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Interview and performance with Bert Jansch, filmed for Dutch TV in 1976.

The day of two different types of young women in the early 1980s in a big city, in this case Rome: on the one hand a militant girl in an extra-parliamentary left-wing group and on the other four punk girls.

Paul Newman and Mario Andretti explain why they are driven to excellence.

Dennis Dallison recounts his past life, and how he overcame the scars of it by joining Unarius.

A documentary which, using archive materials – exclusively – deals with the historical period 1936-1974, from the establishment of the Metaxas dictatorship to the fall of the Colonels' junta, the return of Konstantinos Karamanlis and the restoration of Democracy.

Emmy Award winning documentary, directed by Peter Rosen, about the Eighth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 1989, featuring interviews with the contestants and jurists, and footage from rehearsals and performances, including by competition winner Alexei Sultanov.

Short documentary on the reconstruction of the Bauhaus dances of Oskar Schlemmer by Gerhard Bohner.

An auto-documentary about a disenfranchised Everyman and his struggle to re-integrate himself into society. He fails and turns to crime.

Documentary tracks the rise of devil cults, witches and other elements of the "black arts."

Documentary about the Swedish submarine Ulven which was sunk by a mine in Swedish waters in 1943 killing all 33 crew members.

Documentary about the problems of lonely old age of pensioners of Chornobayiv District, Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine; pensioners give interviews during household work.

Take another trip through yesterday's Cincinnati, and its people, places, and events, which includes highlights of Cincinnati's Bicentennial Celebration.

This film is about the francization of Québec that has taken place since the Parti Québécois won power from the Liberals in 1976. It shows how the once powerful anglophone community is now questioning its very survival. It discusses some of the motivating forces behind Québécois nationalism. The film concludes by asking if the Canadian nation can survive if neither of its major language groups is welcome in the territory of the other.

In his London studio, Francis Bacon discusses his work and approach with David Sylvester. His representations of the human figure in portraits and triptychs link him to the distorted realism of Van Gogh and Picasso, who also portrayed the intensity of life that Bacon calls “the brutality of fact.”

Video collage distributed by the label Come Organisation. I - IV. Noise, smut, medical procedures, studies on art, interviews and other assorted madness.

Exaltation of the plastic beauty and splendor of a city in which the Inca alternates with the colonial.

About the General director of the Leningrad association "Electrosila" B.I.Fomin.

Documentary following the lives of three Australian transgender women.

On April 4, 1979, TWA Flight 841 came within seconds of crashing following a mysterious nosedive. In an exceptional television documentary, CBS News recounted the events of the flight, the official investigation, and the ongoing controversy over where responsibility lay for what took place. Producers Paul and Holly Fine painstakingly reconstructed the flight, reuniting many members of the crew and most of the passengers for a frighteningly realistic re-creation of their shared nightmare. Distinguished by its fairness, thorough attention to detail and reliance on the facts of the incident as reported by the crew and in subsequent investigations, this program is television documentary at its best. For handling an unusual subject in an informative and riveting manner, a Peabody was awarded to CBS News for The Plane That Fell From The Sky.

Dresden old and new, in between photo documents from 1945/46, the time of resurrection, enriched by very personal commentaries by woman director Annelie Thorndike. Music for solo trumpet, composed by Reiner Bredemeyer and played by Ludwig Guettler, is set to this film.

“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.

Rate It X is a bitingly funny and disarming journey through the landscape of American sexism. Men only are interviewed by the two filmmakers in a witty montage of free-wheeling encounters. Pornographers, corporate executives, a funeral parlor director and Santa Claus are among those who reveal more than they intended. A surprisingly candid view of men's feelings towards women 15 years after the birth of the women's movement.

Arena celebrates Roy Plomley's Desert Island Discs with the help of many celebrity castaways, including Frankie Howerd, Russell Harty, Trevor Brooking, the Lord Mayor of London, Professor JK Galbraith and Arthur Askey. The special guest for the 40th anniversary programme was Paul McCartney who was also a fan of the show: 'I love its homeliness. It conjures up the best in traditional British pleasure, like the great British breakfast. It's an honour to be asked'.

Unedited concert footage of Arthur Russell playing at Experimental Intermedia Foundation on September 22 and October 27, 1985.

A docu-fiction that interweaves a historical review of 19th and 20th-century Argentina, through the tension between economic autonomy and surrender to foreign interests, and the daily life of a worker and his family in the late 1980s.

It ain't worth it is a long form music/documentary video with some of today's hottest athletes talking straight about the potential hazards of pre-marital sex.

This short film portrays people that live near a highway

A Beijing Television produced short documentary on the set of Wu Ziniu's war film Dove Tree.

Here this display of New York textures and cross-sections is juxtaposed with the creation of a dance work, Jig Jag, by choreographer-dancer Douglas Dunn and his remarkable company. The natural humor and classically tender abruptness of their gestures and phrases are beautiful enlargements or details of, in human scale, in animal scale, body to body, the vectors of form and relation in the carefully eyed city life outside.

A documentary about context in modern painting. A modern painter is shown at his work and an insight given into modern figurative art and its conceptive origins. The film follows the painter Tryggvi Ólafsson at work, both in his homeland, Iceland, and in Denmark where he lives. The account is in part biographical where it helps to analyze an ongoing creative process as it emerges in the work of a mature artist.

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

This extraordinary film tells the story of the men and women who formed the Jewish partisan movement in Vilna, Lithuania, during World War II. Using rare archival film footage dating from 1939 to 1944 and contemporary interviews with 40 partisan survivors (including Abba Kovner, a founder of the partisan movement and one of Israel's leading poets) the film explores the difficulties of organizing under the anarchic conditions of the ghetto.

The 1988 European tour of Survival Research Laboratories, with shows in Amsterdam and Copenhagen. SRL ferrets out and gleefully satirizes assorted icons of cultural pride in two of Europes more allegedly libertarian democracies.

In 1988, Frans Bromet made the documentary 'A Step Back' for the VPRO. He wonders what it would mean if the economy were to shrink and whether we would become unhappy as a result.

A documentary on the Festival of the USSR in India that took place in 1987-1988.

A 1983 film for Channel Four’s Visions, featuring interviews about the impact of Godard of British filmmakers and critics.

Rare music documentary chronicling the 80s New Wave scene in Berlin, Germany. Features performances from PVC, Z, Ideal, Insisters and Tempo.

AIDS activists discuss the merits and harms of AZT, one of the first drugs approved to treat HIV.

This 58-minute documentary presented on MTV as part of a Special Weekend, follows Michael Jackson on the Bad Tour (1987–1988) across Europe, Asia, Australia, and the US. Featuring concert highlights, backstage views, and interviews, it offers a raw, unembellished perspective on Jackson’s first solo world tour. The NBC version (Friday Night Videos) that followed added hosts and commentary.

An assessment of the first twenty-five years of the Cuban revolution. PBS Special funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and WNET in New York, featuring an interview with Fidel Castro. Narrated by Raul Julia. Filmed on Location in Cuba and Nicaragua. Chicago Film Festival Winner Gold Hugo Award Winner Honorable Mention: San Francisco Film Festival

Documentary featuring Nagisa Ōshima and Masuaki Kiyota, a Uri Geller-esque psychic medium

Anita Mikkonen, a Finnish brigadista in Nicaragua's literacy campaign, returns to the highlands of San Andres, where she meets again the men, women and children who shared their homes, their food and their history with her.

This film portraits the artist and model-builder Hermann Gloeckner, who was born in Dresden in 1889. Even at the age of 96 he is still drawing with undiminished creative energy.

Short documentary about polar bears

Depicts the Teko issue, the oil resources, trade agreements with Mexico, and visits to textile factories.

In 1924 For the first time in the Soviet and world circus, the founder of the dynasty, A. T. Kantemirov, created a group horse riding attraction. The artists of the Kantemirov troupe as trainers, stuntmen and actors took part in the filming of more than 50 domestic films, laying the foundation for a special profession in cinematography - equestrian stuntman.

Documentary on the relationship between the Basque language and its immediate cultural universe.

Another State of Mind is a documentary film made in the summer of 1982 chronicling the adventure (and misadventure) of two punk bands – Social Distortion and Youth Brigade – as they embark on their first international tour. Along the way they meet up with another progressive punk band, Minor Threat, whom they hang out with at the Dischord house for about a week near the end of their ill-fated tour.

Conversation with the poet out on the island of Runmarö.

Presents a glimpse of Waldorf principles through scenes filmed at the San Francisco Waldorf Kindergarten.

In 1984–85, Johan van der Keuken took his camera across the globe, from Amsterdam to New York to Hong Kong, ending in Geneva. The object of his investigation was money, in particular the maniacal drive to accumulate it in the era of Thatcherite/Reaganite neoliberalism.

A documentary about Nemunoki Gakuen, a school for disabled children, celebrating its 45th anniversary.

A documentary film about animals and nature and about people who use the land and the forest, filmed in the Swedish region of Bergslagen.

By the end of the seventies Tanzclub Dschungel moved from Winterfeldplatz, Berlin-Schöneberg to Nürnberger Straße, Berlin Schöneberg/Charlottenburg. A more glamorous venue.Tanzclub Dschungel at Nürnberger Straße, Berlin Schöneberg/ Charlottenburg was the place in Berlin. A relative of Studio 54 in NYC. But much more. Ask Nick Cave, Frank Zappa, David Bowie, Zazie de Paris, Mick Jagger, Prince, Grace Jones, Blixa Bargeld, Depeche Mode, Liza Minnelli, Iggy Pop, Bette Midler, Boy George, Sylvester Stallone, Hildegard Knef, David Hemmings, Michel Foucault, Claude Brasseur, Robert Mapplethorpe or Barbra Streisand.

"The Role of Chance" ("La part du hasard") focuses exclusively on drawing and painting techniques used by the painter Henri Dimier. Shot over several weeks in the same artist's studio, the film shows works in their different phases, processes rarely explained or little known. It also addresses many practical issues (choice of paper, pigment grinding, reports drawings, put the tiles, cliches, etc) as well as broader questions of method and inspiration (use of space, the role of contours, power of suggestion perspectives, use of random processes). Patrick Bokanowski sought with this film to restore the spirit of this teaching, showing how to bend a note or sometimes revealing an essential mystery of creation.