Joris Ivens Movies

A commissioned documentary short showing the effort over several years to close off a shallow bay in the northwest Netherlands from the rest of the...

An industrial film which shows the operations inside the Philips Radio plant: In a mêlée of activity, glassblowers make delicate glass...

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

In a port city, a youth plays a computer game that determines the fate of a woman (whose interracial romance is threatened by white punks) and other...

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...

Young Moussa left his native village of Nanguila to succeed in Bamako. But in the capital, he only lived on the cheap and even ended up in a...

Film about the third 'Weltfestspiele der Jugend und Studenten für den Frieden' in East Berlin, 1951. West Germany is represented as a degenerate...

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

Directed by Joris Ivens.

An allegorical documentary about the workers of the world, whose common destinies and hopes for peace are symbolically united by the rivers that run...

Directed by Joris Ivens and Jean-Pierre Sergent.

Documentary celebrating the 10th anniversary of the General Dutch Construction Workers Union, providing a multifaceted view of the union and...

A film about piling.

Documentary about the Kazakh minority in western China in the last years of the Cultural Revolution.

A study of traffic movement in Paris.

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...

This World War II film highlights the role of Canadian corvettes on convoy duty in the North Atlantic. Battle scenes show a crew sighting a German...

This short documentary examines the role of convoy ships during World War II, focusing on the Corvette Port Arthur. The corvette, a highly mobile...