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A comic play set against the background of the Air Force.

A one-act tragedy, the play is set at Inishmaan in the Aran Islands, and like all of Synge’s plays it is noted for capturing the poetic dialogue of rural Ireland. The plot is based not on the traditional conflict of human wills but on the hopeless struggle of a people against the impersonal.

TV special about jazz musicians doing a session.

Four young men hitchhike in summer Estonia and visit beautiful places. In the concert film, Heli Lääts and the male quartet of the Estonian Radio sing and popular pop tunes of the 1960s are heard.

A country house on a remote, lonely island: here TV author André has moved to write the last episode of his successful crime honor. But then the island is completely cut off by a flood from the outside world. And what is even more strange: everything André writes in his script happens in reality! So does the scary murder of the final episode. But who among the seven present is the mysterious killer?

Produced by WGBH-TV in Boston, the Medium Is the Medium is one of the earliest and most prescient examples of the collaboration between public television and the emerging field of video art in the U.S. WGBH commissioned artists — Allan Kaprow, Nam June Paik, Otto Piene, James Seawright, Thomas Tadlock and Aldo Tambellini — to create original works for broadcast television. Their works explored the parameters of the new medium, from image processing and interactivity to video dance and sculpture.

A Wild West cow town is starving for entertainment and it falls upon Calamity Jane, a rowdy, gun-toting tomboy, to go to Chicago to bring back a famed stage actress. She brings instead the star's maid, who settles in the town, but Jane's "Secret Love" falls for her. This television special was based on a stage adaptation of the film that was playing regional circuits at the time it aired.

Gustav Vasa struggles to keep power while dealing with the Dacke War in his own country and his foreign debts.

Half-fae-half-mortal shepherd Strephon wants to wed shepherdress Phyllis, but, although she reciprocates his feelings, she has a dilemma — she is so beautiful that all of the House of Lords, as well as her guardian, the Lord Chancellor, are also desirous of marriage.

Based on Edvard Radzinsky's play, the story critically examines the difficulties of a Soviet film production.

A small American town provides the setting for a look at the antics of a group of volunteers who comprise the area's only fire department.

Rejected now by both family and friends, Max has only three weeks left in which to find a solution to his problems.

After participating in more than 100,000 euthanasia crimes during the Nazi era, the former SS psychiatrist and physician Dr. Werner Heyde leads an unmolested life in West Germany after the war under a false name ("Fritz Sawade"). With the help of confidants, he manages to get a job as a medical expert. His true identity remains in the dark for many years. His wife has him declared dead and draws the pension of a psychology professor's widow. After remaining unidentified for ten years, Dr. Heyde is unmasked and arrested one day and found dead in his cell shortly before the start of the trial. The film plot is based on the authentic case of Dr. Werner Heyde.

Seamstress Katinka Stordal is a lonely and tired woman in search of love and freedom. When everyday life gets too much, she goes to Krane's pastry shop.

"Et expecto resurrectionem mortuorum", the work by Olivier Messiaen, was a commission by the Minister of Cultural Affairs André Malraux and was to be performed on the 20 June 1965 at Chartres Cathedral, in the presence of President Charles de Gaulle. This documentary takes place during the rehearsal on the prior day.

A Polish musical short film featuring professional musicians and pianists.

Escaped from jail, Luis finds refuge on a remote island where, it is said, several people have died long ago of a mysterious illness. He discovers a large abandoned villa. One day, a group of people from another time, come in. The villa and the nature around become the theater of strange phenomena…

Susan and Neville begin to have doubts the evening before their wedding.

Alceste has a very low opinion about humanity and is always brutally honest. This gets him into a lot of trouble.

Unfinished version of the immortal story with Jason Robards in the lead role, who was replaced by Jack Palance and the resultant film was released one year later as The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1967).

A macabre film about the experiences of a client who is shaved by a hairdresser-psychopath.

A widower confuses the door and accidentally comes to the house of a lady bored of her lover.

The story of Pavel Duchaj, who starts walking with a cane, which is a sign for the village community that he will soon pass away. Not only the village, but also his closest family feels offended that Duchaj is not dying, that he is resisting fate with various activities.

The oil workers in the Caspian Sea saw a performance by Muslim Magomayev on TV and decided to invite him to their field. One of the oil workers went to Baku to look for Muslim...

A spy barely makes it out of a police ambush and goes on the run, taking a young woman with him along the way.

In the sixteenth century, Queen Elizabeth I (Dame Judith Anderson) is the ruler of England. Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex (Charlton Heston) is her lover, best friend, and worst enemy.

Dzhovanni was so absent-minded boy that in addition to the things and clothes he lost even his body parts all over the city.

When the inland revenue gets an angry mistress's letter exposing a man named Toby as a tax cheat, they quietly put pressure on him. Toby panics, and hires an unscrupulous lawyer named Elvin, but he has a hard time taking his advice.

A shy but righteous teacher - Topaze - with no social skills what so ever, gradually becomes aware of the realities of human societies and finally learns to master the rules at level far superior to his former mentor, Laurent Castel-Benac.

The poor ghost of Sir Simon Canterville has been roaming his castle searching in vain for a brave descendant who will release him from the Canterville curse by performing a brave deed. An American family moves in and finds the ghost amusing, but a young girl in the family can release him - if she dares.

An adaptation Turgenev's play of the same name.

Surrounded by a mix of talented ladies, host Frank Sinatra does his thing.

Written and performed in 1968, Night and Fog is, in Kiš’s words, “a set of lyrical variations on the theme of time and memory”. After 20 years, Andreas Sam returns to a Hungarian village where he spent the war years. Each of the three characters-Andy, Mrs & Mr.Rigo – sees the past in their own way.

The main character is the chekist Fyodor Dyatlov. He is in love with his friend Hippolytus' sister, the educated, intelligent Irina. At the same time, he harshly pursues the younger brother of Hippolytus and Irina Valerik. He is also a security officer, but in his youth he was tempted by a bribe. Fyodor investigates the case himself and puts Valerik in the hands of higher security officers. His possible happiness with Irina and his friendship with Hippolytus are at stake. But Fyodor is a real fanatic of the communist idea. For the sake of principles, he will do anything.

During the Allied retreat on Dunkirk in May 1940, 99 captured English soldiers and officers were shot by an SS unit in a French village. The only survivor of the massacre Albert Pooley stakes health and life to find the murderer of his comrades. The television film shows the international solidarity of ordinary people, who are brought together by the memory of a terrible war crime and make this crime atone for. Based on a factual report by Cyril Jolly.

A Happening in Central Park was performed and taped by video cameras on Saturday, June 17, 1967. The concert, sponsored by Rheingold Beer, and free to the public, was held in the Sheep Meadow section of New York City's Central Park. Barbra's television sponsor, Monsanto, captured the event on videotape for airing on CBS at a later date. Barbra took a weekend off from the filming of Funny Girl to perform the concert. On Friday night, June 16th, Barbra and crew rehearsed until very late. Many photos of Barbra in which she wears a headband were taken the evening of the dress rehearsal. (The cover of Barbra's A Christmas Album is actually a photo from the Friday night dress rehearsal in Central Park.) On that evening she tried on different gowns and worked with hairdresser Fred Glaser on alternate hairstyles. Director Robert Scheerer also worked out some of his camera blocking at the Friday night rehearsal. He utilized seven color video cameras to capture the concert.

Christmastime at the Roman Catholic-run Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia.

When developer John Goggin plans to build a civic center, only Emma Mannering's corset shop stands in the way, and she refuses to sell, so he sends his unscrupulous assistant Ed Crayshaw to "fix" things, but instead, he's double-crossed.

During the war, a nurse finds footwear belonging to a Soviet soldier. The discovery haunts her.

A bumbling art expert, hired by an insurance company to protect a Rembrandt on loan from the Louvre, schemes to steal it.

33 1⁄3 Revolutions per Monkee is a television special starring the Monkees that aired on NBC on April 14, 1969. Produced by Jack Good, guests on the show included Jerry Lee Lewis, Fats Domino, Little Richard, the Clara Ward Singers, the Buddy Miles Express, Paul Arnold and the Moon Express, and We Three. Although they were billed as musical guests, Julie Driscoll and Brian Auger (alongside their then-backing band The Trinity) found themselves playing a prominent role; in fact, it can be argued that the special focused more on the guest stars (specifically, Auger and Driscoll) than the Monkees themselves. This special is notable as the Monkees' final performance as a quartet until 1986, as Peter Tork left the group at the end of the special's production. The title is a play on "​33 1⁄3 revolutions per minute."

Documentary looking at the new independent African states.

A Soviet soldier stays with a Polish family.

The Eastern Kingdom. Princess Shirin is ill with a fatal disease. A mysterious stranger appears in the palace and offers to heal the princess, but in return, her sister, Queen Mehmené-Banu, must sacrifice her beauty and become ugly... The queen agrees, and Shirin recovers. As time passes, the sisters meet the handsome artist Ferhad...

Based on the play by Milan Begović. One day a stunning yacht enters the Split harbor, the owner is an American who served as young boy in local aristocratic household.

Although Rahsaan Roland Kirk and John Cage never actually meet in this film (Cage's enigmatic questions about sound are intercut with some of Kirk's more ambitious experiments with it) these two very different musical iconoclasts share a similar vision of the boundless possibilities of music.

Ken's Loach's first production for The Wednesday Play is a story of a group of criminals planning a robbery, with the unwitting aid of a wealthy, well-connected society acquaintance. But who is the greater villain?

Persuaded by Lysistrata, the women of Athens agree to withdraw all sexual favours from the men until the men agree to end to war with Sparta.

Irakli Andronikov tells about his youth, when his talent as an imitator manifested itself, about his work as a lecturer at the Leningrad Philharmonic, shares his memories of the musicologist and literary scholar I.I.Sollertinsky, about the artists V.I.Kachalov, A.A.Ostuzhev, about the writers M.Gorky and A.N.Tolstoy.

A stranger shows up in an American town, promising a reward for the person who once helped him out of trouble.