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Mondo film concerned with piercings and the people who have them.

Journey into Life follows the struggles of three concentration camp survivors--Yehuda Bacon is Israel, Gerhard Durlacher of The Netherlands, and Ruth Kluger of the United States--in rebuilding their lives after World War II.

We follow the workers at the end station of society. Their job is to take care of slaughterhouse waste.

A travelogue through Eastern Germany immediately after the first free elections in 1990.

With breathless pace, Hélène Chatelain ("the woman" in "La Jetée") reconstructs the life of Nestor Makhno from his writings, Soviet propaganda films, reactions of workers today and the memory he has left in the hearts & minds of his people in Gouliaïpolié, in the east of the Ukraine.

Portrait of a woman who has had to live with the fact that her father was a member of the NSB since the liberation.

Spiritual cousins of the Mennonites and Amish, the Hutterites live simply with austerity. By a way of life that is supremely communal rather than individualistic, the Hutterites have rid themselves of poverty, homicide and anxiety about the future.

The life of Martha and what she thinks about life. The camera follows Martha Stelloo's day and night and listens to her positive and negative remarks, living the last days of her life.

The sexual label - gay, lesbian, bi, straight - has become a political tool which can either empower or dispossess its user. This film examines the complex tensions associated with these issues. It sets out to map the valid principles of empowerment underlying the use of sexual labels both past and present and charts the shifting relationship between the mainstream and non-straight communities.

The happy lives of Haengdang-dong residents are overturned when their land is slated for redevelopment.

Documentary of shows and experiences of Southern California's punk rock band.

From the makers of the award winning films The Continuum and Harvest sking videos. This film from Teton Gravity Research encompases six countries, seven helicopters, fouteen mountain ranges, and twenty of the best skiers and snowboarders on the planet. Travel the globe with the TGR crew witnessing first descents, exploring new terrain and visiting places most people have never heard of. Uprising is a classic ski and snowboard film covering the progression of freeskiing and snowboarding. Nobis, Svenwick, Jeremy Jones and others ride sick locations throughout the world. A must see!

Millions of Americans have seen Rollen Frederick Stewart, a.k.a. "Rainbow Man", who achieved notoriety during the late 70's by appearing in the crowd at thousands of televised sporting events wearing his trademark rainbow-colored afro wig. Later—after he became a born-again Christian—he added a sign reading "John 3:16". Over the years, grabbing the attention of the media became an obsession for Stewart. He abandoned his home and marriage to roam the country living out of his car, studying TV Guide each week in a never-ending quest to stay televised...with tragic consequences.

Crucible of Empire demonstrates how and why the Spanish-American War constitutes such an important milestone in U.S. history. This program examines the events and attitudes that led to war, followed by an exploration of the conflict and its outcome. Early film footage and stills of battle scenes, plus rich visuals, a compelling story, and intriguing analogies to current foreign policy make Crucible of Empire a riveting documentary.

Touring France ventures off the beaten path to bring you the definitive video portrait of this colorful country, from fairy tale castles to the Cannes Film Festival, from the serene countryside to Paris' museums and cafes.

Len Cardinale discusses target panic (also known as buck fever, freezing, involuntary release or snap-shooting), which is an archer's worst nightmare.

The Sensual Nature of Sound portrays four New York based composers and performers in terms of their musical lives and artistic passion. Though Laurie Anderson, Tania Leon, Meredith Monk and Pauline Oliveros are all pioneers in American music, each composer pursues a distinct direction of her own. Their rehearsals and performances show a common pursuit of lyrical storytelling through which a new set of contemporary narratives has been forged. Through body, sound, movement and composition, these women have forged their own path through the wild world of modern music.

Taming the Floods fulfills the dream of the landscape architect Jan Dijkstra: he can design an area in Poland that is regularly flooded by the river. Dijkstra wants to create a large nature reserve where people no longer have any influence: an area where the river can run its course and wolves can be set free. The fanatical landscape architect however does not bear in mind the needs of the local people. His younger colleague David is eventually sent to Poland to get things organised. Taming the Floods is a mixture of documentary and feature in which all the scenes are borrowed from situations which really happen or have happened. Alongside actors, roles are played by the local people, including farmers and a priest.

The Century of Warfare is a 26 part British TV documentary first released in 1993 and shown on A&E Television Networks. It was narrated by Robert Powell, and produced by Nugus/Martin Productions Ltd, and coincided with another Powell/Nugus-Martin project called Great Crimes and Trials.

At the 1991 USAA (United States Air-Table-Hockey Association) Nationals, Tim "Young Wolf" Weissman faces a serious challenge as he attempts to continue his dominance in competitive air hockey.

This VHS tape features the legendary Nolan Ryan in his role as a baseball player.

Former inmates and American soldiers remember the cruel conditions in Buchenwald concentration camp.

The tender and tragic love story of French painter Pierre Bonnard and his wife and lifelong model Marthe. The artist recorded their relationship on canvas and, 50 years after his death, these paintings have established him as one of the masters of colour and light.

This documentary follows the election campaigns of a journalist, a local crime boss, a formerly exiled oligarch, and a local access TV host as they compete for a spot in the Moscow Central Constituency, in Russia's first free elections since 1917

There is a complex geo-human situation of isolation in Trás-os-Montes, a region in northeastern of Portugal. A used railroad bridge bought for only 22 villagers.

A visual trajectory denoting the abstraction of sexual experiences which leads the viewer/voyeur to question her construction/appropriation of eroticism.

About traffic violators. Registration of a traffic accident by a traffic police inspector, witnesses, victims. Traffic police officers and an ambulance doctor share documents about the causes of road injuries.

Live at Liberty Lunch, Austin, 8th February 1992

When shipwrecked sailors first encountered wombats, they did what they had to do to survive - they ate them! More than 200 hundred years later, the wombat still suffers at our hands, blamed for damaging fences and fouling pastures, this film examines the myths and realities of wombat life, above and below the ground, as scientists begin to understand these intrepid and resourceful Bulldozers of the Bush.

Documentary on a 58-year old lady from a rural village in Sichuan.

Revisit the killer puppets and paranormal researchers, whose brain fluid they craved, with in-depth BTS footage and commentary from the cast and crew.

“Now I am happy, I am very well... I am cooking.” Six years after Jane Gabriel made the documentary “Island Οf Outcasts” revealing the inhuman conditions in the adult asylum on Leros, she returned to meet some of the men who had been kept naked in block 16 for decades, and women who had lived in filthy conditions. Now living freely with support in the community they talk about their new lives. This film records how Leros was transformed for both the ex-inmates and the staff - from being an island of incarceration and misery, into an island of liberty.

What are the causes of terrorism, and how will it affect the future? This series examines those questions and more by exploring the religious, political and ethnic origins of terrorism, and profiling terrorist ideologies, systems and personalities. From Northern Ireland and Palestine to the Achille Lauro cruise ship hijacking and the murder of Israeli Olympic athletes at the 1972 Munich games, this series looks at past and present threats.

An hour-long look at the 1999 Seattle WTO protests and the anarchists who traveled there to set a new precedent for militant confrontation, this documentary picks up where Pickaxe left off. Filmed in the thick of the action, including footage that aired nationally on 60 Minutes, it captures a moment when world history was up for grabs.

Ornette Coleman is always asked, “what is Harmolodics?” Harmolodics is the term he coined to describe his music and his philosophy of life. He decided to do a short film about Harmolodics. A few artists were in enlisted, including Lou Reed, Thurston Moore, Yoko Ono and dancer Wunmi Olaiya. The film only went out to journalists as part of the Tone Dialing press kit. It was released publicly in honor of the occasion of Ornette’s 90th birthday March 9, 2020.

In 1990 Macartney-Snape returned once again to Mt Everest with the idea of climbing the mountain from the sea to the summit. The idea had originally been floated by adventure cameraman Michael Dillon. With sponsorship provided by Australian Geographic amongst others, it would take Macartney-Snape three months to achieve this goal. This was the first time anyone had walked from sea level and reached the top of Mt Everest, as even the first expeditions started from Kathmandu, at 1400m above sea level. Although Macartney-Snape planned climbing Everest via the more difficult West Ridge, bad weather and strong avalanche risk changed his plans and he finally ascended via the South Col route.

Wake compares colonial paintings of New Zealand intended to encourage migration to the colonies in the 1850s, with filmed images of the same country 100 years later, shot by the filmmaker's father. This experimental film compares the vision of a "promised land" with the lived memory of migration and explores too, the misrepresentation of indigenous people during both these eras. The half-hour experimental film is a response to the death of the filmmaker's father, an event that ultimately led to her return to New Zealand after a decade in America.

In this movie we get to meet different drug abusers in prison. Each of them have committed crimes of more or less seriousness. The main characters in the documentary is those who get chosen to participate for the "stifinner" (pathfinder)-project. First and foremost this project seeks to rehabilitate the prisoners, they want to give the prisoners more individual freedom in block C3 and thereby responsibility and confident in themselves. The volunteers of the project (ex. cons and addicts), meets the cons to talk about their experience both in and out of prison, and how they can improve themselves to gain a respectable position in a normal society.

The unauthorized video documentary

A documentary film which tells the story of a Bridgend-born Roman Catholic priest, who rose to the high role of Monsignor at the Basilica in Rome.

The film follows a group of hard core New York Bicycle Messengers as they brave the elements and face dangerous traffic situations in order to make their deliveries on time, in this action packed documentary

This film is a provocative essay about the eroticism and political antecendents of the gay skinhead lifestyle.

The third of Daniel Eisenberg’s thematically connected film essays about postwar Europe, PERSISTENCE, an award-winning feature-length experimental documentary in gorgeous color, once again explores the relationships between past, present and future in a complex portrait of the city of Berlin (divided from 1961 to 1989 by the grandiose Berlin Wall).

Peter Jennings takes a behind-the-scenes look at the Truman administration and the events that led to the atomic bombing of Japan in 1945. Includes footage of the incredible destruction, some of which has been kept secret for decades.

More footage considered to be too disturbing to be shown on television.

The rituals and the ancient carols practised by the shepherd communities in the Carpathian Mountains are nothing short of those of the ancient Greek and Roman rituals.

A look at the scenic beauty of Alaska's great parks.

Film by Karmakar.

New girl band Precious are representing the UK in next Saturday's Eurovision Song Contest. This programme follows the five girls' rise to fame, from their first appearance on Top of the Pops to the point where they learnt that they will represent the country with Say It Again.

Short documentary film about an educational experience that took place in a neighborhood of Rosario.

A hypnotic travelogue about an ancient river in the days following the summer solstice.

Documentary about the Swedish actor Per Oscarsson mostly consisting of long interviews with him in his home on a farm.

Third film of W-TV (Without Television) shareware series. Director Tsuchiya asks visitors at Yasukuni Shrine about Emperor Hirohito's complicity in the Second World War.

Filmmaker Masato Hara and his teenage son set off on a road trip, following the route of Basho's Narrow Road to the Deep North.