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Waiting For The Internet
Waiting For The Internet
This video observes patrons waiting to access the internet at the Central Public Library in downtown Atlanta. This Central Library, designed in 1969 and finally completed in 1980, was the last built project by Bauhaus-trained architect Marcel Breuer. On the morning of November 25, 2015, the wait for a free computer station at the Central Library was 40 minutes. This video documents that wait.
Waiting For The Internet 2015
Foi um tempo de poesia
Foi um tempo de poesia
Foi um tempo de poesia 2021
Warszawa 1935
Warszawa 1935
"Warszawa 1935" ("Warsaw 1935") is a short movie which was produced by the Newborn special effects studio for nearly 4 years, showing the audience for the very first time the capital of Poland in the mid-war period. This film will take us to the streets of the city, presenting the precisely reconstructed pre-war Warsaw architecture. The main source of images for the digital reconstruction was photographs available among others in the State Archive of the Capital City of Warsaw. (source: promotional materials)
Warszawa 1935 2013
Upon This Rock
Upon This Rock
Drama describing the story of the building of Saint Peter's Cathedral, Vatican, Rome.
Upon This Rock 1970
Harlem Street Singer
Harlem Street Singer
Harlem Street Singer tells the little-known story of Reverend Gary Davis, the great American ragtime, blues and gospel guitarist. Not only is he one of the greatest folk guitar players of all time, he also represents the sweep of popular music in America during the twentieth century. Harlem Street Singer traces his journey from the tobacco warehouses of the rural south to the streets of Harlem, and onto the 1960s folk music scene, a blind street musician and itinerant preacher who rose out of abject poverty to influence a generation of musicians from Ramblin’ Jack Elliott to the Grateful Dead.
Harlem Street Singer 2014
Catherine the Great
Catherine the Great
Sophia Augusta's marriage to Peter III, the Emperor of Russia, is anything but the fairy-tale life that she had been promised. In a historical tale of political intrigue, sex and murder, she takes control of her life, her marriage, and her kingdom, becoming one of Russia's most celebrated and beloved monarchs.
Catherine the Great 1
The Forgotten King
The Forgotten King
This is Historical / Mystic / Fantasy based on true and fiction events and includes some codes from the famous Georgian poem 'The Knights in the Tiger`s Skin' written by Shota Rustveli in the end of 12th century. Well known film producer Demetre Orbeli
The Forgotten King 1
Break Through the Wu River
Break Through the Wu River
Story of the leading regiment of the First Branch of the Chinese Red Army for Workers and Peasants who defeats a brigade of enemy on the Wu River and conquers the river by 3 days of intelligent combat.
Break Through the Wu River 1961
Raspyatye
Raspyatye
Пришествие Иисуса Христа на землю, неизвестный Толстой, проклятый Распутин, любовь короля Ричарда и страшные тайны Святой инквизиции. Всё это в историческом фильме, в котором тесно переплелись целые эпохи, благодаря чему зритель оказывается в невообразимом водовороте приключений, вечной борьбы за души людей и всепобеждающей магии любви. «Распятые» - художественный фильм, основанный на запрещенных в разное время записках Льва Толстого. Религиозные убеждения и инквизиторские гонения, страх в глазах людей и их вера в справедливость, любовь и ненависть, природа и человек. Все эти темы нашли свое отражение в картине-фантасмогории.
Raspyatye 2007
The Cinematograph: Birth of an Art
The Cinematograph: Birth of an Art
Throughout the 19th century, imaginative and visionary artists and inventors brought about the advent of a new look, absolutely modern and truly cinematographic, long before the revolutionary invention of the Lumière brothers and the arrival of December 28, 1895, the historic day on which the first cinema performance took place.
The Cinematograph: Birth of an Art 2021
Violettes impériales
Violettes impériales
This historical melodrama (later remade by Henry Roussel himself in 1932 and Richard Pottier in 1952) set during the reign of Napoleon III of France. Here, Raquel Meller plays a Spanish flower girl who saves the life of the French empress Eugenie de Montijo (played by Suzanne Blanchetti), by taking her place in her carriage. When the carriage is overthrown by the anarchist's bomb, the girl survives because of the masses of violets in the imperial carriage, the empress' favorite flowers.
Violettes impériales 1923
Projekt Huemul: The IVth Reich in Argentina
Projekt Huemul: The IVth Reich in Argentina
In 1946, President Peron started a secret nuclear project with the help of Nazis refugees which consisted in the use of a new method "Nuclear Fusion". Five years later, he would announce to the world his succeed. Even today, no country around the world has achieved it.
Projekt Huemul: The IVth Reich in Argentina 2008
The Disquiet
The Disquiet
Earth-shattering events are relatively par for the course in Lebanon, with war, political upheaval and a number of social revolts. While the Lebanese focus on surface level events that could rock the nation, few realize that below the ground we walk on, an actual shattering of the earth is mounting. Lebanon stands on several major fault lines, which are cracks in the earth's crust. The film investigates the geological situation in Lebanon, trying to look for the traces of the imminent disaster.
The Disquiet 2013
The Black Kung Fu Experience
The Black Kung Fu Experience
This film focuses on how a group of African American pioneers became respected masters in a subculture dominated by Chinese and white men.
The Black Kung Fu Experience 2012
The Death of Pinochet
The Death of Pinochet
On December 10th, 2006, General Pinochet dies unexpectedly at Santiago's Military Hospital. His decease triggers a 24 hours revival of political divisions that marked with violence and death Chilean recent history. With high quality original footage and testimonies of four characters that deeply experienced a journey of strong contrasts and surrealistic nuances, the film narrates in an innovative, exciting way the ending of a key chapter in Chilean history.
The Death of Pinochet 2011
Last of the Giants Volume II
Last of the Giants Volume II
The Union Pacific Railroad produced its classic documentary film Last of the Giants in 1959 as a fitting tribute to the world's largest steam locomotives-the Big Boys. UP cameramen filmed the Big Boys over a three-year period, which Pentrex re-released in 1992. It ran for a total of just 23 minutes, leaving hours of unused footage that was set aside for many years.
Last of the Giants Volume II 1993
Café Ta'amon King-George-Street, Jerusalem
Café Ta'amon King-George-Street, Jerusalem
Documentary about the famous café Ta'amon in Jerusalem in which activists, politicians, artists and writers came together and quarrelled about one thing: Isreal. The film shows the everyday life in the café and also moving moments of the past.
Café Ta'amon King-George-Street, Jerusalem 2015
Cabaret Crusades Trilogy
Cabaret Crusades Trilogy
Wael Shawky in his Cabaret Crusades skillfully juxtaposes historical narrative with the childish world of puppetry—seriousness with naivety, fear with humor, horror with entertainment—to focus on events crucial to the development of an Arab identity. While prior to the Crusades different groups coexisted more or less peacefully, the trauma of the European invasions shaped today's familiar dichotomies—East and West, Christianity and Islam, Shi’ism and Sunni’ism. At first sight a history lesson for children, the project ultimately raises important questions about the historicity of identity and consequently the role of history itself.
Cabaret Crusades Trilogy 2013
Jiraiya
Jiraiya
Based on the old tale of Jiraiya, this 1937 version is essentially a revenge story with fantastic visuals.
Jiraiya 1937
J.
J.
Found memories decayed by the shock patterns of childhood trauma. This films is made mostly with footage found in the bin of an ophanage. The white progressivelly disolve within a darknest more and more dense. Faces progressivelly disolves within one another.
J. 2008
De Nacht
De Nacht
During the Second World War 6 prisoners are being held in a prison cell in Concentration Camp Amersfoort, Holland. Their fate is unknown. This night has an impact for many years and in many lives.
De Nacht 2018
Clayfist
Clayfist
A man recieves a phone call concerning his estranged father; A Vietnam veteran plagued with post tramatic stress. This African American family is forced to examine the fragile nature of their existence amongst social and economic pressures in the United States .
Clayfist 2015
The Pedway: Elevating London
The Pedway: Elevating London
A documentary on the post-war redevelopment in the City of London — focusing on the attempt to build an ambitious network of elevated walkways through the city. Featuring interviews with professor of town planning Michael Hebbert (UCL), architecture critic Jonathan Glancey, city planning officer Peter Wynne Rees and writer Nicholas Rudd-Jones (Pathways), the film explores why the 'Pedway' scheme was unsuccessful and captures the abandoned remains that, unknown to the public, still haunt the square mile.
The Pedway: Elevating London 2013
Descompostura
Descompostura
Discomposure is an experimental movie made of moving images of women, while they worked and were filmed under an aesthetic of fracture. Her bodies were positioned by the white middle classes men's eyes as if they were parts that served like props, support, and of spectators of lives which depended on these women. The movie disorganized this visual aesthetic. It did to see that, between who was filming and those entered, marginally, the scene, there was the black female look that stared at the camera, as an affront, so showing affirmation, contestation, and constraint.
Descompostura 2021
The Blind Rabbit
The Blind Rabbit
A magical tiger stalks like a phantom. Because no one ever catches more than a glimpse, it is spoken of with the highest esteem. This allegorical fiction starts Pallavi Paul’s attempt to describe systematic police violence in Delhi on the basis of individual events suppressed from official history. She does so in an associative edit of texts, images and sounds, making effective use of the scattered fragments of documentation still extant, including hurriedly safeguarded video and audio recordings of eyewitness accounts as well as those of the police and security forces.
The Blind Rabbit 2021
Project: Ice
Project: Ice
Formed by ice, filled by ice, often covered by ice, the Great Lakes encapsulate human exploration, migration, development and where we're headed. PROJECT ICE views North America's fresh water inland ocean through the prism of ice, from the crossroads of history, science and climate change. North America's five Great Lakes contain a staggering twenty percent of all the fresh water on the planet. Lake Superior by itself holds ten percent of Earth's fresh water. Our 4K digital cinema cameras explore this shared Canadian-American resource that holds a timely and telling story of geology, human movement, population growth, industrialization, cultural development, recreation and the profound impact people have had on the very environment they cherish and depend upon. Ice sits at the heart of it all.
Project: Ice 2013
Memórias do Fogo
Memórias do Fogo
Memórias do Fogo 2022
La saga Michelin
La saga Michelin
La saga Michelin 2022
When It Was a Game
When It Was a Game
As seen through the eyes of true baseball enthusiasts, this award-winning documentary tells the story of America's favorite pastime from the Depression to the 1950s, using footage shot from the movie cameras of fans and players. From the first color filming of a baseball game to the 1938 World Series and through the careers of legends such as Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle, the film thoroughly explores the history of baseball in America.
When It Was a Game 1991
Smithy
Smithy
An Australian biopic about the life of pioneering aviator Charles "Smithy" Kingsford-Smith. The film is unusually frank about the controversies that occasionally dogged him. PG Taylor and Billy Hughes both make appearances playing themselves.
Smithy 1946
Le silence de la mer, une édition dans la Résistance
Le silence de la mer, une édition dans la Résistance
Le silence de la mer, une édition dans la Résistance 2021
Les Misérables - Part 1: Jean Valjean
Les Misérables - Part 1: Jean Valjean
The story begins with Jean Valjean as a humble worker endeavoring to provide for his invalid mother. They live in a squalid home, made more wretched by his inability to provide sufficient food. He goes out in search of work, but is unsuccessful. Finally, in desperation, he steals a loaf of bread regardless of consequences. He hastens home with it, pursued by a crowd, and gives it to his mother. Valjean is arrested for the theft and sentenced to five years at hard labor.
Les Misérables - Part 1: Jean Valjean 1913
Dancing in the Ashes
Dancing in the Ashes
Edina, a young Jewish ballerina must fight for survival as she is snatched from her home and sent to a Nazi concentration camp.
Dancing in the Ashes 2011
Amy
Amy
The story of Amy Johnson who disappeared while piloting a RAF Wellington Bomber
Amy 1984
The Story of Jesus Through the Eyes of Children
The Story of Jesus Through the Eyes of Children
A captivating retelling of the story of Jesus through the eyes of children who might have encountered Him. Follow the lives of Benjamin, Caleb, Sarah, Joel, Leah, and Nathan, living in Jerusalem about 30 A.D. They hear stories of the Man from Nazareth who heals the sick and raises the dead. They struggle to make sense of it all - some from families who believe Jesus is the Son of God, others from families who do not. They watch Jesus from the crowds. They follow Him to see what this incredible Man, who loves children, will do next. They see Him betrayed, wrongly accused, crucified and buried. But they remember the promise of Jesus and believe they will see Him again.
The Story of Jesus Through the Eyes of Children 1976
Lost River: Lincoln's Secret Weapon
Lost River: Lincoln's Secret Weapon
Based on the true story of Anna Ella Carroll, a self-taught lawyer and politician and unofficial member of Abraham Lincoln's cabinet who was unrecognized for her accomplishments during the American Civil War.
Lost River: Lincoln's Secret Weapon 2010
Streit's: Matzo and the American Dream
Streit's: Matzo and the American Dream
On New York's rapidly gentrifying Lower East Side sits the Streit's Matzo factory. When its doors opened in 1925, it sat at the heart of the nation's largest Jewish immigrant community.
Streit's: Matzo and the American Dream 2015
I Am You
I Am You
In Peace We Trust. This documentary shows us how animal rights and human rights & the environment are all related. And the diverse effects that they have on each other and the planet. We are all inter-connected and part of the whole, so why would we want to hurt another living being that is a part of us? I Am You. Narrated by Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker and featuring Jimmy Carter, Maneka Gandhi and Harold Ramis among others.
I Am You 2016
Formula One 1999 Review
Formula One 1999 Review
Formula 1 World Championship 1999 Official Review : The Champion On The Track.
Formula One 1999 Review 1999
Takhta 3 Ratu
Takhta 3 Ratu
A fictitious plotline set during the times of the sixth Sultan of Malacca, Sultan Mansur Shah, Erma Fatima’s latest offering ‘Takhta 3 Ratu’ tells the story of three women Tun Teja (Erra Fazira), Puteri Hang Li Po (Soo Wincci) and Galuh Chenderai Kirana (Izreen Azminda). The play also stars Awie as Hang Tuah, Datuk Rahim Razali as Datuk Paduka Bendahara, Remy Ishak as Megat Panji Alang and Azri Iskandar as Sultan Mansur Shah.
Takhta 3 Ratu 2014