Joris Ivens Movies

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...

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...

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

A film by Joris Ivens and Mannus Franken.

The building of blast furnaces Magnitogorsk and the Kubas Basin by Komsomol, the Communist Union of youth, as part of Stalin’s first five-year...

Directed by Joris Ivens and Jean-Pierre Sergent.

Documentary about a miner's strike in Borinage.

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

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

A study of traffic movement in Paris.

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

Documentary portrait of Dziga Vertov, father of documentary cinema.

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

Young Moussa left his native village of Nanguila to succeed in Bamako. But in the capital, he only lived on the cheap and even ended up in a...

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

A poetic ode to the River Seine, Ivens' distinguished camera eye surveys its lively banks and step-stone canals with a vérité candor, a...

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...