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1. Amazon: Longest River in the World (Amazonas, Maior Rio do Mundo)

Documentary by Portuguese Silvino Santos, about the Amazon, its flora, fauna, its inhabitants and among other wonderful images from the beginning of the 20th century with alternating close-up shots of caimans, jaguars and tropical flora with footage of Indigenous rituals--including some of the earliest known moving images of the Indigenous Witoto people--and longer sequences showcasing the region’s extractive industries: rubber, the Brazil nut, timber, fishing, even the egret feathers that were a staple of women’s fashion at the time.

2. The Mysterious Man (L'homme mystérieux)

(L'homme mystérieux)

It has an average vote of 4 on TMDB.

3. A Letter to Freddy Buache (Lettre à Freddy Buache)

This short film is Godard’s message to the people of Lausanne, specifically journalist and critic Freddy Buache, addressing his reasons why he will not make a film about their town’s 500th anniversary. Rather than cynical or defensive, Godard's bemused narration of the footage of Lausanne is imaginative and even playful, a rumination on cinema's possibilities.

It has an average vote of 6.125 on TMDB.

4. Playing Cards (Une partie de cartes)

Three friends are playing cards in a beer garden. One of them orders drinks. The waitress comes back with a bottle of wine and three glasses on a tray. The man serves his friends. They clink glasses and drink. Then the man asks for a newspaper. He reads a funny story in it and the three friends burst out laughing while the waitress merely smiles.

It has an average vote of 4.868 on TMDB.

5. In Search of Maria (En busca de María)

Based on the only four surviving shots of the first Colombian silent film, MARÍA , by directors Máximo Calvo and Alfredo del Diestro , IN SEARCH OF ‘MARIA’ combines historical research, interviews, and scenic reconstruction to rescue the memory of a lost film.

It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.

6. Irma (Irma)

Irma is an intimate musical portrait of Irma Gonzalez, the former world champion of women's professional wrestling. Filmed in Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl - a notorious district of Mexico City - Irma contradicts everything we have come to expect from stories reported from Mexico. Featuring music written and performed by Ms. Gonzalez, Irma's story surges with love and deceit, masculine strength, feminine charms, and an extraordinary sense of humor.

It has an average vote of 4.6 on TMDB.

7. Belfast, exercices de sauvetage (Belfast, exercices de sauvetage)

Belfast firefighters demonstrate a ladder.

It has an average vote of 4.7 on TMDB.

8. Century 21 Calling…

Two perky teens explore every inch of the telephone exhibit at Seattle's fair.

It has an average vote of 3.6 on TMDB.

9. Operation Concrete (Opération "Béton")

Godard returned to Paris briefly before getting a job as a construction worker on a dam project in Switzerland. With the money from the job, he made a short film about the building of the dam called Opération béton .

It has an average vote of 5.333 on TMDB.

10. Hiroshima Nagasaki August, 1945

This documentary is a compilation of silent black-and-white film footage shot by the Japanese in Hiroshima and Nagasaki shortly after the atomic bomb blasts in early August 1945. English-language voice-over narration has been added, along with a few scenes from American sources. The film shows the destruction and injury caused by the atomic bombs in graphic detail.

It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.

11. Karin's Face (Karins ansikte)

A film based on the pictures from Ingmar Bergman's personal photo album, especially the pictures of his mother Karin.

It has an average vote of 6.1 on TMDB.

12. My Surfing Lucifer

Using found footage, we're introduced to the short life of Bunker Spreckels, Clark Gable's stepson and surfing legend.

It has an average vote of 5.3 on TMDB.

13. Newark Athlete (Newark Athlete)

Experimental film fragment made with the Edison-Dickson-Heise experimental horizontal-feed kinetograph camera and viewer, using 3/4-inch wide film.

It has an average vote of 4.399 on TMDB.

14. Sighet, Sighet

Elie Wiesel, a survivor from Sighet, a town from which a thousand Jews were deported to the ovens of Auschwitz, returns, unknown and unseen, a silent witness to the town where he was born and grew up.

It has an average vote of 6.2 on TMDB.

15. Big Ben: Ben Webster in Europe

In the late sixties, the American saxophone player and living jazz legend Ben Webster lived in Amsterdam for a year. Webster, who was born in Kansas City in 1909, was a unique personality in the world of jazz and blues. In the thirties, he played with all the great names. During his Amsterdam period, he stayed with an elderly landlady, Mrs Hardloper, with whom he appeared on a national talk show. In conversations with Van der Keuken, he muses on the past; on the fantastic experience of playing in the renowned Duke Ellington band; or on one of his best friends, who was so deft at eating with a knife and fork. Short, fragmented remarks, which Van der Keuken has edited in a loose, improvised editing style.

It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.

16. Mountains of the Wolf (Las montañas del lobo)

Documentary that shows the life of some individual wolves in the mountains of Spain.

It has an average vote of 8.3 on TMDB.

17. Divine: Live at the Hacienda

On 16 February 1983, Divine performs a seven-song set at the Hacienda Club in Manchester. His peroxide blond hair sticks in all directions; he's dressed in a skin-tight, short, off-one-shoulder, sparkling dress that he says he got from the Queen, who wouldn't wear it. The set includes Gang Bang , Jungle Jezebel, Born To Be Cheap, Alphabet Rap, Native Love, Shake It Up, and, for an encore, Shoot Your Shot. The band, whom we never see, is techno-rock. Between songs, Divine chats up the audience, usually talking about sex.

It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.

18. A Visit to Picasso (Bezoek aan Picasso)

In this short 20 minute black and white Belgian documentary, the director, Paul Haesaerts, visualised Pablo Picasso’s flow of imagination when the Spanish painter drew on large glass plates in front of the camera – like a live show of a greatest artist in performing a few masterstrokes that outlines a dove, bull, flower, man or woman and whatnot. , another famous documentary film on Picasso).

It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.

19. Fire Drill (Exercice d'incendie)

The film had a skirmish to Firefighters from Havana pulling guard barracks pump, reel and carriage for help, two staircases and fire rising up to the roof, carrying hoses.

It has an average vote of 3 on TMDB.

20. What's Love Got to Do with It?

In a world where romance has been replaced by speed dating, is arranged marriage the hassle-free way of getting hitched in the new millennium? This documentary takes a lighthearted look at young American Desis who are willingly placing their destiny in the hands of their parents, marriage brokers, and internet matrimonial ads. Navigating us through the film is Rupa Gawle - a young, hip, and very single popular Desi columnist. As she tries to understand how young, successful South Asian-Americans would want to subject themselves to the age-old tradition of arranged marriages, we are introduced to a cast of colorful characters who will tell us exactly why.