Delightful musical made to promote color telephones as a decorator accessory in the home. The Prelinger Archives are a source of educational material, mainly ordered by theme, giving a vision of the dark side, the underbelly, perhaps naive of the American dream and the America that is often hidden behind the media curtain.

While the housing bubble was deflating across the US, an explosion of demolition and construction was steadily transforming Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Open House documents the brutal nature of the development spree which occurred as a result of the neighborhood's re-zoning from light manufacturing/residential to the loosening of codes that allowed for forty-story towers on the waterfront. This video chronicles a neighborhood being literally torn apart by outside developers capitalizing on a frenzied housing market, and locals under pressure to “sell out” while the price is right.

The UN votes to partition Palestine. Riots in the face of the partition of Palestine. The Suez Canal is handed over to Egypt after 72 years of British control. Incidents on the Israel-Egypt border. The Egyptian Crisis. Israel withdraws from Sinai.

This documentary gives an overview of the origins of the financial crisis in the United States, and how the solutions proffered in response to it have set the scene for the next crisis. This documentary directed by Martin Borgs for European and US television includes interviews with Vernon Smith, Peter Schiff, Robert Van Order, Megan McArdle, Gerald Celente and former US comptroller general David Walker.

The demolished house that marks the site of the death of American peace activist Rachel Corrie is only the first of the troubling markers in the landscape charted by “Palestine Blues”, as the director travels the route of the infamous security wall. A bereft farmer grieves for his ancient orchard as the bulldozers lay it to waste, but a new movement based on non-violent resistance grows in its place. Focusing on the village of Jayyous (close to Qalqilia) and its non-violent campaign against the wall, the film documents the heroic victories and tragic defeats of this farming community's fight for survival.

A collage of sequences drawn from a wide variety of ephemeral (industrial, advertising, educational and amateur) films, touring the conflicted landscapes of twentieth-century America. The films' often-skewed visions construct an American history filled with horror and hope, unreeling in familiar and unexpected ways. Panorama Ephemera focuses on familiar and mythical activities and images in America (1626-1978).

On Latin-American immigration in the United States.