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A whimsical yet serious-minded look into the future sponsored by the appliance and radio manufacturer Philco-Ford. In the "1999 House of Tomorrow", each family member's activities are enabled by a central computer and revolve around products remarkably similar to those made by the sponsor. Power comes from a self-contained fuel cell which supports environmental controls, an automatic cooking system, and a computer-assisted "education room".

An accidental interruption of the S. Giacomo Electric Line requires the intervention of a team of specialized technicians. The short movie follows these men to the place of intervention, dwelling on the beautiful snow-capped landscapes and the local inhabitants engaged in their daily activities.

Savo from Kikinda (Serbia) and his brother recall how they called communal service few years back to empty the septic tank in their backyard. As careless servicemen weren't coming for days, Savo staged his death by drowning in the hole. Communal service sent three trucks while Savo was looking at them from the attic. A story of a small man who fought the system and won, only to become a huge YouTube hero afterwards.

Off-camera, a Western traveler tells us of hearing singing from his hotel window in Bombay. He searches for the source, and discovers a caste of street performers, eking out a modest living. We see individuals and groups, old and young, snake charmers and those hired to sing at family celebrations. A few talk about their lives and refute accusations of kidnapping lodged against the caste. A troupe of women sing at a party for a pregnant woman - they are saucy and blunt, encouraging and sisterly.

This documentary shows the construction of a high-altitude dam by the Sabbioni Glacier, and the daily struggles of the workers, now anxious for the outbreak of a mine, now silent for the nostalgia of the distant family.

Winner of the CNN Journalist Award 2013 As each of us has his own impression of Afghanistan that is predominantly marked with pictures of foreign forces, explosions and terror, we were privileged to have access to capture daily life and portrait some people of Afghanistan. We hope the pictures you know will merge with the pictures you see and will enrich your view on the country in the Hindu Kush.

“Land far away” is an expression typical of Cape Verdean emigration, which reveals the distance that emigrants feel in their “exile”.

These home movies shot by Dick Powell feature his wife Joan Blondell in a series of poses and dances as she tries on various dresses.

Big ambitions clash in tiny kitchens, all in the name of Singapore’s beloved hawker dish — chicken rice. Apple presents a documentary about hawker pride and conviction, set against the backdrop of the famous Maxwell Food Centre.

Each year 400.000 people from Africa, Asia and Middle East, try to enter Europe. They flee from war, persecution and poverty. Since the ways by land have been interrupted, they board overloaded vessels and face a dangerous and often deadly voyage across the Mediterranean.

A day in the life of an old shepherd during the lambing season on the Sussex Downs. He talks of the problems in Winter, when lambing is complicated by snow. -BFI

Traveling to North Africa, Ripley offers views of The Meeting Place of the Dead in Morocco, a jail for nagging wives, a village with houses made of tin cans, and a sultan with many wives and children.

On August 9, 2014, Michael Brown, an 18-year-old black teenager, was killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. The outrage over the killing mobilized Ferguson’s black community and it also sparked massive protests throughout the US. How could a tiny suburb that no one had heard about before serve as the epicentre for the new civil rights movement?

A coast guard captain on a small Greek island is suddenly charged with saving thousands of refugees from drowning at sea.

This film without words is composed of Pamela Bone's unique photograhic transparencies. Her talent has been said to 'push photography beyond its own limits, liberating it to the status of an entirely creative art form.' Inspired by nature, and being more responsive to feeling than to thought, Miss Bone has sought to express the mystery and beauty of the inner vision through photographic means alone: landscape has the quality of a dream; children on the sea-shore have a sense of their own enchantment, trees are forboding and strange when night moves in their arms. It took Miss Bone twenty years to find the right technique and so overcome the limitations that photography would impose.

Compilation of lighting and costume tests from various films, most notably Sternberg's "The Devil Is a Woman" (1935).

Tsarist imperialism was both a source of fascination and Russophobia for the people of the West. After the collapse of communism it seems to revive again thanks to big capital. What is the life of contemporary oligarchs' wives like in this world? If someone is expecting tinsel concealing vacuum they will be surprised to see a great need of expressing oneself through art and the awareness of possibilities that fate brings to a human being.

Detailed analysis of the famous polyptych by the Van Eyck brothers, housed in Ghent Cathedral.

A documentary showcasing a family as they pack up their home of twelve years and begin looking towards the future.

Education about the railroad. Model railroad footage is combined with real railroad footage.