Portrait of Castro's Cuba

Host/narrator James Earl Jones explores the island of Cuba, introduces the viewer to the Cuban people and discusses the uncertainty of the country's future.

Self-Portrait in Handcuffs

An inspiring portrait of Belorussian artist Ales Pushkin, who uses his performance art to wage a mini-resistance against the regime of President Alexander Lukashenko.

Matt Monro: A Portrait of

'A Portrait Of' tells the full story of Matt Monro's rise to fame with exclusive, unseen performances from Matt's early and later career.

Aram Khachaturian. A Creative Portrait

World Music Portrait: Jimmy Cliff

Jimmy Cliff is one of the founding fathers of reggae music, setting the soulful standards to which countless other reggae musicians have aspired throughout the years. This street-level documentary traces Cliff's roots ba

Self-portrait nº1 (Toilette)

One of my very first films, for which I hold the camera at arm's length and thereby capture fragmentary and very close images of myself washing my face or combing my hair; all interspersed with photos at different ages.

Mary Magdalen: An Intimate Portrait

Painted as a prostitute, a feminist, a disciple and Jesus' favorite, Mary Magdalene -- the biblical figure and female follower of Jesus -- is a study in controversy and contradiction. Narrated by Penelope Ann Miller, thi

Portrait of a Dying Giant

In the copper mine of the industrial town Bor in Eastern Serbia, miners have been melting copper in the same manner for more than a century.

A Portrait of Esbjörn Svensson

About world renowned jazz pianist Esbjörn Svensson. He became one of Europe's most successful jazz musicians at the turn of the 21st century before dying at the age of 44 in a scuba diving accident.

A Film Portrait of Richard Serra

"Film Portrait of Richard Serra was shot during the making of The Camera: Je but I felt that the footage showed such complicity between Richard and me that I decided it was a film on its own. I shot the film title in 197

Portrait of a Rebel: The Remarkable Mrs. Sanger

The dramatized biography of Margaret Sanger, the crusader who founded America's first birth control clinic during World War I and was tried in court under obscenity laws.

Portrait of an Artist as an Old Lady

A documentary about Paraskeva Clark, a Russian painter who trained in Paris and moved to Canada in the 1930s.

Portrait No. 2: Sidelines

This Iraninan documentary is a portrait of an ordinary man who is quite talkative, works as a house painter and is into cinema.

Portrait in Paper-Cut

The artist Edith Simon in conversation and at work creating intricate 'scalpel paintings' from paper. The work featured in this film is 'The Descent', the sitter is Andrea Targett-Adams.

Lorenza: Portrait of an Artist

Self-Portrait with a Lover

At Sea, In Berlin, Lenin Portrait

Although this grouping of three works shot during Peter Hutton’s yearlong stay in West Berlin seems to have been screened at least a few times, it was never placed in distribution and it seems that Hutton shelved it afte

World Music Portrait: Cesaria Evora

A huge-selling world music artist, Cesaria Evora has developed a devoted following who are enraptured by her blending or world music and Latin rhythms. This documentary takes a look at her upbringing, initial struggles t

Lahbako (The Social Portrait of Tobacco Industry)

This documentary captures a portrait of the tobacco industry which still has many social, political and health polemics. In this documentary, I deliberately did not include any dialogue, the images were formed from a ser

Portrait of a Woman, Unknown

Portrait of a Woman, Unknown ties together the complicated interpersonal dynamics of three generations of women in an immigrant family. The main character, Anne, both subverts, and reenacts the habits of the other woman.