A documentary on the history on mankind's attempts to reach high speeds. Starting with the invention of the bicycle, going on to sports cars, cars with jet engines, rocket-powered cars, attempts to break the sound barrier, and rocket-engine airplanes. Each achievement is documented by title card indicating the speed reached in miles per hour.
An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extrem...
Kieslowski’s later film Dworzec (Station, 1980) portrays the atmosphere at Central Station in Warsaw...
Working men and women leave through the main gate of the Lumière factory in Lyon, France. Filmed on ...
Set to a classic Duke Ellington recording "Daybreak Express", this is a five-minute short of the soo...
An accurate depiction of the basic tenets of northern Mahayana Buddhism, cast into living or "experi...
Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.
Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.
A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a t...
This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then ...
16-year-old Yuguo, who has a passion for Eastern European romantic poetry, makes a pilgrimage from h...
Karlon, born in Pedreira dos Húngaros (a slum in the outskirts of Lisbon) and a pioneer of Cape Verd...
Having Cuba as a background, decadent and in crisis, in a black-and-white lacerated by the Caraibic ...
An insight into the creative process of photographer Brigitte Lacombe, exploring her obsession with ...
Hedda Hopper plays hostess at a party for her (grown) son William (DeWolfe Jr.). Hopper, attends the...
Filmmaker Carol Nguyen interviews her own family to craft an emotionally complex and meticulously co...
Glauco Mattoso, a blind sadomasochistic poet, agrees to participate in a documentary about his own l...
Featuring new, previously unseen footage documenting the bizarre and unsettling things that happened...
As daylight breaks between the border cities of El Paso, Texas, and Juarez, Mexico, undocumented mig...
During a military uprising known as “El Porteñazo”, a priest is photographed while trying to help a ...
For First Nations communities, the headdress bears significant meaning. It's a powerful symbol of ha...