Joris Ivens Movies

A lyrical portrait of Amsterdam and its changing appearance during a rain-shower.

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.

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...

A study of traffic movement in Paris.

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

This documentary examines the lives of the Kazakh ethnic minority in western China at the end of the Cultural Revolution. Directed by Joris Ivens and...

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...

The film is a documentary portraying a struggle as man tries to subdue nature. To prevent flooding and for purposes of land reclamation, the people...

A North Vietnam–era documentary attributed to Joris Ivens that compiles graphic evidence of the effects of U.S. weapons—shown across...

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...

"Action Stations" documents the work of a Canadian corvette escorting Allied convoys across the North Atlantic during World War II. Combining staged...

A travel report from Cuba, a year after the fall of Batista, reflecting the euphoria of the early years of the revolution.

Documentary portrait of Dziga Vertov, father of documentary cinema.

Filmed in western China in the late 1970s, this documentary portrays the Uyghur people, a Turkic-speaking Muslim minority living in the Xinjiang...

Filmed inside Pharmacy No. 3 in Shanghai, Joris Ivens and Marceline Loridan-Ivens document the daily work of a state pharmacy that functions as both...

1933 year, Germany. The mother of worker kill nazis organizes pure resistance against political tyranny reigning in a country.

Commissioned film for the Continental Commission for the Propagation of Creosote Oil about extraction and application of creosote oil (carboleum), a...

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...

A student is working part-time on a canal boat in Amsterdam and a young director wants to make a film about her.