Just when Chile was experiencing the last months of the Popular Unity of President Salvador Allende, Colo Colo - the most popular team in Chilean soccer - faced the 1973 Copa Libertadores de América. This benchmark led by footballers Carlos Caszely, Francisco "Chamaco" Valdés and coach Luis "Zorro" Álamos, not only managed to play the final of this competition against Independiente of Argentina, but also, its brilliant game, dynamics and drive popular turned it into the necessary balm for the fans, at a time when the Chilean political and social situation became extremely acute. Thirty-four years later, the protagonists of Colo Colo 73 relive this Copa Libertadores campaign.
2009-11-20
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Documentary tells the story of the Chilean football club Colo-Colo, exploring its profound impact on popular culture and the everyday lives of its fans. Throughout the film, it shows how the club has transcended sport to become a symbol of resistance, pride, and class struggle in Chile.
Stories of some idols of the Colo Colo Social and Sports Club
Chile's national stadium was the scene of thousands of celebrations for one people, as well as the suffering and torture of thousands more. The CSD Colo Colo reaffirms its position of justice and memory.
Documentary that explores the history of the Colo-Colo Social and Sports Club, and not only highlights the socio-political significance of Colo-Colo at a national level but also debunks the myth surrounding the relationship between Pinochet and Colo-Colo. It dispels the belief that the former dictator provided funds for the construction of the Estadio Monumental.
Documentary about the recovery process of the Colo Colo social and sports club, a process in which young people grouped in branches, artists and members of the club decide to organize themselves in order to rescue the memory of the futbol team.
Colo Colo went bankrupt in 2002 and its players will once again remember everything that was that season that will remain in history.
Campaign of Colo Colo champion of the 1991 Copa Libertadores narrated by its players and fans
The story of Colo Colo 1991, champion of the Copa Libertadores de América, in the voice of its protagonists.
Unpublished images of Colo-colo in the 2008-2009 seasons, intensely experiencing the institutional crisis that the club suffered after Claudio Borghi's brilliant campaign.
«BravoStory» is the first feature-length documentary about the Russian band «Bravo», created for its 35th anniversary. In the film directed by Andrey Airapetov, known for the documentary film «Critic» about Artemy Troitsky, there are exclusive interviews with the band members, rare footage, stories, colleagues and fans.
The life story of the legendary music critic, journalist, TV and radio host Artemy Troitsky, who for many years has been recognized as a musical authority not only in Russia, but also beyond its borders.
A musical tour through the work of Aníbal "Pichuco" Troilo, one of the defining figures of tango and Argentinian music.
Riding from Cairo to Cape Town. This thrilling documentary follows 16 motorbike riders across 20,000 klms. through Africa in 80 days. Presented and Narrated by Charley Boorman. Tour Operator by Compass Expeditions.
Musical documentary based on the stories of four women who studied to become nurses in the school of the Fundación Eva Perón in 1948, which was one of the institutions that helped pave the way for change for women in Argentina. The testimonies from the protagonists are reenacted in the form of a musical, in a film that combines archival footage and choreography.
Audubon: Naturalist and 19th century painter, John James Audubon was one of the most remarkable men of early America. A contemporary of Lewis & Clark and Davey Crockett, he explored the American frontier in search of ""the feathered tribes"" he loved and studied. A self-taught artist and ornithologist, he left a legacy of art and science that made him famous in his lifetime and endures to this day. His portrait hangs in the White House, his statue stands over the entrance to the American Museum of Natural History, and his name was adopted by the nation's first conservation organization. The program, filmed in locations where Audubon painted, brings to life his timeless paintings with dazzling footage of the living birds he immortalized - and celebrates visually the natural world he described in his writings. Interviews reveal the man, explore his art, and put his groundbreaking work in modern perspective.
Twelve talented young mountaineers, five geologists from the University of Lausanne and four mountain guides take an unprecedented risk in Patagonia. Trained by the great climbers Ralf Weber, Ueli Steck, Denis Burdet and David Fasel, the young people are collecting rock samples from the granite walls of the Paine Towers, which are up to 1000 meters high, on behalf of science. The challenges are enormous: Climbing a big wall at the highest level of difficulty, cloudy weather, relentless wind that tears at material and nerves - and an urgency that also pushes the group to their emotional limits. "Flying High" not only documents an extraordinary undertaking, but also shows up close what happens when something happens that can happen after every meter of altitude climbed: a fall.
We admire beauty; we recoil from bodies that are marred, disfigured, different. Didier Cros’ moving, intimate film forces us to question what underlies our notions of beauty as we join a talented photographer taking stunning portraits of several people with profound visible scars which have dictated certain elements of their lives but have not come to define their humanity. The subjects' perceptions of themselves are dynamic, unexpected, and even heartwarming. This is an unforgettable journey to be shared with the world.
In 1945, two young American soldiers, brothers Budd and Stuart Schulberg, are commissioned to collect filmed and recorded evidence of the horrors committed by the infamous Third Reich in order to prove Nazi war crimes during the Nuremberg trials (1945-46). The story of the making of Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today, a paramount historic documentary, released in 1948.