The opening of Cher’s Take Me Home Tour, featured in this 1981 HBO special, perfectly captures her star power and wit. True to her love of spectacle and self-parody, the show began with a drag queen impersonating Cher in her iconic Take Me Home album outfit, lip-syncing the titular disco hit. Just as the audience embraced the illusion, the real Cher appeared—not as herself, but as Laverne, her brash housewife character from her '70s TV show. This unexpected, campy juxtaposition was pure Cher: audacious, hilarious, and clever. The “real” Cher emerged only after this self-referential intro, highlighting her playful awareness of her larger-than-life persona. The opening set the tone for a tour brimming with theatricality and charm. In one climactic moment, Cher soared above the stage, carried by dancers as the audience’s ecstatic cheers cemented her dominance as a live performer. Decades later, the footage retains its magic, a testament to Cher’s ability to captivate like no one else.
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Anthony Blake: el Sol es el cerebro de la Tierra
A documentary about the lives of five working artists (two musicians, an actor, and two fine artists) who may not be household names, but have been successful making a living with their art.
The urge to participate in wars in East Asia. Propaganda aimed at the Indonesian population with text, among others, comes from the national anthem of Indonesia Raya.
A New York Times documentary mini-series revealing the dark and troubling history of Soviet and Russian misinformation campaigns on foreign governments.
Negro Leo, recording session.
A documentary that explores the roots and consequences of Argentina's profound economic, political, and social crisis. It offers a critical and analytical look at a system that has proven insufficient and socially unsustainable as a form of development in an Argentina that has witnessed a severe and violent crisis that demands a new form of development and social organization to overcome.
Seven successive Grand Finals, four premierships and a string of champion players.
"The Clifton Rapist" stalked the Bristol Downs during the 1970s carrying out a series of sex attacks on women, but it was a young female police officer who caught him and sent him down in a ground-breaking decoy operation.
A single mom raising six kids in a transitional housing program in Brownsville, Brooklyn, Ebony aims to create a better life for her children by moving them into permanent housing. This sensitive narrative playfully blends Ebony's story with footage taken by her children. Their cinematography composes the essence of their day-to-day life, from mundane chores to hard fought moments of dancing and joy. Ultimately, a story of optimism shines from the most unlikely place.
This documentary serves as a beginner’s guide to world of Soviet animation, which covers the entire history of the USSR.
Three representatives of today's young generation: a young man who works at a motorcycle factory, a woman who works at a department store in Tokyo, and a young man. A work for overseas that depicts Japan in an era of steady economic development.
A poetic tribute to writer, poet and environmental activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa, who was executed alongside eight other activists for opposing the environmental damage done in their oil-rich homeland, Ogoni.
A program that explores the strange but true medical mysteries housed in this one-of-a-kind museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The military dictatorships, which held power in El Salvador, instituted a way of governing the country that became unsustainable. Electoral frauds were evident, and despite all this, the military continued to perpetuate themselves in power. Little by little, the gap between social classes began to widen, aggravating differences, while inequality grew disproportionally. Due to the lack of opportunity to improve the quality of life of Salvadorans via a political path, guerrilla organizations as well as an armed conflict emerged.
Bry, a reckless party animal, decides to rip his retired parents from their all-American lives and throw them into the adventure of a lifetime. As Bry and his folks enjoy the Dionysian side of life, they will all learn a bit about themselves & each other.
A documentary film exploring the exceptional musical art of Kurdish jurist and musical master Ostad Elahi.
In 2020, Rhianan Rudd became the youngest girl to be charged with terror offences in the UK. But was she really a dangerous far-right extremist? Or just a vulnerable teenager? Drawing on exclusive testimony, poignant family archive and previously unseen material, this documentary re-examines the events that led Rhianan into the criminal justice system.
A documentary film about a local pacific northwest artist, Benjamin Cahoon, and his process of making. The film follows his interaction with faith, identity development, and creation, emphasizing the inevitable destructive nature of making.