An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extremadura, Spain, as it was in 1932. Insalubrity, misery and lack of opportunities provoke the emigration of young people and the solitude of those who remain in the desolation of one of the poorest and least developed Spanish regions at that time.

To support his mother in Mexico, Angel, a nude dancer, turns the web into his new stage.

Early film of a crowded street scene in an unidentified Indian city.
Expeditions in the Western Canadian Arctic
Film about the Ethiopian famine of I984/85 and the measures taken to combat it

A 94-year-old Glacier National Park ranger confronts the decline of the park he calls home as he ref...

Megacities is a documentary about the slums of five different metropolitan cities.

Warsaw's Central Railway Station. 'Someone has fallen asleep, someone's waiting for somebody else. M...

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.
This documentary is featured on the DVD for Captain Blood (1935), released in 2005.

Three generations of women represent the past, present and future of hairstyling. Lisa Bruno, Jessic...

A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a t...

On the island of La Gomera, children imagine stories while they examine archeological remains. An et...

Based on Eimear Ryan’s essay ‘The Fear of Winning’, three successful female athletes explore how bei...
The housing market in South Korea is tight, and animator Sunghwan Lee moves from one semi-basement t...

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...
A short documentary depicting the daily lives of old country widows.