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Uses film from the Pathè archive showing Russia in the years before, during, and after the Revolution, ending with Lenin’s funeral in 1924, but the sequences are used not to tell the historical story of...
Film footage from British Movietone newsreels of events which made history in the 20th century. Covers a large number of stories world-wide, from the Boer War and Queen Victoria’s funeral through the...
The KGB had its beginning at the start of the Bolshevik movement. This video explores the formation of the Cheka - the All Russia Extraordinary Commission for Fighting Counter-Revolution and Sabotage - by...
Looks at daily life in Long Bow, showing how the traditional way of life has been affected by political change, particulaly collectivisation and decollectivisation. An elaborate funeral is shown, and the...
In 1960, Cuban photographer Alberto ‘Korda’ Diaz captured a photo of Che Guevara during a mass funeral. History conspired to enable this dynamic portrait to explode on the world scene where it became an...
An account of the suppression of East Timor from the invasion of 1975 up to the Santa Cruz massacre in 1991. A mass funeral, held for a young demonstrator who had been killed turned into a peaceful march to...
Portrays a Siberian shaman belonging to the Nganassan people who live in the north of Central Siberia, showing what the shaman’s tasks consist of and how they are fulfilled. Discusses the concept of the...
Scenes of nature are followed by scenes of religious celebrations, human life and work, death in war and funeral rituals. Filmed in 24 countries including Tanzania, China, Brazil, Japan, Kuwait, Cambodia,...
This issue of the Vichy newsreel released in June 1944 shows: 1) Franco meets Civil War veterans at Alicante; 2) Funeral of Patriach Sergins of Lithuania and Latvia after his murder by Bolshevik agents; 3)...
In a world where couples often come from different cultural backgrounds, the traditional rites of passage that once brought families and communities together may now bring bitter conflict. RACHEL is a short...
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