Episódios Perdidos: Uma História

Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project(en)

Marion Stokes secretly recorded television 24 hours a day for 30 years from 1975 until her death in 2012. For Marion taping was a form of activism to seek the truth, and she believed that a comprehensive archive of the media would be invaluable for future generations. Her visionary and maddening project nearly tore her family apart, but now her 70,000 VHS tapes are being digitized and they'll be searchable online.

Chespirito: El Niño Que Somos(es)

What Happened to Crow 64?(en)

A documentary about a long lost N64 game.

Heartbeat in the Brain(en)

Heartbeat in the Brain is a 1970 documentary film produced and directed by Amanda Feilding, an advocate of trepanation. In the film, Feilding, a 27-year-old student at the time, drills a hole in her forehead with a dentist's drill. In the documentary, surgical scenes alternate with motion studies of Feilding's pet pigeon Birdie.

The Hanging of William Carr(en)

The hanging of child murderer, William Carr

The Bannfoot Ferry(en)

A forgotten history of Northern Ireland is unveiled through a journey into Ulster Television’s archives, and the rediscovery of the first locally-produced network drama, Boatman Do Not Tarry.

Documentário - 50 Anos de Chaves(pt)

The Fox With Nine Tails(ja)

Tobimaru is the young emperor of Japan. He meets a mysterious woman named Tomamo. After successfully seducing Tobimaru, she brings great misfortune onto the land. Tobimaru soon discovers that Tomamo is actually a kitsune, and now has the task to unmask and kill her to save his land. (currently a lost media)

The Square Root(en)

Photographer Peter Christiansen, University of Miami student, does a picture story at an LSD party on the beach.

All American Massacre(en)

Partially lost prequel and sequel to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, centered on Chop Top detailing his past in an interview with a news crew, before carrying out a new series of murders.

Sadistic Bitch(en)

After discovering that her husband has cheated on her, the vengeful Melanie documents her exploits to gruesomely turn her husband, Jason, into a woman through means of such tools as power drills and tongs. This film is considered lost, as the director, Brad Jones's copy was stolen from his personal collection in 2008. Its current whereabouts are unknown and it's unclear if any footage survives on his hi-8 tapes.

Cruel Summer(en)

A car thief (Kid Cudi) falls in love with a blind Arabian princess whose father allows them to marry under the terms he can help her see.

Purple Love(en)

Two friends stumble upon an incredibly rare piece of explicit lost media, and everything around them begins to spiral deeper into haze and madness as the star of the film haunts them.

Cletaraxia(es)

In the 20th century they called it avant-garde cinema, expanded cinema, kitsch cinema, structural cinema, psychotronic cinema, underground cinema, experimental cinema, kinoeye, cult cinema, lysergic cinema, bizarre cinema, Ahora lo llaman cine de DDLM´S.

Something in the Basement(en)

A youth waits for his brother to return home from a bloody war. He encounters something very nasty and evil in the basement of his house, claiming his older brother has in fact died.

HYPERSONIC Music Club(ja)

In 2017, a short anime film called Hypersonic Music Club was produced in Japan. It was directed and written by Osamu Kobayashi, a veteran of the industry who passed away in April 2021. For various reasons, this short anime was never released. It was made public on August 1, 2023.

15 Thousand Drawings(es)

Uncle Pud in Luna Park(ru)

Part of early Russian slapstick comedy series starring famous circus wrestler and comedian Vsevolod Avdeyev as Uncle Pud. Name is a wordplay referring to pood — old Russian unit of mass. There he is visiting amusement park and trying all the attractions. Film is partially lost.

Britain's Closest Encounter(en)

A look at the Rendlesham Forest UFO landing case

Homeless - A Second Hand Bookstore for the Chronically Dispossessed(el)

Leonidas Koursoumis had worked diligently all his life in the publishing sector only to find himself unemployed and subsequently homeless a few years shy of retirement. Instead of leading him to despair, this misfortune armed him with courage and persistence, giving rise to a vision of a pioneering bookstore run by and for the homeless, which has been steadily gaining international recognition and respect. This is their story.