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Mikhail Romm – Obyknovennyy fashizm AKA A Night of Thoughts AKA Triumph Over...
Synopsis: A collage of documentary and chronicle footage from various German and Soviet archives, attempting to reconstruct the experience of the citizens of the Third Reich and to grasp the essence...
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Gualtiero Jacopetti – Addio zio Tom aka Goodbye Uncle Tom (1971)
Mark Deming, All Movie Guide Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco E. Prosperi, best-known for the groundbreaking shockumentary Mondo Cane, directed this bizarre and shocking look at slavery in America. Set...
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R. Maslyn Williams – Mike and Stefani (1952)
Fascinating artifact from the period of peak European migration into Australia, which can be instructively set alongside the films of Giorgio Mangiamele (one of whose films seems a direct response to...
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Andre Singer – Night Will Fall (2014)
Synopsis: When Allied forces liberated the Nazi concentration camps, their terrible discoveries were recorded by army cameramen, revealing for the first time the horror of what had happened. Using...
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Noriaki Tsuchimoto – Minamata: Kanja-san to sono sekai AKA Minamata: The...
Quote: In the small town of Minamata in Kyushu, far from the metropolitan center, the fertilizer company Chisso built a factory to take advantage of cheap labor and commenced dumping mercury-filled...
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Teodora Mihai – Waiting for August (2014)
Synopsis (One World Festival): Before turning fifteen, Georgiana has already taken on the role of mother, caretaker and guardian to her six brothers and sisters with whom she shares a flat on the...
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Juan Carlos Velazquez & Dorleta Murguialday – Muslims and the Leftists (An...
In spite of the fact that there are no exact statistics available about the number of Muslims in Spain, it is estimated that about 25,000 individuals have converted to Islam out of whom 10,000 people...
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Lech Kowalski – On Hitler’s Highway (2002)
A very personal journey, almost like a diary, with hand held camera Kowalski travels along the oldest highway in Polan, built by Hitler. While travelling along the highway Kowalski meets the people...
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Emile de Antonio – Mr. Hoover and I (1989)
Description: Turning the camera on himself and his 10,000-page FBI file, radical documentary filmmaker Emile de Antonio skewers the legacy of FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover while offering up a fascinating...
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Gilles Delannoy & Isabelle Pierson & Michel Campioli – Carré blanc (1986)
Quote: so, what we have here is a bunch of journalists gathering up at night in some kind of secret meeting where they share their best stories, for the purpose of selling them to the first issue of a...
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Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin – Letter to Jane: An Investigation About...
Synopsis: A propaganda photo of Jane Fonda talking to, or perhaps listening to, a Vietnamese militant provides the jumping off point for one of cinema’s most stringent semiotic analyses in Jean-Luc...
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Ulrich Seidl – Im Keller AKA In the Basement (2014)
Quote: In the Basement (Im Keller) is a 2014 Austrian documentary film directed by Ulrich Seidl about people and their obsessions, and what they do in their basements in their free time. It was part...
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Mark Rappaport – Our Stars (2015)
Stars of the 1940s and 1950s, were they cast for their mutual affinities or for their commercial appeal? If and when they were re-starred years later, did the magic still work? Did sparks still fly?...
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Kirby Dick – This Film Is Not Yet Rated (2006)
Synopisis from RopeofSilicon.com IFC Original Documentary This Film Is Not Yet Rated, the breakthrough film from Oscar-nominated director Kirby Dick (Twist of Faith) is an unprecedented investigation...
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T. Minh-ha Trinh – Reassemblage (1983)
From Allmovie: Director Trinh T. Minh-ha’s first film is an ethnographic portrait of rural Senegalese women, but its provocative editing and self-conscious narration question the very activities of...
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Harun Farocki – Parallel 2 – 4 (2014)
The four‐part cycle Parallel deals with the image genre of computer animation. The series focuses on the construction, visual landscape and inherent rules of computer-animated worlds. Quote: Cinema’s...
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Stanley Kubrick – Day of the Fight (1951)
Based on Kubrick’s pictorial for Look Magazine (January 18, 1949) entitled “Prizefighter,” “Day Of The Fight” tells of a day in the life of a middleweight Irish boxer named Walter Cartier,...
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Sophie Fiennes – Pervert’s Guide to Ideology (2012)
Short Synopsis The makers of THE PERVERT’S GUIDE TO CINEMA return with THE PERVERT’S GUIDE TO IDEOLOGY. Philosopher Slavoj Zizek and filmmaker Sophie Fiennes use their interpretation of moving...
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BBC – Human, All Too Human: Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Sartre (1999)
BBC documentaries on 3 existentialist philosophers – Neitzsche, Heidegger and Satre. The rip quality is not great, but highly watchable and the standard of the documentaries is top notch featuring a...
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Francoise Wolff – Jacques Lacan Speaks (1971)
Jacques Lacan (1901-1981) is widely regarded as one of the most influential psychoanalysts of the 20th century, one whose work has refashioned psychiatry both as a theory of the unconscious mind and...
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