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A biography of the American rock band The Beach Boys, with interviews, concert footage and clips from movies and television shows they appeared in.

We can follow the daily lives of the mostly female employees of a Czechoslovak general store. Work, love, gossip, family problems and, of course, always first: The customer!

When gold is found near Marble City the rush brings farmer Brendel, Pastor Benson and gambler Ellis to town. Bandits and Cherokees threaten the settlers. Friends Phil and Pat try to restore order and find the culprit causing the mayhem.

On her fifteenth birthday the princess finds a diary written by her mother when she was young. The diary tells of her mother, the Queen's secret, early love. The Princess goes into the forest to meet her mother's former lover. When she looks into his eyes she realizes why her mother had fallen in love.

Co-directed by Godard with the Dziga Vertov group in 1969, 'Pravda's a direct attack to revisionism and socialist imperialism. With his usual collage of images taken from real life, the film's structured as a letter which a man writes to a woman called Rosa.

Tells the love story between a young Czech woman and an attractive but womanizing Canadian, who is a temporary coach of the Finnish field hockey team.

Lieutenant Jares from the Ostrava CID is transferred to Prague due to some work inconveniences. His co-workers are his colleague Bílek, whom he knows from earlier years, and a young, dedicated Ivan.

After two drinks struggling fashion designer Brigitte becomes brutally honest which baffles and then enchants all males she meets including composer Stefan, and she even disarms her scheming landlady and jealous rival Beate.

Ji Chang wants to be the best archer in the world. He seeks out a master who is able, at a distance, to shoot a single leaf off a tree. Over several years, the apprentice studies with the master. Finally, after mastering the techniques, as well as his own ambition, he sets off for the mountains, home of a legendary master of archery...

A simple, albeit dramatic story. A life in fragmented memories, retold and relived in luminous, evocative images. Visually and aurally overwhelming, this astounding dramatized documentary is a rich retelling of one woman's story - the inspiring tale of Czech-born Johanna Kimla Ocenaskova. Combining animation, period dramatization, archival footage and elaborate hand-tinting and re-filming, animator/director Lynn-Maree Milburn's first solo work is a beautiful, highly original and deeply moving film. A kind of intimate epic, Memories and Dreams recounts Jo's life journey, through a concentration camp, the loss of her family and other harrowing incidents in the embattled Europe of the 30s and 40s, finally to emerge in a strange new land called Australia. Disavowing conventional documentary style, the film seems to float in a pool of recollected consciousness, where memory has defined the most important experiences; the real, the symbolic, the ephemeral, and sets them in gripping historical context. Five years in the making and the result of an elaborate and painstaking production process, Memories and Dreams gathers and builds into a memorable mosaic, mapping out the intense extremes of persistence, loss and personal survival, as endured by an exceptionally passionate and independent spirit.

A new glimpse at Czechoslovakia's western border now that the Iron Curtain has been raised, centering around ancient Prague.

The film captures the excited political atmosphere in March 1968 Czechoslovakia when president Antonin Novotny stepped down and Ludvik Svoboda was elected a new president. The then top political figures are filmed during their day to day meetings, often during their personal conversations. Thus a mosaic of shots portraying the spirit of those times is created.

This entry in James A. FitzPatrick's Traveltalks series looks at Czechoslovakia, before World War II, including images of bridges, churches, and castles in Prague, with a non-military parade through the city.

The simple, naive appearing worker Mister Hrstka has a second, secret part time job his regular colleagues do not know about.