A young girl’s fiery dance, accidentally caught on 16 mm film in the street. The viewer is confronted by the sacrificial and the passionate, the strong and the fragile, the fleeting and the eternal. These are the faces of femininity.

An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extrem...

A documentary about the great American movie palaces of the 1920s and 1930s. Filmed on location at s...

St. Petersburg, Russia, December 30th, 1916. Grigori Rasputin is assassinated. The story of the humb...

94-year old Esther, a pensioner with bad sight, is in search of her artist daugther’s public decorat...

An elaborate ceremony marks the opening of the first Armenian church in England.

Shannon Amen unearths the passionate and pained expressions of a young woman overwhelmed by guilt an...

Two old men enter an abandoned synagogue, look at the decay around them, and pray.

Two rabbis show the ruins of an abandoned synagogue to a group of primary school-age Jewish children...

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

A promotional video for the film “Death and Rebirth.” Released on January 25, 1997, it contains an o...

This short travelogue depicts snippets of locations in Hollywood, California, most of them as seen f...

Documentary about the special friendship between the 72-year-old music machine collector Johann Bart...

A collage of newsreels, trailers, clips and other visionary and unseen fragments of sight and sound ...

Twenty years ago, novelist Salman Rushdie was a wanted man with a million pound bounty on his head. ...

Lord Baden-Powell's 1908 handbook Scouting for Boys is one of the most influential and best-selling ...
Young men are faced with a medical commission for army recruits and asked to choose where they want ...

The 1966 visit of Hollywood movie star Kirk Douglas at the legendary Polish State Film School in Lód...
A satirical look at the Soviet-block hairdressing contest which was held in Warsaw in 1971.

The Pony Express delivered mail from coast to coast for only 18 months. Yet during its brief glory d...