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Shot in Super 8 by a group of NDU members in the course of a day, the film documents the second Six Cities Joint Disaster Prevention Drill, organized in Shinjuku on the first of September 1981, an event that mobilized about twelve million people.
The Action Centre is Johannesburg’s only black theatre. The accent here is put on the collective work of the members of the Centre to create and to keep this very different kind of cultural centre going.
Stories from San Mateo del Mar, Oaxaca's village elders highlight traditional elements such as clothing, ancient customs, a natural well, clay pots, and courtship rituals.
The film examines the relationships of single fathers with their children after separation or divorce.
Profile of political activist Claudia Jones, the woman who started the Notting Hill Carnival and founded the West Indian Gazette, the first popular newspaper within the Black Community.
A film by Hugh King and Lamar Williams - a powerful mix of archival material, news clips and documentary footage chronicles impassioned community response to decades of deadly force against people of color by members of the Philadelphia police force. Community leaders, politicians, police officers, survivors of police brutality and sympathizers unravel a pattern of biased violent police behavior from the tenure of Police Commissioner Frank Rizzo to the bombing of Osage Avenue. This documentary is a testimony to long-standing tensions between police and people of color in communities throughout the United States.
According to some specialists, the frieze of deers in the Lascaux cave would be the representation of a horde of deer swimming in a river or, according to another version, one same deer, the movement of the swimming being decomposed.
A fragmented, personal, sometimes confrontational portrait of the filmmaker’s grandmother
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of the 1989 horror film, Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers. Includes cast and crew interviews, produced as part of Drew Cummings' "Making Of" series.
An entire summer, van der Elsken walked through Amsterdam an filmed in the same manner as he used to shoot his photos, strolling through the city centre and making contact with people that fascinated him. It became hís portrait of the city and its inhabitants.
Featuring the incredible tube riding of Peter Mccabe, Tommy Carroll, Larry Blair and others in a dazzling array of exotic wave frontiers including Java, Bali, Hawaii and the mysterious "Isle of Kong". A surfing Odyssey by Stephen Spaulding
At the Southern end of the line, the three stations around St Leonards are separated by two long tunnels. Emerging at Bopeep Junction our "4-CEP" EMU - in the much lamented "Jaffa cake" colour scheme - turns north through the East Sussex countryside through Battle to Tunbridge Wells. The character of the line changes at Tonbridge as we join the main artery from Ashford, Dover and Folkestone. The Hastings line became infamous for its tunnels. Many had been constructed by a rogue contractor who saved thousands of pounds by only lining the tunnel with one row of bricks instead of the specified two. In danger of collapse, when the scam was realised a second layer had to be built inside, reducing the overall width. Following this, special narrow bodied trains had to be specially constructed. Since the scrapping of these and in order to allow the passage of standard width stock at the time of the 1980's electrification, many of the tunnels had to be singled.
Holy Week in the community of Porcón de Cajamarca is one of the manifestations that reflect the religious syncretism and magic inherent to the Andean being.
A rare early documentary film by Jan Jakub Kolski, exploring the first traces of human existence in Poland. the development of tribal communities, Slavic pagan beliefs and more.
Motor race, fun-fair, sponsors' bonanza, death trap. Whatever it is, the 24-hour race at Le Mans has become a legend; for the driver, just to finish is an achievement; for the fans, to be there is a unique experience. For the race marshals and police there is little chance to relax, for when tragedy strikes it can be swift and terrible. Last year, during one of the hottest weekends in the history of the race, reporter Jack Pizzey joined the 250,000 spectators. He followed the fortunes of two British entrants. One was Guy Edwards, the former Grand Prix driver who made the headlines when he rescued Niki Lauda from a blazing wreck in 1976. Now he is one of the most successful businessmen-drivers on the road racing circuit. The other was Alain de Cadenet, who with little backing has made 11 attempts, and is dedicated to winning Le Mans.
Everyone should try nudism is the over-arching message from the contestants at the Mr & Ms Nudist California Pageant. Erwitt is granted rare, unrestricted access to film the nudist contest from beginning to end. The judges are the only ones who are clothed.
An old mill on a dried up riverbed brings up memories. Some people that used to work there died in concentration camps, some died on the courier paths in forests and some of them in combat.
Follows the Second Soviet Himalayan Expedition, which made the first traverse in history of all four peaks of the Kanchenjunga mountain range.
My Weekend features sophisticated techniques of film tape processing and a creative poetic narrative about freedom.
America's Best Kept Secret (1988) unveils Satan's hidden infiltration of America through formal devil worship, ritual abuse, and child molestation. Featuring ex-Satanist Mike Warnke and experts like Sgt. Randy Emon (Baldwin Park PD), it exposes 1980s cult networks preying on the innocent with eyewitness accounts and police insights. Essential Christian wake-up call from the Satanic Panic era—equips believers, parents, and law enforcement to recognize and combat demonic strongholds. No-holds-barred spiritual warfare documentary revealing the enemy's real agenda.
Frederick Douglass, Fighter for Freedom is a 19-minute documentary on the life and times of Frederick Douglass. Historic photos and documdrama segments cover the live of this great orator, emancipator and statesman. The story is told by a young narrator.
Five former U.S. Servicemen and a prison camp survivor give accounts of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps in 1945.
On the Thessalian plateau, a place famous in ancient Greek history, enormous and steep rocks rise, almost representing an epic clash of giants. In this mystical environment, Meteora once served as an aerial refuge for hermits and then for nuns of strict orders, who, renouncing the world, lived in the celestial peace of the peaks. This area is today a silent and fantastical climbing site, and some caves carved into the rock face remain inaccessible. Mountaineer Patrick Berhault and his French partner Patrick Cordier, one of the classic leaders of modern climbing, have set out to conquer these peaks steeped in history, which will never cease to be "The Pillars of Dreams."
A short documentary film about Czech-Bulgarian painter Ivan Mrkvička
Journey back to ancient Egypt as Uriel’s students relive past lives through psycho-drama. This incredible video program is a psychodrama that is lifting the veil from a reality previously unknown in the pages of history. Isis and Osiris were two highly advanced spiritual beings from another world who came to Earth 12,000 years ago to teach humankind the Science of Life and the reality of spiritual evolution.
Wuppertal is a drizzly, industrial city on the Rhine and one immediately wonders why Pina Bausch and her avant-garde dance troupe have settled there. A socially engaged documentarian, Wildenhahn is also perplexed by this issue and spends considerable time trying to place Bausch in a context outside of the aesthetic. Still, the dance company's daily life and the excruciating rehearsal and performance schedule is solidly captured. The film begins cleverly: a dance critic offers sagacious comments on ballet dancers finishing their careers at mid-thirty just when, according to Bausch, the "aspects of misery, suffering and fear of death should become an integral part of a dancer's spiritual and psychological make-up." Wildenhahn's camera glides over the dancers' bodies as Bausch leads them through their paces, a consummate teacher. Leaving behind rehearsals of "Bandoneón" and "Walzer," Wildenhahn then ventures out into the streets of Wuppertal searching for the dance of the common people.
A documentary about 5000 men, women, teen-agers, and children in a small mountain town in France who saved 5000 Jews from the Nazis during WWII.
The world of endurance/sports cars as seen through the eyes of Derek Bell at the wheel of the works Rothmans Porsche 956 (650 bhp). Featuring laps on 7 of the world's greatest circuits with speeds up to 220 mph.
"It's still men who win coal": a look at the past, present and future of the coal industry.
Clause and Effect is a tape that combines documentary footage with positive images of gay men and lesbians to show the impact of Clause 28 of the Local Government Bill both on them and the wider community. The tape is framed by an exclusive interview with Derek Jarman who talks about the origins of the Clause, ‘its roots in the moral majority and their interpretations of the Bible’, the effect that it will have on the community and on his work as a film maker.
In early 1971, the first squatting occupation took place in Berlin-Kreuzberg, carried out by 74 young people who wanted to create their own living spaces in an empty building. The Georg-von-Rauch-Haus and its occupation served as a catalyst for further actions across Germany. The documentary tells the stories of 13 young squatters from “the very beginning” and traces their life paths after they left the Georg-von-Rauch-Haus.
This is a documentary record of the fight for aboriginal title to the land that the Temagami Anishnabai have been living on for thousands of years. The band fought the reservation system in court for 20 years demonstrating that their ancestors have lived in this territory and did not sign any treaty with the British government (at the time) to surrender their land in the Robinson-Huron Treaty of 1850.
Educational film about different kinds of the gemstones.
"Stillbirth: the birth of an at least 35 cm long foetus"
Weeks before the closure of a Wollongong coal mine, a group of 31 miners occupied the pit and established themselves 5 kilometres underground. The strike, which caught the imagination of the whole country, was documented from the inside by documentarian Tom Zubrycki.
Throughout history, humans have often tried to emulate birds when designing aircraft. Recently, however, they have turned their attention to insects, attempting to incorporate the structural features of their wings into their designs. The film chronicles the research being conducted at the Institute of Evolutionary Morphology and Ecology and Leningrad University.
A several-second passage depicting a woman's agitated face is repeated in a loop that decomposes, distorts and reassembles her expression and gesture into an image of masochistic violence, whipped by gusts of voice synthesizer-induced, destroyed sound. The author appropriates the videotape and, through jerks of fast-forwarding and rewinding, it disintegrates the temporality not only of the original shot but also of the event depicted.
Spectacular figure models from the 60’s opening with SUZIE, one of the most shapely Big Busts we’ve ever seen. Also offers the chocolate perfection of SISSY ROSCOE, a charming brunette nude bed roller, a great Scandinavian blonde and a delicious duo of shapely darlings stripping each other bare.
The 1986 World Rally marked the end of an era in international rallying. An era in which the cars progressed from modified versions of ordinary saloons to turbocharged 'supercars' as dangerous as they were spectacular to watch. An era of extreme spectacle on the stages for millions of fans in dozens of countries. With the technical advances edging the sport even nearer to the limits of safety for both drivers and spectators, the rally season was distinguished by both triumph and tragedy. Triumph for 'youngster' Juha Kankkunen and tragedy at the loss of Henri Toivonen and Co-driver Sergio Gresto in an accident which stunned the rallying world to its core. Witness another milestone in rallying history with this full review of an unforgettable season.
Rock music. If there are abuses, what are they, and how serious can they be? Through the combined research of the Parents Music Resource Center and Teen Vision, the themes of aggressive rebellion, drug/alcohol abuse, explicit sex, the occult, and violence found in some of today's music are examined in this eye-opening video. 30 minutes of carefully documented evidence sure to change the way you and your children listen to music!
This documentary examines the lively spirit of plena music, which celebrates and satirizes daily life occurrences. The film looks at the historical and cultural development of plena as well as its significance and importance today.
A moving personal documentary about Danny, a friend of Kybartas who died of an AIDS-related illness in 1986. This powerful work explores the reason for Danny’s return home and his attempts to reconcile his relationship with his family members who had difficulty facing his homosexuality and his imminent death.
For a series of programs made for TV Fnac, Philippe Grandrieux meets different people who tell us, each in their own point of view, a story of images. After Paul Virilio (The World is an image) and before Jean-Louis Schaeffet, Le Trou noir (AKA The Black Hole) gives us the enlightened reflections of psychanalyst Juan David Nasio about real and reality.
About the relationship between a man and a woman.
Documentary on 35mm (censored but not released) made for Films Division, India.
A film dealing with the controversial events that took place during a concert by the band Lady Pank in Wrocław in 1986, in which the band's leader, Jan Borysewicz, became the "hero."
This piece documents the process behind the creation of Holt's major public art installation, Dark Star Park, in Arlington, Virginia. The park, which features giant concrete spheres and pipes, allows the visitor to reconsider the experience of space, earth and sky within an urban context. It also serves as a kind of contemporary Stonehenge: once a year, on August 1 at 9:30 am, the shadows of the objects exactly align with outlines on the ground. Interviews with the artist, the architects, engineers, contractors, and the public, among others, reveal Dark Star Park as both a public sculpture and a functioning park that reclaims a blighted urban environment.
The hip-hop or rap scene came to the UK from New York in the early 1980s. The media exploited the new craze and then dropped what has become, for a growing number of young black Britons, a way of life. Tim Westwood, a DJ well-respected 'on the street', has made this film as a showcase for the talented young rappers, scratch-mix DJs and graffiti artists in London. With a special guest appearance by the New York kings of rap, Run‐D.M.C., at the Brixton Academy.
History of a Committed Cinema is a primer for the Nicaraguan audience to what they are watching on the screen. A critique of Western & Hollywood cinema, it outlines the difficult technical, cinematic, and political tasks confronting INCINE (Instituto Nicaragüense de Cine) as it strives to build a native film industry.
Rodeo is a tough way to make a living-that's what this video is all about. These are the best, toughest, most heart stopping moments of the 1987 Season of the world famous Mesquite Championship Rodeo.
The 1987 Vienna New Year's Concert was the first and only New Year's Concert conducted by Mr. Herbert von Karajan, the "Emperor of Conducting" and the "General Director of Music in Europe", and of course, the only New Year's Concert ever held.
The authors of the film have set the goal of explaining to the viewer that self-medication for sexually transmitted diseases is harmful. It is necessary to overcome false shame, not to listen to the advice of acquaintances-friends, but to turn to a specialist in a timely manner and act on their advice.
A documentary about author Henri-Pierre Roché and the real-life relationships that inspired the novel and Francois Truffaut's 1962 film "Jules and Jim."
This documentary from 1987 looks at the serious malaise that plagued the US manufacturing sector at the time. No longer competitive in the world market, and forced to buy more than it could sell, the US nevertheless continued to bask in the glow of past glory rather than face its immediate predicament. Meanwhile, Japan and other Pacific Rim countries were gaining economic ground, perhaps permanently. This film was part one of the series, Reckoning: The Political Economy of Canada.
This film is made up of interviews from preteens to adults discussing their thoughts and feelings on sex, relationships, and parenting in relation to teen pregnancy.