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Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial

February 2009 •English

This documentary explores the creation of the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin as designed by architect Peter Eisenman. Reaction of the German public to the completed memorial is also shown.

Born To Win

September 2022 •English

Cinéma, de notre temps: Mosso, mosso (Jean Rouch comme si...)

August 1999 •French

Everything

June 1972 •Polish

Here's a strange one. First, a song on a blackboard: a Polish translation of “I love my little rooster” by American folk writer Almeda Riddle. Then, two men roll around trash bins and lift them to the garbage truck. They do it several times. A woman shouts in the distance. At the end, the picture stops, and the woman sings the song. An early short by Piotr Szulkin.

In Prague

April 1964 •Spanish

Documentary short film by Mario Handler about the city of Prague as part of an internship to study film in Europe.

30 Years of Garbage: The Garbage Pail Kids Story

September 2017 •English

The Garbage Pail Kids are 30 years old. Celebrate their gross-out greatness with artist interviews, superfan collections, and more.

Beast Wishes: The Fantastic World of Bob and Kathy Burns

January 2012 •English

Documentary about Bob and Kathy Burns, the goodwill ambassadors of science fiction film fandom.

The Invention of the Ford V8 Engine

December 1932 •English

1932 Documentary showcasing the Ford V8 engine.

El circo

December 1950 •Spanish

Madrid, Spain, 1949. The Circo Americano arrives in the city. While the big top is pitched in a vacant lot, the troupe parades through the grand avenues: the band, a witty impersonator, the Balodys, acrobats, jugglers, acrobatic skaters, clowns and… Buffallo Bill.

Fragmentos para una historia del otro cine español

May 2010 •Spanish

Documentary about the history of experimental cinema in Spain. FRAGMENTS is a historical survey of “the other” Spanish Cinema — films that brazenly explored their artistic, poetic and conceptual potential. Spanish experimental cinema can be glimpsed in a series of important yet isolated events that FRAGMENTS compiles through various firsthand accounts, film excerpts and documents. For the first time in Spain, a documentary brings together the most relevant of a cinema that is slowly losing its invisibility.

Buñuel's Prisoners

May 2000 •Dutch

The filmmaker interviews still surviving residents of Las Hurdes, where Buñuel shot a controversial documentary almost 70 years ago, and compares the area as shown in that work to the way it seems now.

Los chicos de la foto

May 2014 •Spanish

Jesús Franco, manera de vivir

May 2007 •Spanish

Lucian Freud: Painted Life

May 2012 •English

Documentary about the painter Lucian Freud.

Jean Vigo : le son retrouvé

December 2001 •French

Wilbur: The King in the Ring

May 2017 •English

Wilbur: The King in the Ring is a comedic documentary, which wrestles with the worldwide obesity plight. Wilbur McDougall, a former pro-wrestler, agrees to let his best friend J. Ollie Lucks make a documentary about his gastric sleeve surgery and subsequent transformation. But in order to stay literally half the man he was, Wilbur will be forced to maintain a healthier lifestyle while Ollie’s altruistic intentions verge on exploitative.

Les voyages de L'Atalante

November 2001 •French

The Genesis Solution

January 1987 •English

How does Genesis relate to the "real world?" Does it matter whether one believes in Creation or Evolution? Watch this unique and important message for today and understand why the Genesis Creation account is foundational to Christianity.

The History in the Gaze

April 2011 •Spanish

The film portraits the stage previous to the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution, from the end of Porfirio Díaz´ government, the social volatility, the ephemeral government of Madero and the presence of the working class in the figures of Villa and Zapata, until the signing if the Constitution of 1917. All of this through moving images, filmed during those events mainly by the Alva brothers, filmmakers of that time. Those images let us perceive the contradictory and shuddered glance of the people of that period.

El jardín de las delicias

May 2009 •Spanish