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This feature documentary reveals how Bank of Montreal chairman William Mulholland dealt with his debt-laden customers Dome Petroleum and Mexico during the global debt crisis of '82. Interviews with bankers and financial experts demystify the causes of debt crisis, confirm the fragility of the international banking system and outline the problems to be solved if the system is to survive.

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.

Seventeen experts on history and arts deliver brief lessons on their favorite subjects, considered the most relevant to cover nine hundred years of Portuguese culture. The camera shows from a distance, or in minute detail, the monuments or art pieces considered, or even the texts discussed by the narrators, reenacted on stage or recited by actors.

The life and work of Halle-born Georg Friedrich Händel, the Händel Museum, and the Händel Festival in Halle are presented.

Australian pediatrician Helen Caldicott delivers a lecture on the potential medical and societal consequences of a nuclear war, and advocates for nuclear disarmament. The film includes newsreel records of the beginnings of the arms race and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as well as film records showing the Japanese who were severely scarred and burned in the bombings.

As Yugoslavia begins to unravel, the workers of industrial complex at Rakovica struggle to survive inside a system that once promised dignity and solidarity. Told from their perspective, Žulj (Blister) captures the anger, exhaustion, and disillusionment of a generation abandoned by political elites far removed from working-class life.

This documentary explores the imaginative world of Australian novelist Elizabeth Jolley. It combines readings, dramatised segments, and witty and playful interviews in which Jolley talks about the craft and practical problems of writing, and her fictional treatment of old age, women's relationships, exile and displacement. Dramatic sequences bring to life Jolley's unforgettable characters. We see the funny, sad and bizarre worlds created in 'Woman in lampshade', 'Milk and Honey', 'Miss Peabody's Inheritance', 'Mr Scobies' Riddle' and 'Palamino'.

An account of El Salvador's death squads, told by a former director of its intelligence agency, Colonel Roberto Santivanez.

A remarkable film from the National Geographic's daring EXPLORER series, ICELAND RIVER CHALLENGE follows twelve modern-day pioneers on a treacherous expedition down a remote Icelandic river. Crash through waterfalls and glide through sparkling glacial tunnels on this breathtaking journey. Using kayaks, inflatable rafts, and ultralight aircraft, the adventurers journey through the beauty and isolation of this dangerous waterway. Come explore a river that has, until now, defied exploration; witness the heart-stopping power of nature in all its glory with ICELAND RIVER CHALLENGE.

Made as part of the series on sexuality and costume entitled The Unconscious and its Rituals, the documentary is dedicated to pornographic cinema, which is analyzed and discovered through the exposure of its production.

A short film about the making of the movie "Fame" (1980).

Documentary about Vadym Yakovych Boyko, Ukrainian writer, novelist, prisoner of Auschwitz.

Updates a number of themes from the Cosmos television series. Turner and Sagan discuss issues that are vital to our survival: pollution, the greenhouse effect, and nuclear weapons. Dr. Sagan explains the benefits of our space program and the possibility of time travel.

If you've ever bought a wonder wallet, a food slicer, a canapé maker, a patty stacker, a miracle brush or a super knife, you may know that the CNE, the Calgary Stampede, and virtually every home show, car show, craft show, fall fair and ploughing match in Canada has at least one thing in common. At hallway intersections and bleacher exits work the second cousins of the carnival barker, the crowd pleasers and teasers, jugglers of people, product and pitch: the point-of-sales professionals known as pitchmen. This documentary looks at the psychology of the impulse sale and provides a view of the world of commerce, salesmanship and advertising at the grass-roots level. The men and women featured in the film have mastered the fine art of selling everything you never needed. Shot at fairs and on the set of a late-night TV commercial, the film shows the hard work behind the hustle.

The modernisation of the A9 road between Perth and Inverness in Scotland.

Images of Berlin, the Silesian Gate – last underground station before the wall, the suburb of Asakusa, Tokyo, and of Hong Kong, from the tram in Kowloon are mixed together with studies of the director’s room in Berlin, accompanied by westernized Chinese music.

The title refers to the legacy of Archbishop Oscar Romero who was assassinated in his cathedral in March 1980.

Valtos is a story told from thirty years hence, in the last moments of its narrator, who awoke one day in 1987 'with the knowledge that I had been duplicated during the night, and that I was an inferior replica of myself'. There follows a relentless, epic, pursuit of an absconding phantom - his 'original' - which ends in catastrophe at Valtos, a place at once ethereal and terrifying.

In 1973, John DeLorean was most likely going to be the next president of General Motors, when he turned his back on his $650,000 a year job and focused on a grander dream... to build his own car company (the first new American car company since 1925). In 1978, DeLorean built the most advanced auto factory in the world in under 18 months, from the ground up in a small suburb of Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Daylight moves through a room. Or is it the room that moves?

The story about The Children's Storefront School, an independent tuition-free school in Harlem, set up in 1966 to help kids from poor neighborhoods get better education and support.

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A documentary with fictional elements, which is based on 140 years of history of the company and the family of the global company Bally based in Switzerland. Images from the daily work in the shoe factory and the Schönenwerd region, reproduced pictures with the men of Bally as actors, historical photographic material, an interview with the manager of today constitute, and others, which combine to form an exciting whole thanks to a clever assembly.

A multi-generational portrait of women living in the Ruhr region. Part of the seven-part documentary film cycle "Prosper/Ebel. Chronik einer Zeche und ihrer Siedlung"

Like many St. Lawrence Island legends, this story is set in Siberia where Chukchi, the Reindeer People, live. Pelaasi, an elder from Gambell, speaks Siberian Yupik. His mythical story, about a man who goes out in search of a reindeer thief is an ungipaghaq, a tale that has been passed down unchanged through generations and believed to be based in truth.

Documents rapidly vanishing old houses and craftsmen in the mountainous eastern Black Sea region. The nail-less dovecoting construction of old log cabins withstands earthquakes. Sites in villages like Savsat were chosen both for their protection from snow and avalanches, and built on the poorest soil to leave the meagre arable areas for cultivation. In Ikizdere there are still stone and half-timbered structures. All these spacious homes are notable for their interior panelled walls and ceiling, elaborately carved and embellished. Various other techniques in Sumene and Rize are illustrated.

The interviews conducted by Tamara Trampe in a Pankow kindergarten testify to a rare attempt to enter the world of the young interviewees completely, to give their stories a space where reality and fantasy, worries and wishes can mix freely. A space that’s not always provided in the daily life of the kindergarten, as the film casually suggests even after it was toned down by the DEFA censors: toilets without doors, ghastly birthday parties and friendly but unmistakable reprimands when the children let too much dialect slip into the grammar exercise or when their pictures of soldiers are not realistic enough.

How to live in a prison when you have to serve a long sentence. Six inmates express themselves before the camera, telling about their everyday experiences, their feelings, their hopes and distress. Six prisoners but also six human beings who try to retain their dignity.

British Telecom documentary about the past and future of telephone exchanges and switches.

Actress Joanne Woodward narrates the story of an emerging Republic (Palau Islands) in America's Pacific Trust Territory as it tries to maintain history's first nuclear-free national constitution.

"Don’t Touch That Dial!" is a CBS Reports documentary that explores the creation and production of two American prime-time television series, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and Family Ties. Broadcast in 1982, the film documents how network television programs are developed for a mass audience, focusing on the industrial, creative, and logistical processes behind successful network scheduling.

A documentary that captures the loss of Athens’ neoclassical houses, portraying a city caught between its past identity and modern transformation.

Anne Bean, John McKeon, Stuart Brisley, Rita Donagh, Jamie Reid and Jimmy Boyle are interviewed about their artistic practice and the legacy of Surrealism on their work.

Preparations and tensions of a parachutist's first jump.

In the lush green town of Pushchino, scientific plans to establish a nature reserve meet opposition from industry.

Joyful, humorous and slightly ironic look on the daily life in Soviet Latvia in 1987.

A trip inside a Steel Valley workers’ magazine, which looks like raw material for a Bruce Springsteen song.

In a studio setting, Stephen Hawking, Arthur C. Clarke and Carl Sagan (who joins them via satellite) discuss the Big Bang theory, God, our existence as well as the possibility of extraterrestrial life.

TV series directed by Varda in which she gives thoughts to her favorite images and why she is drawn to them (in short one minute segments per image)

In this in-depth portrait of painter Édouard Manet, filmmaker Didier Baussy visits the milieus that fueled the vision of the celebrated artist -- hailed as the leader of the French impressionist movement -- whose works had a sweeping influence. Filmed throughout Spain and France, the rich retrospective traces the roots of such Manet essentials as Le déjeuner sur l'herbe and the controversial Olympia.

Documentary directed by Joseph Adamson.

A documentary produced to disseminate historical truth about the 1937 Nanjing Massacre to international audiences. It records the Shorinji Kempo Organization of Japan’s 40th-anniversary visit to China, but rather than serving as a simple travelogue, it uses the 299 participants’ journey—beginning in Nanjing—as a confrontation with the facts of Japan’s wartime aggression and the choices demanded in the present. Through Chinese filmmakers’ perspectives, testimony, archival images, and narration addressing the Nanjing Massacre, nuclear war, militarization, and historical responsibility, the film asks viewers to reject indifference, self-justification, and the concealment of inconvenient history. It argues that peace cannot remain an abstract ideal or be left to governments and power-seekers; each person must begin from the shared human right to survival, face history honestly, and choose concrete action toward mutual understanding and peace.

Cruz Quinal, "the mandolin king," lives near Cumana in a mountain valley surrounded by sugarcane fields. Perpetuating 16th century Spanish traditions of guitar-making, Cruz fashions such musical instruments as cuatros, marimba, escarpandola, and his own creation, a mandolin with two fretboards. He is an accomplished musician as well. In this moving portrait, Cruz compares himself to a decaying colonial church across the street: revered yet neglected, the village altar stands, paint peeling, under the open sky.

Documentary on American film director Jim Jarmusch made for German television. featuring interviews with cast and crew from 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘦 and 𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘝𝘢𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯.

This documentary explores the diversity of Moscow’s underground youth culture during the late Soviet period. Filmed around alternative art scenes and informal gatherings, the film depicts hippies, metal fans, and members of the city’s artistic subculture, including residents of the Bulgakov House squat and participants in the unofficial “Love Street” art festival. Performances by alternative bands such as Zvuki Mu, Nikolai Kopernik, and Oblachny Krai are featured.

Documentary about the daily life and struggle of workers from the 1930s generation in Brazil. Told through the memories of a feminist and four union members, the film shows the different faces of the workers' organization experience at that time, from Vargas' influence to communism, culminating in the common trait of their relationship with the workers' bases.

Documentary about German director Harald Reinl

When the Kahuku sugar plantation and mill shut down in the 1970's, workers who lived in plantation housing had to decide how to hold the community together and create something new out of an industry that had come to an end. This is the story of their successful transition from plantation to self-governing community.

The bulk is a filmed lecture/Q&A session, with some framing explanation at the beginning and end.

The manufacture, marketing and distribution of vinyl music records nationwide.

Documentary about the Austrian philosopher Martin Buber

“Sonic artist” Chris Cree Brown discusses composing with new media and how he orchestrates particular sounds into formal compositional structures. Some sounds are made instrumentally, while others are recorded from his environment. In 1980 few classically-trained musicians in New Zealand experimented with synthesized sound and the gloriously large and sturdy equipment Brown uses to create his music will be of sure anthropological interest to many musos. The documentary was recorded with no script to capture the true art of creation.

This is an account of the years of the dictatorship in Uruguay, told with archive material and interviews with witnesses who remain anonymous. There is a focus on the 1984 elections and the euphoric festivities afterwards, as the people celebrated not so much the winner of the election as the end of the dictatorship and the start of the campaign for truth and justice.

Newsreel of the trail for gang of four.

A short documentary.

Witches explores the long and clandestine history of this misunderstood group of people. It provides a close look at the black art, and features factual information presented by practitioners.

Throughout the 1900's, before Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier in 1946, black baseball talent blossomed in the Negro Leagues. Baseball buffs still sing the praises of Josh Gibson who could be counted on to hit 70 homeruns in a season, and Satchel Paige who pitched over 100 no-hitters in his career. Only the Ball Was White pays tribute to the many topflight players from the Negro Leagues. Narrated by actor Paul Winfield, the program documents a bygone bittersweet era in baseball and the men who were denied stardom by the color line. Ballplayers throughout the country were interviewed for this program, all of them quick to tell tales of the life, the competition, and the camaraderie. These include: Satchel Paige, Roy Campanella, Buck Leonard, Jimmy Crutchfield, David Malarcher, Effa Manley, and Quincy Trouppe.

Titoism abused the school system, as well as all institutions of culture and media in order to create obedient subjects who do not have their own opinion about reality and who live in a fictitious world of ideological constructions. Children from eight-year schools are forced to quote by heart the values ​​of the so-called self-governing socialism as their own. This is the best way to create generations of conformists who the so-called elites can rule.