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Scene Missing
The unfinished documentary about the making of Dennis Hopper's mostly unseen feature film The Last Movie (1971).
Salty Dog Blues
The film looks at men and women of color in the U.S. Merchant Marine from 1938-1975. Through chronicling the lives of these men and women who, with a median age of 82, are beset with a host of life-threatening illnesses, the movie tells how they navigated issues of racism, disparities in the workplace, gender and familial relations.
Space station
Several people gather to watch the space station travel across the sky. Part of the series "Haikus".
100% CEF, unha biografía de Celso Emilio Ferreiro
Meet the Fokkens
Sisters doing it for themselves in Amsterdam's Red Light District. Louise and Martine Fokkens are identical twins. For over fifty years they were working as prostitutes. They freed themselves from the control of their pimps, ran their own brothel, and set up the first informal trade union for prostitutes. They are familiar faces in Amsterdam's Red Light District, but soon they will bid their farewells. The Ladies Fokkens is a portrait of these remarkable women, as well as a history of the Red Light District over the past fifty years.
Non sequitur
Edna shows Raúl the films she made of the Via Crucis during Holy Week. Part of the "Haiku" series.
Pablo's Winter
Pablo needs to stop smoking. Why? Because his wife, family and doctor say he should. But Pablo is a stubborn man. He has worked in the mercury mines of Almadén, Spain, risking his life daily. He has had five severe heart attacks and smoked 20 Winston's a day since he was 12. Now in his seventies, Pablo spends most of his day in front of the TV, surrounded by a cloud of smoke, with his back turned firmly towards a village that has lived through better times. Pablo represents the last generation of Almadén mercury miners, an age-old profession with over 2,000 years of history. Through a straightforward depiction of life's everyday moments, Pablo's Winter explores the decay of the local mining culture, but above all, pays homage to its real protagonists: the miners and their families.
Open Field
Open Field is a documentary about Gabriel Orozco, a movie that chronologically records 10 years of the life and work of the artist in ten sequences. In different formats (super 8, 16 mm., HD), the film features some of the most important and dramatic moments of his life. These years, the most recent, have been the most ripe for Orozco, since he has become a key figure in the world of global contemporary art.
The 3 Lives of Agnès
The 3 lives of Agnès Varda: photographer, filmmaker and visual artist.
Lotte Reiniger - Tanz der Schatten
Portrait of the pioneer of animation films Lotte Reiniger.
El laberinto de lo posible
At sixty-six years old, Venezuelan Sonia Soberats lives alone in a modest New York apartment. A trauma in the past –the death of her two children– left her completely blind, and today she dedicates herself to blind photography, a particular discipline that finds new expressive forms by exploring and experimenting with what is conventionally taken for a disadvantage. A creative process that reflects different life experiences, returning in 35mm mental images informed by touch, smell and hearing, which encapsulate another way of being in a world saturated with images. A member of the Seeing With Photography collective, Sonia is dedicated to seeing beyond sight, and teaching others to do so. This is the remarkable story of his life and work
Rada
Olga picks up a downed dog on a busy highway. Alive, but with a serious injury, a fracture of the spine. Veterinarians advise the dog to be euthanized, because Rada has little chance of surviving. But the girl decides to fight for Rada's life. And soon she will realize that she is not alone in this struggle. And there are more victims from "our smaller brothers" than she could expect.
Self-Portrait in Handcuffs
An inspiring portrait of Belorussian artist Ales Pushkin, who uses his performance art to wage a mini-resistance against the regime of President Alexander Lukashenko.
Graffiti
In the village of Pervomaisky near Tula, a local businesswoman decided to ennoble the space near her stall. The young artist painted Christ and the Sistine Madonna for her. Everyone turned on the artist and businesswoman, from the administration and the police to participants in Orthodox Internet forums. As a result, on the feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord, the entrepreneur destroyed the images of Christ and the Virgin with her own hand. But something remains of the naive fresco. Although not on the wall.
Obsessed With Voodoo
There are many legends associated with the voodoo religion. Her rituals are surrounded by an aura of mystery. The small West African state of Benin is considered the cradle of this religion. In the holds of slave ships, the voodoo religion crossed the Atlantic Ocean, and now there are over 50 million of its adherents in the world. The protagonist of the film, a teenager Pascal, will have to undergo initiation into the most mysterious cult on earth.
Hair
A hairdresser is not only a place where people come to get their hair cut. For many people, this is also the only way to pour out the soul. The hairdresser can open everything. He will cut your hair and throw it away with all your sorrows.
These
The film is about Alexey Popogrebsky's film "How I spent this summer". In the film, there are no tedious reflections of the actors and the director about their film against the background of posters of the same film. But there is life itself, real, unmasked, and, despite the sea of comicality, it makes you horrified at how the Russian film process can take place…
Custer's Last Stand
Follow General George Armstrong Custer from his memorable, wild charge at Gettysburg to his lonely, untimely death on the windswept Plains of the West. On June 26, 1876, Custer, a reputation for fearless and often reckless courage ordered his soldiers to drive back a large army of Lakota and Cheyenne warriors. By day's end, Custer and nearly a third of his army were dead.
Homeland
The story of the volleyball semi-final game at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics between Brazil and Cuba. Players from both countries review the match and comment on the emotions and events that occurred.
The Nightmare Isn't Over! The Making of Halloween II
Retrospective documentary about the making of "Halloween II."
Girls of the Rain
Girls of the Rain concludes Alida Dimitriou’s filmtrilogy on the contribution of women to political struggles in Greece during the twentieth century. The film is about women imprisoned and tortured during the Colonels’ dictatorship of 1967-1974. At the time, these womenwere in their twenties. Fifty women offer their testimonials. They all share the ethos of the women who took part in the National Resistance, and pursue the establishment of human dignity just as persistently. The “Girls of the Rain” consider themselves successors of those women. One of them said:“...we are their successors, just like the youth of today are our successors”. Remarkably, these are the words of a woman deprived by her torturers of the ability to have children.
Revive
Geomancy is to say hinding winds to gain water. The earth is mother , burial brings peace to the deceased, symbolizing reincarnation. So the name of this story in English is “Revive”, which means getting into the cycle of reincarnation. The documentary is going to tell a story contains several elements such as Geomancy of compass, Hakka funeral and interment culture, General om teach, Seance. Moreover, it also porse deeply on the floating life with fleeting time- the sanguine life of a wise man in countryside. This is an old man whose life is full of hardships, he possesses real learning and stories, owns peace after overcoming severe difficulties, and has the special graciousness as being in such an age…
Alcatraz - Surviving The Rock
National Geographic Alcatraz Surviving The Rock: A look at how inmates including Al Capone and `Birdman’ Robert Stroud coped with the tough conditions of the notorious prison in San Francisco Bay.
Amazing Azerbaijan!
Documentary feature & TV hour filmed in run-up to Eurovision 2012 in Baku, contrasting the Azerbaijan's glitzy image to their grim human rights record through personal stories.
"Utsukishiki Shizuka na Seikatsu" + satsuei genba hōmonki
A special feature included with the Juzo Itami Film Collection about the production of "Shizuka na Seikatsu" a.k.a. "A Quiet Life".
A Family Man
In 1955, John L. Black, Sr. started his job as a janitor for the Cincinnati public school system. He regularly put in 16-hour days to provide for his wife and eleven children. At StoryCorps, his son Samuel talks with his wife, Edda Fields-Black, about his father’s lasting legacy and the power of a look.
Itami-ryū super na supermarket ga dekiru made
A special feature included with the Juzo Itami Film Collection about the production of "Super no Onna" a.k.a. "Supermarkt Woman".
Siberian Tiger Quest
Embark with conservation ecologist Chris Morgan on a great challenge: to find and film the Siberian tiger.
The Two Thousand Year Old Computer
In 1901, a group of divers excavating an ancient Roman shipwreck near the island of Antikythera, off the southern coast of Greece, found a mysterious object - a lump of calcified stone that contained within it several gearwheels welded together after years under the sea. The 2,000-year-old object, no bigger than a modern laptop, is now regarded as the world's oldest computer, devised to predict solar eclipses and, according to recent findings, calculate the timing of the ancient Olympics. Following the efforts of an international team of scientists, the mysteries of the Antikythera Mechanism are uncovered, revealing surprising and awe-inspiring details of the object that continues to mystify.
Searching for Madalena
"Madalena do JUCU" is a samba by Martinho da Vila, adapted from the folk song "MADALENA," sung by the Congo bands of Espírito Santo for over 70 years. The documentary unveils the universe of Congo—a genuinely Capixaba cultural manifestation still unknown to the majority of Brazilians—while presenting versions of the origin of "MADALENA" told by the congueiros
A Filmmaker in La Codorniz
“A filmmaker in La Codorniz” is the story of Enrique Herreros, a Madrid artist ahead of his time, a member of the “other generation of 27”, a pioneer of the Spanish film industry and one of the architects of turning Gran Vía into the show street
0,8 Square Metres
Kristina Norman works with the physical and emotional dimension of the concept of imprisonment. She draws a parallel between the contemporary experiences of political imprisonment and the conditions in the concentration camp set up on Suomenlinna island in Helsinki in the aftermath of the Finnish Civil War (1918–1919).
The 9/11 Tapes: Chaos in the Sky
Where we you on 9/11? Ask just about anybody, and they can tell you exactly where they were when the twin towers fell. For most, that’s when the tragedy started to unfold. But the truth is the day’s events began long before the first plane hit and continued long after. For the first time, you’ll hear the stories of real Americans who were at the heart of what happened on September 11, 2001. You’ll hear actual recordings from air traffic controllers as they watched the first plane fly into the World Trade Center. Listen to audio recordings taken from flight UA93 before it crashed into a Pennsylvania field. See how defense teams raced to send fighter jets to intercept any incoming planes to the pentagon, but unfortunately arrived too late.