Joris Ivens Movies

Shot alongside "À Valparaíso," "The Small Tent" observes a small circus performance perched high above the city and focuses on the...

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...

Three pioneers of documentary filmmaking – Joris Ivens, Henri Storck, and the man behind the camera, Jean Rouch – recall the early days...

Film never finished. The raw footage consists of 4,370 meters of 16mm film and sound. The negatives, deposited at the time in various labs, are now...

Between documentary and fiction, "Branding" (also know as "Breakers") stars an unemployed sailor from Katwijk, a land that sparked Ivens’...

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

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

Commissioned film for the Continental Commission for the Propagation of Creosote Oil about extraction and application of creosote oil (carboleum), a...

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

A documentary about the problems of post-war reconstruction and the beginnings of socialism in Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia and Poland.

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

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

Joris Ivens documentary.

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...

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...

Filmed in western China in the late 1970s, this documentary portrays the Uyghur people, a Turkic-speaking Muslim minority living in the Xinjiang...

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...

About the way of life in the East, in China, during the months before spring. An early spring.

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...