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Reconstruction of the life and work of Jacinto Esteva, architect, painter and adventurer, through the experiences of his daughter and friends. His words and memories also allow a panoramic view of the Barcelona of the sixties. But it is above all Daría, her daughter, who is in charge of recovering her father's memory.
Documenting the life in the estuary of the River Aithen in North-East Scotland.
In the small fishing towns of Ghana, the photographer's studio is the place to go. To get "snapped" - wearing the latest fashion, or posing with a long lost friend. Carrying the tools of your trade. For "future remembrance", to show how that dress was so becoming, how durable the friednship, how you made your living. So that everybody will remember you. Future Remembrance features photographers and artists Nelson Ankruma Events, Joseph K. Davies, Philip Kwame Apagya, Stephen Zanoo, Kwame Akoto Almighty, Yaw Nkrabeah, Daniel A. Jasper, John K. Assan, Azey, Wofa & Louis Ankra and Alfred Six. Research funding from the German Research Fondation DFG.
A recruitment video created by Earth First! in 1990 to promote their Redwood Summer initiative.
A portrait of film critic Manny Farber, featuring interviews with Farber and art critic Dave Hickey, as well as inventively displayed clips of the films that Farber discusses.
A film portrait of the famous Ukrainian artist Arsen Savadov. The film depicts the process of creating the art project "Collective Red," which results in the entire creative team ending up at the police station.
The remains of more than 10,000 Native Americans unearthed at archaeological sites across the U.S. are in the possession of museums such as the Smithsonian. Is the analysis of the bones valid scientific research, or is it a desecration of Native American culture? This program focuses on the tensions between scientists, historians, and museum curators and Native American groups, as the bones take on a central role in a war of alternate perspectives. In examining this debate, the program provides an excellent survey of Native American archaeology in the U.S. A BBC Production.
A holistic view of the classical dance form of Bharatanatyam.
Archival footage and interviews with 22 lesbians and gay men give an overview of gay history in the UK from the 1920's. Clause 28, the Well of Lonliness, AIDS, the Pet shop Boys, it's all there in some form or another.
A short documentary about the life and art of photographer Ruth Orkin.
Documentary/Fiction/Experimental film about coming out of the closet.
A film about the art of the Kubachinsky goldsmiths. Rasul Alikhanov and Galji-Bakhmud Magomedov, two of the oldest masters, talk about the traditions and current problems of Kubachi masters.
32.Day, a news classic by Mehmet Ali Birand, is with you this time with the documentary 50 Years of Cyprus!
An unconventional chronicle of the literary and artistic Romanian avant-garde. The film recreates the atmosphere of those frenzied years (1916-1947) in the spirit of the avant-garde, through a bewildering collage of fundamental texts and images.
"Svalbard- Arctic Seasons" features the the wildlife, spectaculer nature and human activeties of the archipelago known as Svalbard, which lies to the north of Scandinavia. The jurney through the artic seasons also features the life of trappers and scientists in the kingdom of the polar bear.
Shot on location in Kirkland's Denver studio and in several museums, this documentary includes video and audio interviews and archival photos of Kirkland, and dramatic recreation of some of his unorthodox painting techniques. Kirkland came to Denver in 1929 as founding Director of the University of Denver's School of Art. This documentary demonstrates that one can be a great artist regardless of location or other career. From his mountain landscapes to his surreal worlds, to his final abstractions -- a cosmos of glowing energy -- Kirkland found his visual langage.
Israeli film director Asher TIalim, originally from Tangier, Morocco, poses a question to all of us, even those apparently not directly affected: What do we - the generation after - have to do with the Holocaust? Focusing on the Akko Theater Center's award-winning performance, ARBEIT MACHT FREI, also featured in the German documentary, BALAGAN (see listing), he documents the actors as well as the audiences over a three-year period, scrutinizing their souls. Tlalim travels with the Israeli actors to Morocco, to the Czech Republic and finally to Germany, where they compare one society that chooses to remember with one that chooses to forget.
Forty million people and countless species of flora and fauna depend on the rivers of the Rio de la Plata basin. But there is a development initiative, the Paraguay-Paraná Waterway Project, which aims to change the natural courses of these rivers and build a “Super Highway River” for the transport of grain and raw materials. If this project is implemented, what will the consequences be for society and for the environment?
Charles Kuralt takes an revealing look at the life and career of African-American historian John Hope Franklin in this profile of the Harvard-educated writer whose book From Slavery to Freedom spotlighted the role of blacks in building America. Though facing incredible obstacles, Franklin scaled the stone wall of racism to become a scholar and activist, helping Thurgood Marshall, Dr. Martin Luther King and others change a nation.
Three Filipino families struggle to rebuild their lives in Canada after years of separation. The third part of a trilogy on the impact of labour migration, including Brown Women Blond Babies and Modern Heroes Modern Slaves.Every year thousands of women enter Canada as domestic servants, the majority of them from the Philippines. Leaving their own children and families behind, they can spend many isolated years cooking, cleaning and caring for others. Sending much of their wages back home, they dream of the day their families can join them.
A trip from America to the Czech Republic and beyond can also be a journey in search of freedom of the imagination and spirit. Hilary and Chris left their native USA, even learned decent Czech, and are living out their dream, filled with work and music, at the end of the millennium in Tábor. That is, until they decide to move again…
Professor Jerzy Węgierski, a Home Army officer and Siberian exile, recounts in the film the fate of soldiers from the Lviv District of the Home Army during the Soviet and then German occupation, during Operation Tempest and after its conclusion. The story is illustrated with unique photographs from the professor's collection. The film was made thanks to the cooperation of the Documentary Department of TVP 2 with the Home Army Film Foundation.
Documentary short by Romuald Karmakar.
There is nothing more majestic in baseball than the home run. Home run hitters have made up baseball's greatest hitters and most charismatic players: Ruth, Mays, Mantle, Aaron, Jackson. Their names summon a moment: Fisk, Gibson, Mazeroski, Dent. This video showcases 50 of the greatest home runs of all time.
The Vietnam War and the helicopter, the two go hand in hand. The story of how the helicopter revolutionised how war was carried out and the enduring images of the conflict in Vietnam.
The collective heroes of the film represent the Chinese Korea society: its past, present and future. The director examines the particular experience of the ethnic group without dramatization, as he paints their portrait with genuine respect for the tragedy of the subjects.
A look behind the scenes at the 1994 recording sessions for the acclaimed album of Julie Andrews singing the great songs of Richard Rodgers. Musical highlights in the film include: "This Can't Be Love," "I Wish I Were in Love Again," "The Sound of Music," "I Have Dreamed," and "A 'Waltz' Carousel."
The film depicts the day of consecration Of the Cathedral of the Vladimir icon of the mother of God in Leningrad on April 7, 1990. In 1989, the Church was returned to the faithful after the Lenmashuchet factory had been located there since 1932. Again consecrated by Metropolitan Alexy of Leningrad and Novgorod (Ridiger).
Humorous short about the 1989 Brazilian presidential election.
Documentary behind the creation of Aardman's mascot for Lurpak.
Brother Howie is a Jamaican Rastifari who dreams of the land of his ancestors: Africa. On a journey in search of his roots and his identity he travels through three continents and (with great humor and sensitivity) discovers the world and Africa.
A team of the All African Television network, wanders into the darkest regions of the Eastern Alps. They observe the habits and rituals of the natives and make not one, but two ethnological major break-through discoveries.
Echo is the gentle matriarch of a family of elephants in Kenya’s Amboseli National Park. Watched over by distinguished research scientist and founder of the Amboseli Elephant Research Project, Cynthia Moss, Echo leads her charge through the rough and the smooth, good times and bad, all captured faithfully on film by award-winning photographer Martyn Colbeck. In January 1990, Cynthia and Martyn embarked on the first of what would ultimately be four exceptional films produced over thirteen years in the shadow of the Great White Mountain, Kilimanjaro, documenting the lives of one elephant family for the BBC’s Natural History Unit. These uniquely moving and unforgettable films have wider implications for our understanding of elephants everywhere.
What happens when "political correctness" comes in conflict with freedom of speech? Campus Culture Wars examines five controversial incidents at universities around the country. The stories focus on issues such as sexual harassment, radical feminism, and gay rights.
A film about fate, co-existence, vanity, justice, karma and forgiveness, ANIMALICOUS comprises six stories of people and the animals that shot them, fell on them, and generally caused mayhem of one sort or another. Filmed in Kentucky, Missouri, and England, ANIMALICOUS features a bomb-diving duck, a squirrel which thinks it’s landed on Normandy Beach, a hawk that could easily work for a hair growth pharmaceutical company, a parakeet, a turkey, a hungry snake, and one tiny little dog. It’s a funny but wry account of how animals can be a way of defining ourselves. In ANIMALICIOUS Lewis displays a genuine knack for uncovering the comic and quizzical relationships that exist between people and creatures great and small.
Panorama of the Kama River, banks, coastal area. City of Cherdyn. Views on churches, houses. Exhibits of the Perm Art Gallery. Wooden sculptures of gods, stone sculptures of animals, birds, fish, people.
From the Khorassan Ballroom, Larry Matysik takes us back to the glory days of professional wrestling. This unique 1999 documentary covers the story of KPLR's hit TV show, "Wrestling at the Chase" and the men and women who lived it.
During World War II there were nearly 2,500 Allied prisoners held in Sandakan POW camp in British North Borneo. Along with the ravages of war and the struggle to survive abject conditions, only six of these POW's were found alive when the war finally ended. In the years that followed, the horror stories of human depravity and the atrocities committed by the Japanese at Sandakan POW camp would come to light, considered by many as one of the most devastating chapters of the Pacific War.
Through the daily life of a Japanese family living in the Hiroshima of the nineties, this documentary uses valuable testimonies to reflect on how these people continue to overcome the atomic bombing of 1945.
Steamboatin' stories from those who lived them, river history, authentic footage and stills, along with music and narration by John Hartford.
Documentary about Carl Jung based on footage of interviews in his last years of life. An introduction to 'Man and his Symbols', the last book he wrote.
Loktak, the largest freshwater lake in India, is the main source of livelihood and food not only for the human inhabitants but also for the birds and other animals residing there. The film documents with compassion and anger the death throes of the lake and its inhabitants which include the endangered dancing deer – Sangai.
Andrey Kudinenko's essay film about the cinema of Valentin Vinogradov, an ottepel era Soviet director accused of aestheticism.
Documentary film.
Eastern Heroes: The Video Magazine - Volume 2 is a Documentary on Hong Kong cinema.
In this special, writer Michael Wolfe documents his trip to Islam's holiest shrine for "ABC News Nightline."
Matilde Landeta entered the flourishing Mexican film industry in the 1930s, working her way up from script girl to direct 110 shorts and, in the late 40s, to produce and direct three features, including LA NEGRA ANGUSTIAS. In this engrossing documentary filmed in Mexico City, a vibrant Landeta, now in her 70s, recalls those years. Interviews with Mexican directors Marcela Fernandez-Violante and Maria Novaro enrich this illuminating tribute.
"This is anything but the Saturday morning animated clatter kids are used to. Once they see this, they're mesmerized." - Harry Smith, CBS News
Interview with Amal Abul-Qassem Donqol, an egyptian poet.
Pierre comes from an island that does not exist and speaks a language that is not available - he is the man from Podalida. Conversation with Pierre, Poet Katarina Frostenson and a French Linguist on Language and Identity.
It turns out Yuri Gagarin was not the first man in space, but was preceded by another Soviet cosmonaut who crash landed, was severely injured and his identity kept secret -- until now.
A 30-year-old documentary film on how people in the USSR lived "happily".
The Lions of Musiara Marsh.
TV-special from HBO with an inside look at the making of the "Speed" film, hosted by Dennis Hopper. Features interviews and out-takes from the set.
A portrait of the sparsely populated and spellbound island of Mykines in the Faroe Islands, as the outside world imposes itself upon a centuries-old way of life.