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Armenian artist Hakob Hakobian repatriated from Egypt. There, far from his native land he was painting portraits trying to find in the faces of his models Armenian features. In Armenia he is painting also landscapes and even just the sky. Working in his studio he tells about his friends-repatriates. They by themselves, or their parents had survived during the genocide of Armenians in Turkey in 1915, and were dispersed all around the world. We see Hakobian's friends back in Armenia at their work: an old farmer with his big family, a driver, a gas-stove expert.

A documentary of profound irony about the bourgeois dream of establishing a film industry in Brazil in the 1930s. The project in question, the Companhia Americana de Filmes, went bankrupt before finishing its only film, which was called 'Eterna Esperança' (Eternal Hope).

There is a gap separating the surrealism from the Interwar period and that of the post-war era, and that is the way this movement would understand racial difference. At first, the other or "primitive" was the opposite of the bourgeois subject. In this documentary, Sarah Maldoror interviews one of the most influential surrealist poets from the former surrealism, while at the same time we witness the movement's anachronist views regarding the affirmation of other identities.

An interview with biographer and filmmaker Pearl Bowser, whose work concerns the "race films" of 20th century American cinema.

In the midst of a traditional herding territory, a growing town and a new road encroach upon a once-isolated desert people. The complexities brought about by this modernization are shown as two fathers and their sons confront difficult choices between old ways and new.

A midwife goes to medical school to learn modern techniques.

Trial by Fire: A Carrier Fights for Life (1973) was produced by the United States Navy to educate Navy personnel on how to prevent fires and how to control them when they break out on a carrier at sea. The film includes actaul footage of a carrier on fire and the brave crew that worked to extinguish that fire before it became a disaster. Note: There is a background hissing noise on the audio soundtrack from the original film. This film has a runtime of approximately 19 minutes.

Through interviews with store owners, customers, and a supermarket manager, gives insight into changing social values and increasing economic pressures that face small businesses.

A portrait of the life and poetry of Canadian Jewish author, Abraham M. Klein (1909-1972). The poet's interior life is revealed through his writings and with footage of his native Montreal. The impact of the Holocaust, Jewish nationalism, and French-Canadian culture on Klein's work are explored.

All Women Are Equal is a black and white 15- minute documentary filmed in Nottingham England in 1972, about Paula, a male to female transsexual made by veteran lesbian filmmaker Marguerite Paris (1934-2007). This very early and non-exploitative representation of an ordinary well- adjusted transgendered person is historically significant for its treatment of the subject.

About the Chukotka National District. It shows, for example, the northern landscape, Cape Dezhnyov, the Provedeniya Bay, the city streets, the television studio, the airfield, the deer herd, the walrus rookery, and other scenes.

Documentary using still photographs, vintage film footage and interviews with some of the early stars of American baseball to trace the development of the sport from the end of the 19th Century through the first decade and a half of the Twentieth.

Documenting the pollution of natural resources and the misuse of technology.

A record of the Anpo Treaty and Okinawa struggles of 1968 to 1970. Part 1: '68.10.21 to '69.5.31; Part 2: '69.6.8 to '69.11.17; Part 3: '69.12.1 to '70.6.23

Dina Moscovici films a portrait of Bogotá.

A panoramic look at the history of painting in Chile, from its precursors in the first half of the 19th century to the 1970s. This film is a remarkable documentary and animated work, created by a group of animators working at Televisión Nacional de Chile: Ricardo Paniagua, Germán Orellana, Eduardo Ojeda Ortiz, Juan Lafuente, and José Domingo Ulloa.

Scenes from Vilnius, the city breathes new beginnings, change is in the air. Then clouds gather and a storm breaks out. Long thought to be lost, this film by Barysas is one of his most beautiful.

Malnutrition is a product of the unfair distribution of wealth, the filmmaker tells us. A documentary film that highlights the irreversible physical and mental damage caused by chronic malnutrition among the Mexican people.

Made in 1972, this film is concerned with the traditional trans-Himalayan trade which links the relatively low-altitude, grain-growing regions of Nepal with high-altitude Tibet, the traditional source of most of the salt and wool imported by Nepal. It also provides information about and illustration of the ways of life and the history of the diverse peoples in the areas through which the trade passes.

Rosita Hernandez, a nine-year-old Indio girl, tells about the everyday life of her family living in the the desert plain between the Andes and the Pacific Ocean, about 300 km south of Lima. Specific social and economic problems as well as ways of coping with them become visible.

Short educational film about language for pupils.

Documentary about the way in which the citizens of the town of Aguada, Puerto Rico asserted their civil rights before the construction of a coal plant that the government intended to establish in the municipality.

A young designer, Selma Bryant-Fournier, starts her career in a large clothing manufacturing firm in Montreal. She hopes to design clothes for mass production that are beautiful, functional and affordable by everyone.

Produced at the height of the black power movement in the early ‘70s, Lord Thing is an insider history into the genesis and transformation of the Conservative Vice Lords gang, one of Chicago's oldest street gangs. Partially shaped and told by by CVL members who also appear in the film, Lord Thing is a unique and powerful tool that expresses an effort in self-transformation during a volatile and violent time in US race history. Gritty and rhythmic, this unusual film reflects an under-told chapter in gang history as members from the West Side neighborhood of North Lawndale try to become viable and political agents in their community. (Chicago Film Archives)

John Pilger documentary from 1974.

Filmed aboard a Hungarian ship, this is a journey upstream the Danube, recalling the vital role the majestic river played in the settlement and political evolution of central and south-eastern Europe. Bridges, locks, cities and mountain ranges float in front of the camera to the noises of the ship’s motor.

BBC documentary about the rise of early electronic music, use of synthesisers and the work of the radiophonic workshop. Michael Rodd surveys the use of synthesisers,computer & multi-track recording techniques to create the new sounds of electronic music.

A view of the Inca capital city under the contrasts of black and white.

A BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at the disease, and the current methods of treatment. It further stresses the importance of research into develop new and better treatments.

Short documentary about the 2nd Congress of Indigenous Peoples

A documentary detailing the live ABC broadcasting of a 1975 college football game from the Los Angeles Memorial Colosseum, between the Ohio State Buckeyes and the UCLA Bruins, taking us behind the scenes into the fast-paced demands and technical impediments of turning a simple sport into a mass-broadcast entertainment.

Public information film regarding female safety and how to safeguard against rape

Trendsetter and absolutely fabulous. Biba was a London fashion store of the 1960s and 1970s. Biba was started and primarily run by the Polish-born Barbara Hulanicki with help of her husband Stephen Fitz-Simon.

An overview of the group Zemlja’s socially conscious and artistic work.

Virtually unseen since its Soviet television broadcast in 1971, the film, Peter Rollberg writes, is “devoted to the anniversary of the Paris commune, mixing historical footage with images of present-day Paris.”

A portrait of an unknown soldier, published in the memoirs of Marshall Zhukov, provoked a massive response in readers. In the dour face covered in dust, many recognized their sons, fathers, brothers. Sobolev brings the face described in the letters to life and each allows us to experience the transformation of his perception.

The clinic was founded by Jean Oury, a psychiatrist who previously worked in experimental therapy at Saint-Alban Psychiatric Hospital. The psychiatric practice borrowed the idea of Hermann Simon that it is necessary to look after the establishment and to look after each patient, while returning initiative and responsibility to them by developing situations in which they can work and express their creativity. Since the mid-50s Félix Guattari has worked at La Borde, developing its practice and organization and producing alongside Oury a body of theoretical work on the practice and theory of schizoanalysis, set in practice at La Borde, and included in his 1972 collaboration with the philosopher Gilles Deleuze, Anti-Œdipus. Among the many aspects of La Borde is the annual summer tradition in which the "boarders" and staff work together to perform a play.

Filmed among the Bedamini people of the Great Papuan Plateau, this documentary focuses on Tidikawa, a spirit medium whose role is to communicate with ancestral spirits during trance. Set within longhouse communities that periodically relocate to clear new gardens, the film records subsistence activities such as hunting, gardening, sago gathering, and timber cutting, alongside moments of domestic life and loss. Ritual practices are documented in detail, including a séance involving Tidikawa’s spirit child and the Golyagi initiation ceremony marking the transition of seven boys into adulthood.

Directed by Dacia Maraini in 1976, this documentary serves as a sharp and necessary social critique of its time. The film offers a deep dive into the exploitation of Cape Verdean women who immigrated to Italy, highlighting how they were funneled into domestic labor for wealthy families as a source of cheap work. Featured in the curated section "The Woman’s Gaze," the work stands as a powerful example of feminist filmmaking that tackles complex socio-political issues. Through Maraini's lens, the film moves beyond simple observation to denounce the economic and systemic struggles faced by immigrant women in 1970s Italy, capturing a poignant moment of intersectional struggle.

A trip round the west of Ireland where the residents tell of their lives.

A film about the daily work of the forest firefighters of the Krasnoyarsk Aviation Base.

Andrees’ graduation project approaches the perky 14-year-old Jacki mainly through her social environment: the stressed patchwork family mother, the solitary long-distance truck driver father, the eclectic neighbourhood. The closer the film gets to its protagonists, the freer the movements of the camera become, gliding through a studio as if in a trance or flying over the nocturnal motorway as if over a UFO landing strip.

This film is a short documentary portrait of economist, technologist and lecturer Fritz Schumacher. Up to age 45, Schumacher was dedicated to economic growth. Then he came to believe that the modern technological explosion had grown out of all proportion to human need. Author of Small Is Beautiful - A Study of Economics as if People Mattered and founder of the London-based Intermediate Technology Development Group, he championed the cause of "appropriate" technology. The film introduces us to this gentle revolutionary a few months before his death.

Wild rice is an important source of food and revenue for many Anishinaabe people, who sometimes travel hundreds of kilometres to harvest the grain in the region around Kenora, Ontario.

Meet Tom Johnson and his praying pigs. "Been fooling with them hogs for 35 long years," Johnson says in the film as he rocks on the porch of his modest residence near Bentonia, Mississippi. "It's just an idea that I took up. It's a play thing. And it put me into something that I didn't get out of too easy and so soon." The pigs, taught to stand beside their brimming slop trough with heads bowed while Johnson prayed over their food, dug in with gusto when he finally released them to eat. Johnson died in 1980, but the four minute film is a lasting reminder of his special pig training talents.

Short film about the making of Robles Godoy's second feature film.

Argentine politics between 1955 and 1976.

Examines cells in plants and animals, explaining that each cell has a different job to do. Uses drawings and microphotography to observe the details of cell structure. Shows the process of cell division for both growth and reproduction.

The film presents fascinating life of the people of Manipur both in the valley and hill areas and their colourful festivals and dances.

Directed by Samir Nimer.

Four Stones for Kanemitsu is a 1973 American short documentary film, written and produced by June Wayne and filmed by Terry Sanders. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short. The film is educational and records in details each of the steps in making of a color lithograph by artist, Matsumi Kanemitsu.