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The entry for the 1989 New Zealand Rally, round 7 of the World rally series was a little thin with the absence of the major factory teams, Lancia and Toyota. But this did not detract in any way of what turned out to be an action-packed and eventful rally held mostly on spectacular gravel stages. As usual Videovision were there to capture the action set in some of the finest and scenic pictures of the year on the rally calendar. The Sierra Cosworths were making their debut at this venue. Driven by British Open Champion Jimmy McRae and son Colin –the latter proved to be a sensation in his first Group A world championship rally, the 2-wheel drive Cosworths were spectacular especially on the gravel and this was sure to make life exciting for the McRaes. The British were certainly in force with Malcolm Wilson driving a 2WD Vauxhall Astra GTE who gave the British something to cheer about with a superb performance.

Documentary about an alleged witch in a Hungarian village.

Silver into Gold is a 1987 American short documentary film produced by Lynn Mueller. The film looks at American athletes Gail Roper and Sister Marion Irvine, and tells how they overcame personal obstacles, as well as social pressures against female athletes, to become world-class competitors. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

Documentary on the Harlesden People's Community Council, formed by the people of the Stonebridge estate in Harlesden, Brent, and their struggle to develop a disused London Transport bus terminus into a community complex.

A Super-8, home-style movie which explores the radical advances made by PWA's (People With AIDS), in developing their own health care. Focusing precisely on the ordinary minutiae of David Conover and Joe Walsh's daily life, DHPG Mon Amour shows the struggle for self-determination and control over one's own body and resonates on an intimate and more broadly political level. DHPG Mon Amour was featured at the 1990 New Directors Series at the Museum of Modern Art and The Semaine de la Critique at the Cannes Film Festival. The film has been exhibited at festivals, museums and theaters throughout the U.S., Canada and Europe, is in the permanent collection of the Library of Congress and the New York Public Library. DHPG Mon Amour was recently incorporated into the Oscar-nominated documentary How to Survive a Plague (2012).

The memory of a person, or the memory of a place (Rhys Graham).

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.

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 documentary about the artist Aloísio Magalhães.

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.

Islam and India have a long-standing symbiotic relationship, integrating their culture, poetry, architecture, and tradition into existing Indian traditions, resulting in a beautiful syncretism.

With "Presidential Bid" Andrews asks questions about how power is acquired, and how this relates to class and race in the United States during the late 1980s. It asks these questions indirectly, as everything the artist actually says in the video is a statement. The conceptual and political energy of the piece exists between these firm statements and implied questions.

Documentary about the organization -Mujeres Libres- that narrates, through interviews, their participation in the Spanish civil war and their day-to-day struggle as anarchists and as women, in war and in the revolution. The protagonists talk about how they got involved in the war, about their relationships with other anarchist organizations and about their lives since then. Decades later, Mujeres Libres is still a model of revolutionary feminism.

The peasants of Cap Vert, women and young girls, practically always left to themselves, since husbands and fathers leave the country in order to find work, know how to face up to everyday life and difficulties with a smile.

It’s the 1st of September, a sunny and joyful day in Pripyat. Children are going to school, and the builders, engineers, and supervisors of yesterday are sharing their thoughts about the future of the city and the newly built power station. Mr. Kizima, head of construction at Chornobyl, speaks about the city planning process, and Mr. Voloshko, head of the city executive committee, speaks about the creation of recreational areas for workers. The main architect, Mr. Oleshko, talks about the construction of the local swimming pool, and the head doctor, Mr. Leonenko, gives an ironic overview of the problems of high birth rates in the Atomohrad.

In his last reportage shortly before his death, the 'roving reporter' Egon Erwin Kisch followed the traces of Karl Marx's stays at the spa with loving nostalgia. But this short film, shot in the mid-1980s, could not ignore the discrepancy between the teachings of the 'great socialist' and their realization!

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The film concerns Michael's decision to reveal his homosexuality to his family. It follows his preparation in coming out by his participation in a lesbian and gay male peer support group. In this session, several of the participants reveal their own actual experiences, both positive and negative, in coming out to their families.

A short film about a single tree in the forest which has been cut and used as wood.

Documentary about the life and work of the painter Dominguez Alvarez, interspersed with fictionalized staging of some moments of the life of the artist.

Time is the most precious and valuable thing we own, so hopefully, you’ll invest yours in Ski Time. From the Alps to Oregon, Montana, Idaho, down to New Zealand, and back up to Canada the world’s greatest skiers and riders like Scott Bowen, John Kirscher, Mike Peter, and Billy Campbell along with countless others take you on a ski adventure of global proportions. So come along and be reminded that there’s always time to be spent in the mountains skiing.

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Sai Enterprise's Ginî piggu 4: Pîtâ no akuma no joi-san.

Where the life systems generated 700 years ago by the Nazca culture on the desert coasts of the south of the country and how they adapted to the environment are explained.

After 25 years in office, President Kekkonen stepped down as president due to health issues in autumn 1981. Soon after, Mainostelevisio MTV produced a programme in which Väinö Linna, Eero Mäntyranta, Matias Keskinen as well as numerous ordinary Finns talk about the significance of Urho Kekkonen.

An insight into the women fighting against the violent dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza in Nicaragua and how poetry underlies and expresses their passion for change and freedom from tyranny.

The port of Maputo in Mozambique is a natural outlet for goods and products from Botswana and Zimbabwe. The railway line that links these countries was built to decrease their reliance on South Africa's transportation system. Though first destroyed by the Rhodesian army and since then under constant attack from the Renamo rebels, attempts are now being made to reconstruct the Limpopo line.

Students from Papua New Guinea make a film about senior people and how they are treated in France. They meet a dashing 80-years-old man and manage to communicate and get along well.

The Blooms of Banjeli documents research in Banjeli, Togo on iron-smelting technology, its rituals, and the sexual prohibitions surrounding it. Including rare historical footage from the same village in 1914, it provides a unique technological record of the traditional method of preparing a furnace to smelt iron. This documentary offers an interesting approach to our understanding of the relationship between conceptions of gender and technology in traditional African society. The people of Banjeli liken the furnace to a woman's body, which is 'impregnated' by the smelter. The process of smelting is compared to that of giving birth, the furnace being the womb and the iron bloom, the newborn.

In the last thirty-five years, some of China's policies have given Chinese women a new lease on life. Whether they have become corporate executives or storekeepers or have remained peasants, most women are still torn between their modern aspirations and a persistent, traditional status. With the discreet guidance of Nancy Cheng, a Shanghai scriptwriter, we witness some of the contradictions inherent in this situation.

A portrait of the employees of the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw. The film shows one night, during which we witness the duty of its guards, cleaners, guards, elevators. It's a pretext to listen to their stories about the Palace, its history. Everything happens while the wedding of the daughter of the Palace's guards is taking place in the background in the PKiN staff canteen.

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.

Sam is a 1986 American short documentary film directed by Aaron D. Weisblatt. It focuses on Sam Phelps, a New York State farmer who is opposed to the destruction of a nearby watershed, and argues for better planning and land management. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

Wittstock an der Dosse is located in the German state Mark Brandenburg, apx. 90 kilometers from Berlin. Since 1974 Volker Koepp visited the town several times to examine life of the female workers in the textile industry. He interviewed them about their work, spare-time, thoughts and feelings. Three of them were questioned repeatedly for a long-time overview. This is the outcome of 10 years of Koepp's work. Written by Tom Zoerner

Teachers and students are in different parts of the country. The First of September is celebrated by first—graders in Ulyanovsk, history and literature lessons in an Azerbaijani village, music in the Lithuanian city of Siauliai, biology in Leningrad.

The spirit of the time as seen in a look at Chinvanin and his imprisonment, with interviews, observations and acrobatic elements.

(Rawabi Al-baha 1981) is the first documentary that spoke about cultural ‏heritage and traditions of Al-Baha southern of Saudi Arabia. it is produced by Mohammed Almadaifi Al-Zahrani, he also came up with the idea of the documentary to preserve Saudi’s legacy , not to mention Hussain Najar’s great voice and remarks in the background. Additionally, it was the saudi Arabia's submission for one of the foriegn film festival.

Explores the influence of the African American civil rights movement, both in philosophy and strategy, on the fight for Catholic independence in Northern Ireland during the Troubles.

"An experimental documentary on Reverend L.O. Taylor, a black Baptist minister from Memphis, Tennessee who was also an inspired filmmaker with an overwhelming interest in preserving the social and cultural fabric of his own community in the 1930′s and 40s. I combine his films and music recordings with my own images of Memphis neighborhoods and religious gatherings" -Sachs

Directed by Robert Drew.

Documentary on Peru.

The super-companies of this film are multi-national corporations that treat the world as one market. They take raw materials from one place, process them in another, and sell them everywhere. Shot on four continents, Super-Companies provides a provocative view of the way our world is being shaped by economic powers that are often at odds with the needs of people.

Video Tour Montreal presents the summarized visit of the great city of Montréal all the way from district life to major touristic attractions such as St-Joseph Oratory, Mount-Royal, Old Montreal, Notre-Dame Church, Underground City, Downtown, Botanical Garden and Olympic Stadium. Video-Tour Montreal as excellent souvenir of the sights and sounds of exciting Montreal.

Using original film clips and interviews, this film illustrates the 1950s social movement termed the Beat Generation. Disillusioned with post-World War II America, Beat Generation writers and painters came together because they felt mainstream America was becoming out of touch with humanity and the individual. In their interviews, characters such as Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady, Jack Kerouac, and Gregory Corso express their disdain for a society that defines success and happiness in terms of superior technology, cars, and clothing. Those individuals discuss the false conventionality of society and the dangerous world of shock treatments and conformity in which they found themselves. Their goal is to redefine this world to reflect the endless possibilities that characterize America.

Biographical sketch of Juan Pedro Elías, leather craftsman from the city of Huamachuco.

Documentary about the Warao people, done with archive images 1952 and 1954, filmed by a group of scientists from Sociedad de Ciencias de la Salle.

In the future people will consume more but probably in a personal way because they will be more informed and cultured.

The film by Ido Sela, who recorded with his camera Meir Ariel's special concert tour throughout the country in October 1987. This is a concert tour structured like an American election campaign: Meir Ariel and his band land without prior notice in various places throughout the country - Tiberias Beach, the Acre Theater Festival, Kibbutz Mishmaret that Ariel was A member of it, Pituach towns - build a temporary stage and sell their musical "merchandise" and their illusory sleep to the curious locals. Sela uses wisely and is completely unconcerned with the differences that exist between the people of Tel Aviv and the people of the suburbs.

The Tennessee Valley Authority, or the TVA, was a project like no other, and after more than a half-century, continues to shape life in the South.

An irrigator in northern Peru transforms sugarcane into sweet cane, inspired by the poetic narration 'Hay Sí, Santiago Paisi' by César Calvo

Elam records several men moving boxes and furniture as they track across her backyard.

An animated documentary of the village life of Warli tribe, with drawings done by indigenous artists.

A tongue-in-cheek tribute to Yma Sumac.