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Short documentary about Lazaro Cardenas' presidency.

A beautifully-shot documentary film on the life of the composer. With footage of the young Tavener as pianist and organist, performances of his music, and contributions from family, friends and experts.

Movement, glance, rhythm and hints. Meetings on fragrant meadows and in enclosed training rooms. Joy, sweat, disciplined training and physical presence. A film about the dialogue between man and woman, but also between cultures, generations and social classes.

Go behind the scenes of the Tarzan Zerbini Circus, one of the last family-owned circus shows in America. As this high-flying documentary demonstrates, thrills, spills and lots of hard labor are all in a day's work for these dedicated performers. Following the troupe over its seven-month North American tour in 1996, the film provides an intimate look at the performers, workers and animals that keep the big top standing.

Long before New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani launched his campaign to clean up the city, Times Square was the stage for a slew of religious zealots and fanatics, all preaching their brand of fire and brimstone to anyone who would listen. Filmed between 1993 and 1998, Richard Sandler's documentary gives viewers a glimpse into the not-so-distant past, when 42nd Street was the shared pulpit of the most colorful assortment of ministry imaginable.

October, 1995. The most important political event in recent Canadian history, the Quebec vote on sovereignty, is about to unfold. During the tense days leading up to the referendum for independence, 23 filmmakers from the NFB's English and French documentary studios take their cameras into the streets and homes of Quebeckers. Culled from 250 hours of footage, Referendum is an emotional portrait of a profoundly divided society. In a collage of powerful moments, the video recaptures the emotions of that time and measures them against today's political agenda. Implicit is the question: What next?

Fifty years in the making, this extraordinary reconstruction of a never-completed 1940 documentary captures the construction of seven massive traditional war canoes by Maori tribespeople in anticipation of New Zealand's centenary celebrations.

A portrait of the great radical Cuban film maker Santiago Alvarez.

A six-minute short produced for the 1994 MIX Film Festival, based on the treatise of the then-anonymous Kiki Mason, and distributed at events and festivities during Stonewall 25.

About an old couple in northern Sweden who discovered the love of tango and attended a dance course. During the four-month filming, the camera not only watched her painstaking attempts to learn the difficult steps, but also ups and downs of her everyday life.

"Assisted Living", by Nikanor Teratologen, originally released in Sweden 1992 as "Äldreomsorgen i Övre Kågedalen" immediately caused an uproar, due to the book's endless "Satanic" parade of rape, murder, sacrilege.

This award-winning documentary tells the true story of the final Confederate raid into what is now northeastern Oklahoma. The raid culminated in the capture of more than 300 Federal supply wagons at Cabin Creek in the Cherokee Nation. Now streaming on TUBI, PRIME VIDEO, TRUETVPLUS, and HISTORYFIX.

Join host Darren McGavin to search for the truth about a stunning archeological find. Is a giant 5,000-year-old wooden ship complete with animal stalls and cages Noah's Ark as some claim? Over 200 cultures around the globe tell the same story: A flood; a large boat; animals; a few select survivors. Coincidence or historical fact? New scientific investigations provide amazing new discoveries.

Footage from slaughterhouse with sacral music, similar to Dora's 'Carnophage' but with a lot more ambiental, non-narrative aspects.

Part oral history, part reflection on a culture at risk of being erased, this documentary presents a deep dialogue between a 93-year-old Pangcah chieftain and an indigenous filmmaker. Through words and songs, hunting trips and weaving of vines, the elderly chieftain lives and embodies the ways of the Pangcah people. He also recounts his frustrated attempts in defending traditional culture against Taiwan's encroaching modernity.

Sure we’re interested in Jim Henson’s work as a filmmaker and creative innovator, but his brilliant talents as a performer are often overlooked. As a puppeteer, he created such indelible characters as Kermit the Frog, Rowlf the Dog, Ernie, and the Swedish Chef. This compilation illuminates the development and evolution of these classic characters – and many more.

MICHAEL SNOW UP CLOSE was produced on the occasion of The Michael Snow Project, a major, career-spanning, multi-venue retrospective of the artist. The documentary celebrates the multi-faceted shape of Snow's creative genius, including glimpses of his work in painting, sculpture, film, photo-works, performance, installations, and holography. Discussions with Snow, original documentation of his music and performance work, and excerpts from his avant-garde films, are complemented by interviews with filmmakers Jonas Mekas and Bruce Elder, Snow's dealer Av Isaacs, the architect Eb Zeidler, museum director Pierre Théberge, curator Louise Dompierre, and others. A deliberately conventional documentary about a deliberately unconventional artist.

The film depicts Skansen during the change of four seasons and various holidays, and begins with an historical backdrop.

The artist returns to Havana and enjoys the works of other Latin American creators while walking the streets of the Cuban capital.

A documentary film that puts us in direct contact with the thoughts and views of HIV-positive people, their social, human and political experiences, their personal feelings and their vision of the world. It gives us the interviews of HIV positive people who wanted to express through the camera's eyes what they live every day. Topics of conversation around life, death, the other, politics, society... So many common themes, even anodyne, which take on a whole new dimension in the face of the emergency.

A documentary focusing on Polish 60-year-old Henryk Kowalczyk who is deaf-blind and being taught sculpture. Working with clay and other materials is therapeutic light in a world of darkness

A harrowing and brave response to dictatorship.

Tanovic himself a refugee from Sarajevo interviews a Bosnian refugee in Brussels their new adoptive country Belgium.

Documentary.

An experimental documentary about filmmaker Raoul Peck, who traded his director’s chair for the position of Minister of Culture of the Republic of Haiti. As a passionate filmmaker, he wanted to tell stories and perhaps bring about change. As minister, he has to deal with the turmoil of real-life Haitian politics.

The third part of the “Maxhütten Cycle.” The camera follows the steelworkers from the “Ernst Thälmann Socialist Labor Brigade.” It becomes clear what hardships they endure every day—working in the heat, dust, and noise—so that they can receive their monthly wages of between 800 and 1,500 marks at the end of the month.

A short TV documentary about the sex lives and sexual desires of elderly people.

Green Chimneys follows three young boys living at Green Chimneys, a residential treatment center for children with emotional, behavioral, social and learning challenges.

Relationship of Lake Titicaca with the communities of the periphery, record of the flora and fauna of the highest lake in the world.

Osterøy is the largest inland island in Northern Europe. It lies between Osterfjorden and Sørfjorden not far from Bergen. This film presents what Osterøy can offer of culture and nature.

Frontline investigates hidden strategies of air war against Iraq and its devastating impact on Iraqi civilians.

Teaching children how to avoid victimization. Included: dramatic re-creations of potentially dangerous situations; tips for dealing with confrontations with gang members; strangers; and intruders. Sanford Strong hosts the program

Documentary that was submitted as part of Kazakstan's entry on the 1995 UNESCO Memory of the world list

The film, which has a paradoxically ironic author's commentary, echoes the classic film production of Dziga Vertov "Three Songs about Lenin".

The filmmaker questions her sister, herself and others about the dreams and hopes they had growing up as girls in contrast to the reality they face as women.

Disappearance at Sea (1996) is a 16 mm colour film with sound shot on location at the lighthouse on St Abb’s Head in Berwick-upon-Tweed in northern England.

In okay bye-bye, so named for what Cambodian children shouted to the U.S. ambassador in 1975 as he took the last helicopter out of Phnom Phenh in advance of the Khmer Rouge, Rebecca Baron explores the relationship of history to memory. She questions whether, "image and memory can occupy the same space." Building on excerpts from letters, found super-8 footage of an unidentified Cambodian man, iconographic photographs from the Vietnam War and other partial images, Baron combines epistolary narrative, memoir, journalism, and official histories to question whether something as monumental as the genocidal slaughter of Cambodians during the Pol Pot regime can be examined effectively with traditional methodologies.

Childhood stories of the artist as a young lesbian and intimate tales of the lesbian as a young artist underscore the filmmaker's life of performances. With a Swiss army knife she robs an American Express Bank in Morocco, accosts a shepherd in a field on International Women's Day, and tap dances on Shirley Temple's star on Hollywood Boulevard. This child movie star was the ideal by which Hammer's ambitious mother measured her own Barbie. Grandma, already a cook for Lillian Gish in Hollywood, introduced the cute, loquacious child and her mother to D.W. Griffith. Lesbian autobiography is a slender genre, so Hammer draws from general culture studies for critique and to provide an ironic edge to the synthesized "voices of authority".

Short documentary about Dragan Antonijević 'Arlekino', a parody music performer.

An account of a bus pilgrimage to the Marian Shrine in Licheń organized by the artist's mother.

Dimmuborgir are situated in one of Iceland’s most active volcanic zones. The film gives a clear account of the formation of this magnificant citadel of lava. The geology of the area is described and the viewer is brought into contact with its incomparable scenic beauty and birdlife as well as with the great danger facing this jewel in Icelandic landscape.

A Goya award winning short documentary.

This film at the most fundamental level, a personal project; i) examining the use and production of images/representations of Lebanon and Beirut both in the West and in Lebanon itself, ii) recording the interactions and experiences while working in Lebanon, focusing on the undertaking of this representational process as a Lebanese and a westernized, foreign-born mediator with cultural connections and baggage of both the West and Lebanon and some of the disparities and disjunctions arising in each, and iii) situating the work between genres looking from the inside out at each and engaging critically at the assumptions imposed and thus broken in this site of complexity one’s identity is found and constructed in.

The centre of Britain's codebreaking activities during the Second World War, the manor house at Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire, codenamed Station X, was Winston Churchill's best kept secret. Not only did the work done there help defeat the Nazis and win the War, it made a major contribution to the invention and development of the computer and the digital technology which has come to dominate the world. With contributions from historians, technical experts and many of the original people in all roles, from the most fiendishly technical to the most mundane, Station X is brought back to life after more than half a century.

In the sixteenth century Portuguese Catholic missionaries introduced Christianity to Japan. The religion flourished for about fifty years, but by 1614 the Tokugawa government issued an edict that outlawed Christianity and expelled the missionaries from Japan. About 150,000 believers went underground and continued to practice their religion in secret. These people are known as the "Hidden Christians". Otaiya, meaning "Big Evening" is the Hidden Christian version of Christmas Eve. Through the occasion of this ceremony, the film tells the story of Japan's Hidden Christians. Made with the cooperation of contemporary Hidden Christians on the remote island of Narushima, the film features the only two remaining priests in the Goto Islands.

Here it is, the often hinted at lost documentary footage, historical overview, and video clip collection of one of punk rock's reluctant trend setters. Fun for the whole dysfunctional family

In July we fallow puffin catchers going on small boats to uninhabited rocky islands where they catch the flying birds into nets. This hunt is very dangerous as the men have to operate from narrow ledges in cliffs high above the surfing ocean. In August we see another side of the puffin/man relationship, as the children lovingly collect helpless puffin chicks from streets and alleys and keep them in cardboard boxes at their homes for the night until the can help them to the sea in the morning.

The home video features never-before-seen footage of Mother Love Bone live in concert combined with previously unreleased interviews with frontman Andrew Wood, bassist Jeff Ament, and guitarist Stone Gossard. The documentary covers the band's formation and its eventual disbandment due to the death of Wood. Additionally, the videos for "Stardog Champion" and "Holy Roller" are included.

Three Songs on Pain, Time and Light is a video portrait in deliberately unbalanced colours, made by Trevor Mathison and Edward George and produced with Black Audio Film Collective.

Documents the view and action outside director Charlie Ahearn's 43rd Street apartment window from 1981 to 1983.

Of all the creatures conjured up from the shadows of the human mind, none exerts such a terrifying grip on our imaginations as the immortal night-stalker, Dracula. But did this fiend actually exist? Are there such things as living vampires? Now, in this startling expose of the vampire legend, you'll meet the scholar who traveled Transylvania's eerie landscapes to unearth the real-life Count Dracula: the ghoulish 15th-century Romanian prince known and feared as "Vlad the Impaler."

Here, for the first time, is the complete record of Brazil's most enthralling games, including the sparkling World Cup Finals of 1958 and 1970 and two of the most dramatic matches ever played: Brazil v Italy in 1982 and their quarter final against France in 1986.

The UK series Equinox brings us this investigation of a mystery that is baffling Egyptologists. The case calls into question whole areas of accepted scientific fact from botany, through chemistry to archaeology. In 1992, routine tests on a mummy in a Munich museum revealed high body levels of cocaine and nicotine. But such substances were not available in ancient Egypt, coming as they do from the Americas – not, apparently, to be “discovered” for thousands of years after the passing of the Egyptian dynasties. Are the mummies fakes; were the substances from plants that have since disappeared or were there, in fact, trade routes between Egypt and South America that predate accepted chronology?