Alexander Hammid Movies

Film on the refugee situation in Austria as a result of Hungarian Revolution of 1956.

This documentary interweaves celluloid and voice recordings by Maya Deren, and colleagues who knew her firsthand: Jean Rouch, Jonas Mekas, Alexander...

A BAFTA award nominated documentary studying Hungarian refugee problems after the October 1956 revolution. Shot on the Austro-Hungarian frontier and...

A 13-minute documentary film depicting life in Prague.

Maya Deren is a legend of avant-garde cinema. This authoritative biography of the charismatic filmmaker, poet and anthropologist features excerpts...

A 1945 Oscar nominated short documentary about the Library of Congress. It is one of 26 documentary shorts produced between 1942 and 1945 by the U.S....

A documentary featuring musicians including Artur Rubinstein, Jan Peerce-Nadine Conner, and Jascha Heifetz.

1948 ARC Identifier 46998 / Local Identifier 306.131. FEATURES THE PERSONALITY, PHILOSOPHY, TECHNIQUES AND ARTISTRY OF EDWARD WESTON, AS SHOWN...

A documentary of peasant life in an isolated village in the Carpathian Mountains of Slovakia, starting in early spring and ending after the harvest.

Husband and wife struggle to attain a balance of power in their marriage in this neorealist social guidance film.

On the coast of Yugoslavia lives fisherman Ivo Kralj, his wife Marie, son Vuk, and Ivo's mother in one happy home. Marie, who loves her husband and...

Short story film about a derelict and forgotten character hiding in a room somewhere in South America.

"To Be Alive!" was designed to celebrate the common ground between different cultures by tracing how children in various parts of the world mature...

Post-World War II film for young couples advising them of means to strengthen their marriages. Shows how two young couples have built lasting...

A man and a woman meet on the streetcar. Six years ago, they were close . . .

Dramatization of the experience of a young married couple whose quarrels undermine their happiness and prevent the development of adult love based on...

In 1932 Hammid bought a handheld camera Bell-Howell and made his second film, Na Pražském hradě [Prague Castle], in close...

U.S. Goverment film about the creation of the Tennessee Valley Authority in the 1930s and 1940s.