
Zandra Rhodes
Commissioned by the COI, Peter Greenaway made a biographical short film about fashion designer Zandra Rhodes.

Vernon, Florida
Early Errol Morris documentary intersplices random chatter he captured on film of the genuinely eccentric residents of Vernon, Florida. A few examples? The preacher giving a sermon on the definition…

Fabulous India
From amazing shrines to the modern metropolis. India in the 1950’s – in color – by the photographer Claude Renoir.

Making Madness

Animals Are Beautiful People
Animals Are Beautiful People (also called Beautiful People) is a 1974 South African nature documentary written, produced, directed, filmed and edited by Jamie Uys, about the wildlife in Southern Africa,…

The Memory of Justice
This exceptional, disturbing, and thought-provoking two-part documentary compares the atrocities committed by the Nazis as revealed during the Nuremberg trials to those committed by the French in Algeria and those…

Why Man Creates
A 1968 animation/documentary that criticises the industrial system. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.

Chuck Berry: Hail! Hail! Rock ‘n’ Roll
St. Louis, 1986. For Chuck Berry’s 60th, Keith Richards assembles a pickup band of Robert Cray, Joey Spampinato, Eric Clapton, himself and long-time Berry pianist, Johnnie Johnson. Joined on stage…

Primary
Primary is a documentary film about the primary elections between John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey in 1960. Primary is the first documentary to use light equipment in order to…

Dry Wood
Featuring the stories and music of seminal Cajun musicians “Bois Sec” Ardoin and Canray Fontenot, Dry Wood is a short, vibrant documentary portrait of life, food, music and festivity in…

The Encampments
Students flooded Columbia University’s lawn to create the Gaza Solidarity Encampment in order to pressure their university to divest from the US and Israeli weapons companies. The film follows the…

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

Die Unsichtbaren
The film follows the career of detective inspector Marianne Atzeroth-Freier through the Hamburg police force of the 80s and 90s. At the end of the 70s, Marianne is 30 years…