The 400 Million
In 1937, Chinese communists joined Chiang Kai Shek's Kuomintang Party to take up arms against their common enemy: the Japanese. In 1938 Joris Ivens and his crew went to China to film the battle of...
À propos de Nice
The film follows the day in the life of pleasure resort Nice, from the preparations of cafe staff in the morning, through the activities of the holiday-makers by day, to a nocturnal winding down. A...
The Atomic Café
The Atomic Café is a feature-length film created entirely from the American atomic propaganda of the 1940s and 1950s. With no narration, it tells story by juxtaposing excerpts from newly-...
Baerlin: The Symphony of a Great City
Ruttmann wanted create a symphony of a great city using patterns of movement. The film shows how the city wakes up in the morning, how the streets are the first deserted and are gradually filled with...
The Bolivian Diary
The film is based on the diary kept by the Cuban revolutionary hero Che Guevara, during his Bolivian Campaign from 1966 until the moment of his execution by a drunken Bolivian soldier on October 9th...
Chronicle of a Summer
Summer in Paris. Two anthropologist filmmakers set out to record the lives of Parisians through observation. The year is 1960 and this is the birth of a new cinéma vérité. Throughout the film, Rouch...
Don't Look Back
"It may not be so much about (Bob) Dylan because Dylan is sort of acting throughout the film. And that's his right... He had to be extraordinary where most of us settle for just being adequate."...
The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On
Kenzo Okuzaki served in the Thirty-Sixth Engineering Corps, which rather than surrender to the Australian troops at the end of the war, scattered into the New Guinea jungle. Out of more than a...
Harlan County
This film documents the coal miners' strike against the Brookside Mine of the Eastover Mining Company in Harlan County, Kentucky in June 1973. The refusal of the Eastover Company to sign a contract (...