Joris Ivens Movies

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...

A short documentary about the Uyghur minority of western China.

A film about Salvador Allende's 1964 presidential campaign.

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

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

Directed by Joris Ivens.

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 film by Joris Ivens and Mannus Franken.

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...

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

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

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,...

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...