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- Film-maker Werner Herzog follows mountaineers Reinhold Messner and Hans Kammerlander as they attempt to climb the high altitude peaks of Gasherbrum II and Gasherbrum I all in one expedition, seeking to reveal their inner motivation.
- THE BUSINESS OF AMERICA is the first film to probe one of our most treasured economic assumptions: that private corporations can be trusted to make the investments upon which all Americans depend. The film contrasts two Pittsburgh steelworkers conventional faith in private enterprise with the actual strategies and priorities of a giant corporation, U.S. Steel. It traces their growing realization that despite "supply side" business claims, increased profits don't necessarily "trickle down" to working Americans.
- A documentary about the post-war struggle against "bourgeois nationalists".
- The ritualized boredom of a middle-class housewife.
- About young people in Copenhagen whose lives have taken a bad turn due to alcohol and drug abuse and for that reason introduced them to crime of all sorts.
- Young people from Telford New Town, West Midlands, embark on a search to find out who puts 'it's illegal' on record sleeves.
- The film focuses on a group of Miskito in Nicaragua who used child soldiers in their resistance against the Sandinistas.
- Comical movie about a gardener who sees his wife die in his arms. While sitting in a tram a baby is shoved in his arms. When this baby is taken from him by child protection, he starts stealing babies.
- Documentary that charts the history of advertising from 1897 up to 1960 - as the era of the Mad Men took hold. Specifically focusing on the depiction of work and its gradual disappearance from advertising imagery.
- Documentary about a 1981 raid by the Quebec Provincial Police on a reserve in Quebec.
- A panorama on the different types of free-lance radios in present day Brussels. They strongly resemble their Parisian sisters of the early 80s.
- The women who seek help at Aurora House share a common illness: they are physically and psychologically dependent on alcohol, prescription drugs, street drugs, or a combination of these. This documentary focuses on the lives of five women at various stages of rehabilitation. In the supportive and healing atmosphere of women helping other women, they are confronting the issues and feelings they had previously drunk or drugged out of consciousness. Turnaround is a film that will be of special interest to the families, friends and colleagues of people who suffer from addiction, as well as to professionals who are interested in exploring alternative methods of treatment.
- Notorische Reflexe was an experimental band, art form and a Film Performance Group from West Berlin from 1982 to 1986. In these film fragments they perform at Quartier Latin and on the streets of WB.
- An American jewel thief in Monaco encounters various characters while trying to set up a robbery.
- In the early part of 20th Century America gangs of ruthless, lawless desperados roamed the countryside robbing banks and killing the lawmen set out to stop them. Their actions became part of pop culture lore and the leaders of these gangs like Bonnie and Clyde, John Dillinger and Pretty Boy Floyd filled the headline hungry tabloids of the day. Al Capone, who headed up his own vast, crime filled organization in Chicago, may have acted like a CEO but his response to enemies, without and within, was no less murderous and destructive. Dealers in Death: Murder and Mayhem in America tells the stories of these notorious criminals and the U.S. government's attempt and eventual success to bring them to justice and break their stranglehold on the public's imagination. Legendary Hollywood actor Broderick Crawford lends his distinctive voice to the narrative and takes us on a compelling journey of America's infamous past.
- The composition of classical music has been almost entirely a male preserve. In the late 1920's, when Elizabeth Maconchy was turned down for the Mendelssohn Scholarship, she was told it didn't matter because "you will only get married and never write another note." She did get married, to William Le Fanu in 1930, the same year that her piece The Land was performed at the Proms. Neither severe illness nor bringing up two children has stopped her writing many notes since then.
- In the future, some humans build a spaceship to abandon earth. The spaceship crashed in an island isolated from the rest of the world. The story takes place when there are only 2 survivors in the island: Conan a boy born in the island and his grandfather. Then the world discover them.
- This documentary describes Bonnard's relationship with contemporary artists Gauguin, Matisse, Cezanne, Seurat and Renoir, his personal relationship with his models and his personal vision expressed through his paintings and sketchbooks.
- The rise and fall of an all-girl punk rock band in Hollywood in the 1980s.
- Louise Brooks discloses details of "Pandora's Box" and "Diary of a Lost Girl" and about her colleague Carl Goetz; her relationship with the expressionist director Georg Wilhelm Pabst, comparing his working method with Ernst Lubitsch; her meeting with Rene Clair; why Marlene Dietrich has not been selected to perform Lulu; insights about Greta Garbo and Leni Riefenstahl; and her relationship with her lover George Preston Marshall.
- Aboriginal people on the Goldfields of Kalgoorlie, Western Australia (Australia) recount their history, speaking amidst living conditions of grinding poverty next to the gold and nickel mines and uranium development.