All Films

The year Janet Street-Porter spent at Live TV, where her task was to make 24-hour live television at a fraction of normal costs. As the station nears its launch, new technology fails to work and the pressures on staff mount as tensions rise - BBC2, 1995

Nijinska's ballet (1924), revived on the stage of the Paris Opera (Paris opera ballet).

Revolutionaries passed before the streets of the 1960s on the road to democracy. Then the youth with the victory songs, the workers with the rebel flags, the rightists, the leftists and the putschists again. The country spent 12 years in the grip of the revolution and in the end all roads came to the same crossroads. Ankara was restless in the minutes when the ousted prime minister of the Democratic Party, Adnan Menderes, was hanged. The news of Menderes' execution had not yet come. There was an anxious wait in the houses. Ears were on the radio. Everyone was wondering what happened in Imrali. In the Assembly, the National Unity Committee was in a meeting. They were also trying to learn the fate of Menderes. Suddenly, news came that EP Chairperson Ragıp Gümüşpala and Secretary General Şinasi Osman wanted to meet with the committee urgently. The committee members did not break the request of their former commander Gümüşpala and made an appointment for 14:30...

In this well-known biblical story, Moses is raised to be a Pharaoh despite his Hebrew heritage. As his younger brother desires the crown, Moses creates a relationship with the enslaved Hebrews and leads them to freedom. Although a long journey, Moses is blessed with the voice of God and is given the Ten Commandments, for which all followers are to live by. This is a great educational movie for the whole family.

Linda Hunt narrates this documentary look at Ishi, the last survivor of the Yahi Native American tribe following massacres in California in the late 1800s. This PBS film celebrates the human spirit while indicting the settlers' treatment of Native Americans.

Descend into the dark world and tragic life of the melancholy author who is the uncontested master of the macabre, and hear excerpts from his famous works.

Some eggs in a car accident. Made of sour milk.

Trained as an electrician, Nazih Shahbandar became fascinated with the technology behind film production and was one of the pioneers of cinema production in the 1930s and 1940s. In 1947, he set up a studio fitted with film equipment that was almost entirely of his own fabrication. He wrote scripts, built sets, and innovated new methods of sound recording and transmission. As an enthusiastic inventor, he produced and directed the first Syrian film with sound. His dream was to film and screen a 3D film. An ode to cinema, this documentary is a portrait of Shahbandar.

Anna has been acting different and distant ever since she came back from her summer vacation in France.

With ironic emphasis, the film examines an Afro beauty shop on Kantstrasse in Berlin. Customers describe their experiences in post-reunification Berlin and at the same time convey a small product knowledge of hair straighteners and bleaching creams.

Here in Toronto, four young Somali refugees are finishing high school. What did they bring with them? What did they find in Canada? Their testimonies, about us and about themselves, interspersed with newsreel footage and sequences of a theatrical creation in which they put all their soul, make them immediately endearing and overturn many prejudices held against refugees. A film that makes you want to get to know them better.

A confession on the pleasures of cruising straight men.

A street, two public phones; a couple, Ana and Manuel. Manuel has decided to play a joke with Ana, so he makes dirty telephone calls to her, changing his voice. To his surprise, Ana is seduced by the unknown voice.

Magician Doug Anderson demonstrates a variety of magic tricks and sleight of hand you can practice and master in your own home.

In Keep Moving, three men work to make ends meet and to understand how they have arrived where they are. Two are single fathers coping with parental responsibilities. Frank is a founding member of Act Up, who dedicated himself to the organization over the years, and who has paid a price in the course of his commitment. Bob juggles businesses, trying to make a new start, while Mike wrestles with a past that encompasses family tragedy, alcoholism and drug addiction. Keep Moving considers how these men understand their histories while pressing forward, and how they received and pass on fundamental values.

A young boy struggles with the loss of his beloved dog.

Johnny Cash, Manhattan Center (1994). Folsom Prison Blues, Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down, Ring of Fire, I Walk the Line, Delia's Gone, The Beast in Me, Drive On, The Man Who Couldn't Cry, Thirteen, Tennessee Stud, Big River, (Ghost) Riders in the Sky, Orange Blossom Special, Let the Train Blow the Whistle

In the freer climate of the 1990s, some young women from Estonia are enticed into Finland to work as dancers and entertainers. Many, like 18 years old Irma, find themselves doing striptease.

Portrait documentary about a country girl who has hopes for a better future and comes to Tallinn to sell her body in order to find happiness and make a living. This is an honest story about an eager young woman who has chosen a difficult, sometimes even dangerous profession.

Outrageous and opinionated comic Simply Marvalous focuses on such topics as singing preachers, her size and safe sex.

A documentary exploring the rigorous training and meditation practices found at the Shōgen-ji, a Zen Buddhist monastery of the Rinzai school in Shimizu-ku, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.

Short experimental film made in 1994.

Documentary about the priest and joiker Johan Märak and the artist Lars Pirak, and their friendship.

This documentary uncovers the cover up behind UFOs. It examines why UFOs and visitors from space appear to a few intelligent, influential Earth people, trying to communicate with them. You'll see the photographs of the first documented alien casualty. This video is a rare collectible you'll be watching for years.