
India: Matri Bhumi
Several stories depicting the landscapes and fauna of India are mixed with documentary footage.
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Director: Roberto Rossellini

The Steel Road
Bold and exhilarating documentary account of the building of the Turkestan-Siberian railway, presented as a heroic triumph of Soviet progress over natural adversity.

Adolescents
Emma and Anaïs are best friends and yet everything in their life seems to set them apart, their social backgrounds but also their personalities. From the age of thirteen to…

Night Mail
This documentary short examines the special train on which mail is sorted, dropped and collected on the run, and delivered in Scotland on the overnight run from Euston, London to…

Wilfred Buck
Moving between earth and stars, past and present, this hybrid feature documentary follows the extraordinary life of Wilfred Buck, a charismatic and irreverent Indigenous Elder who overcame a harrowing history…

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

Boomerang Atomic
In 1960, in the heart of the Saharan desert, France detonated its first atomic bomb in Reggane, Algeria, forever altering the surrounding land and lives. The invisible populations continue to…

The Poet of the Castle
A 10-minute portrait of modernist poet and de Andrade’s godfather, Manuel Bandeira, is clear in its affection for it subject, though like many New-Waveish films of the time, depicts the…

London Recruits
The story of the Londoners recruited to be freedom fighters during the South African apartheid during the 1960s.

The Battle of San Pietro
This documentary movie is about the battle of San Pietro, a small village in Italy. Over 1,100 US soldiers were killed while trying to take this location, that blocked the…

Verdun: Visions of History
A dramatized re-enactment and documentary of the Battle of Verdun as seen by both French and German soldiers, shot on site of the actual battle.

Blood of the Beasts
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…
