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Living with Your Eyes: The World According to Johan van der Keuken
When I told Johan van de Keuken I wanted to make a film about him and his work, we decided to make a film in a film, that is I would shoot the making of the film he was supposed to make about the Chinese photographer ToSang who would be making photographs of his clients. The film won a Jury Award in Figuiera da Foz, Portugal.
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A Record of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea
Propaganda documentary explaining the Korean War from the Chinese side.
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To the End of the World... and Then a Little Bit Further
A documentation about Werner Herzog's motif to do movies.
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The Carnivals of Life — An Introduction to the Festivals of the Yiche People
This early Chinese ethnographic film documents festivals of the Yiche people of the Hani ethnic group -- their folklore and cultural phenomena, such as reproductive worship dance; their collective socializing on festival nights and marriage customs; and the "haruzhe," which has both characteristics of blood sacrifice and prayer, a ritual to offering for a good harvest. The directorial debut of documentarian Hao Yuejun, the film uses the language of documentary but with a specifically ethnographic focus on history and customs, and is recognized as an important historical work in its own right for 'restarting' ethnographic filmmaking after the end of the Cultural Revolution; in fact, this particular method of had never been used in China before.
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How to Survive the '70s and Maybe Even Bump Into Happiness
A 1978 special starring Mary Tyler Moore, Harvey Korman, and John Ritter. Dick Van Dyke guest stars.
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Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues
A Harvard graduate transports a load of marijuana from Boston to Berkeley, California.
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Are You Engaged to a Greek Sailor or an Airline Pilot?
Roger Blanchard has a busy life. On the family side, he is married and has two children, aged ten and fifteen. On the work side, he holds an important position at the Ministry of Culture. To bolster his social status, he has a mistress to liven up his Saturdays. But nothing is going right. His wife Marion exasperates him, his children irritate him, his job gives him no real satisfaction, his mistress neglects him and his superior, Monsieur Gambaud, gets on his nerves. But when he meets a beautiful young secretary, his life and habits are turned upside down: Blanchard amuses him and gets his way. In revenge, Gambaud warns Blanchard's wife.
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On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who...
A chastity belt provides an endless amount of grief for a woman whose jealous husband has gone off to the Crusades.
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Anne Bäbi Jowäger I. Part - How Jakobli comes to a woman
The trials of the wealthy Emmentaler farming family Jowäger, adapted from the 19th century novel of the same name by Jeremias Gotthelf (pen-name of Albert Bitzius), which was also published in two parts.
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Royal Visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York to New Zealand
The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York travelled to New Zealand in 1901 to thank New Zealanders for their contribution to the Boer War. Only a short fragment remains of a much longer film.
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Set Aside the Cobwebs in the Sky (Gently Open Your Eyes to Sleep)
Set Aside the Cobwebs in the Sky (Gently Open Your Eyes to Sleep), is an experimental multi-channel live cinema performance and installation based on four musical movements. Thematically, Cobwebs embarks on a journey through anti-nostalgia, fragmentation, confusion, powerlessness, loss of identity, manufactured masculinity, and the lasting residue of the past.
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Understanding the World's Greatest Structures: Science and Innovation from Antiquity to Modernity
24 - 30 minute lectures by Professor Stephen Ressler on seeing and understanding structure. Not just in our present day, but how structures and engineering have progressed through the ages. He uses great demonstrations and simple math to explain some of the most beautiful and recongizable structures in the world.
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Punk Rock Eats Its Own: A Film About Face to Face
PUNK ROCK EATS IT'S OWN: A FILM ABOUT FACE TO FACE is an all new feature length documentary about the rise of one of the most influential punk rock bands of the 90s as told by the band members. This critically acclaimed documentary contains candid interviews from every member of Face to Face, rare video footage, never before seen photos, and exclusive live performances. Following their 13-year plus career, the former members of the band describe in detail the struggle, pain, glory, and bittersweet irony of what it means to have been a part of this iconic punk rock band.
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From Castration to Cure: How Scientists Discovered Hormones With Brutal Experimentation
Hormones shape each and every one of us, affecting almost every aspect of our lives - our height, our weight, our appetites, how we grow and reproduce, and even how we behave and feel. This documentary tells the wonderful and often weird story of how hormones were discovered. Presenter John Wass, one the country's leading experts on hormones, relates some amazing stories - how as recently as the 19th century boys were castrated to keep their pure soprano voice, how juices were extracted from testicles in the hope they would rejuvenate old men and how true medical heroes like Frederick Banting discovered a way to make insulin, thus saving the lives of countless diabetes sufferers.
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