Joris Ivens Movies

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 study of traffic movement in Paris.

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...

A short documentary about the Uyghur minority of western China.

A film about piling.

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

A film about Salvador Allende's 1964 presidential campaign.

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...

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

The building of blast furnaces Magnitogorsk and the Kubas Basin by Komsomol, the Communist Union of youth, as part of Stalin’s first five-year...

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...

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

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...

Cuba, pueblo armado was shot by Joris Ivens in 1961 and illustrates the Cuban people's determination to defend the revolution. To make this film,...

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

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

Directed by Joris Ivens.

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.