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The film was shot in the year of the 975th anniversary of Yaroslavl. The painting is based on portraits of Yaroslavl residents from the distant past and Yaroslavl residents of the late twentieth century: workers, restorers, engineers, artists. The frame contains many recognizable places of the city, as well as courtyards, factories, and cultural institutions. This 10-minute film perfectly conveys the atmosphere of life in Yaroslavl in the mid-1980s.

Filmed in Beirut in the Spring of 1984, in many ways a letter about warfront.

With a title referring to Japanese folklore, wherein things done on the first day of a new year are significant, the film - an ardent dream entirely shot in Japan - stands as a spiritual allegory equating light and dark with life and death.

Mangroves are plant formations that live and grow in saline swamps and in Tumbes they cover a large area, creating a varied and original flora and fauna that is very attractive for the development of tourism in northern Peru.

Prevention and treatment of bites from venomous animals such as snakes, arachnids, wasps.

The people of Cape Verde are suffering from a lack of rain. In some parts of Praia, there are only water stations with a few taps, which are open just once a day for three hours to serve 3,000 residents. There are always arguments. Those who arrive first always take more than their fair share. Those at the end of the line often go without water. An elderly blind woman named Balila makes a living selling water. She regularly brings water to the homes of the better-off and sells it to them. The film follows Balila’s life as it might unfold over the course of a single day.

January 12, 1987, 11 a.m., Mutlangen, Baden-Württemberg. One month after a missile alarm drill by US troops, 20 judges demonstrate in temperatures of minus 20 degrees Celsius against the stationing of US Pershing II missiles in the Federal Republic of Germany.

An investigation into the causes of racial tensions in New York City. Participants express their feelings in matters of race, under the direction and guidance of two prominent therapists.

The documentary is about an old man from Yerevan who paints on garages, transforming rusty metal walls into vivid landscapes and leaving a subtle yet unforgettable mark on the city.

Focuses on the struggle of the Cambodian people to regain and rebuild their nation through education and industrialisation. Features harrowing images of death and starvation, and footage of victims recounting their experience of life under Pol Pot's regime. Scenes of towering temples and traditional dancing are contrasted to the training of enemy soldiers, armed with US weapons, and scenes of warfare. At a celebration to mark the 60th Anniversary of the Soviet Union, the Cambodian leader voices his gratitude to the Communist Party and the Soviet people, who are shown teaching technological and construction skills to their Cambodian comrades. Includes foreign newsreel footage.

The director's personal account of a year at Anholt, where he settled down and lived alone in a house: It is my attempt to glimpse an origin and heritage that we all have within us, and on the understanding of which our continued existence depends. It is an investigation of an existence where it is possible to live in an agreement with nature, which makes death present without it becoming frightening, but on the contrary the very prerequisite for a life in peace, security and harmony.

The spotlight is shone upon the Goler family when a 14-year-old female member of the family flees the family and reports her lifetime of abuse. The Goler family lived together in two dilapidated shack shacks in a remote wooded area on South Mountain, located south of the community of White Rock, outside the town of Wolfville. Their ancestors occupied the area since at least the mid-1800s and due to their isolation, this caused generations upon generations of incest. Charles and Stella Goler, the patriarch and matriarch of the family, lived together with their five sons and grandchildren in the shack.

Short film from the project “With Music Inside” in 13 chapters, of the musical ingenuity of the inhabitants of Mexico City: traveling troubadours, rockers, bohemian romantics, danzoneros, mariachis.

A foray through the Sorbian customs of central Lusatia, made in the GDR. This classic work of documentary filmmaking covers the course of a year, in the process elaborating on village architecture, furniture, costumes, handicrafts, legends and oral traditions, as well as significant customs such as Zapust and the gift giving child.

Follows the search and use of solar, wind and geothermal energy in the Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.

The historic RAC Rally - one of the most prestigious events in world rallying, and often one of the most competitive and unpredictable. Relive the incredible drama of the 1983 Lombard RAC Rally, as legendary drivers do battle on British special stages in the final round of the World Rally Championship. Follow the action from airfields, safari parks and famous racetracks to the forests of Yorkshire and Wales in this fascinating look back at five days of the incredibly challenging rally competition.

Unreleased recordings, made to soldiers trained by the US in the mountains of Honduras, to confront the revolution in Nicaragua. Here you can see the thinking that was implanted in these soldiers.

Filming of this documentary began in 1987 and ended in 1989. As archival materials and newsreels were inaccessible, the authors of the film appealed to the Holodomor witnesses through the press. Their stories became the basis of the documentary. Stalin’s supporters tried to prevent the authors from making the film, and it was forgotten for a long time. Only in 2005 the film 33rd. Witnesses’ Testimonies was re-filmed from the newsreels of 1989 version and the memoirs of Mykola Loktionov-Stezenko himself. At his anniversary party at the Cinema House on February 16, 2009, the author called this documentary a testimony to his personal tragedy: his parents died of the Holodomor of 1932–33. For the film 33rd. Witnesses’ Testimonies Mykola Loktionov-Stezenko was awarded the Order of Merit of the III degree.

The rise of the Roman Empire towards world power is reconstructed with the help of cartographies and re-enactments. It also shows where traces of ancient Rome can still be found today.

A look at Cypress Gardens, Florida's first theme park.

Portrait of an outstanding Polish athlete - Waldemar Marszałek.

Love and War is a documentary film about the relationships between Icelandic women and foreign soldiers stationed in Iceland during World War II. Directed by Anna Björnsdóttir, the film is based on research by Inga Dóra Björnsdóttir, a Social Anthropologist, and contains color footage shot in Iceland during the war by an American army photographer, Samuel Kadorian. The film consist of interviews with Icelandic women living in Minnesota, Colorado, California, Virgina and Iceland.

Short by Nancy Buchanan.

A love letter to the city from Chicago native and filmmaker Warren E. Thompson. It is a continuing effort to record some of the events, characteristics, problems and glories of Chicago. Footage includes architecture, sculpture, housing, Lake Michigan, Chinatown, parades, Maxwell Street Market, and the people of Chicago. Thompson captures life and culture from the most affluent to the poverty stricken.

Restricted area in the middle of Lower Austria's Waldviertel region: Allensteig military training area: on the map, a patch mostly shaded in red. The little-known history of this landscape of ruins begins in 1938, when, in the wake of the annexation by Hitler's Germany, the area was declared a military training ground. As a result, more than 40 villages were resettled between 1938 and 1942.

Behind the scenes at the world-renowned zoo.

"The artist's statement, in his studio, where he traces the different phases of his work. Newton Cavalcanti speaks of his foray into painting, his concern with subtleties and color variations, the variety of themes he addresses and the vehicles he uses. is valid to manifest your art."

The advantages and disadvantages of adolescence in a poor urban neighborhood are examined in a series of candid interviews on the daily lives of Black and Hispanic teenagers, primarily girls.

An aging highlander from the village of Kremna, on Tara mountain, heads for Belgrade accompanied by a ninety-three year old war veteran. He wants to find out what happened to his request for the reconstruction of his water mill, which is 300 years old and was destroyed in a storm a while ago. The two old men wisely and calmly accept their losses.

This film was shot in summer 1979. The repeated ritual of Tutuguri that Tranquilino the saweame sang and danced six times in a short, strictly accurate duration. Secret words from which only emerge vowels, dance that builds a sacred space between the four cardinal points of a cross, a black and pagan sign. A native solar rite, prior to the Spanish conquest. The assembly here builds in a single plane the two poles of real time and an expanded space-time, from dual material: Tutuguri and Carreras.

A compilation of the Borghesia video clips (So Young, The Wild Bunch, He, Too Much Tension, Cindy, A.R., ZMR), issued in 1985 as the first video cassette by the FV Label. These are short, almost 'film-like' stories focused primarily on the iconography of the body in urban surroundings. One of the clips presents a pioneer use of computer graphics.

A short film focusing on the lives and problems of the elderly in Poland circa 1986.

Documentary about rising popularity in Klan activity.

First staged in Krakow and the Gdansk shipyards in 1980, where Poland’s Solidarity movement was born, and here performed at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord in Paris, Wielopole, Wielopole by the theater company Cricot 2 merges themes of Christ’s Passion and fascism with the Polish director Tadeuz Kantor’s own childhood memories.

Hamburg, May 1945, English troops occupy the city. The gates of the concentration camps open. The Germans speak of collapse and take care of everyday life. Only a few feel liberated and think of a new beginning. At the end there is a poem by Ingeborg Bachmann: We'll end the rut, otherwise the end will be spoiled.

Regarding the community in action proposal of the Popular Action Party inspired by Ayni and Minka, entities that come from the Inca Empire.

The story of the 1988-89 Pittsburgh Penguins

Baby cougars and how they grow up.

A unique recording of a therapy session conducted by Wojciech Eichelberger at the Psychoeducation Laboratory, the first Polish institution of psychotherapy, training and coaching established in 1978. The film includes recordings of fragments of group activities and statements of the participants.

The filmmakers find the Abruzzo National Park to be the most suitable place in Europe to film the wild fox, one of the most elusive and fearful animals in the forest, with its proverbial cunning that allows it to escape all the traps set by man. For five months, the documentary filmmaker and his assistants live in these forests, observing the landscape and its inhabitants: deer, bears, wolves, wild boars, and roe deer. They manage to gain the trust of a female fox, accompanying her, waiting for her, losing her, and finding her again.

The story of physicist Richard Feynman's fascination with - and efforts to visit - a remote country in the center of Asia, called Tannu Tuva, "the land where the reindeer meets the camel".

The film presents a series of portraits of women working in traditional male jobs in the transport industry: the SNCF, the RATP, Air France and Air Inter, and at Paris airports. Each woman talks about her professional choice, her training, what responsibilities she holds, where she fits within the company, and her work relationships. They all underline the need to be organised to manage personal and professional lives, and the growing number of women who choose these jobs. They are on the whole positive and their views often inspiring.

Documentary about women's experiences of labour, in factories, mines and dockyards, in the USA during the second World War and how it affected their work and career aspirations once they were encouraged to give up such employment in peacetime.

When in 1776 the United States of America broke away from Britain, a country without a written constitution, with an established Church and an unelected House of Lords, Thomas Paine, an artisan from Thetford in Norfolk, England, made a call for freedom that is still reverberating around the world today.

This is the most complete evocation of my raison d'etre—at least my avowed raison d'etre as a filmmaker. The star of the film is Claudia Wilbourn who you may have seen on TV. She is one of the founding mothers and champions of Women's Body Building. She is a sculptor and writer and felt as I did that the effect of body building when filmed nude as I did makes it look in frequent sections like antique Greek sculpture. The effect of filming a body building performance repetitively is to create a dance of the body. —Gutman

A single working day of the Mendez family is meticulously accompanied and recorded by the camera in this reportage.

Introduction to your Casio Tone Bank Keyboard

In his darkened apartment the poet, translator, and lyricist discusses his work and his "art of being alone". In the words of Tanikawa: "If there is love, there is nothing more to say...".

1980: the repression is in full swing in Haiti. A decree is going to ban all independent speaking and all manifestation of thought. Artists, writers, journalists, democrats all pay the price. A radio station, Haiti Inter, and its journalists are at the center of the storm. This film reconstructs a typical broadcast of Haiti Inter in the 1980s.

The history of reforestation that took place in the mid-19th century, on the top of Tijuca. With the clearing of the primitive forest to plant coffee plantations, the springs in the region dried up and affected the water supply of the city of Rio de Janeiro. Correcting the ecological imbalance, Emperor Pedro II expropriated the local farms and appointed Manuel Gomes Archer for the task.

A secretly filmed account of sessions at Osho Rajneesh's ashram in Pune, India.

A compilation of violent and graphic video and news footage.

Words of the poet Mahmoud Darwish float through this film: “Tell me. Perhaps I will remember my home whose perfume is only on my lips.” A 17-year-old Palestinian introduces herself: Aida, the returning one. When her father was killed in battle, her mother was already dead, killed by a bomb. When she was eight, she was sent to a PLO orphanage in Beirut, then to an orphanage in Damascus, then to an orphanage in Tunis. Here she takes care of new orphans. The portrait of a girl expands: countless children who will forget their homeland and origin. There is nothing but war left in their drawings. The PLO had assigned its collaborator Marwan Salamah to study cinematography at Babelsberg. Here, he is also the director. In 1985, “Aida” won the Prize of the World Federation of Democratic Youth in Leipzig.

Short film about swimming.

Documentary about the longest running industrial dispute in South Africa between British Tyre and Rubber's BTR Sarmcol and their black employees, represented by their union the MAWU of which two shop stewards, Simon Ngubane and Phineas Sibeya, are interviewed.