Search Results
Tip: You can use the 'y:' filter to narrow your results by year. Example: 'star wars y:1977'.
This investigative documentary examines life in Nazi-occupied France, and features interviews with civilians who lived through World War II as well as stock footage of French entertainers performing for German soldiers. The filmmakers investigate the distinctions between collaboration, resistance and self-preservation by speaking with citizens who interacted closely with Nazis, who discuss their personal views about the ethical dilemmas they faced under occupation.
In an attempt to win better conditions for the workers in 1920s Turin, Gramsci leads a takeover of the factories by the workers. He is offered assistance by Kabak (who has just arrived from Moscow) but Gramsci soon realizes Kabak is not motivated by ideology, as he has other motives.
In June of 1940 a dark cloud descended upon the City of Light as Nazi forces occupied Paris and the country of France in the midst of World War II. As the Germans took over control, the people of France awaited their fate while proceeding with daily life as best they could. During the occupation, the French film industry was allowed to continue producing new works and the story behind this ambiguous period is the focus of this new documentary.
Derek Dawson gives a quick prep talk to the PR firm's new recruit, Trent Masters. The two of them then deliver a pitch to a terrorist syndicate telling them that terrorism is suffering an image crisis. When things get tense, Trent steps up and saves the day.
"These gentlemen had selected for their siesta the porch or penthouse commonly found before a Venta; and, finding themselves opposite each other, he who appeared to be the elder said to the younger:" Peter of the Corner and the Little Cutter - Cervantes
A portrait of an actor-turned-occupational-therapist, set to music performed by the filmmaker’s mother in her side job as a church organist.
Follow two homeless junkies as they stalk through the gutters and alleys of New York City and crash into an unusual brothel, running into the madam, her security guard, and a dirty cop. Blood drugs, neon and crypto blend together in a crescendo of violence.
During the Occupation, René Carmille, a graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique, founded what was to become INSEE and created the future national insurance number. This military officer, who became a manager in the Vichy administration, developed his modernist vision of mechanography, the forerunner of computer science, and increased the number of statistical surveys on the French population, at the risk of seeing them serve the antisemitic policy led by Pétain. But Carmille was pursuing a secret goal...
"Textile mills were once the backbone of Bombay’s economy and provided the city its working class culture. Today, foreign investment and rising real-estate prices have made selling mill lands more profitable than running mills. Mill ‘sickness’ is now an epidemic. OCCUPATION: MILLWORKER records the inspirational action of workers who, after a four-year lockout, forcibly occupied The New Great Eastern Mill."
Documents the Cockatoo Island Dockyard occupation and industrial actions of 1989.
"They killed a child. The adults came out of their houses and said, 'kill us, not innocent children'. They came out, praying and shouting. That's when they machine gunned the adults." "We may all die," says an East Timorese woman, "but if one is left, he will tell the story." Carmela Baranowska is the only filmmaker to have documented this period. She first travelled to East Timor in March 1999, working as a one person crew and stayed on until the UN evacuated its compound in September 1999.
Israeli soldiers describe and reflect on human rights abuses they perpetrated while serving in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
A voice-over guides the viewer through an underground depot of historic and imaginary relics, from the Alhambra to Romeo and Juliet's balcony. While the anonymous voice strings together backstory after backstory, a parallel history emerges from the darkness of this beautifully decorated limestone quarry, shaped by fantasy, boredom, faith and power.