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- A documentary about fraud and fakery.
- Live versions of the songs, filmed in an old Pompeii amphitheater. Songs included are Echoes (split into 2 parts), Careful with that axe, Eugene, A saucerful of secrets, One of those days, Set the controls for the heart of the sun, Mademoiselle nobbs (Seamus, but with Rick's dog on vocals). "Careful" and "Set the controls" are shot at night with minimal lighting, setting a beautiful mood. And the live Saucerful just has to be seen, with Waters jumping around in the sunlight banging the huge gong. The 80-minute version features studio footage from the recordings of Dark side of the Moon, with alternate versions of Us and them, On the run and Brain Damage, as well as interviews with the band.
- A documentary following German auteur Werner Herzog as he deals with difficult actors, bad weather and getting a boat over a mountain, all in an effort to make his film Fitzcarraldo (1982).
- An in-depth exploration of the various reactions by the French people to the Vichy government's acceptance of the German invasion.
- Footage shot in and around the Sahara Desert, accompanied only by a spoken creation myth and the songs of Leonard Cohen.
- A documentary on the eccentric residents of Vernon, Florida.
- Moved by the work of director Yasujirô Ozu, Wim Wenders travels to Japan in search of the Tokyo seen in Ozu's films.
- Through examining Fini Straubinger, an old woman who has been deaf and blind since adolescence, and her work on behalf of other deaf and blind people, this film shows how the deaf and blind struggle to understand and accept a world from which they are almost wholly isolated.
- This meticulously assembled film dissects the Third Reich with an analytical blade, charting Hitler's improbable rise, his mastery of crowd psychology and his consummate skill in exploiting others' weaknesses.
- A study of the psychology of a champion ski-jumper, whose full-time occupation is carpentry.
- Impersonal and beautiful images of Akerman's life in New York are combined with letters from her loving but manipulative mother, read by Akerman herself.
- Herzog takes a film crew to the island of Guadeloupe when he hears that the volcano on the island is going to erupt. Everyone has left, except for one old man who refuses to leave. Herzog catches the eeriness of an abandoned city, with stop lights cycling over an empty intersection.
- Portraits of the people that occupy the small shops of the Rue Daguerre, Paris, where the filmmaker lived.
- Based on Erich Von Daniken's book purporting to prove that throughout history aliens have visited earth.
- A documentary about Klaus Barbie, the Gestapo chief of Lyon, and his life after the war.
- During the '35th Cannes International Film Festival' (14th-26th May 1982), German director Wim Wenders asked a sample of 15 other international film directors to get, each one at a time, into the same hotel room to answer in solitude the same question about the future of cinema, while they were filmed with a 16mm camera and recorded with a Nagra sound recorder. In social sciences the goal of standardization is that each person is exposed to the same question experience, and that the recording setting of answers is the same, too, so that any differences in the answers can be correctly interpreted as reflecting differences between persons rather than differences in the process that produced the answer. The wide sampling frame in "Room 666" included European 'auteurs' and Hollywood directors, narrative and experimental filmmakers, male and female professional film directors that presented their films or were simply present at the 35th Cannes Festival in May 1982. The directors came from France, Italy, Brazil, Lebanon, Germany, Turkey, the Philippines and the USA. This unique documentary shows the complete footage (or selected parts) of the 15 answers that resulted from this 'standardized survey interviews'. The historical value of "Room 666" has increased over time: The 5 directors Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Yilmaz Güney, Maroun Bagdadi, Robert Kramer and Michelangelo Antonioni have died since then in this order. Fassbinder died only a few weeks later on June 10th 1982 and gave his last 'interview' in "Room 666".
- Wim Wenders abandons the shoot of one of his own films in order to help his friend and fellow director Nicholas Ray create his swan song before he dies.
- Germany in Autumn has no typical plot; it mixes documentary footage with standard movie scenes to present the mood of Germany during the late 1970s. The film covers 2 months in 1977 when a businessman was kidnapped and murdered by the left-wing terrorists known as the RAF-Rote Armee Fraktion (Red Army Faction). The businessman was kidnapped in an effort to secure the release of the original leaders of the RAF, also known as the Baader-Meinhof gang. When the kidnapping effort and a plane hijacking effort failed, the three most prominent leaders of the RAF, Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, and Jan-Carl Raspe, all committed suicide in prison. It has become an article of faith within the left-wing community that these three were actually murdered by the state. The film has several vignettes, including an extended set of scenes with famous director Rainer Werner Fassbinder discussing his feelings about Germany's political situation at the time. Fassbinder's scenes almost seem to be candid documentary footage, but they aren't. Other scenes include documentary footage of the joint funeral of Baader, Enslin, and Raspe.
- Herzog examines the world championships for cattle auctioneers, his fascination with a language created by an economic system, and compares it to the lifestyle of the Amish, who live nearby.
- Filmmaker Jonas Mekas creates an elegiac diary of a trip to his home country of Lithuania.
- Wim Wenders talks with Japanese fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto about the creative process and ponders the relationship between cities, identity and the cinema in the digital age.
- Film-maker Werner Herzog follows mountaineers Reinhold Messner and Hans Kammerlander as they attempt to climb the high altitude peaks of Gasherbrum II and Gasherbrum I all in one expedition, seeking to reveal their inner motivation.
- The film focuses on a group of Miskito in Nicaragua who used child soldiers in their resistance against the Sandinistas.
- An elderly, asthmatic filmmaker travels to China, hoping to film the wind.
- The documentary follows Gene Scott, famous televangelist involved with constant fights against FCC, who tried to shut down his TV show during the 1970's and 1980's, and even argues with his viewers, complaining about their lack of support by not sending enough money to keep going with the show. Werner Herzog presents the man, his thoughts and also includes some of his uncharacteristic programs.
- Herzog's documentary of the Wodaabe people of the Sahara/Sahel region. Particular attention is given to the tribe's spectacular courtship rituals and 'beauty pageants', where eligible young men strive to outshine each other and attract mates by means of lavish makeup, posturing and facial movements.
- Retrospective on the career of enigmatic screen diva Marlene Dietrich.
- Eight film artists from different countries are given carte blanche to make a collection of short documentaries on the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics, offering unexpected, original and often humorous perspectives.
- A documentary about Asia's shocking cultures.
- A harsh but deeply sympathetic sociological essay film about gay life in Berlin in a time of secrecy and oppression, with no diegetic sound and constant narration, following Daniel's unsatisfying immersion into gay society.
- A contemporary documentary covering the Great British punk rock explosion of 1977.
- Essay film shot for TV including Orson Welles reflections on Othello close to the Moviola, a chat with Hilton Edwards and Micheál MacLiammóir and fragments of a conversation with the audience in Boston after a screening of the film.
- Film about the doctors that fly all over central Africa to bring medical help to the people living in the bush.
- Illuminating look at the way physically disabled people were dealt with in West Germany in the late 60's / early 70's.
- In 1988, Tilda Swinton toured round the Berlin Wall on a bicycle, accompanied by filmmaker Cynthia Beatt. Starting and ending at the Brandenburg Gate, Swinton leads us on a journey that is by turns idyllic, surreal, whimsical and depressing.
- The reverend Huie L. Rogers delivers an intense and impassioned sermon at his church in Brooklyn.
- The borders of the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania were initially drawn without considering the herds of grass-eating wild animals. The recording of seasonal animal movements by the film team at the end of the 1950s forms the framework for action, so that based on this work, new boundaries of the park could be determined in such a way, that the most important animal populations are protected all year round. The beauty of the savannah landscape and the sideways glance at numerous wild animal species living there, some of which were presented to a broader audience for the first time in this film, fill this nature documentary.
- Identical young twin girls in the USA have invented their own shared language. Scientists are wanting to study the language but social workers are trying to get the twins to leave their secret language world and enter the mainstream. This means forcing them to speak normal English and lose their secret language. The filmmaker's own questions about this process run across as text at the bottom of the screen, a first use of that technique in documentary.
- A self portrait documentary by Werner Herzog.
- "Mein Kampf" presents the rise and fall of the Third Reich, showing mainly the destruction of Poland and the life of Hitler, from when he was a mediocre student and frustrated aspirant of art living in the slums of Austria and Germany, until his suicide in 1945 after being responsible for the deaths of millions of people and the destruction of Europe. All of the footage is real and was in a secret file of Göbbels, including many poignant scenes filmed by Göbbels himself.
- Documentary profile of actor Sterling Hayden .
- Jayne Mansfield shares her experiences from her last trip around the world.
- A documentary exploring the legends of vampires, using books, paintings and early films on the subject.
- Documentary examines the 'blind spot' of the evaluators of aerial footage of the IG Farben industrial plant taken by the Americans in 1944.
- Co-directed by Godard with the Dziga Vertov group in 1969, 'Pravda's a direct attack to revisionism and socialist imperialism. With his usual collage of images taken from real life, the film's structured as a letter which a man writes to a woman called Rosa.
- A camera crew follows Helmut Newton, the fashion and ad photographer whose images of tall, blond, big-breasted women are part of the iconography of twentieth-century erotic fantasy. He's on the go from L.A., to Paris, to Monte-Carlo, to Berlin, where he was a youth until he escaped from the Nazis in 1936. We see him on shoots, interviewing models, and discussing his work. It's not art and it's not good taste, he tells students. We meet June, his Australian-born wife, whom he married in 1948. Three actresses talk about working with Newton and how posing is different from acting. A heart attack in 1973 helps Newton re-focus, resulting in more personal photographic projects.
- Documentary, dramatized at times, on human sexual behaviour. Daring for its time for its approach to some of the most delicate aspects of this taboo subject.
- In his experimental short film 'Brutalitaet in Stein' (Brutality in Stone), Alexander Kluge demonstrates how Nazi architecture used dimensions of inhuman and super-human scale to bolster the regime's politics of the same kind. Shots of huge neo-classical architectural structures from the Nazi period are confronted with equally anti-human national-socialist language as a voice-over.
- A mondo film of shocking and disturbing video clips, primarily from Asia.
- What do a club devoted to model trains and the legendary film critic and painter Manny Farber have in common? These two story lines intersect in an attempt to recreate the past.
- Documentary of a 1970 rock concert held in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
- A documentary movie about the influence of "ancient astronauts" in mankind's history.
- When the daughter Johanna is born in 1983, Jan Troell tells the story about his childhood Sweden and how things were when he grow-up in the land of fairy tales and potential prosperity.
- Composed entirely of still photographs shot by Marker himself over the course of his restless travel through twenty-six countries
- Erich von Stroheim was an director of silent movies, as well as an actor in both silents and talkies. Uncompromising and rigid, he battled the studio system for control over his pictures' content, and his career had many ups and downs as a result. Through interviews, photos, and archival footage, The Man You Loved to Hate explores von Stroheim's career. The title refers to von Stroheim's frequent casting as a German villain in films of the early 1940s. Von Stroheim's last famous acting role was in Billy Wilder's Sunset Blvd.
- A documentary which shows, in great detail, the making of the 1985 Bernstein-conducted recording of the entire score of "West Side Story", featuring operatic stars.
- A documentary based on Arnold Schoenberg's treatise that speaks out against the persecution of the Jewish people.
- Carefully chronicling in great detail the early years of Hitler s life and the events that shaped him into the zealous leader of Germany. This documentary offers a critical insight into the stealthy rise of the Nazi party and how it s racist vision of the world slowly took hold in a disillusioned Germany.
- RWF visits the "Theater der Welt" festival 1981 in Cologne. 30 groups contributed with over 100 performances. Framed by Fassbinders reading of Antonin Artauds "The Theater and its double".
- The essence of the punk movement through performances & interviews of some of punk rock's most important bands, including interviews and performances.
- The young, gifted and black generation of the 70's who started the British Reggae movement is captured in this unique documentary. Groove to the smooth sounds and see rare footage.
- This sequel to PUNK IN LONDON charts the rise and fall of Punk into Ska, New Wave and the Mod scene. See Britain's explosive music scene in the late 70's via live performances and exclusive interviews.
- Examines the theory that aliens have landed on Earth in ancient times and were responsible for many of mankind's oldest mysteries. Hosted by Rod Serling.
- A short featuring hidden camera shots of the director and his father.
- A definitive eight part series on the rise and fall of the modern art movement presented by critic Robert Hughes.
- "I Am My Films - A Portrait of Werner Herzog" - Herzog is one of the most important German auteur filmmakers and certainly also one of the most passionate. For his film projects, he does not shy away from even the most extreme conditions and often leads himself and his team to the edge of physical and mental resilience.
- What really happened between the pictures?
- In his first documentary, Nestler uses a rather unconventional way of telling the story of a small Northern German seaside village. The protagonist and narrator is an old, worn-out dike sluice, expressing its very own nostalgic views of the people living in the village.
- A feature length documentary following the making of horror director, Jorg Buttgerreit's movies.
- The life and works of the great artist Michelangelo Buonarroti are shown against the historical background of his time. It begins with his earliest artworks, and follows his life and career as he achieves lasting fame. The documentary includes detailed looks at some of the artist's most renowned creations.
- In 1980 Franz Josef Strauss competed against Helmut Schmidt for the Office of the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany.
- An oddity: a mock-documentary, satirizing West German life, from the perspective of a leftwing East German filmmaker.
- Paris is a monstrously inhuman cityscape, in which cars, buses, crowds, and unceasing noise combine to smother any decent and delicate human activity. People and flowers attempt to survive in a city that seems ready to explode from an over-heated mixture of traffic and noise.
- With a great archive footage coming from 16 countries, this Oscar nominated documentary briefly presents some of the most important facts about the Nazist persecution against Jews in Europe, starting with Hitler's rise to the power.
- A documentary featuring director Robert Bresson on the set of Mouchette and interviews with him (off and in).
- Footage of a concert performed by the legendary Bob Marley
- 198643m6.4 (112)TV MovieA German TV documentary that chronicles the daily rehearsals, the filming and all the behind the scenes of Jean-Jacques Annaud's classic "The Name of the Rose". From actors perspectives to the ideas used by the director to produce an impeccable international epic adaptation of Umberto Eco's best selling novel, the film presents the obstacles behind the creation of a production of such large scale and also the making of the many difficult scenes, most of the ones presented here are the characters' murders inside the mysterious abbey.
- Rogosin took the fight for equality to his homeland with his astonishing and powerful fourth feature Black Roots. The film, which is ripe for rediscovery, featured an extraordinary cast, including Reverend Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick; attorney and feminist activist Florynce ""Flo"" Kennedy; and musicians Jim Collier, Wende Smith, Larry Johnson and Reverend Gary Davis. All tell stories of heartbreak and despair while their songs blow the roof off the rafters. In an extension of the famed shebeen scenes in Come Back, Africa, the participants in Black Roots spoke openly about politics and race in a way that is still rarely seen on screen. In 1970, it was a radical and daring move by a great director. A deeply humanist film, Black Roots combines tales of oppression with hauntingly beautiful images of the faces of black men, women and children.
- Louise Brooks discloses details of "Pandora's Box" and "Diary of a Lost Girl" and about her colleague Carl Goetz; her relationship with the expressionist director Georg Wilhelm Pabst, comparing his working method with Ernst Lubitsch; her meeting with Rene Clair; why Marlene Dietrich has not been selected to perform Lulu; insights about Greta Garbo and Leni Riefenstahl; and her relationship with her lover George Preston Marshall.
- Fassbinder reflects on the various stages of his career, discusses how his motives behind filmmaking evolved up to this point.
- Nick Broomfield's rarely seen 1988 doc goes behind-the-scenes of a famous theater director's unusual musical, with hilarious and chaotic results.
- This documentary chronicles the ups and downs of a German family in the 1970s, but in an unorthodox manner. Footage from several years prior serves as a point of comparison to the family's current tumultuous state.
- A tribute to the French writer Raymond Roussel (1877-1933), a forerunner of the Surrealists and much admired by them, who developed a formal system with which to generate literary inspiration out of puns and the narrative references arising from these. Dalí saw Roussel as a precursor of his paranoiac-critical method and as an expression of his admiration conceived this innovative and experimental work in the form of a fantastic journey through Upper Mongolia.
- Some Behind the scenes clips and comments from Werner Herzog about the making of his film Nosferatu.
- Wim Wenders's atmospheric testimony about the problems he encountered while working on Hammett (1982) with Francis Ford Coppola, and the differences between the film-making process in Europe and the States.
- The movie confronts the viewer with 12 short scenes in the life of Oskar Langenfeld, a poor rag-picker.
- This chilling, vitally important documentary was produced to mark the 40th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz Concentration Camp. The film contains unedited, previously unavailable film footage of Auschwitz shot by the Soviet military forces between January 27 and February 28, 1945 and includes an interview with Alexander Voronsov, the cameraman who shot the footage. The horrifying images include: survivors; camp visit by Soviet investigation commission; criminal experiments; forced laborers; evacuation of ill and weak prisoners with the aid of Russian and Polish volunteers; aerial photos of the IG Farben Works in Monowitz; and pictures of local people cleaning up the camp under Soviet supervision.
- The film takes a look at a professional gambler, who very successfully specialized on the German version of the slot machine.
- A behind-the-scenes documentary providing viewers with an in-depth look at the making of this classic film biography of freed convict Franz Biberkopf. This made-for-TV production looks at the film's commentary on Germany society, both during the inter- war period of the movie, and that of today.
- An intimate profile of the actress Romy Schneider, shot in the medieval Austrian town of Kitzbühel.
- The "Flying Clipper," a five-masted, fully rigged ship, manned by a young Swedish crew, sets off to tour the Mediterranean. The ship and the sailors visit Egypt, Turkey, Monaco during the Grand Prix, Spain, and many other beautiful places.
- A montage of images and topics, documentary style, connected more by theme than subject matter. Such topics include weaving machines and motors and their development through history. Theme binds them, if anything does, in that the appearance of these man-made constructs is often of foremost importance, and above all, that they often replace human beings.
- Hans-Jürgen Syberberg's epic interview with Winifred Wagner in 1975.
- A "journey" into the world of the supernatural.
- Documenting the tumultuous production of Werner Herzog's film Cobra Verde in Africa, the last of his five collaborations with actor Klaus Kinski.
- A selection of seemingly unconnected scenes featuring Nick Cave, Blixa Bargeld, Nina Hagen and Lene Lovich. Losely based on Voltaire's satire "Candide".
- A documentary on the final years of the great director Andrei Tarkovsky while living outside his native USSR and going to an exile on Italy to film "Nostalghia" (1983) and then a visit to a Swedish island to film "The Sacrifice" (1986), released a few months before his death. The film presents interviews with the director, his family and friends, and even includes excerpts from his diary.
- In a 13-minute navigation, Nestler takes us downstream the Rhine River. The opportunity of cheap water transport kept prices of raw material down and made the Rhine one of the most important arteries of industrial transport in the world.
- Looks at the culture of motels in the U.S., so far untouched by homo genization and corporatism. In particular the stories of three motels and their owners are covered.
- The film follows artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser and presents his workings and his artistic and personal views.
- A documentary of the town of Sheffield's main pub and the people who went there.
- A black and white documentary which captures nighttime scenes in various European cities.
- This experimental documentary on women's work focuses on the labor involved in creating a nude photograph of a woman for a slick Playboy type pornographic magazine.
- Shot two years before the military junta began to rule the country, Von Griechenland reflects upon the instability, which has characterized Greek government in the 20th century, culminating in the victory and eventual dismissal of liberal politician Georgios Papandreou.
- Günther Wallraff assumes the identity of a Turkish man called Ali Sigirlioglu. He opts to disguise himself for his experiment. He alters his appearance by wearing contact lenses and a wig to make himself appear younger.
- The first full length film to be shot within the occupied Palestinian West Bank "Green Line," FERTILE MEMORY is the feature debut of Michel Khleifi, acclaimed director of the Cannes Film Festival triumph, WEDDING IN GALILEE. Lyrically blending both documentary and narrative elements, Khleifi skillfully and lovingly crafts a portrait of two Palestinian women whose individual struggles both define and transcend the politics that have torn apart their homes and their lives.
- Inquires about the disappearance of the student Juan Herman in the city of Bariloche, Argentina during the last military dictatorship.
- Documentary about the Belgian surrealist artist who died in 1967.
- German documentary for TV about the "Cinema Novo" movement (Brazilian New Wave). Director Joaquim Pedro de Andrade focuses on six Cinema Novo filmmakers working in Rio in 1967: Leon Hirszman preparing the script with poet/writer Vinicius de Moraes for "Garota de Ipanema" (1967); Glauber Rocha shooting "Terra em Transe" (1967); Arnaldo Jabor editing "A Opinião Pública" (1967); Nelson Pereira dos Santos shooting "El Justicero" (1967); the rushes and voice-looping sessions of Domingos Oliveira's "Todas as Mulheres do Mundo" (1967); and the opening of Carlos Diegues's "A Grande Cidade" (1966).
- The son of a famous Nazi filmmaker shoots a movie and meets the former city commander of Vilna, a man who ordered the killing of many thousands of people. The film is a documentary made during the shooting of Thomas Harlan's _Wundkanal (1985)_
- Farocki gives us a short behind the scenes look at Straub and Huillet as they work on a film , based on America by Kafka.
- Interview with Fritz Lang on the roof of Villa Malaparte on Capri during the filming of the fictitious film "Odysseus" and the filming of "Le mépris" by Jean-Luc Godard, in which Fritz Lang plays the role of an old film director called Lang.
- Doku aus dem Jahr 1984 die die Anfänge der Splatterfilme auf VHS und die negativen Seiten auf die Jugend hervorheben soll.
- The Kolle family, including parents and children, appears nude discussing sex education topics like masturbation, the Oedipus complex, and individual approaches without explicit details.
- A secretly filmed account of sessions at Osho Rajneesh's ashram in Pune, India.
- A documentary about the actor Peter Lorre.
- Documentary about the life of filmmaker Howard Hawks.
- Joachim Von Mengershausen's 1970 documentary portrait of Fassbinder and his troupe including rare footage of his actors rehearsing and Love is Colder Than Death's premiere at the 1969 Berlin Film Festival.
- The front page describes the contents. It is a documentary the shows the development of a woman named Helga and ends with her giving birth. At least that is how I remember it. It is quite graphic.
- "Deutschland privat" is a special project by Robert van Ackeren, who in 1979 asked people to send him their 8mm home movies by placing ads in several magazines in Berlin, Germany. In the ads he announced that he was planning to blow up and mount the best of those movies into a feature documentary to be released in German cinemas. He was surprised how many home movies he received and how generously people allowed him to use them for his feature. Part 1 of "Deutschland privat" gives us typical German home movies of the 1970s, i.e. private holidays, family parties, etc. Part 2 consists of what is now called "amateur porn"; home made 8mm movies featuring real porn action.
- A documentary covering the 1960 Winter Olympic Games in Squaw Valley, California.
- In this film, we follow footballer George Best over a 90-minute match against Coventry City, which took place on 12th September 1970. There is no soundtrack and no interview overlaid, just Best doing what he did best - playing football.
- This is a documentary film which explores both the politics and music of the First PanAfrican Cultural Festival. Third World solidarity was much in fashion in 1969, when the festival was held. Many of the interviewees hold forth about colonialism and neocolonialism, and the need for exploited countries to stick together. Held in Algeria, the filmmakers were able to interview Eldrige Cleaver and other Black Panthers during their exile there. Among the film's musical highlights is a performance by Miriam Makeba, followed by an interview with her.
- Four episodes featuring the explanation of the male sex organs.
- The official feature length record of the German team victory in the fifth World Cup staging held in June and July of 1954 in Switzerland. The tournament set records for goals scored and featured 15 other competitors in 26 matches.
- The Gammlers of the 60s were German equivalents of the US beatniks.With their unkempt appearance and disdain for the work ethic they shocked the comfortable Munich citizenry of the time.
- A very surreal video shot behind the scenes during the production of David Lynch's Blue Velvet in Wilmington North Carolina in 1985 by Peter Braatz.
- Personal diary-style documentary of German Gay rights activist Von Praunheim's sojourn in the U. S. Grace Jones is seen writhing her way through "I Need A Man" at a rally and is sharply criticized for doing so by a Lesbian feminist.
- Frida Kahlo: declared a symbol of Mexican national heritage, made into a cult figure by the women's movement, praised by the likes of Picasso and Breton, this film uses images and music to reveal the soul of an icon. At the age of 18 she suffered an accident that would forever change her life, resulting in pain, numerous operations and childlessnesss. Insdie you will visit the Blue House in Coyoacan, the place of her birth and the last years of her life. Today, the house serves as a museum dedicated to the charismatic artist. Haunting self-portraits and a stirring world of images tell of her life and passions, her thoughts and feelings, her exhausting love for Diego Rivera and her deep connection to Mexico.
- Documentary telling the story of the 1958 FIFA World Cup (Association Football). The tournament, held in Sweden, was won by Brazil for the first time in their history, and is also notable for being the debut on the world stage of Pelé at the age of 17.
- Erwin Leiser interviews Fritz Lang about his directorial career.
- Portrait of a generation. Young people talk frankly to director Kees Brusse about love, faith, sex and society.
- Documentary on the making of the independent film Wanda (1970).
- PASSION is a film diary in which Reble accompanies his unborn child through the year, following the seasons until his birth. Reble's unfamiliar chemistry generates slowly pulsating structures and colors. Micro and macroscopic imagery build a near abstract, hypnotic landscape - an intimate perception of creation.
- Documentary profile of singer-actress Eartha Kitt.
- A red flag is carried in the middle of the busy Berlin streets in a relay race through the city. The relay race, in which a total of 15 people are involved, begins in the Schloßstraße in the Berlin district of Steglitz, goes over the Rhine, Main and Dominicusstraße in the direction of Berlin-Schöneberg.
- The life and healing practices of a tribe in the Himalayas in north-western Nepal.
- An industry film commissioned by the West German Post Office, Kommunikation represents the use of the latest communications technology to link up the world. A technophile ballet in the mysterious world of relays, very high frequency channels and decimeter bridges.
- Unreleased Werner Herzog short concerning children playing and a rooster that at some point is buried in sand up to its neck.
- A documentary on the German motion picture and its use as a propaganda tool.
- A grisly horror story about a mad scientist is mixed with documentary about the German band "Kreator".
- Film about the first ascent of the Nanga Parbat by Hermann Buhl in 1953.
- Document of New York's avant-garde jazz scene in the 1980s, tribute to the spirit of the avant-garde and to the unique combination of grit and creative energy that made New York City the epicenter of jazz.
- A broadcast in honor of the 200th anniversary of the renowned Bolshoi Ballet. The company revives one of the most acclaimed triumphs in its history, Romeo and Juliet, featuring the original choreography of Leonid Lavrovsky.
- This documentary follows composer and conductor Igor Stavinsky at his home in California, in London, and in Hamburg where he conducts an orchestra rehearsal. Includes conversations with a variety of friends and musical collaborators. Includes footage of Stravinsky and Balanchine discussing the Variations (in memoriam Aldous Huxley) and rehearsing their ballet Apollo with Suzanne Farrell.
- What are the social climate and cultural traditions in Costa Rica which nurture "machismo" and allow the domination of women to continue in Latin America?
- A feature-length film composed entirely of security camera footage.
- Documentary about German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, during the time of filming "Querelle." Features an interview with Fassbinder only ten hours before his death.
- Pier Paolo Pasolini, the Italian writer, poet and movie director who was murdered in 1975, becomes the subject of this biographical documentary.
- This is a documentary feature about Jürgen Bartsch, who killed four young boys in the early 60s, being between 15 and 19 years of age. The German press and public labeled him "beast" at that time because he tortured the boys, and chopped their bodies up after killing them. The film consists of interview footage from people who knew Bartsch, and you hear Bartsch himself talking about himself and his crimes; taken from tapes recorded by analysts while he was imprisoned. The film shows that Bartsch was not only a killer, but also a victim.
- Tally Brown was a classically trained opera and blues singer, and a star of underground films in New York City. Brown opens the film with a cover of David Bowie's "Heroes" and concludes with "Rock 'n' Roll Suicide."
- The film begins with the First World War and ends in 1945. Without exception, recordings from this period were used, which came from weekly news reports from different countries.
- Kurt Raab is emaciated as he talks to his friend, the actor Hans Hirschmüller, open-hearty and often ironically about his feeling of impotence, his homosexuality and the complete disappearance of his sexual appetite after the diagnosis.
- Our bodies are still alive.
- Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and his wife Farah Diba in West Germany in 1967.
- Depicts Rainer Werner Fassbinder both as an actor - taking the leading role in the film "KAMIKAZE 1989" - and as a director working on "QUERELLE", his adaption of the work by Jean Genet.
- Tenants of an old building in Münich are featured in this film. Most of them are foreigners who work in Germany. In their mother tongue, they talk about themselves.
- 1984–7.8 (31)TV Mini SeriesBetween 1941 and 1944, at least one quarter of a million people were murdered in the Lublin/Majdanek concentration camp. Between 1975 and 1981, the longest trial in German legal history took place in Düsseldorf. Fifteen men and women, former camp guards, were accused of having participated in the murder of thousands. Director Fechner worked eight years to complete this three-part film, which is composed of interviews with defendants, witnesses, judges, prosecutors, defense councils, historians, criminals, and victims. Filming was not permitted during the 474 days of the six-year trial, so Fechner had to reconstruct the trial. The film is a kind of "counter" trial and an interpretation of the original proceedings. The accused, who hardly said a word during the original trial, eagerly volunteer in front of the camera. Employing a mosaic-like technique and hard confrontational editing, Fechner allows both criminals and victims to reveal themselves. See also: Majdanek 1944
- BERLIN NOW, by Wolfgang Büld, takes a trip through the bizarre tapestry of what was once West Berlin - a city riddled with empty lots and free space and surrounded by a wall. Berlin embodied a culture of its own, one which resisted the whitewash that politicians and city officials are so fond of administering in the name of "cultivation". BERLIN NOW is a documentary, a musical journey and an exploration of underground culture in 80s West Berlin - a trip, a whirl of images, a celebration of the music beyond the mainstream. With Blixa Bargeld, Einstürzende Neubauten, Mona Mur, and FM Einheit. This was a city with a singularly strange attraction to the "rubble aesthetic" that was perhaps a last echo of Romanticism's preoccupation with ruins. The camera takes in some of West Berlin's most well known landmarks, some of which are truly grotesque. For example the ICC center for trade fairs, whose space age aesthetic tries to be groovy but ended up square - a style that to this day typifies the "new" Berlin. Sometimes the camera lingers on a well known city trademark and makes it look like a wonderful new discovery. The film comes back again and again to the Berlin sounds and musicians who make them, and rightly so. For they accurately describe the old "West" - inhospitable and raw as it was - as a space where living and creating could exist side by side. BERLIN NOW delivers what the title promises, a slice of time, a snap shot of Berlin during the wall. With Blixa Bargeld, Einstürzende Neubauten, Mona Mur, and FM Einheit.
- A Swedish crew trekked into the endangered Bornean rainforest to film this poetic documentary about the plight of the Penans and their most unusual ally: Bruno Manser - a young Swiss who rejected 'modern civilization' to join the tribe and help fight international logging.
- "Why does cinema need death, when it can't show it?" The filmmaker's monologue and the discourse of images meet.
- Depicts the air raid on Berlin, Dec 31, 1944. Adolf Hitler claimed over the radio that the National Socialist state would rebuild the city in a few years. Followed by pictures of the destroyed almost deleted Berlin.
- 'September Wheat' shows the path of American wheat from cultivation to consumption in seven chapters.
- Commissioned by German TV to report on the 1980 World Theatre Festival in Nancy, France, Schroeter weaves a collection of performances, rehearsals and interviews (such as of Pina Bausch's dance company, performance artist Pat Olesko and butch dancer Kazuo Ôno) into a meditation on the relation of art and politics.
- A mini-series showcasing complete performances of all nine Beethoven symphonies, as well as the complete "Missa Solemnis", a string quartet arranged for the full string section of the Vienna Philharmonic, and several of Beethoven's overtures.
- This film seeks to pass itself off as a positive and definitive history of the city of Berlin before the outbreak of World War Two. It is heavily influenced by the bent of the National Socialist party/Nazi Party ideology and seeks to idealize the city in such a way that is in furtherance of the party's view of itself, and it inconsistent, in many aspects, with the real history of the city.
- An experimental film with no dialogue inspired by James Joyce's Ulysses.
- Thomas, Wolfgang and others are "dealers" and work in West Germany. They drive to their customers. In between they smoke and take trips.
- A documentary on Brazil in times of social changes, using avant-garde visuals, editing and sounds.
- West German short documentary film about the Kahl Nuclear Power Plant.
- A documentary about the making of Billy Wilder's "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes".
- Tobby is a talented and unconventional jazz musician. One day, he receives a lucrative offer from a major concert agency: he is to go on a major tour, not as a jazz musician, but as a pop singer. Tobby mulls over the offer for two days, weighing up the financial temptation against the artistic compromise. In the end, he turns the agency down - jazz is more important to him than big money.
- Today, the only inhabitants of this environmentally inhospitable Pacific island are birds and crabs. Yet over 80 years ago, Clipperton hosted other visitors: a demented rapist and a terrified group of women and children. Cousteau returns to the island to recreate the deadly series of events - from the death of the brave French captain to the courage of the widow who killed her torturer - through the eyes of one of the survivors, then a child.
- This documentary includes shooting of the last scene of "One Sings" and interviews of Agnès Varda in her home office and kitchen, plus a family dinner.
- A documentary about the now abandoned and very influential punk club S.O.36. A punk music club on Oranienstrasse near Heinrichplatz in the area of Kreuzberg in Berlin, Germany.
- Pseudo-critical documentation about the development of the sex wave. Some prominent contemporaries at the time of production appear as key witnesses for the "self-liberation of love."
- In this 1972 documentary about HR Giger's work, the focus is on the artist's creative process and the interplay between conscious and unconscious influences.
- Former residents of the Marquee Club, London, Ten Years After entertained a full house to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the club. The 'Live From London' series shows the original members Alvin Lee, Leo Lyons, Chick Churchill and Rick Lee perform the band's unique blend of blues and rock that propelled them to fame with numerous hits 'Help Me', 'Love Like A Man', and 'I'm Going Home'.
- This movie shows the true story of an unusual friendship between the Swiss author Robert Walser (now considered as one of the most important German language writers of the 20th century), and the Zurich critic, editor and patron of art, Carl Seelig. Born in Biel on April 15, 1878, Walser, as a poet almost completely forgotten by the outer world, spends the period from 1933 to 1956 as a chronic schizophrenic in the Appenzell - Ausserrhoden mental home in Herisau, Switzerland. From 1936 on, Carl Seelig visits the poet two or three times a year to go on a day's walk. In 1940, Seelig -- without Walser's knowledge -- becomes the latter's guardian. The friendship lasts until the writer's death in the year 1956.
- An alphabet of German Dadaism.
- Straub and Huillet discuss in depth their creative process, specifically as relates to their film Class Relations.
- Documentation of the 1960's which demonstrates the attractions of the new world between Alaska and Tierra del Fuego as a colorful tourist picture book.
- This intimate portrait of the legendary conductor Seiji Ozawa focuses on the Japanese master and teacher's career, his advocacy of modern composers and the behind-the-scenes world of the symphony orchestra.
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- The study of a strange ritual in an army camp, where young recruits run and bang their heads, as hard as they can, on the dormitory's doors and cupboards.
- A documentary showing the red light district of Hamburg, Germany.
- Documentary about the German campaign in Africa in 1941/42 and the personality of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.
- In 1971 she was 'wanted' for political murder, because she had assassinated a Bolivian Colonel, who represented the oppressive military dictatorship in the South American country. In 1973 she was ambushed and shot by the police forces led by the notorious Klaus Barbie, former Gestapo chief in Lyons, France - see also Hôtel Terminus (1988). Monika had tried to abduct him to bring him to France and have him accused for his crimes. Who was Monika Ertl, who is said to have met Ernesto Che Guevara? The documentary follows her traces, interviewing her family as well as her former fellow combatants.
- About Hildegard Knef (1925-2002), a famous German actress, singer and writer who also did some work in English.
- Sepa is an open-air penal colony created in the Amazon by the Peruvian government in 1951. Tasked with growing crops on these lands, the inmates were permitted to roam freely, yet they soon found themselves forgotten by their country.
- This documentary about the best-selling book of all time is based on Werner Keller's book of the same name. Using the latest research techniques, information about the more difficult-to-understand parts of the Bible is explained, thus clarifying what is meant. Through dramatized images, parts of the Old and New Testaments are shown, how it could have looked "real".