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A short documentary about Dolly Freed, the author of the cult classic novel Possum Living.

A trip on the Berlin subway line 1.

The film is a reflection on the paths of nuclear energy development in the country and the peaceful use of atomic energy.

Film created with one 30 meters role of Agfa gewert material and 30m of blank. Basic animation few frames shots. Scratched emulsion and coloured after process of film development. Multichannel audio mix from different commercials created with Tascam cassete recorder.

Documentary short film. It is a portrait of a day in the life of the center of a big city. What Lima was like more than 30 years ago, we are sure will allow us to get to know it, respect it, love it and take care of it much more.

Documentary that refers us to one of the most important characters in Peruvian culture: José Carlos Mariátegui. The figure of the Peruvian intellectual and politician is remembered and reconstructed by those who were part of his most intimate circle of friends and collaborators.

A documentary about the Icelandic sculptor, Sigurjón Ólafsson. Shot between 1978-1984, the film shows Mr. Ólafsson making a portrait in clay of the late president of Iceland, Dr. Kristján Eldjárn. The proces is shown almost from the beginning until the sculpture has been moulded into bronze. The film also deals with some of Ólafsson's other work and a visit is paid to the artists's place of birth, Eyrarbakki, a small village on the south west coast of Iceland.

Poisonous snakes are among the most deadly feared, yet fascinating creatures on earth. They strike their prey with pin-point precision, injecting lethal doses of poison. Now, for the first time on video, you can take an inside look at the exciting world of these intriguing reptiles. Witness lightening quick strikes and live capture scenes of America's most deadly snakes, the Rattler, Water Moccasin and the Coral Snakes. Join host and expert snake handler Bob Popplewell as he separates myth from reality!

In isolated mountain hamlets in Nigeria’s Jos Plateau the Ngas have traditionally observed the movements of the moon in the night sky. The moon is a key symbol in Ngas cosmology, believed to regulate the rhythm of all life. The film traces the moon’s influence on Ngas work and thought during a single growing season. The documentary tells the story form the point of view of a single traditional Ngas bard.

Featuring interviews with five young career people who have disabilities, director Sharon Greytak questions the general public's attitudes toward physical disability and our perceptions of the disabled as somehow either weaker or more courageous than the non-disabled.

City Edition immerses us in a lived experience of the fourth estate, beginning with the print-run and purchase of a single issue of the New York Times; a rapid found-footage montage of political happenings, wars, sports, celebrity, and natural disasters ensues—the whole world in bits and pieces. These disparate scenes are woven in and out of one another as though rendering visually the dissonance of reading the folded pages of a newspaper as a singular thread of events.

During a lunch Donato D’Ambrosio, a former militant, talks about his memories, his delusions and his hopes.

A dramatised documentary based on the experiences of a group of young Maoir women in New Zealand. The film tells the story of four street kids' encounters with various government departments, institutions and figures of authority. these include Social Welfare, Labour, Justice, Education, Police and parents. The film was shot on location in Wellington, New Zealand, but the social issues it raises are common to any big city.

Documentary portrait of Berlin the 1920s.

Belém, northern Brazil; a tourist and a beggar meet in Ver-O-Peso market, a culturally rich site in Amazon.

The film, shot in 1979, but allowed to be shown only 10 years later, talks about the traditional hero of Soviet propaganda. It consists of two parallel plots. The first is the classic "newsreel" about the hero of labor, a noble weaver Golubeva. Golubev at the machines, Golubev on the podium. The second line of the film is the life of the Golubeva family. More precisely, the life of her husband and son. Mom is not at home.

An experimental documentary portrait of author J.G. Ballard. Ballard speaks about his life and work, and submits to a lengthy personality questionnaire; these sections are intercut with surrealist scenes inspired by Ballard's fiction, centering on a downed pilot wandering through various landscapes.

Towards the end of the 1970s, when VHS entered the market and video stores were springing up in West Germany, the conquest of the living room began. In 1984, ZDF conducted research into the extent to which brutal films had an influence on children and young people and the extent to which censorship authorities, schools and parents had to counteract this.

My mother lights 80 candles and becomes visible. When I set to work, it turned into an intense confrontation between mother and son. I finally learned the unvarnished story of my mother's life and began to understand why we both became who we are. I interwove the film image with two layers of sound: the Suite in C minor for violoncello, Bach, and dialogical texts spoken by mother and son, based on our conversations and describing how she gave birth to her seven children during the years of Hitler's fascism. I will continue to work on my mother's biography.

On April 20, 1945, twenty Jewish children were hanged at the Hamburg school on Bullenhuser Damm. SS doctor Heißmeier had previously conducted "medical" experiments on the children. To conceal this crime from the advancing British forces, the SS, under the command of Obersturmführer Arnold Strippel, killed the children, two prisoner nurses, two prisoner doctors, and 24 Soviet prisoners of war. One of the children's murderers, Arnold Strippel, who now lives in Frankfurt, has been under investigation by the Hamburg public prosecutor's office since 1979, but so far without any results. The film documents the children's story through eyewitness accounts. It conveys impressions of Nazi propaganda through "Die Deutsche Wochenschau" (The German Weekly Newsreel) and shows the dangers of neo-fascism in the Federal Republic of Germany. In April 1980, a few days after a memorial service for the children, neo-Nazis planted a bomb in the school on Bullenhuser Damm...

Moved by the growing desperation of thousands of laid-off steel workers, a group of ministers in Pittsburgh begins to confront the city's government and powerful corporations. Their passionate, controversial and unorthodox actions lead to profound soul-searching, Church rejection and imprisonment.

Perpetual motion is the central theme of this video composition in which Bielický connects various physical and mechanical movements in several layers. It is also the first video in which his characteristic style of video collage is fully established.

In a tragic example of life imitating art, Babenco returned to São Paolo to shoot this prologue to “Pixote” which examines the true story of Fernando Ramos da Silva, the lead actor from “Pixote,” and the circumstances of his death at the age of 19, killed by the police under dubious circumstances. - from Yahoo

Short by Nancy Buchanan.

This documentary travels to nine Pacific nations, including New Zealand, to chronicle the long struggle to create a regional nuclear arms free zone.

The film chronicles the lives of ordinary women as well as individuals such as Harriet Tubman, Elizabeth Keckley, Frances Willard, and Abigail Scott Duniway through the great 19th century events: industrialization, abolition, the Civil War, westward movement, temperance, and suffrage. For nineteenth century women, quilts were the podium, the pulpit and the judges' gavel, which their society denied them. Their quilts speak the language of abolition, patriotism, politics, social justice, and westward expansion.

Evocation of the paths taken by Glauber Rocha in Monte Santo and Cocorobó, Serra de Canudos, Bahia, when he was filming 'Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol'. Parallelism between the vigor and rigor of Antonio Conselheiro and the filmmaker's purposes, driven by eagerness to awaken the conscience of men and promote freedom.

Every year since 1980, I have filmed the Good Friday ceremony reconstructing the Passion of Christ in Burzet, a remote village in the Ardèche area, where for seven hundred years, the local people have dressed up to celebrate and perpetuate this religious rite. (Gérard Courant)

In March 1977, six activists of the Movement for the Liberation of abortion and contraception (MLAC) were tried for the illegal practice of abortion. Around the trial, the film reveals the lives of this group of women proposing to appropriate medical knowledge associated with childbirth and abortion.

A remarkable documentary about the remnants of a once-thriving Jewish neighborhood in the South Bronx that survives despite the surrounding decline. Amidst all the decay, the Blacks, Puerto Ricans, and Jews of Intervale are able to provide for and support each other.

In 1864, George Pullman began selling his famous railroad sleeping cars, which helped him build a vast industrial empire that was supposed to last forever. A model of the modern employer, Pullman had constructed a self-sustaining village for his workers just outside Chicago, with its own school, sewage system, and public works.

About the legend of Manco Cápac and Mama Ocllo who emerge from the waters of Lake Titicaca and seek the place to found the empire.

Documentary about the city of Luga in the Leningrad Region, which is associated with significant events in our country's history. The film features writer Daniil Granin, partisan movement participant Zoya Vinogradova, curator of the Luga Museum of Local History Galina Rogova, archaeologist Gleb Lebedev, architect Boris Skobeltsyn, and local historians Olga Nabokina and Igor Polovinkin

A poignant documentary about decaying cities, censorship and the oppression of DDR citizens who fought for democracy and freedom.

Film by Franca Donda about the Feminist icon Argelia Laya.

Portraits of women activists in the Philippines and their role in the national democratic movement. Portraits of women women activists from all sectors of Philippine society in the movement to overthrow the Marcos dictatorship in the 1980’s. Women farmers, workers, students, mothers, and revolutionaries of the New People’s Army join forces in the people power uprising that ousts the US-backed President Marcos. We meet beauty queen Nelia Sancho, Sister Mary John Mananzan, head of a private Catholic college, Concha Araneta, guerrilla commander and daughter of a prominent landowning family; Alicia Barros, mother of fallen student leader Lorena Barros, and many more, in this inspiring documentary that introduces some of the heroines of the national democratic movement in the Philippines.

SAS Australia: Battle for the Golden Road documents the entry conditions, training, and lifestyle of Australian Army's Special Air Service Regiment (SASR).

"You are not fit to be a citizen of the United States," said a U.S. Representative to Werner Marx, German-Jewish refugee, distinguished sailor in the U.S. Navy during WWII, American Communist -- as he tried to have him de-naturalized in a hearing of the House Committee of UnAmerican Activities. House of UnAmerican Activities draws on a wealth of family archives (stills, home movies, documents, and a video interview with the filmmaker's mother), as the filmmaker searches for the father he never really knew and for the meaning of a troubled era.

Short documentary

A haunting document of what was once the worlds most famous amusement park beach resort. –Naked Eye Cinema

Educational short film

A documentary about the protests of mining workers against the closure of the Krupp steel mill in Rheinhausen.

Film about the privatization of education in Chile imposed by the Pinochet dictatorship. The people begin to demonstrate, demanding democracy. This documentary was filmed clandestinely in Chile in 1983 and completed with the support of the Mozambique Film Institute.

The tradition of ceramics with metallic reflections, discovered in the eighth century in Mesopotamia, spread to the East before being introduced to Spain, where it gave birth to the Hispano-Moorish style. In Nabeul in Tunisia there are a very large number of potters' workshops. The phases of pottery making are shown in detail: kneading the earth, turning the shape according to two different techniques (Nabeul-Djerba), firing in a traditional kiln and applying a decoration with metallic reflections. In Manises in Spain, a potters' workshop still manufactures ceramics with metallic reflections according to traditional techniques kept secret. The appearance of the metallic reflections is due to the cooking methods, each piece undergoing three successive firings. The potters turn, dry and apply this decoration on different dishes and jars.

From Bitter Earth powerfully examines the drawings and paintings that survived the concentration camps, ghettos and hiding places of the Second World War. While most of the artists who created them perished, Morrison interviews painters like Yehuda Bacon, Dinah Gottliebova and Walter Spitzer who talk about the extraordinary perseverance and ingenuity that such artists demonstrated in attempting to capture the world around them, which was often punishable by death. Upon its initial airing on the BBC in 1988, The Independent referred to Paul Morrison’s documentary as “a worthy footnote to Shoah.”

A film about the life and work of the Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen and his relations with Iceland

Life in the Tajik city, everything a neighbor of everything else: a Muslim burial rite, a Soviet May 1st demonstration, women sweeping the floor, a quarrel in a theater about a contemporary set, old men queuing for groceries, young men leaving home for the army, an elderly women coming up to the camera and asking “And why are you filming?” The film, capturing the time, faces, songs, thoughts and hopes of the people, ends with a panorama of peaceful Dushanbe and a song in the background by Boris Grebenshikova.

Short documentary about the life of foreign students studying at the University of Lodz and living in a dormitory for foreigners.

An accident on the Tengiz Oil Field and the steps taken to contain the ensuing fire and oil geyser (the ‘fountain’.)

The film is a valuable treatment of archival footage that George Milner shot while conducting fieldwork in 1955 and 1959. The footage (18 minutes of the total film) focuses on the traditional Samoan way of life. Then the footage is discussed and analysed by Christina Toren, a South Pacific specialist, and Reverend Lalomilo Kamu, a Samoan scholar. The interview gives a rare opportunity to hear a scholar from the filmed group comment on and explain the symbolism behind the pictures.

We learn about arbitrary rule under the dictatorship, the torture, the ill-treatment in prison and the plight of the Tupamaro hostages, told in the words of former political prisoners, psychologists and family members who had their lives turned upside down in a raid, or who suffered the anguish of searching for someone who had been “disappeared”.

A spy film, which resulted from shooting a friends’ meeting with a hidden camera. Having persuaded his acquaintances to play a trick on his friends he was supposed to meet at the railway station in Vilnius, the filmmaker hires a taxi to film his experiment from the car.

Cape May: End of the Season captures the individuality and idiosyncrasy of the beach community of Cape May, New Jersey. Cohen’s interviews along the seashore with retired vacationers who linger after Labor Day reveal a clichéd, postcard world crystallized in a whimsical reverie devoid of sorrow or youth. The good-natured relaxation of the elderly couples, interspersed with picturesque miniature golf courses and a shimmering empty beach, reveals the autumnal mood of the waning season and the twilight of old age.

In this video from 1986, go behind the scenes to see how thousands of sparkling lights and electro-syntho-magnetic musical sounds were created and presented to guests each night. From the music to the electronics to the performers, all the incredible details are in this special