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Grzegorz Królikiewicz’s documentary is dedicated to Prof. Bolesław W. Lewicki, a film critic, theorist, and historian, as well as the rector of the Łódź Film School.

Conductor Rem Gekht leads the rehearsal of a school brass band. The sessions are interspersed with the children talking about the musical instruments they play.

Women's hair as myth and metaphor: Kurisaki uses Kabuki theater, documentary interviews, narrative re-enactments and bunraku puppets to explore the mystical and symbolic properties of the typically long, dark hair of Japanese women.

A satirical documentary on a fictional young, struggling, independent filmmaker named Elway Pelachuk

The only AIDS prevention film made in East Germany forefronts discussions with young people and some erotic scenes, while downplaying homosexuality.

Short film about the daily routine of eleven-year-old Prahlad from the northern Indian village of Manikpur in the province of Uttar Pradesh, one of the poorest areas in India.

A portrait of Raymond Francombe, jobbing gardener and composer. Ray is a familiar figure around the centre of Bristol. What will not be known by most of those who pass him every day is that for years he has been composing sacred music – and, until this programme was made, he had never actually heard a note of it performed. In this film Derek Jones gets to know Ray, and attempts to have his music professionally assessed.

New Caledonia is a country divided. The largest community is Melanesians, self-styled “Kanaks” who make up 43 per cent of the population. They want independence from France. On the other side are the French and locally born Caledonians, supported by immigrant Polynesians, who want to retain links with France. This film outlines the political conflict that has led to tension and violence over the years. It takes a look at two politicians representing each side and reveals something of the Kanaks, with their tribal social structure, and the Caledonian French, who are more concerned with economic progress.

MAD Video mondo film exploring the Nazi death camps.

The 1988 Australian bicentenary prompted many artistic events and contemporary expressions of Australia's living cultures. One of the most remarkable of these was the first memorial ever created by Aborigines for Aborigines - two hundred bone burial poles were carved and painted by Arnhem land artists to honour the deceased of the past - lost people, lost tribes, lost languages. This unique Aboriginal Memorial captures this spiritual event. This collection seeks to reassure surviving Aboriginal Australians that there is a living continuity of traditions. -Ronin Films

From the New York Transit Museum archives, a 1981 documentary about the workers who make "A" train service possible. A production of the New York State Museum.

Part Three: TO TASTE 100 HERBS - Dr Shen Fasheng discusses his Catholic religion, medical ethics, rural health services, centuries-old knowledge of herbal treatments and Western medical practices. The warmth, closeness and traditions of family life in China are wonderfully captured in scenes of prayer, play, chores and celebrations.

A documentary film about Basque independence movement.

Documentary that explores the role of the Chilean Catholic Church in the fight against Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorial regime, giving great emphasis to the creation of the Vicariate of Solidarity and protests against violations to human rights.

The tension between humans and the great bears is well documented in this video, which shows how the bears were killed off in most of the western United States, but are thankfully now protected in Yellowstone National Park. In Alaska, the bears are less threatened by humans and are studied in their natural habitat.

A small Texas town is inundated with Vietnamese refugees, leading to inter-racial tension.

Intimate documentary about young women who make papier mache fruit and vegetables in a small factory in Mexico. They have a gringo boss, but the factory is owned by his Mexican wife. The focus of the film is on the color, music and movement involved, and the gossip which goes on constantly, revealing what the young women think about men.

Made in collaboration with the Inuit Tungavingat Nunamini, this film focuses on those dissident members of the Inuit community who rejected the agreement signed on November 11, 1975, between the Northern Quebec Inuit Association, the Québec and federal governments, the James Bay Energy Corporation, the James Bay Development Corporation, Hydro-Québec and the Grand Council of the Crees, which took away Native rights to a territory of almost one million square kilometres. By their words and actions, the dissident Inuit of Povungnituk, Ivujivik and Sugluk express their strong desire to retain their land and their traditions. The filmmakers go into their homes, on the ice and the sea to record first-hand the lives of these northern people.

The first issue of the underground video magazine 'Videograf', founded in 1989 by Carl Weston and Colin Turner. Shot from inside graffiti culture, the series follows bombing, handstyles, from subways to the streets. This instalment features interviews with graffiti pioneer Phase 2, as well as New York City writers Sien 5, Visom, Priz-One, Nic One and "Style Wars" producer Henry Chalfant.

A report on political conflict in Guatemala examines U.S. support for the country’s military government and its campaign against internal opposition, presenting footage filmed in the region alongside commentary from American and Guatemalan officials. (Note: Standalone film listing justified because titled CBS Reports documentaries are widely cataloged and circulated individually as complete investigative films.)

A television documentary about Scottish society's attitudes towards homosexuality, including interviews with gay men and couples, featuring footage of the Edinburgh Gay Centre and the Lavender Menace bookshop.

The Acropolis Rally provides some of the toughest special stages of any rally on the World Championship calendar. The 1989 event, round 6 of the drivers' championship, and round 5 of the manufacturers series, was going to be a make or break rally for the majority of the competing manufacturers - bar Lancia that is!

Always one of the highlights of the international calendar, the Acropolis Rally attracted entries from Audi, Renault, Nissan, Lancia, Volkswagen, Skoda and Polonez. The Lancia Delta HF Turbos, in the hands of Markku Alen, Miki Biasion, Mikael Ericsson and Juha Kankkunen, were expected to provide the main threat, while Audi fielded two new 200 Quattros for Hannu Mikkola and Walter Rohrl, who had finished first and second on the Safari. Kankkunen had won the Acropolis in 1986 on his way to the World Championship, and was confident of giving the Martini Racing Team victory. But on the demanding, dusty back lanes and tracks of the Kamena Vourla, the stronger challenge was thought to be more likely from the big Nissans. This video captures all the excitement of the furious pace of the Acropolis, mixing as it did, dry, flat-out sprints alongside rain-lashed hillsides in the later parts.

In 1985, the RAC Rally once again brought the curtain down on the World Rally Championship season. With the title already decided, the best drivers on Earth went all-out for victory over the 65 stages and more than 560 competitive miles of the Lombard RAC. This action-packed highlights programme follows the action from the safari parks and stately homes of the opening stages to the forests of Wales and Yorkshire. This programme is packed with awesome action footage from around Britain, and fascinating interviews with Pond, Toivonen, Salonen and other stars.

Short film about dodecaphony aka. twelve-tone music

A “filmic re-reading” of Max Frisch's novella Montauk (1974) and of excerpts from his published diaries. It is neither a biographical portrait of Frisch – who was one of the greatest 20th century Swiss writers – nor a filmed adaptation of the novel. Instead, Dindo returns to the locations the author describes in his texts, searching for traces of past events that may turn out to have been more imagined than real.

A documentary concerning Duran Duran's 1987 Strange Behaviour tour

Keats and His Nightingale: A Blind Date is a 1985 American short documentary film directed by Jim Wolpaw. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

“Cinema, Poetry, and Trains in Tîrgu Neamț” might serve as the subtitle for this film, which Copel Moscu composes in a deliberately atomised manner, capturing the rhythm of a small provincial town in late-1980s Romania: cinema as escapism, pouring rain à la George Bacovia, and a vague love story between a woman projectionist and a railwayman come one after the other over the course of this somewhat comical elegy, whose meanings do not achieve the poignant depths of Moscu’s other films.

A documentary by director Algirdas Tarvydas, exploring the emerging ideas at the dawn of the Lithuanian Rebirth about restoring the Lithuanian rural population to the status of landowners. The film focuses on specific individuals and presents four possible models: the so-called "family contract" system encouraged by Mikhail Gorbachev, homestead farming, the "individual land sector," and land granted for perpetual use.

A drama documentary about the life of explorer Sir Humphrey Gilbert.

NEW ZEALAND The young Juha Kankkunen - series leader - came to New Zealand full of confidence. The Peugeot driver’s main rival Markku Alen (Lancia Delta S4) was determined not to let the French opposition retain the World Manufacturers’ Championship without a fight. And a fight it was! ARGENTINA The Championship had reached fever pitch by the Argentinian round. Both Lancia and Peugeot were desperately trying to recruit experienced drivers to boost their chances. Peugeot managed to secure the services of a certain Stig Blomqvist - and by the end of the rally the team had cause to thank him. His crucial third place had saved the day for Peugeot even though it was Lancia’s rising star Miki Biasion who had finally taken his first major win. With Kankkunen sidelined by mechanical problems, Alen’s second place closed the points gap in the Championship race and the rallying world looked forward to the next battle - the 1000 Lakes!

The story of Paul's life culminates in a sign, after he leaves his monastery...

Short documentary about police work.

The nine months of the filmmaker's pregnancy constructed as a serio-comic fractured nine-chapter narrative, from conception to birth, emphasizing the constantly changing transitional state of embodiment of pregnancy.

Who Takes the Rap – Immigration covers the history of immigration law in Britain from 1903 to 1986. The film describes how different groups of immigrants arrived for work in the UK, only to find increasingly restrictive laws, which kept them in low-paid, unskilled work and identified them as ‘undesirable.’ Footage of the Garners’ Steak House strike and the Grunwick strike is included to show how these workers fought back against racism. Specific laws are examined, and the film includes interviews with a number of immigrant women. The voices of two female rappers provide commentary throughout.

The story of Aleksandr Ivanovich - a former tank driver, party worker, and now a volunteer forester - about his life.

ACT Up's closing down of the FDA in October 1988 is dramatically recorded by Ellen Spiro.

An approach to the two great Ayacucho altarpiece makers, Don Florentino Jiménez and Don Jesús Urbano.

Showcase people from many tribes of Native Americans who discuss and perform their music. The film concludes with a performance of a modern composition by noted Native American composer Louis W. Ballard. Ballard also served as an advisor on the film in his role as national curriculum specialist for the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Panorama de Santiago, is a video-performance classified as the first video art made in Chile (1981). In it, the artist runs for several minutes with his camera, making a tour from the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes to the stairs of the Biblioteca Nacional. The image oscillates and distorts as if the spectator were the one running frantically, an effect that -in the artist's words- seeks to speak of the Chilean dictatorial context at the beginning of the 1980s.

This 1980 documentary presents an account of the life of Luis Muñoz Marín and an account of what happened during his death and burial.

A documentary film about a "village of huts" that was erected in a section of forest near Frankfurt am Main in 1980 to demonstrate against the planned construction of Runway West. It was built by a large number of Frankfurt citizens together with various citizens' movements.

Writers, artists, and musicians celebrate the whale.

Among Jan Jakub Kolski’s short films, critics assign special significance to “Ładny dzień / A Nice Day”, which tells the story of two elderly people who spend their time taking care of their old horse.

"Frances Steloff: Memoirs of a Bookseller" is a wonderfully dynamic portrait of an American cultural heroine. Now 100 years old, Frances Steloff was the founder and force behind the renowned Gotham Book Mart of New York City, a center for avant-garde literature and literati since 1920. She began with only $100 and thirty books and she modestly recalls her role in the bookstore's past.

Video-essay documentary built from behind-the-scenes material of Olivier Debroise’s Un banquete en Tetlapayac, following artists and intellectuals gathered at a hacienda.

This documentary captures the Lanling Theatre Troupe's 1985 production of Nine Songs on 8mm film, following the troupe's rehearsals and actual performance and meticulously capturing the vibrant energy of Taiwan's experimental theater movement.

A critical account is given of the two stages of the military government of the seventies: Between General Velasco Alvarado and General Morales Bermudez. Based on photographic, graphic, journalistic, radio and audiovisual records

Between documentary and painting in movement, poetry and magic, these film portraits intend to capture the spirit of each of its subjects, as well as that of a genetration (early 80’s). The portraits present generally Mexican and New York City artists, friends and contemporaries of the filmmaker.

Documentary about the teachings of Jiddu Krishnamurti.

A portrait of the punk scene of the metropolitan area of ​​the Valley of Mexico in the 80s.

The man who lives in the Amazon region, in his natural environment.