Joris Ivens Movies

Two weeks after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in August 1945, Indonesian Independence leaders proclaimed “Indonesia Merdeka!”...

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...

A film about Salvador Allende's 1964 presidential campaign.

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...

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

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

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

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,...

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

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...

A study of traffic movement in Paris.

Joris Ivens documentary.

Directed by Joris Ivens.

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...

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

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...

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

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 film about piling.