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For 200 years, coal mining had been a way of life in Cape Breton. By 1920 things were looking up: miners were unionized and paid decent wages. Then the British Empire Steel Corporation arrived and bought every single steel and coal company in Nova Scotia. BESCO cut wages by a third, setting off a bitter labour dispute. The miners settled in for a long strike. Finally, in 1925, the military ended the unrest with brute force. But the miners, in one sense, had won. They broke up the monopoly and provided an example to workers across the country.

Interview-based documentary on the Swedish actor Keve Hjelm where he discusses his career.

Pentti Linkola studies birds in the Aland archipelago on Signilskär island.

The awara soup is a kind of stew containing all sorts of ingredients from French Guiana. People say that if someone eats that dish on Easter, he is sure never to leave Guiana.

A documentary film about the 1960, 1971, 1980, and 1997 military interventions and coups d'etat in Turkey.

After 40 years of the premiere of the social film "Tire dié", we know the characters of that film and how they continued their lives.

Only two months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, in January 1990, almost two hundred controversial East German visual and performance artists—including Jürgen Böttcher, the Autoperforation Artists, AG Geige, Via Lewandowsky, Trak Wendisch, Conny Hege, Klaus Killisch, Helga Paris and Hanns Schimansky—presented works rarely shown in the GDR at the exhibition space in the former La Villette slaughterhouses on the outskirts of Paris.

This show was filmed in Manchester, England in 1983, just as Divine's recording career was taking off, and shows him at his tasteless and tacky best. From his appearance in 1966 in his first John Waters film until his death in 1988, Divine always courted controversy. Love him or hate him you can't help but find him talented and very funny.

Profile of Sr. Thea Bowman, including interviews with her during the last year of her life.

Making Of made for the program “Así se hizo” of Spanish TV (TV2)

The film is dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the accident at the Chornobyl NPP.

A portrait of a desperate man in the East Village circa 1996.

Cross over the gender-line with Larry Wessel as he explores the fascinating world of Transvestites, Drag Queens and Transexuals!

Photography trip to Bolivia filmed with a rostrum camera and edited with original sounds from the country.

Focuses on a range of African American gay and lesbian concerns, from outing to homophobia to alienation and discrimination within the black community.

The first feature-length Yakut film. A film that tells in a documentary and game form about the rituals, customs, beliefs, life and lifestyle of the Sakha people. The director recreated on the screen the ancient rituals of the life cycle, almost forgotten by the current Sakha.

A short documentary by Apichatpong Weerasethakul about lives connected by radio.

The urban on-line dictionary defines queercore as “Gay-themed, underground, independent music; usually punk rock (Team Dresch, Pansy Division, The Butchies, The Need, etc.)”. See for yourself.

From the Peruvian artists series. It documents the work of the reggae music group "Tierra Sur" led by Pochi Marambio.

Everybody knows that 130,000 prisoners are held behind barbed wires in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Is it enough to bring them an humanitarian aid so that they can die without being starved any longer?

Namskyi Velikden is the widespread Day of Dead in the Polesie. According to the old legends it is believed that souls of the dead ancestors come back to earth.

A vibrant and perceptive documentary that celebrates the fiddling dancing traditions of Native American and Metis families on both sides of the United States and Canadian border. Although European in origin, fiddling and step-dancing traditions of both Indian and mixed-blood descendants reflect a strong Native American influence and are sustained largely by Native American spiritual ideals. This remarkable film weaves music, dance, and storytelling into a compelling and entertaining experience.

A nostalgic yet energetic look at a bygone chapter in Chicago history: the 1920s and '30s, when city life was far less threatening than it is today. More than 30 Chicagoans, including Irv Kupcinet, Studs Terkel, Shirley Belle Cole and Chuck Schaden share their heartfelt memories of Chicago. Snapshots and original music from that period accompany the narrative, depicting an era when life was simple -- a streetcar to the Loop was 7 cents, and a box of popcorn at the Marbro cost a nickel.

Documentary explores how sex has become pervasive in every genre of television. Includes clips from talk shows, soap operas, game shows and cartoons from countries around the world that have more liberal broadcast regulations than the United States.

Hailed at “The Biggest and Best” by Civil War News…a monumental gathering of the largest army of reenactors and spectators ever assembled came together near Hagerstown, Maryland, to commemorate the 135th Anniversary of the Battle of Antietam. The story is told by the people who made it happen, from the transformation of the Artz farm to the Preservation March, a Civil War wedding and Dr. Pierre’s Medicine Show. You’ll sit around the campfire with your “pards” and then plunge into the foggy mist of The Cornfield with the Iron Brigade and Hood’s Texans—assault the Bloody Lane with the Irish Brigade—and hold off Burnside’s relentless columns with A.P. Hill’s Light Division.

Echoing the title of a definitive film in British cinema, A Matter of Life and Death captures an equally definitive reality of British society in the nineties: the scourge of AIDS that cost thousands of people their lives. What’s it like to live and die of a “big illness with a small name”?

Portrait of director Ishmael Bernal.

16mm film directed by Nobutaka Yamamura.

Africa's Deadliest Game

To sail down the Niger River for over five hundred kilometers to meet the populations and their music, that is the challenge taken up by a dozen African and European musicians, all soloists, traveling together in a dugout canoe which takes them along the river from village to village to play with the inhabitants and to organize common concerts.

At the end of October 1997, a terrible event occurred, one that shook the entire Orthodox world. In Greece, a young Romanian brutally murdered Joseph, Jose, Muñoz-Cortes, guardian of the renowned Miracle-working, Myrrh-streaming Iveron Icon of the Mother of God: The Keeper of the Portal.

This film is a study on the relationship between the tribal and the bamboo as a relationship from birth to death. It investigates further into the flowering of bamboo in Manipur and Mizoram which has got environmental, economic and political dimensions.

Memories, death, funeral. Recorded in summer 1992-1994.

In the official Church view, homosexual women are regarded as nothing less than the embodiment of "an intrinsic moral evil." These daughters of Eve are the subjects of this documentary. In this enlightening film, the viewer shares the pain and heartache of these women as they struggle for knowledge, courage and self-affirmation.

After working in solitude at the studio, the artist leaves, uncomfortable with the idea of having to put on a face for the art world, where they expect you to say something articulate in order to grab the curator's attention. - Video Data Bank

The Father Moon Ik-hwan had been imprisoned for inaugurating the National Security Law after visiting North Korea. However Korean people’s desire for reunification heated up the whole country and Moon Gyu-hyeon and Lim Su-Gyeong visited North Korea. That means Father Moon’s visit to North Korea triggered Korean people’s desire for reunification. This film represents the Father Moon’s point of view on and people’s movement on reunification through influence of his visit in North Korea in 1989.

Actress Michelle LeBrun directed this highly personal documentary about her husband, actor and writer Mel Howard, and his unsuccessful attempts to overcome liver cancer. While Howard at first rejected traditional cancer treatments in favor of alternative therapy, and then embraced chemotherapy and liver transplants as last-ditch attempts to save his life, the film's ultimate focus is on Howard's spiritual progression as he adjusts to the notion of his passing. "Death: A Love Story" was enthusiastically received when screened at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival.

Documentary, showing the last cantonal assembly that was held only by men in the town of Hundwil (Appenzell AR), Switzerland in 1990.

This television documentary takes us on a fascinating journey into the realms just beyond our five senses, where thoughts are things and creation begins. Rudolf Steiner not only found how to experience these areas directly, in a very safe and methodical manner, but he also developed specific techniques which, if utilized in the right way and with the proper intention, enable the individual to have insight into the spiritual realities. In addition to learning of this extraordinary individuality, we meet some of the men and women who are utilizing the impulses brought by Dr. Steiner to expand and enhance their specific vocations in very practical ways, e.g. education, agriculture, medicine, astronomy, mathematics, architecture, the arts, and working with retarded children and adults.

A multi-generational portrait of pioneering Punjabi-Mexican families who settled, a century ago, in Southern California's Imperial Valley. Through the use of found footage, archival and family photographs, personal and public documents, Jayasri Majumdar Hart tells the touching and inspirational story of a community that grew out of a struggle for economic survival in the face of prejudice.

Chapter 7 of the series 18 decades of life in Mexico in the twentieth century. Images of the cultural, social and political life in Mexico between 1930-1934.

On October 17, 1993, local government elections were held in Estonia. The film takes the viewer to Antsla, a small town in Võrumaa, where more than a third of the population is retired. All this is a mirror of Estonian life, from which tensions, pains and worries, few joys and high expectations face society. The old laws are no longer valid and the new ones are not yet rooted.

An acclaimed hijacking documentary that eerily foreshadowed 9/11. We meet the romantic skyjackers who fought their revolutions and won airtime on the passenger planes of the 1960s and '70s. By the 1990s, such characters were apparently no more, replaced on our TV screens by stories of anonymous bombs in suitcases. Director Johan Grimonprez investigates the politics behind this change, at the same time unwrapping our own complicity in the urge for ultimate disaster.

Documentary portrait from 1995 of the Danish star of the silent screen, Asta Nielsen.

Documentary examining the way women are shown and described in newsreels from 1930-1960.

In the 1950’s the United States government restricted a 6 by 10 mile block of land somewhere north of Las Vegas. Although the government will not discuss this top secret facility, it has been consistently associated with UFO sightings and conspiracy stories. The reasons for the cover up of alien activity is unclear, but one thing is for sure, the government will do everything in their power to stop the public from knowing the truth. The most probable explanation is that mass panic would ensue if the public knew we were being visited by beings far superior to ourselves. In 1999, TGR exposes AREA 51, a 16mm jib flick that shows skiing’s new generation going bigger than ever and pulling the sickest tricks imaginable. Filmed at competitions and sessions around the globe, this movie has it all.

A portrayal of Futurist artist José de Almada Negreiros, who said: "I wanted others to say of me: 'Look, a man!' The same way they say: 'Look, a dog!' when a dog passes by; or how you say: 'Look, a tree!', when there is a tree. Which means as an entity, without the use of adjectives, only as one whole: A man!"

Torgny Anderberg goes back to the Peruvian rain forest after 17 years, to meet again with the Ashaninka people. They tell of their current situation, and the struggles they face.

The film is about various kinds of winter sports in Iceland jeep excursions, mountain skiing, cross-country skiing, ice climbing and many other exciting winter sports that are attended in Iceland.

A film about conscription in the Soviet army. Mothers in Russia, Ukraine, and Latvia recount the tragic fate of their sons. The film has won awards at international film festivals in Lübeck (Germany), Yekaterinburg (Russia), and Kogoshima (Japan), and has been included in the official programs of film festivals in Cannes (France), Dortmund and Oberhausen (Germany), and elsewhere.

A documentary about animal rights activists

Relive the New Jersey Devils' historic first NHL Stanley Cup Championship with this unique look at their 1995 title run led by playoff MVP and Conn Smythe winner Claude Lemieux. Experience the emotion, the drama, and the memorable moments as you follow the determined Devils' meteoric rise to hockey heaven. See the New Jersey Devils knock off Cam Neely and the Boston Bruins, dispose of Jaromir Jagr and the Pittsburgh Penguins, and finally Eric Lindros and the Philadelphia Flyers before facing the high-flying Detroit Red Wings in the Stanley Cup Championship. With its breath taking highlights, exclusive behind-the-scenes footage and player interviews, this video will bring you all the action from the opening face-off to the championship celebration!

A marketing scam video from 1990. Take a glimpse at some retro financial chicanery.