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Documentary film about a Yugoslavian migrant worker couple who have been living in German-speaking Switzerland for 16 years but hope to realize their dreams and values by returning to their homeland.

Documents a unique experiment that took place in 1982 in Weirton, W. Va., when employees of the steel plant were told that the plant would be closed unless the workers bought it under an employee stock ownership plan. Questions whether this signals an achievement for workers or is rather just one more way for the company to extract concessions from the labor force

Construction of telephone networks around Nicaragua

A quote by literary figure Johannes R. Becher, first Minister of Culture of the GDR, supplies the title of this film about the 1982 International Book Art Exhibition. Sensitively composed images embed the IBA in the hustle and bustle of Leipzig. Old and new shots of the city, in black and white and in colour, take us to some of the 82 national booths of this book art contest, accompanied by atmospheric piano music.

An ethnographic documentary.

Documentary about the Mosuo people, an ethnic group living in China's Yunnan and Sichuan Provinces.

Portrait of a family emigrating to Sweden.

Documents a 1986 video-workshop at the South Carolina School for the Deaf and Blind.

A television special commemorating the 15th anniversary of Toronto's Citytv.

Young, war-wounded Salvadoran guerrillas rehabilitate in Cuba. Their stories, hopes and prospects for the future are recounted with startling clarity and acceptance. Made in El Salvador by Sistema Radio Venceremos, this film was part of a video series curated by El Salvador Media Project, a New York-based media organization.

Documentary about the lone soldier who works as a cattle herder on the Horqin grassland.

The first documentary film of the USSR in 1986 about the severe and terrible consequences of drug use.

"Secrets of China's Three Armies" is a late 80s PRC military documentary film co-produced by the August 1st Film Studio of the Chinese People's Liberation Army and Hong Kong Silver Capital Company.

Documentary about the Falklands War, composed of interviews with Argentine soldiers and footage taken on the islands during the conflict. The film constructs a narrative of the conflict, from the landing of Argentine troops to their surrender, highlighting the role played by the Armed Forces in combat.

For thirty-four years, those who fled to Taiwan in the wake of the Communist victory have had only their memories and fantasies of mainland China. Now they want to know much more, and a political struggle is underway to determine how Taiwan will relate to the mainland

Archival photographs help reconstruct the life of white buffalo hunters, and the Aboriginal labour that supported them, in the remote wetlands of the NT in the 1930s. Former hunter Tom Cole visits hunting camps and discusses the trade.

Based on impressions of young people's encounters with pop music, the film takes up sociological and medical aspects of listening habits and encourages viewers to deal with questions of addiction to music, consumer manipulation and psychosomatic impairments.

Short Film

Looks at the history and cultural diversity of the Sydney, Australia suburb of Marrickville. The video features interviews with those who live in this area including people with Greek, Lebanese, Portuguese and Vietnamese backgrounds.

Commander in Chief reveals the true message behind the manufactured mediation of news and politics.

A film about the plight of the women in the Shetland Isles who had to rely on knitting to make a living.

A film about various aspects of how humans interact with water, using Germany as an example. The contradictions that were already apparent at that time were scarcity, pollution, and privatization, but also soil sealing.

An film showing the strange lives and behaviour of Freda and Greta Chaplin, identical twins from Yorkshire, whom leave doctors puzzled as to what their condition actually is.

30 min video documentary of the Bicycle messengers in San Francisco 1987. Interviews and scenes including Orlando Rosales, Bob Bullard, Spanky, J-Bone, Betty Madrid, and many others.

Some nice images of snow, mountains and Telemark skiing. What is surprising is that the film does not advertise skis, sunscreen or milk chocolate.

The film describes the working situation of programmers and reconstructs in 7 chapters dialog attempts with a system that works according to strict formulas and laws.

Margaret Peterson is a retired painter, now living in Victoria, British Columbia, where this production was shot. The film explores the psyche of the painter through her paintings, through interviews, through an interpretive commentary by the director of the film, and the improvised riffs of a saxophone soloist. The film is a scrapbook of ideas, memories, opinions, interpretations and paintings that render the artist eventful rather than biographical. Beyond the Sun reveals a character very much attracted to primitive religion and a painter drawn to colour abstraction, both qualities typical of the 'beat' movement of the 1940s and 50s.

Home martial arts training video.

The Segalls’ interest in children’s lives dated from the mid-1960s, when, using a camera placed off-stage, they filmed the end of the year festivities at their daughter’s nursery. The result was Big Little Feelings, which won the Silver Dove at the Leipzig Festival in 1964. In the years that followed, the idea of including their own child in some of their films did not sit well with the political bureaucrats. In the end, she would only feature briefly in two short sequences at the end of this and another documentary, filmed eleven years later with the same children (The Feelings Have Grown, 1975). In both films, Doru Segall proudly makes clear that he is both the film’s cinematographer and the father of the girl in the image—a personal, autobiographic detail unusual for a Sahia film. Over the following years, the Segalls continued to work on documentaries about children, including Exams (1976), The High Schoolers (1978), Parents Meeting (1980), and The School Leavers (1986).

From 1977 to 1980, Bernard Cadoux and Jean-Paul Lebesson regularly visited Stanislas Rodanski at the Saint Jean de Dieu hospital, where he had been staying since 1954. These conversations gave rise to a film: Horizon Perdu, whose title references Frank Capra's Lost Horizon (1937) and Shangri-La, the mythical city where the story takes place.

Mike Bidlo’s performative re-creation of Yves Klein's, "Anthropométries de l'époque bleue" at the Palladium in NYC.

The film focuses on the development of absolutism in the Duchy of Wolfenbüttel under Duke Anton Ulrich, as preserved in pictorial documents and architectural monuments. In addition to the ideas of French absolutism, the court and government as well as the financing of the expenditure through taxes and duties, which placed an extraordinary burden on the people, are shown in detail.

Follows the Soviet corruption, the lives of people from the special zone of the USSR, endowed with special rights and opportunities.

Ren Shulin's graduation film, shot on 16mm during a summer camp in July 1982.

A long road and close-up drawing a giant cross.

Pre-accident records, weekdays of the liquidators and trips to the pioneer camp to the evacuated teenagers from Pripyat.

A big modern house has only two inhabitants: an elderly couple, humble peasants. They seem rather lost and not too much accustomed to such a space. They are waiting for somebody. The objects and sounds in the house help us realize that "somebody" means: the son, daughter-in-law and grandson, living in France... Coloring Easter eggs (Orthodox folk custom) for all of them, knitting the sweater for grandson, waiting. Will the awaited ones come...!? Eternal, metaphysical waiting.

The Unbroken Circle traces the development of traditional country music in Vermont from unaccompanied ballads through Franco- and Anglo-American fiddling to radio cowboy bands and contemporary square dancing. The documentary tells its story through the words and music of a dozen Vermont musicians, historic photos, and location videography. The musicians include Norman Kennedy, Margaret MacArthur, the Hurstins, the Pony Boys, Ron West, Wilfred Guillette, Cordelia Cerasoli, Floyd Brown, and Al Cadorette.

UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Puerto Rican celebration of El Día De San Juan at Cabrillo Beach in San Pedro California on June 24, 1982. Celebrations include dancing and live music.

In 1988, the Cuban State started to build a monumental tomb for the guerrilla fighter Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, despite the fact that his body was still missing in the Bolivian forest. Amid controversies and conspiracy theories, the Communist Party commissioned aficionado filmmakers Secades and Garcia to document the work, with the backing and supervision of the revolutionary armed forces. Nace una plaza is the documentary resulting from this experience.

The film focuses on the activities of a theater group founded in 1976, currently known as the Center for Theater Practice – Gardzienice Theater Association. Under the direction of Włodzimierz Staniewski, the group bases its artistic productions on folk culture traditions, and its audience and participants are rural residents. The authors of the film show the forms of the group's work – training sessions, "processions," performances, the group members' contacts with the village at so-called gatherings, and the reception of their activities among the rural population.

John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John sit down with Dick Cavett to discuss their forthcoming film "Two of a Kind."

The suicide of a small town mayor is investigated in the wake of sweeping political reforms.

This is the third of a series of four themed programmes made by Yorkshire Television that aired in 1987 about life on the Manor Estate of council housing in Sheffield, consisting of events on the Estate and interviews with, mostly unidentified, residents. This one focuses on what residents do in their spare time, including pigeon fanciers, fishing, gardening, youth playing on slot machines, boys boxing and down the pub on a Friday night.

A season review of Newcastle United 1988 - 1989.

A documentary film about Ushtobin Koreans.

Over a million black women live in a state of domestic bondage, underpaid, working long hours, at the mercy of draconian laws which separate them from their own families. This powerful 1985 documentary, shot in South Africa, examines the tragedy of Apartheid through the complex relationship between a black household worker and her white employer. This domestic situation is a microcosm of the situation at large.

Kurokawa Yoshimasa, Daidoji Masashi, Masunaga Toshiaki, and Arai Mariko, all members of the East Asian Anti-Japanese Armed Front " Scorpion, " were incarcerated for instigating the bombing of the Marunouchi offices of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. This film was conceived of and directed by Kurokawa whilst in prison. During the making of this film, he and his fellow members were under sentences of death or life imprisonment. As testimony to Kurokawa's idea that " the emperor system is not only an incarnation of the patriarchal principle but also the embodiment of the female principle, " the film aims " to critically examine the essence of the Japanese maternal image. "

In this groundbreaking and rare account of the 1980 Notting Hill Carnival, the filmmakers weave together a range of performances from reggae bands Aswad, Sons of Jah and Brimstone, amongst many others. Interspersed between them are interviews with the artists about their lyrics and music, and conversations with audience members about their lives and experiences. The result is a powerful documentary of the Black community in Ladbroke Grove at the beginning of the 1980s.

Film on the rock hewn churches of Lalibela

Film on the reconstruction of the country during the Derg administration