The Letter to a Chinese Friend

A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling inventiveness.

Runtime

1h 8m

Director

Dziga Vertov

Cast

Mikhail Kaufman

A disturbing collection of 1940s and 1950s United States government-issued propaganda films designed to reassure Americans that the atomic bomb was not a threat to their safety.

Runtime

1h 26m

Director

Jayne Loader, Kevin Rafferty

Cast

Harry S. Truman, Lyndon B. Johnson, Nikita Khrushchev

Inspired by Patrick Pearse’s poem Mise Éire (“I Am Ireland”), this documentary assembles archival footage from across Europe to trace the rise of Irish nationalism from the 1890s through the 1916 Easter Rising. Directed by George Morrison, the film chronicles key figures and events of the independence movement, with Irish-language narr...

Runtime

1h 28m

Director

George Morrison

Cast

Liam Budhlaeir, Padraig O'Raghallaigh

Comprised of footage shot during the Nazi regime, including propaganda, newsreels, broadcasts and even some of Eva Braun's colorized personal home movies, we explore the way in which the Third Reich infiltrated the lives of the German population, from 1933 to 1945.

Runtime

1h 36m

Director

Philippe Mora

Cast

Eva Braun, Adolf Hitler, Galeazzo Ciano

When World War II broke out, John Ford, in his forties, commissioned in the Naval Reserve, was put in charge of the Field Photographic Unit by Bill Donavan, director of the soon-to-be-OSS. During the war, Field Photo made at least 87 documentaries, many with Ford's signature attention to heroism and loss, and many from the point of vie...

Runtime

56m

Director

Tom Thurman

Cast

Kris Kristofferson, Peter Bogdanovich, Oliver Stone