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Carnival celebration by the community members of Chimboya (Corani district, Carabaya province), in homage to their farms and livestock.

A documentary made by Italian television with behind-the-scenes footage of the making of Federico Fellini's AND THE SHIP SAILS ON and extensive interview footage of Fellini.

Saying No is an early 1980s educational film produced by Crommie & Crommie that, true to the title, presents a process for young women to successfully decline advances from the opposite sex.

Documentary about Dean Reed, an American who became a popstar behind the Iron Curtain.

Through engravings of the city of Lima, the beauty and uniqueness of the city described by foreign travelers during the 19th century are shown.

Steve Martin's third NBC special serves as a salute to 1970s television commercials. Taking shots at everything from "Suzy Chapstick" to Palmolive to advertising agencies, this special showcased Martin's genius for physical comedy.

Comprehensive jungle development project.

A West Yorkshire story of rewilding wetlands in a landscape once dominated by deep coal mining.

This award winning film is a fast paced, humorous look at the colorful way the residents of New Orleans express themselves - why they talk the way they do, where the words come from, and what it means to talk with a New Orleans accent.

Ecumenical version of the Bible in the Quechua of Huaraz.

Luc Moullet turns the camera on himself as he attempts to overcome his fear of large bodies of water and learn to swim.

A film about Raymond Depardon's photography in his native countryside from the documentary TV series "Territoires photographiques" for France 3 and INA.

A 1987 program examining the work of Maurice and Katia Krafft, who studied and filmed volcanoes around the world before their deaths in a 1991 volcanic explosion. Scenes include a lake of molten lava in Central Africa; an eruption in Iceland; an evacuated school being devoured by Mount Etna.

Take a tour of New York City like never before.

Farm docudrama about a father and son who grew apart after the son fails to move up a grade.

A review of the past Struga Poetry Evenings with a presentation of the laureates of the Golden Wreath of Poetry.

About the brightest genre of Russian folklore.

Why are businessmen the "most convenient heavies" on prime time television dramas? Through clips from TV shows and interviews with some of TV's most prominent writers, producers, and stars, this documentary examines the origins of the negative stereotype and its long-term effect on the viewing public.

Have You Seen Drum Recently? is a 1989 film which uses photographs from the Drum archives to tell the story of the magazine and documents its contribution to the cultural and political life of South Africa.

Pop star BJ Thomas performs songs from throughout his career, cut with interviews with Thomas and his wife Gloria talking about his conversion to Christianity.

Memories of Andrzej Bursa. His friends, acquaintances, wife, and sister talk about him.

Rare documentary footage from around 1900 depicts the mood of life in Berlin at the turn of the century.

Traces the life of Anna Magnani, her creations, her successes, her triumphs, her boycotted career, her nonconformism, her anxieties, her generosity ... Punctuated with photos that tell her career in theater and cinema, Extracts of films, this documentary portrait also gives the floor to his friends and relatives, from Roberto Rossellini to Marcello Mastroianni, through Federico Fellini.

Nelson Sullivan, a videographer in Manhattan circa 1983 to 1989, documented a large chunk of the final six years of his life, capturing his days and nights with drag queens and other NYC outcasts of the time. His style takes on a "home movie quality" that captures a lost - and now romanticized - American era in all of its mundane glory.

This documentary juxtaposes scenes of El Salvador's opposition factions, including U.S. government advisors and government troops, and guerrillas and their sympathizers.

Tells the story of Greta and Freda Chaplin, a pair of English identical twins who dress alike, try to walk in step and for much of the time speak the same words in unison. The program looks at their lifestyle, background and situation as two people who give the appearance of having only one mind.

Four Black and Third World women artists, among them African American feminist poet Audre Lorde and Palestinian performance artist Mona Hatoum, speak forcefully through their art and writing.

A group of children enjoying their productive holidays in Cruz Blanca write letters to their parents and describe their days of recreation.

The 15th short film as part of the Magica series dealing with pre-cinema. A magic lantern slide show.

Report from life at a campsite on Samsø. The campsite is seen as an introduction to Denmark, as a Danish microcosm.

A trip throught brazilian 60's/70's hippie universe.

A TV documentary about the Finnish comedy character Uuno Turhapuro.

Rokk í Reykjavík (Rock in Reykjavik) gives a thorough overview of the powerful and expanding rock scene in Iceland. Most of the film consists of performances by a wide variety of rock-groups in various clubs in Reykjavik in 1981-82. There are also interviews with members of the groups representing different views on such features of the rock scene as sex, drugs and politics. 19 groups appear in the film.

An extraordinary story of heartache and humour, of friendship and maternal love. Did two women in a maternity unit somehow end up with each other's baby girl?

This fascinating video captures the uniqueness of Alaska, from the wilderness of the great parks to the life of the people in the cities and countryside. Cruise up the Inside Passage and visit the colorful coastal towns of Southeastern Alaska. Explore Glacier Bay's tremendous fjords and glaciers. Ride the Alaska Railroad from Fairbanks and see Denali National Park (Mt. McKinley), the Matunukska Valley, and Anchorage. Travel to the remote Eskimo lands in the Far North. Other wonders of Alaska included are Ketchikan, Juneau, Sitka, Skagway, Homer, Katmai National Park, Kotzebue, Gates of the Arctic National Park, the sternwheeler "Discovery", Alaskaland and Earthquake Park.

This is a montage documentary that includes the one made in color about Eva Perón's funeral by Edward Cromgraje at the request of the Perón government, entitled And Argentina Stopped Its Heart.

Mont Blanc, the highest peak in the Alps, rises to 4,810 m and was first climbed on August 8, 1786. Chamonix natives Jacques Balmat and Michel Paccard set out on the afternoon of August 7 and returned victorious on the morning of the 9th, after two nights spent outdoors. This film is a staging that reconstructs this great event with all the problems it created and resolved, thus contributing to the emergence of the modern concept of mountaineering. Denis Ducroz, guide and filmmaker, immerses us in the minds and times of these two men, 224 years later.

This is a film about Juhan Peegel, a linguist and lecturer, professor and writer, a former soldier. Against the background of all these facets, the viewer is presented with an amazingly simple and modest human nature, who values ​​the warmth of home and the land of his birth above all else.

A film about the mass extermination of people by the Nazis in the Janowska concentration camp in Lviv. Former prisoners of the camp are interviewed. The camp orchestra plays. Photos from the Great Patriotic War and documentary footage about neo-fascism are used.

Author and artist Maurice Sendak discusses the early stages of his picture book career, specifically "Where the Wild Things Are" and "In the Night Kitchen".

Documentary about the work of South African intelligence agencies in Britain, with an interview with Information Secretary in the South African government, Eschel Rhoodie, and former agents.

Documentary about Kathy Acker where she talks about her writing and her life in New York.

Mueda was a massacre. The name is that of the village in Northern Mozambique where in 1960 it took place. The Portuguese colonial regime did the killing. In independent Mozambique, those inhabitants of Mueda who survived regularly re-enact the massacre in situ. They themselves play the roles of victims, assassins, and spectators. Ruy Guerra, now a Brazilian but born in Lourenço Marques (now Maputo, the capital of Mozambique), filmed this extraordinary creation of liberated popular culture, intercutting it with first-hand interviews on the massacre. The mix is compelling, and the grave yet joyous spectacle unique.

An essay film about Jean-Paul Sartre and the French Existentialists, featuring Roland Barthes' last interview.

Directed by the photographer Maureen Bisilliat, the documentary portraits the everyday life in the indigenous village of Mehinaku, in Alto Xingu, showing the planting and harvest of cassava, the fishing, the preparation of the annatto ink, the modeling of the domestic ceramics, the division of tasks between men and women, the work at the collective land, the relationship between parents and children, the marriage ceremony, the exchange with other villages and the great celebration of the Yamuricumã party.

Interviews with icons in the comic book world.

Frontline is a 1980 Australian documentary film directed by David Bradbury. It follows the career of Tasmanian-born combat cameraman Neil Davis, particularly his time in South Vietnam and Cambodia in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. [Note: as shown in the movie poster, the title may be "Frontline", not "Front Line".]

Writer Alan Bennett visits a hotel in the north of England, observes the guests, and reminisces about his experiences of staying in boarding-houses as a child.

Aiko Juuroku Sai making-of documentary.

A film about Marshal of the Soviet Union Ivan Konev and his military career.

Writer and Director Mike Leigh discusses the techniques used to create his plays.

Documentary discussing the history of Cuban dance and its music. It shows different dances, including some folk dances.