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A documentary propaganda film presenting the Soviet version of Lithuania's incorporation into the Soviet Union, telling the story of the cost of freedom in the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic.

Video magazine with interviews and video clips. Featured on this volume is: Skid Row, Bon Jovi, Vixen, Europe, Great White, LA Guns, Aerosmith, Danzig, Mr Big, Sacred Reich, Faster Pussycats, Thin Lizzy, Brighton Rock, Ezo, Stage Dolls, Gene Simmons, Ace Frehley, Overkill & more.

On April 20, 1945, twenty Jewish children were hanged at the Hamburg school on Bullenhuser Damm. SS doctor Heißmeier had previously conducted "medical" experiments on the children. To conceal this crime from the advancing British forces, the SS, under the command of Obersturmführer Arnold Strippel, killed the children, two prisoner nurses, two prisoner doctors, and 24 Soviet prisoners of war. One of the children's murderers, Arnold Strippel, who now lives in Frankfurt, has been under investigation by the Hamburg public prosecutor's office since 1979, but so far without any results. The film documents the children's story through eyewitness accounts. It conveys impressions of Nazi propaganda through "Die Deutsche Wochenschau" (The German Weekly Newsreel) and shows the dangers of neo-fascism in the Federal Republic of Germany. In April 1980, a few days after a memorial service for the children, neo-Nazis planted a bomb in the school on Bullenhuser Damm...

Intercut with illustrative stock footage, Adam's World present a short lecture by Elizabeth Dodson Gray, a feminist theologian, environmentalist, and futurist. She speaks to us about the severity of our global environmental crisis, and analyzes the root cause of this crisis as lying in the perceptions, beliefs, and assumptions of the patriarchal system we have inherited.

A documentary about the lives and history of Turkish immigrants in three centuries of Berlin history.

Documentary directed by Sylvio Heufelder

THE ROCKET MOVIE takes you back to that hot summer night when David Leslie attempted to launch himself over a mountain of watermelons on a Soho street before a crowd of 2,000 dazzled spectators. The story unfolds with the narration of veteran Hollywood stunt coordinator Gary Zeller (DAWN OF THE DEAD, RAGTIME, SCANNERS), who "put his reputation on the line" to collaborate with the Impact Addict. Filmmaker Larry Fessenden brings to this stunning documentary all the passion and drama of that spectacular night: As James Brown look-alike Jack Dingas pumps the crowd with an American anthem, our Rocket Man climbs aboard his bastard craft and bids farewell to the woman he loves—only to end that night in a near fatal fiery crash.

A documentary featured on BBC's Arena series in 1983. The author discusses his life, his work and his thoughts and opinions.

This little-known Blank gem is a portrait of the Serbian-American communities of Chicago and California, highlighting their history in this country, their music, dancing, and religion.

A look at a Romanian classroom in the 1980s.

Documentary film thay depicts the life and career of the then Yugoslav president Josip Broz Tito. It represents the second film Škanata made about Tito's life (after the short film Tito three years earlier, i.e. the last film made about Tito during his lifetime).

Documentary about director Fritz Korner

Document on the struggle of immigrant workers on strike for rent in Sonacotra homes with the support, in terms of legal defense, of Jacques Verges, lawyer, and judge Bidalou.

The two top women's wrestlers in Britain fight for the most coveted prize, The British Ladies' Championship Belt.

Explores the life and work of the Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher.

A portrait of David, a boy diagnosed with autism.

This program traces Rubinstein's career and features excerpts from his performances of works by Frederic Chopin, his favorite composer. There are also effervescent Rubinstein reminiscences told as only he could tell them, as well as interviews with his family and colleagues. A 100th anniversary tribute to the famous virtuoso pianist, Arthur Rubinstein.

Documentary using archival footage, newsreels and contemporary interviews with women of the WW2 Australian Women's Land Army.

A film about Alfred Nobel.

The celebration of communion in Christian ceremonies is one of the oldest elements of church tradition. The film shows how young people prepare and celebrate communion together during a leisure activity.

Just when you thought you’d seen it all, along comes Rent-A-Friend. Released in 1987, this video was intended for lonely people with VCRs. Pop in the tape and, voila, your new friend, Sam, is in your living room.

On the occasion of the centenary of Anton Chekhov's short story “Kashtanka”, actors of the Moscow Puppet Theater perform scenes from the play “Kashtanka and the Elephant” staged by Leonid Khait.

Travel off the beaten path with Vincent Price as he unearths the strange plays and bizarre players who have inhabited the NFL for the past half century. Step right up and see for yourself the one-eyed quarterback who led the NFL in passing one year. Meet the player whose diet consisted of blood and raw meat. See weird team rituals. The strangest games. Discover the fattest achievers who ever played. And relive such out-of-this-world plays as "the Holy Roller," "The Immaculate Reception" and "The Miracle of the Meadowlands."

"In this brilliantly heartbreaking report, at 8 on Channel 9, a whole complex of social changes comes into new focus, and The Mall is made to serve stunningly as metaphor, symbol, avatar and harbinger. And yet all that darned old significance never gets in the way of the fact that the program is about people and, to some extent, about how helpless they are when it comes to letting slip away things they all know, deep down, they would be better off hanging onto." - Washington Post, 1982

The film provides a close look at how the nomadic inhabitants of Somalia have withstood the ravages of a harsh desert environment and the encroachment of European imperial forces by synthesizing knowledge of the past, Muslim practices, and skillful livestock management in a successful fusion of traditional values with modern techniques.

Travel to the edges of our solar system with this unique blend of photographic images, video and computer animation. Hosted by renowned scientist and author Isaac Asimov, the program is set to Gustav Holst's moving 1917 musical suite "The Planets." The infrequently seen footage from NASA includes images of planets and other impressive galactic bodies, including Jupiter, Saturn's rings, Pluto and much more.

The community-run medical post incorporates folk medicine (herbalist, midwife, bone setter, etc.)

The original artist Oleksandr Semernya never studied painting, but has been drawing for as long as he can remember.

The documentary is about an old man from Yerevan who paints on garages, transforming rusty metal walls into vivid landscapes and leaving a subtle yet unforgettable mark on the city.

Bearing the signature melancholy, affection, and absurdist irony of associative form that would define his filmography, Copel Moscu’s debut is a loving portrait of miners and their arduous, sun-deprived existence.

The film directed by V. Starošas tells about Angkor, a huge complex of temples, palaces, water reservoirs and canals in Cambodia, built in the jungle in the 9th-13th centuries.

EAT THE KIMONO is a brilliant documentary about Hanayagi Genshu, a Japanese feminist and avant-garde dancer and performer, who has spent her life defying her conservative culture's contempt for independence and unconventionality. She denounced Emperor Hirohito as a war criminal, and dismissed death threats made against her by right-wing groups.

Middle-aged NFB producer Daisy Bellefeuille is about to get a facelift. Rubbo follows the process through her discussions with her friends, consultations with physicians, observation of other facelift patients, and finally the operation and its aftermath. There's also an amateur-intellectual sidebar on the history of physical appearance and its cultural importance- Altogether, a gripping, hour-long documentary about a woman and her facelift.

Anton Nilson is known as one of the Amalthea men, three young socialists who in 1908, in one of the labor conflicts that crippled Malmö, carried out a bomb attack against the ship Amalthea, home to the English "willing to work" that the employers had imported to break the struggle of the striking workers.

A 1985 documentary looking at a Birkenhead street in which every resident is unemployed

A film about the everyday life of workers at a Danish special ward during the AIDS epidemic.

During the 1980 exhibition of Burden's monumental kinetic sculpture The Big Wheel at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, Burden and Feldman were interviewed by art critic Willoughby Sharp. Burden articulates the process of creating The Big Wheel, a 6,000-pound, spinning cast-iron flywheel that is initially powered by a motorcycle, and discusses its relation to his earlier performance pieces and sculptural works. Addressing his motivations and the meaning of this potentially dangerous mechanical art object, Burden discusses such topics as the role of the artist in the industrial world, "personal insanity and mass insanity," and "man's propensity towards violence."

Shirley Clarke's frenetic documentary about multi-talented musician Ornette Coleman.

Reconstruction of the most important moments of the battle of Tarapacá, a Peruvian town lost in the War with Chile (1879-1884).

Using the example of the village of Mali Huliaky in the Fastiv district of the Kyiv region, the film examines the decline of the Ukrainian village. Residents of the village Stepaniia and Mykola Debalchuky talk about the Holodomor of 1932–1933.

A documentary about a daring climb to the top of Þumall (the Thumb) a mountain in Skaftafellsöraefi district, in the South of Iceland. The preparation of the climbers is shown, as well as their journey through the National Park Skaftafell, towards the root of the mountain. The climb is delayed by the weather, but eventually, Þumall is conquered.

During the autumn of 1989 the director visited the territory of the USSR in search of the places where Polish citizens sent to labor camps had been executed. His route was marked out by diaries of former prisoners and the deportation chronology.

Interview film with Monte Hellman.

The final instalment of this 3-part documentary series about Pierre Elliott Trudeau and René Lévesque spans the decade between 1976 and 1986. The film reveals the turbulent, behind-the-scenes drama during the Quebec referendum and the repatriation of the Canadian Constitution. In doing so, it also traces both Trudeau's and Lévesque's fall from power.

A montage of photographs (from police archives and newspapers) of tortured and murdered victims from the slums of Rio de Janeiro. The strange positions of the slaughtered bodies give a critical meaning to two traditional religious hymns that sing praise to the glory of God and the Virgin Mary. The strange postures of the mutilated bodies establish an ironical meaning to the traditional verses, while the voices of singers Agnaldo Timóteo and Ângela Maria add a pathos of deliriously popular, in an atmosphere of joy and triumph of the Virgin Mary. Film-shock. Basically an investigation about the force of gravity upon dead bodies. A small hymn of love to the mannerist art of sixteenth century.

We visit a magical repertory company with an absolutely unique group of five actors you’ve never seen before. Uniquely talented, they present a fresh perspective into the worlds of music, literature, and drama. Through the eyes of the actors, the works of William Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, and others known and unknown are revealed in a stunning new perspective. Brimming full of wit and humor, a visit to the Little Players is guaranteed to bring a well-needed dose of love, humor, and delight.

The diary of a trip - interrupted - of the director to Chile, made during the social explosion of the eighties: Expelled from the country after her semi-clandestine entry was discovered by the intelligence services, it was completed from a distance. It is one of the first returns from exile and a fundamental antecedent of the first-person documentary in Chile.

The musings and works of artist Lamberto V. Avellana.

This beautiful film is a portrait of the life and work of Cuban-born American artist Ana Mendieta. Mendieta used her own body, the raw materials of nature, and Afro-Cuban religion to express her feminist political consciousness and poetic vision. Interview footage with Mendieta and her own filmed records of her earthworks and performances are incorporated to render a vivid testament to her energy and extraordinary talent after her tragic, untimely death in 1985.