Category: Documentary
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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.
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The Man Who Left His Soul on Film
Documentary about Nagisa Oshima. It includes interviews with Oshima, Donald Richie, Roger Pulvers and Paul Mayersberg
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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.
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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…
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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.
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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…
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Elemental 7
A visual art music/video album created by the members of the industrial/experimental group Throbbing Gristle, Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti.
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Athens, Return to the Acropolis
A poetic visit to the city of Athens, based on paintings, poems and philosophical texts.
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Hopi: Songs of the Fourth World
A compelling study of the Hopi that captures their deep spirituality and reveals their integration of art and daily life. Amidst beautiful images of Hopi land and life, a variety of Hopi — a farmer, a religious elder, a grandmother, a painter, a potter, and a weaver — speak about the preservation of the Hopi…
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The Making of Jaws 3-D: Sharks Don’t Die
Academy Award winner Lou Gossett Jr. takes you underwater on the trail of the great white shark and behind the scenes on the production of Jaws 3-D.
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Nice – À propos de Jean Vigo
Part of a series in which foreign filmmakers portray a region or town in France. Manoel de Oliveira looks at Nice.
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Target Nicaragua: Inside a Covert War
Traveling through villages along the Nicaraguan-Honduran border, the filmmakers document the impact of the covert war against Nicaragua’s Sandinista government, featuring interviews with mercenaries, soldiers, spies and civilian victims.
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The Unlimited Dream Company
An experimental documentary portrait of author J.G. Ballard. Ballard speaks about his life and work, and submits to a lengthy personality questionnaire; these sections are intercut with surrealist scenes inspired by Ballard’s fiction, centering on a downed pilot wandering through various landscapes.
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The GPO Story
Documentary which examines the work of the GPO Film Unit in its fiftieth year. Co-produced by The Post Office and Arena.
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An American Family Revisited: The Louds 10 Years Later
A ten-year update on the Loud family and their reflections on becoming the first reality TV stars. Their experience of becoming media celebrities and the parents’ subsequent divorce changed them in many ways. Each family member explains how they were affected by these dramatic life events.
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Being and Doing
About Performance Art and its historical origins including its links with folk customs. The film includes extracts from the work of many different performance artists from England and abroad collected from 1979 to 1983, amongst them: Tibor Hajas (Hungary), Rasa Todosijevic (Yugoslavia), Iain Robertson (Scotland), Zbigniew Warpechowski (Poland), Milan Knizak (Czechoslovakia), Natalia LL (Poland), Ewa…
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Bruce Lee: The Legend
The Official Golden Harvest tribute to the Master of the Martial Arts Film, Bruce Lee.
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Educating Julie
Julie is an English student assigned to write a paper about “nudity in the 80s”. A bit overwhelmed at first she takes on the project by visiting a nudist camping with her boyfriend. But while she learns about nudity and nudism, her boyfriend struggles to keep up.
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Antonio Gaudí
Catalan architect Antonio Gaudí (1852-1926) designed some of the world’s most astonishing buildings, interiors, and parks; Japanese director Hiroshi Teshigahara constructed some of the most aesthetically audacious films ever made. With camera work as bold and sensual as the curves of his subject’s organic structures, Teshigahara immortalizes Gaudí on film.