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The prolonged drought that occurred in Peru between 1983 and 1984 led the farmers of Mollepata to rehabilitate an ancient irrigation canal. This effort was significant for the community and its ancient techniques. The Apu Salkantay is appeased and provides the runa with the necessary inspiration to achieve their goal and make the water flow again.

Discussion of the transition of Cabaret (1972) from stage to screen.

This hard-hitting, eye opening documentary explores the teaching of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, it's origins and the changes which have occurred throughout the years. It examines the claims of the religion's founder, the late prophetess Ellen G. White, and compares her unique beliefs with Biblical truth. You will meet a number of former high-ranking church leaders, many of them fourth generation members, and discover what happened when they embarked on a journey to uncover the truth about their organization. You will be shocked by what they found.

Blake Clark standup special

An emotional tribute to Billy Martin -- a five-time manager of the New York Yankees in the 1970s and '80s -- this program combines game clips and on-camera interviews, including one with Martin recorded shortly before his untimely death in 1989. Footage features an all-star lineup of Major League Baseball personalities, including Mickey Mantle, George Steinbrenner, Rickey Henderson, Whitey Ford, Willie Randolph and Rod Carew.

Michel Negroponte, a documentary filmmaker, meets Maggie one day in Central Park. Maggie claims to be married to the god Jupiter and the daughter of actor Robert Ryan. Michel gets to know Maggie over the next couple of years, and attempts to use her often outlandish stories as clues to reconstruct her past.

A five hour documentary series about the legendary "queen" of fado.

Pinball historian Richard Bueschel hosts an hour-long look at the arcade favorite's illustrious history, including interviews with flipper devotees Slash (from Guns & Roses), Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry, baseball great Frank Thomas, and others.

Documentary about the era of the first doctor, William Hartnell. It includes the pilot version of An Unearthly Child that was never broadcast. Hosted by Sylvester McCoy

Although they live right next to Pula's biggest tourist attraction, the people of Mahala, the city's destitute neighborhood, have been forgotten by everybody.

Documentary about German composer Walter Haupt.

Documentary by Eckhart Schmidt.

Video gallery of the seminal artist's work.

The story of the Holocaust survivors in Poland (1946-1949). Based on the films of Nathan Gross and Shaul Goskind: Akhar alpaim shana.

A 90s educational video detailing how to protect kids from strangers that are up to no good.

A story about a family in which a disabled child has appeared, requiring constant care. His disability crossed out many of his parents' plans and dreams. In the film we can see how his father is coping with the situation. He makes reflections, searches for the sense of difficult experiences, and with love performs daily activities with his son. "By constantly looking into one's own inner self, it is possible to live together in difficult situations, to leave one another, to apologize, to forgive," he says.

Here is the definitive study of Stanislavsky on film: a retracing of his life and work against the tumultuous backdrop of a Russia which variously censored, spied on, adulated, and co-opted him, using hitherto unknown footage. The program shows how one great creative artist interacted with other giants of his era, from Lenin to Stalin, Meyerhold to Mayakovsky, Isadora Duncan to Stella Adler—and includes, in addition to the Chekhov plays, scenes from his productions of Ibsen, Gogol, Hamlet with Gordon Craig as codirector, and Molière’s Le Malade Imaginaire with Stanislavsky as Argan, among many others.

A post-modern documentary about the meaning and nature of love from a gay perspective.

In a span of ninety minutes the film aims to show how the Netherlands administered its colony as a colonial enterprise and what the relations were like at the time. The usual commentary has been omitted and in its place poems and songs in Bahasa Indonesia have been included in a digital sound composition. In Mother Dao the Turtlelike, the viewer sees how the colonial machinery in the 1920s was implanted in a world so different from Western Europe.

Claudio Sapiain has followed a couple of families and through them he conveys moods in the Chile he himself has just reunited with. A Chile where class differences are increasing and people are getting poorer. Claudio previously lived with his family in exile in Sweden for 12 years.

Singer-Songwriter Kavisha Mazzella's musical journey to find the lost songs of a dying generation. Filmed on location in Italy and Western Australia. A moving, humourous and sometimes quirky documentary about some of the larger than life characters who comprise the Italian Women's Chorus, 'The Joys Of The Women'.

Scliar, a painter of the world, immersed in the time of his silence. All that the artist sought to bring to the skin and heart of his painting is the inner vibration of every inhabitant of the world. The chromatic vibration does not come from the paints but from the land he harvests from each place he visits. Scliar used earth to give colour to his canvases.

A history of the supernatural at Gettysburg.

Reminiscences from a few people convicted to the Siberia prison camps.

At Easter 1991, when few could have imagined the xenophobic riots of the following months and years, 28-year-old black contract worker Jorge Joa Gomondai from Mozambique died in Dresden. He was attacked by a group of rioting skinheads and thrown from a moving tram. Or did he jump in panic? The trial against three perpetrators failed to answer this question. His parents in Mozambique are still waiting for an explanation or apology from the city, or for compensation.

This is a most interesting documentary about the construction of the Mackinac Bridge which crosses the Straits of Mackinac and connecting Michigan's upper and lower peninsulas.

In April 1994, the international community sat by and watched while a million Tutsi men, women and children were massacred in the central African nation of Rwanda. Hand of God, Hand of the Devil, the second volume in the three-part Rwanda series, explores Canada's role in the development of the genocidal ideology that took root in Rwanda, which was considered the "jewel" of Canadian aid in Africa. This video focuses on the murder of two Canadian missionaries, killed for having protested against corruption and human rights violations. Brother François Cardinal, who worked at the controversial Rwandan college, funded by Canadian aid money to the Rwandan president's advisors. Like countless others in Rwanda, his killers were never found. Hand of God, Hand of the Devil raises disturbing questions about Canada's role in Rwanda. Having assisted the former regime, will Canadian aid now sow the seeds for a new crop of killers?

Director Claire Pijman portrays her father Boy Pijman who was born in the Dutch East Indies. When his children ask, Boy Pijman tells his story that he had never spoken about before; his three years as a prisoner of war in Japanese Camp during the Second World War.

Medium length film on environmental protection in the 1988 Brazilian Constitution.

In her documentary, Aysun Bademsoy portrays five young Turkish women from Berlin Kreuzberg who used to be members of the successful Turkish women's soccer team "BSC-Agrispor". Until recently, the friends had high hopes for an independent future based on their sporting success. But now the season is coming to an end and the five young women, all in their 20s, will stop playing soccer. They don't know exactly what they want to do with their lives. Apprenticeships are rare, and without money, independence from the strict parental home is impossible. But now they are enjoying the Berlin summer together once again, wandering the streets, chasing boys, going to parties, "hanging out".

The Waiãpi indigenous people decide to meet and document the Zo’é people. after met, the Zo’é make the visitants know their ancestors' life style; the Waiãpi tell them about the dangers of the white world.

The filmmaker and still photographer Mikael Wiström documents his reunion with Natividad and Daniel Barrientos 17 years after first meeting them in Peru.

A portrait of a retired and two working professional photographers in India.

Japan and Korea have had a troubled relationship over the centuries, and discrimination against Korean residents in Japan has been legendary. But how important is the issue of race to a younger generation born and raised in the country? Tetsuaki Matsue, a third-generation zainichi attempts to get to grips with the issue of his own national identity in this autobiographical video documentary made as the then 21-year-old director's graduation project from the Japan Academy of the Moving Image. (Midnight Eye)

This spectacular motion picture has been filmed in panoramic high-definition, SuperVue TM. The film rises out of the darkness, enveloping viewers in a breathtaking spectacle of sight and sound. Dramatic aerial footage whisks you across sweeping vistas. The original musical score, which encompasses the spectrum of sound from a lone Indian flute to full orchestral scoring, enhances the imagery. Old West scenery and Native American settings are painstakingly replicated. The part of our heroine, after which the town took its name, is believably portrayed by the founder's actual great grand-daughter. Viewers will travel back eons in time as the earth transformed into this fascinating region.—SuperVue Theater

A rare documentary made in Brussels in the early nineties collecting witnesses on how local and Congolese musicians enriched each other including internationally known stars such as Manu Dibango, Toots Tielemans, Vaya Con Dios, Phillippe Catherine, Victor Laszlo, Zap Mama...

1990 TV adaptation of a 1979 biographical play by Ned Sherrin & Caryl Brahms, based on the life of conductor and impresario Sir Thomas Beecham. With Timothy West as Beecham.

With the aid of spectacular macrophotography, this film demonstrates how the common housefly has followed man throughout the ages to become one of the most enduring nuisances of the natural world. An up-close-and-personal encounter with these "common monsters" highlights their ability to propagate, feed, and avoid extinction and extermination. The result is the most extreme form of reality television you may ever see.

See the Union Pacific fight and win as it takes on the Blue Mountains of eastern Oregon - the toughest challenge UP faces! Loaded with spectacular cab rides, Volume II hits all the highlights of this dramatic mountain district from La Grande to Hinkle. Scale the Blue Mountains from La Grande through Hilgard and Motanic to the summit at Kamela. Ride the cab of a new GE Dash 8. Get an engineer's view from a helper set on the rear of a UP freight. Experience Meacham Creek Canyon, the Umatilla River, Pendleton, and much more all in this exciting video!

Following the lifting of martial law in 1987, Taiwan entered democratisation as grassroots movements flourished. Proposed by director Lee Daw-ming and funded by the Public Television Service, the film interviews key figures shaped by the Lukang Anti-DuPont Movement. Intended for broadcast, the film was suppressed by authorities and finally screened at the 2002 Taiwan International Documentary Festival.

Documentary on the film work of director Arthur Penn.

The history of gay liberation traced through the phenomenon of disco. Glitter balls, feather boas and Levi jeans become signifiers of a movement 20 years after the Stonewall riots.

National Geographic goes to Egypt to look into an underground vault that houses a ship of the Pharaoh Khufu and follows an researcher as he attempts to recreate the ancient rite of mummification.

A documentary capturing Badal Sircar's revolutionary "Third Theatre" movement. It uses the political satire of his play to showcase theatre as a tool for social change. Filmed in public spaces, it blends performance footage with Sircar's narration, highlighting the need for collective action against oppression.

The painting tells the story of young people from St. Petersburg whose lives have been disrupted by the economic and political upheavals of our time.

This documentary features Nan Goldin’s celebrated 1996 mid-career photography retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Goldin’s exhibition filled an entire floor at the Whitney Museum with pictures that chronicle her involvement and fascination with the alternative, “downtown” culture of New York City, Boston, Berlin, Tokyo, etc. Culled from a period that spans more than 25 years of taking pictures, Goldin’s desire to make a visual diary of her friends and lovers, as well as her own life, makes for a moving, highly charged, visual experience.

Listen to This is a fragment of collective memory that finds critical relevance in contemporary Queer discourse. Tom Rubnitz weaves narration, image, and a form of temporality, dislocated from ‘real time’, into a video where artist and AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz’s loss and anger is palpable.

"Kumar Talkies explores the relationship between Kalpi, a small town in northern India and its only surviving cinema theatre, a decrepit and cash-strapped shed ... The film represents cinema as simultaneously a vehicle that conveys a remote, urban imagination to small towns such as Kalpi and a medium in which different people expect their localized existence to be captured and displayed." - Film Southasia

Documentary about Estonia's richest woman.

The holiest mountain in Asia, in a far away corner of west Tibet, amidst wild and ragged landscape, nearly entirely cut off from the rest of the world, is called Kailash. For the pilgrims of four religions this 6675m high mountain is the ‘throne of gods’, or ‘navel of the world’ – a place where the divine takes an earthly shape. For thousands of years pilgrims have travelled to this place to worship the mystery of the mountain circumnavigating it on foot. The path around Kailash is an archaic ‘path of initiation’. Florian Fricke and filmmaker Frank Fiedler (also an original founding Popol Vuh member) made their own spiritual trek along this path and documented the journey. Accompanying epic landscape scenes in the film is the music of Florian Fricke and Popol Vuh, spiritual music inspired by this unique journey.

In exemplary fashion, students of past-life therapy describe their present-day problems and relate how they were able to overcome them through applying the principles and practice of this new science of life. The past-life scenes that unfolded within the students’ consciousness are reenacted as each one speaks. Discover how these individuals have experienced a “whole new life” by utilizing the tools of past-life therapy and how you can use them to create a better life for yourself.