Since the 1960s, each presidential election has been an opportunity for the various parties in the running to present their campaign clips on French television. Sometimes overflowing with inventiveness, more often sober, even sad, and sometimes frankly of bad taste, they remain privileged witnesses of the political history of the country. By dissecting several recent or much older videos, José Bourgarel offers through this documentary a journey into an unknown microcosm, engaged in the realization of a most delicate exercise of communication and of which he unveils on this occasion all the workings.
Part of the ,,Forty minute" series of documentaries that have nothing in common besides from their lasting time. This 1984 documentary provides a fascinating account of the lives of the former King Edward VIII and the American divorcée for whom he gave up the British throne in 1936. The Duke died in 1972 but the Duchess lived on until 1986, two years after this programme was transmitted.
Everyone is awakened by a combat alarm signal, according to which soldiers and officers instantly wake up and go to save the Motherland. But no one knows exactly where. It is worth noting that all this happens on New Year's Eve. And now, through a snow-covered forest in pitch darkness among centuries-old fir trees, our heroes are riding in a "shishig" on a special mission ... on a narrow track only headlights are visible ... After some time they arrive at a bunker lost in the forest ... What kind of special task can be on New Year's Eve do they wonder? Among other things, it turns out that Ensign Danilych, Private Poghosyan and Nurse Dasha were forgotten in a hurry. And these three, having decided to catch up with those who left, try to get to the place themselves and get lost in the night forest ... How will this adventure end, because there is very little time left before the New Year?
From Murnau to Herzog, and until modern incarnations, a mischievous exploration of a cinematographic legendary character, with Nosferatu himself as a guide...
In New York, late 2000, my father, Michel Cohen, was charged with twenty four counts of fraud and was facing 30 years in prison. Twenty years later, I tell the story of his escape with my mother, my sister and me. Our story.
More Than Robots follows four international teams of teenagers as they prepare for the 2020 FIRST Robotics Competition. Get to know competitors from Los Angeles, Mexico City and Chiba, Japan as they work towards the ultimate goal of taking their unique designs all the way to the highly competitive global championships. Along the way they must overcome challenges such as having limited resources or putting everything on hold because of the COVID pandemic. The kids persevere and learn that there is a lot more to the competition than just robots.
The extraordinary story of former Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords: her relentless fight to recover following an assassination attempt in 2011, and her new life as one of the most effective activists in the battle against gun violence.
Trailblazing, hell-raising country music legend Tanya Tucker defied the standards of how a woman in country music was supposed to behave. Decades after Tanya slipped from the spotlight, rising Americana music star Brandi Carlile takes it upon herself to write an entire album for her hero based on Tanya’s extraordinary life, spurring the greatest comeback in country music history. Taking stock of the past while remaining vitally alive in the present and keeping an eye on the future, The Return of Tanya Tucker is a rousing exploration of an unexpected friendship built on the joy of a perfectly timed creative collaboration.
One of the most anticipated videos to come out of Europe this year
In spring 1999, NATO allies conducted a bombing campaign against Yugoslavia as part of the Kosovo War. The action was supposed to destroy Yugoslav military installations and was seen as a humanitarian operation. But the bombings were aimed around urban areas and civilians were killed as well. This documentary focuses on the everyday people -- regardless of their religious or political differences -- who suffered on the ground and became witnesses to the overwhelming tragedy around them.
D-3 before the big day when Jean-Pierre and Marjorie will (finally) say "I do" in the Basque Country at the parents of the future groom. But the organization of Roxane, which seemed to be regulated like music paper, is going to be largely disturbed by a crescendo of unforeseen events in any kind.
Barbra Streisand grew up in working class Brooklyn, dreaming of escape from her tough childhood. A stellar student, she resisted the pressure to go to college as her sights were firmly set on Broadway. She was determined to become an actress and landed her first role aged 16, but it was two years later, when she started to sing, that her career took off. Subverting stereotypes and breaking glass ceilings, this programme looks at her rise to stardom and the remarkable achievements of her early career.
Amazing, but true: Fort Lee, New Jersey (just across the George Washington Bridge from Manhattan), was once the epicenter of American film production. This documentary of a truly bygone era combines photographs culled from private collections, as well as restored footage from such films as Thomas A. Edison's Rescued from an Eagle's Nest and D.W. Griffith's The New York Hat, filmed at the studios in Fort Lee.
The Good Sister follows a couple who is working to put their crumbling marriage back together, when the wife receives a letter informing her that she has a long-lost twin sister. First thinking that the new family member will bring the couple closer together, the husband then begins an affair with the sister and discovers that she is treacherous and dangerous.
Top Hat and Tales chronicles the early years of The New Yorker, from its fledging beginnings under its legendary creator and editor Harold Ross, to its rise as an indispensable American institution. - Roy Blount Jr., Stuart Hemple, John Updike
A oneminutesjr. workshop held in June 2012 in The Republic of Kiribati.
A divorced woman finds sexual liberation through online dating.
A peculiar homage to the things that go wrong, this film is purportedly about rugby. The self-explanatory title for this jumpy “documentary” is less concerned with the filmed subject (the game, the field, the players) than a comic editing style and the complete acknowledgement given to the technical aspect of gathering and manipulating raw footage.
Milan and Silvana live in Medulin, a small coastal town in Croatia. Milan rears cows on the nearby island of Finera, tending them daily, as many did before him. But Silvana wants much more and keeps complaining that Milan should pay more attention to their house and possibly rent it to tourists. However, a dramatic event in Milan's life will clearly show that the times have changed and they are not getting any younger.
Before the internet. Before social media. Before breaking news. The victims of Thalidomide had to rely on something even more extraordinary to fight their corner: Investigative journalism. This is the story of how Harold Evans fought and won the battle of his and many other lives.