Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives
Film, Photo and Sound Collections
The over 10.000 hours of film and video collections at Blinken OSA come from various sources: individual donors, independent media groups, human rights organizations and private archives, while others were created by the OSA. The Film Catalog highlights 57 moving image collections with individual curatorial introductions. The Film Catalog, thus, is an alternative, media-specific entry point to OSA’s collections which supplements the main Catalog. By creating it, we hoped to assist researchers in locating and exploring our unique documentary, propaganda, fiction and television film collections.
 A wide range of independent Serbian TV programs critical of the Milošević regime, broadcast 1993-1996, presenting opposition and dissident views on the wars and... |
 Serbian state TV presents politics after Dayton: news, documentaries and features 1996-1999. |
 Bosnian-Herzegovinan state TV presents politics after Dayton: news, documentaries and features 1996-1999. |
 Croatian state TV presents politics after Dayton: news, documentaries and features 1996-1998. |
 A unique collection of experimental filmmaker Árpád Ajtony, including his own works, both completed films and fragments, and “media junk” collected by himself.
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 Former Soviet dissidents, high-level Party functionaries and their relatives talk to the Hungarian Kremlinologist Miklós Kun. |
 Complete proceedings of the ICTY trial of Duško Tadić, as well as recordings related to the Karadžić, Mladić and Blaškić trials. |
 Hungary at home, at play, and revolting on the streets: amateur home movies documenting six decades, including rare footage of 1956. |
 Audio interviews with amateur filmmakers and family members about the everyday family life and events recorded in home movies against the backdrop of greater... |
 The ordeals, personal stories and ambiguities of Hungarian and European twentieth-century history: documentary films directed by Péter Forgács incorporating... |
 Interview transcripts that help use the original audio material, which are themselves a supplement to an amazing home movie collection.
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 Tens of thousands of amateur photos from the years 1983 and 1989. The lives, homes, holidays of unknown citizens, but it is possible that you will recognize someone... |
 Voices from "the zone": interviews with survivors of the Chernobyl disaster ten years after the fact. |
 Two quasi-samizdat Hungarian television news series that strove for balanced coverage of the 1994 election campaigns during the first ‘media war’, and which also... |
 Fighting Comrades: over thirty years of Hungarian Workers' Militia documentary and propaganda films, 1958-1989. |
 A decade of International Monitor Institute coverage of the wars in the former Yugoslavia, incorporating extremely divergent perspectives on the conflict, and... |
 The Burmese Uprising of 1988 and its aftermath, as seen and documented by amateur filmmakers, human rights activists, Western journalists, and state propagandists. |
 Raw and edited documentation of the Khmer Rouge dictatorship, its genocidal policies and their aftermath. |
 First-hand raw and edited documentation of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, including materials produced by amateur filmmakers, journalists and international... |
 Documentation, local and international coverage from 1995-2000 of the eleven-year civil war in Sierra Leone, including interviews with amputees and child soldiers,... |