If I Think About Germany in the Night

A look at five pioneers of electronic music for whom work is their raison d'etre.

Genre: Dokumentalny

Actors: Ricardo Villalobos, Sonja Moonear, Ata, Roman Flügel, David Moufang/Move D

Into the Inferno

With stunning views of eruptions and lava flows, Werner Herzog captures the raw power of volcanoes and their ties to indigenous spiritual practices.

Genre: Dokumentalny

Actors: Werner Herzog, Clive Oppenheimer, Katia Krafft, Maurice Krafft, Sri Sumarti, Tim D. White, Kampiro Kayrento, Yonatan Sahle

Zeitgeist

Zeitgeist: the Movie is a 2007 documentary film by Peter Joseph examining possible historical and modern conspiracies surrounding Christianity, the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and the Federal Reserve bank. It was officially released online on June 18, 2007 on www.ZeitgeistMovie.com

Genre: Dokumentalny, Historyczny

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Romy Schneider & Alain Delon: An Enduring Passion

Austrian actress Romy Schneider (1938) and French actor Alain Delon (1935), once fervent lovers in the early sixties, maintained a close friendship and a certain working relationship after their breakup until her death in 1984: a universal and eternal love.

Genre: Dokumentalny, film TV

Actors: Costa-Gavras

Year One: A Political Odyssey

Bookended by Inauguration Day 2021 and the State of the Union speech of March 2022, this documentary is a front-seat account of the Biden administration’s tense first year, marked by security threats both at home and abroad. Assuming office only two weeks after the January 6th attack on the Capitol, Biden’s presidency entered the maelstrom of an ongoing global pandemic, renewed conflicts with Russia and China, and America’s international standing in decline.

Genre: Dokumentalny

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The Hunger

Ireland, 1845. When a deadly fungus destroys potato crops throughout northern Europe, the most impoverished Irish population, whose main source of food is precisely the potato, suffers a cruel famine that will cause more than a million deaths and, in the following ten years, the mass exodus of more than two million people.

Genre: Dokumentalny, Historyczny, film TV

Actors: Liam Neeson

Solaris Mon Amour

An extraordinary found footage documentary inspired by Stanisław Lem’s “Solaris”. A trance-like, personal story about loss, mourning & memory. The film consists of excerpts from 70 films produced by the Educational Film Studio in Lodz in the 1960s and the first radio adaptations of "Solaris". Lem begins writing “Solaris” the same year that Resnais' “Hiroshima Mon Amour” is released – says Kuba Mikurda – Like Resnais' film, I find “Solaris” a fascinating study of post-traumatic memory – repressed memories that pave their way into consciousness and demand to be expressed.

Genre: Dokumentalny

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Camp Century

How in 1959, during the heat of the Cold War, the government of the United States decided to create a secret military base located in the far north of Greenland: Camp Century, almost a real town with roads and houses, a nuclear plant to provide power… and silos to house missiles aimed at the Soviet Union.

Genre: Dokumentalny, Historyczny, film TV

Actors: Tanja Dohse, Kristian Havidtfelt Nielsen, Sören Gregersen, Chuck Rose, Sergei Khrushchev, Aleqa Hammond, Horst Machguth, Nikita Khrushchev, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, John F. Kennedy, Yuri Gagarin

THE BEKSIŃSKIS. A Sound and Picture Album

Painter Zdzisław Beksiński, his wife Zofia and their son Tomasz, a well-known radio journalist and translator, were a typical and unconventional family, both at the same time. One of the father’s obsessions was filming himself and his family members. Using archival footage only, shot primarily by Zdzisław, as well many other materials, which have not been presented anywhere so far, the film tells a tragic story of the Beksińskis that has never ceased to fascinate Polish filmmakers.

Genre: Dokumentalny

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The Darkness Within La Luz del Mundo

A documentary about the sad story about the sexual abuses that occurred in the church La Luz del Mundo.

Genre: Dokumentalny, Kryminał

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Circus of Books

For decades, a nice Jewish couple ran Circus of Books, a porn shop and epicenter for gay LA. Their director daughter documents their life and times.

Genre: Dokumentalny, Historyczny

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Aktor Pana Boga

Genre: Dokumentalny

Actors: Franciszek Pieczka

Billie

‘Lady Day’ was one of the greatest jazz vocalists the world ever heard. In 1971, journalist Linda Lipnack Kuehl set out to write the definitive biography of Billie Holiday. Before her mysterious death in 1978, Lipnack Kuehl had taped over 200 hours of interviews. The tapes have never been heard. Now they form the basis of an atmospheric, multi-layered documentary that captures the many complex facets of a proud black woman, violent drug addict, loyal friend, vindictive lover and unforgettable singer of ‘God Bless The Child’, ‘Saddest Tale’ and the haunting ‘Strange Fruit’.

Genre: Dokumentalny

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Pavlensky. Life Naked

Pavlensky/Pawlenski, artist and activist, is leading the way in forging social change in Russia. Through an multiple courageous performances, he acts as society's conscience in the face of an increasingly totalitarian state. From lying naked in a coil of barbed wire, to nailing his scrotum to the floor of Red Square, his acts of defiance aim to spark debate and catalyse reform. This documentary follows his mission to challenge the state.

Genre: Dokumentalny

Actors: Pyotr Pavlensky

Israel: Clash of the Tribes

Ashkenazi, Mizrachi, ultra-Orthodox, Israeli Arabs... The different groups that make up Israeli society seem irreconcilable. Who are they? Can their complicated history explain the current situation in the country?

Genre: Dokumentalny, Historyczny, film TV

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The Bright Path

Eastern Ukraine, May 2014. Part of the historic Donbas region falls to pro-Russian separatists. Young journalist Stanislav Aseyev reports for several Ukrainian media outlets from Donetsk, his hometown. In May 2017, he is kidnapped and spends 962 days in detention, mainly in a former cultural center, converted into a prison, called Izolyatsia —or Isolation.

Genre: Dokumentalny, Historyczny

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Pollywood

Pollywood is a universal and exciting story about courage and desperation, set against the background of the history of the Dream Factory and contemporary Hollywood. Paweł Ferdek overcomes successive obstacles on his way to learn its deepest secrets. He reaches producers, who reveal to him how they succeeded on their own. Ferdek takes us around the great American Dream, which is the foundation of today’s film industry. Will his dream of Hollywood also come true?

Genre: Dokumentalny

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Who You Gonna Call?

Chances are, even someone who doesn't immediately recognize the name Ray Parker Jr. will recognize his monster smash hit song "Ghost Busters" This is the amazing and fascinating story of Ray Parker Jr. who escaped the violence of the 1967 Detroit riots to become one of the most prolific session guitarists, songwriters and stars of the 70's and 80's. From award winning director and producer of the hit film, Hired Gun, Fran Strine unveils the never before told stories of Ray Parker Jr. who has given him unprecedented access to his story. You know Ray Parker Jr. as the artist who wrote and recorded Ghostbusters, but what you don't know his his back story and what it took for him to get there. From the streets of Detroit to the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Parkers journey is one you won't believe.

Genre: Dokumentalny

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Po złoto. Historia Władysława Kozakiewicza

Genre: Dokumentalny

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Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman

The convoluted and moving story of Russian writer Vassili Grossman (1905-64) and his novel Life and Fate (1980), a literary masterpiece, a monumental and epic account of life under Stalin's regime of terror, a defiant cry that the KGB tried to suffocate.

Genre: Dokumentalny, Historyczny

Actors: Elsa Lepoivre, Denis Podalydès, Olga Turbina, Fedor Guber, Alexis Berelowitch, Ekaterina Korotkova-Grossman, Olivier Rolin, Vladimir Voinovich, Anthony Beevor, Bernard Pivot, Joseph Stalin, Vladimir Lenin, Solomon Mikhoels, Adolf Hitler, Nikita Khrushchev

War of Stars

Documentary about the Polish fandom and various collectible Star Wars items from 70's and 80's. This is a sentimental retro journey to the times of PRL (Polish People's Republic), where passion and fantasy were meeting up with the sad reality of life under the communist oppression.

Genre: Dokumentalny

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Molière and the King

The life and work of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (1622-73), the greatest French-language playwright, Molière, who revolutionized theater by bringing to the stage, with lucidity and dazzling modernity, the themes of his time and who had a special relationship with Louis XIV, the dazzling Sun King, that allowed him to develop as an artist while using his talent, like that of many other artists of his time, to enhance his personal glory.

Genre: Dokumentalny, Historyczny

Actors: Elsa Lepoivre, Mathieu Buscatto

ReMastered: The Miami Showband Massacre

Ambushed by Ulster loyalists, three members of the Miami Showband were killed in Northern Ireland in 1975. Was the crime linked to the government?

Genre: Dokumentalny

Actors: Stephen Travers, Des Lee, Fred Holroyd, Colin Wallace, Ken Livingstone, Michael Mates

Mečiar

Genre: Dokumentalny

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