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On the careful stewardship of national culture and the preservation of folk traditions in the fields of applied and musical arts in Chuvashia.

This documentary narrates the causes and revolutionary process in Central America, primarily in Nicaragua and El Salvador. Produced in 1985, it comes from the Radio Venceremos communication system, the media outlet of the Salvadoran insurgency during the civil war (1980-1992).

This documentary explores challenges associated with a shortage of brides among the reindeer herding tribes of the Far North in the USSR.

Film by Franca Donda about Inés María Marcano.

Depending on your point of view, George Best is either the carefree hedonist who played football for the love of it, and gleefully enjoyed the fringe benefits (booze 'n' birds) which came with the territory, or he is the sad, shambolic, wife-beating alcoholic who frittered away his God-given gifts. Both perspectives are given a full airing in Best Intentions, an old Ulster TV documentary which has been re-released on video to coincide with Best, the recent biopic starring John Lynch as George Best.

Documentary film about the suffering of Turkish girls and women due to patriarchal family structures.

Short educational film about work.

The film is a testimony of one of the few Hungarians who survived the concentration camps in Germany during the Second World War. Ferenc Göndör's story takes place when he was of school age. As a Jew, he was not allowed to go to school in the same way as his peers. He had to practice pointless and hard work during some lessons. He was not allowed in to his hairdresser, to whom he had been going for many years: "Forbidden to dogs and Jews".

In the profile realized by Elina Kivihalme, the front figure of Popeda, Pate Mustajärvi, shares his thoughts on being a musician and a father, among other topics. The documentary also features numerous key figures of Manserock, from Popeda musicians to Epe Helenius, as well as iconic locations from Poko Records to the Leena and Pekka restaurant, known as the "lobby bar" for Tampere bands.

The 38th GRAND MATCH of the Royal Caledonian Curling Club held on the frozen Lake of Menteith in 1979.

Photographer and documentary film director Schadt follows in the footsteps of his role model Robert Frank. The important photographer and director traveled through the United States in the mid-1950s and recorded his photographic impressions of this trip in the photo book "The Americans". Schadt visits some of the places where Frank had photographed 30 years earlier, talks to the people living there and interviews Frank himself.

Round 9 of the 1989 World Rally Championship took place in Finland accompanied by a torrential downpour of rain which added the possibility of aquaplaning to its already notorious reputation for not being one of the more popular rally courses. Recognised as a cut and thrust affair where results are often decided by seconds rather than minutes, the 1000 Lakes lived up to its reputation as a tough and demanding drive and on top of the treacherous weather conditions caused by the heavy rain, cars were decimated by mechanical failure and driver error over the 1,447 km course.

This film tells the story of the difficult transition from 36 years of military rule to a civilian president in Guatemala in 1986. It focuses on the pressing issues of continuing military power, land and human rights issues.

This multi-faceted film, photographed in both 1969 and in Paris in 1982, illustrates an anthropologist's actual fieldwork methods and personal relationships among the Baruya, and provides an in-depth view of the Baruya's traditional salt-based economic system. The film follows Dr. Godelier as he explores the complexities of food production and the effects of new technologies. He comments: "I have to find and bring together the different pieces of Baruya culture... That's my job, to find the story."

Documentary about Brazilian silent film "João da Mata"

A documentary short examining the Sinai Peninsula following the withdrawal of Israeli forces in the early 1980s.

Bold, upbeat, and powerful, this 28-minute video spotlights eleven suburban women, ranging in age from 25 to 67, who speak easily and frankly about their families, friends, and loves. Out in Suburbia is perfect for raising lesbian issues and consciousness for the first time.

Biographical documentary of Indian revolutionary Chandrashekhar Azad

A mock trial, featuring 5 international judges, to evaluate whether Austrian president and former U.N. secretary-general Kurt Waldheim should be tried as a war criminal.

A frightening portrait of two years in the hell of El Salvador's civil war. The death squads...CIA intrigues at the Ramada Inn...rouge military officers...bombing civilians to save them and a press corps tucked away in the capital, 3 hours away from the war.

In this revolutionary video you'll see the craft of picking pin tumbler, wafer, tubular cylinder and padlocks; quick methods for beating the most popular locks in the U.S.; and opening safes via drilling, burning bars, thermite and the European explosive method. For academic study only.

The film begins New Year's Eve 1986 at a funeral. The same day the old folks sitting municipality's oldest inhabitants - 103-year-old Elise Olsson - not knowing what day it is. The other old people see the annual reportage from the royal family. At the local dance hall celebrated midnight with the national anthem, and the home of Baron Hans pair and Madeleine Ramels manor held traditional speech before the new year.

John Bunion (J. B.) Murray (1908-1988) was a farmer who lived in rural Glascock County, Georgia, near the community of Mitchel. When he was approximately seventy years of age, believing he had experienced a vision from God, he began writing a non discursive script on adding machine tape, wall board, and stationery. He described it as "the language of the Holy Spirit, direct from God" and interpreted it using a bottle of water as a focusing device. In the last ten years of his life he made over a thousand paintings, introducing the script into fields of color and adding figures that represent "the evil people; the ones that are dry tongued, the one's that don't know God". Murray's works are exhibited throughout the world.

The rise of gold from the wreck of the cruiser Edinburgh, which was sunk during the war, was shot in 1942 by German submarines in the Kola Bay. Documentary uses the memories of Soviet officer SG Zinoviev, who was heading for London aboard the cruiser Edinburgh.

For a long time the KMT government has held a monopoly over Taiwan’s TV channels, using the lack of channel bandwidth as an excuse for its stranglehold. During the build-up to the elections at the end of 1989, Green Team set up a satellite transmission channel on its own, poking a hole in the KMT’s argument.

14 year old Orsi Szentesi gets into art school. Her white-collar parents rarely see her. Orsi and her ten year old brother visit a wealthy countryside family during the summer break. She uses her art to keep a distance from everyone else, painting landscapes even as she's falling in love for the first time.

The Ultimate Surfing Film - by Scott Dittrich and his network of cameramen around the world. Six action-packed stories that capture the essence of the surfing experience. Brilliantly photographed and edited, Gone Surfin' shows perfect waves in exotic lands like Fiji, Tahiti and Baja California, explosive power surfing on the North Shore of Oahu, hotdogging in California and Florida, winter surfing in New England, snowboarding in Colorado, radical sailboarding in the largest waves ever ridden, bodysurfing as never seen before, and some of the most insane skateboarding ever. Set to a blazing soundtrack from Virgin Records, Gone Surfin' is truely the Ultimate surfing Film!!

Documentary about the small city of Rheinsberg, once the summer residence of Prussian princes. Average working class people comment on the history of this special place.

A symphony of found footage scenes, each shot loosely connected to the one before.

The story of the 1946 Aboriginal Pastoral Workers' Strike. Eight hundred aboriginal station workers walked off sheep stations in the north west of Western Australia, marking the beginning of a strike which lasted more than three years. The strike was more than a demand for better wages and conditions, it was a struggle for basic human rights.

Documentary about a collaboration between avant garde filmmaker David Rimmer and choreographer Paulo Ross.

This follow-up to Jean Kilbourne's award-winning 1979 documentary, KILLING US SOFTLY, further probes the harmful effects of stereotypical and sexist images in advertising. Kilbourne conducts a lecture within the film, displaying still images of women, men, children, and violent crime via a slide projector. By emphasizing the dehumanization of women by television's body-image obsession, she teaches viewers how America is taught to categorize women primarily as sex objects.

In this video, the artist tries to overcome the effects of distance, and reflects on geography represented in exile due to war, and on the psychological distance represented in each one’s approach to her womanhood. The video beautifully weaves personal images and audio recordings of a very intimate nature, binding the personal with the political. Reading aloud from letters sent by her mother in Beirut, Hatoum creates a visual montage reflecting her feelings of separation and isolation from her Palestinian family. The personal and political are inextricably bound in a narrative that explores personal and family identity against a backdrop of traumatic social rupture, exile and displacement.

Documentary on the impact of the monopoly in the milk business on small farmers in Peru

The work of Jean Piaget has become the foundation of current developmental psychology and the basis for changes in educational practice. David Elkind, author of The Hurried Child and Miseducation, and a student of Jean Piaget, explores the roots of Piaget’s work and outlines important vocabulary and concepts that structure much of the study of child development. Using both archival film of Dr. Piaget and newly shot sequences of Dr. Elkind conducting interviews with children of varying ages, this film presents an overview of Piaget’s developmental theory, its scope and content.

Explores the tension between a Japanese theatrical mask-maker and the mask itself.

As a child, secrets were hidden in the place where my father worked. Fabrics, eyelets, screws, nails, hand tools... My father was a wallpaperer. Later, as an adult, I was fascinated by the traces of his work, which still make the room seem like a world of its own. In it, Eugen Schaz Jr., now 84 years old, tinkers away at realizing his ideas...

Educational film on various aspects about anorectal disorders.

Agnetha Fältskog performs six songs and talks about herself.

The penultimate round of the 1989 World Rally Championship proved to be a battleground for the Toyota Celica GT-Fours piloted by Juha Kankkunen, Carlos Sainz and Patrick Snyers and the new 16 valve Lancia Delta Integrales of Miki Biasion, Alex Fiorio and Didier Auriol.

Looking back at the 1983 World Rally Championship season the quality of the field and the array of stunning cars is simply breathtaking. Besides defending champ Walter Röhrl and eventual victor Hannu Mikkola, there were no fewer than six past or future champions in the field: Stig Blomqvist, Markku Alen, Ari Vatanen, Timo Salonen, Miki Biasion, Björn Waldegård and Juha Kankkunen. With the introduction of the Lancia 037 and Audi Quattro A1 in the early 1980s, World Rallying had entered the supercar age and the big money attracted big name drivers and made for sensational showdowns on gravel, ice, tarmac and snow. With Audi and Lancia throwing the kitchen sink at their factory efforts the battle between the German and Italian rallying giants dominated the whole season and the furious back and forth battle went all the way to the wire.

Portrait of the new face that the center of Santiago acquired during the 80s. The Ahumada walk along with the social and survival demonstrations that converge there. The coexistence of street vendors, preachers, executives, unemployed people from the show who set up an "office" to engage in new jobs, alternates with flippers, topless and cafes that forever changed the heart of the city.

Looks at Southall, one of the major Asians centres in Britain, and shows how this community organised to resist fascist attacks from 1976 to 1981. Southall's militancy goes back to the community organisations of the 1950's which were created to help black workers combat racism at the workplace and deal with discrimination in the community. As racism increased, the community has fashioned and forged new weapons of struggle.

Contrasting environments, in and outside.

Filmed ten years after the flood, Buffalo Creek Revisited looks at the second disaster on Buffalo Creek, in which the survivors’ efforts to rebuild the communities shattered by the flood are thwarted by government insensitivity and a century-old pattern of corporate control of the region’s land and resources. Through the statements of survivors, planners, politicians, psychologists, and community activists, the film explores the psychology of disaster, the importance of community, and the paradox of a poor people living in a rich land.

This is an intimate account, using film and Sibelius's music and words, of a great artist's struggle with his medium, with the world and with himself. The films set out also to try and free Sibelius's reputation from some of the unnecessary encrustations of history by looking at the composer's own declared intentions, so poetically expressed, which are earning the increasing attention and respect of composers today.

Erika Blanc self-reflectively narrates her descent into Italian genre cinema while she hyperbolically playacts in the woods.

"Cinema Verite" with existential metaphorism. 8mm.

An edited film composed of excerpts from television recordings that, for various reasons, did not make it on the air.

LaserDisc released in 1984 that features cute kittens and puppies.

A BBC documentary about medical volunteers and their patients at the Gaza Hospital in West Beirut in the aftermath of the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the siege and bombardment of West Beirut, home to the PLO and the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Chatila. The filming took place in the days immediately before the infamous Sabra-Chatila massacre, carried out by Lebanese Phalangist troops inside an area under Israeli military control.

Documentary about the AvtoVAZ automobile plant, everyday work and development of new 2107 and 2108 models.

This evocative documentary examines the plight of the ranchers of Nevada and California, who find their grazing areas increasingly threatened by many groups (even environmentalists) competing for use of the same public lands on which these ranchers depend. With its graceful images and emphasis on community and continuity, A Cowhand's Song makes a strong case for the preservation of a traditional way of life.