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Birthgap (2023)

kinostr — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 19:02:57 GMT

Birthgap (2023)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2GeVG0XYTc

The story examines declining birth rates globally through personal interviews and data across 24 countries, exploring causes and consequences of this demographic shift on communities and future societies.

The Birthgap documentary uncovered the underlying trends behind declining birthrates and also led to the formalization of key measures for demographers to analyze contemporary childlessness and family size. These findings were peer-reviewed and published in Nature Portfolio’s Scientific Reports (August 21, 2025).

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Arvo Pärt: 24 Preludes for a…

kinostr — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 22:29:05 GMT

Arvo Pärt: 24 Preludes for a Fugue (2002)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRwTgme1_KE

24 Preludes for a Fugue is an authorised documentary about Arvo Pärt. A portrait made of precious moments recorded during three prolific years of the composer's life, the film features rehearsals, premieres, seminars, meetings and recollections. Director Dorian Supin succeeds in revealing Arvo Pärt's musical thinking. His work opens a door on the inner world of one of the most spiritually intense composers of our life. The documentary is enhanced by excerpts from major musical works such as Tabula rasa, Für Alina, Fratres, Orient & Occident, Cecilia, vergine romana and Como cierva sedienta. With English subtitles.

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Synth Britannia (2009)

kinostr — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 19:43:47 GMT

Synth Britannia (2009)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lVljmH0yUw

Documentary following a generation of post-punk musicians who took the synthesiser from the experimental fringes to the centre of the pop stage. In the late 1970s, small pockets of electronic artists including The Human League, Daniel Miller and Cabaret Voltaire were inspired by Kraftwerk and JG Ballard, and they dreamt of the sound of the future against the backdrop of bleak, high-rise Britain. The crossover moment came in 1979 when Gary Numan's appearance on Top of the Pops with Tubeway Army's Are 'Friends' Electric? heralded the arrival of synthpop. Four lads from Basildon known as Depeche Mode would come to own the new sound, whilst post-punk bands like Ultravox, Soft Cell, OMD and Yazoo took the synth out of the pages of NME and onto the front page of Smash Hits. By 1983, acts like Pet Shop Boys and New Order were showing that the future of electronic music would lie in dance music. Contributors include Philip Oakey, Vince Clarke, Martin Gore, Bernard Sumner, Gary Numan and Neil Tennant.

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In Search of the Dark Ages…

kinostr — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 09:13:45 GMT

In Search of the Dark Ages (TV Series, 1979–1981)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlK9gyL6RFk&list=PL2vJ5Cg-wlPx8YFlffdCfHSGS9yOt9egz

Historian Michael Wood presents this BBC series about the Dark Ages. Originally aired in 1981, the series gives the audience an insight into the period known as the Dark Ages with Wood going on a journey of discovery to find out what really happened in Europe following the decline of the Roman Empire. All 8 episodes are included; 'In Search of Offa', 'In Search of Boadicea', 'In Search of Arthur', 'In Search of Alfred the Great', 'In Search of Athelstan', 'In Search of Eric Bloodaxe', 'In Search of Ethelred the Unready' and 'In Search of William the Conqueror'.

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Taj Mahal Travellers On Tour (1973)

kinostr — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 16:51:45 GMT

Taj Mahal Travellers On Tour (1973)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdjmQkOOa9A

Takehisa Kosugi was a hippie become avantgarde composer. Born in Tokyo in 1938, and graduated in 1962 at the Tokyo University of Arts, Kosugi founded the Japanese equivalent of the Fluxus movement, called "Group Ongaku", a group devoted to improvisation and multi-media performances. In 1969 he formed the Taj Mahal Travellers, a psychedelic-rock group that played lengthy improvised jams that can be summarized in three principles: a Far-Eastern approach to music as a living organism, an intense electronic processing of instruments and voices, a semi-mathematical overlapping of frequencies. Basically: LaMonte Young on acid. Kosugi mainly played electric violin. The band acquired free-jazz improviser Seiji Nagai, Yukio Tsuchiya on tuba and vibraphone, Ryo Koike on santoor (a hammered dulcimer) and on a horizontal double-bass, Michihiro Kimura, who had begun as designer of LP sleeves and started playing percussion and "singing", and Tokio Hasegawa, another improvised singer, all of them much younger than him. Kosugi was on the road with this group between 1971 and 1972, traveling in a Volkswagen minibus from Holland to the Taj Mahal itself. Two albums were made out of that experience: Taj-Mahal Travellers (Sony, 1972), also known as July 15 1972 (reissued in 2002 by Drone Syndicate) and performed by a seven-unit line-up, and Taj Mahal Travellers (Denon, 1983), also known as August 1974 (reissued in 1998 by P-Vine), four tracks over two LPs performed by eight players, plus one side (two tracks) of the legendary double-LP bootleg Live At Oz (Oz, 1973 - OZ Days, 2001), which also includes live performances by obscure Japanese musicians Acid Seven, Minami Masato and Hadaka no Rallizes.

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Breaking The Bank (2000)

kinostr — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 22:33:27 GMT

Breaking The Bank (2000)

After a string of popular protests in Seattle against the World Trade Organisation in 1999, tens of thousands reemerged to challenge the International Monetary Fund and World Bank at their April 2000 meeting in Washington DC. Once again, media activists were on the spot to provide the non-corporate coverage you just won’t find anywhere else. Breaking the Bank provides an informative background on the history and impact of the IMF and World Bank, and features extensive coverage of the events in Washington against the powerful organisations that are killing the planet.

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Modulations - Cinema for the Ear (1998)

kinostr — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 20:58:58 GMT

Modulations - Cinema for the Ear (1998)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icpDt6aQDww

Modulations is a feature-length documentary that captures a moment in history where humans and machines are fusing to create today's most exciting sounds. It traces the evolution of electronic music as one of the most profound artistic developments of the twentieth century. By cutting back and forth between avant-garde composers, Kraftwerk's innovative synthesizer drones, Giorgio Moroder's glacial Euro-disco, Afrika Bambaataa's electro-funk, and Prodigy's current worldwide superstarstardom, Modulations celebrates, replicates, and illuminates the nomadic drift of the post-human techno sound. The film examines the kids who have turned the turntable into a musical instrument, disillusioned disco lovers who created acid house out of primitive synthesizers, Motor City mavericks who saw the drum machine as their escape route out of urban neglect, and a generation of British youth who transformed these blips and bleeps into dance floor anthems of their own alienation. Modulations provides a sense of history and context in which today's electronic music can be understood. It entertains the converted and remixes the mindset of electronica's nay-sayers. Featuring a stunning collage of interviews, cutting-edge visuals, in-studio footage, and live performances, Modulations moves at a pace that matches the energy and innovation of the music.

Soundtrack:

Donna Summer | "I Feel Love"

Afrika Mambaattaa | "Planet Rock"

Juan Atkins/Model 500 | "No Ufo's Remix"

LFO |"Simon From Sydney

Derrick May | "Strings of Life"

Jesse Saunders | "Yeah"

Aprodite | "Amazon 2 - King of the Beats"

Panacea | "Stormbringer"

Goldie & Rob Playford | "The Shadow"

Ryoji Ikeda | "Luxus 1-3"

Coldcut | "Atomic Moog 2000"

To Rococo Rot | "Kritische Masse 1"

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Hyperland (1990)

kinostr — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 21:00:08 GMT

Hyperland (1990)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyAQgK7BkA8

Hyperland is a 50-minute-long documentary film about hypertext and surrounding technologies. It was written by Douglas Adams and produced and directed by Max Whitby for BBC Two in 1990.

Ahead of it's time, this documentary introduced the Internet to an unsuspecting public way back in 1990. Douglas Adams, along with Tom Baker, explores the ideas of interactivity & digital links which are the basis of the Internet today.

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"Monitor" John Betjeman: A Poet in…

kinostr — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 09:48:31 GMT

"Monitor" John Betjeman: A Poet in London (TV Episode, 1959)

https://youtu.be/OWqefghUOEQ

John Betjeman is filmed at different London locations introducing and reciting four of his poems. The film was Ken Russell's first for television and was commissioned by Huw Wheldon, the head of the BBC's Monitor arts programme. Betjeman is shown visiting locations including Vauxhall Park, Aldersgate Street station (now the Barbican), Camden Town and Hatfield. He recites his poems 'Monody on the Death of Aldersgate Street Station', 'Business Girls', 'The Olympic Girl' and 'Hertfordshire'.

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Hedging (1942)

kinostr — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 08:24:42 GMT

Hedging (1942)

https://youtu.be/WoprVhpOKIk

A Northamptonshire hedger is ably assisted by a smiling land girl eager to learn the rural craft of hedge making and maintenance in this gentle instructional film, made by the Realist Film Unit for the Ministry of Agriculture.

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George Soros - 60 Minutes (interview, 1998)

kinostr — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 19:36:06 GMT

George Soros - 60 Minutes (interview, 1998)

Steve Kroft interviews George Soros about the state of the world's economy.

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Empire of Dust (2011)

kinostr — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 11:58:39 GMT

Empire of Dust (2011)
Director: Bram Van Paesschen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pDJ4-MtAkQ

Documentary where the 'it's all so tiresome' meme originates from.

CREC employees arrive in Kolwezi, DRC to build a road. Logistics head Lao Yang must procure local supplies as government deliveries fail. With translator Eddy, misunderstandings ensue as Lao Yang negotiates with Congolese entrepreneurs.

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Metal City - A Neat Records documentary…

kinostr — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 20:14:01 GMT

Metal City - A Neat Records documentary (1985)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN6Lcnndptc

This VHS Video tape(1985), contains video clips, interviews, behind the scenes material etc. of the following four bands: Venom, Warfare, Saracen, Avenger.

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Louis Theroux: The Settlers (2025)

kinostr — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 23:21:09 GMT

Louis Theroux: The Settlers (2025)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tC8l09ut418

Fourteen years after his first visit, Louis Theroux meets some of the growing community of religious-nationalist Israelis who have settled in the occupied West Bank.

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The Mayor of Montemilone (TV episode,…

kinostr — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 19:57:35 GMT

The Mayor of Montemilone (TV episode, 1984)
Director: Adam Curtis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xvu8YGbA0vs

Dino Labriola runs the small town of Montemilone in the deep south. He was elected the first Communist mayor. Now he faces the problems of a town dying on its feet. There are no jobs, the young emigrate, the old have given up hope and government aid often goes astray. While Dino is determined to fight for his town, his wife Angela sometimes feels that the struggle is not worth it. A massive dam is being built just outside Montemilone. It's a new threat to the town and to Dino's position as mayor.

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Pink Floyd Live At Pompeii (1972)…

kinostr — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 00:02:48 GMT

Pink Floyd Live At Pompeii (1972) (Original Cut)
Director: Adrian Maben

Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii is a 1972 concert film directed by Adrian Maben and featuring the English rock group Pink Floyd performing at the ancient Roman amphitheatre in Pompeii, Italy.

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Documentary Shorts by Vittorio De Seta

kinostr — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 23:12:20 GMT

Documentary Shorts by Vittorio De Seta

The Age of Swordfish (1955)

A short anthropological documentary from 1954. Director De Seta was fortunate enough to document swordfish fishing; by 1956 it no longer existed.

Islands of Fire (1955)

This prize-winning short is a poetic portrait of life on the coast of Sicily before, during, and following a volcanic eruption.

Sea Countrymen (1955)

Sicily, Granitola, 1955. At the first light of dawn, the fishermen set out in their boats for open water, timing the rhythm of their oars to murmured chants. They set their nets in the sea, regulate the cords, organize the boats in a square. The men’s work becomes increasingly harder as the tuna are hoisted onto the boats, wriggling, beating their tails until death arrives and the water is tinged with blood.

Easter in Sicily (1955)

Vittorio De Seta captures the music and pageantry of an Easter celebration in Sicily.

Golden Parable (1955)

Filming amid the flaxen wheat fields of Sicily, Vittorio De Seta documents the everyday rituals of farmers during harvest time.

Solfatara (1955)

Harshness and beauty exist side by side in this look at the lives of sulfur mine workers and their families in southern Italy.

Fishing Boats (1958)

The unpredictable nature of the sea governs the world of Sicilian fishermen as they work, rest, and seek refuge from a storm.

Orgosolo’s Shepherds (1958)

The striking landscapes of rural Sardinia provide the backdrop to this lyrical look at the hardscrabble lives of the region’s shepherds in winter.

A Day In Barbagia (1958)

From sunrise to sunset, Vittorio De Seta chronicles the lives of Sardinian women who look after both home and fields while their shepherd husbands are away tending their flocks.

The Forgotten (1959)

Vittorio De Seta travels to a remote province in southern Italy to capture a unique celebration known as the “Feast of Silver.”

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EYEHATEGOD "Peace Through Addiction" (Short documentary,…

kinostr — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 22:42:10 GMT

EYEHATEGOD "Peace Through Addiction" (Short documentary, 1993)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aobYYKSj9wo

"Peace Through Addiction" Short Documentary With EYEHATEGOD Members. 1993.

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The Shock of the New (TV…

kinostr — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 16:58:37 GMT

The Shock of the New (TV mini series, 1980)
Written and presented by Robert Hughes

Ep 1:

full series:
https://archive.org/details/bbc.-the-shock-of-the-new-robert-hughes-1980-hq

Complete eight-part documentary television series about the development of modern art written and presented by art critic and author Robert Hughes (1938-2012)

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Kenneth Clark: In the Beginning (TV…

kinostr — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 23:50:31 GMT

Kenneth Clark: In the Beginning (TV episode, 1975)
Director: Michael Gill
Writer: Kenneth Clark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5T7QqabluHA

a few years after completing Civilisation Lord Clark filmed a kind of standalone prequel episode covering Ancient Egypt ("Civilisation: Episode Zero," as it were) -- a one-hour video which adopts the same themes, language, and cinematographic approach as does Civilisation proper.

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