Joris Ivens Movies

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

A film about Salvador Allende's 1964 presidential campaign.

A documentary about the problems of post-war reconstruction and the beginnings of socialism in Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia and Poland.

A study of traffic movement in Paris.

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 film about piling.

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...

An industrial film which shows the operations inside the Philips Radio plant: In a mêlée of activity, glassblowers make delicate glass...

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...

A short documentary about the Uyghur minority of western China.

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...

Directed by Joris Ivens and Jean-Pierre Sergent.

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...

This short documentary examines the role of convoy ships during World War II, focusing on the Corvette Port Arthur. The corvette, a highly mobile...

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

A commissioned documentary short showing the effort over several years to close off a shallow bay in the northwest Netherlands from the rest of the...

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

Directed by Joris Ivens.

Cuba, pueblo armado was shot by Joris Ivens in 1961 and illustrates the Cuban people's determination to defend the revolution. To make this film,...