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The city of Isfahan, the ancient Persian capital and its stunning architecture, arts and traditions are featured in this documentary. Words and narrations are by the late Iranian poet, Ahmad Shamloo.

A look at the ceramics of the ancient Peruvians and cinema today.

A short film about all facets of the Parisian Gothic basilica, which features both a cathedral and a necropolis, the latter containing tombs of French kings, from the 10th to the 19th century. With excerpts from Bossuet's funeral orations and quotes from Suger, abbot at Saint-Denis during the 12th century.

Partially Buried Woodshed, one of Smithson's iconic works, was executed at Kent State University in Ohio in January 1970. The piece was created by partially burying an empty shed under mounds of dirt with a backhoe until the shed's roof beam collapsed. The physical structure has long since been degraded by weather, vandalism and neglect; it has "gone back to the land," as the artist expected. However, the infamous Kent State shootings in May of 1970, in which National Guardsmen opened fire on students protesting the Vietnam War, killing four of them, has lent Smithson's entropic monument a peculiar historical resonance as a metaphorical locus of the forces and conflicts of its era.

Using the example of 16-year-old, physically disabled Wolfgang, the film shows how non-disabled people can help a disabled person and what should be avoided. It also shows that the tense behavior on both sides is caused by fear and insecurity and that the disabled person can also do something wrong, i.e. is a completely normal person.

From its origins in Trinidad and Tobago to its status as one of the world’s most popular musical instruments, musicians such as Ellie Mannette and Pete Seeger talk shop and explain what they love about this extraordinary instrument.

Kazimierz Mucha's film is dedicated to a famous Polish contemporary artist - Magdalena Abakanowicz. She talks about her work and personal life. In addition, the viewer has an insight into the artist's work.

It shows Korea’s traditional colors and culture through the use of superimposing. It is an experimental film, which not only tries to show Korean traditional culture through the use of color, but also tries to show the modern history of Korea.

Joe and Maxi is a film about Maxi Cohen's relationship with her father, made when she was 23 and after her mother died of cancer. This intimate and revealing documentary portrait of a family reveals the barriers to expressing and accepting love.

A documentary portrait of journalist I. F. Stone, focusing on his work as the publisher and sole writer of I.F. Stone’s Weekly. Directed by Jerry Bruck Jr., the film examines Stone’s reporting methods, working habits, and major investigations, tracing how his independently produced newsletter became an influential voice in American political journalism during the Cold War era.

This short documentary film illustrates the various ways people fight the high cost of energy by devising ingenious ways to use wood, the sun, and the wind. The film highlights one such project named the Ark. Using natural systems only, this bio-shelter ingeniously provides housing, heat, food and electricity for an entire family.

Report explaining the theories of the origin of man in Peruvian territory.

Visits the Zulu Independent Churches of South Africa to explore the black African response to Christianity. Traces the history of religious beliefs in Africa, from the arrival of the first Christian missionaries to the current rediscovery of the African religious identity

A high adventure film that captures the beauty and excitement of Africa with spectacular displays of wildlife and tense, intriguing action.

This is the story of John Andrews, world-famous Australian architect. In the mid-1960s, when only 29, Andrews was commissioned to design Scarborough College at Toronto University. One of the world’s first ‘megastructures’, it was an important experiment in urban and educational planning. Andrews also designed the Canadian National Tower in Toronto, which was the tallest freestanding structure in the world at the time it was built.

Lekeitio is one of the most important fishing villages in the Cantabrian Sea. The film shows the way of life of the sea.

In mud flats along the coast of Brittany we watch acera, small ball-shaped mollusks that are about two inches in diameter. They rest in mud; then, in water, they dance, their skirt-like hood spreading like a dervish's cassock. They spin and spin. The film adds musical accompaniment. We watch them mate and secrete eggs: acera are both male and female, and can form chains with other acera in which they simultaneously mate as a male and as a female. The eggs hatch, and the cycle begins again.

An exploration of the wild desolation of West Cork, Beara is a landscape film featuring the unique flora and fauna of the Beara Peninsula off the coast of Cork. The film begins with a slow zoom in on the Beara Peninsula on a map of Ireland. What follows is a breathtaking depiction of nature. Raging waterfalls, stunning water reflections, turbulent waves, sea cliffs, bathing birds and nesting puffins form some of the striking imagery of this film.

Exu, Uma Tragédia Sertaneja, aired on January 16, 1979, portrayed the fight between the Sampaio and Alencar families, in the Pernambuco city of Exu, which had dragged on since 1949 with violent deaths side by side. Shown as a Globo Repórter Documento, directed by Eduardo Coutinho, it featured testimonies by singer and composer Luiz Gonzaga, born in Exu, and members of both families. Even a federal intervention was suggested to end the conflict.

In November 1977 Vídeo-Nou drew up the proposal Projecte inicial d'estudi de les formes de vida i cultura popular als barris de Barcelona, and the Fundació Serveis de Cultura Popular became interested in and supported the initiative. The video Intervention in the neighbourhood of Can Serra (L'Hospitalet de Llobregat) was carried out from January to March 1978. Four videos were made as part of the project: Qué viene el metro!, Història Urbanística, Escuela de adultos and El barrio de las fiestas. The video was prepared and produced with the participation of the residents. It presents the process of speculative urban construction of the Can Serra neighbourhood, with interventions by neighbours, architects and local representatives. This video opened the debate on the present and future of the neighbourhood. Video-Nou's intervention in Can Serra was the first attempt to use video as an instrument to dynamise social and community life in Spain.

Winifred, the geriatric daughter-in-law of the famed composer Richard Wagner, talks about her cultural and political influence during the Third Reich. Yet in contradiction to the films's title, Winifred confesses nothing. The contradictions within her discourse do, however, reveal the extent of her delusions and political commitment as an unrepentant fascist. She paradoxically describes herself as a completely apolitical being, adamant that her classification as a grade three Nazi at the end of the war was a grave injustice. Still Winifred cannot contain her amusement when she recalls that after the collapse of the Third Reich, she was the only person left in Germany who would admit that she was a Nazi.

The importance of conserving the vicuña in its natural habitat does not prevent the use of its wool, unique in the world.

Includes 8 films: Promise Her Anything But Give Her The Kitchen Sink, Shooting Star, Standup & Be Counted, Adam's Birth, Sweet Dreams, Folly, Women & Children At Large, and One On The Same. "Freude combines the most glorious artifacts of California living with a melange of domestic, maternal, and wholly personal symbols. The result is a free-flowing pastiche whose essence is the filmmaker's love of husband, babies, friends, and West Coast. Freude's work is a rare example of feminist filmmaking infused with humor, poetry, and sensuality." —Karen Cooper

The figure stood on the tops of two twenty-foot ladders, one foot on each ladder, and leaned against the outside wall of a warehouse. Two assistants took ten rolls of two-inch masking tape and stuck the figure to the wall, defying gravity, until sundown. –Jill Scott on Taped, 1975

This film is not a document about madness, any more than a film-truth investigation. It is a reflection of the experience of the Club Antonin Artaud's theater group (social and cultural rehabilitation center for the mentally ill, located in the Begijnhof district of Brussels and in which Boris Lehman was a leader for many years). Through the playful and instinctive creation of a piece built from collective improvisations, the actors' desire is expressed to "not stagnate, to be able to get away with it and to stand on its own".

The city of Almalyk in Uzbekistan and the city of Kirovsk on the Kola Peninsula are strongly connected. These are two links in one big chain of development of the national economy in the country. The richest apatite deposit is being developed on the Kola Peninsula. And in Fertilizers are produced from them at a chemical plant in Uzbekistan. The yields of grain and vegetables, as well as their domestic consumption and exports, largely depend on the efforts of the apatite miners at the Khibiny deposit.

This film shows the Polish master animator Jan Lenica working on his film Landscape, and explores the relationship of the artist between the real world and his fantasy visions.

Zivko Nikolic portrays a Montenegrin village in the post-epic period, while at the same time presenting the sad reality in the form of poor, unfortunate and mentally handicapped people, whom the epics circumvents.

Florence Mayfield, an elderly lifelong resident of East Dallas, reminisces about the neighborhood and the many changes it has seen during her lifetime.

In this episode, Rev. J.J. Buskes.

First transmitted in 1979, this programme looks at the Rainhill Locomotive Trials in Rainhill, Lancashire (now Merseyside) in 1829, a competition to find the best passenger steam locomotive in Britain.On the 150th anniversary of the trials, replicas of its famous winner - Stephenson's 'Rocket' - and two of its competitors are rebuilt by modern day designers, and the trials are reconstructed in Hyde Park.

Documentary short film about the Antwerp harbour.

A documentary Ichikawa made for the 1970 Osaka Expo, originally made for projection on eight split panels.

The Irish Tapes is the first major documentary shot on portable 1/2 inch videotape. Directors Irish-Americans John Reilly and Stefan Moore filmed over a three-year period in the early 1970s with the support of the National Association for Irish Freedom, a US group associated with the Official IRA. Originally shown as a three-channel, twelve-monitor video installation, it was later edited for broadcast on television in the US in 1975.

A documentary about socialising and society in early 1970s New Zealand.

A shadowy man in black warns viewers of the perils of forgetting to follow the simple two second rule - that is, keeping a sufficient distance from the car ahead when driving. Directed by John Krish, who made numerous similarly macabre films, this is one of three public information films produced as a series on public road safety. The images from the series may no longer be familiar to everyone, but the slogan is still in use today.

Directed by Reza Allamehzadeh.

Chick Strand's SOFT FICTION is a personal documentary that brilliantly portrays the survival power of female sensuality. It combines the documentary approach with a sensuous lyrical expressionism. Strand focuses her camera on people talking about their own experience, capturing subtle nuances in facial expressions and gestures that are rarely seen in cinema. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 2015.

In Nyae Nyae, water often remains in open pans. Sometimes if the rains have been heavy, water stays in these pans, like small lakes, all year. In this film five Ju/'hoan men visit Nama pan. /Ti!kay washes the clothes he acquired on his trip to rescue his band's wives from a farm (as shown in An Argument About a Marriage). The other men bathe. The men use the opportunity to exchange sexual jokes with pleasure and hilarity. This film provides an interesting comparison with A Group of Women.

In 1969, the federal government expropriated two hundred and fifteen families in eight towns of New Brunswick in order to build a national park. Not only did these families lose their homes and their memories, they also lost their livelihoods.

Montage film about the life of Eva Perón. Produced in 1970, it was banned in 1971 by the military dictatorship and finally authorized in 1973 by the Peronist government. It premiered in 1974.

A ballet impression with the participation of pantomime artists, recorded during a rehearsal in the studio and outdoor locations.

A 1975 documentary short about how children perceive themselves in terms of their surroundings, family, and ethnicity.

Explanation of the making of reed boats, a pre-Columbian form of navigation and fishing that survives on northern beaches such as Huanchaco and others.

Reconstitution, through photos, films and texts, of the arrival in Brazil of the poet Cendrars, in 1924. Tributes received, visits throughout the country and the desire to make a "100 percent Brazilian film". Testimonials from figures who lived with the intensity of the core of modernist artists: Tarcila do Amaral, Oswald de Andrade, Mário de Andrade and Di Cavalcanti. Scenes from São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, São Martinho Farm and the 1924 Revolution. Scenes from the movie LES HEURES CHAUDES DE MONTPARNASSE. Reference to Aleijadinho and Febrônio Indio do Brasil.