This documentary draws on filming from 1961 to 1980, creating a social panorama of growing up in the GDR. Read More »
Documentary
Ozploitation Trailer Explosion (2014)
In the late 70s and early 80s, films like MY BRILLIANT CAREER and BREAKER MORANT put Australia’s New Wave on the map. Read More »
The Thin Blue Line (1988) Errol Morris, Randall Adams, David Harris, Gus Rose
Errol Morris’s unique documentary dramatically re-enacts the crime scene and investigation of a police officer’s murder in Dallas, Texas. Read More »
How Yukong Moved the Mountains (1977) Joris Ivens, Marceline Loridan Ivens
From 1972 until 1974, Joris Ivens and Marceline Loridan, along with a Chinese film crew, documented the last days of the Cultural Revolution, marking the end of an era. Read More »
Belarmino (1964) Fernando Lopes, Belarmino Fragoso, Jean Pierre Gebler, Maria Teresa de Noronha
Former boxing champion Belarmino answers a psychological facing the camera in close-up. Read More »
Reconversion (2012) Thom Andersen
Reconversion portrays seventeen buildings and projects by Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto Moura, accompanied by his own writings. Read More »
Narita: The Peasants of the Second Fortress (1971) Shinsuke Ogawa
It’s the mid 60s. Tokyo needs a new airport. There isn’t anywhere in Tokyo to put it, so the government decides on displacing some adjacent villages. Read More »
The Supreme Uneasiness (2003) Luis Ospina, Fernando Vallejo, Antonio Caballero, Carlos Monsivåis
The Supreme Uneasiness: Incessant portrait of Fernando Vallejo is a documentary about the controversial Colombian writer exiled in Mexico. Read More »
Germany in Autumn (1978) Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Alf Brustellin, Wolfgang Bächler, Heinz Bennent, Wolf Biermann
Germany in Autumn does not have a plot per se; it mixes documentary footage, along with standard movie scenes, to give the audience the mood of Germany during the late 1970s. Read More »
American Dream (1990) Barbara Kopple, Cathy Caplan, Jesse Jackson, Juan Munoz, Ray Rogers
Chronicles the six-month strike at Hormel in Austin, Minnesota, in 1985-86. The local union, P-9 of the Food and Commercial Workers Read More »