Alexander Hammid Movies

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

A documentary about the conquest of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis just prior to World War 2.

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

Karel Plicka was also cinematographer of this short movie. Editor in charge was Alexander Hackenschmied. There is an extraordinary emotional charge,...

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

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....

Four episodes on the theme of human hope and survival set in Santambrogio, Italy; Fermathe, Haiti; British Columbia and Kjeller in Norway.

Probably the best-known advertising film for Bata, where joke and irony meet commercial purposes. Tires are sent from rural countryside to the...

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

Night Journey, the dance, had its premiere only two and a half years after Appalachian Spring, and it is a close cousin. It too has a...

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

A cinematic poem with an impressive soundtrack that complements and completes the cinematic sketches of the folk culture of the Slovak nation...

A 13-minute documentary film depicting life in Prague.

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

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

We accompany the 90-year-old filmmaker Alexander Hammid on a stroll through New York, wandering with him through the outer and inner landscapes of...

Youth in Canada learning to come to terms with the world in which they have to live. A picture of the journey to adulthood - a composite of many...

This first true Czech avant-garde film turns away from a purely celebratory approach to the city. The camera follows a detached protagonist on his...