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Film about the Parisian nightclub Concert Mayol, one of the last bastions of the traditional Parisian nude show. The film follows the final three weeks of the clubs existence, before the business is closed. It documents the lives of the women who work there, including when the strippers went on strike.
A film about Josef Sudek.
Eve Arnold remembers her relationship and work with Mariln Monroe in this documentary.
Jazz is my Native Language: A Portrait of Toshiko Akiyoshi is a 1983 documentary film by Renee Cho about the jazz pianist, composer, arranger and big band leader Toshiko Akiyoshi.
Ann Turner delves into the atmosphere of the works and reveals, besides Degas the gifted draughtsman and painter, also an experimental graphic artist, sculptor, photographer and poet.
A collection of NASA films, from Project Mercury to the Space Shuttle.
Nearly 500 lions roam the vast land of Etosha National Park in Namibia, each pride guarding territory, raising young, and feasting on prey. Filmmakers Des and Jen Bartlett spent nearly five years filming the Ombika pride, a family of 19, resulting in this 1 hour documentary. They tracked their special pride of lions to record the rivalries, loyalties, and complex animal relationships. Catch a rare glimpse into the pride system, from family interactions and shared responsibilities to raising cubs and teaching them to hunt. Watch the pride's success and failures, battles and births, and encounters with elephants and the rarely seen black rhino
Some consider Degenhardt a remnant of the 1968 movement, while others see him as one of the few chansonniers and songwriters with a recognizable identity in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany. The film shows him in action as a singer and guitarist, but also as the author of several novels—a literary wanderer between the two Germanys.
Arata Isozaki: Early Work in Japan takes a detailed look at the architect's pieces, exploring applauded projects such as the EXPO '70 Osaka Festival Plaza, Gunma Prefectural Museum of Modern Art and Kitakyushu Municipal Library. The extraordinary series of architectural breakthroughs made during this time contributed significantly to the evolution of contemporary architecture worldwide, and eventually gained him his first foreign commission
Documentary about Voeren, officially a Dutch speaking municipality with language facilities for the French-speaking community and hence a politically highly charged region in the Belgian political context.
In this show, Lisa speaks poetically about her "Female Spirit" and about her destiny; she exposes the audience to her “ritual and her agony”. As she explains, it is a reaction to the abstract art movement, which had removed the human form, and it was her attempt to return to a more classical vision of art today. In her work, she elevated the gymnasium up to the art gallery. Six other bodybuilder/artists perform routines for the audience.
A documentary exploring the existence of UFOs and the possible visit of aliens to Earth at sometime in the past
The video companionship to Carole Jackson's best -selling book on make-up.
Preparation of a ballet performer, the meaning of dance in human life. Presentation of the choreography "Invasion" by the San Marcos University Ballet, directed by Vera Stastny.
Documentation on the Berlin S-Bahn, which threatened to fall into oblivion as a result of the division of the city.
A fascinating look at the most beloved comedy team in motion picture history. Exclusive interviews with those closest to the brothers supplement this collection of highlights from their film, theater, and television appearances and offer a compelling look at their lives both on and off-screen.
Four women farmers working in the Champagne-Ardennes region talk about their working conditions, the part they play in running the farm, the distribution of jobs between husband and wife and the lack of status of their work... They emphasise how denial of the essential role they play in running the farm has led them to demand specific recognition of their job. Presentation of the Women's Association for Agricultural Development (AFDA).
The film is dedicated to the memory of the victims of Babyn Yar. A memorial service and a requiem rally are shown. The writer I. F. Drach makes a speech. Photo and film documents from the Second World War are used.
An autobiographical film about Eric M. Nilsson's experiences of Swedish health care and the limits of polite society.
A drama that strings together vignettes of events taken from everyday newspaper headlines. Germans are shown in their reactions to World War II, minorities, and the elderly. A side plot follows a meeting between former West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and East German leader Erich Honecker.
Glenn Ford appears in and narrates in this mondo style documentary about the search for the Great White Shark.
The film explores housing problems in Tehran in the years following the revolution. Everyday confrontations between landlords and tenants who can no longer pay the rent are often violent. Women and children complain about their intolerable social conditions. They criticise the "Tenants and Landlords" law established by the Shah, which was finally changed after the broadcasting of the film on television and the political discussion that followed.
A 36-minute overview of one of mankind's greatest achievements. In the early 1930s, America was in the depths of a tragic economic depression. Yet the people of that troubled era constructed Hoover Dam, still one of the great wonders of the world.
It is a love story. When the twelve-breasted boar's sow farrows thirteen piglets, not having enough "sucking space" for the thirteenth, she rejects it and for the most part such piglets die. This drama from the world of animals paints the harshness of nature to the unwanted "thirteenth piglet", which we named Gile Baksuz (Gile Bad Luck). The rejected piglet is taken and given shelter by another species - a roe and her fawn...
A one-hour documentary on the making of Frank Zappa's bizarre 1971 comic musical. Vintage private footage from Frank's personal archives plus behind-the-scenes of the actual shooting and recording. With Ringo Starr, Theodore Bikel, Keith Moon and such songs as "Sleeping in a Jar," and "Strictly Genteel." The inside history of the first feature-length film to be shot on video in 6 days.
Jay Leno hosts "Jay Leno's Family Comedy Hour," a one hour special featuring a humorous look at the American family.
Two former Mormons seek to file a class-action lawsuit against The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, detailing for skeptical attorneys the history, doctrines and secret rituals of the Mormon religion.
Debate on the launch of Basque television (ETB, Euskal Telebista).
Paramount promotional film about the making of Fat Man and Little Boy (1989).
Portrait of the Trujillo painter Macedonio de la Torre (1893-1981), at 87 years old, in his workshop and in full production.
In this gripping, harrowing and insightful documentary, director Gray interviews factory worker women in Mexico and the Philippines and the U.S. industrialists they work for.
A televisual journey guided by Jean-Luc Godard inside his film Sauve qui peut (la vie), incorporating filmed conversations between him and Isabelle Huppert and the film critic Christian Defaye.
A 'filmscape' on the Kashmir valley.
Peter Watkins' global look at the impact of military use of nuclear technology and people's perception of it, as well as a meditation on the inherent bias of the media, and documentaries themselves.
A 1989 documentary regarding filmmaker & maverick man Budd Boetticher. The man who lived and breathed bullfighting, filmmaking, purported madness and, ultimately, a peace of mind.
An autobiographical monologue in which Spalding Gray randomly draws cards for titles of the plays in which he performed in the 1960s. He proceeds to tell stories that came out of the experiences with each play.
The compilation film looks back on four decades of East German film production to mark the 40th anniversary of DEFA. Beginning with the founding event of DEFA on May 17, 1946, it continues with film clips from many test recordings of the first feature films after licensing. Well-known directors, screenwriters, actors and musicians accompany the historical newsreel and feature film excerpts and thus bear witness to the reconstruction work in the early post-war years. A documentary that reflects the diversity of DEFA productions in the film and newsreel sector.
Neil Diamond performing his greatest hits at the Aquarius Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
Short documentary by Rafael Treku and Francisco Bernabé
A very short film on the dangers of organized religion as experienced by a little Chinese girl.
A film of Bob Hobman's attempt to sail across the Indian Ocean in a primitive native craft. He aimed to show that the people of Madagascar, who originally came from Indonesia 2,500 years ago, sailed, not in a series of stages, but directly across the Indian Ocean, in one of the great epic voyages of history. His voyage took 65 days.
Chronicles the history of Negro Leagues baseball by using rare historical footage and interviews with black baseball greats.
This short cautionary training film examines dangers associated with earthmoving equipment operation, showing many simulated accidents on construction sites.
This third part of the series focuses on Canada's participation in NORAD and the events leading up to Canada's becoming a "nuclear no-man's land." In the late 1980s we are confronted with important choices about our role on the international scene, and host Gwynne Dyer offers intriguing predictions and possibilities about how our decisions could have global impact.
An experienced prison guard, who also gives talks at a primary school, shares his thoughts on such topics as upbringing, order, young people, freedom and Solidarity.
Jean-Pierre Gorin interacts with a club of model railroad train enthusiasts and his mentor, artist/writer Manny Farber.
A powerful three-part documentary studying the US involvement in Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua. The differing factions - Sandinista leaders, Guatemalan campesinos, CIA operatives, Contras and US government apologists - are interviewed and, in the absence of a controlling narration, the audience is encouraged to draw its own conclusions.
A skillful, sensual rendering of an intriguing performance orchestrated by the artist. Through a fog-laden atmosphere, iconic figures emerge to perform on a huge turntable. Our look at this garishly lit spectacle is mediated by the gaze of a female Red Guard. All flesh and brilliance, this tape appears to critique popular culture by robbing it of any ostensible content. Hollywood proverb says, beneath the surface of fake tinsel lies only the real tinsel – the detritus of our times.
Shot in NYC in 1984 and commissioned as a portrait of the Dutch expatriate artist Anton van Dalen, The View From Avenue A is also and more interestingly and profoundly, a portrait of another disappearing place, in this case, the dying (or revivifying, depending on your point of view) lower east side of Nest York. Deutsch brilliantly charts a history of a lost place, here not just a physical land- scape, but a landscape of the mind, that is, the artistic "bohemia" of the 60's and 70'e, changing soon to be completely gone, crushed, inexorably, by history." —Steven Simmons
A documentary that tries to understand women. About how a hard-working Soviet woman may not achieve the so-called bonus points in sex life.
Live recording of Sinéad O'Connor's concert at the Dominion Theatre in London, on June 3, 1988, in support of her debut album "The Lion and the Cobra" (performed in its entirety except for two songs).
A documentary directed by Siamak Bayat that explores the history of Qashqai Kilim weaving, the preparation of its raw materials, and the role of women in the tribe, including their leadership and management of daily life.
A Life is about a man who lives by facing death.
A film from the TV trilogy dedicated to the fortieth anniversary of the Great Patriotic War's Victory.