Modest Gods

Intimate views of the movie stars of the Silent Era, at work and play; featuring Sessue Hayakawa, Lillian Gish and others.

A working day for a group of young open-pit miners by a quarry in Apulia, Italy.

LA CASA DELLE VEDOVE portrays a group of widows who, he thinks, lived in a constant ‘dialogue‘ with death. In the house where they all...

With the Olympics returning to Greece, the opening ceremony of Athens 2004 sought to show the entire development of the Olympics over the centuries,...

A look at the history of jazz, which has its origins in the music of Africans enslaved to North America 300 years ago.

A non-narrative voyage round Sedlec Ossuary, which has been constructed from over 50,000 human skeletons (victims of the Black Death).

Apiyemiyekî? addresses the genocide of the Waimiri-Atroari people in 1970s, when during the Brazilian dictatorship indigenous lands in the...

From the generation that lived through rationing in Britain, Dorothy Bradberry learned not to let anything go to waste - not a second nor any object.

The social democrats of the sixties and seventies worked on their grand plan to build a highway network in Germany that every German citizen could...

A lonesome car. The wind is whistling. A door of an undefined building opens—is it a holiday bungalow, a shed or a ruin? A woman is standing at...

The filmmaker's live interaction with his on-screen image which is projected onto a hand-held mirrored screen.The screen is white one side and...

A documentary exploring social life in Yaffa before 1948 through a miniature portrait of a Palestinian couple, Wadee’a Aghabi and Naim Azar,...