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- In 1971 she was 'wanted' for political murder, because she had assassinated a Bolivian Colonel, who represented the oppressive military dictatorship in the South American country. In 1973 she was ambushed and shot by the police forces led by the notorious Klaus Barbie, former Gestapo chief in Lyons, France - see also Hôtel Terminus (1988). Monika had tried to abduct him to bring him to France and have him accused for his crimes. Who was Monika Ertl, who is said to have met Ernesto Che Guevara? The documentary follows her traces, interviewing her family as well as her former fellow combatants.
- Documentation of the 1960's which demonstrates the attractions of the new world between Alaska and Tierra del Fuego as a colorful tourist picture book.
- Inquires about the disappearance of the student Juan Herman in the city of Bariloche, Argentina during the last military dictatorship.
- Documentary about the Panamericana from Alaska to Mexiko.
- Live versions of the songs, filmed in an old Pompeii amphitheater. Songs included are Echoes (split into 2 parts), Careful with that axe, Eugene, A saucerful of secrets, One of those days, Set the controls for the heart of the sun, Mademoiselle nobbs (Seamus, but with Rick's dog on vocals). "Careful" and "Set the controls" are shot at night with minimal lighting, setting a beautiful mood. And the live Saucerful just has to be seen, with Waters jumping around in the sunlight banging the huge gong. The 80-minute version features studio footage from the recordings of Dark side of the Moon, with alternate versions of Us and them, On the run and Brain Damage, as well as interviews with the band.
- Footage of a concert performed by the legendary Bob Marley
- This is one of the two exceptional documentaries about Bernhard Kimmel, who was in the headline of German newspaper's in the 1950s because of spectacular robberies and burglaries.
- Compilation of individual interviews recounting their lives in Germany and Turkey.
- An in-depth exploration of the various reactions by the French people to the Vichy government's acceptance of the German invasion.
- The life and healing practices of a tribe in the Himalayas in north-western Nepal.
- Former residents of the Marquee Club, London, Ten Years After entertained a full house to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the club. The 'Live From London' series shows the original members Alvin Lee, Leo Lyons, Chick Churchill and Rick Lee perform the band's unique blend of blues and rock that propelled them to fame with numerous hits 'Help Me', 'Love Like A Man', and 'I'm Going Home'.
- Hans-Jürgen Syberberg's epic interview with Winifred Wagner in 1975.
- Today, the only inhabitants of this environmentally inhospitable Pacific island are birds and crabs. Yet over 80 years ago, Clipperton hosted other visitors: a demented rapist and a terrified group of women and children. Cousteau returns to the island to recreate the deadly series of events - from the death of the brave French captain to the courage of the widow who killed her torturer - through the eyes of one of the survivors, then a child.
- The film takes a look at a professional gambler, who very successfully specialized on the German version of the slot machine.
- A documentary following German auteur Werner Herzog as he deals with difficult actors, bad weather and getting a boat over a mountain, all in an effort to make his film Fitzcarraldo (1982).
- Through examining Fini Straubinger, an old woman who has been deaf and blind since adolescence, and her work on behalf of other deaf and blind people, this film shows how the deaf and blind struggle to understand and accept a world from which they are almost wholly isolated.
- This is a documentary feature about Jürgen Bartsch, who killed four young boys in the early 60s, being between 15 and 19 years of age. The German press and public labeled him "beast" at that time because he tortured the boys, and chopped their bodies up after killing them. The film consists of interview footage from people who knew Bartsch, and you hear Bartsch himself talking about himself and his crimes; taken from tapes recorded by analysts while he was imprisoned. The film shows that Bartsch was not only a killer, but also a victim.
- Krautrock group Embryo makes a musical trip by bus through Iran, Afghanistan and India during 1979. Documented, recorded and filmed by themselves.
- 'September Wheat' shows the path of American wheat from cultivation to consumption in seven chapters.
- Documentary about the German campaign in Africa in 1941/42 and the personality of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.
- The borders of the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania were initially drawn without considering the herds of grass-eating wild animals. The recording of seasonal animal movements by the film team at the end of the 1950s forms the framework for action, so that based on this work, new boundaries of the park could be determined in such a way, that the most important animal populations are protected all year round. The beauty of the savannah landscape and the sideways glance at numerous wild animal species living there, some of which were presented to a broader audience for the first time in this film, fill this nature documentary.
- Composed entirely of still photographs shot by Marker himself over the course of his restless travel through twenty-six countries
- Günther Wallraff assumes the identity of a Turkish man called Ali Sigirlioglu. He opts to disguise himself for his experiment. He alters his appearance by wearing contact lenses and a wig to make himself appear younger.
- Documentary in two parts that blends dramatized reconstructions, personal reminisces and newsreel footage to tell the story of the flight of German refugees through occupied France to Marseille in 1940.
- A documentary on the final years of the great director Andrei Tarkovsky while living outside his native USSR and going to an exile on Italy to film "Nostalghia" (1983) and then a visit to a Swedish island to film "The Sacrifice" (1986), released a few months before his death. The film presents interviews with the director, his family and friends, and even includes excerpts from his diary.
- An alphabet of German Dadaism.
- A documentary about fraud and fakery.
- Looks at the culture of motels in the U.S., so far untouched by homo genization and corporatism. In particular the stories of three motels and their owners are covered.
- A report on the fifth anti-WAAhnsinns festival, which took place in Burglengenfeld on July 26 and 27, 1986, just 90 days after the Chernobyl disaster. The festival marked the high point of civil protests against the Wackersdorf reprocessing plant. With around 100,000 to 120,000 visitors, it was the largest rock concert in German history up to that point.
- This documentary chronicles the ups and downs of a German family in the 1970s, but in an unorthodox manner. Footage from several years prior serves as a point of comparison to the family's current tumultuous state.