La representación de la realidad

A dictatorial film director (Peter Finch) hires an unknown actress (Kim Novak) to play the lead role in a planned movie biography of a late, great Hollywood star.

Gritty documentary that looks at the lives of teenagers living on the streets of Seattle.

A documentary about Klaus Barbie, the Gestapo chief of Lyon, and his life after the war.

Claude Lanzmann's epic documentary recounts the story of the Holocaust through interviews with witnesses - perpetrators as well as survivors.

An analysis of the power relations in an ordinary family.

A cinéma vérité documentary about the elections in Paris which reflexively inverts in on itself.

A film diary by an exiled Chilean woman adapting to life in Canada with her mother and son.

During the demonstrations asking for the comeback of direct vote in Brazil, in 1984, a journalist interviews people involved with the political events and has an affair with a politician.

Trinh T. Minh-ha combines archival footage, text, and interviews to paint portraits of Vietnamese women past and present. She explores the fiction of documentary and the truth of subjective experience and all their inherent contradictions.

Detailing the rape, torture and murder of four American missionaries in El Salvador by members of the El Salvador National Guard, as well as the subsequent attempts by the government to cover up the story.

At a morgue, forensic pathologists conduct autopsies of the corpses assigned.

Dramatized short about Canadian Marilyn Bell's attempt to be the first person to swim across Lake Ontario and what it must have felt like, narrated by an unnamed Canadian girl who speaks of the relationships between 'their' Marilyn, sex goddess Monroe of the United States and 'our' Marilyn, swimmer Bell from Canada.

Documentary about women working in factories during WWII and resultant loss of jobs after the war. Five women tell their stories. Fascinating clips of racist, sexist propaganda of the era.

The official World War II US Government film statement defining the various enemies of the Allies and why they must be fought.

Documentary revealing the nature and process of the fight between the Soviet Union and Germany in the Second World War.

The official World War II US government account of Great Britain's stand against the Nazi war machine after the Dunkirk evacuation.

Part VII of the "Why We Fight" series of wartime documentaries. This entry attempts to describe the factors leading up to America's entry into the Second World War.

The official World War II US government account of Nazi international aggression leading up to the British and French declarations of war.

A comprehensive survey of the American Civil War.

An Australian pediatrician gives a speech on the consequences of a nuclear war.

John Berger presents his insights on how people see. Through examples of Art History Berger shows how our very sense of sight has been transformed. By discovering why this is so, according to Berger, "we shall discover something about ourselves."

A film that successfully argued that a man was wrongly convicted for murder by a corrupt justice system in Dallas County, Texas.