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- Aeroplane Dance - A "story-telling dance" created by the Yanyuwa people that dramatizes the search for a crashed American bomber during World War II.
- Airs in Berberland Part I
- Airs in Berberland Part II
- Aita - Part of the MOROCCO, BODY AND SOUL series of half hour films which present various musical genres being performed in the environments which fostered them.
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- Banguza Timbila - A window into Mozambique's rich musical heritage, 10 timbila players and fifteen dancers the story of Mozambique's struggle for independence.
- Been Rich All My Life - Meet the Silver Belles -- former Apollo Theater showgirls who have danced and performed together for 70 years.
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- Etoiles - A fortuitous blend of Gallic verbosity and sublime artistry, ETOILES - DANCERS OF THE PARIS OPERA BALLET is an unusually articulate look at the competitive world of ballet.
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- The Human Hambone - Celebrates the use of the human body as an instrument, and traces the roots of body music back to 18th-century American history, when slaves were forbidden to use drums, and turned to the body itself as a percussive instrument.
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- Last Dance - Goes behind the scenes with the audacious, innovative Pilobolus Dance Theatre and legendary author-illustrator Maurice Sendak to reveal a stormy collaboration.
- Live Nude Girls Unite! - Follows Julia Query, a peepshow stripper and daughter of a feminist activist, on her raucous journey to help organize the only strippers union in the United States.
- Living Memory - About Mali's ancient culture, and this culture's position in the country today. Exposes tensions in a society assailed by modernization, Islam and global tourism, yet confident that it will maintain its own distinctive character.
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- Machito - The Cuban band leader Frank "Machito" Grillo.
- Mecate: A New Song - This film on the peasants' cultural movement in Nicaragua shows how music, theater, and poetry are part of the peasants' everyday life and also part of their efforts to improve their lives.
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- The Written Face - Offers an insight into the Japanese Kabuki star Tamasaburo Bando, one of the last defenders of this ancient and disappearing performing tradition.
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