1. Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (Berlin, die Symphonie der Großstadt)
A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the living and working conditions at that time. Germany had just recovered a little from the worst consequences of the First World War, the great economic crisis was still a few years away and Hitler was not yet an issue at the time.
It has an average vote of 7.496 on TMDB.
2. Aguiluchos de la FAI por tierras de Aragón 2 (Aguiluchos de la FAI por tierras de Aragón 2)
(Aguiluchos de la FAI por tierras de Aragón 2)
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
3. Aguiluchos de la FAI por tierras de Aragón 3: la toma de Siétamo (Aguiluchos de la FAI por tierras de Aragón 3: la toma de Siétamo)
The Taking of Siétamo is a report on the activity of the FAI Aguiluchos column on the Aragon front in August 1936 and focuses on the conquest of the town of Siétamo.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
4. Glaube und Schönheit (Glaube und Schönheit)
"Faith and Beauty" - The BDM-Werk Glaube und Schönheit was founded in 1938 to serve as a tie-in between the work of the League of German Girls and that of the National Socialist Women's League. Membership was voluntary and open to girls aged 17 to 21. A Nazi propaganda film.
5. Olympia: Part One – Festival of the Nations (Olympia - Fest der Völker)
Commissioned to make a propaganda film about the 1936 Olympic Games in Germany, director Leni Riefenstahl created a celebration of the human form. This first half of her two-part film opens with a renowned introduction that compares modern Olympians to classical Greek heroes, then goes on to provide thrilling in-the-moment coverage of some of the games' most celebrated moments, including African-American athlete Jesse Owens winning a then-unprecedented four gold medals.
It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.
6. Olympia: Part Two – Festival of Beauty (Olympia - Fest der Schönheit)
Commissioned to make a propaganda film about the 1936 Olympic Games in Germany, director Leni Riefenstahl created a celebration of the human form. Where the two-part epic's first half, Festival of the Nations, focused on the international aspects of the 1936 Olympic Games held in Berlin, part two, The Festival of Beauty, concentrates on individual athletes such as equestrians, gymnasts, and swimmers, climaxing with American Glenn Morris' performance in the decathalon and the games' majestic closing ceremonies.
It has an average vote of 6.6 on TMDB.
7. Bodega Bohemia (Bodega Bohemia)
(Bodega Bohemia)
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
8. Les Champions d'Hitler (Les Champions d'Hitler)
(Les Champions d'Hitler)
9. Menschen im Deutschland von 1932 (Menschen im Deutschland von 1932)
Short educational film about the society of the weimar republic.
10. 2 or 3 Things I Know About Him (2 oder 3 Dinge, die ich von ihm weiß)
What would your family reminiscences about dad sound like if he had been an early supporter of Hitler’s, a leader of the notorious SA and the Third Reich’s minister in charge of Slovakia, including its Final Solution? Executed as a war criminal in 1947, Hanns Ludin left behind a grieving widow and six young children, the youngest of whom became a filmmaker. It's a fascinating, maddening, sometimes even humorous look at what the director calls "a typical German story."
It has an average vote of 6.6 on TMDB.
11. Hirten und Herden in der Pußta (Hirten und Herden in der Pußta)
Short film about shepherds in the Puszta
12. 3rd Reich: Evil Deception
In the 1930's an entire nation was brainwashed. It was manipulated by masters of propaganda and the arcane arts. The result was the deaths of millions of people. They created a messiah, a god on Earth. His name was Adolf Hitler and he would become the greatest master of manipulating the hearts and souls of mankind in recorded history. From mass hypnosis to blatant propaganda, from control of the media, to eradicating the opposition, all methods were employed. This is the story of how that apocalyptic agenda was brought to fruition and the methods used to control the minds of men, women and children. This is the story of Nazi Propaganda. "Insightful and well researched." - United Media Network. "The true horror of the Nazis revealed." - Extreme DVD. "The advent of manipulative advertising as we know it today." - Flatlands.
It has an average vote of 4.5 on TMDB.
13. Początek (Początek)
Etude of women's work in one of the textile factories in Łódź. The protagonist of the film, after finishing his shift, goes home, where a small child is waiting for her.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
14. Change Nothing (Ne change rien)
A short film showing a rehearsal and live performance by Jeanne Balibar. Costa would go on to make a feature-length documentary with the same title and subject matter in 2009.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
15. Landscape (for Manon)
A languid, beautifully shot collection of landscapes, edited into a whimsical and touching film.
It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.
16. Götterdämmerung 1945: Die letzten 10 Wochen des Dritten Reiches (Götterdämmerung 1945: Die letzten 10 Wochen des Dritten Reiches)
"Götterdämmerung 1945: The last 10 weeks of the Third Reich" - from the battle of the Ardennes till the end. Die Deutsche Wochenschau was the title of the unified newsreel series released in the cinemas of Nazi Germany from 1940 until the end of World War II.
17. The Beaning
An experimental documentary exploring a sinister theory surrounding the death of Cleveland baseball player Ray Chapman in 1920 and the subsequent rise of the Yankee dynasty.
It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.
18. Ankara, Hauptstadt in der Steppe (Ankara, Hauptstadt in der Steppe)
Short film about Ankara, Turkiye
19. Florence
Florence is a contemplative study of light and shadows, textures and planes, that makes beautiful use of the tonal qualities of black and white film.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
20. Images of Asian Music (A Diary from Life 1973-74)
A contemplative, seemingly timeless record of the years Hutton spent in Southeast Asia while working as a merchant seaman. Jon Jost writes, "The film is rich with truly wonderful visions: a thick, white porcelain cup perched on a ship's rail, the tea within swaying gently in sync with the ship while the sea rushes by beyond
the faces of crewmen posing awkwardly but also movingly for the camera; a cockfight on ship; scenes from a bucolic pre–Pol Pot Phnom Penh. Images has the haunting elegiac resonance of Eugène Atget's Paris, the echo of a time and place that was." - MoMA
It has an average vote of 6.7 on TMDB.