A Film Like Any Other
An analysis of the social upheaval of May 1968, made in the immediate wake of the workers’ and students’ protests. The picture consists of two parts, each with with identical image tracks, and differing narration.
Genre: Documentary
Release: 1968
Tokyo Olympiad
This impressionistic portrait of the 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics pays as much attention to the crowds and workers as it does to the actual competitive events. Highlights include an epic…
Dry Wood
Featuring the stories and music of seminal Cajun musicians “Bois Sec” Ardoin and Canray Fontenot, Dry Wood is a short, vibrant documentary portrait of life, food, music and festivity in…
Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations
Starting with a long and lyrical overture, evoking the origins of the Olympic Games in ancient Greece, Riefenstahl covers twenty-one athletic events in the first half of this two-part love…
Fabulous India
From amazing shrines to the modern metropolis. India in the 1950’s – in color – by the photographer Claude Renoir.
Chronicle of a Summer
Paris, summer 1960. Anthropologist and filmmaker Jean Rouch and sociologist and film critic Edgar Morin wander through the crowded streets asking passersby how they cope with life’s misfortunes.
Let Me Die a Woman
A documentary on the work of sex-change specialist Leo Wollman, including interviews with Wollman and a few of his patients, with an illustrated lecture on the various aspects of trans-identity…
Sapporo Winter Olympics
A documentary about the 1972 Winter Olympic Games in Sapporo, Japan.
King: A Filmed Record… Montgomery to Memphis
A presentation of key events in the life of civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. Beginning with the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, MLK is followed through major…
Dirt
From motorcycles to Swamp buggies; from Pike Peak to Baja California – “Dirt” covers the motorsports world of off-road racing and competitions. There is humor, drama, and suspense in this…
Garrincha: Joy of the People
Documentary about the most famous dribbler in Brazilian Soccer (some say in Soccer’s history!) at the zenith of his career, showing classic scenes of 1958 and 1962 World Cup. Garrincha…
Emanuelle and the Porno Nights of the World N. 2
Emanuelle hosts this peculiar sexploitation Mondo film that looks at several examples of bizarre sexual behavior.
Journey Through the Past
Self-directed combination of concert footage from 1966 onward, backstage footage and art film-like sequences.
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