Joris Ivens Movies

A study of traffic movement in Paris.

Joris Ivens and wife Marceline Loridan took their cameras into Pharmacy No. 3 in Shanghai, which in addition to dispensing drugs manages an outreach...

A documentary showing the struggle to bring electricity to rural areas of the United States.

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...

Documentary about a miner's strike in Borinage.

Documentary filmed during the shooting of “À Valparaiso” which shows the children’s reactions to the performance of a circus...

The Dutch documentary filmmaker Joris Ivens (1898-1989) received the honorary title 'Old friend of the Chinese people' from the Chinese communist...

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

Dutch documentary filmmaker Joris Ivens follows the course of the famous wind as it originates in the Alps and finds its way to the Mediterranean...

A film about Salvador Allende's 1964 presidential campaign.

Directed by Joris Ivens and Jean-Pierre Sergent.

Joris Ivens documentary.

This film describes the Second World Congress of Peace Defenders, held in Warsaw on November 16-22, 1950. Sheffield, an industrial city in England,...

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

A short documentary about the Uyghur minority of western China.

A poetic ode to the River Seine, Ivens' distinguished camera eye surveys its lively banks and step-stone canals with a vérité candor, a...

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

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...