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For four years, the three ZEIT journalists Florian Gasser, Matthias Daum, and Lenz Jacobsen have been discussing current topics affecting the 3sat countries in the podcast "Servus. Grüezi. Hallo." Now they are on the road for a documentary and are making some adventurous discoveries.

Despite not being Jewish, Terry Neville maintains, protects & lives above a synagogue. His poignant, funny story will surprise and intrigue you all.

The Shamrock is seen after its defeat in the 1899 America's Cup, along with the Erin, which served as its tow boat across the Atlantic.

A young woman attempts a solo trip across America, forced to stop for fuel at night she attracts some unwanted company.

Accompanying short film of the album of the same name by musical duo Miley (aka Jasper Harris & Aaron Shadrow)

“SHIA LABEOUF” is a song by Rob Cantor. It tells the true story of an actual cannibal.

Lovely film showing long hair being cut into a bob by the famous "Emile". (British Pathe)

Anaglyph 3D film by Ken Jacobs based on a 1974 shadow play performance.

“Smile, Nur. Smile.” tells the story of a young girl through a series of her personal video logs. These logs offer glimpses into her daily activities and coping mechanisms, such as her attempts to self-soothe by recording the good parts of her day and speaking words of affirmation to herself. As time goes by, they begin to reveal that there is more than meets the eye.

Various scenes of local color in Hawaii.

In October 2013, four old friends met up together for the first time in years.

Hungarian documentary from 1982.

The untold tragedy and scandal of what happened to a vibrant community of immigrants from the Cape Verde Islands in the Fox Point section of Providence, Rhode Island who were forcibly displaced by urban renewal to make way for fancy coffee shops, antique stores and elegantly restored houses. Poignant, heartfelt and warm, in a timeless snapshot SKFPR captures the essence, spirit and heart of a community whose history was erased before it was written.

A film that reaches out to children from ages 4 to 84. It is the story about a girl and a boy who leave home because their new baby brother is getting all the attention. They run away to Grandma's ranch where there favorite mare is beginning to foal. Rare film footage captures the live birth of a colt. As a viewer you're there to experience the beauty and wonder of the extraordinary moment.

"A film about transformations. It was made with students from one of my seminars. We attempt to deconstruct a poem’s language by playing it backwards until some words emerge from the backward text. The students then created film images that illustrate this new text. Then they create new sounds that relate to those images. It was a way to turn language into a means to generate a film free from the restrictions of its most immediate intention." — Larry Gottheim

A short documentary about the city Tallinn.

A portrait of the life and career of Robert Downey Sr. (1936-2021), the visionary and fearless US filmmaker — father of actor Robert Downey Jr. — who in the sixties and seventies laid the foundations for countercultural comedy.

Weeks after a devastating shooting on their campus, a close-knit film crew have 1 last day to finish their thesis film. Tensions rise, as the characters begin to lose their composure and overcoming the adversity in their art seems harder than ever. Soon, the past begins to slip into every frame.

The master Russian director Sergei Eisenstein planned in 1928 to make a film about Das Kapital by Marx. Is the "political economy" made up of abstract concepts or concrete images? What images depict "commodity fetishism," "surplus value," or "primitive accumulation"?

Documenting a May Day demonstration in West Berlin in 1972