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The Water Is Finally Blue: The Untold Story of Robert Altman's O.C. and Stiggs

July 16, 2023

An in-depth oral history of the production and development history of Robert Altman's "O.C. and Stiggs," featuring commentaries from the film's cast and crew....

How To Smell A Rose: A Visit with Ricky Leacock at his Farm in Normandy

August 30, 2014

In the year 2000, Les Blank, along with co-filmmaker Gina Leibrecht, visited Richard Leacock (1921-2011) at his farm in Normandy, France and recorded conversations with him about his life, h...

Grandmother Told Grandmother

October 6, 2018

The little-known story of Ukrainian children torn from their homes in the crush between the Nazi and Soviet fronts in World War II. Spending their childhood as refugees in Europe, these insp...

The Illness and Recovery of Buda Brakus

August 24, 1980

The protagonists of this docudrama are old farmers who migrated to Banat after the First World War, in 1922. The film is focused on a couple of important events in their impressive lives, wh...

Who Will Burry The Dead?

May 13, 2016

This documentary offers a deep, candid, and historical look at the Christian experience of America's largest and best-known tribes: the Dakota and Lakota. Its exploration into Native Americ...

Broken Token

October 18, 2024

A single female voice sings of waiting in her garden for her ‘dark-eyed sailor’ to return from war, bearing the other half of their token, a gimmel ring. Three veterans pass on the road as s...

Ryhmäteatteri

February 2, 2018

Documentary on the history of Ryhmäteatteri theatre company....

Slowdive: Souvlaki

June 14, 2015

The film follows the band Slowdive as they come up in the flourishing Thames Valley shoegaze scene and chronicles the making of their classic album Souvlaki. It features interviews with all ...

Thick Air

August 25, 2020

An experimental music ensemble is recording an album. They want a very specific sound: the sound of thick air. The sound engineer struggles to understand and to find that sound. A tale of sl...

Hello Campers!

September 14, 2023

Oral history project exploring the history of London's holiday campers. From the 1930s to the 1980s London’s workers increasingly visited holiday camps such as Pontins and Butlins, or run by...

Libertad negra

April 22, 2016

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Seems Like Only Yesterday

December 31, 1970

Interviews with a dozen California centenarians against a montage of present day media reportage....