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- DirectorHasan ShahDom ShawStarsJohn BurnsGarry BushellA Certain RatioDocuments the post-punk period between 1978 and 1981, featuring the looks, the poses, the rucks, the riots and the slaggings of bands and their fans. Includes footage of the Wasted Festival and some of the original bands 25 years on. Also has performances from exponents of Punk, Mod, Oi and Ska - all filmed in the same DIY ethic that spawned punk itself.
- DirectorTony SilverStarsDemonKase 2Eric HazeA documentary that exposes the rich growing subculture of hip-hop that was developing in New York City in the late '70s and early '80s, specifically focusing on graffiti art and breakdancing.
- DirectorPavel GrinyovStarsPavel GrinyovNikolay MoiseevJames RolfeIn this film the author (Pavel Grinyov) talks about the gaming console Dandy, which was very popular in the Russian Federation in the 90 years of the late 20th century. In particular, the film is explained in detail about how there was also covered by the game console in Russia and pirate games, which have been distributed. Dandy had a logo in the form of a gray elephant, a curse word in this context means low-quality pirated games.
- DirectorPatrick RotmanStarsÉdouard BalladurThe BeatlesClaude BerriFrom Washington to Saigon, Rome to Mexico, Paris to London, a wave of demonstrations shakes the world. 68 travels back in time to war torn Vietnam, freed and occupied Prague, Paris demonstrating, revolution in the Americas.
- DirectorBrett MorgenStarsJeffrey WrightNick NolteRoy ScheiderArchival footage, animation, and music are used to look back at the eight anti-war protesters who were put on trial following the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
- DirectorSam GreenBill SiegelStarsLili TaylorPamela ZJim LangeThe remarkable story of The Weather Underground, radical activists of the 1970s, and of radical politics at its best and most disastrous.
- DirectorSimon BrookStarsJean-Claude CarrièreDennis HopperVáclav HavelAt the end of the Sixties a cultural revolution took place, culminating in Europe with the student riots of 1968. It was a revolution that changed the arts and culture in the larger sense, as well as people's mentalities. Music became militant and sexually explicit. Theatre became political and experimental, pop art blew people's minds, and Mary Quant invented the miniskirt...As the Vietnam war raged on. The archival images are commented by an eclectic selection of artists from the cultural world, including -- film director Milos Forman, DJ Annie Nightingale, president Vaclav Havel, artist Ed Ruscha, photographer and film maker William Klein, actor Dennis Hopper, theatre director Peter Brook, designer Mary Quant, screenwriter Jean-Claude Carriere. Generation 68 is like a voyage in time that brings back to life this incredible period.
- DirectorJérôme KanapaGudie LawaetzStarsMaurice ClavelDaniel Cohn-BenditChristian FouchetMontage of archive images and interviews with actors of the May 1968 events.
- DirectorPeter WhiteheadStarsPeter WhiteheadAlberta TiburziAngelo MannsravenAn extraordinary piece of filmmaking, an extremely personal statement on violence, revolution and the turbulence within late sixties America.
- DirectorViktors BudaViktors BudaStarsIndulis BilzensWestbamDerrick MayThe first Story of Soviet Techno Revolution "In the USSR that was the beginning of a new era. The Era of Dance".
- DirectorBen LewisStarsMikhail GorbachevVáclav HavelWojciech JaruzelskiGeorge Orwell wrote that in a repressive political system every joke is a "tiny revolution." Jokes were an essential part of the communist experience because the monopoly of state power meant that any act of non-conformity, down to a simple turn of phrase, could be construed as a form of dissent. By the same token, a joke about any facet of life became a joke about communism. Hammer and Tickle recounts a humorous history of the Soviet Union and its satellite states through the jokes that flourished under the oppressive regimes in Russia and parts of Central and Eastern Europe. Jokes, the film contends, were a language of truth under Communism; a language that allowed people to navigate the disconnect between propaganda and reality and provided a means of resisting the system despite the absence of free speech. Using animated sequences, manipulated archival footage, and sketches to resurrect the jokes, the film offers an ironic take on the history of Communism while simultaneously investigating the social and political impact of jokes under Soviet rule. Interviews with Solidarity leader and former Polish president Lech Walesa, hard-line Polish leader General Jaroszelski, German actor Peter Sodann, German satirist and author Ernst Roehl, East German newspaper editor and Politburo member Guenter Schabowski, and academics Christie Davies and Roy Medvedev address the role that jokes played in challenging and weakening the Communist system from the inside even as joke-tellers faced censure or time in the Gulag for voicing their humor. Light and irreverent in its tone, Hammer and Tickle is really about the ultimate seriousness of joking and the use of the power of laughter to overcome hardship. This history of humor under the Soviet regime offers a direct, incontrovertible way to understand what it was like living in a Communist society, and is also proof that the human spirit can never be broken.
- DirectorMike OttStarsCory ZachariaMark BorchardtHenning GronkowskiA journey into the hallucination of cinema.
- DirectorKeith MaitlandStarsMonty MuirViolett BeaneCole Bee WilsonAnimation, testimony, and archival footage combine to relate the events of August 1, 1966 when a gunman opened fire from the University of Texas clock tower, killing 16 people.
- DirectorWilliam PetersStarsBill BeutelJane ElliottAn examination of elementary teacher Jane Elliott's educational exercise about discrimination, which she conducts an unforgettable lesson with her third-grade class in Riceville, Iowa.
- DirectorBertrand BlierStarsZouzouYoung people talk about the past, present and the future, dreams and trends, in front of Blier's camera.
- DirectorWilliam KleinStarsDaniel Cohn-BenditRenaudAlain ResnaisKlein filmed the meetings, barricades, debates, lectures, and the occupations in universities during May 1968.
- DirectorArtavazd PeleshianStarsFelix DzerzhinskyVladimir LeninSergo OrdzhonikidzePhilosophical essay about the October Revolution of 1917 in Russia, its influence on the destiny of the world in the 20th century.
- DirectorVolker HeiseAlice AgneskirchnerUte BaduraStarsBoris AljinovicHakan AltinözJaqueline Assmann20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, 24h Berlin documents a day in the life of the German capital. Exactly one year before the broadcast, 80 film crews were on the road for 24 hours in all districts of Berlin.
- DirectorFrancesco MunziStarsFranco BerardiGiulio CapiozzoPatrizio FariselliBased on archival material, the movie tells the story of the young people that striked in Italy between 1967 and 1977 - mixing dreams and passion, with violence and injustice.
- DirectorSylvain GeorgeStarsValérie DrévilleA poetic film in 18 waves, as so many scenes describe Paris and its urban landscapes crossed by a young minor "foreigner isolated", the terrorist attacks, white roses, state of emergency, blue white red, the Atlantic Ocean and its crossings, volcanoes, the beat cubicle, the revolt, the anger, the police violence, a revolutionary song, the silence and the joy, only the joy.
- DirectorJoão Moreira SallesA personal essay which analyses and compares images of the political upheavals of the 1960s. From the military coup in Brazil to China's Cultural Revolution, from the student uprisings in Paris to the end of the Prague Spring.