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Presence of the Trujillo painter Gerardo Chávez.

The 1981 murder trial of Alwyn Peter made Australian legal history when his defence lawyer successfully argued that charges of murder and manslaughter were inappropriate for dispossessed, semi-tribal Aborigines.

East German documentary about the 20 July plot.

Documentary about the previously untold story of a 1945 massacre of Polish partisans by Russian troupes and pro-Russian Polish security forces.

The small town of Iisaku in the middle of the large forests behind Alutaguse has long been known for its lively spirit and cultural-minded sense of life. The people of Iisaku talk about its past and present.

TV documentary about the bicycle sequence in Ozu`s Banshun (Late Spring)

Short educational film about migrant workers.

Hans Münch was an infectious disease physician at KZ Auschwitz. His task was to prevent epidemics in the overcrowded camps. When he was forced to actively participate in the mass murder, he began to protest. At the trials in Krakow in 1947 against SS men who committed war crimes, Münch was acquitted. He had refused to participate in the selection, that is, the sorting out of those to be killed and some KZ prisoners testified in his favor. Hans Wilhelm Münch (1911 - 2001) was a German Nazi Party member who worked as an SS physician during World War II at the Auschwitz concentration camp from 1943 to 1945 in German occupied Poland.

A documentary film about two Lithuanian pilots, who flew over the Atlantic in 1933 - Steponas Darius and Stasys Girėnas.

This controversial documentary created a storm in Russia by taking the cloak off a violent, repressive period of Soviet history. Filmmaker Semyon Aranovich found the last surviving personal bodyguard of Joseph Stalin, Alexey Robin, who began working for the dictator in the 1930s.

Gisela worked "normally" on Herbststraße. Introduced to "English training" by her clients, she switched to working as a dominatrix at Club de Sade. It was a step up: her clients became club members, and Gisela no longer needed to interact with them, she just needed to beat them. And after her experiences with "men," that fulfilled her with satisfaction.

Portrait of the two main actors of the children's film "White Cloud Carolin", Andreas Roll and Constanze Berndt. They are observed and interviewed on several days during the making of the film. The two children introduce themselves directly to the viewer and talk openly and self-confidently about how they came to make the film and about their experiences during the course of filming.

A reflection between nature and man in Los Angeles about the city's surroundings' desertification due to enormous water consumption.

In this rare Rai television special from 1984, Andrea Pazienza recounts his artistic and personal journey through comics, politics, creativity, and generational anxieties. Through characters like Zanardi and Pentothal, a lively and intimate portrait emerges of a visionary author, a symbol of Italian culture in the 1970s and 1980s.

Video poem about New Hampshire and its foliage in Autumn

Every man and woman has the potential to experience lovemaking at its best. All you need is desire. Love Skills shows you how to express it. This carefully produced documentary is introduced by Joshua S. Golden, M.D., the directory of U.C.L.A 's Human Sexuality program, who, along with a prestigious team of doctors, counselors and therapists has designed a unique way for people to expand their sexual horizons.

That provincial time flows differently and allows you to see differently, to look at the world more closely.

The film explores the reasons for emigrating from Italy and describes the feeling of being a stranger in one's own country after many years in Switzerland. It is the sequel to Emigrazione.

A poetic documentary of its nature and of some rare people living on Gotska Sandön, an isolated island in the Baltic Sea, close to Ingmar Bergman’s home residence Fårö.

Big Black's final show, at the Georgetown Steamplant in Seattle, August 9, 1987.

Film collage on the street line in St. Georg.

The "tavillonneur" or shingle-maker cuts out and fits shingles or wood tiles into place. Shingles (called "tavillons" in Switzerland), are one of the oldest methods of roofing or covering an outside wall. There are no longer any official apprenticeships. The film follows two shingle-makers, Joseph Doutaz and Olivier Veuve, who have very different techniques of cutting and placing their shingles. Joseph Doutaz uses only the traditional "tavillons" while Olivier Veuve works with these, as well as with "anseilles," larger and thicker wood tiles. We see both men at work in Winter and in Summer, and see some of their finished buildings.

On 28 July 1942 Stalin issued order No. 227 which among other things established the creation of penal battalions. Those units were sent to the most dangerous sections of the front lines. It's a story of those who fought in penal battalions during WWII.

A documentary on the flora and fauna of Ireland and how man has shaped and influenced the natural landscape.

Weird esoteric mash-up from the 70's by Al Fry. A very avuncular dude with multiple VHS decks and a microphone, giving a lecture (sorta) from the moons of Neptune.

Intimate story of a Baka family living a traditional life in the rainforests of Cameroun.

A pair of monkeys decide to break free from their human handler who ill treats them.

Anectdotal portrait of the famed author.

In a farmhouse on Cape Breton Island where Shawn Peter Dwyer, age 10, lives with his mother and nine brothers and sisters, children's pockets are usually empty and their lives well filled.

The comings and goings of the late underground filmmaker, Curt McDowell—and the people and activities that came and went along with him—are the themes that run through this existential diary of daily life. McDowell was dying from AIDS-related illnesses during the production of the diary. “An elegy for McDowell, the videowork captures Kuchar’s mournful remembrances of his long-lasting friendship with the young filmmaker. But it also has the inquisitive charm, perverse humor, and quirky candor that places Kuchar’s visual expressions in a gritty niche all their own.”

One public housing flat in Moscow stood out above all others: the home of George Costakis, the foremost collector of early 20th century Russian avant-garde art. Its walls were crowded with banned and forgotten works by artists such as Malevich, Tatlin, Kandinsky, Chagall, Lissitzky, Rodchenko, and Kliun; public figures such as Edward Kennedy, Stravinsky, and Alfred Barr visited. Barrie Gavin met the collector in 1982 at his home in Athens. Costakis, a Greek born in Russia, passionately shares his story and those of the great Russian avant-garde artists. Their works are his legacy – without him, they would not have survived the political upheavals in Russia.

In 1983, the documentary film "Soldier's Widows" was released on the screens of Ukraine, created by director Volodymyr Artemenko, whose father died at the front, and nine aunts remained widows. Based on real events, the picture about one small village of Melnyky in Cherkasy region, where a large number of widows lived, made a strong impression, because there were many such villages in Ukraine. At the Berlin Film Festival, one of the foreign film critics called Ukrainian widows the Madonnas of the 20th century.

About Andris Grīnbergs, a drawing teacher at Mazirbe Boarding School, and his students.

Part of BFI collection "The Miners' Campaign Video Tapes."

This Kaleidoscope documentary timed in with the release of Nicholas Reid’s book A Decade of New Zealand Cinema. The book cherrypicked Reid's favourites from the renaissance in local movies that began with Sleeping Dogs in 1977. Reid and a who’s who of local filmmakers discuss many of the 50+ features from the previous decade (with Bruno Lawrence ever present). They ponder the uniqueness (or otherwise) of Kiwi film. A fondness for rural and small town settings, and forceful, often conflicted, male leads is explored. Neglected areas — Māori film and more of a voice for women — are traversed.

Documentary about jet fighters flying for the Nigerian air force.

The research phase of the documentary "Dolmabahçe and Atatürk," made in 1981 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Atatürk's birth, took a year, and filming was completed in three months. The documentary examines the world-famous palace in detail, both in terms of location and structure, and compares its changing functions from the Ottoman period to the Republican era, influenced by Atatürk's presence.

Portrait of the French painter-etcher, lithographer and director.

A documentary about the miraculous survival of an Icelandic fisherman, after his boat sank off the shores of the Westman Islands in mid winter. All the crew drowned except one, Gudlaugur Fridthórsson, who swam five and a half kilometers in the ice cold sea and then walked barefoot over a field of sharp lava to reach help. Specialists have made tests on Gudlaugur to determine how he managed to survive seven times longer than any ordinary man under these conditions.

The port of Maputo in Mozambique is a natural outlet for goods and products from Botswana and Zimbabwe. The railway line that links these countries was built to decrease their reliance on South Africa's transportation system. Though first destroyed by the Rhodesian army and since then under constant attack from the Renamo rebels, attempts are now being made to reconstruct the Limpopo line.

Documentation of the preparations and expeditions of the Frente de Atração Arara da Funai, in the state of Pará, Brazil. With the construction of the Transamazônica, the Arara territory (without contact with the white man) is cut in half, and the Indians react by attacking the workers. Aware that all contact is a creation of dependency, the sertanista Sydney Possuelo, who also reflexively narrates the documentary, leads the expeditions that aim to identify the groups, how many individuals there are, establishing territorial limits to protect the area against invaders and loggers in the region.

Documentary film about the Release Group Hamburg.

Between Volubilis and Meknès, the sanctuary of Moulay Idriss, is the scene of one of the most important pilgrimages in Morocco. Sufi brotherhoods and simple pilgrims parade for 8 days on ecstatic rhythms.

Documentary film that follows a group of Swedish engineers who build Sweden's first spacecraft.

The film follows the stories of men and women who work with steel drums in various capacities, including a steel drum tuner, university and primary school students performing on steel drums, as well as two steel drum orchestras.

A documentary about how a motley band of – mostly female- retail workers took on a retail giant – Canada’s Timothy Eaton Company. In the tradition of socialist and feminist filmmaking of the day, we immersed ourselves in these women’s lives as they fought for a first contract, hanging out with strikers on the picket line, at union meetings and in their homes.

Examines "hard metals disease," cobalt poisoning among workers in the tungsten carbide machine tool industry. Alpert focuses on workers suffering from this debilitating, incurable lung disease who were exposed to cobalt dust at three plants of the Valenite Metals Corporation. Establishing a close rapport with the workers as they tell their own stories of Valenite's negligence and subsequent cover-up, Alpert departs from standard television reportage in his powerful and unapologetic indictment of industry.

The film, which was shot in the summer of 1981, was not edited until 1988. A triptych addressing the problems of the Polish countryside, depicting the fate of peasants in post-war Poland, from the decree on reform through all the turning points: 1956, 1970, and finally May 12, 1981—the day "Solidarność Wiejska" (Rural Solidarity) was registered.

Here is the legendary Bob Uecker hamming it up, commentating on sports bloopers and other sports-related skits for 30 straight minutes!

The film tells two parallel stories. One, set in the present, tells of a pagent about the conquest of America, while the other, set in the 15th century, tells of a group of conquistadors coming ashore searching for gold. The film takes place in an unnamed country.

carefully reconstructs the events in Bolivia between 1979 and 1982. Dark years. Speaking of Alberto Natush's coup d'etat, the massacre of Todos Santos, the murders of Luis Espinal and Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz, the worker, peasant and student mobilizations, García Meza Tejada's coup d'etat and the return to the democratic process.

Episode of the Belgian Flemish Television (BRT) program Het Gerucht on the development of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's choreography "Bartók/Aantekeningen" (in English: "Bartók/Annotated"), created in 1986 for four dancers from the company Roses . "Bartók/Aantekeningen" is the fifth work by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, after "Ash" (1980), "Fase, Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich" (1982), "Rosas danst Rosas" (1983) and "Elena's Aria". "(1984).

Filmmakers Cida Aidar and Inês Castilho met as part of the feminist collective that edited the newspaper Nós Mulheres between 1976 and 1979. Filmed during 1981 in the Boca do Lixo region of São Paulo, infamous for its porn cinemas and brothels, the documentary fiction 'Mulheres da Boca' reveals the lives of sex workers on their own terms, as they are captured between seduction, play, and violence, against the backdrop of the corruption and abuse exercised by those who ran the Boca de Lixo.

Documentary on horror/mystery filmmaker Dario Argento. Features an in-depth interview with Argento and covers his work from 1969 to 1985.

A film portrait of 12-year-old violin prodigy Vadik Repin, winner of numerous international music competitions.

"Ellis Island Tales" - From 1892 to 1924, nearly 16 million emigrants from Europe passed through Ellis Island, a small block of land where a transit center was built, near the New York Statue of Liberty. "Ellis Island Tales, Stories of Wandering and Hope" - the book is composed of three major parts. Georges Perec and Robert Bober visited Ellis Island and with the help of texts and documents, restored what everyday life was about what some called "the island of tears".