" "The Who concert 1979" "Rick Derringer"
Cincinnati's Rock 'N Roll Legends
This 60 minute video captures in a dynamic format the people and programs that are successfully turning the corner on gangs. Stories and examples from across the United States will highlight winning approaches to confronting the gang problem.
Gangs: Turning the Corner
Hosted by Val Kilmer, the documentary follows playwright Nicholas Ellenbogen as he travels to remote communities in six different African countries. In each community, the residents have taken an holistic and somewhat controversial approach to managed wildlife care.
Africa Unbottled
An approach to a living myth of dance, Alicia Alonso, from the viewpoint of her passion, tenacity and devotion to art. It includes fragments of the ballet Giselle, choreographed by her, based on the original by Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot, and of La Diva, choreographed by Alberto Méndez.
Espiral
A semi-autobiographical account of a move from Sri Lanka to Britain, which explores "being inbetween East/West, mother/father, male/female". The filmmaker was born in Sri Lanka and brought up in the traditions of European culture and Roman Catholicism. He moved to England to live and work, and the film, which combines drama and documentary, is a personal account of his "negotiation of his personal history".