Documentary about the work of puppeteer Jim Henson and his team in creating The Muppet Show.

Directed and Edited by Vivian Kubrick, Stanley Kubrick’s daughter, this film offers a look behind the scenes during the making of The Shining.

Documentary about women’s experiences of labour, in factories, mines and dockyards, in the USA during the second World War and how it affected their work and career aspirations once they…

Documentary about women’s experiences of labour, in factories, mines and dockyards, in the USA during the second World War and how it affected their work and career aspirations once they…

A behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the special effects in the second Star Wars installment.

Erika Blanc self-reflectively narrates her descent into Italian genre cinema while she hyperbolically playacts in the woods.

BBC documentary. Witness John Williams composing the legendary score for The Empire Strikes Back and conducting the London Symphony Orchestra.

Organised by Terri Hooley’s Good Vibration Records, this legendary gig found almost 1800 people cramming into The Ulster Hall to see local band The Outcasts. The events depicted here were…

Through concert performances and interviews, this film offers us an “inside look” at this famous rock group, “The Who”. It captures their zany craziness and outrageous antics from the initial…

This 1979 documentary depicts the daily life of gangs in the South Bronx. It deals primarily with two African American and Puerto Rican gangs known as the “Savage Skulls” and…

Scenes from the three last days of the festival in which the population of the old Kingdom of Jau participate yearly.

Merging the subjective and the objective, the autobiographical and the anthropological, The Laughing Alligator is a highly personal observation of an indigenous South American culture. Recorded while he and his…

BBC documentary about the rise of early electronic music, use of synthesisers and the work of the radiophonic workshop.

Documentary about Cape Verde and the island of Fogo produced by the revolutionary government of the new country. A culture learning to live without tutelage.

Documentary about pop music artist Shinji Harada.

A collection of death scenes, ranging from TV-material to home-made super-8 movies. The common factor is death by some means.

Evoking a cinema verite feel not found in most sports documentaries, Fast Break examines the 1977 Portland Trailblazers basketball team in a surprisingly personal and compelling fashion. Inter-cutting excerpts from…

Do ghosts come from outer space? Are they amongst us? The Amazing World of Ghosts seeks to unveil the mysteries that defy mankind’s understanding and define the modern age… and…

Sepia toning lends a romantic (even wistful) quality to Larry Jordan’s film Visions of a City, which he shot in San Francisco in 1957 and edited in 1978. The pace…

An early video work by Ivan Ladislav Galeta that underlines the perceptual presumptions of video-media.

Ever wonder how they ever managed to make a movie like Star Wars? Well, bickering droid duo C-3PO and R2-D2 host this tour of the mind of creator George Lucas…

A keen chronicle of the unlikely rise to power of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and a dissection of the Third Reich (1933-1945), but also an analysis of mass psychology and how…

Documentary film that examines the rise and fall of the Third Reich, incorporating puppetry, rear-screen projection, and a Wagnerian score into a singular epic vision. The director, who grew up…

65 shots making up a cryptically alluded-to narrative: a lesbian couple’s Midwest travels, a hitchhiking young man’s journeys, the story of a man who may be having an affair.

Pumping Iron is a 1977 documentary film about the run-up to the 1975 Mr. Olympia bodybuilding competition. The film focuses on Arnold Schwarzenegger and his competitors, Lou Ferrigno and Franco…

Nikola Tesla has not been given his place in the history books. However, with the video “The Genius Who Lit The World” he is getting the credit which he deserves….

Propaganda documentary in which the Armed Forces try to justify the military coup d’état.

Investigative Bigfoot documentary made by Ivan Marx & C. Thomas Biscardi. Features alleged Bigfoot footage which has later found to be hoaxed.

Tries to prove that all great men of the past were actually aliens. While the aliens in this film may seem to be quite human, one must realize that this…

Sixty one-minute shots with no camera movement. This tension between painterly and cinematic space is not only experienced as an intellectual contrast but is also felt as a dialectic between…

The Mothership has landed! Parliament-Funkadelic plays an out-of-this-world set at The Summit in Houston, Texas on Halloween night 1976.

This film documents the coal miners’ strike against the Brookside Mine of the Eastover Mining Company in Harlan County, Kentucky in June, 1973. Eastovers refusal to sign a contract (when…

“Documents the development of the Skidmore District (Old Town) in downtown Portland, Oregon, and recounts the struggle to bring this neighborhood into the modern era while preserving its cultural and…

This film uses the image of fireworks (as points of light) superimposed in the camera and in the optical printer until the surface of the film begins to bleach out.

A short film on an ideological debate between a teacher and a pupil regarding an incident with a football.

Stacy Perlata and Camille Darrin share a passion for their lifestyle of skateboarding. Camille narrates the film, and the two of them travel to various places in California with his…

Documents the lives of infamous fakers Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving. De Hory, who later committed suicide to avoid more prison time, made his name by selling forged works…

A portrait of legendary filmmaker Nicholas Ray while is working as a film professor at a college in upstate New York.

This Australian educational documentary concerns venereal disease in the pre-AIDS era and reveals that it is a problem that should be taken seriously by everyone — whether young or old,…

Orson Welles — with contributions from scientists George Wald, Carl Sagan, and others — examines the possibility and implications of extraterrestrial life. In examining our perceptions of alien ‘martians’ from…