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It is a ritual battle that takes place year after year in the location of the same name. It is known that many similar battles existed in different parts of the southern Andes; their ritualistic content has a strong basis in reality, and their antiquity is lost in the mists of time.

Describe the botanical characteristics acquired by plants that develop at 4800 meters above sea level, in the Ticlio and San Mateo lagoons, where temperature and atmospheric pressure conditions are extreme.

You are about to enter the sea, to spend half an hour with some of the most fascinating and enigmatic animals on earth, the whales and dolphins. You will meet the petite spinner dolphin, named for its tendency to jump and spin, the humpback whale, whose eerie songs fill the ocean realm with natural music, the killer whale, master of the oceans, the mighty blue whale, largest animal ever to live on earth, and more.

A tribute to the violinist and bandleader Max Jaffa as he prepares to play his last season of concerts at the Spa Grand Hall and Sun Court, Scarborough.

A short house squat in the Virchowstraße.

Turkish and Pakistani women tell a female film crew about the difficulties they have encountered since arriving in Denmark. They talk about where they come from, their culture and religion, and the gender roles and family patterns they grew up with – and which they suddenly have to carry on in a completely different society where, in their eyes, everything is permitted.

This film is not exactly a documentary; it is a person reading the book while visiting the places where she lived, taking pictures of it in the early eighties. The letters to her daughter, whom she gave away to foster parents in Virginia after Wild Bill had been shot in the back in a saloon in Deadwood, show her in another light: as a woman who clearly understood social taboos of our society and, on one hand, she rejected what society dictated and, on the other, she longed for the bourgeois lifestyle. Many people argued that those were not real, since it was considered to be illiterate. The truth is, she was, and she tried to learn later in life just enough as to write a bare few words, and at times she also employed others in writing things for her.

A documentary about the residents of a two-story house that miraculously escaped demolition in Moscow.

Friends react to being "on camera."

If you had to condense the story of Australian popular music into half an hour, the result might look something like this show.

This film is the second in a series about new individual sports and promotes pop gymnastics as a healthy and attractive leisure activity for girls and women.

Young people from a village decide to mass-produce drums so they can find a solution to the development issues.

In a village in southern Germany, efforts have been made for some years to facilitate the survival of the barn owl beneficial to the home and the countryside.

The film, shot in the city of Mezen in the Arkhangelsk region, tells about the spiritual culture and traditions of the Pomors, the wooden architecture of Mezen, crafts and the city as a place of exile.

This film raises a cry of alarm against the plan to destroy the Municipal Theater of Tunis, a neoclassical building built at the beginning of the 20th century. In this film, Kalthoum Bornaz recreates selected scenes from the history of this historical theater. Therefore, having the opportunity to save one of the gems of Tunisia's heritage, which represents an architectural memory of the colonial era that marked the physical and ideological landscape of Tunisia.

A season review of Newcastle United 1987 - 1988.

A documentary on young, drafted soldiers in military training in Gotland, Sweden.

Documentary about Sandy Kidd, who claimed to have a gyroscopic device which will one day propel flying saucers across the galaxy.

Random people in the street as well as well-known personalities answer the question by Olga Sommerova.

Short film by Noël Drouzy.

For twenty years, male members of a fraternity at a major state university and their female guests have been celebrating the end of the school year by capturing and eating live salamanders. Is the "salamander-eating contest" staged by these students a fad or a tradition? A rite of passage for college men and women? Or an inhumane and senseless act? The film documents the ritual in cinema verité fashion and permits viewers to decide for themselves. Provided without narration - this short film primarily features obnoxious, loud and brawling youngsters, and develops into a competition among coeds that has strong sexual overtones.

Gliding flight, soaring flight and flapping flight are presented as basic types of bird flight. The development of lift and propulsion are explained in the animation. Special features of shaking flight, take-off and landing are shown for different types of birds.

"Steinriegel" hedges are introduced as representatives for hedges of the Swabian Area. They dominate the landscape's appearance and provide a habitat for certain communities of plants and animals.

Santa Rosa, a small town in Cuenca, is inhabited almost exclusively by women and children. The men have emigrated to the United States. The nostalgia for the absent is permanent. However, under the leadership of the women, the community group survives by asserting its social sense, despite the poverty.

The story of America's first nuclear reactor accident, an incident that occurred on January 3, 1961 and escaped public attention for some twenty years.

The GDR is disarming and NVA tanks and aircraft are being scrapped. Members of the army have their say.

The events immediately following the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan in Washington DC on March 30, 1981 .

The London Dockland Development Corporation has been given a free hand by the government to regenerate the Docklands, but local people are suffering as compulsory purchase increases homelessness and few jobs have been created for them.

Documentary directed by Lothar Kienzler and Ursula Wieser

Portrait of a baby monkey, "Britches", who was artificially blinded as part of a $275,000 research project at the University of California at Riverside. Short scenes from the 1985 ALF break-in and rescue of animals at that lab, and later recovery of Britches.

What does the people in the street think of nuclear physics today? These men and women do not walk far from the imposing Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie (Porte de la Villette, Paris). They have more nuanced ideas than one might imagine, just like those of scientists. This rapprochement between everyone is beneficial.

The revival of Chinese classical theater after the Cultural Revolution. This report reveals the infinite richness of this dramatic art, a harmonious synthesis between literature, the arts of color, martial arts, song, dance and music. Young students explain their intense learning according to ancient tradition: physical training, knowledge of plays, diction lessons, singing and music... Extracts from plays illustrate the different genres of this art.

A film by the legendary cinema studio KyivNaukFilm, which popularized complex science concepts, and the explanation of what cybernetics is, not just as a “science, but also as a certain position, attitude to the world.

Animals belong to an urban environment and they will always be here since people need a piece of living nature close to them. House plants are not enough - one needs a living creature. What will become of these animals after purchase? How do pets live next to people?

Story of a folklore historian who sought to preserve the traditional music of the Appalachians for posterity.

Behind the scenes on the set of Hawk Jones, the 1986 shot on video action movie featuring a cast of all children actors.

This film tells with verve and a touch of self-irony the history of research on the Dogon since the famous 1931 expedition of Marcel Griaule. The film establishes the original expedition in the context of French anthropology at the time. Jean Rouch, celebrated filmmaker and less known as an anthropologist on the Dogon, narrates part of the story, and interviews Dogon elders and veteran expedition-member, Germaine Dieterlen.

Documents the effects of 25 years of armed conflict and the resulting famine on the people of Mozambique which is under seige from RENAMO, a terrorist group supported by South Africa. This film explores the political and racial background of the fighting and accuses South Africa of waging a campaign of destabilization and terror.

The "Flying Doctors' Service" is a mobile medical team that intervenes where health services are absent. When a villager becomes ill after eating spoiled meat, the "Flying Doctors' Service" is called. They then have to fly him back from Kajido to Nairobi.

This video in English tells of Ukraine Christianity since 988 and plight and persecution of martyr Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in soviet era by Russia and visions of hope of Mary in Seredne, Hrushiw, Mother of Jesus, especially post-WWII. Dissident Josyp Terelya provides testimony, insight.

Construction technical supervisor Olafs Pakalnietis works in a Riga road construction office. The man openly talks about the harmful habit of alcohol consumption, about the problems he has had due to binge drinking, such as the inability to live with the neighbors of the communal apartment.

Women in an isolated backwater in the countryside tell the story of how they live, and talk about their work in a cooperative that processes wool to make good quality clothing.

The Moravians, an early Protestant group, founded missions on the Labrador coast in the 18th century. Serving as a buffer between the Indigenous people and the whalers, the Moravians laid the basis for a new society that blended traditional European and Inuit cultures. This film shows a year in the life of the Moravian mission of Nain and describes some of the stresses the modern world has brought to this isolated Arctic community. Interviewed are a retired teacher who came with the last European mission, and the first Native Moravian minister. (Telecast in the Man Alive series under the title Band of Brethren.)

Pittsburgh’s churches are full of sacred treasures, unforgettable people, and wonderful ways of preserving important traditions. Holy Pittsburgh! takes you on a tour of some of the city’s most memorable and unusual houses of worship.

Portrait of the Dutch writer Willem Frederik Hermans by director Erik Lieshout. The documentary consists of interviews with Hermans at various locations in Paris, supplemented with fragments from his novels read by actor Thom Hoffman.

The Atlanta Cyclorama, with its massive panoramic painting, diorama, and museum, will fascinate visitors who wish to re-live this epic of American history. Experience the entire Cyclorama program as we bring to life the Battle of Atlanta.

A man experiences frustration while attempting to film a commercial for Winnebago brand recreational vehicles

An infomercial for kevlar body armor interspersed with gun demonstrations, re-enactments of police shooting incidents and comedic sketches.

Documentary about an Englishman who served as a hangman in Fiji Island.

Travelogue depicting a road trip from Stockholm to the Berlin wall. The film is mostly shot from a car window but includes found footage as well.

Drug addiction and trafficking, a taboo subject in Turkmenistan of the 1980s. Sanitary engineers go underground into the sewer system. A girl recovers from drug addiction. An Uzbek woman and her two daughters arrested for transporting narcotics on the bodies. The police involved with trafficking with Afghans. With their working mothers in the fields, infants are given milk with opium.

In 1929 Nell Logan took part in a youth peace conference in Moscow. More than 50 years later she was among the women fighting against Cruise missiles at Greenham Common.

The film follows Jean Claude Diallo, who spent 16 years in exile in Germany, on his journey back to his homeland of Guinea. But his long-awaited return to the land of elephants turns into an adventurous undertaking with an unexpected outcome. The military has brought a bloodless end to the reign of terror of President Sékou Touré, once celebrated as a shining champion of African independence. There is a spirit of optimism throughout the country.

Legendary Brazilian composer and singer Antônio Carlos Jobim delivers a masterful performance at the world famous Montreal Jazz Festival in July 1986.

Artist Martha Rosler identifies the totalitarian implications of an argument for torture under certain circumstances, as it appears in the editorial pages of Newsweek magazine.