Alexander Hammid Movies

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

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

On the coast of Yugoslavia lives fisherman Ivo Kralj, his wife Marie, son Vuk, and Ivo's mother in one happy home. Marie, who loves her husband and...

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

Documentary examining the conflicts between the coming of modernization and the traditional culture of a small Mexican village.

Documentary about the life of avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren, who led the independent film movement of the 1940s.

Cashier Ferdyš Pištora goes to rob the villa of banker Rosenštok. At that moment, a fire breaks out and Ferdyš saves the...

About a derelict and forgotten character hiding in a room somewhere in South America.

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....

An unknown gang has again broken into a van containing money from the European bank. Banker Sam Hamilton decides to use an armoured car for the next...

Commissioned by the U.S. Office of War Information, this short film features conductor Arturo Toscanini leading the NBC Symphony Orchestra, tenor Jan...

Alexander Hammid's sensitive narrative of how a pre-adolescent boy is helped by a psychiatrist to come to terms with his feelings.

Promotional film extolling the wonders to be seen at the New York World's Fair.

The River of Life and Death captures the slow time in the well-known Indian pilgrimage place of Benares, the act of purification by water, the...

A woman washes up on a beach and embarks on a surreal journey, encountering others and fragmented versions of herself in a quest for identity.

In 1932 Hammid bought a handheld camera Bell-Howell and made his second film, Na Pražském hradě [Prague Castle], in close...

A school boy cannot think what to write in an essay assignment about spring. His father cannot come up with any new ideas either.

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