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- DirectorLes BlankStarsKid ThomasAllen ToussaintBlue Lu BarkerA look at the spirit of New Orleans. First a funeral: Allen Toussaint explains that you arrive slow and cut up afterwards. Then it's food, with a lesson in eating crayfish at Frankie and Johnny's. Next, a St. Patrick's Day party: New Orleans celebrates holidays on the streets. Then it's preparation for Mardi gras, with roots in slave days, when slaves gathered on Sundays to prepare for the one holiday they could celebrate. The Wild Tchoupitoulas society makes Indian costumes to honor the help Indians gave slaves. At Mardi gras, we're with this society parading, singing, and partying. We end with the annual parade for St. Joseph, the saint of the people. More music, dance and ritual.
- DirectorAlan BerlinerStarsJoseph CassutoA documentary about the director's maternal grandfather.
- DirectorAlan BerlinerStarsAlan BerlinerOscar BerlinerA portrait of the director's father, searching for the extraordinary in the subject's seemingly normal existence.
- DirectorCamille BillopsJames HatchStarsCamille BillopsChrista VictoriaA filmmaker reunites with the daughter she gave up for adoption twenty years later.
- DirectorFrederick WisemanDocumentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman takes us inside the Massachusetts Correctional Institution Bridgewater where people stay trapped in their madness.
- DirectorFrederick WisemanStarsRichard NixonAlso known as The Greater Good, this series of vignettes focuses on the day-to-day work of Kansas City, Missouri police covers the range of circumstances they encounter and the variety of social roles they are asked to play. More than simply chasing down criminals, the police act as counselors, negotiators and arbitrators of civil injustices, minor altercations and petty crimes. Filmed in 1968 at the height of an anti-authoritarian age, the policemen shown are more frequently reasonable, patient and fair than sadistic, inhumane or incompetent. When a policeman does step out of line, the fact that he knows he is being filmed is as revealing as the unguarded asides or unnecessary violence captured by the camera. This is well made, with content similar to the Pittsburgh Police films shot by Wiseman's former collaborator, John Marshall in 1969 and 1970. But because Law and Order was funded by the Ford Foundation for television release, and not for training police officers, it does not feature as many situations that are likely to cause disagreements about how they should have been handled.
- DirectorFrederick Wisemanmid 70's documentary that shows how livestock are raised, sold, and processed in the United States.
- DirectorMitchell BlockStarsShelby LeveringtonAlec HirschfeldA film student casually turns his camera on a female friend, but his disarming questions lead her to open up about a traumatic experience.
- DirectorBarbara KoppleStarsJohn L. LewisCarl HornNorman YarboroughA heartbreaking record of the thirteen-month struggle between a community fighting to survive and a corporation dedicated to the bottom line.
- DirectorGeorges FranjuStarsGeorges HubertNicole LadmiralAlfred MacquartBucolic scenes from the outskirts of Paris are contrasted with stark footage from slaughterhouses.
- DirectorTanya TreeStarsGertrude BaileyKenneth Bailey
- DirectorLeni RiefenstahlStarsJoseph GoebbelsHermann GöringRudolf HessDer Sieg des Glaubens (English: The Victory of Faith, Victory of Faith, or Victory of the Faith) (1933) is the first propaganda film directed by Leni Riefenstahl. Her film recounts the Fifth Party Rally of the Nazi Party, which occurred in Nuremberg from 30 August to 3 September 1933. The film is of great historic interest because it shows Adolf Hitler and Ernst Röhm on close and intimate terms, before Röhm was shot on the orders of Hitler on the Night of the Long Knives in July 1934. All known copies of the film were destroyed on Hitler's orders, and it was considered lost until a copy turned up in the 1990s in the United Kingdom
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsAbel JacquinAlexandre O'NeillA surrealist film, a pseudo-documentary portrait of Las Hurdes, a remote region of Spain where civilisation has barely developed, showing how the local peasants try to survive without even the most basic utilities and skills.
- DirectorRob ReinerStarsRob ReinerMichael McKeanChristopher GuestSpinal Tap, one of England's loudest bands, is chronicled by film director Marty DiBergi on what proves to be a fateful tour.
- DirectorMichel BraultGilles GroulxFootage of a snowshoe festival in Sherbrooke, Quebec. Depictions of culture in the early years including snowshoe races, and musical attractions.
- DirectorRobert DrewStarsRobert DrewHubert H. HumphreyMuriel Buck HumphreyCinéma vérité feature that follows presidential hopefuls John F. Kennedy and Hubert H. Humphrey during the 1960 Wisconsin primary.
- DirectorFrederick WisemanDocumentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman takes us inside Northeast High School as a fly on the wall to observe the teachers and how they interact with the students.
- DirectorFrederick WisemanDaily life in a Benedictine monastery.
- DirectorFrederick WisemanStarsApollonia van RavensteinAndy Warhol
- DirectorFrederick WisemanAn unobtrusive and naturalistic examination of the goings-on of a children's court, Memphis Juvenile Court 616.
- DirectorFrederick WisemanWELFARE shows the nature and complexity of the welfare system in sequences illustrating the staggering diversity of problems that constitute welfare: housing, unemployment, divorce, medical and psychiatric problems, abandoned and abused children, and the elderly. These issues are presented in a context where welfare workers as well as clients struggle to cope with and interpret the laws and regulations that govern their work and life.
- DirectorLindsay AndersonStarsAlun OwenA day in the working class market at Covent Garden in London, where fresh fruits, vegetables and flowers are sold.
- DirectorKarel ReiszTony RichardsonStarsChris BarberRon BowdenJim BrayA night at the Wood Green Jazz Club - an example of 'Free Cinema'
- DirectorKarel ReiszStarsJon RollasonTony BensonAdrian HardingSeminal piece of documentary film by New Wave director Karel Reisz follows the daily activites of members of the Lambeth Youth club in late 1950's London.
- DirectorEmile de AntonioStarsHarry S. AshmoreDaniel BerriganJoseph ButtingerA documentary chronicling the background to, and history of, the Vietnam War.
- DirectorMartina KudlácekStarsMiriam ArshamStan BrakhageChao Li ChiDocumentary about the life of avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren, who led the independent film movement of the 1940s.
- DirectorRea TajiriGroundbreaking and haunting, this film is a poetic composition of recorded history and non-recorded memory. Filmmaker Rea Tajiri's family was among the 120,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans who were imprisoned in internment camps after the attack on Pearl Harbor. And like so many who were in the camps, Tajiri's family wrapped their memories of that experience in a shroud of silence and forgetting. Ruminating on the difficult nature of representing the past - especially a past that exists outside traditional historic accounts - Tajiri blends interviews, memorabilia, a pilgrimage to the camp where her mother was interned, and the story of her father, who had been drafted pre-Pearl Harbor and returned to find his family's house removed from its site. Throughout, she surveys the impact of images (real images, desired images made real, and unrealized dream images). The film draws from a variety of sources: Hollywood spectacle, government propaganda, newsreels, memories of the living, and spirits of the dead, as well as Tajiri's own intuitions of a place she has never visited, but of which she has a memory. More than simply calling attention to the gaps in the story of the Japanese American internment, this important film raises questions about collective history - questions that prompt Tajiri to daringly re-imagine and re-create what has been stolen and what has been lost.
- DirectorMark LewisStarsTip ByrneH.W. KerrGlen IngramA documentary detailing the spread of Hawaiian sugar-cane toads through Australia in a botched effort to introduce them as counter pests.
- DirectorEmiko OmoriStarsEmiko OmoriChizuko OmoriFrank EmiThis documentary is about the internment of Japanese Americans in camps during World War II.
- DirectorFrederick WisemanStarsEugene FriedmanStanley FriedmanRobert SchwartzAn intimate look at the daily activities of medical staff and patients in New York's Metropolitan Hospital.
- DirectorAllan KingStarsBilly EdwardsAntoinette EdwardsBogart EdwardsAn "actuality drama" about a real-life marriage in crisis, in which the couple attempts to identify and resolve the conflicts and resentments that have driven them to the brink of separation.
- DirectorRobert GardnerStarsRobert GardnerAn ethnographic documentary with allegorical undertones about the Dani people of Papua Barat and their social values based on an elaborate system of tribal warfare and revenge.
- DirectorFali BilimoriaJohn BussRichard GilbertStarsMargaret MeadA comparison of four different families in India, France, Japan, and Canada.
- DirectorMannus FrankenJoris IvensRegen is an experimental documentary film directed by Joris Ivens in 1929. It can be defined as a cinematic-poem. In 2021 Breve Storia Del Cinema restored the film with a new score composed by Nikolas Labrinakos.
- StarsRobert HughesTony ChurchMartin JarvisA definitive eight part series on the rise and fall of the modern art movement presented by critic Robert Hughes.
- StarsKenneth ClarkIan RichardsonRonald LaceySir Kenneth Clarke walks through the ages exploring the glorious rise of civilization in Western man.
- StarsJohn BergerAnya BostockEva FigesJohn Berger presents his insights on how people see. Through examples of Art History Berger shows how our very sense of sight has been transformed. By discovering why this is so, according to Berger, "we shall discover something about ourselves."
- DirectorJoris IvensStarsEnrique ListerCarlos Romero GiménezJosé DíazA documentary showing the struggle of the Spanish Republican government against a rebellion by ultra-right-wing forces led by Gen. Francisco Franco and backed by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.
- DirectorRobert DrewTHE CHAIR follows in the footsteps of lawyers Donald Moore and Louis Nizer as they fight to save Paul Crump from the electric chair. In the tense days leading up to a parole board hearing, the men work tirelessly to rescue Crump through an appeal of rehabilitation - unprecedented in the state of Illinois - and, after the hearing, anxiously await the governor's verdict. Allowing viewers to experience the high-pressure chain of events along with Crump, his prosecutors and his defenders, the film opens a window into the politics of punishment.
- DirectorAlbert MayslesDavid MayslesCharlotte ZwerinStarsPaul BrennanCharles McDevittJames BakerFour dogged door-to-door Bible salesmen travel from Boston to Florida on a seemingly futile quest to sell luxury editions of the Good Book to working-class Catholics.
- DirectorAlbert MayslesDavid MayslesCharlotte ZwerinStarsMick JaggerKeith RichardsMick TaylorWhen three hundred thousand members of the Love Generation collided with a few dozen Hells Angels at San Francisco's Altamont Speedway, the bloody slash that transformed a decade's dreams into disillusionment was immortalized on this film.
- DirectorBonnie Sherr KleinStarsLinda Lee TraceyBonnie Sherr KleinSuze RandallDocumentary about the pornography industry and the apparent violent anti-woman slant much of it takes.
- DirectorMichel NegroponteStarsMaggie CoganKatina CommingsMichel Negroponte, a documentary filmmaker, meets Maggie one day in Central Park. Maggie claims to be married to the god Jupiter and the daughter of actor Robert Ryan. Michel gets to know Maggie over the next couple of years, and attempts to use her often outlandish stories as clues to reconstruct her past.
- DirectorNgozi OnwurahStarsBrian BovellSaffron BurrowsMaureen DouglassThe story of a white mother who undergoes a radical mastectomy and her relationship with her black daughter who begins a modeling career.
- DirectorMarlon FuentesBridget YearianStarsMarlon FuentesJordan PorterNicole AntonioA unique fusion of rare archival images, and carefully orchestrated visual sequences shot in the present, Bontoc Eulogy is an original and innovative investigation of memory and the spectacle of the "Other" in turn-of-the-century America.
- DirectorRobert GardnerA look at daily life in the city of Benares, India, one of the most religious places in the country.
- DirectorChristine ChoyRenee Tajima-PenaStarsLily ChinRonald EbensStarleneThe film recounts the murder of a Chinese-American automotive engineer in a racially motivated hate crime, and how the murderer escaped justice in the court system.
- DirectorJoris IvensClose shots of a railway train underway: track racing underneath, steam escaping, cars coupling, gears ratcheting, signals changing.
- StarsPatricia LoudBill LoudLance LoudFollows the real lives of the Loud family, a motley group of suburbanites.
- DirectorJennie LivingstonStarsBrooke XtravaganzaAndré ChristianDorian CoreyA chronicle of New York's drag scene in the 1980s, focusing on balls, voguing and the ambitions and dreams of those who gave the era its warmth and vitality.
- DirectorAlberto CavalcantiStarsBlanche BernisNina ChousvalowaPhilippe HériatThe life of a great city (Paris) from dawn until dusk, including the beautiful and the ragged, the rich and the poor, with little or no comment (intertitles) from the director, Cavalcanti (whose first film this was).
- DirectorLouis MalleStarsLouis MalleVibrant scenes of individuals' daily life are filmed in Place de la République.
- DirectorChris MarkerPierre LhommeStarsChris MarkerYves MontandSimone SignoretChris Marker and Pierre Lhomme's LE JOLI MAI (The Lovely Month of May) is a portrait of Paris and Parisians during May 1962, the first springtime of peace after the ceasefire with Algeria and the first time in 23 years that France was not involved in any war.
- DirectorAgnès VardaStarsLucien BossyLeance DebrossianMarcelle DebrossianPortraits of the people that occupy the small shops of the Rue Daguerre, Paris, where the filmmaker lived.
- DirectorAlina MarazziStarsLuisa Marazzi HoepliAlina MarazziItalian documentary filmmaker Alina Marazzi tries to piece together the life of her mother who passed away in 1972 when she was 7 years old. Through a patchwork of home movies, recordings and diary entries, Alina crafts a moving tribute to the universal power of love.
- DirectorGianfranco RosiDuring a five year period an Italian filmmaker documents the world of down-on-their-luck individuals who live in a Californian desert trying to get by one day at a time. None of them has more than a vehicle, a dog and some clothes.
- DirectorAlberto GrifiMassimo SarchielliStarsAnna AzzoriRaoul CalabròPilar CastelA 16 year old girl, 8 months pregnant, and on drugs, is taken off the streets into his apartment by an actor in Rome. The film reconstructs how they met and her past and how an attempt is then made to rescue her.
- DirectorLeonardo Di CostanzoBruno OlivieroStarsNicolai ChestovAlexander DroumovSerguei GourbovWithout a salary and facing cold and hunger, seven Ukrainian sailors are fighting for their survival in a ship parked for years in the Bay of Naples.
- DirectorAgostino FerrenteGiovanni PipernoStarsMario GiammariaMario is a forty-year-old grandfather. He is unemployed and lives in a city in southern Italy. He was released from a juvenile prison when he was seventeen. He embarked as a dishwasher on various freighters. In the meantime, he went in and out of the "tunnel of drugs." When his son was born, he decided to emigrate to Australia with his family. Down under on the other side of the world, he did odd jobs and maybe a few little swindles. Things never seemed to turn out. Ten years later, Mario decided to return to Bari. When he went back, he began to dream of becoming an actor and dancer, but he was living off of odd, temporary jobs and insurance payments. "One day we learn that during the Christmas holidays Mario is hired to be the guardian of a grotesque nativity scene used by a photographer as a backdrop to portray the children. Imagining the enthusiasm and positive spirit with which he would also face this new job , we decide that this is an excellent opportunity to make a documentary about him. But Mario also decides that we are an excellent opportunity to make his film, the dream he had in his drawer: the film about his life" (Agostino Ferrente , Giovanni Piperno).
- DirectorDavide FerrarioStarsSalvatore CantalupoLuciana LittizzettoMarco Paolini"Piazza Garibaldi" is a name found in almost any Italian town. It is a metaphor for the nation and its history. Like in the successful, award-winning "La strada di Levi", Ferrario sets off on a journey: this time, on the traces of the expedition of the Thousand. The aim: to verify the relationship between past and present, starting from Bergamo, formerly the "City of the Thousand" and today a bastion of Padania, and arriving at Teano. The voyage is full of surprises, meetings, reflections: a sweeping road movie through the history and geography of the country, seeking to answer a nagging question: why are Italians no longer able to imagine a future for themselves?
- DirectorJoris IvensPaolo TavianiVittorio TavianiStarsEnrico Maria SalernoA documentary about Italy's underground oil and metan deposits, sponsored by Italian state-owned oil company, ENI. Pictures of the state-of-the-art oil infrastructure are mixed with others of the traditional way of living of poorer Italian regions.
- DirectorGiovanna TavianiA journey on a red-sailed tartan boat in the Aeolian islands, following the memories of Giovanna Taviani, who more than twenty years ago starred in the film "Kaos". There we find Franco "Figlio D'Oro", local fisherman who also payed a role in the movie, who will act as a go between with the islanders. They will tell us about their escapes and their disillusionment.
- DirectorTinto BrassStarsTino BuazzelliAl Freeman Jr.Ben Gazzara
- DirectorSilvano AgostiStarsSilvano AgostiThe director interviews five people with different backgrounds about love and sex.
- DirectorRaffaele Andreassi
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- DirectorRaffaele AndreassiStarsAntonio Ligabue
- DirectorRaffaele Andreassi"Part of the film brings together a number of unusual, picaresque, mysterious and occasionally extraordinary characters you might well meet, or invent anywhere. We find them along river banks or in woods, in old, abandoned farms, in swamps, in tree tops and hidden dales. The characters of this story all do traditional, occasionally archaic or even totally invented jobs. It is to these actors of the river who play romantic and extravagant parts that a lot of this story is dedicated to."
- DirectorVittorio De SetaStarsMichele CossuPeppeddu CuccuVittorina PisanoSardinian shepherds Michele, Peppeddu encounter bandits. Michele evades police, sheep perish. Wrongly charged with murder, impoverished, Michele turns outlaw. He resorts to violence, banditry for survival, fueling a lawless spiral.
- DirectorErmanno OlmiStarsArnoldo FoàThe images show the hard work of the miners and their daily life against the backdrop of the splendid mountain landscapes of the Val di Fumo (Italy). The excavations for the construction of a hydroelectric plant are an opportunity for director Ermanno Olmi to describe the hard life of the miners, made up of daily dangers and gestures of hope, like putting fresh flowers on the image of their Virgin.
- DirectorErmanno Olmi
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- DirectorErmanno OlmiStarsRomolo ValliAlfredo Danti
- DirectorCostanza QuatriglioStarsVeronica GuarrasiIgnacio ErnandesMarcello MazzarellaA coming of age story of a boy, Turi (Ernandes) and his younger sister, Teresa (Guarrasi) on an island off the coast of Sicily. Using mostly non professional actors in a neorealist style, this film creates a charming and seemingly authentic slice of village life.
- DirectorCostanza QuatriglioThe sisters Lia, 6, and Rita, 9, and their friend Brenda, who has lost all her front teeth, are the only little girls left in the Albergheria neighborhood and claim their right to be little. This area in the old center of Palermo is in the midst of urban renewal and is full of rubble and open work sites. Cetti, Mariuccia and Rosi, teenagers already, talk about the rivalry between neighborhoods, about the small gangs and about the habits of violence.
- DirectorMatteo GarroneStarsRossella OrMonica NappoSalvatore SansoneA former theatre actress comes back to Rome and meets old and new friends.
- DirectorAlessandro ComodinStarsGiacomo ZulianStefania ComodinBarbara ColomboSummertime in the north Italian countryside. Giacomo, a nineteen year old who went deaf when he was young, and Stefania, his childhood friend, take a stroll along the river for a picnic. Having left the beaten track, they get lost and stumble across a paradise where they find themselves alone and free for an afternoon that seems to last the entire summer.
- DirectorAndrew JareckiStarsArnold FriedmanJesse FriedmanDavid FriedmanDocumentary on the Friedmans, a seemingly typical, upper-middle-class Jewish family whose world is instantly transformed when the father and his youngest son are arrested and charged with shocking and horrible crimes.
- DirectorAlbert MayslesIn 1955, Albert Maysles traveled to Russia, 16mm camera in hand. During this trip, he shot what was to become his first film, PSYCHIATRY IN RUSSIA, an unprecedented view into Soviet mental healthcare.
- DirectorVittorio De SetaA documentary of sulfur mine workers and their families in rural central Siellia.
- DirectorVittorio De SetaA short film which retells the story of Jesus Christ's death and resurrection.
- DirectorVittorio De SetaA documentary of Sicilian men spear fishing and women doing laundry.
- DirectorAlberto FasuloIn northeast Italy is the Tagliamento River, tucked away almost like a secret spot on the border between Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia. This documentary is a poem to that river and the people of the region, spirited, storied, and naturally beautiful.
- DirectorGiovanni CioniThis film was inspired by the cult of purgatory in Naples. It's a collection of encounters, sacred places, true stories, testimonies and dreams. It explores the depth of the cult and its questioning; we need to know that we existed.
- DirectorAlain ResnaisStarsMichel BouquetReinhard HeydrichHeinrich HimmlerThe history of Nazi Germany's death camps of the Final Solution and the hellish world of dehumanization and death contained inside.
- DirectorMarc SingerStarsMarc SingerA cinematic portrait of the homeless population who live permanently in the underground tunnels of New York City.
- DirectorEdet BelzbergStarsCristina IonescuMihai Alexandre TudoseVioleta 'Macarena' RosuA profile of homeless Romanian children who were born victims of the nation's reckless population growth policy during its communist era.
- DirectorVincenzo Mineo
- DirectorMerian C. CooperErnest B. SchoedsackStarsMerian C. CooperErnest B. SchoedsackMarguerite HarrisonThe struggles of a hardscrabble Iranian nomadic tribe as they journey through bleak country to reach the grasslands that will save their livestock.
- DirectorAndrey A. TarkovskiyStarsAndrei TarkovskyThe documentary recounts Tarkovsky's life and work, letting the director tell the story himself, as he shares with us his memories, his view of art and his reflections on the destiny of the artist and the meaning of human existence.
- DirectorMichelangelo FrammartinoStarsNicola LanzaAntonio LanzaLeonardo LaroccaThe extraordinary adventure of the young members of the Piedmont Speleological Group who, having already explored all the caves of Northern Italy, changed course in August 1961 and went South to explore other caves unknown to man.
- DirectorJonas MekasStarsJonas MekasStan BrakhageRobert BreerDirector Jonas Mekas provides an intimate glimpse of his personal life by constructing a feature length narrative from over 30 years of private home movie footage.