21 Up
After another 7 year wait, director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born children from Seven Up! and 7 Plus Seven. The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during the last seven years.
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Genre: Documentary
Release: 1977
City of Gold
Classic short film depicts the Klondike gold rush at its peak, when would-be prospectors struggled through harsh conditions to reach the fabled gold fields over 3000 km north of civilization….
Notes Towards an African Orestes
The director presents takes and scenes filmed on location in Africa for a film-that-never-was, a black Oresteia.
That’s Entertainment, Part II
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical numbers.
Mein Kampf
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Macabre
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Number Our Days
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We Must Have Music
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Diary of a Pregnant Woman
Impressions of the rue Mouffetard, Paris 5, through the eyes of a pregnant woman.
Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia
The fifth film of Frank Capra’s Why We Fight propaganda film series, revealing the nature and process of the fight between the Soviet Union and Germany in the Second World…
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City
A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the living and working conditions at that time. Germany…
The Battle of San Pietro
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Fortress of Peace
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