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A benefit concert for Bridge School. Includes performances by Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, Crosby, Stills & Nash and many others.

Traumatic historical events shape the way whole families interact. A very personal film about the long shadows of childhood.

The documentary shows how Cakchiquel Maya of a village on Lake Atitlan in Guatemala adapted to changes that took place in the decades before the film was made, when the lake became a favoured spot for holiday homes, and the village was filled with streams of tourists. While the filmmakers were officially welcomed and given permission to film, in practice many people hid their faces and did not co-operate. Some even threw stones at the camera crew. The film team tried to find an explanation of the Maya hostility to the camera.

Short documentary scrapbook about movie palaces and one screen theaters in Washington, DC. The project was started in 1984 and completed 1987. It aired on Washington DC PBS Station WETA.

Short film about street soccer players on the eve of the 1982 Peru-Uruguay match

Learn how to get the most out of each cooking method. *Charcoal hardware, from hibachis to high-tech. *Specific cuts of meat and recipes that make the best charcoal meals. *Sure-fire ways to start and arrange your charcoal, for glowing results. *Wonderful woods - the whys, whiffs and wherefores.

A vignette on the travelling calliope (also known as steam organ), a musical instrument that produces sound by sending steam through large locomotive whistles.

Greg Stump's rockumentary-style ski film inspired a whole new generation of skiers when it was first released in 1988. Taking a look at the heroes of the ski world -- both known and unknown -- Blizzard of Ahhhs features some of the best ski action ever filmed.

These are last days of the Soviet troops' stay in Afghanistan. What's next? About the economic difficulties after the war is over, the results of the military company.

Maurice Barrard and Liliane Bontemps met in 1973 in Peru. Four years later, they are married and start their life together in the Loire Valley. She is a physiotherapist, he is an educator. For them, although settled not far from Chartres, the mountains are never far away. Whenever the opportunity presents itself, they embark on high-altitude expeditions. First individually, then together. In 1982, they were at the top of Gasherbrum 2, an ascent filmed in this documentary prelude to other future ascents including the Nanga Parbat in 1984, after an aborted attempt a year earlier, which made Liliane Barrardi the first woman to climb this mountain. of Karakoram. The "tallest couple in the world" will not stop there. After the Makalu in 1985, in the spring of 1986 they will attempt the ascent of K2 and its 8,611 meters... Un Homme, Une Femme, Un 8000 was broadcast in the program Les Carnets de L'Aventure in 1983.

1989, New York City's Alphabet City and East Village. A year after the Tompkins Square Park Riot, squatters and their community allies try to stop the demolition of their building after an arson. Police forces occupy the neighborhood while the demolition continues. A portrait of an East Village that is no more. An homage to the voices and sounds of a neighborhood before its gentrification.

Holy Week in the community of Porcón de Cajamarca is one of the manifestations that reflect the religious syncretism and magic inherent to the Andean being.

Uses archival photographs, newsreel footage, and interviews to chronicle the quest by Black South Africans for economic viability and individual freedom.

A classroom film about the way kids feel and how to control emotions.

A documentary film showing life in one of Hamburg’s homes for seniors. Over the course of six months, Elfi Mikesch interviewed and filmed the inhabitants, concentrating on a female couple who are spending the rest of their lives together in a close and intimate relationship.

This short documentary depicts the search, discovery and authentication of the only known Norse settlement in North America - Vinland the Good. Mentioned in Icelandic manuscripts and speculated about for over two centuries, Vinland is known as "the place where the wild grapes grow" and was thought to be on the eastern coast between Virginia and Newfoundland. In 1960 a curious group of house mounds was uncovered at l'Anse aux Meadows in northern Newfoundland by Drs. Helge Ingstad and Anne Stine Ingstad of Norway. Added to the United Nations World Heritage List, l'Anse aux Meadows is considered one of the most important archaeological sites in the world.

A film in which the one 60-story skyscraper that soars in the spaces between roofs spins with incredible speed. I centered the circumference with its 400 or 500 meter radius on the skyscraper and divided it into 48 sections, then took photographs from those spots and shot the photographs frame by frame.

Depicts in documentary form, constructed as an associative poem, a fictional day across the country, recorded at Stora Sjöfallet, Sarek, Kutjaure, Kiruna, Bohuslän, Blekinge, Västergötland, Stockholm and other places.

Jackie McLean is a true jazz master and one of the few true authorities of the bebop era still in business, but at the time of this film his main gig was teaching at Hartford. Hartford seems to have had a low-profile and low-budget jazz department, and the same goes for this film, which clocks in at just over half an hour, and barely scratches the surface of the subject matter. Still, what is here is engaging and a surprisingly candid portrait. McLean is shown practicing in his apartment and - briefly - playing with his quintet, but most of the running time is spent at Hartford in the classroom - and what classes they must have been. McLean's stream-of-consciousness lectures run from Sun Ra to JFK's assassination to how he learned Giant Steps, and the students try their best to keep up. A fascinating glimpse into the mind of a jazz musician.

20 minute music documentary shot in two days of November 1984 in, and around the outskirts of, Tokyo, Japan. A large part of the music was completed during that same month and recorded over a period of three days.

Filmed by Guillermo Escalón in July 1981, it shows daily life in territories under guerrilla control in the Francisco Sánchez Northeastern Front, Department of Morazán,

Documentary on the USSR

Explores the paths being forged by six modern artists, giving us rare insight into the minds behind this rousing new wave of painting.

The elusive author of Waiting for Godot cooperated in the production of this portrait, which traces Beckett’s artistic life through his prose, plays, and poetry. Billie Whitelaw, Jack McGowran, and Patrick Magee—Beckett’s great dramatic interpreters—appear in selected extracts from the plays; Beckett specialist David Warrilow narrates a variety of texts.

Real life deprogrammers and ex-Moonies reenact one person’s journey into and out of the Unification Church in this compelling docudrama. Moonchild is an eye-opening glimpse of a religious cult from an insider’s point of view.

A 1981 documentary looking at the Cult following of the Rocky Horror show and introducing the sequel "Shock Treatment".

Short documentary about the effects of climate change on the Arctic.

A marital breakdown is brought to life through a mixture of dramatisation, monologue, montage and animation. Through the perspectives of the husband, the lawyer, the couple’s parents and their “home help”, a picture emerges of the transactional nature and economic fall-out of marriage, along with issues of class and gender politics affecting single mothers.

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

Palestinian children play Intifadia. In the next episode, they are its victims. Filmed on a smuggled video camera.

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

UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Part one is Chef Joachim Splichal, the chef de cuisine for the Regency Club in Los Angeles, speaking about the future of French cuisine, with the young chefs challenging the old cooking methods. Part two shows the preparation of fine dining foods. Part three shows the final products, with the menu items listed and the final dishes plated. The fine dining images are turned surrealist and disturbing when set to the intense mechanical score and with prolonged still shots.

Film which explores the relationship of man to water, his mastery of the fear of drowning and accomplishments in swimming.

Documentary about the ten days the director spent in Moscow, during the 1986 Moscow Youth Festival, as kind of a gay delegate.

The film’s title is taken from a song, used here as a leitmotif, written by Günter Jordan and the East German rock group Pankow. This sensitive report about rebellious teenagers in Berlin’s “wild East” was banned before its first screening.

Tourist report on the most picturesque sights of Ica.

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.

A silent, Super 8 film by Joseph Morder.

A portrait of the idyllic town of Karlsborg, Sweden, home to 4000 inhabitants, whose economy is dependent on the prominent local manufacturer of the latest technology in ammunition.

The artist's creative moments and everyday life. Another serigraph - "Võrumaa IX" will be completed within one month.

In the Peruvian Amazon, an old Yaminawá shaman teaches his craft to an apprentice familiar with the industrial world.

Robert Mugge's 1986 film provides a full-blooded portrait of the Latino singer, actor, bandleader, and composer. Blades' Panama homeland, his Harvard Master's degree, and a New York performance with his band Seis de Solar all serve as stops on this biographical journey.

A feature length documentary about fourteen year old Thomas, a psychotic and severely mentally handicapped young boy.

Made in the wake of the Brixton uprisings, Street Warriors explores the tensions that exist between community building and the increasing professionalisation of a south London street hockey team.

Once, the Staatsliedenbuurt neighbourhood in Amsterdam was an autonomous state for squatters, punks and the original inhabitants who united in the 'Woongroep Staatsliedenbuurt'. The city council's authority had eroded to virtually nothing after years of failing housing policy. The neighbourhood took matters into its own hands, which became painfully apparent when Amsterdam's mayor Van Thijn was roughly kicked out of the area at the close of 1984.

Coming Out reveals that the debutante tradition is alive and well.

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.

A look into the mind of one of the Hillside Strangler murderers, Kenneth Bianchi.

In the 30 de Agosto community of the Comas district, a woman is working to find solutions to common needs by coordinating efforts. Her work benefits her children, but her husband is not happy with her new role.

A short documentary.

When Anna, a twenty-eight-year-old photographer, is put in charge of a report on the restoration works at The Ostend Museum of Modern Art, she discovers by chance five paintings signed Constant Permeke, whose power and mystery move and fascinate her.She decides to embark on a quest to find out about who Permeke actually was, the places where he lived, how he worked, what experiences he went through.