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TV-documentary by Ulf von Mechow

This corporate documentary was made for the 70th anniversary of the Icelandic Federation of Labour, and shows the structure and development of this large union.

An autobiographical short film about the life of Jannat Aliyev.

After working as a reporter and an assistant at a radio station, Watanabe Yoshimitsu, former leader of the bosozoku gang Black Emperor, returned to his old stomping grounds and began to make a film about bosozoku. At the time, he was 21. The teenage members of the bosozoku group, also known as " Thunder " would get into their revamped motorbikes and cars and race around the city. With the police as their enemies, they ran from patrol cars and did other defiant acts. They would put on outlandish clothing and, as a result of fights with rival groups, were very loyal to other members of their own gang. Every Saturday, they would cruise around, vanish and reappear throughout the entire night with no particular goal. However on 1 December 1978, because of provisions in the new highway transport law, the end was at hand for their " season of running wild. " The film shows them simply continuing to run wild on this last night before the law is to take effect.

Actress Stela Freitas answers a series of questions that seek to show the figure of the Rio de Janeiro movie spectator, their habits, their preferences, how and why they watches movies.

A documentary directed by Harald Reinl, finished by Theo Maria Werner.

To say of Kantor that he is among Poland's most outstanding artists of the second half of the twentieth century is to say very little. Kantor is to Polish art what Joseph Beuys was to German art, what Andy Warhol was to American art. He created a unique strain of theatre, was an active participant in the revolutions of the neo-avant-garde, a highly original theoretician, an innovator strongly grounded in tradition, an anti-painterly painter, a happener-heretic, and an ironic conceptualist. These are only a few of his many incarnations. Apart from that, Kantor was an untiring animator of artistic life in post-war Poland, one could even say, one of its chief motivating forces. His greatness derives not so much from his oeuvre, as from Kantor himself in his entirety, as a kind of Gesamtkunstwerk that consists of his art, his theory, and his life.

The document describes the preparations and organizational problems related to the outbreak of the Kościuszko Insurrection and the initial phase of the fighting to the Battle of Racławice. He also devotes a lot of space to the peasant question.

UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. "A chronicle of the successful protest efforts of a small Los Angeles community in the Pico-Union district, whose homes were threatened by eviction actions in 1979 to allow the expansion of an auto-supply business"--TV guide, April 27, 1984. Produced in association with the Chicano Studies Department at UCLA.

Report on the museum of the Holy Inquisition where the torture tools used on those accused of witchcraft and dealings with the devil during the viceroyalty are kept and displayed.

One of my thoughts while shooting Forest of Bliss was to see and hear what poets might have to say about their surroundings. These scenes recount some of their thoughts.

Documentary about transgendered people. The film alternates between musical performances and personal stories. Hanne Rasmussen, formerly called Hans, faces stigma and still has to dress in men's clothes when he sees his family. With old letters and archive clips, Ellen Bækgaard talks about historical figures such as Lili Elbe and Magnus Hirchsfeld. American Christine Jørgensen shares the story of her life and the attention she received when she went to Denmark in the 1950s to have sex reassignment surgery. And Thomas Holck, who was formerly called Lis, talks about his innermost thoughts and the 15 years it took to achieve stability in his new gender.

Relatives of Chile’s “disappeared” confront the legacy of repression under the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, seeking truth and justice for those who vanished during his rule.

A documentary made with archive footage and photographs alternating with recent film footage; the choice of texts is taken from Mario Rigoni Stern, Emilio Lussu, Piero Jahier, Filippo Sacchi, and Nuto Revelli.

A new age Mondo film that explores the realm of urban decay and various oddities of the modern world, ranging from underground club scenes to sex change operations.

The Improv in LA, the Comedy and Magic Club in Hermosa Beach, and the universe of comedians and impresarios who called them home.

An interview for Scottish television of film director Bill Forsyth

Documentary about a martial artist in London.

Jack the Ripper explores theories surrounding one of the most notorious unsolved crimes of modern times. Between August 7 and November 10, 1888, Jack the Ripper terrorized London, killing at least seven women. Was the murderer one man or three?

Reconstruction of the APO demonstration on November 4, 1968, in front of the Berlin Regional Court.

A personal meditation on the landscape of the American West that tracks the ruling conception in nature in the 19th and 20th centuries from the pioneers through the instamatic tourists, at the same time that it obsessively follows the four seasons. The elemental vicissitudes of the weather, the exact moment of the day, the colour of the light and the soil and the trees form an acute visual record of the constantly changing mood of the landscape. The film successfully attempts, with quiet, passionate, almost single-minded firmness, to confront us as nakedly as possible with our cultural inability to see nature whole, without preconceptions.

True story of the plight and persecution of Ethiopian Jewry and of Operation Moses, which was organized in response, transporting thousands of Ethiopian Jews to Israel by means of secret airlifts from Sudan.

Metamorfosi is a veritable dance ballet on the rocks, performed by a great climber, Patrick Berhault, set on the picturesque French Riviera and the Lingurian coast. Berhault's movements, in the sea, in caves, on rocks and precipices, are extremely difficult but are above all executed to give the movement an aesthetic value. Matemorfosi is the story of a cycle without words, told with gestures and music. Climber Monica Dalmasso also participates in the film.

A Paul Joyce documentary with Peter Bogdanovich

An inside look at life in the Alay Valley, a dry and picturesque expanse in southern Kyrgyzstan.

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"

“US Interventionism, the Third World, and the USSR", also dubbed the "Yellow Lecture", is a famous lecture by Statesian political scientist Michael Parenti discussing U.S. imperialism and the Cold War. The lecture was given in the Glenn Miller Ballroom at the University of Colorado Boulder on 15 April 1986. Parenti's lecture was sponsored by Sender Garlin's Social Issues Forum as well as Colorado State University.

Pioneering video mixtape created by Film Threat founder Chris Gore, featuring juxtaposed clips of video oddities with an overarching theme of punk rock and its impact on society.

An intensive interview with the young protagonist Rainer about his non-conformist life is combined with scenes from his everyday life. The documentary fiction Orangemond by Gabriele Denecke was created in 1979/80 as part of her master's student studies with Frank Beyer at what was then the GDR University of Film and Television in Potsdam-Babelsberg. The film was not completed. After viewing the raw material, the university decided that there would be no editing for the film. Eventually Gabriele Denecke was only able to put the film together in the sequence of scenes.

The film was financed by the local municipal administration to document and give a more positive image of Tensta-Rinkeby, Stockholm.

Documentary about the German-American entrepreneur Adolphus Busch.

An epic tale of pride and passion following competitive leek growers in the north east of England and the event they all dream of winning, the World Open Leek Championships.

As part of a geography course, students learn to do topographical surveys. A stroll at the Champlain lookout, in the Outaouais region, will allow them to familiarize themselves with the different methods in use from Samuel de Champlain to the present day. Finally, a visit to the Directorate of Energy, Mines and Resources Canada, in Ottawa, will introduce them to a new device capable of automatically drawing contour lines. This film describes this new technique of digital mapping and gives us an overview of the progress it brings in this field.

A film inspired by postcards dating from the 1920s and 1930s that were found in an antique shop. The postcards reveal a story of a woman, who travelled around the Adriatic islands in those years.

Hypnotist Robert Attila Bellus and his wife Stella are interviewed by Jeff Krulik, then Public Access Director at MetroVision Cable in Capital Heights, MD.

A portrait film about a Kentucky drag queen who ran his own club on Main Street in downtown Lexington, Kentucky.

Presents a filmed portrait of noted American photographer Ansel Adams who talks about his role as a teacher, conservationist and artist.

A film about the history of Leningrad football and the victory of Zenit in the USSR Championship in 1984.

Narrated by Deocampo in English, the film documents the anti-Marcos revolution, the life of Oliver (a transvestite who was the subject of the first film in the trilogy), child prostitution, and the filmmaker's own personal history, including his homosexuality, his filmmaking, and his travels abroad.

A selection of Survival Research Laboratories early performances, a must for those interested in how such an enterprise ever got started in the first place.

Short documentary film about the Church of the Holy Cross in Nin, Croatia, whose form, according to art historian Mladen Pejaković, is designed to follow the position of the sun.

The accomplished soprano saxist details his life and musical adventures with the likes of Cecil Taylor, and performs with his band. Includes interviews and footage of a concert at New Jazz at the Public Theater, New York City, New York, on October 29, 1983. "Lacy shows how jazz continually becomes world music... That makes for a video that gives more and more, a real investment" Kevin Lynch, DOWNBEAT "This is one of the better jazz documentaries. The virtuosic soprano saxophonist talks about his entire career... and performs with his group" Scott Yanow, AMG

In 1921 the Kwakiut'l people of Alert Bay, British Columbia, held their last secret potlatch. In 1980 at Alert Bay, the U'mista Cultural Centre (U'mista means "something of great value that has come back") opened its doors to receive and house the cultural treasures which were seized decades earlier and only then returned to the people. The center also took up activities such as recording stories told by elders so that some part of the past would always be alive and teaching children about their heritage in order to make them feel connected to their ancestors. This film documents the cultural significance of these events for today's Kwakiut'l people. It is an eloquent testimony to the persistence and complexity of Kwakiut'l society and to the struggle for redefining cultural identity for them.

3D terrain animation created at JPL, circa 1989 - a follow-up to their prior film LA the Movie. The version that appears on the Computer Animation Festival Volume 1.0 VHS / Computer Animation Adventure DVD has the opening monologue cut.

"What is the policy of burying particularly distinguished people?" – asks the manager of the municipal cemetery. "First of all, you have to be guided by the honest attitude of a party member" - he replies after a moment. These and other similar "reflections on the passing of time" give an answer to how one should have lived in the communist system in order to deserve a burial place in the alley of the distinguished (or at least in the alley of the "meritorious").

Talking Heads perform at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland on July 9, 1982. Originally broadcast on Swiss TV and radio.

At seventy-one, Paul's knife swallowing days appear to be numbered; an injury to his oesophagus injury has halted his public performances and raised concern among his family. In private, to keep up his spirits, he continues to practice his routine before a mirror.

After the triumph of the Sandinista Revolution in 1979 that liberated Nicaragua from dictatorship, different sectors of the population considered how to build the new society. As a consequence, the Adult Education project was created in which members of the marginalized sectors became popular teachers who helped people of their own social class to discover their intelligence and the pleasure of knowledge

Pensioners Alfred, Rut, Sara, Hilma and Bertil are going on an unforgettable bus journey to Holland to meet the spring. During the trip the five recount their lives. Sara's grief, Rut who never got to meet her dad, Hilma and her cottage life and Alfred, who has been in love multiple times.

A third edition of the motion picture Food That Builds Good Health. Uses animation to discuss nutrients, basic food groups and balanced meals. Explains what calories and empty calories are and stresses the importance of checking labels for sugar and other additives that a body's cells don't need at all.

From 1984, a history of farm protest movements in the U.S., especially those movements which began and flourished in the Great Plains area.

The most legendary 'sequence' ever achieved by a mountaineer: on 12 and 13 March 1987, in 40 hours, 26-year-old Christophe Profit managed to climb three of the highest north faces in the Alps, in winter: Grandes Jorasses, Eiger, and Matterhorn. But over and above this 'coverage' of the feat, we discover the wings, the story behind the project, the peaks and troughs of the preparations for it, and the personality of the man behind the climbs, a dancer on sheer rock faces, focusing all the energy and reflexes of life itself in his fingertips.

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.

This film captures a key moment in the country’s history, as its people celebrate the ousting of the authoritarian Duvalier regime. Music is central to the film, with performances from street drummers and politically engaged artists interwoven throughout, capturing the hearts and hopes of the Haitian people.