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News from Home
New YorkChantal Akerman, the Belgian filmmaker, lives in New York. Filmed images of the City are accompanied by the texts of Chantal Akerman's loving mother back home in Brussels. The City comes more and more to the front while the words of the mother, read by Akerman herself, gradually fade away.
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Grey Gardens
New YorkEdie Bouvier Beale and her mother, Edith, two aging, eccentric relatives of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, are the sole inhabitants of a Long Island estate. The women reveal themselves to be misfits with outsized, engaging personalities. Much of the conversation is centered on their pasts, as mother and daughter now rarely leave home.
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The Song Remains the Same
New York Pennsylvania The 1970sIn Concert And Beyond — The best of Led Zeppelin's legendary 1973 appearances at Madison Square Garden. Interspersed throughout the concert footage are behind-the-scenes moments with the band. The Song Remains the Same is Led Zeppelin at Madison Square Garden in NYC concert footage colorfully enhanced by sequences which are supposed to reflect each band member's individual fantasies and hallucinations. Includes blistering live renditions of "Black Dog," "Dazed and Confused," "Stairway to Heaven," "Whole Lotta Love," "The Song Remains the Same," and "Rain Song" among others.
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Daguerréotypes
🇫🇷 FranceAn intimate portrait of the small shops and shopkeepers of the Rue Daguerre in Paris, a picturesque street that has been the filmmaker’s home for more than 50 years.
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Voyage to the Edge of the World
The 1970sOn his ship "Calypso," as well as in a submarine, Jacques Cousteau and his crew sail from South America and travel to Antarctica. They explore islands, reefs, icebergs, fossils, active volcanic craters, and creatures of the ocean never before seen. This voyage took place in 1975, and Captain Cousteau became one of the first explorers ever to dive beneath the waters of the frozen South Pole.
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Sasquatch, the Legend of Bigfoot
British ColumbiaThe incredible story of seven men who defied death in a primitive wilderness where no man had gone before.... and survived to tell the shocking story of this legendary creature. — Scientists mount an expedition to find a Bigfoot-type creature.
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Blackwood
Newfoundland and Labrador The 1970sThis short film studies the works of one of Canada's greatest contemporary etchers - Newfoundland-born David Blackwood. The artist himself guides viewers through a step-by-step explanation of the etching process. Scenes of his hometown, examples of his own work and vivid tales of an old mariner recall the tragic seal hunts and a way of life that has now vanished.
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Impressions of Upper Mongolia
🇲🇳 MongoliaThe genius Spanish painter Salvador Dalí undertakes an amazing journey through the unknown mental territories of Upper Mongolia in search of a giant hallucinogenic mushroom while paying an experimental tribute to the French poet Raymond Roussel (1877-1933), a visionary and eccentric writer, precursor of the surrealists and much admired by them.
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A Japanese skier tries to fulfill his dream of sking down Mount Everest.
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
The 1930sThe lean, mean 30's, when America laughed… to keep from crying! — Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.
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Iracema
🇧🇷 Brazil The 1970sA girl from the countryside goes to the city of Belém to take part in the Círio de Nazaré celebrations. Led to prostitution, she wishes to move to the wealthiest Southeast region of Brazil. In a dance club, she meets a truck driver that transports wood. Dreaming with the big city, she asks for a ride, and the two begin a journey through the Trans-Amazon road. In tension with the Brazilian military authorities of the time, the film registers several aspects of the Amazon social tragedy – forest fires, slave work and child prostitution. Awarded in several international festivals, the film was forbidden by the Brazilian censorship. It was only released years later, winning the Brasília Film Festival in 1981.
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Milestones
The 1970sA portrait of those individuals who sought radical solutions to social problems in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s. Cutting back and forth between six major story lines and more than fifty characters. Exploring the lifestyles and attitudes of the American left during the period following the Vietnam War.
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The Battle of Chile: Part I
🇨🇱 Chile The 1970sThe chronicle of the political tension in Chile in 1973 and of the violent counter revolution against the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende.
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Attila 74: The Rape of Cyprus
🇨🇾 Cyprus The 1970sThe film that gives an answer to the questions of all the Greeks about the culprits for the Cyprus' tragedy. Junta - Turkey - America. — An indictment of the protagonists in the Cypriot civil war.
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This Bloody, Blundering Business
🇵🇭 Philippines The 1900s The 1890sAn incisive satire on U.S. foreign policy, THIS BLOODY BLUNDERING BUSINESS traces the history of American intervention in the Philippines following the Spanish-American War. A silent movie format with lively ragtime piano music is combined with a dramatically understated narration and excerpts from "newsreels" of the period to reveal the nature of American attitudes toward Third World peoples and significant parallels with contemporary American foreign policy.
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E il Casanova di Fellini?
🇮🇹 ItalyDuring his preparation for his film on Casanova Fellini asks a number of renowned actors to give him their view on the character of Casanova.
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A Poem Is a Naked Person
Oklahoma The 1970sLes Blank's first feature-length documentary captures music and other events at Leon Russell's Oklahoma recording studio during a three-year period (1972-1974).
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Action : The October Crisis of 1970
Quebec The 1970sA long and thoughtful look at those desperate days of October 1970, when Montréal awaited the outcome of FLQ terrorist acts. This film puts the October Crisis in the long perspective of history. Compiled from news and other films, it shows independence movements past and present, and their leaders; it reflects the mingled relief, dismay, defiance, when the Canadian army came to Montréal; and it shows how political leaders viewed the intervention.
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Christo's Valley Curtain
ColoradoOscar nominated documentary about the largest man-made curtain in the world as "sculpture".
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The Lord of the Universe
Texas The 1970s"If this guy is god, then this is the God the United States of America deserves." — He was the 16-year-old Guru Maharaj Ji and, as the Millennium approached, he promised to levitate the Huston Astrodome. It was the early Seventies and anything was possible so thousands flocked to his gathering. Follow him from his mansion in New York to the limousines in Houston, listen to his followers and watch the spectacle unfold just as TVTV did in this Alfred I. du Pont award wining documentary.
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Introduction to the Enemy
🇻🇳 Vietnam The 1970sThis film documents the journey of actress Jane Fonda and her husband – future California state senator Tom Hayden – through North and South Viet Nam in 1974. They travel from villages to towns talking with ordinary Vietnamese about their lives and the effects of the war on their lives, families, and communities.
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Ciao! Manhattan
New York The 1960s The 1970sThe very sad tale of socialite & Warhol muse Edie Sedgwick (1943-1971) who effectively plays herself in a film that follows her life in a large part from the time she left Warhol's 'factory' and what the life of excess drugs did to her sanity. Edie was such a beautiful fragile girl - who finally got her head together and got married (her wedding day video is edited into the end of the movie) but it was too late, her husband woke up on a morning in November 1971, only weeks after filming wrapped, and found her dead beside him. She had died in her sleep from overdosing on her medication she was 28.
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Visions of Eight
🇩🇪 Germany The 1970sEight directors capture what the naked eye cannot see — Eight acclaimed filmmakers bring their unique and differing perspectives to the 1972 Summer Olympic Games held in Munich. The segments include Lelouch's take on Olympic losers and their struggle to remain dignified even in the face of bitter disappointment and defeat; Zetterling's dramatic exploration of the world of weightlifting; and Pfleghar's piece on young Russian gymnast Ludmilla Tourischev's majestic performance on the uneven bars.
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Hanging Out Yonkers
New YorkAn unfinished Chantal Akerman film about the troubled youths and drug addicts going through rehabilitation in Yonkers, New York.
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The Legend of Boggy Creek
ArkansasA True Story. — A documentary-style drama based on true accounts of the Fouke Monster in Arkansas, Boggy Creek focuses on the lives of back country people and their culture while chronicling sightings of the monster.
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To Be Twenty in the Aures
The 1960sThis French war film barely made it past the censors as it is not entirely complimentary about how the French handled themselves in the Algerian War. Four commandos are disciplined for failure to follow orders by being assigned to an especially dangerous and disagreeable mission. Their job is to capture enemy Algerian soldiers.
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Hotel Monterey
New YorkHotel Monterey is a cheap hotel in New York reserved for the outcasts of American society. Chantal Akerman invites viewers to visit this unusual place as well as the people who live there, from the reception up to the last story.
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Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
🇱🇹 LithuaniaA 1971–72 documentary film by Jonas Mekas. It revolves around Mekas' trip back to Semeniškiai, the village of his birth.
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Ape and Super-Ape
🇦🇶 AntarcticaA breathtaking spectacle of wild splendour and fury — The film is a study of the differences and similarities between human and animal behaviour. The first part of the movie focuses on the behaviour of various animal species. The second half is about humans. In the original Dutch version writer Anton Koolhaas, who also wrote the script, provided the voice-over.
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Four More Years
Florida The 1970sThis witty and startlingly candid look at the 1972 Republican National Convention is a classic work of guerrilla television, and an alternative time capsule of an era of dramatic change in American politics, media, and culture.
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Shocking. Beautiful. Brilliant. Sensual. Deadly...and in the end, only they will survive. — A scientist explains how the savagery and efficiency of the insect world could result in their taking over the world.
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Daniel, a young man from the provinces come to the city and moves from one gay subculture to the next. His adventures begin on the streets of Berlin, where the shy brunette Daniel meets the blonde Clemens, who invites him home for coffee and offers him a place to stay. Soon Daniel is living with Clemens and believes he has found the love of his life. The two try to imitate a bourgeois marriage and its lifestyle. But after four months of tedium, Daniel is cruised by a rich older man who entices him to move into his villa, where he encounters a group of older gays, pretentious in their appreciations of fine art and classical music, who fawn over him.
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Le cochon aux patates douces
The 1970sShort film about the Mapuga tribe’s feast of pigs with sweet potatoes.
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Woodstock
New York The 1960s3 days of peace, music...and love. — An intimate look at the Woodstock Music & Art Festival held in Bethel, NY in 1969, from preparation through cleanup, with historic access to insiders, blistering concert footage, and portraits of the concertgoers; negative and positive aspects are shown, from drug use by performers to naked fans sliding in the mud, from the collapse of the fences by the unexpected hordes to the surreal arrival of National Guard helicopters with food and medical assistance for the impromptu city of 500,000.
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Ciao, Federico!
The 1960sA behind-the-scenes documentary about the filming of the Federico Fellini film, "Satyricon."
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The Cross and the Switchblade
New York The 1950sOne man's desperation. Another man's hopeful journey. — A film adaptation of a book written in 1963. It tells the true story of Wilkerson's first five years in New York City, where he ministered to disillusioned youth, encouraging them to turn away from the drugs and gang violence they were involved with.
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Ludwig van
The 19th CenturyAn odyssey through Beethoven's lasting presence and influence in our modern world- viewed through the eyes of the composer himself.
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The Sorrow and the Pity
🇫🇷 France The 1940sChronicle of a French City under the Occupation — From 1940 to 1944, France's Vichy government collaborated with Nazi Germany. Marcel Ophüls mixes archival footage with 1969 interviews of a German officer and of collaborators and resistance fighters from Clermont-Ferrand. They comment on the nature, details and reasons for the collaboration, from anti-Semitism, xenophobia, and fear of Bolsheviks, to simple caution. Part one, "The Collapse," includes an extended interview with Pierre Mendès-France, jailed for anti-Vichy action and later France's Prime Minister. At the heart of part two, "The Choice," is an interview with Christian de la Mazière, one of 7,000 French youth to fight on the eastern front wearing German uniforms.
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Calcutta
🇮🇳 IndiaWhen he was cutting "Phantom India," Louis Malle found that the footage shot in Calcutta was so diverse, intense, and unforgettable that it deserved its own film. The result, released theatrically, is at times shocking—a chaotic portrait of a city engulfed in social and political turmoil.
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Law and Order
KansasLAW & ORDER surveys the wide range of work the police are asked to perform: enforcing the law, maintaining order, and providing general social services. The incidents shown illustrate how training, community expectations, socio-economic status of the subject, the threat of violence, and discretion affect police behavior.
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The Olympics in Mexico
Ciudad de México The 1960sDocumentary about the XIX Olympic Games in Mexico City in 1968
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Czechoslovakia 1968
🇨🇿 Czechia 🇸🇰 Slovakia The 1960sShort documentary about 50 years of history of Czechoslovakia, with archive images.
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Blake
QuebecAn eccentric history buff lives in a cabin in the woods but spends most of his time flying his biplane.
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The Panafrican Festival in Algiers
🇩🇿 AlgeriaFestival panafricain d'Alger is a documentary by William Klein of the music and dance festival held 40 years ago in the streets and in venues all across Algiers. Klein follows the preparations, the rehearsals, the concerts… He blends images of interviews made to writers and advocates of the freedom movements with stock images, thus allowing him to touch on such matters as colonialism, neocolonialism, colonial exploitation, the struggles and battles of the revolutionary movements for Independence.
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The Save The Children Fund Film
England 🇰🇪 KenyaKen Loach's production for Save The Children, withheld from public view until 2011.
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They Call Us Misfits
The 1960sA documentary film depicting a group of young boys from Stockholm which live on the outskirts of society. The film is the first part of a trilogy.
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Rocky Road to Dublin
🇮🇪 Ireland The 1960sRocky Road to Dublin is a 1968 documentary film by Irish-born journalist Peter Lennon and French cinematographer Raoul Coutard, examining the contemporary state of the Republic of Ireland, posing the question, “what do you do with your revolution once you’ve got it?” It argues that Ireland was dominated by cultural isolationism, Gaelic and clerical traditionalism at the time of its making.
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