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Grandmother of Russian Feminism

2007

Portrait of a typical European feminist - Olga Lipovskaya (1954-2021), journalist, translator, poet, founder of the women's non-profit organization St. Petersburg Center for Gender Issues (an educational and resource center for women and women's organizations), editor of the samizdat magazine Women's Reading.

7.2

Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché

2018

The epic life story of Alice Guy-Blaché (1873–1968), a French screenwriter, director and producer, true pioneer of cinema, the first person who made a narrative fiction film; author of hundreds of movies, but banished from history books. Ignored and forgotten. At last remembered.

7.2

The Cinematograph: Birth of an Art

2021

Throughout the 19th century, imaginative and visionary artists and inventors brought about the advent of a new look, absolutely modern and truly cinematographic, long before the revolutionary invention of the Lumière brothers and the arrival of December 28, 1895, the historic day on which the first cinema performance took place.

7.0

The Magic of Méliès

1997

A walk through the life and work of the brilliant French filmmaker Georges Méliès (1861-1938), pioneer of special and visual effects.

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História de Amor em 16 Quadros por Segundo

1998

5.5

Italia: Fire and Ashes

2023

The epic and poetic tale of the early years of Italian cinema, from 1896 to 1930: how peplum was born, how the first stars shone, how many daring filmmakers were able to create an original style amalgamating literature, theater, painting and opera; a tale of splendor and decadence.

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Misha

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The tragic story of the greatest soccer player the most have never heard of.

7.1

Fantômas: A Thoroughly Modern Villain

2022

The story of Fantômas, the first villain of modernity, from his birth in 1911 as a novel character to his contemporary vicissitudes, passing through Louis Feuillade, André Hunebelle, surrealism and Moscow.

6.8

The Méliès Mystery

2021

A documentary that details the process of restoring 270 of the 520 lost films of pioneering director Georges Méliès, all orchestrated by a Franco-American collaboration between Lobster Films, the National Film Center, and the Library of Congress.

8.0

Lumière!

2016

A collection of restored prints from the Lumière Brothers.

7.0

Abu Raykhan Biruni

1974

A biographical film about one of the greatest Medieval scientists and scholars, Al-Biruni.

6.8

Silent Britain

2006

Long treated with indifference by critics and historians, British silent cinema has only recently undergone the reevaluation it has long deserved, revealing it to be far richer than previously acknowledged. This documentary, featuring clips from a remarkable range of films, celebrates the early years of British filmmaking and spans from such pioneers as George Albert Smith and Cecil Hepworth to such later figures as Anthony Asquith, Maurice Elvey and, of course, Alfred Hitchcock.

6.7

Le Grand Méliès

1952

A biographical film about cinematic illusionist Georges Méliès featuring Méliès’s widow, Jeanne d’Alcy, as herself, and their son André as his own father.

0.0

Neither live nor die in Tashkent

2015

Chronicles of the cultural life of Tashkent (2007 – 2015). From the murder of Mark Weil to the wedding of Alisher Usmanov. Tashkent Biennale, apartment buildings, video art festival, conversations about nothing, amateur performances and operational shooting, advertising and much more. Tashkent, which no longer exists, just as these people are no longer in it.

7.2

Aral, Fishing in an Invisible Sea

2004

A documentary film about the three remaining generations of fishermen in the Aral Sea-- Their everyday struggle to survive in one of the most dire and inhospitable places on the planet.

0.0

Exhuming London After Midnight

2021

London After Midnight (1927), directed by Tod Browning and starring Lon Chaney, is the most sought-after lost film by fans of fantastic cinema. Has this mythical treasure finally been found in an old South American cinema?

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To Live and to Die in Samarkand

2007

Having gone to Samarkand in search of traces of colonial culture, of which there were quite a few left there, having carefully photographed them, we suddenly discovered that it was not the dead buildings that were much more interesting, but the living carriers of this very colonial culture. The result is a film about people who live on the ruins of an empire.

0.0

Sex, Sensations & Superstars: The History of Danish Silent Cinema

2020

Documentary on the rise and fall of the Danish silent film industry.

3.2

The Meeting of President Taft and President Díaz at El Paso, Texas

1909

The first meeting of a U.S. president and a Mexican president took place when William Howard Taft met Porfirio Díaz on 16 October 1909, in El Paso. The meeting was celebrated in both El Paso and Juárez with parades, elaborate receptions, lavish gifts and large crowds. Shot by the pioneers of Mexican Cinema the brothers Alva. This is a typical example of newsreel material prior to the Mexican revolution. By hemerographical references we know that this footage was presented to the then president of Mexico General Porfirio Díaz in the Castle of Chapultepec, then residence of the president.

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Grace, a Portrait of Grace DeCarlton Ross

1983

Documentary chronicling the career of Grace DeCarlton Ross (1890-1983) from her days acting in silent movies to the 1980s when she was living in Portland, Maine and still dancing in her nineties.

Genre	Documentary
Production Companies	National Archive of the Republic of Uzbekistan
Production Ccountries	Uzbekistan

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