MVD Entertainment Group (Firm)
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Songs Of Freedom is a showcase for the great voice of Paul Robeson. It exposes the desperate attempts of the FBI and other secret services in America to stop his playing and to discredit him. It reveals that his actual life was in danger as long as he continued along the path of international socialism. Robeson never compromised and it put an end to his domestic career. Abroad, he was a hero.
Pub. Date
1980.
Language
English
Description
Classic punkrock movie from 1980 starring Richard Hell, illustrating the end of the first wave of New York City punk rock better than other films. Nada (Carole Bouquet), a beautiful French journalist on assignment in New York, records the life and work of up and coming punk rock star, Billy (Richard Hell). Featuring members of the Voidoids and the Ramones. A time capsule from '80's New York City
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Arkham, 1975: Jonathan Davis' father has disappeared. His tracks lead to Germany, to the Swabian-Franconian Forest where he was stationed after the Second World War. Jonathan sets out to find him and bring him home, but deep in the woods he discovers a dark mystery from the past. Based on H.P. Lovecraft's short novel "The Color Out of Space".
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Prince is a true pop legend, an inspiring success story and his rise to icon status is charted here in this revealing and fascinating programme. Beginning with his troubled Minneapolis origins, we see how this talented multi-instrumentalist and singer became one of the most innovative and recognizable voices in contemporary music. Covering his domination of the charts in the 80's and early 90's, with singles such as "Raspberry Beret" and "U got the...
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
For the past 50 years the Cuban immigrant group has established a historical importance, political significance, and economic influence on the city region of Miami. Cubans fleeing in exile, political turmoil, and economic hardship not only made a mark on a cosmopolitan region but an explosion. Such a historical, political, economic, social, and cultural phenomenon of the Cuban Diaspora has shifted the character of a city and placed Miami in the frontiers...
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The world looks to Portland, Oregon as an example of how bicycle culture can blossom out of the ruinous freeways of car-oriented civilization. Aftermass is the first feature documentary to explore the events, people, politics, and social changes that led to Portland becoming the first major bicycle city in the United States.. Aftermass features many of the leaders and major participants behind the growth of bicycling ridership since 1971.. The narrative...
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Acclaimed documentary chronicling the rise of punk rock in Washington, DC. Bands like Bad Brains, Minor Threat, Government Issue, Scream, Void, Rites of Spring, Fugazi, and others released their own records and booked their own shows, without record label constraints or mainstream media scrutiny.. Contextually, it was a cultural watershed that predated the alternative music explosion of the 90s..
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
The Residents had recorded their album, The Commercial Album, in 1980. It contained 40 one-minute tunes. The film version of this required enlisting many talented film-makers from around the world, each contributing one or more one-minute videos to accompany the songs.
11) Maria's Story
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
It is El Salvador, 1989, three years before the end of a brutal civil war that took 75,000 lives. Maria Serrano, wife, mother, and guerrilla leader is on the frontlines of the battle for her people and her country. With unprecedented access to FMLN guerrilla camps, the filmmakers dramatically chronicle Maria's daily life in the war as she travels from village to village organizing the peasant population, and helps plan a major nationwide offensive...
Pub. Date
1973.
Language
English
Description
Can Dialectics Break Bricks is a hilarious spoof of politics, class warfare and consumption that still holds up in today's advanced capitalistic world. Taking an obscure karate film and redubbing the entire movie, a group of Situationists have created the perfect dada film, one rife with political sharpness and theoretical humor that is also a harsh critique of 20th Century work and life.
14) Cuddle
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Cuddle parties, snuggle houses, cuddle therapy ... have you ever heard of such a thing? From Alabama to Colorado to San Francisco to Wisconsin to Oregon and to New York, the cuddling movement is growing bigger and bigger and faces an uphill climb in mainstream acceptance. This new documentary explores this revolutionary trend in restoring basic human needs in a world where human touch seems to happen less and less..
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The Egyptian Revolution has been an ongoing rollercoaster over the past two and a half years. Through the news, we only get a glimpse of the bloodiest battle, an election, or a million man march. At the beginning of July 2013, we witnessed the second president deposed within the space of three years.. The Square is an immersive experience, transporting the viewer deeply into the intense emotional drama and personal stories behind the news. It is the...
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
This program features Lech Kowalski's 2003 documentary feature about the life and times of Ramones bassist and all-star burn out, Dee Dee Ramone (1952-2002). Dee Dee's life is a fascinating character study of a punk rock legend who never grew up. Listen to Dee Dee's account with director Lech Kowalski, to discuss Johnny Thunders for the film 'Born to Lose.' Relive the battlefield history of rock and roll through the memories of this ordinary, yet...
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Southern California. The late 70s. Spike-haired kids with tattoos and a love for loud music stuck out like sore thumbs. These Punk pioneers found their only sanctuary at Cuckoo's Nest, a club in Costa Mesa. "Clockwork Orange County" chronicles this scene, where seminal Punk acts such as The Ramones, T.S.O.L. and Black Flag launched, and a west coast chapter of a global musical movement was born..
18) Otaku No Video
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
An outrageous mockumentary that combines animation with strange interviews of animation fans.
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
SOAKED IN BLEACH reveals the events behind Kurt Cobain's death as seen through the eyes of Tom Grant, the private investigator that was hired by Courtney Love in 1994 to track down her missing husband (Kurt Cobain) only days before his deceased body was found at their Seattle home. Cobain's death was ruled a suicide by the police (a reported self-inflicted gunshot wound), but doubts have circulated for twenty years as to the legitimacy of this ruling,...
20) Mars
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
The discovery of life on Mars places a robotic expedition and a manned mission in a race to the Red Planet in this animated feature. On the way we discover that love - biological, spiritual, and even mechanical - can flourish in all kinds of ways.
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