All Films

Shot Heard 'Round the World

2001 • 60 min • United States of America

With one swing of a bat, Bobby Thomson became a legend. His dramatic home run on October 3, 1951, led the New York Giants to win the National League pennant over the rival Brooklyn Dodgers. This documentary looks at the teams, personalities and events that combined to create one of the most heated pennant races ever witnessed...one that ended with an unforgettable homer.

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2001 • 17 min • Japan

Short film by Tetsuya Mariko

Frantz Fanon: His Life, His Struggle, His Work

2001 • 52 min • Algeria, France

It is the evocation of a life as brief as it is dense. An encounter with a dazzling thought, that of Frantz Fanon, a psychiatrist of West Indian origin, who will reflect on the alienation of black people. It is the evocation of a man of reflection who refuses to close his eyes, of the man of action who devoted himself body and soul to the liberation struggle of the Algerian people and who will become, through his political commitment, his fight, and his writings, one of the figures of the anti-colonialist struggle. Before being killed at the age of 36 by leukemia, on December 6, 1961. His body was buried by Chadli Bendjedid, who later became Algerian president, in Algeria, at the Chouhadas cemetery (cemetery of war martyrs ). With him, three of his works are buried: “Black Skin, White Masks”, “L’An V De La Révolution Algérien” and “The Wretched of the Earth”.

Nightgirl

2001 • 45 min

Ma Yingli's documentary, produced as part of Kroma Films' "Girls Around the World" series, presents the poignant story of Han Lin, a 17-year old girl prematurely made to enter into the workforce as a Go-Go dancer in order to help her family eke out a living in modern-day Beijing. Born at the center of the metropolis, on the surface Lin is an ordinary girl from a traditional Chinese family; upon closer inspection, though, she is mature beyond her years and faces an enormous burden of responsibility unfamiliar to most young women in the West.

Aki Kaurismäki

2001 • 53 min • Finland, France

Renowned filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki, creator of The Man Without a Past (Grand Prix du Jury, 2002 Cannes Film Festival) and acclaimed films such as Ariel, Leningrad Cowboys Go America, and Drifting Clouds, is the subject of AKI KAURISMÄKI, the latest release from the Cinema, of Our Time series. The younger member of Finland's most prolific and irreverent filmmaking team, Kaurismäki, together with older brother Mika, virtually invented "The New Finnish Cinema." Since 1981, Kaurismäki has made twenty-two films, many of which are excerpted in this documentary.

Roxy Music Musikladen 1973

2001 • 25 min

Roxy Music performing live on the Musikladen TV Show in May 1973, Bremen, Germany. Songs: Do the Strand / Editions of You /In Every Dream Home a Heartache / Remake/Remodel / Virginia Plain

Pools of Desire

2001 • 55 min • United States of America

The amazing wartime saga of a young American GI who travels to Budapest to find his former companion, a French soldier who told him of the spectacular bathhouses he visited there. The GI explores the fraternal joy of these Turkish baths and loses himself in passion - only to discover his real sexual self!

PJ Harvey: Big Day Out 2001

2001 • 25 min

2001-01-26, Sydney

One Magic Night

2001 • 3 min • Sweden

"Well, somehow it must go on after that moment of perfect love." Something unexpected happens when a couple arrives at a lake.

Linkin Park: Live at Rock am Ring 2001

2001 • 54 min

US-to-Europe Tour; Nurburg, Germany; Nurburgring; 3rd June 2001; Rock am Ring - Center Stage Intro, With You, Runaway, Pre-Song Lee Interlude, Papercut, By Myself, Points Of Authority, High Voltage (Mike Shinoda Remix), Crawling, Pushing Me Away, Pictureboard (Short Jam), And One, In The End, A Place For My Head, Mr. Hahn DJ session, Forgotten, Sweet Child O'Mine, One Step Closer

Memories, Dreams & Addictions

2001 • 20 min

Ellen Burstyn interviews Hubert Selby Jr.

Mistaken Identity

2001 • 28 min

Revisits the forgotten characters and deserted landscapes of Robert Aldrich’s classic film noir, KISS ME DEADLY (1955). Scenes re-photographed and then drawn over to produce a commentary on the artifice of cinema and memory.

The Career Ending Footage of: Steve-O

2001 • 22 min • United States of America

Don't Try This At Home presents: The Career Ending Footage of: Steve-O. 100 % never before seen footage only available on this video.

Revelation 199: Travis Pastrana

2001 • 40 min • United States of America

This video highlights the amazing talents of 17-year-old Travis Pastrana as he criss-crosses the globe with the quest to be the best MX rider in the world. This video gives a great behind-the-helmet look at Pastrana's racing/freestyling career. It incorporates racing footage of Travis' first races back in his Loretta Lynn days, gnarly tricks, such as the recliner and the can-can, and an inside look at his family. This is a great video for avid racing fans or for the newcomers to the sport. Locations include Annapolis, MD, Ocotillo Wells, CA, Santa Ynes Valley, Staben's Ranch, Manny's Place, France, Supercross, Nationals, and Reno, NV. Includes music from Kottonmouth Kings, Linkin Park, Downer, Saliva, Junkie XL and many more.

Walt Disney: One Man's Dream

2001 • 16 min • United States of America

Produced exclusively for the Disney-MGM Studios in 2001 for the 100 Years Of Magic celebration, this short film was shown at the end of the park's "One Man's Dream" exhibit attraction. Originally narrated by Michael Eisner, then subsequently narrated by Julie Andrews.

Anti-Dialectic

2001 • 55 min

An intellectually, aesthetically and politically challenging short film.

Barricata San Calisto

2001 • 49 min • Italy

a documentary about the story and characters of the Bar San Calisto - a famous bar located in the neighbourhood of trastevere in Rome.

The Shootist: The Legend Lives On

2001 • 19 min • United States of America

Documentary short about the making of John Wayne's final movie, the 1976 film The Shootist.

Walt Disney World Summer Jam Concert 2001

2001 • 44 min

This televised concert special, held at the Disney theme parks in Florida and California as well as other Disney-related locations, celebrates the beginning of summer 2001 with musical performances.

Pasolini secondo Sergio Citti

2001 • 25 min • Italy

The sun which shone like a pearl

2001 • 15 min • Japan

Strangled Starlets

2001 • 55 min

A b-movie actor goes a bit nuts after one too many bad roles, strangling all the actresses he's worked with prior.

Hasim Rahman vs. Lennox Lewis II

2001 • 32 min

Hasim Rahman vs. Lennox Lewis II, billed as Final Judgment, was a heavyweight professional boxing match contested between unified WBC, IBF, IBO and lineal champion Hasim Rahman and former undisputed heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis. The bout took place on November 17, 2001 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Paradise, Nevada, and served as a rematch of their April 22 bout in which Rahman scored a major upset.

Lennox Lewis vs. Hasim Rahman

2001 • 26 min

Lennox Lewis vs. Hasim Rahman, billed as "Thunder in Africa", was a heavyweight professional boxing match contested between unified WBC, IBF, IBO, and lineal champion Lennox Lewis, and Hasim Rahman. The bout took place on 22 April 2001 in Brakpan, South Africa. Rahman, who was a 20–1 underdog, won by knockout in the fifth round. It was one of the biggest upsets in boxing history.