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Short documentary film for Oriental Time • Living Space by Jiang Yue.

A 1993 Russian language short film written and directed by Vladimir Tyulkin, starring Ivan Makhlin, Aleksey Katsovitch and Elena Shemyakina.

TV documentary about Manfred Smolka, an officer of the GDR border troops who was executed in Leipzig on July 12, 1960. He had been ambushed after his escape to West Germany and a show trial was held after his arrest.

Documentary about a 1988 research project, showing scientists at work on location and interacting with aboriginal peoples.

The second film of The July Storms duology starts with an accident at the Pochenkov Mine in February 1990, which caused the death of 13 miners. Since the summer protests, the real situation in the mines hardly changed; this lead to the second wave of miners' protests in 1990-91. This time, the miners' slogans include political demands, mentioning the decommunization of power and Ukraine's independence. The miners' representatives meet the communist officials, in particular with Stanislav Hubenko, the last First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, and Nikolay Ryzhkov, the head of the Council of Ministers of the USSR. The miners meet the August coup and the final disintegration of the country of the Soviets in strike committees.

Home movies are the springboard for an analysis of contemporary meanings of "family".

A film that ressembles a dream. Shot over a period of several years, it is composed of fragments of memory and moments of life woven together to create a sequence of microscopic stories. “Vagabonding Images” is a film that plays with the forms of cinematic language inspired by the poetic collage techniques of the French Surrealists and Japanese Haiku poets.

A look at the last days of James Ferman's rule as Chief Censor of the British Board of Film Classification.

In Detroit, hair styling isn't just a matter of personal grooming, it's a way of life, and Andrew Dosunmu's documentary Hot Irons offers an inside glimpse at Motor City hair salons that turn the tresses of their African-American clientele into remarkable works of art. Dosunmu takes his cameras to Detroit's annual "Hair Wars" competition, in which stylists compete to see who can create the wildest and most outrageous hairdo. Offering a stark contrast between the unique aesthetic of the stylists and the grinding poverty of inner city Detroit, which never fully recovered from the 1968 riots, Hot Irons shows how events like "Hair Wars" brings a sense of art and purpose to a community where both are often lacking.

The film begins with a series of horizontally running ocean tide waves, sometimes with mountains in the background, hand-painted patterns, sometimes step-printed hand-painting, abstractions composed of distorted (jammed) TV shapes in shades of blue with occasional red, refractions of light within the camera lens, sometimes mixed with reflections of water. Increasingly closer images of water, and of light reflected off water, as well as of bursts of fire, intersperse the long shots, the seascapes and all the other interwoven imagery. Eventually a distant volleyball arcs across the sky: this is closely followed by, and interspersed with, silhouettes of a young man and woman in the sea, which leads to some extremely out-of-focus images from a front car window, an opening between soft-focus trees, a clearing. Carved wooden teeth suddenly sweep across the frame. Then the film ends on some soft-focus horizon lines, foregrounded by ocean.

Documentary film about the first year of German reunification in Bitterfeld. They succeeded in showing the city and regional problems from the perspective of the people of Bitterfeld. Without spoken commentary from the documentary filmmakers, but rather through the power of images and people's stories, a powerful film has been created that shows that Bitterfeld cannot be adequately described as an ecological crisis area alone.

During the 1996/97 protests in Serbia a group of 200 students walked from Novi Sad to Belgrade to support students and citizens of the capital. A photobook by the same name, with photos from the same protests was published in 2016.

How queer can TV be? It's a Queer World is a global survey of the tastiest bits from contemporary lesbian and gay TV shows. Highlights of this fast-moving collage include clips from Berlin's "Lasbich TV", the Dutch version of "Out on Tuesday", and a very weird kids program: "The Thea annd Theo Show". It's hosted by Lily Savage, England's first lady of drag

An immersive look at the free-range children who take charge of their lives at the highly influential experimental school. An insight into the unorthodox Suffolk boarding school where lessons are optional, swearing is common, and it's the pupils who decide the rules. Summerhill, the first and last bastion of totally permissive, anti-authoritarian, free education, has been going strong for over seven decades. This program from 1992 shows how Summerhill children, left entirely to their own devices, behave; it looks at whether they spurn or take advantage of the academic education offered; whether a tribunal can be effective when the vote of a five-year-old carries as much weight as that of the headmistress.

Award-winning documentary film about old age and the elderly. We meet residents and staff at a nursing home and take part in the madness, humor, desire, sorrow, hopes and the great love that this miniature society holds.

Way Cool Creepy Crawlies, From the itty bitty kiddy wildlife series. VHS Award-Winning Cinematographers featuring Froggies, caterpillars, turtles, lizards & spiders.

Video about the occupied social center Minuesa

The Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra is the heart of Orthodox Russia. Its founder, the greatest ascetic of piety, St. Sergius of Radonezh, was famous not only for his transformation of monasticism, construction of monasteries, and miracles, but also for his gracious public service to the state and its "Christ-bearing" people. Called by the chroniclers "the abbot of the Russian land," he reconciled the warring princes and blessed the army for its battle against Mamai's hordes.

A reflective and informational look at the construction of Hòa Bình Hydropower Plant throughout over a decade, interwoven with portraits of workers who devoted themselves to this pivotal transformation of the nation.

10 Days/10 Years: The Nicaraguan Elections of 1990 offers an experiential look at the very critical elections in Nicaragua in 1990. The elections came after 10 years of painful and violent and exhausting war between the U.S.-financed “Contras” and the Sandinistas who had taken power after their successful revolution against the dictatorial Somoza.

The grand themes of Albert Camus' work and life are documented in three chapters: the Absurd, Revolt, and Happiness. His novels The Stranger, The Plague, The Rebel, The Fall and The First Man are all discussed, as well as his childhood in French Algeria, sometimes difficult friendships, role in The Resistance during WWII, 1957 Nobel Prize, his issues with Communism, living in exile in the '50s, and his accidental death at 47. His life is spoken about by the narrator, his sister-in-law, his son, his daughter, friends, critics, scholars and mistresses. The impression is of Camus as a charismatic, flawed, and yet principled man when it came to the task of confronting human existence without conforming.

The famous tragedy of Charlemagne and his nephew the Duque of Mantua, in conflict about a murder. The play, six hours long in its complete version, is performed each year in several villages of Saint Thomas Island, an ancient Portuguese colony. The characters, interpreted only by men wearing masks and sumptuous clothes in European style, are transmitted from father to son, and declaim an unalterable text. Several interviews with them lead us to understand the almost sacred function they are representing.

Filmmakers Laura Mulvey and Mark Lewis use rare archival footage and interviews with artists, art historians, and museum directors to examine the fate of Soviet-era monuments during successive political regimes, from the Russian Revolution through the collapse of communism. Mulvey and Lewis highlight both the social relevance of these relics and the cyclical nature of history. Broadcast on Channel Four as part of the 'Global Image' series (1992-1994).

This hard-hitting meeting opener will capture your employees' attention and show them just how easily accidents can happen. This video is an ideal way to start any safety meeting and features 10 accidents accompanied by victim testimony to set the tone for your next training session.

A rhythmic montage of almost 200 faces, human and animals, that Halpern pans vertically, creating a cascade of visages suggesting that while individuals express a range of emotions they remain ultimately enigmas.

In the equatorial forest of Congo Brazzaville and the Central African Republic pygmies live. Over-exploitation and waste of resources have had a significant impact on the lives of Pygmies. The story is based on Mangala an old and wise voice of these disappearing people.

This artistic and journalistic film-requiem is dedicated to the victims of the Ukrainian people who died during the Holodomor famine of 1933. Using documentary footage and archival materials, the film recreates the horrific scenes of the tragedy.

18-year-old Liv accompanies her grandfather to the concentration camps in Poland, where he was once a prisoner of the Nazis.

With Greek and Turkish communities moving out of the area, the Clifton Hill Soccer Club must recruit from a newer wave of Asian immigrants or face extinction.

No folkore, no rituals, no klezmer, no political statements, no twee Berlin Jewish quarters. This film is an attempt to make an imageless film; a plea for a religion of imagelessness, of words, of thoughts.

A film about various library cats around the country.

NOVA documentary inquiring into the fate of early Everest explorers George Mallory and Sandy Irvine

An experimental documentary about the street drag racing scene on Chicago’s Near West Side. This is a rambling, textured film about obsession. It is about the mythos of speed for its own sake, and it is about waiting. While waiting, The BLVD exposes community, inner-city landscapes and nomadic experiences of place. The film treats storytelling as a living medium for determining history. And it commands respect for those who transform cars, or anything else, through passion.

The Cross and the Star finds disheartening echoes of anti-Semitism in the otherwise profound, lyrical Gospel of St. John, the sermons of St. Augustine, the writings of Martin Luther and in the voices of the Crusaders and the Spanish Inquisitors - all of which may have helped sow the ideological seeds that developed into Nazism.

A documentary noir about flying saucers, West Virginia and a man caught in the middle.

As the struggle for gay rights continues to make new strides, internal debate threatens to undermine the cause. This documentary explores these divides within America's gay community and how they affect the way the movement is viewed by society. Interviews with prominent gay icons such as Kate Clinton, Harry Hay, Sarah Pettit, Michelangelo Signorile and Joan Nestle illustrate the diversity that exists within gay culture all across the country.

Rodeo is a tough way to make a living-that's what this video is all about. These are the hardest hit, toughest rides, most heart pounding moments of the 1989 Season of the world famous Mesquite Championship Rodeo.

Country Superstar Reba McEntire performs a 1995 concert live on this video release. She performs some over her classic songs such as "Is There Life Out There?", "The Greatest Man I Never Knew", "For My Broken Heart", "Why Haven't I Heard From You", "Does He Love You", and "Fancy".

A documentary about the blood feud in Montenegro. At the beginning, inmates at the prison facility talk about their actions and motifs. However, the central part of this documentary is the court trial to Nikola Kaludjerovic, whose revenge for the murder of his son claimed the lives of two.

Pottz, Dane, Curren and Johnny Boy at Backdoor... Munga, Nicky Wood and Chris Billy down uner in Oz... Poto, Carroll, Derek & Michael Ho, Burns & Kasuya ripping and charging at Pipeline, Backdoor, OTW and Rocky Point... Schmidt, Ruffo, Gallagher, Steve Price and Peter Mell in Nor Cal Juice... and more!

Historical and biographical narration about A. And Solzhenitsyn in 3 films: The first film is "The Embedded Goal"; the second film is "The Mathematician"; the third film is "Autumn of the Patriarch". The film is set for the 80th anniversary of the writer. At the request of the Solzhenitsyn Foundation and the wife of the writer Natalia Dmitrievna Solzhenitsyna, the film is prohibited from demonstration.

Part 9 of the 14-part documentary series which discovers cultural roots and aesthetics of modern Iranian films and the relationship between different Persian art forms and Iranian Cinema.

Circa 1995 , Instructional mogul skiing video starring Canadian National Freestyle Team members, John Smart, Mike Douglas and Lane Barrett. Video walks you through the advanced techniques still used today to ski the bumps at the top level. Released in 1995 the tricks focus on all the fun traditional aerial maneuvers of the time: Daffy, Twister, Spreads, Cossack, Iron Cross and spins with mixed and multiple combinations of them all. Get Into It!

The proboscis monkey is one of Borneo's most threatened species. This program is about the behaviour of the proboscis monkey, the habitat in which it lives and some of the creatures it shares this habitat with.

A film discussing post-independence Namibia from the perspective of the Ovahimba.

Documentary by Eckhart Schmidt.

The subject matter of Memory Room 451 is the cultural and historical significance of 20th-century hairstyles – the Afro, the conk, dreadlocks – in Black communities on both sides of the Atlantic. Akomfrah has disguised this exploration as a science fiction story – in the manner of the groundbreaking writers profiled in The Last Angel of History – while providing a bravura display of the aesthetics of video art in the 1990s. The tale of visitors from the future who gather dreams from unwitting subjects in order to construct a history of the Black diaspora both defamiliarizes Akomfrah’s ongoing project and points to the danger that extracting history from memory can be a kind of expropriation.

From 1939 to 1942, in the village of Chabannes in central France, more than 400 Jewish children were hidden, schooled, and ultimately saved through the heroic efforts of the school's director and teachers and of Jewish rescue organizations that first got the children there, and then, as war closed around them, got all but a handful out safely. In 1996, two aged teachers and the children and their families reunite. Lisa Gossels, whose father and uncle were among the children, records it. Survivors' comments, photos and drawings from the war, footage of the school and town, and a celebration of the heroism and leadership of the school's director, Felix Chevrier, comprise the film.

On the banks of the Almendares River, the inhabitants of El Fanguito have carved out their marginal space in the heart of Havana. The transformations brought about by the Revolution have been reflected in the neighborhood, but always from its marginality. Testimonies full of contradictions, dramas, and hopes reveal the humanity of its protagonists.