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Autopsie d'un Massacre
13 years after the release of BHL's "The Day and the Night", a film recognized as the worst film of all time, two journalists look back on the reception of the film at the time of its release
City/Ruins
This documentary film compiles over 2 hours of interviews and live footage documenting the Cleveland, Ohio Industrial scene. Think of it as an oral retelling of the history and characteristics of the scene since the early 1990s, spliced with footage of nearly 20 industrial and harsh noise acts including Skin Graft, Murderous Vision, Aaron Dilloway, Robert Turman, Nyodene D and many more.
Tokyo - Ebisu
Train platforms in Tokyo, as seen by avant-garde filmmaker Tomonari Nishikawa.
Avant de franchir la ligne d'horizon
Habiba Djahnine went to meet activists who continue to take action. To meet them, to capture them in the spaces where they live, work or fight. They inscribe a few words of our tormented history. Memory, memory gaps, background noise, demonstrations... The film bears witness to 20 years of political mobilization/repression in Algeria.
North from Calabria
'North from Calabria' is about a dream place to live, where living is easy and people know each other, tolerate their faults, like to meet to talk and just be together. For one summer, Sauter's film crew mingles with the inhabitants of a small town to enact an almost Italian comedy. It appears that all they needed was a few classes of Italian cuisine and the art of carpe diem to turn this Polish province into Calabria alike. A documentary midsummer night's dream.
Sweet Clover
Following the death of her grandmother, Jen takes her grandfather Harvey on one last trip to the Black Hills. Through Super-8mm film, archival photographs, non-synchronous audio recordings, and poetic voiceover, a near-century-old family pilgrimage is unraveled. It is an evocative, lyrical portrait of a granddaughter and grandfather's shared obsession with the American West, one complicated by Jen's mixed-blood heritage, that traces a quest to find a cultural home while evoking the contradictory landscapes of memory, nostalgia, and imagination.
Flying Sikhs - A History of Sikh Fighter Pilots
Focuses on the Sikh pilots who participated in World War I and World War II.
Chocolate, Chewing Gum & Brown Babies
On September 10, 1944, the first Americans Liberators cross the Luxembourgish border, their pockets filled with chocolate, chewing gum and cigarettes. Friendships are born, affairs, even lasting relationships. The number of white and black babies of unknown fathers that are born in the next few months in Luxembourg remains unknown. This incredible and thorough documentary by Andy Bausch features comprehensive, amusing and often touching interviews with Luxembourgers, American veterans-some of whom never left Luxembourg-, the children of the GIs and legendary photographer Tony Vaccaro, famous for his pictures of the winter of 1944.
In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee
Her passport said she was Cha Jung Hee. She knew she was not. So began a 40-year deception for a Korean adoptee who came to the United States in 1966. Told to keep her true identity secret from her new American family, the 8-year-old girl quickly forgot she had ever been anyone else. But why had her identity been switched? And who was the real Cha Jung Hee? In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee is the search to find the answers, as acclaimed filmmaker Deann Borshay Liem ("First Person Plural," POV 2000) returns to her native Korea to find her "double," the mysterious girl whose place she took in America. A co-production of ITVS in association with the Center for Asian American Media and American Documentary/POV.
Rick Stein's Taste of Italian Opera
Chef Rick Stein takes a light-hearted look at the role that food played in the creation of Italian opera and shows how music and food are intrinsically linked in Italy. He draws parallels between cooking and composing, noting how both involve the skilful combination of ingredients and how they share the common purpose of bringing pleasure to many. Rick also explains why he thinks the music of Verdi, Rossini and Puccini are linked to the food of the regions where they lived and worked.
Hitler's Secret Science
During the Second World War, to give himself every chance of winning the conflict, Adolf Hitler instructed the most brilliant German scientists to develop advanced technology weapons of mass destruction. Among them were the V1, the first cruise missile, and the V2, the first ballistic missile. The document looks back at the context in which their creators worked and succeeded in designing innovations that laid the foundations of modern aviation and aerospace.
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Hitler: A Journey Through His World
Historian Bob Carruthers directs this documentary looking into the world of Adolf Hitler. The film explores and assesses the environmental factors that shaped Hitler, from his first boyhood experiences through the years of struggle in Vienna, his Great War adventures, the bungled Beer Hall Putsch, his triumph over democracy and his final defeat in the ruins of Berlin.
To the End of the World
The young Danish band 'The William Blakes' have made it into something of a dogma to record their albums in no time and under the dictate of certain, changing rules in a house in Bösebo in Sweden, 300 km from Copenhagen.
Have You Heard from Johannesburg: Fair Play
Athletes and activists around the world, faced with governments reluctant to take meaningful action against the apartheid regime, hit white South Africa where it hurts: on the playing field. International boycotts against apartheid sports teams help bring the human rights crisis in South Africa to the forefront of global attention and sever white South Africans' cultural ties to the West.
Columbus's Cursed Colony
In Columbus' Cursed Colony join two scientific expeditions on a journey that takes you beneath the waters of La Isabela Bay in Dominican Republic to search for the lost fleet of Christopher Columbus.
Invisible Strings: The Talented Pusker Sisters
When young Juli takes centre stage with her violin, her talent radiates. Older user Ági, also a gifted violinist, realizes she'll never be as praised and admired as her sister.
The Arctic Tern, to the Moon and Back again
In this wildlife documentary veteran filmmaker, Páll Steingrímsson, sets his sights on the arctic tern, which has by far the longest regular migration by any known animal.
Following the Way
A documentary made by Papua New Guinean-born filmmaker Steve Ramsden about the Anglican Church of Papua New Guinea. A story from each of the country's five dioceses reveals Anglican life in this astonishingly beautiful but little-known Pacific country.
Mejor que antes
Series of testimonies and stories from various characters of this era, confronting them with the legacy of the revolutionary leader and President of Ecuador, Eloy Alfaro. It doesn't approach the subject from a historical perspective but rather a social one, aiming to showcase the different facets of the country today.
Kamel Hamadi, Ger Yenzizen
Portrait of the Algerian singer and composer Kamal Hamadi (husband of the singer Noura). Performer, musician, conductor, lyricist, author and composer, he is considered today as the witness par excellence of Algerian artistic action of the 20th century. The film received the Golden Olivier for best documentary 2010 at the Tizi-Ouzou Amazigh Film Festival in Algeria.
Shroud
The official film for the 2010 Exposition of the Shroud. Written by Ian Wilson, it tells the story of the Shroud for our modern age of high technology to show the image of the Man on the Shroud as never before seen. This film does not shrink from examining the religious significance of what has become the single most studied article in history.
Britain's Park Story
The British invented them for the world, and they have been described as 'the lungs of the city - historian Dan Cruickshank reveals the history of our public parks.
Le Tour De France - The Official History 2007-2010
In 2007 Alberto Contador recorded his first Tour victory in a year when drug scandals were rife. 2008 was all about Mark Cavendish, who emerged as one of the new stars of the Tour after recording four stage wins, while 2009 was a good year for another British rider, Bradley Wiggins, who finished 4th in the General Classification. Cavendish enhanced his reputation as a world-class sprinter as he recorded six stage wins, before sealing his status as one of the great sprinters in world cycling in the 2010 Tour by winning a further five stages.
Hello, I am Dehbashi
A Documentary about Ali Dehbashi (Persian: علی دهباشی). He is an Iranian journalist, Iranologist, researcher and writer. Dehbashi is the writer and editor-in-chief of Bukhara magazine, a periodical magazine on arts and culture in Persian published in Tehran.
Tantsud Linnuteele. Pildistusi Lennart Meri filmirännakutelt
Over the course of 25 years Lennart Meri's life and creative works were closely linked with Estonian film production. "Dances for the Milky Way" follows Lennart Meri's film quests since 1964 when he was invited to work as an script editor for Tallinnfilm, where he would quite soon become the key person for planning Estonian-Finnish film co-operation. "Dances for the Milky Way" details the stories of the makings of Lennart Meri's anthropological documentaries on Finno-Ugric peoples, such as "The Waterfowl People" (1970), "The Winds of the Milky Way" (1977), "The Sounds of Kaleva" (1986), "The Sons of Torum" (1989) and "The Shaman" (1997). The film contains many photos of film expeditions, excerpts from TV and radio programmes with interviews of Lennart Meri, video footage from his personal camera, unused footage of Lennart Meri's films, correspondence, archive documents, etc.
Life on the Savannah: Big Cats
The vast east African savannah is the only place in the world where "big cats" -- lions, leopards and cheetahs -- can be seen in a single location. The abundant source of food is the reason why these cats, which reign at the top of the food chain, can survive. The endless grassland gives them life. This is the story of the animals on the savannah, the more than one hundred species of herbivores such as gazelles and buffalos, and the big cats standing at the top of the ecosystem
Vi ho tanto amati - Un documentario sul turismo sessuale
A documentary about sexual tourism in south-eastern Asia
Ottomans vs Venetians: Battle for Crete
The Venetian and Ottoman empires competed for centuries over the island of Crete - a power struggle that has continuing repercussions today.
Frederick the Great and the Enigma of Prussia
Historian Christopher Clark re-examines the life and achievements of one of Germany's most colourful and controversial leaders, a philosopher and cultured 'Prince of the Enlightenment' whose reputation would later suffer by association with Hitler's Nazi regime.
Napozz Holddal - A Kispálfilm
With an intimate look into the band's life, this concert documentary is about the farewell concert of cult Hungarian band 'Kispál és a borz'.
Tryggare kan ingen vara
Mom plays the accordion and the coffee is on. With low-key humor, the relationship between a sensitive and searching son and his down-to-earth and straightforward mother is portrayed.