Documentary Movies

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Shipyard

The process of building a ship at the shipyard named after the Paris Commune in Gdynia. The protagonist of the film is the ‘Aleksander Zawadzki’ ship. The work of the mind and hands of a man, but also a majestic piece of art.

Amsterdam, News Topics

Compilation of newsreel items: Launch of SS 'Prins der Nederlanden'; Competition of lorries; Queen Wilhelmina and prince Hendrik visit an exhibition of church art; A carriage accident on the Amsterdam Singel (8 februari 1913); Suffragettes' march in Amsterdam; Queen Wilhelmina and princess Juliana go ice skating; Arrival of health officer dr. L. van de Steen van Ommeren who has been working for the Red Cross in Constantinopel; Fire in the Spalteholz en Ameschot factory, Achterweg 2; Prins Hendrik visits the exhibition in Ghent.

Elvis: That's the Way It Is

On July 31, 1970, in Las Vegas, Nevada, Elvis Presley staged a triumphant return to the concert stage from which he had been absent for almost a decade. His series of concerts broke all box office records and completely reenergized the career of the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll.

72 Horas

Green Light

Moments of a group of high school students at a party, before the college admission tests start.

Epa

The music festival "Midnight Light Festival" employ 7 girls to chauffeur the festival's artists in their "epa-tractors". During two summernights we get a insight into the 7 young girls' lives, thoughts, culture and dreams in the Northern Swedish inlands. Youth, dreams and engines in Vilhelmina municipality.

Ritual

Short film from 1° Lima Docs. More than 15,000 km from his place of origin, the filmmaker engages in a reunion about fatherhood, his father, and parents.

Kärlekens mirakel

All living things on earth have a common past far back in time. Evolution has made us who we are. In the first part of Life's Miracle, we get to follow the trail of evolution in the development of an embryo. Medical photographer is Lennart Nilsson. He was the first to successfully photograph a living fetus inside a womb. For his efforts as a photographer, he was awarded several times.

The Voice of desire

Through their stories, five women construct a collective portrait of desire, giving body and voice to that which we tend to keep silent.

Subs Heroes

Enxame

Art of Righteous

A behind the scenes documentary into the making of the cult film "Õiglus"

Is That Black Enough for You?!?

A look at the Black revolution in 1970s cinema, from genre films to social realism, from the making of new superstars to the craft of rising auteurs.

Macchina Infinita

During a workshop, the LABA students together with Giulia Mazzone and Giuseppe Spina discover the collection of cinema machines kept by the Museo dell’Industria del Lavoro in Brescia. This visit becomes the leitmotif of a series of thoughts on technological development and on the imaginary of the infinite machine.

What !s

The sequel to What !f, What !s is the next step in off-road moto progression and cinema tography. With a bigger cast, more cameras, and killer locations, Red Tide Pictures takes you on a adrenaline fueled romp of North America, through the swamps and bogs of Georgia to the high mountains in the heart of New Mexico. With some of the most progressive free riding, hill climbing, rock hopping and urban assaulting, no terrain, natural or manned will be left unturned.

Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan

There’s only one person who so accurately personifies movie magic in the history of film, and that man is special effects maestro Ray Harryhausen. Focusing on the man behind the landmark effects on films like Clash Of The Titans, One Million Years B.C., Jason And The Argonauts and many more, this in-depth film features interviews with the great man himself, and with an array of animators and directors influenced by his work including Guillermo del Toro, Peter Jackson, Nick Park, Terry Gilliam, James Cameron and Steven Spielberg. The film also features unseen footage of tests and experiments recently uncovered.

Playground

Brought by poverty, Petang and Cereno are driven into the realm of child labor to live by the clock. Film Weekly follows their journey as they step back to breathe and to be children once again.

Red Earth

Push

Housing prices are skyrocketing in cities around the world. Incomes are not. PUSH sheds light on a new kind of faceless landlord, our increasingly unliveable cities and an escalating crisis that has an effect on us all. This is not gentrification, it’s a different kind of monster.The film follows Leilani Farha, the UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing, as she’s travelling the globe, trying to understand who’s being pushed out of the city and why. “I believe there’s a huge difference between housing as a commodity and gold as a commodity. Gold is not a human right, housing is,” says Leilani.