All Men Become Brothers

Forman vs. Forman

2019

A moving account, in his own words, of the personal life and work of the brilliant Czech filmmaker Miloš Forman (1932-2018): his tragic childhood, his major contribution to the cultural movement known as the Czech New Wave, his exile in Paris, his troubled days in New York, his rise to stardom in Hollywood; a complete existence in the service of cinema.

2 or 3 Things I Know About Him

2005

What would your family reminiscences about dad sound like if he had been an early supporter of Hitler’s, a leader of the notorious SA and the Third Reich’s minister in charge of Slovakia, including its Final Solution? Executed as a war criminal in 1947, Hanns Ludin left behind a grieving widow and six young children, the youngest of whom became a filmmaker. It's a fascinating, maddening, sometimes even humorous look at what the director calls "a typical German story." (Film Forum)

Czechoslovakia on Parade

1938

This FitzPatrick Traveltalk series short looks at Czechoslovakia before World War II, including images of bridges, churches, and castles in Prague, also a non-military parade through the city.

Moje století

2019

Česká cesta

2016

The story of the Czechoslovak economic transformation of the 1990s, especially the famous method of coupon privatisation, which was both the core and a kind of signboard of this process.

Na tý louce zelený

1968

Confusion

1969

Showing his own original footage of Prague Spring, director Evald Schorm describes the atmosphere these days in 1968.

The Flying Fercos

2024

The Flying Fercos delves into the lives of a family who shared their home-and their stage-with over 20 lions, tigers, and panthers.