1. How the Berlin Worker Lives (Zeitprobleme: Wie der Arbeiter wohnt)
This documentary shows how the Berliner workers lived in 1930. The director Slatan Dudow shows through images: a) the workers leaving the factory; b) the raise of the rents; c) the "unpleasant" guest, meaning the justice officer that brings the eviction notice; d) the fight of classes of the houses of capitalists and working classes; e) the parks of the working class; f) the houses of the working class, origin of the tuberculosis and the victims; g) the playground of the working class; h) the swimming pool for the working class, ironically called the "Baltic Sea" of the working class; i) the effects of humidity of basement where a family lives, with one member deaf; j) one working class family having dinner while the capitalist baths his dog; k) the eviction notice received from an unemployed family and their eviction.
It has an average vote of 5.4 on TMDB.
2. Häxan (Häxan)
Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: Benjamin Christensen's legendary film uses a series of dramatic vignettes to explore the scientific hypothesis that the witches of the Middle Ages suffered the same hysteria as turn-of-the-century psychiatric patients. But the film itself is far from serious-- instead it's a witches' brew of the scary, gross, and darkly humorous.
It has an average vote of 7.601 on TMDB.
3. Cries from the Deep (Les Pièges de la Mer)
This documentary records the journey undertaken by Jacques Cousteau, his 24-member team, and an NFB film crew to explore the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, one of the world's richest fishing areas. They discover shipwrecks, film icebergs and observe beluga whales, humpback whales and harp seals. The film also includes a fascinating sequence showing Calypso divers freeing a calf whale entrapped in a fishing net.
4. Besuch des Zaren auf der russischen Botschaft (Besuch des Zaren auf der russischen Botschaft)
The Tsar visits the Russian embassy
5. Englische Excentriques (Englische Excentriques)
Early short film
6. The Diver
A fascinating pictorial document: On an old, cluttered work ship, a man is helped on with a bulky, old fashioned diving suit. It's a complicated process, many layers and sections are carefully applied. He goes over the side. Some men row out to what looks like a wrecked barge and set dynamite. Then the diver returns and now laughs and acknowledges the camera. The other men, now safely away, blow up the barge.
7. Thimble Theater
One of Joseph Cornell’s funniest films, Thimble Theater is structured like a vaudeville variety show about nature.
It has an average vote of 7.5 on TMDB.
8. Children of the Arctic
Children of the Arctic is a portrait of five Native Alaskan teenagers growing up in Barrow - the northernmost community in the United States. As their climate and culture undergo profound changes, they strive to balance being modern American kids and the inheritors of an endangered way of life.
It has an average vote of 9 on TMDB.
9. Return of the Islander (An tOileánach a d'Fhill)
Through economic necessity, an Aran Islander is forced to travel to England to work on building sites so that he can earn money to support his family back on the Islands.
It has an average vote of 5.3 on TMDB.
10. If the Weather Permits (ᓯᓚ ᐱᕐᑯᔨᑉᐸᑦ)
Director Elisapie Issac's documentary is a sort-of letter to her deceased grandfather addressing the question of Inuit culture in the modern world.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
11. What Belongs to Inuit
A group of Nunavut elders travel to five museums in North America to see and identify artifacts, tools and clothing collected from their Inuit ancestors. Directed by Zacharias Kunuk and Bernadette Dean.
12. Exile
Zacharias Kunuk tackles the subject of the High Arctic Relocation from an Inuit point of view in the documentary Exile. In 1953, Inuit families were forcibly relocated to the uninhabited and inhospitable high arctic, 1500 kilometres north of their traditional homeland of Nunavik, in northern Québec. The goal of the move was to extend Canadian claims of sovereignty to Ellesmere Island. As a result, Inuit people were forced to endure the pain of families torn apart and many years of hardship. With devastating first-person accounts of survival, the trail of broken promises and shameful practices of the government and the RCMP, this powerful documentary captures the long-standing effects of these events from the perspectives of the people who were forced to endure them.
13. Urban Inuk
Qallunajatut follows the lives of three Inuit in Montreal over the course of one hot and humid summer.Only two generations ago Inuit lived in small, nomadic hunting camps scattered across the vast Arctic landscape. Since the 1950s, this traditional lifestyle has undergone an astonishing transition from Stone Age to Information Age, as Inuit first relocated to government-run settlements, and, more recently, beyond the settlement into southern cities.
14. Convalescing
“Convalescing, when you don't have to participate in the world. Time to read, to dream, to look - the blue, the light of the television, the blue, the book, the patterns the light, the blue. Time to appreciate how much that really is.”
15. Åens Havørred - Spin (Åens Havørred - Spin)
(Åens Havørred - Spin)
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
16. Drømmefiskeri i Alaska (Drømmefiskeri i Alaska)
(Drømmefiskeri i Alaska)
It has an average vote of 4.5 on TMDB.
17. The Coast of Commerce
Take a revealing tour along a coast of contrasts, from the folksy freshness of Whitby to the coaly Tyne, queen of all rivers.
18. Sword of the Samurai
A short documentary detailing the forging of a katana.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
19. Aberdeen
Explore the growth of Aberdeen’s sparkling streets.
20. Recorrente (Recorrente)
(Recorrente)