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Koyaanisqatsi
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Koyaanisqatsi

Apr. 27, 1983

Koyaanisqatsi

Takes us to locations all around the US and shows us the heavy toll that modern technology is having on humans and the earth. The visual tone ...
Hells Angels Forever
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Hells Angels Forever

Oct. 09, 1983

Hells Angels Forever

What starts off as a squadron of American daredevil bombers in World War II, branded by society as renegades, turns into a revealing ride into ...
Ghost Dance
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Ghost Dance

Dec. 15, 1983

Ghost Dance

Through the experiences of two women in Paris and London, Ghost Dance offers an analysis of the complexity of our conceptions of ghosts, memory ...
BMX Bandits
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BMX Bandits

What would you do if you were confronted with death? What gives someone the strength to survive? Is it luck, chance, instinct? In a ...
Wild Style
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Wild Style

Crime Investigation Australia is an Australian true-crime series that first premiered on Foxtel’s Crime & Investigation Network in ...
Visit, or Memories and Confessions
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Visit, or Memories and Confessions

A long-hidden, personal doc about leaving a beloved house by the late, revered Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira.
Sans Soleil
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Sans Soleil

Mar. 02, 1983

Sans Soleil

A woman narrates the thoughts of a world traveler, meditations on time and memory expressed in words and images from places as far-flung as ...
The Road to Patriation
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The Road to Patriation

This feature documentary retraces the century of haggling by successive federal and provincial governments to agree on a formula to bring home ...
Reassemblage: From the Firelight to the Screen
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Reassemblage: From the Firelight to the Screen

A complex visual study of the women of rural Senegal. Through a complicity of interaction between film and spectator, Reassemblage reflects on ...
Poetry in Motion
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Poetry in Motion

Sep. 17, 1982

Poetry in Motion

More than 20 contemporary North American poets recite, sing, and perform their work. Early in the film, Charles Bukowski talks about the energy ...
Illuminated Texts
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Illuminated Texts

Jan. 27, 1982

Illuminated Texts

“Breathtaking in its techniques, rhapsodic in its passion, and encyclopedic in its scope, the film traces the long fall from paradise into ...
The Compleat Beatles
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The Compleat Beatles

Oct. 01, 1982

The Compleat Beatles

Now, for the first time, you can re-live the Beatles legends with this stunning 2-hour musical “Rockumentary”. It’s all there from the wild ...
Burden of Dreams
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Burden of Dreams

Oct. 01, 1982

Burden of Dreams

The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director Werner Herzog, soon finds itself with problems ...
Black Wax
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Black Wax

Jan. 12, 1983

Black Wax

Gil Scott-Heron, one of rap’s earliest (and unfortunately unknown) pioneers, gets his full due in Black Wax, the 1982 documentary recently ...
The Atomic Cafe
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The Atomic Cafe

Mar. 17, 1982

The Atomic Cafe

A disturbing collection of 1940s and 1950s United States government-issued propaganda films designed to reassure Americans that the atomic bomb ...
A Cook’s Tour
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A Cook’s Tour

Jan. 08, 2002

A Cook’s Tour

Bad-boy chef and author Anthony Bourdain goes off the beaten track in search of foods that are rare, highly esteemed and sometimes downright ...
Genocide
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Genocide

Mar. 14, 1982

Genocide

The mass murder of Jewish people by the Nazi regime is chronicled, with a warning that anti-Semitism is on the rise and the events of the ...
The Decline of Western Civilization
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The Decline of Western Civilization

The Los Angeles punk music scene circa 1980 is the focus of this film. With Alice Bag Band, Black Flag, Catholic Discipline, Circle Jerks, Fear, ...
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
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Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe

Directors Werner Herzog and Errol Morris make a bet which results in Herzog living up to his promise that he would eat his shoe if Errol Morris ...
Rude Boy
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Rude Boy

Jul. 25, 1980

Rude Boy

Rude Boy is a semi-documentary, part character study, part ‘rockumentary’, featuring a British punk band, The Clash. The script ...
Mur Murs
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Mur Murs

Sep. 13, 1981

Mur Murs

Venturing from Venice Beach to Watts, Varda looks at the murals of LA as backdrop to and mirror of the city’s many cultures. She casts a curious ...
Mueda, Memory and Massacre
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Mueda, Memory and Massacre

Mueda was a massacre. The name is that of the village in Northern Mozambique where in 1960 it took place. The Portuguese colonial regime did the ...
Lightning Over Water
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Lightning Over Water

Oct. 01, 1980

Lightning Over Water

Director ‘Nicholas Ray’ is eager to complete a final film before his imminent death from cancer. Wim Wenders is working on his own ...
Larisa
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Larisa

Oct. 01, 1980

Larisa

Elem Klimov’s documentary ode to his wife, director Larisa Shepitko, who was killed in an auto wreck.
The Candidate
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The Candidate

Apr. 18, 1980

The Candidate

Made with an eye to the autumn of 1980 when the German parliamentary elections took place, The Candidate examines Germany’s history past and ...
Huie’s Sermon
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Huie’s Sermon

Jul. 07, 1983

Huie’s Sermon

Reverend Huie Rogers is a preacher at the Bible Way Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ in Brooklyn. He is the topic of this short film, during which ...