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Category: Documentary

Documentary

  • Anthem

    A series of shots depicting “America” are laid over a classic Gregorian Chant recreated through the distortion of a woman’s screams.

  • After the Massacre

    97 British soldiers are sent to Beirut as part of the Multinational Peacekeeping Force in the wake of the September 1982 Sabra-Chatilla massacre.

  • Jazz Is My Native Language: A Portrait of Toshiko Akiyoshi

    Jazz is my Native Language: A Portrait of Toshiko Akiyoshi is a 1983 documentary film by Renee Cho about the jazz pianist, composer, arranger and big band leader Toshiko Akiyoshi.

  • Où sont-elles donc ?

  • A Sign is a Fine Investment

    Documentary on advertising. Investigates the way work has disappeared from advertising images, and traces the phenomenon through archive advertising films from 1897 to 1960. Places advertising in the context of historical events and everyday life, archive material being juxtaposed with contemporary images.

  • The Man Who Left His Soul on Film

    Documentary about Nagisa Oshima. It includes interviews with Oshima, Donald Richie, Roger Pulvers and Paul Mayersberg

  • A Pillar In The Stream

    The story of communist Walter Zauner who in 1952 was one of the first in the Federal Republic to be convicted of sabotage of a military installation.

  • Prisoners of Debt: Inside the Global Banking Crisis

    This feature documentary reveals how Bank of Montreal chairman William Mulholland dealt with his debt-laden customers Dome Petroleum and Mexico during the global debt crisis of ’82. Interviews with bankers and financial experts demystify the causes of debt crisis, confirm the fragility of the international banking system and outline the problems to be solved if the system is to survive.

  • Kurt Vonnegut: So It Goes

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

  • Gestures and Fragments

    “Essay on the Military and the Power”, a phrase that also belongs to the title of “Gestures & Fragments”, sums up the spirit of the film, based on three points of view on the same theme: Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho and Eduardo Lourenço, in their own roles, and the one played by Robert Kramer, as an American journalist bent on seeking explanations for the process of the Portuguese Revolution.