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A documentary on female prostitution featuring scenes with six different prostitutes, a male member of the vice squad, and Margo St. James. Made with an all-female crew.

A film made for the staff of the (then) British Rail featuring mainly Sir Peter Parker explaining to staff how, as the new Chairman, he intended to take the industry forward.

Shot in the Kosovar village of Nevokaze, it depicts the traditional lifestyle of an Albanian family numbering 117 members, all living under one roof and in great harmony. One of the finest examples of ethnographic film to come from this region, it has been called a ‘spiritual portrait of the nation’.

"Images, voices, and attitudes of Black Residents of New Haven" (Monaco, How to Read A Film: Revised Edition, 1981)

Beginning in 1900 and continuing over the next thirty years, Edward Sheriff Curtis, or the “Shadow Catcher” as he was later called by some of the tribes, took over 40,000 images and recorded rare ethnographic information from over eighty First American tribal groups, ranging from the Eskimo or Inuit people of the far north to the Hopi people of the Southwest. He captured the likeness of many important and well-known aboriginal people of that time, including Geronimo, Chief Joseph, Red Cloud, Medicine Crow and others.

A man with a missing eye witnesses, or imagines, others entering and/or leaving the rocky rubble he inhibits.

Portrait of the composer, Peter Maxwell Davies, set in the context of the islands of Orkney. George Mackay Brown is featured reading his own verse and there are quotations from the works of Edwin Muir, Robert Rendell and the ancient Orkneyinga Saga. Extracts from the composer's works include pieces from Ave Maria Stella, O Magnum Mysterium and the final scene from his opera The Martyrdom of Saint Magnus.

Documentary film.

Artist John Smith tells stories about tower block life, editing in bold, unconventional fashion, cutting into the material and highlighting the components and conventions of the film form - yet an intimate portrait of the block's inhabitants still emerges.

Shot in 1974 by Danny Lyon and a single audio person, in twenty days in Santa Marta Colombia. The film shows the daily rhythms of a gang of boys who live on the city’s streets. Their survival skills and errant lifestyles are in evidence as they beg for scraps to eat, wheel and deal with storekeepers and street vendors, and play together.

Striking workers in one Chicago unemployment compensation office talk about working conditions that led to a walkout in July, 1975. Workers and claimants suggest possible solutions to the problems of understaffing and compulsory overtime. This tape was used to organize other offices to support the strike.

Some activities of Christian B.

A naked hustler tells his story nonstop. A real wonder-hunk.

This Mexican documentary explores the meaning and aftermath of the brief Marxist interlude during which Salvador Allende governed Chile. It was the Mexican film crew's good fortune that the cameras they worked with bore the magical number "13," which identified them incorrectly as belonging to the state-run television under the new dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. This mistaken identity enabled them to go places and interview people with great freedom, and they took complete advantage of it. The title of the documentary is a word-play satirizing the Chilean State Motto: Por la Razon or por la Fuerza (By Reason or By Force).

Art film part of the REWIND + PLAY, An Anthology of Early British Video Art box-set.

Commercial and technical developments on British Rail: new freight loads, air conditioned carriages, an ultrasonic test-train for checking the permanent way, a lecture train, and a new station for motorists - all part of the railway scene in the 1970's.

Aspects of the precision and drama of locomotive manufacture, composed to form a lively pattern in picture and sound.

A short in time and significant in content segment of a child's mental experiences with no editing. The camera's attention is focused on the boy's face, watching a puppet theater performance invisible to the viewer.

Made as part of the compaign against the Industrial Relations Bill. A trade unionist talks about the crisis he sees in the working classes. The importance of basic trade union practice and the need to defend the right to have independent trade unions is illustrated by shop stewards.

This film is a playful depiction of the festivities around the performance If All Trains of the World by Alex Mlynárčik on June 12, 1971. Deň radosti shows Hanák using the 'inter-genre' style of documentary which made his feature film Obrazy stareho sveta (1971) a masterpiece. Still photography, live action, interviews, old etchings and archive footage of old train journeys are skilfully blended to create a sympathetic and humorous portrait of the romance of an old steam train and the joy of artists and the general public in participating in this children's game for adults. Once again, the avant-garde is imaginatively used to eulogise over traditional values and the past. Deň radosti is important not just for the considerable pleasure it brings; it is the first of a series of films in which artists use film to document happenings. (http://www.ce-review.org/kinoeye/kinoeye3old.html)

The film records the commemorative tour of the ten years of the career of the Bahia singers Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Maria Bethânia and Gal Costa, who formed the group with the name of Doces Bárbaros (Sweet Barbarians), at the suggestion of Bethânia. Conceived to present the shows of the live album that would be released (Doces Bárbaros - Live), the documentary changed of tone when registering the arrest and judgment of Gilberto Gil and of a companion by possession of drugs. Gil was forced to go to a detox clinic, and only went out to participate in the programmed shows.

Early video-installation by Dalibor Martinis, where the artist turns the TV set into a still life and info news into "circulus vitiosus".

Documentary suggesting the possibility of another gunman involved in the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.

This feature-length documentary explores the origins and history of Noh theater in Japan. Noh theater is an ancient Japanese classical art-form: austere and highly mythological. For a very long time, it was only performed before aristocrats and the Imperial court. An evening of Noh drama will invariably include a tale of exile, a tale of tragic love, and a ghost story. Often the plays will contain all three. Like many other classical Japanese art-forms, even the stage scenery in Noh is sharply circumscribed and defined; a bridge, a platform and a pine tree must somewhere be in evidence. While the plays may last as long as in more accessible forms of theater, the dialogue in Noh plays is very slim. The stories move slowly and elegantly to their (usually tragic) conclusions, and are enacted with stunning elegance by actors who often wear masks.

A historical production by Stanford University and the History Office of the NASA Ames Research Center presented in Blu-ray 3D Video and features footage from the 1980's NASA Viking 1 & 2 Missions to Mars. The soundtrack was created at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) at Stanford under the direction of John Chowning. This disc contains bonus features including a 15 minute interview with John Chowning, William Schottstaedt and Michael McNabb.

A report on the Aguaruna communities (Seasmi-Japaimi) and their confrontation with Western culture, represented by settlers and oil companies. Through a series of reports, the opinions of migrants from other regions about the Aguaruna are explored. Simultaneously, the natives are observed in some of their daily activities: hunting, fishing, building houses, and logging.

The film tells about the mechanization of wood harvesting.

A contribution from the documentary film cycle about the invention and development of certain work techniques, production processes and materials.

A film from the documentary series "On Space Exploration Issues."

Tierra y Libertad is the name of a united front of former Mexican peasants gathered on the outskirts of the city of Monterrey, in the industrial north of Mexico, who are occupying urban land and building their own type of society there.

A short film by Peter Bundy

Reviews the inner sanctum of a young man's world of dual sex identities.

"The traditional rites of courtship and marriage simply and beautifully evoked in this lyrical film". Linda Rivera was born and raised in New York City. In the heart of the Lower East Side, between the ages of fifteen and seventeen, she studied theatre and film at the Henry Street Settlement's Movie Club.

Reviews holidays that have come to America from origins all over the world. Shows the many different holidays celebrated by Americans, including Mexican and Puerto Rican Christmas celebrations.

The film shows a single-row beet harvester in action during the sugar beet harvest. The topping of the beets is shown at normal speed. The test conditions used are explained.

An interviewer (off-camera) asks children between the ages of seven and ten about various topics.

Short Film, On display at Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya; alongside Avenue Boulevard de l'Opéra.

A Chinese Farm Wife gives us a peek into the life of Mrs. Li, a Taiwanese woman whose husband is a salaried factory worker. Along with the help of her eldest daughter and her neighbors, Mrs. Li runs their 3-acre farm, cultivating crops of tobacco and rice. She also supervises the children's education and manages the household, and is a full participant in community activities.

U.E. Wells follows an organizing drive by the United Electrical Workers Union at the Wells Foundry in Chicago. The multi-ethnic work force of Polish, Arab, Jewish, Hispanic and African American men and women unite together despite the company's efforts to use race as a wedge to divide them.

A glimpse into the final years of Israel's first Prime Minister's life, alongside his historical colleagues, friends, and family.

Jonas Mekas visit. Harry comes by before Ricky visit. 1. 12 p.m. April 15th -- Jonas dares to come by but won't talk. I tape him not with set up -- (as I planned) but with camera in my arms I sneak a few shots. 2. Ricky visit RED 1.

Documentary about a JNA military parade.

Dance movie by Maja Bezjak.

Homophobic educational film about sexual abuse.

Through eloquent portrayals of four different life experiences — birth, aging, marriage and the death of a parent — Home addresses how the dissolution of the nuclear family and the increasing control of daily life by institutions have affected the individual. The subjects of this verité documentary include a ninety-four year-old woman in a nursing home and a young man caring for his terminally ill mother at home.

A documentary about the Baul singers in rural West Bengal.

An old Bolivian man nears the end of his life. He has property and status, but not contentment. Believing himself posessed by evil spirits, he opens his heart to reveal his anguish. His personal tragedy brings us close to every man's confrontation with the unknown, old age, and death.

Because of work commitments and the influence of Christian Missions, traditional mourning ceremonies among the Tiwi people of Melville Island were becoming rare at the time of making this film (1974). The full, elaborate ceremony, called the Pukumani ceremony, lasted several days and involved large numbers of people in ritual roles. It was performed here with full awareness that this may be one of the last times such a ceremony would be staged in the traditional way. The ceremony was prepared by the Mangatopi family of Snake Bay after the death of a 35-year old family member killed by his wife. The dead man’s father, Geoffrey Mangatopi, and his family requested this film to be made as a public record of a disappearing tradition. Unique to the Tiwi people of Melville and Bathurst islands, the Pukumani ceremony was not only performed to safe-guard the passage of the dead person into the spirit world, but to re-affirm kinship relationships and traditional Tiwi culture.

The documentary tells the story of the Volksmarinedivision, which was formed by revolting sailors stationed in Berlin during the November Revolution. Starting with the November Revolution itself and the founding of the Volksmarinedivision, the main focus is on the political developments surrounding it and its involvement in the battles for the Berlin City Palace at Christmas 1918 and the unrest in January and March 1919, during which the Volksmarinedivision was smashed by the Freikorps and its members persecuted. Due to its proximity to the Spartacus League and the KPD, which had just been founded at the time, the Volksmarinedivision was an important point of reference for GDR historical politics and the patron saint of the GDR's Volksmarine.

Toni, Randi and Marie is a unique cinéma-vérité trilogy about the everyday lives of the eponymous female impersonator cabaret star, trans hustler, and female sex worker. This honest and intimate film depicts the underbelly of the Expo-Olympics metropolis of Montreal.

A ship full of scientists and psychics travels to the Bermuda Triangle to try to document the strange goings-on that are reported there.