Joris Ivens Movies

A documentary showing the struggle to bring electricity to rural areas of the United States.

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...

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

About the way of life in the East, in China, during the months before spring. An early spring.

Instructional film about the (former) biggest harbour in the world, with a hybrid format. Well known Ivens themes are revisited, like The Flying...

Directed by Joris Ivens and Jean-Pierre Sergent.

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...

Pro-Vietnamese film created by Dutch filmmaker Joris Ivens. This black and white film begins with an introduction by Bertrand Russell, who explains...

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

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

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

Documentary portrait of Dziga Vertov, father of documentary cinema.

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...

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

In a port city, a youth plays a computer game that determines the fate of a woman (whose interracial romance is threatened by white punks) and other...

A film about Salvador Allende's 1964 presidential campaign.

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

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