Gender Documentary
The Great Days of The Century - Exodus - Birth of Israel - 1984
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The Holocaust in World War II hastened the realization of what had been a utopia for the Jewish people for decades. Return to the Holy Land. Two waves of migration preceded the so-called Great Exodus, starting in 1945. When waves of Nazi survivors settled in Palestine. With the fait accompli, the pl..
The Great Days of The Century - Gandhi - End Of an Empire - 1989
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At the beginning of the 20th century, India, one of the most important British Colonies for His Majesty, experienced a phase of growing dissatisfaction with the arrogant English presence in the country. In the midst of this effervescence emerged Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi or, as he would later be im..
The Great Days of The Century - Budapest - Communism with tanks - 1984
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With the end of World War II and the redesign of Europe at the Yalta Conference, communism established itself in Hungary. The harshness of the regime, however, created a wave of discontent that materialized in an insurrection, which began on October 23, 1956, in Budapest. The USSR was no longer unde..
The Great Days of The Century - De Gaulle - France in The World - 1984
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After leading the French resistance against the Nazi invaders in World War II, Charles de Gaulle emerged as leader of the Provisional Government with great popularity. It was the first step in the political trajectory of the man who would become one of the great statesmen of the 20th century. With a..
The Sorrow and the Pity | The Sorrow and the Shame - 1969
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From 1940 to 1944, France's Vichy government collaborated with Nazi Germany. Marcel Ophüls mixes archival footage with 1969 interviews of a German officer and of collaborators and resistance fighters from Clermont-Ferrand. They comment on the nature, details and reasons for the collaboration, from a..
Shirley: Visions of Reality - 2013
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A series of snapshots from the life of a fictional actress named Shirley serves to weave together thirteen paintings by Edward Hopper (e.g. "Office at Night", "Western Motel", "Usherette", "A Woman in the Sun") into a fascinating synthesis of painting and film, personal and political history. Each s..
Metal: A Headbanger's Journey - 2005
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Sam Dunn is a 30-year old anthropologist who wrote his graduate thesis on the plight of Guatemalan refugees. Recenly he has decided to study the plight of a different culture, one he has been a part of since he was a 12-year old: the culture of heavy metal. Sam sets out on a global journey to find o..
Animals are Beautiful People | Capricorns Beautiful People | Beautiful People - 1974
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Filmmaker Jamie Uys, who gained worldwide fame for his film The Gods Must Be Crazy, took four years to make this joyful and revealing film about the habits of these beings that look so much like us: animals. Uys and his team traveled almost 200,000 kilometers of wild territories in Africa, from the ..
The War of Brazil | Brazil War: The Truth about The Paraguayan War - 1987
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Between 1864 and 1870, South America was the scene of the largest and bloodiest armed conflict of the century, known as the “Paraguay War”, when more than a million people died. The film debunks the official story, which mythologized certain figures such as the Duque de Caxias, still considered a he..
Directed by John Ford - 1971
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In 1971, Peter Bogdanovich was, perhaps, America's most promising young filmmaker, having directed the remarkable "Targets" (1968) and "The Last Picture Show" (1971) earning him an Academy Award nomination for the latter. At this point, he chose to make a documentary about legendary film director Jo..
Grass | Grass: The History of Marijuana | Grass: History of Marijuana - 1999
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This film explores the history of the American government's official policy on marijuana in the 20th century. Rising with xenophobia with Mexican immigration and their taste for smoking marijuana, we see the establishment of a wrong headed federal drug policy as a crime issue as opposed to a public ..
Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director - 1975
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Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director (Aru eiga-kantoku no shogai) is a 1975 Japanese documentary film on the life and works of director Kenji Mizoguchi, directed by Kaneto Shindo (Onibaba). It runs 150 minutes and can be found on the second disc of the Region 1 Criterion Collection release o..
1808 The Court in Brazil - 2007
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The most complete report on the arrival of the Portuguese court to Brazil and its consequences. Pressured by Napoleonic troops, the Portuguese court fled to Brazil with help from the English. 1808 - the court in Brazil, the most complete report on the period, produced in four countries, reconstructs..
December 7th | December 7, 1941 | December 7th: The Movie - 1943
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"Docudrama" about the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941 and its results, the recovering of the ships, the improving of defense in Hawaii and the US efforts to beat back the Japanese reinforcements...
This Is It | Michael Jackson's This Is It: The IMAX Experience - 2009
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In the weeks before his death, Michael Jackson (August 29, 1958 - June 25, 2009) was rehearsing a show, "This Is It," that was to open in July. This film begins with a few of the auditioning dancers speaking to the camera about why they're trying out and what Jackson means to them. Then we plunge in..
Twenty Years Later - 1984
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Eduardo Coutinho was filming a movie with the same name in the Northeast of Brazil, in 1964, when there came the military coup. He had to interrupt the project, and came back to it in 1981, looking for the same places and people, showing what had ocurred since then, and trying to gather a family who..
Great Days of the 20th Century - The First World War - Vol 01- 1984
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The 20th century began tragically. In 1914, the European powers embarked on a confrontation that sowed the seeds of all subsequent major conflicts. Officially, the trigger for the war was the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, prince of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but several other factors contribut..
The Aleijadinho - 1978
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A brief piece on one of the greatest Brazilian artists of all time, Antônio Francisco Lisboa, the Aleijadinho. An important representant of the Baroque period in Brazil, Aleijadinho was famous for his artistic sculptures and figures made in soapstone, part of the many historical churches and other a..
The Great Days of The Century - A Record of our Time - 1984
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At the beginning of the 20th century, Russia was a country with a backward economy, dependent on agriculture. Rural workers lived in extreme misery and poverty, and yet they paid high taxes to maintain the absolutist monarchy of Tsar Nicholas II, which could only be maintained through a lot of viole..
Animals are Beautiful People | Capricorns Beautiful People | Beautiful People - 1974
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Filmmaker Jamie Uys, who gained worldwide fame for his film The Gods Must Be Crazy, took four years to make this joyful and revealing film about the habits of these beings that look so much like us: animals. Uys and his team traveled almost 200,000 kilometers of wild territories in Africa, from the ..
The Great Days of The Century - Dictators - Raise of Fascisms - 1984
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The first fascist experience occurred in Italy, shortly after the end of the First World War. In Milan, in 1919, Benito Mussolini, a former socialist activist, created the “Fasci”, groups of fervent nationalists who systematically used violence to defend their values and weaken the State and democ..