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Dark Days (Country: USA; Year: 2000; Director: Marc Singer; Stars: Marc Singer)
Documentary following the people who survive in the New York underground.
Fourteen Days In May (Year: 1987; Director: Paul Hamann)
Account of a US convict’s final days on death row.
A Great Day In Harlem (Country: US; Year: 1994; Director: Jean Bach; Writer: Jean Bach, Susan Peehl, Matthew Seig; Stars: Quincy Jones, Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins, Buck Clayton, Art Blakey, Hank Jones, Art Farmer, Johnny Griffin, Milt Hinton, Chubby Jackson, Scoville Browne, Felix Maxwell, Paula Morris, Taft Jordan Jr., Everard Powell)
Some 40 years after many of the greatest US jazz musicians posed for a photograph in Harlem, Jean Bach’s film gathers together the stories of their lives.
Italianamerican (Country: US; Year: 1974; Director: Martin Scorsese; Writer: Lawrence D Cohen, Mardik Martin; Stars: Catherine Scorsese, Charles Scorsese, Martin Scorsese)
Martin Scorsese's portrait of his parents.
La Jetée (Country: France; Year: 1962; Director: Chris Marker; Writer: Chris Marker; Stars: Jean Négroni, Hélène Chatelain, Davos Hanich, Jacques Ledoux, André Heinrich, Jacques Branchu, Pierre Joffroy, Étienne Becker, Philbert von Lifchitz, Ligia Branice, Janine Klein, William Klein, Germano Facetti, James Kirk)
Sci-fi short presents a past world and dystopian future through a series of still images, told from the perspective of a narrator.
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