Peter Davis

The work of strippers in the Phoenix Club of Old Compton Street, Soho. Includes interviews with the girls, the stage show and backstage scenes.

One of three London sketches directed by Peter Davis, Pub was filmed at the Approach Tavern on Approach Road, leading up to Victoria Park in East...

A documentary overview and ideological critique of the South African film industry and cinema's historical relationship with apartheid.

A documentary overview and ideological critique of the South African film industry and cinema's historical relationship with apartheid.

A documentary overview and ideological critique of the South African film industry and cinema's historical relationship with apartheid.

An incisive satire on U.S. foreign policy, THIS BLOODY BLUNDERING BUSINESS traces the history of American intervention in the Philippines following...

At its peak, one million New York Jews spent their summers in the Borscht Belt, the birthplace of Jewish-American iconoclastic humor. This film shows...

At its peak, one million New York Jews spent their summers in the Borscht Belt, the birthplace of Jewish-American iconoclastic humor. This film shows...

Documentary of the Symposium on the Dialectics of Liberation and the Demystification of Violence, held in London, July 1967, organized by R.D.Laing,...

Documentary of the Symposium on the Dialectics of Liberation and the Demystification of Violence, held in London, July 1967, organized by R.D.Laing,...

About a group of "Rockers" who belong to a British motorcycle club. Included are interviews with both male and female bikers. The film is largely...

This biography of the well known scientist and nature program host details his early life as a child in a WW2 internment camp and the development of...

A documentary overview and ideological critique of the South African film industry and cinema's historical relationship with apartheid.

The play, Sizwe Bansi is Dead, follows the main character, Sizwe, as he writes to his wife after an unsuccessful search for a new job and better life...

A fascinating, unsettling study of immigration in 1960s English cities.

Uses archival photographs, newsreel footage, and interviews to chronicle the quest by Black South Africans for economic viability and individual...

Uses archival photographs, newsreel footage, and interviews to chronicle the quest by Black South Africans for economic viability and individual...

Explores the history of the Afrikaners and Afrikaner nationalism, and the development of apartheid and its relevance to South Africa's political...

Friends and contemporaries of the great English writer recall remarkable episodes from his life and times.

News documentary from 1968 hosted by George Foster, exploring the legacy of oppression that remains over 100 years after the abolition of that...

News documentary from 1968 hosted by George Foster, exploring the legacy of oppression that remains over 100 years after the abolition of that...

A film about the career and methods of the master silent comedy filmmaker.

Documentary about the first self-made American millionairess, Madam C.J. Walker.

A stimulating, hilarious, provocative collection of the best American films dealing with you-know-what. Prize-winning films chosen by judges Gore...

On March 7, 1967, 40 million Americans tuned in to watch CBS Reports: The Homosexuals, network television’s first documentary on homosexuality....

During the more than a quarter of a century that her husband spent in jail, Winnie Mandela was persecuted by the white authorities, first to put...

This is the story of the life of the pre-eminent figures of the twentieth century, Nelson Mandela, up until his release after 27 years of prison. It...