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This program investigates the ways various art forms are used to sway minds and to argue political causes. Examples include Napoleon and Hitler; artist such as Daumier, Hogarth and Shann; writers Dickens, Swift and Orwell; and pop artists who mock popular ideals.
Portait of a couple in the city of the title who have been married for fifty years.
Explores the life and work of Frank Almánzar, a visionary Bauhaus-trained engraver, illustrator, and cultural animator who left an indelible mark in the cultural life of the country.
Italian Renaissance sculptor Donatello made a name for himself by creating realistic pieces of art that perfectly captured the human form. With the help of experts, explore the lifestyle and work of this completely dedicated and talented artist. Viewers will travel to the cities where Donatello's works currently reside, such as Florence, Sienna, Venice, Padua, and London, to examine these amazing sculptures up close.
A look at 3-star chef Eckart Witzigmann creating a 13-course meal at his restaurant "Aubergine".
This documentary scrutinizes the Jehovah's Witnesses, and argues that the Watch Tower Society holds tyrannical control over the lives of its members.
Ruth's addiction to drugs and alcohol began when she was fourteen years old. They provided her with instant relief from painful memories of childhood physical, mental and sexual abuse, and from her work as a prostitute. After eighteen years of addiction, Ruth knew that in order to survive she'd have to quit. In desperation she contacted Alcoholics Anonymous, and through them and other support groups learned that change was possible. In this first-person account, Ruth describes her struggle to stay off drugs and alcohol and her determination to take responsibility for her own life. This is one of a series of films about women recovering from drug and/or alcohol dependency. The related film Turnaround: A Story of Recovery describes a program Ruth participated in earlier in her recovery at Aurora House in Vancouver.
Using archival films, popular songs of the time and testimonials, evocation of the economic crisis of the 1930s as experienced by the people of Quebec
Documentary about Curt Goetz.
Alaouié presents the stories of four exiles from Beirut. Their only connection is the voice of the narrator and their situation of living in exile in Europe. Told with a subtle humor, the film sketches four highly individual portraits of people, whose lives have taken unexpected turns due to the madness of the Civil War.
Examines the plight of Filipino peasants who have been forced to flee their homes as a result of the Aquino government's military offensive against rebels of the New People's Army, with the evacuees facing an uncertain future in crowded, makeshift camps.
The fate of former juvenile prisoners of fascist concentration camps.
A "remake" of a classic short film, but with a sharper edge.
The film is the impression of the film's authors, obtained from meeting people who live in villages located along the railway line in the Novgorod region. Trains do not run on this road. Bread is delivered only once a week.
In this film, Róza Berger-Fiedler traces the history of the Jews in Berlin from the Middle Ages to the present day and connects it with his own biography.
Varble spent the last five years of his life working on an epic, unfinished performance-turned-video titled Journey to the Sun (1978-1983). Only partially complete and under constant revision, this complex work combined Varble’s history of making costumes for performances, with his fantastic stories involving metamorphosis and martyrdom. In 1982, Varble decided to make a “prelude” to Journey to the Sun, combining existing footage with new video taken in Riverside Park in New York City. This self-contained video differs greatly from the bulk of Journey to the Sun, in that it is not constructed around the main narrative, but rather is composed of prefatory remarks and extended footage of outdoor scenes, and contains no dialogue. The main aim of this prelude was to provide a key to some of the main sources for Varble’s thought — actress Greta Garbo, spiritual leader George Gurdjieff, and founder of the Subud movement Muhammad "Pak" Subuh.
A barrage of incidents are images connected, in sense, by nonsense. Fish leap on the heads of men riding camels in the desert./Ants crawling over planes flying upside down and in the water. A bear that can't get out of the frame by force of an optical printer. Animation, live, and found and filmed footage with similar soundtrack.
A model poses in bright primary colours alongside a number of oblique words. Images of a woman rotating wearing long flowing dresses are overlain and played at different speeds.
Jero, who know sustains a lively practice as both medium and masseuse, recalls her earlier poverty and despair as a farmer, and how she fled her home and wandered briefly in the countryside as a peddler. After serious illness and mystical visions, she returned to her husband and underwent a consecration ceremony as a spirit medium. Here she talks with Linda Connor about these experiences.
The film documents the 80 days of chaos in Hannover, including photographs in black and white of clashes between punks and neo-nazi skinheads. In addition, it presents music videos of Hannover punk bands like Blut + Eisen, Boskops, Schwarz-Rotes Banner and Fortschreitende Angstzustände.
Explore the rich tradition of American Indian art with this examination of Hopi pottery and the culture that creates it. Cameras take viewers to a reservation at First Mesa, Ariz., where a Hopi potter demonstrates time-honed techniques. The program reveals the cultural timeline of the Hopi people through examples of prehistoric and modern pottery. Then, spectacular aerial photography highlights a trip through the majesty of Monument Valley.
An impressionistic documentary on the small town cafes in the rural Midwest. While the cafes function as a focal point for many aspects of the rural subculture, they also reveal the limits and somewhat closed nature of that culture.
Report from the Holy Father's second pilgrimage to Poland in 1983.
This episode compares film criticism on TV in the USA and the USSR by presenting an episode of At the Movies and an episode of Kinopanorama.
Commemorating the 1986 Tunis-Paris exhibition Privileged Spaces and Times: French-Speaking Intellectual Production in Tunisia, Sarah Maldoror’s film points the way toward a more polyvocal understanding of the role of France’s National Library worldwide.
A high-speed journey from Paddington to Bristol on an Inter-City 125.
Jochen Hick talks about an aging gay masseur and the times before AIDS.
El Pueblo Del Sol captures not only the visual delights of Mexico today, but also grasps the day-to-day life of a people in a land filled with future promise. One is mesmerized by rich images of such natural beauties as the Isla Contoy in the Caribbean, Copper Canyon in the Chihuahua Sierra, the Paricutin Volcano, and Ensenada's Bay. Short IMAX documentary.
About young men entering basic military service.
Architecture critic Patrick Nuttgens narrates a documentary on the 20th century architect Edwin Lutyns, exploring the plans and buildings of the man who designed Liverpool Metropolitan Cathederal and the city of New Delhi.
A Royal Navy travelogue looking at Hong Kong.
Educational documentary film produced in 1989.
Dedicated to the memory of L.I. Brezhnev.
Gives a brief overview of the history, geography, distribution of population, the political/social/economic systems, the Catholic Church, the military, and the problems in South America.
Shot in the US between November 1979 and September 1980 in Connecticut's South Norwalk region, this documentary focuses on the city's economic downturn and its collapse under such difficult conditions. Through raising perplexing questions about the sustainability of the then relevant popular solutions for the prevalent conditions, the film brings forward the conflicting perspectives of the local residents, former and current shopkeepers, artists, politicians, environmentalists, urban planners, and developers.
The life of the famed illustrator NC Wyeth as told by his children: Andrew Wyeth, Henriette Wyeth Hurd, Caroline Wyeth, Nat Wyeth, and Ann Wyeth McCoy.
Oklahoma is rodeo country. Sometimes Its Gonna Hurt is a film about the toughest of all rodeo events-- bullriding, and how young riders grow up to become bullriders. It was commissioned by the PBS series, "Matters of Life and Death".
Six years in preparation & three years in filming, World Safari 2 covers one of the largest Australian cattle musters, the wild New Guinea highlands and finally discover the terrorist controlled jungles of South America.
1988 short film by Philip Hoffman.
Montage film with fragments of 30 Argentine and foreign films related to tango.
Documentary by Eckhart Schmidt about New Wave music.
Shot between 1986 and 1988, Kafi's Story captures Nuba life at the moment before it was engulfed in the Sudanese civil war. Kafi, a young man from the Nuba Mountains in Sudan, is one of the first to travel north to the capital city Khartoum in search of money. Only when he has money can he buy the cloth for a dress and so marry a second wife.
Filmed in 1987, this documentary chronicles the journey of Via Rail's The Canadian as it makes its way across Canada.
A series of shots depicting "America" are laid over a classic Gregorian Chant recreated through the distortion of a woman's screams.
Looks at the history and cultural diversity of the Sydney, Australia suburb of Marrickville. The video features interviews with those who live in this area including people with Greek, Lebanese, Portuguese and Vietnamese backgrounds.
A film about various aspects of how humans interact with water, using Germany as an example. The contradictions that were already apparent at that time were scarcity, pollution, and privatization, but also soil sealing.
Documentary on new construction and reconstruction in Berlin's Friedrichstrasse in 1985.
This footage is almost entirely black, save for a few shots possibly showing electric poles outside.
Far removed from the officially propagated GDR cultural sector, Christine Schlegel created her very own energetic cosmos on 8mm stock between 1977 and 1986. She painted over or scratched lines and shapes on footage of the dancer Fine Kwiatkowski. She projected painted footage on the dancing body during live performances, enveloping and re-shaping it.
The film follows the life of Munni, an 11 year old girl, growing up in the village of Jitwarpur, in Bihar, India. Courtesy of the South Asian Area Center, University of Wisconsi, Madison. Executive Producer Joe Elder. Written and produced by Ray Owens, Ron Hess and Cheryl Graff.
A study of the economic relationship between developing countries and industrialized nations, developed using the example of an agricultural cooperative in Upper Volta. Beans are grown on huge monocultures for the European market, largely displacing the cultivation of urgently needed staple foods. The critical essence of the film is largely weakened by confusing dramatic effects and overly simplistic symbolism.
When Michael was released from the Jugendwerkhof at the age of 16, he said: "... There has to be controversy to make progress, to achieve something in life, to be a human being at all." Three years later, the movie tries to find out what has become of him.
Documentary account of the discovery and archaeological excavation in 1980 of First African Baptist Church Cemetery, a black American cemetery of a non-slave community in Philadelphia that closed in 1841, with very little documented in the archives and of which all physical trace had been lost for a century. Observation of the stages of the excavation, of the analysis of the bones in the laboratory and of what these burials were able to reveal about the demography of the time.
Lena Cronqvist is one of Sweden's greatest contemporary painters, whose pictures have aroused great engagement and interest in the public. Lena Cronqvist has depicted life's drama in small and large ways. It is often about identity, about being a child and being a parent, taking care of and being taken care of. In this film from 1989, we follow along during an exhibition at the Art Academy, which becomes a success and after only fifteen minutes, all the pictures are sold out.
A chronicle of the day to day activities of a Utah family whose religious ties are an integral part of their lives. The filmmakers moved in with the Merservys for over a week to see firsthand what their lives are actually made of.