Joris Ivens Movies

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

Shot alongside "À Valparaíso," "The Small Tent" observes a small circus performance perched high above the city and focuses on the...

An international anthology about the struggles of female workers around the world.

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

Shot in Cuba in 1961, this documentary follows a volunteer militia brigade organized in defense of the Cuban Revolution. Joris Ivens and his crew...

Henri Storck and Joris Ivens’ landmark of social documentary, blending staged scenes with locals and on-the-spot reportage to depict the 1932...

The film documents Ho Chi Minh's life with unique film material. It is not a portrait of a private man, but a documentation of the theory and...

Joris Ivens’s wartime documentary of China’s resistance to the Japanese invasion, cross-cutting civilian exodus and bombing with the...

A film about Salvador Allende's 1964 presidential campaign.

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

Film about the third 'Weltfestspiele der Jugend und Studenten für den Frieden' in East Berlin, 1951. West Germany is represented as a degenerate...

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...

Filmed secretly in Sydney by Dutch documentarian Joris Ivens, this short records the solidarity of Indonesian seamen, Australian trade unionists, and...

On the border of North and South Vietnam, civilians live underground and cultivate their land in the dead of night, farmers take up arms, and bombs...

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...

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...

"Demain à Nanguila" follows Moussa, a young man who leaves his village for Bamako in search of opportunity but instead encounters hardship and...

Filmed in Laos in 1968, this four-part documentary examines the armed struggle against foreign intervention during the Indochina conflicts. The film...

A study of traffic movement in Paris.

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...