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A documentary about Finnish twin sisters, one of whom disappeared in Argentina in 1977.

This 1987 documentary is the only window into an experimental open-air penal colony in the Peruvian Amazon, which no camera has ever entered and has been rarely written about.

An attempt to answer the question about the ideals of today's youth. A group of high school graduates from Łódź (from High Schools No. 21 and 29) present their images of people who could become role models. The filmmakers used this meeting to write a script for a film about young people. Girls and boys work together to construct the plot of a contemporary picture.

La terra in due means the earth of the landlords versus that of the peasants who actually cultivate it. This film uses evocative photogrphy and a dignified rhythm to depict the death of peasant culture. This fact is brought home by the super 8 footage shot ten years earlier. Blank's familiarity with the villagers and their unsselfconsciousness in front of the camera produce a high degree of authenticity in this account of culture of the 'mezzadria'.

"This is our land, our sea... we will die rather than lose this place” was the cry raised by 70,000 people in Baliapal when the government announced their decision to locate a missile testing range there in August 1984. Since then a remarkable non-violent struggle is in its fourth year...

A GDR documentary from the 1980s. Sachsenplatz in modern Leipzig: Waltraut Kosetzka, 61, and 55-year-old Inge Arnold are among the women who helped to rebuild the destroyed city after the collapse of the Third Reich. The film portrays the two women, documents their biographies, accompanies them in their everyday professional and private lives and visits their old places of work as rubble women. To emphasize the importance of their work, old footage of destroyed buildings is contrasted with new buildings. It is repeatedly emphasized that their work made a decisive contribution to improving housing conditions in Leipzig. To this day, the two working women are committed to maintaining their city.

Documentary about the British film studio. First appeared on the BBC television programme Omnibus.

Documentary on Tibet co-directed by Chen Zhen and Li Ying.

Short film about the earthquake in Montenegrin littoral.

A warehouse of the imaginary, a library of vision, a labyrinth of dreams: this, and much more, is the Museo Nazionale del Cinema. From the magic lanterns to the rotoscopes, from the archive footages of the Torino relics at the time of Pastrone, “Occhi che videro” reconstructs an atmosphere of magic and allure of the visual utopias before the Lumière brothers that any technologic marvel will ever be able reach. But the film is first of all an homage to the founder of the Museum: Maria Adriana Prolo.

Ray Alan presents a documentary about the history of ventriloquism.

Recorded during World War II, this rare color film traces an RAF Bomber Command night attack on Berlin -- from strategic planning and preparation to the execution of the actual attack with Avro Lancaster bombers. Air Commodore H.I. Cozens filmed the events during a period when the Bomber Command flew into Germany nearly every night for a massive series of raids on key targets.

The authors of the film try to explain that in order to solve global problems, particularly economic ones, it is necessary to follow not only a dry "how-to-do-it" approach, but also to listen to the voice of reason. Through two examples, the authors of the film illustrate the consequences of decisions made by people who did not consider the potential irreversible outcomes. The authors and participants of the film compare these individuals to computers, which are mechanical machines that lack a soul or heart and make decisions based solely on the information provided to them.

A staged documentary about an American ex-Vietnam soldier who teaches other Americans - men, women, children - to use weapons to defend themselves and obtain the possibility to say: "NO".

An invigorating antidote for American culture's one-dimensional image of older women, this classic film offers empowering insights about women and aging for every generation. Personal portraits of six ordinary women in their 60's and 70's who share their lives. In candid interviews that tackle a range of thought-provoking topics, including self-image, sexuality, financial concerns, dying, and changing family relationships, members of the group display both a vibrant strength of spirit and inspiring zest for life.

Charity work in favor of the needy through the sale of the Lima and Callao Lottery.

This intriguing profile of the University of Nebraska Press and the scholarly publishing process focuses on the experiences of four Nebraska authors.

A film essay on life within and beyond the prison walls of the Marcos dictatorship. Features interviews with former political detainees who all expressed their desire to be reintegrated to the mainstream of society, while keeping alive their commitment to social transformation.

Never before has a film so enthusiastically captured the mood and spirit of this unique American art form. Five of the legends of Gospel music live in a concert extravaganza at the Paramount Theatre in Oakland, CA.

The first documentary about the Chernobyl disaster. The eruption of the nuclear reactor, the heroic actions of firefighters and soldiers, the abandoned city of Pripyat, and the invisible death are a warning to humanity about future man-made disasters, and a reminder to those in power about their responsibility.

The film by Ido Sela, who recorded with his camera Meir Ariel's special concert tour throughout the country in October 1987. This is a concert tour structured like an American election campaign: Meir Ariel and his band land without prior notice in various places throughout the country - Tiberias Beach, the Acre Theater Festival, Kibbutz Mishmaret that Ariel was A member of it, Pituach towns - build a temporary stage and sell their musical "merchandise" and their illusory sleep to the curious locals. Sela uses wisely and is completely unconcerned with the differences that exist between the people of Tel Aviv and the people of the suburbs.

A woman on a meadow, strolling around, narcisstically involved, wandering. Now and again one can see her breasts through her half-opened shirt. The camera films with a powerful telephoto lens. This idyll is radically destroyed when the woman suddenly looks directly into the camera. There is an immediate cut (the voyeur has been discovered) and the whole sequence of events begins from the beginning again, but each time re-filmed from the last till finally, only a completely abstract, flickering picture remains.

A day in the life of singer and songwriter Tim Maia. The Brazilian musical icon discusses themes such as his childhood, love, his musical influences, and life outside of Earth.

At its core, “Punks and Poseurs” is a narration-free concert film, but it’s cut with terrific interview footage that explores the changing nature of punk, from insider and outsider perspectives. There’s a lot of great footage with writer/performers Pleasant Gehman and Iris Berry, torpedoing the influx into the music scene of neophyte phonies who just didn’t get it, explaining title of the program. (After this first aired in 1985, a bunch of the new waver/Durannie chicks at my high school—which is to say all the girls who were trying their suburban Ohio best to look like Gehman and Berry—started calling everyone “poseurs,” which was pretty funny.) There’s also a hilarious interview with employees at a store called “Poseur,” which sold punk fashions and accessories—people had to get that shit somewhere before Hot Topic forever banished punk to the mall, no? Also keep an eye out for the kid giving a primer on how to fashion liberty spikes with Knox gelatine.

The plant is padded and bounces, the heart is padded and drops. Objects fill the lead roles: swaying plants with succulent leaves; and vases, tall and lean like the torsos of young women. Metal and plastic foil, leather straps and piles of flour, enigmatic symbols and garishimages, all accompanied by shrill music and a tumult of voices, mechanical clattering, angry snorting and the cracking of a whip.

The film is a fairy tale about the extraordinary adventure of the girl Katya Batanova in the Central Puppet Theater named after S.V. Obraztsova: the sorceress turns Katya into a princess; dolls come to life; Katya, watching the impolite and rude behavior of the heroes of the fairy tale, begins to realize how important it is to follow the rules of behavior in society.

A moving and graphic portrait of the people of wartorn Beirut in their day-to-day struggle to survive in the rubble and despair. Filmed shortly after the 1982 massacres at Sabra and Chatila, the film gives a vivid picture of the plight of these people and of any people who are too poor to escape the ravages of war.

In the campsites, at the edge of highways, the option for staying at the fields. The tough survival and cultural habits. The typical chimarrão (mate tea) and country music, a factor of integration and resistance. The political organization: commissions, marches, assemblies and blockades. The position of the great farmers. The confrontation: the struggle for agrarian reform.

For two weeks in 1980, two thousand disabled athletes gathered in Arnhem, Holland, for the sixth edition of the Olympic Games for the Physically Disabled, which had been held for twenty years and had last been organized in the Soviet Union. To begin with, one-legged Canadian Arnie Boldt cleared 1.96 meters in the high jump. Records were soon to fall like the cold rain of that uncertain summer, and for all those who dreamed of going faster, higher and stronger, there was no shortage of adversaries. Brad Parks, the wheeled American, pulverized the 100 and 1,500-meter records, Leone Williams, the Jamaican, threw the discus over 28 meters; among the "big guns", the battle was fierce between Brown, the American world record holder at 263 kilos, and Lindberg, the elf from the North.

An interesting peek into an anime studio in 1984, with a heavy focus on early usage of computer graphics in anime.

"With characteristic wit and rigor, experimental filmmaker Larry Gottheim here applies his impressionistic editing style to footage collected during his travels in the Dominican Republic. Gottheim’s formal emphasis on repetition and fissures between sound and image resonates here as a mode of sociological reflection (with the fragmentary montage mirroring elements of ritual while also destabilizing the ethnographic gaze). A largely overlooked antecedent to the contemporary blending of avant-garde and ethnographic filmmaking, MACHETTE GILLETTE… MAMA still poses a potent challenge to documentary convention." - Max Goldberg

In 1988 the largest demonstrations and strikes ever in the history of the Soviet Union took place in Armenia. The immediate cause for it was the demand of Nagorno Karabakh, an autonomous area in Azerbaijan, to be an administratively accounted Armenian territory.

Documentary about the Zenica coal mine.

Focuses on an open-pit mining operation. Shows huge haulage trucks, pointing out existing and potential hazards involved in their operation. Re-enacts common accidents, explains their causes and outlines the steps necessary to prevent their re-occurrence.

Take a bird’s eye view of 1980s Tasmania, filmed from the window of a helicopter.

Documentary about the illegal mourning tradition of head slashing in the Azerbaijan region of northern Iran. In the film, Panahi documented a mourning ceremony for the third Shi'ite Imam, Imam Hossein, where people hit their heads with knives until they bled. Panahi had to shoot in secret and the film was banned for several years.

An old mill on a dried up riverbed brings up memories. Some people that used to work there died in concentration camps, some died on the courier paths in forests and some of them in combat.

The first film, China in Revolution, describes the epic upheaval that began in China with the fall of the last emperor in 1911. Over the next four decades, the Chinese people were caught up in struggles with warlords, foreign invasion and a bitter rivalry between the Chinese Communist Party and the Nationalist Party. The film highlights the two figures who came to shape events, Chang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong. First they worked as allies to unite the country and then they fought a bloody civil war that was won by the Communists in 1949.

In this film, Buba struggles over whether he should make a film about a food bank, or just use the money to donate food to the bank. In the end, he leaves it up to the viewer.

Shows how underground water has carried out the caves, their features, extension, entrances, and more. On exploration visit of the caves of the Sistema de Cuevas del Río Camuy, Camuy, Puerto Rico.

Gilbert & George are renowned for presenting themselves as ‘living sculptures,’ fusing their art and identity with the external world. Their exploration of the bleak urban surrounds of 1980’s London, powerfully evoke the desires and tensions of its disillusioned youth alongside their own eccentricities. Poetic narration combines with vivid imagery that moves between the startlingly beautiful, the humorous, and the absurd. Church spires and city streets, youth and drunks, dancing and tea-drinking all take on an affecting symbolism when viewed from the unique perspective of Gilbert & George.

History of the old viceregal neighborhood of Soledad in Lima before its disappearance.

Ted Bundy, an infamous serial killer responsible for the murder of as many as 50 young women and girls, granted an interview to psychologist James Dobson just before he was executed on January 24, 1989. In that interview, he described the agony of his addiction to pornography. Bundy goes back to his roots, explaining the development of his compulsive behavior. He reveals his addiction to hardcore pornography and how it fueled the terrible crimes he committed.

Underage lifts the lid on the insular world of a group of wayward Coventry teenagers in the early 1980s. In the run up to the summer holidays, struggling to make sense of their lives, the teens take solace in glue sniffing, drinking excessively, getting arrested or head-banging to Motorhead

Charlton Heston tells the fascinating story of the intertwining of Andrew Wyeth's biography and art. He discusses themes of regeneration and fertility. An overview of Wyeth's place in contemporary art.

Above the lone valley, amid the deep woodland, stands Deer Shelter Rock, proud and high, where a man built a dream house, his own lofty castle, commanding the hills and the sky. This place is pure magic, a house filled with music; Come visit it often, it's yours for the sharing.

The film is about a village in the mid-1980s and Gorodetsky painting.

Directors belonging to the PLO film organisations were barred from entering territories under Israeli administration. Kais Al-Zubaidi sent a West-German film team into the territories occupied in 1967. They talked to Palestinian peasants and refugees and to Israeli settlers. The former have lost their fields and meadows and are to be driven further East from the camps in which they lived since 1948. The latter call their new settlement area “liberated land”.

Immersion Video fuses point-of-view and perspective video, digital audio and special-interest information into an exciting new class of home video product. Pulling G's puts you in the pilot's seat of America's hottest jets and helicopters. The action is bathed in an original live-to-digital score by composer William S. Weisbach. A printed Flight Log provides pilot's commentary, composer's notes and intriguing insights into the visual and musical action.

A retired film projectionist tells us about his experiences as such, from silent to sound films, with both national and international cinema.

Kannava, 10 years after migrating to Australia as a 15 year old in 1974, returns to her home city of Limassol in Cyprus, to reconnect with her beloved grandmother.

With all the native wit, rib tickling humor and ability to see what makes the South the South found in the literary classics of Southern writers like Mark Twain, documentary filmmaker Stan Woodward helps us discover the common thread that connects the South’s people across all social, economic, political and racial boundaries – Grits! “Grits is us” - or, if we are to be grammatically correct, “Grits are us” - could easily be the title of this uproariously funny and at the same time insightful and poignant personal documentary.

Using only one camera, remote controlled mirrors and an external tilting device, Lacey alternates the perspective of angular planes on his face into that of a woman. Like archetypal statues, the images disintegrate, solidify and slowly re-assemble.

Goddess Remembered is a salute to 35,000 years of "pre-history," to the values of ancestors only recently remembered and to the goddess-worshipping religions of the ancient past. This documentary features Merlin Stone, Carol Christ, Luisah Teish, Starhawk, Charlene Spretnak and Jean Bolen, who link the loss of goddess-centered societies with today's environmental crisis.

Animated documentary highlighting the importance of protecting the environment and conserving it through the care and cultivation of flora and fauna.