The U.S. Signal Corps construct a huge airbase in Thule, Greenland.

Documentary about influential Brazilian sociologist Gilberto Freyre, made in his country house in Apipucos, Pernambuco (Northeast Brazil).

A biography of Winston Churchill, shown through re-creations and actual film footage and told by Orson Welles.

Shot on the island of Fårö, this documentary presents interviews with local inhabitants as they discuss work, family life, and the conditions of living in a sparsely populated rural community….

A documentary about the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. It presents the building, with its processes of cataloguing and preserving all sorts of printed material, as both a monument of cultural…

Interview with Jason Holliday aka Aaron Payne. House-boy, would-be cabaret performer, and self-proclaimed hustler giving one man’s gin-soaked, pill-popped view of what it was like to be black and gay…

A lyrical portrait of Amsterdam and its changing appearance during a rain-shower.

An early example of ultra-realism, this movie contrasts the quiet, bucolic life in the outskirts of Paris with the harsh, gory conditions inside the nearby slaughterhouses. Describes the fate of…

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

A stark and graphic portrayal of the conditions that existed at the State Prison for the Criminally Insane at Bridgewater, Massachusetts, and documents the various ways the inmates are treated…

Joris Ivens’s advocacy documentary for the Republican cause intercuts a besieged Madrid with a nearby village digging an irrigation canal, linking the war to bread, land, and survival. Produced by…

A silent film by John Grierson. It tells the story of Britain’s North Sea herring fishery.