Open-Access International Films
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China
《我们俩》(2005)
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Artes Liberales (Documentary) (2018)
"This documentary film explores the concept of “liberal arts education” and the perceptions of how international students from China feel about the liberal arts education system in the US. It brings a blend of interviews with professors, scholars, parents and students, discussing the academic challenges these Chinese students may face when they pursue higher education in the US."(More information can be found at the Mulan International Film Festival)
France
"An entire Hong Kong martial-arts picture entirely repurposed into, as Dangerous Minds’ Richard Metzger puts it, “a critique of class conflicts, bureaucratic socialism, the failures of the French Communist Party, Maoism, cultural hegemony, sexual equality and the way movies prop up Capitalist ideology.”
Human (2015)
"What is it that makes us human? Is it that we love, that we fight ? That we laugh ? Cry ? Our curiosity ? The quest for discovery ?
Driven by these questions, filmmaker and artist Yann Arthus-Bertrand spent three years collecting real-life stories from 2,000 women and men in 60 countries. Working with a dedicated team of translators, journalists and cameramen, Yann captures deeply personal and emotional accounts of topics that unite us all; struggles with poverty, war, homophobia, and the future of our planet mixed with moments of love and happiness."
http://www.human-themovie.org/
Germany
Dinner for One (1963)
In Germany, every year on December 31st, TV networks broadcast an 18-minute-long black and white two-hander comedy skit - Dinner For One. The skit was recorded in 1963 by Germany’s Norddeutscher Rundfunk television station and performed by the British comics Freddie Frinton and May Warden. The duo depicted an aging butler serving his aristocratic mistress, Miss Sophie, dinner on the occasion of her 90th birthday.
Korea
Korean Film Archive (on YouTube)
Watch 125 Korean Feature Films free on the Korean Film Archive on YouTube. Highlights include A Hometown in Heart and A Coachman, the first Korean film to win awards internationally. Many other titles like Aimless Bullet and The Barefooted Young are available in HD.
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References
1,150 Free Movies Online: Great Classics, Indies, Noir, Westerns, etc. Open Culture. https://www.openculture.com/freemoviesonline.
我们俩. (2005). YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_jy4hSWwAw&ab_channel=NickBrock.
Artes Liberales. (2018). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbBqJaiX0Ls&ab_channel=MoToneMedia.
Dinner for One. (1963). YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVd_VLO9xcc&ab_channel=Cheeseford.
Human The movie (Director's cut version). (2015) YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fC5qucSk18w&ab_channel=HUMANthemovie.
Korean Film Archive. https://eng.koreafilm.or.kr/main.
La Dialectique Peut-Elle Casser Des Briques?/Can Dialectics Break Bricks? (1973). YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjUNY0433Do&ab_channel=BobbyPinto.
YouTube. Korean Classic Film. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvH6u_Qzn5RQdz9W198umDw.