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Why Man Creates
66%

Why Man Creates(en)

1968-09-24

A 1968 animation/documentary that criticises the industrial system. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.

Seeding Fear
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Seeding Fear(en)

2015-07-23

Since Monsanto began selling their patented 'Roundup Ready' genetically modified (GM) seeds they have sued hundreds of farmers for patent infringement. Michael White, a fourth generation farmer and seed cleaner living in the northeast corner of rural Alabama never imagined that he would become the target of the conglomerates aggressive legal tactics. But unlike other farmers in his area Michael refused to give in to Monsanto and in doing so became one of only a handful of farmers to maintain the ability to speak publicly about his case. This is his story.

Man Walking Around a Corner
50%

Man Walking Around a Corner(xx)

1887-08-18

The last remaining production of Le Prince's LPCC Type-16 (16-lens camera) is part of a gelatine film shot in 32 images/second, and pictures a man walking around a corner. Le Prince, who was in Leeds (UK) at that time, sent these images to his wife in New York City in a letter dated 18 August 1887.

Bucking Broncho
43%

Bucking Broncho(xx)

1894-10-16

Lee Martin, one of the cowboy stars in 'Buffalo Bill's Wild West', rides a bronco as a crowd looks on. While the horse is trying to throw Martin off its back, another cowboy stands on top of a fence rail and occasionally fires his six-shooter, to spur on both horse and rider.

Leonard-Cushing Fight
52%

Leonard-Cushing Fight(en)

1894-06-14

In the background, five fans lean on the ropes looking into the ring. The referee is to the left; like the fans, he hardly moves as two fighters swing roundhouse blows at each other. Mike Leonard, in white trunks, is the aggressor; in black, Jack Cushing stands near the edge of the ring, warily pawing the air as Leonard comes at him. A couple of punches land, but the fighters maintain their upright postures.

Band Drill
35%

Band Drill(xx)

1894-11-28

A scene from Charles Hoyt's 'A Milk White Flag': A brass band marches out, led by bandmaster Steele Ayers. When Ayers reaches his position, he turns around and directs the musicians as they take up their own positions.

India-Nepal
50%

India-Nepal(xx)

1971-05-30

A nervous, careless recording of a trip through India and Nepal at the beginning of the 1970s. Fleeting impressions of faces, landscapes, temples, people and things. Images that, having been captured in a ephemeral medium, proceed to fade away (although without aging), alongside the river of time.

"The future you live in" by George Alshevskij-Jones
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"The future you live in" by George Alshevskij-Jones(en)

2024-11-26

"The future you live in" is a short social commentary film created during my studies in the University of Plymouth in 2024. This is my view at the current state of the world, at what it was and is today.

Mafia
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Mafia(de)

1964-02-28

Documentary about the mafia.

Briefmarken unter sich
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Briefmarken unter sich(de)

1955-01-01

Short film directed by Wolfgang Kiepenheuer

People of the Po Valley
64%

People of the Po Valley(it)

1947-09-01

A documentary short detailing the life of Italians living on the Po River in the 1940s.

Minefield!
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Minefield!(en)

1944-03-01

A story of sappers in the field clearing mines.

A Small Passage of Time
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A Small Passage of Time(fr)

2025-10-17

An experiment with three dimensions in a moment of clarity: the focus of the camera's lens towards the present, the speed of the train and the material world distorted by the movements of the train.

Waiting Tables
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Waiting Tables(en)

1986-01-01

Interviews with people whom Gloria Steinem calls "pink collar" workers--those who wait tables.

Red Lines White Lines Fine Lines
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Red Lines White Lines Fine Lines(en)

2022-03-25

Stylised, bloody and intimate tour of a young woman’s destructive thought patterns and a radical reconsidering of the idea of the suffering artist.

Moscow Wife
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Moscow Wife(pl)

2006-05-31

Tsarist imperialism was both a source of fascination and Russophobia for the people of the West. After the collapse of communism it seems to revive again thanks to big capital. What is the life of contemporary oligarchs' wives like in this world? If someone is expecting tinsel concealing vacuum they will be surprised to see a great need of expressing oneself through art and the awareness of possibilities that fate brings to a human being.

Migrant
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Migrant(en)

2018-02-17

A short visual poetic film on a Haitian migrant stranded in Tijuana, Mexico.

Kino-Pravda No. 1
55%

Kino-Pravda No. 1(ru)

1922-06-05

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: Starving children / Requisitioning of valuables possessed by the Russian Orthodox Church / Fundraising flights in support of the hungry / Trial of the Socialist Revolutionaries.

Keur Simbara
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Keur Simbara(en)

Keur Simbara is an intimate, lyrical short documentary that follows a group of women community organizers in a rural Senegalese village as they build and sustain systems of health, finance, agriculture, and domestic infrastructure. Amid water scarcity and environmental challenges, they articulate their hopes for the future and the legacy they wish to leave behind. Keur Simbara is a tribute to communal wisdom and the power of local organizing.