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The earliest home of life on Earth was probably in the warm shallows of the ocean...

A poetic impression about the work of the Polish graphic artist and set designer Daniel Mróz.

The theme is that even if the prostitution prohibition law is enforced, as long as the female body continues to exist, "prostitute" sex is eternal. , a report on “prostitutes and prostitution” that is fantastically depicted by Yoichi Takabayashi.

"This is the story of a search, that of a woman in pursuit of her own identity. This woman, Marie-Noëlle Kauffmann, ventures into the world of representation, meets four characters who, each in their own way, give her a key to cross the five sequences/initiations of the film which are all benchmarks that she must absolutely cross to have an answer to the question: Can cinema help find a lost balance?" -Gerard Courant

Hans-Dieter Grabe accompanies Mendel Schainfeld on his second journey to Germany.

The "La Villeneuve" project in Grenoble aims at the genuine creation of a total community in the city core. It is a remarkable undertaking, both in its comprehensiveness and in its dependence on real collaboration between the public and all levels of government.

A documentary directed by Tadayoshi Himeda

This short film presents Mr. Bate, an inventor who discovers a substitute for gasoline in barnyard manure. Even though he fits the classic mould of single-minded know-how and practical dreamer, his discovery is tried and tested. He demonstrates how his home-made digester does turn manure into potent methane gas that powers his auto. And for good measure, he demonstrates his latest sustainable invention – a bicycle powered by the bumps on the road.

Centered around the emergence of Constructivism, Futurism, Surrealism and Dada, Beyond Cubism takes a closer look at the artists who ignited the new movements and the alterations of artistic culture brought forth by World War II. Creating out of their philosophy and ideology, artists such as Vladimir Tatlin, Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore pushed sculpture to new limits of abstraction and possibility, feverently building on their predecessors.

"STREET FILM PART IV is an odyssey. In its search for the greater meaning of things, the camera portrays (rather than reports) essential human handiwork. Corn is pressed from the cob by worn thumbs, practiced hands spin twine. Doors open. Cattle are branded. A small sparkling plane takes us through the clouds and into the mountains. Everything and nothing is within our grasp. Simple acts are either full of meaning or devoid of meaning. The longest scene in this rarefied look at simple pastimes is of a native woman patting and baking tortillas." - Barbara Kossy

Three years after the fall of Saigon, Pilger returns to examine the new regime

Polemical short documentary, produced by Cinequipe.

A film about the "Icelanders' Day" in Gimli in Manitoba in 1975, commemorating the 100 year settlement of Icelanders in Canada.

Presents a discussion among human sexuality specialists and handicapped individuals concerning attitudinal problems facing the handicapped. Techniques are presented for encouraging complete sexual development in the handicapped, and sexual problems of the handicapped are confronted.

An emphasis is placed on the urbanization of a population traditionally skilled in manipulative abilities, and the adaptation of industry to the necessity of importing almost all raw materials. The film also shows the resultant changes in agriculture and the highly organized tourist industry.

Documentary exploring the thirty-seven years of preparatory work that director Carl Th. Dreyer did for "Jesus of Nazareth" – a film that was never produced.

Newsreel of the third Festival of the Arts in the Nigerian city of Ife, launched in the city’s university. A celebration of the arts (traditional music, photography, sculpture, handicrafts, cinema) confronting the continent’s anglophone and francophone hemispheres. Among others, the report features the Nigerian Nobel Prize-winning playwright, poet, writer and essayist Wole Soyinka, the Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembène and the Martinique playwright Aimé Césaire, who premiered the English version of The Tragedy of King Christophe in Ife for the occasion.

Short documentary follows a group of provincial school pupils on their excursion to the capital, and their visit to the concert of Zagreb Philharmonic in Vatroslav Lisinski national music hall.

Legendary Yugoslav progressive rock band Smak on their American tour.

Documentary about the strike of March 1976 in the Panama Canal, promoted by the United States.

The poet Donald Campbell gives workshops in an Edinburgh high school.

Short film directed by Walter Knoop

Documentary about the film pioneer Guido Seeber.

The film describes in a simple way the division between girls and boys through education by assigning them different behaviors based on their sex difference.

Swedish documentary from 1977. The film is about the last starvation year in Sweden, the emergency year 1867 in Ångermanland. It is a story about people who are hurting, but also about efforts from the outside world to help the developing country Sweden out of the crisis. SVT's documentary filmmaker Olle Häger passed away in November 2014. We remember him by showing some of his appreciated films during the summer.

This film focuses on an old Palestinian man who is the subject of artist Ismail Shammout’s painting Memories and Fire. The film unravels his memories using archival photographs and Shammout’s own paintings to tell the story of Palestinian experience and resistance. By simply using a montage of visuals and sounds and avoiding narration, Shammout adopts a style that was used by early Soviet filmmakers who wished to communicate across language boundaries, creating a film that offered an non-verbal narrative of the Palestinian cause. The film was screened at a variety of festivals in the former Soviet Union and won a prize at the International Leipzig Documentary and Short Film Week for Cinema and Television in 1973. Recently restored and digitized.

Three black families, observed in their daily lives, their thoughts, values, and aspirations expressed on the soundtrack, and their different approaches to the struggle for survival in contemporary society and their methods of coping with the contradictory stresses placed on the individual in the family environment.

In 1972 a coal-waste dam owned by the Pittston Company collapsed at the head of a crowded hollow in southern West Virginia. A wall of sludge, debris, and water tore through the valley below, leaving in its wake 125 dead and 4,000 homeless. Interviews with survivors, representatives of union and citizen’s groups, and officials of the Pittston Company are juxtaposed with actual footage of the flood and scenes of the ensuing devastation. As reasons for the disaster are sought out and examined, evidence mounts that company officials knew of the hazard in advance of the flood, and that the dam was in violation of state and federal regulations. The Pittston Company, however, continued to deny any wrongdoing, maintaining that the disaster was an “act of God.”

In addition to music by Family and Procol Harum, you can hear a composition of percussive natural sounds—rain drumming on the window—and...

Examines the vastness of media and its effect on daily life. Explains that since the invention of the printing press, the availability of information has expanded rapidly.

Rape, a 30-minute documentary on the crime of rape. First broadcast on CBS in Los Angeles, December, 1972. It is considered the first major television program on the crime of rape.

A film made on the 1100 year anniversary of the settlement of Iceland which gives an overview of Icelandic society and the natural kingdom which Icelanders have made part of their heritage.

Inspired by choreographic fragments of the prestigious dancer Ana Kamien, the filmmaker Marcelo Epstein creates a cinematographic work that, due to its singular concept and language and the year of its realization, is considered the foundational work of what is known today as videodance in Argentina.

Legendary drag performer Ocaña in performance with a cardboard Marilyn on the west side of the Berlin Wall.

In the mid-1950s, with a grant from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Department, wild bird trainer Ed Durden and his eighteen-year-old son, Kent Durden, capture a young golden eagle on a mountain near Santa Barbara, California. They name her “Lady” and house her in a specially constructed mountaintop aerie.

Oscar-nominated documentary follows two doctors as they travel around the world studying how children learn in various cultures. About the founding and operation of The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential.

Presents a four-part series of trigger films designed to raise the consciousness of young adult audiences in an effort to reduce rape among acquaintances. Pt. 1: The party game- How ineffective communication can contribute to sexual assault. Pt. 2: The date- How sex role stereotypes contribute to sexual assault. Pt. 3: Just one of the boys- How peer pressure labeling contributes to sexual assault. Pt. 4: End of the road- How assertiveness can prevent acquaintance rape. Resource person advised.

Indigenous filmmaker Chris Spotted Eagle takes to the streets of Manhattan to interview locals about their views on Native Americans and their place in the US’s national identity.

From 1974 to 1977, Lucas Vereertbrugghen and his crew filmed anonymously under the name 'The Present as History' in Nazareth, Acre, and Galilee, where Palestinians lived in bleak conditions. They also filmed in the occupied territories of Jerusalem and Ramallah and, with the help of a friendly Palestinian couple, in several destroyed villages in the Golan Heights and Gaza. Everything was shot on Super 8, both for financial reasons and to preserve secrecy. The film was later converted to 16 mm and won a bronze medal at the Baghdad Festival in 1978.

March 1977. Just before the municipal elections, the people of Aulnay-sous-Bois, France share their expectations regarding the town, housing, urban planning and the start of deindustrialization in the suburbs.

This feature documentary offers an incisive look at Canadian politics at the 1976 Progressive Conservative Party leadership convention. Cape Bretoner Flora MacDonald is campaigning for the Party’s leadership, the first woman to do so. We follow MacDonald behind the scenes as she works with her staff to prepare policy, speeches, and strategies to win the race. We also get a glimpse of MacDonald’s sprightly and upbeat attitude as she puts her best foot forward in front of voters, media, and the Party’s elite.

An exploration of the nature of journalism that focuses on Fukuoka Nichi Nichi newspaper reporter Kikutake Sunao, with reenactments of scenes from his life, in which he is portrayed by the actor Mikuni Rentaro.

From a monastery in Makarska preserving an extremely valuable shell collection, we embark underwater. We study the life of the shell named after St. Jacob. It is a shell which can even jump, but sometimes it’s still not enough to escape its sworn enemy, the red comb star.

Made for German television, the "script" of this semi-documentary account of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's life consists of the actual letters written to and by composer, while performers act out the events onscreen. The film covers Mozart's creative output from ages seven to 20. Compositions written after the film's time frame are also heard on the omnipresent soundtrack. As a bonus to music purists, the original orchestrations -- and original instruments -- are utilized.

The Peruvian sea, due to the sediments carried by rivers flowing down from the Andes, is very rich in mineral nutrients that serve as food for microscopic phytoplankton and zooplankton. These organisms are the first link in the food chain.

Šimunić uses double exposure to combine footage of people and scenes from 1970s Belgrade with garish images from television shows containing elements of pornography to create an illusory film. He joins scenes from everyday life with his penchant for erotica. This debut film, which took five years to make, uses visual games to explore the limits of the human perception.

This short documentary profiles 27-year-old Scoggie Watson, a Cape Breton stalwart who clings to the things he cherishes most: the waters of Lake Bras d'Or, his hand-built sailboat, his freedom, and the friends who stayed in Cape Breton instead of leaving for the big cities.

The migration that saw the fishermen from the Vieira coast move inland, where they settled and formed the Avieiros communities. - Cinéma du réel

This series comprised six lectures on music, which cumulatively took the title of a work by Charles Ives, The Unanswered Question. Bernstein drew analogies to other disciplines, such as poetry, aesthetics, and especially linguistics, hoping to make these lectures accessible to an audience with limited or no musical experience, while maintaining an intelligent level of discourse: Phonology is the linguistic study of sounds, or phonemes. Bernstein's application of this term to music results in what he calls "musical phonology".

Essay film from Czech director Vojtech Jasný on his home country.

The Golden Gloves amateur boxing tournament organized by the Peruvian Boxing Federation.

A documentary film that presents the customs and life of the Roma community. Features Bronisława Wajs and Jerzy Ficowski.

A BAFTA award nominated documentary about the importance of paying strict attention to detail by managers, supervisors and staff.