Documentary

Short documentary extolling the virtues and necessity for women to participate in America’s preparation for war, showing women working in scientific, industrial, and voluntary-services activities.Read More »

A documentary about John C. Holmes, who was the biggest star in the adult film industry in more ways than one.Read More »

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This is a creative documentary of the funeral of Manuel Quezón, president of the Philippines. Whether directed by Ford or wholly the work of his Field Photo Unit, I don’t know. Read More »

Documentary which take as subject the Oberhausen Group and New German Cinema, and some of those who followed in their footsteps.
It contains a glimpse of a very young Werner Herzog, here predicting the rise of home video long before the technology entered the mainstream.
With Rob Houwer, Hans Rolf Strobel, Peter Schamoni, Norbert Kückelmann, Alexander Kluge, Marran Gosov, Werner Herzog, Edgar Reitz, Hans Toussaint, Hans Pflüger, Fred Hoffmann, Edgar Reitz – Produced by: WDS-Film for ORFRead More »

Plot: In Moscou, Eduardo Coutinho accompanies Grupo Galpão, directed by Enrique Diaz, in the rehearsals of the play “The Three Sisters”, from Chekhov. The film consists in fragments of workshops, improvisations and rehearsals of the play.Read More »

The Truth Be Told is an epic-scale documentary that follows three and half years in the life of Supinya, a media activist who was sued by the Shin Corporation for stating that the company had benefited from the policies of the administration of Thaksin Shinawatra, whose family owned the company. The documentary is snapshot of a turbulent period in Thai politics, from the Thaksin years, the anti-Thaksin backlash that arose after Thaksin sold his share in Shin to Singapore’s Temasek Holdings, and the military coup that ousted Thaksin.Read More »

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Maurice and Katia Krafft dedicated their lives to exploring the world’s volcanoes. Their legacy consists of groundbreaking footage of eruptions and their aftermath, composed in this visual stunning collage.Read More »

Since gaining independence in 1947, India has been a secular state. But now, as religious fundamentalism grips much of India’s population, the greatest danger to the nation’s extremely strained social fabric may come not from Sikh or Muslim separatists, but from Hindu fundamentalists who are appealing to the 83% Hindu majority to redefine India as a Hindu nation. IN THE NAME OF GOD focuses on the campaign waged by the militant Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) to destroy a 16th century mosque in Ayodhya said to have been built by Babar, the first Mughal Emperor of India. The VHP claim the mosque was built at the birthsite of the Hindu god Ram after Babar razed an existing Ram temple. They are determined to build a new temple to Ram on the same site. This controversial issue which successive governments have refused to resolve has led to religious riots which have cost thousands their lives, culminating in the mosque’s destruction by the Hindus in December of 1992.Read More »

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In the aftermath of the First World War, a 20-year-old Frenchman discovers the Paris of the Roaring Twenties, guided by a young Russian emigrant whom he met in the trenches of Verdun. Camera in the hand, he goes through the district of Montparnasse to meet the “little women of Pigalle”.
(arte.tv)Read More »