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Glamorous and hugely popular Joan Crawford raised herself from brutal poverty to Academy Award-winning stardom by guts, determination and hard work. During her 50-year career, she made over 80 films. But her obsessive perfectionism led to the later caricature of coat-hanger-wielding harridan that even the adoration of fans could not counter. Still, she has endured as one of the most popular icons of the movies, an early role model to a million young women who aspired to her image of stylish magnetic power and unquestioned independence.

A behind the scenes look at the making of the movie Bullitt with a strong focus on the attention to details taken. It features some of the preparations made before shooting began, but is mostly focused on the onsite filming locations which brings a strong amount of reality to the film as the title suggests.

A woman searching for the traces of her mother in herself. Live, re-live.

Short documentary

Paul Mayeda Berges ponders the difficulties of being biracial in En Reyo Identity. To grasp the Japanese half of himself, Berges strikes an on-camera dialogue with his grandmother, who suffered internment during World War II but is, to Paul's chagrin, exceedingly lax in her assessment of that and other life experiences. The videomaker counters with excerpts from home and Hollywood movies and even folkloric stagings as if to plead for a history-making that does not invalidate emotion.

FRONTLINE untangles the mysterious web of satanic ritual abuse, psychiatric treatment, and insurance claims that escalated into millions of dollars. Were these professed victims of secret satanic cults really helped by the psychiatric care they received?

Documentary about the making of "Meet Me in St. Louis" (1944).

In this film made over ten years, filmmaker Barbara Sonneborn goes on a pilgrimage to the Vietnamese countryside where her husband was killed. She and translator (and fellow war widow) Xuan Ngoc Nguyen explore the meaning of war and loss on a human level. The film weaves interviews with Vietnamese and American widows into a vivid testament to the legacy of war.

DeLillo uses the documentary form to explore the relationships between gunmen and the novelist, words and images, the power of news and the obsession with apocalypse.

A look behind the scenes of a London borough's controversial anti-squatter initiative. In order to move as many rent-paying tenants as possible into empty properties, Hackney claim they must first clear their borough of more than 1,000 squatters. John Alexander 's film follows the tense countdown to eviction, examining the pressures on the council that force them into confrontation and questioning existing assumptions about squatters.

Doctor Who travelled with the most gorgeous girls in the Cosmos. But was there any Lust in Space? Doctor Who is on trial - and the charge is sexism! The scene is set, the witnesses called. We expose Doctor Who’s final taboo! It’s everything you wanted to know about sex (in Doctor Who) but were afraid to ask!

Life on the Danube is essentially determined by two factors: the river itself and the often strange idiosyncrasies of the people who live along its banks. And they are multifarious: fishermen and graveyard wardens, Buddhist monks, allotment holders on Danube Island, stranded shippers, tramps and soldiers. All linked by the great current against which they swim.

Documentary directed by Norio Tsuruta and Yukio Miyajima.

About the mythological roots and the search for the invisible "City of Kitezh" under the surface of Lake Svetloyar in the Nizhny Novgorod region.

Documentary about the East German director Frank Beyer, a remarkable man with a remarkable career whose films should be much better known.

Documentary produced by the National Film Board of Canada centered on a friendly countryside gathering of four former prominent members of Front de Libération du Québec (FLQ), namely Francis Simard, Pierre Vallières, Charles Gagnon and Robert Comeau.

Something is happening. It is happening nationally and locally. It is an ideology that manifests itself in graveyard desecrations, animal mutilations, human sacrifices and suicide. It categorically involves drug/ alcohol abuse, pornography, sexual perversion, physical/mental abuse, heavy metal music and drinking blood. And it is highly organized. Satanic/Occult organizations (churches) have corporate charters, own buildings, maintain national/ international computer networks, publish magazines/newsletters and hire professional public relations firms to polish their public image. It is both generational and self-styled. Some groups are esoteric while others are pantheistic.

Mazal is faced with the impossible task of locating her hus- band, who disappeared in 1976 under politically delicate circumstances. In order to do so, she fights against Jew- ish-rabbinical law and the Israely authorities that apparently hide information about her husband’s whereabouts.

Glamorous actress Joanna Lumley undergoes a week's hardship on an isolated island off the coast of Madagascar. She is given a brief lesson in survival by the Royal Marines and is then deposited on the island with few provisions but a large BBC crew for company. With comic results Ms Lumley attempts to build a shelter and forage for food before succumbing to the offers of goodies from the camera crew.

Documentary about the killer of Trotsky

For 11 Presidents, Bob Hope was a golfing buddy, national jester and constant guest at the White House. This special includes personal recollections about Bob from the Clintons, the Bushs, the Fords, and David and Julie Nixon Eisenhower. Guests Tony Danza, Don Johnson, Naomi Judd, Ann-Margret and Tom Selleck also appear on what was to become Bob Hope's final television special.

A description of Sweden's Prime Minister Olof Palme's political work and the murder of him on Sveavägen in Stockholm on February 28, 1986.

A documentary focusing on multiple nurses who served during the Vietnam War.

Documentary that shows and explains in detail the characteristics of the culture of the Xavante Indians, such as ceremonial, work, social organization, artistic practices, etc. It also reveals the tribe's struggle to preserve their lands and customs. Historical archive images of the first contacts with the white man.

Late in the 1980s, two documentary film makers found six German men, all in their 60s and 70s, who had been soldiers in the German invasion of the USSR in 1942. Each carried an 8mm camera into battle and they still had their film. "Mein Kreig" alternates between interviews with these older men, now apologetic, philosophical, or defiant about their participation, and the footage they shot. It's chronological: basic training, the train trip East, roof-top vistas of war-torn Warsaw, peasants in Belarus, the downing with carbine volleys of a Russian plane, winter, a holiday at the Black Sea, mud, impassable roads, death, destruction and retreat. "Home, that was the front," one says.

The film portrays women who were interned for long periods of time in the 1950s without trial. They were humiliated, separated from their families, their lives torn apart. Their crime was that they were wives, mothers, family members. Nearly 40 years later, the film confronts the former internees with their former prison governor, Piroska. Some of the women have traveled home from abroad to meet their former inmates and confront their former jailer.

Documentary on the Nanjing Massacre.

Every year since 1980, I have filmed the Good Friday ceremony reconstructing the Passion of Christ in Burzet, a remote village in the Ardèche area, where for seven hundred years, the local people have dressed up to celebrate and perpetuate this religious rite. (Gérard Courant)

Can Menahem Golan and Sam Lupowitz beat Hollywood to the screen with their ultra-low budget account of the Versace murder?

How should one define the relationship of documentary film to reality? Does it aim at authenticity or is it rather an “exile of reality”, a “foreign homeland of reality”, where the pre-filmic, stripped of its immediacy, comes to its own right in the first place? Where in its mis-en-scène would be the line drawn to a fictional film, if drawing a line would succeed at all? These are the kind of questions this film essay on the history and aesthetics of documentary film deals with in its seven chapters.

This is A Documentary of Diego Maradona

Making of documentary of Kasaba is an interesting footage showing how you can shoot a feature with just a focus puller. Yes, the whole crew consist of two people only. Ceylan himself and a focus puller. And that is 35mm pelicule times and black and white Kodak film. Turkish with optional English subtitles.

Join astronomers and astrophysicists as they probe light years beyond the Milky Way, in Understanding The Universe, part of TLC's popular television series. Narrated by actress Candice Bergen, This enriching and entertaining video employs graphic models and spectacular computer animation to illustrate some of the most complex theories of all time. Peer through the largest telescopes on Earth. Get a close-up look at our sun, nebulas and supernovas, capture by the Hubble Space Telescope. Listen via satellite to echoes of the Big Bang. See how "red Shift" among the stars suggests that our universe if much younger than previously thought. Visit the set of Star Trek: Voyager and ponder the questions, could black holes be "worm holes," or shortcuts to other worlds? Understanding the Universe boldly goes where no television show has gone before.

Matsuda Shunji, a freshman of Amagasaki High School in Osaka faces a difficult decision regarding the revelation of his Korean name, Lee Jun-Chi. The teenager is aware of the difficulties of living in Japan with a Korean name, and so dreads the day when he is supposed to make this decision. He ultimately meets a loneliness whereby we are left to witness the outcome of his dilemma.

A documentary from Eleanor Coppola has her traveling through China.

The artist stalks and serenades Joe Dimaggio in her car as he strolls the docks unaware that she is videotaping his every step.

At his cinema in Rome, the Nuovo Sacher, Nanni Moretti anxiously oversees preparations for the premiere of the film Close-up, by Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami. Meanwhile Disney's The Lion King is taking Italy by storm.

Samir Abdallah, the director, leads his son, Nessim, a teenager, for his first fast in Ramadan, in a spiritual quest. We are at the dawn of the second millennium. In the Muslim calendar, we are in the Hijri year 1420.

Jack Lemmon made over 60 films and received numerous awards, including eight Academy Award Nominations and two Oscars. Later in life, his achievement was enriched by new challenges in which he exposed the vulnerability and emotion of the later years as few had dared. He reveled in his ongoing screen partnerships with directors like Billy Wilder and stars like Walter Matthau. Narrated on-camera by Jack Lemmon, this documentary includes interviews with Lemmon's son, the actor Chris Lemmon. Also appearing are such legends as Jack's life-long friend, the writer and director Billy Wilder, writer-director Garson Kanin, drama teacher Uta Hagen and actor Gregory Peck.

A documentary on the entire works of the Italian sculptor Michelangelo Pistoletto who lives in Vienna. His mirror-images make him one of the most original, manifold personalities in the European art scene.

Hollywood's controversial creative genius, whose career spans multiple generations of moviegoers, is profiled in "Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper."

Writer-director Paul Norman -- the same sexual visionary who dreamed up erotic fantasies such as Edward Penishands -- spearheads a five-part examination of the adult film industry in this series hosted by porn stars Ron Jeremy and Alexis De Vell. Originally filmed in 1992, the program includes interviews with some of the hottest adult stars of the decade, including Jon Dough, Shayla LaVeaux, Samantha Strong, Cal Jammer and Chantilly Lace.

A half an hour doc shining light on the KITH during the making of their feature film, Brain Candy. Interviews go through the troupe’s formation, their eventual tv show and future with the making of the film.

Rachel Rosenthal, through a performance art workshop, challenges a group of young Los Angelinos on a journey to discover, embrace and illustrate their sense of self.

A personal instruction video that makes home decorating easy, inexpensive and fun.

Matthew Czerny was a film production student in Concordia University’s Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema in the early 1990s and did a documentary about his grandmother as his major first-year assignment. It was highly regarded by the film school; they scheduled it as the final showing in the annual best-of-the-year film night.

A portrait of the young generation in Germany during the 1990s, denying a stereotyping from the outside.

A one-year, four continent odyssey by some of the world’s greatest skiers and snowboarders. Harvest makes a major statement on the contemporary spirit of the sport and the relentless progression of big mountain riding. Helicopters, avalanches, trams, big mountains, first descents, whales and car crashes. Shot on location in Wyoming, Europe, Alaska, and Greenland. A segment in Harvest was picked to tour with the Banff Film Festival’s Best of Festival Film Tour.

Girl Skateboard's video Mouse starred Eric Koston, Tony Ferguson, Jeron Wilson, Mike Carroll, Rick Howard, Rudy Johnson, Guy Mariano, Sean Sheffey, Jovontae Turner and Tim Gavin and co-starred the Chocolate team.

Short documentary about Cine Art Palácio in Recife-PE, Brazil.

This is the second in a series of documentaries following the lives of Japanese citizens based off Michael Apted’s Up series.

In Africa there is a fable that explains the creation of the tides. When a hyaena challenged a mudskipper to a drinking contest to decide who should own the shore, the god Mungu tilted the earth so the sea flowed inland, and neither could win.

An average of 60,000 people emigrated from Hong Kong each year in early 1990s. An absolutely personal and biased sampling of this diaspora from an insider/outsider perspective just before the 1997 handover. Based on the personal experiences of individuals from Hong Kong in 1990s, Diasporama is an experimental documentary that addresses issues of the diasporic condition. In a series of intimate interviews that explore the relationship of the personal and the political, Yau Ching confronts notions of nationhood, identity, and post-colonialism. Inserting her own face and voice as a form of mediation, the artist herself becomes one of the subjects.

The mute documentary-experimental film "Ten Minutes of Silence" is a film expression of the trends embodied in the painting "Black Square" by Malevich and J. Cage in music.

See classic live performances, interviews and vintage footage of the original Lynyrd Skynyrd band.

Post-Porn Modernist documents Sprinkle’s various personae: virgin, whore, sex-positive feminist, tantric sex explorer, business woman, and goddess, which she performed in over 20 countries from 1989 through 1994. The show deconstructed and explored her careers as a sex worker, porn star, erotic educator, sexual healer, pro domme, and artist.

Interviews with Maila Nurmi, who famously played the horror hostess Vampira