Ashes

0.0

Ladakh: The Lotus of the Himalaya

January 1974 •Dutch

Short documentary on the Ladakh.region.

0.0

The Right Timing

October 1942 •English

The importance of timing in athletics

0.0

Expedition Croc Attack

July 2015 •English

a documentary about crocodiles

0.0

At Colonus

October 1983 •Greek

The history of the ancient neighborhood of Colonus in Athens, by a novelist and script writer who lives in modern-day Kolonos.

7.6

Inside Chernobyl with Ben Fogle

March 2021 •English

Ben Fogle spends a week living inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, gaining privileged access to the doomed Control Room 4 where the disaster first began to unfold.

6.0

Maria

January 1992 •Japanese

A film about a pregnancy

5.8

A Summer Solstice Story

September 1992 •Japanese

A woman sits around at home.

3.8

Defense Against Invasion

August 1943 •English

A doctor persuades a group of boys to be vaccinated by explaining how it will protect them against disease. Animated sequences depict the body metaphorically as a city, defended by the blood cells, which are stimulated by vaccination to amass arms and ammunition, in order to defend the city when it is invaded by germs.

5.6

Food Will Win the War

July 1942 •English

World War II propaganda film on the importance of American farming. A morale booster film stressing the abudance of American agricultural output.

5.8

Out of the Frying Pan Into the Firing Line

July 1942 •English

Documentary short film demonstrating the process by which waste fats from the kitchens of American homes can be transformed into the raw materials for explosives for the war effort.

7.7

Blush: An Extraordinary Voyage

October 2022 •Finnish

For 18-year-old Finnish–Kosovan Fatu, a simple visit to the grocery store feels as nerve-racking as a lunar expedition: for the first time in his life, he’s wearing makeup in public. Luckily his best friend Rai, a young woman on the spectrum of autism, is there to ferociously support him through the voyage.

0.0

Artémis et la mort

October 2017 •French

During the Feria of Nîmes, a bullfight is filmed from the perspective of the animal, relegating the matador and public to off-screen spectators. A ritual at the frontiers of mysticism, carried by the sacrificial figure of the bull, revealer of our humanity.

0.0

At Tourkovounia

October 1982 •Greek

Greek internal migrants in Athens, after the Greek Civil War colonize the tops of the Tourkovounia hills.

6.2

Rocky Jumped a Park Bench

April 2008 •English

A location tour of the Rocky filming locations in Philadelphia.

8.0

Fragments

March 2016 •Portuguese

This is a film about how war settles in the bodies of the people who are forced to experience it directly. And then, thousands of miles away and dozens of years ahead, how, like a virus, it can still infect other human beings.

7.5

Wild Ocean

April 2008 •English

Wild Ocean is in an uplifting, giant screen cinema experience capturing one of nature's greatest migration spectacles. Plunge into an underwater feeding frenzy, amidst the dolphins, sharks, whales, gannets, seals and billions of fish. Filmed off the Wild Coast of South Africa, Wild Ocean is a timely documentary that celebrates the animals that now depend on us to survive and the efforts by the local people to protect this invaluable ecological resource. Hope is alive on the Wild Coast, where Africa meets the sea.

0.0

Choice Bouquets

September 1910 •English

A display of flower bouquets, rotating to show the Kinemacolour process.

6.0

Jeff Koons

June 2017 •English

Jeff Koons is a MOCA commissioned mini-documentary on the career of artist Jeff Koons, directed by Oscar Boyson.

6.5

A Year in Port

March 2016 •English

With renowned wine importer Martine Saunier as our guide, we journey into Portugal's spectacular Douro Valley to explore the mystery and complexity of the world of port

5.8

Ride Around the World

May 2006 •English

Journey across Morocco, Spain, Mexico, Argentina, Patagonia, Texas and British Columbia, to meet vaqueros, gauchos, baqueanos and cowboys - all part of a single global horse culture, an unbroken trail stretching back 1,500 years.