Joris Ivens Movies

A documentary about Italy's underground oil and metan deposits, sponsored by Italian state-owned oil company, ENI. Pictures of the state-of-the-art...

On the border of North and South Vietnam, civilians live underground and cultivate their land in the dead of night, farmers take up arms, and bombs...

This brief interview film, released in 1970, is one of the last given by Ho Chi Minh, and one of the rare ones in colour.

Documentary portrait of Dziga Vertov, father of documentary cinema.

This documentary examines the lives of the Kazakh ethnic minority in western China at the end of the Cultural Revolution. Directed by Joris Ivens and...

A travel report from Cuba, a year after the fall of Batista, reflecting the euphoria of the early years of the revolution.

Joris Ivens documentary.

"Action Stations" documents the work of a Canadian corvette escorting Allied convoys across the North Atlantic during World War II. Combining staged...

A lyrical portrait of Amsterdam and its changing appearance during a rain-shower.

Using footage taken by Soviet battlefront cameramen, this penetrating documentary about Russian life during World War II is narrated by Walter Huston...

A César award winning documentary about a high school in Beijing where a student throws a ball in the direction of the teacher who had just...

1933 year, Germany. The mother of worker kill nazis organizes pure resistance against political tyranny reigning in a country.

A study of traffic movement in Paris.

The Hefbrug may not be a remarkably beautiful bridge, but through a mix of close-ups, long shots, bird’s eye views and low angles, Joris Ivens...

Filmed inside Pharmacy No. 3 in Shanghai, Joris Ivens and Marceline Loridan-Ivens document the daily work of a state pharmacy that functions as both...

A North Vietnam–era documentary attributed to Joris Ivens that compiles graphic evidence of the effects of U.S. weapons—shown across...

A film about piling.

At the age of 14 Joris Ivens was fond of Cowboys and Indians stories, so he decided to invent one himself. He made a script and used a camera from...

The film is an appeal by the International Democratic Women's Federation against a new war, calling on all mothers of the world to protect their...

This colour documentary reports about the 5th international peace journey which took place from 30 April to 13 May 1952 and in which 94 drivers from...