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An short anti-cruise missile film created in collaboration with a group of filmmakers.

Cultural figures and artists discuss the present and future of children's theatre in the Soviet Union.

A documentary about Paraskeva Clark, a Russian painter who trained in Paris and moved to Canada in the 1930s.

Canadas contemporary dance group La La La Human Steps performs Édouard Lock's "Human Sex" .

The Industrial Service of the Navy – SIMA, in its two fundamental aspects: ship construction and repair.

Documentary about Marius Müller-Westernhagen

A film of Enrico Berlinguer's funeral in Rome, briefly tracing his career as leader of the Italian Communist Party.

Short documentary film directed by Gustavo Mosquera R. during Raúl Alfonsín's presidency. It presents the landscapes of Viedma, a city in northern Patagonia, during the planning of an ultimately abandoned project to relocate Argentina's capital there. The film is narrated by president Alfonsín himself. This ambitious plan sought to decentralize political power and promote regional development, but was never realized.

Intelligent and sensitive, Meena Kumari found solace in reading and writing poetry in her private life. She found freedom and utmost self-expression in Urdu poetry.

Biography of the legendary filmmaker directed by his son.

Idol and actress Megumi Odaka Diary, 1988 VHS.

In April 1978, almost 200 Greek immigrants are arrested on the spurious charge of attempting to defraud Australia's Department of Social Security.

Reconstruction of the presence of Marshal Ramón Castilla (1797-1867), during the time he held the Presidency of the country, through the coins he issued and the economic boom thanks to the guano of the islands.

A documentary based on the book Umbanda no Brasil by the scholar Mata e Silva, who is interviewed by the director. The book studies the Brazilian religion known as spiritism, a syncretism of African beliefs and magical rites, Indian beliefs and images, and Catholic symbols.

A collection of bloopers and outtakes from an enormous selection of Hollywood classic productions spanning from the 1930s through the 1980s.

The annual production conference, speeches by functionaries and silence of the workers while they are waiting to descent into the pit. Talking of the unimportant, what really should be said remains unspoken of. A suffocating closeness to reality conserved a part of history that remains ageless though impressive images.

A kaleidoscopic living diary of the underground rock scene in Leningrad just before perestroika.

An exhilarating and amusing encyclopedic look at the "prehistory" of cinema. Werner Nekes charts the fascination with moving pictures which led to the birth of film, covering shadow plays, peep shows, flip books, flicks, magic lanterns, lithopanes, panoramic, scrolls, colorful forms of early animation, and numerous other historical artiffices. Working with these formats, early "producers" created melodramas, comedies, -- as well as lots of pornography -- anticipating most of the forms known today. Nekes probes these colorful toys and inventions in a rich and rewarding optical experience. Film Before Film is a bewildering assault of exotic (and sometimes erotic) images and illusions.

The importance of affection and education in the formation and development of the human being up to 3 years of age.

Documentary. Shot on U-matic.

The need to preserve the natural landscape and life around Peru's highest snow-capped mountain.

Doug Harris's 1982 avant-garde jazz film Speaking in Tongues was funded by German Public Television channel ZDF and broadcast throughout Europe when it was first released. The now rarely seen work features saxophonist David Murray, percussionist Milford Graves, and poet-playwright and novelist Amiri Baraka, and serves as a tribute to Albert Ayler, a tenor saxophonist who was a leader in the free-style jazz movement before his mysterious death in 1970.

Famous Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies

The imaginative fancifulness typical of a child.

From the Pacific sun to the Arctic ice-fields, adventure seeker John Burrud seeks out the world's deadliest creatures in an attempt to uncover unknown secrets.

Based on the life experiences of photographer Horst Sturm, the story of Kollwitzplatz in Berlin is retold.

Profile of one of the world's most popular motion picture stars, told through interviews with some of the artists who worked with him, family, friends, and excerpts from many of his films and television appearances.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder visited for two weeks the "Theater der Welt" festival in 1981 in Cologne. 30 companies showed in over 100 performances their own visions of a new theater. Framed by Fassbinder's reading of one of the famous essays on theater: Antonin Artaud's "The Theater and its Double". The audience is left to wonder how much of Artaud's radical and beautiful vision is realized in contemporary theater.

The folk music legend, Toma Zdravković, gave one of his last performances in Skadarlija, in the tavern "Dva jelena".

Household waste containers were not in use in Riga during the 80ies. So the city-dwellers had to wait for the orange rubbish collection cars, Norbas, to arrive at a certain time of day...

A countercultural icon, Hoffman is remembered as one of the greatest radicals of the civil rights and anti-war movements of the sixties. In this film, which documents the first interview he gave in 1980 when he decided to reveal his identity after spending seven years in hiding, he traces the evolution of political activism in America. "My name is Abbie... orphan of America."

The point of departure for this film is the 1981 composition De Tijd by Dutch composer Louis Andriessen. Van der Keuken leaves the music undisturbed as an autonomous soundtrack and has the images engage in a sort of battle with it. These images are associations, fragments of events, scenes and situations. The film is preceded by a text by Bert Schierbeek.

The 1985 Song Festival performance highlights the expressions of the chief conductors at various stages of the event, allowing us to experience the emotional nuances through the perfect combination of visuals and soundtrack, without any behind-the-scenes commentary.

As the Iran-contra scandal was still unfolding, Frontline correspondent William Greider revealed how the US began supporting the contras in Nicaragua and why our involvement there continues. The program is a meticulous reconstruction of US policy toward Nicaragua, and an investigation into how US foreign policy is made.

Video following the poet and journalist from Valparaíso, Manuel Astica Fuentes, one of the leaders of the Chilean army uprising that occurred in 1931.

Experimental documentary following the flow of the Thames out of London to the sea.

A young woman is fed up with the usual consumer's television and begins to make her own television, or more correctly, closevision. She is now a reporter who wanders around Berlin with her camera and 'telecasting apparatus' on her back. Her livingroom has been transformed into a studio and here the different programs are assembled and aired: statements, interviews, realistic and phantastic programs.

A retrospective of the life and career of actor Cary Grant, including clips from his films and interviews with his friends and co-workers.

Reflections on the moral values that develop in a person during school years. The author tells about his former school in Mazsalaca.

Documentary directed by Hans S. Lampe

A German TV documentary that chronicles the daily rehearsals, the filming and all the behind the scenes of Jean-Jacques Annaud's classic "The Name of the Rose". From actors perspectives to the ideas used by the director to produce an impeccable international epic adaptation of Umberto Eco's best selling novel, the film presents the obstacles behind the creation of a production of such large scale and also the making of the many difficult scenes, most of the ones presented here are the characters' murders inside the mysterious abbey.

On the artistic work of the Chimbote painter Luis Arias Vera.

A documentary detailing Jimmy Cliff planning a reggae festival against a backdrop of the social movements in Jamaica.

This document shows the solidarity of the people and government of Costa Rica towards the people of Nicaragua in their fight against one of the most opprobrious tyrannies in Latin American history: the dictatorship of the Somoza family. It aims to point out the reasons that moved Costa Ricans to support the insurrectional feat carried out by the Nicaraguan people in their desire to achieve freedom, after 43 years of Somoza repression.

Documentary about advertising made for the 1984 Stuttgart Videocongress festival. Shot on U-matic.

Biography of Dame Margot Fonteyn.

A five-year portrait of Junior Rios' descent into the black hole of drug addiction which will ultimately cost him everything.

French film critic Michel Ciment interviews Billy Wilder about his life and filmmaking.

Steve Allen hosts this collection of clips of some of the greatest comedy teams in movie and television history, including Our Gang, Laurel and Hardy, The Marx Brothers, Burns and Allen, The Three Stooges, The East-Side Kids, Abbott and Costello, and Martin and Lewis.

Beckermann's parents met in Vienna after the Holocaust. Tracing the migratory paths of her family before World War II, Beckerman returns to the European Jewish communities which inspired her childhood stories.

A tribute to the spirit and humanity of people who are physically different from the average: very tall and very large men and women, a bearded woman and her long-time husband, Siamese twins joined at the midsection, and several little people including actor Billy Barty. We meet some at Gibsonton, Florida, where carnival folk winter. They talk about their lives and accomplishments. The camera also goes on the road to visit a grandfather with a distinctive face, a legless mechanic from Kentucky on a second honeymoon in LA, a marathon runner and motivational speaker who has no feet, a karate student with partial limbs, and an armless, down-to-earth mom in Texas.

Evocation of the city of Arequipa in its aspects of history, architecture and folklore.

Ukrainian-Canadian Ted Baryluk's grocery store has been a fixture in Winnipeg's North End for over 20 years. In this photo study, Ted talks about his store, the customers who have come and gone and the social changes his multicultural neighbourhood has seen. But most of all he wonders what will become of his store after he retires. He hopes his daughter will take over, but she wants to move away. The film is a wistful rendering of a shopkeeper's relationship with his daughter and a fascinating portrait of a neighbourhood and its inhabitants.

This documentary is constructed in two parts. Part one deals with the suppression of other ‘minority’ cultures, part two looks at the ways these cultures are fighting back. The film includes contributions from Prof. Stuart Hall (The Open University), Prof, Bikkhu Parekh (Commission for Racial Equality), Prof. Gwyn Williams (Historian/Author), Benjamin Zephaniah (Poet), teachers and children, with experiences of Gujarati, Caribbean, Creole and Welsh.

A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.

He was a great singer/songwriter who touched the elusive spirit of Canada. He was larger than life. Before dying in a tragic accident at the age of 33, Stan Rogers was already well on his way to becoming a national icon. Born in Ontario, Rogers' mother was from Nova Scotia and much of his music was influenced by his summers there. This lyrical portrait captures the man and his music and has captivated millions of viewers over its broadcast life.

Documentary about Sir Terence Conran, an English designer, restaurateur, retailer and writer.