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An intimate portrait of Marie Leo, a Sto:lo woman who was adopted into a Líl̓wat family as a baby. Marie’s gentle narrative of her remarkable early childhood demonstrates a deep connection to culture, land and family that continues to endure. This short is part of the L’il’wata series. In the early 1970s, at the outset of her documentary career, Alanis Obomsawin visited the Líl̓wat Nation, an Interior Salish First Nation in British Columbia, and created a series of shorts that provide personal narratives about Líl̓wat culture, histories and knowledge.

On the problem of choosing a profession by schoolchildren, in particular, eighth-graders.

A film about the living conditions of slum dwellers in the city of Bombay. The candid interviews of slum dwellers reveal their scathing reactions to the slogan of Garibi Hatao, and the pretentions of politicians. These interviews also demonstrate in what inhuman conditions the slum dwellers lead their lives. The inter-cut interview with Mr. Kasbekar, Administrator, Housing Board, presents the official side of the problem.

Refutation of All the Judgements, Pro or Con, Thus Far Rendered on the Film "The Society of the Spectacle"

We move back and forth between scenes of a family at home and thoughts about the stars and creation. Children hold chickens while an adult clips their wings; we see a forest; a narrator talks about stars and light and eternity. A dog joins the hens and the family, while the narrator explains the heavens. We see a bee up close. The narrator suggests metaphors for heavenly bodies. Scenes fade into a black screen or dim purple; close-ups of family life may be blurry. The words about the heavens, such as "The stars are a flock of hummingbirds," contrast with images and sounds of real children.

1. Viva's first day out when baby is two weeks old - we get arrested. 2. Show "video" process in my living room to French critics who want to interview me (lots of wiggly camera) Demo feedback have usual video wires mess up. They are making an audio cassette to give to Godard for me. Toby comes by to work on wires. This is a good tape of Shirley to show where she's at and her style.

Physical features such as gulf, peninsula, island, etc, are defined and basic principles of using colors to show elevation are illustrated with models.

About the military pilot twice Hero of the Soviet Union Talgat Begeldinov

Short footage about the illegal settlements issues and the struggle of the residents for the regularization of the land's possession.

Llanito is the first of Lyon’s trio of films shot in and around Bernalillo, New Mexico, and it is also the screen debut of Willie Jaramillo. The twelve-year-old boy acts as a guiding force for Lyon and his audience, reading out the names on gravestones and relating the stories of the people buried there. He is the focal point of a group of mostly young men with whom Lyon would remain friends and continue to document for the next several decades. The film meanders through the town and among its inhabitants, passing between groups of people at times with the keen instinct of a desert eagle and at others in a drunken stupor, stumbling from one scene into the next with the visceral and irrational inevitability of a gravitational pull.

"The Åkerblom Movement" - Attempted murder and perjury are not usually associated with a Christian movement. But members of Maria Åkerblom's cult would be convicted for both of them. In her youth Maria Åkerblom (1898-1981) experienced holy visions and revelations. She became a so-called sleep preacher who held her sermon in a translucent state, claiming that her words came directly from God.

This film details the dismantling of the old railway Siaurukas in Lithuania and the construction of its new modern replacement. The old railway and the new railway become the symbol of the clash between the archaic rural Lithuania and Soviet industrialization. The film was often considered as an expression of the archetypes of Lithuanian character.

Frank Jenkinson, eighty-two, has been digging for fish for twenty-five years. His unorthodox conservationist practices have increased the numbers of the salmon population in the Jarvis Inlet from a modest 500 to 25 000. Using a spade and accompanied by his dog, Frank wades up and down the stream, digging for the newly hatched salmon that lie buried in the gravel. Without his intervention they risk dying before reaching maturity.

The documentary portrays discussions among the youth about ideals, aspirations, and everyday problems of the younger generation.

A biography of Enrico Fermi, the scientist who discovered the chain reaction in nuclear physics. Follows his career in Italy and later in America, and his meetings with other scientists, including Mme Curie, Einstein, Oppenheimer and Pauli. Produced by Harvard Project Physics with a grant from the Ford Foundation.

Rolling Coca Cola bottles and industry sounds. This is part of a series of anti-commercial films. (Filmform)

An emotional condemnation of the U.S.’s role in the war in North Vietnam, composed of photographs by Thomas Billhardt, this film depicts the dire living conditions and the suffering of children in the populations of destroyed villages.

Analyzes the typical features of the punto, a Cuban musical tradition from the days of Spanish colonialism.

A family decides to move to the most remote place they can find and live for as long as they can. This is the true story of a family living off the land in remote Alaska with no modern tools or 'luxuries' (except a movie camera!). This documentary is a year in their life.

A short documentary about the life of nomads.

A boy learns how to correctly ride the school bus.

Digitally restored by Pentimenti Productions in 2016, this long lost documentary short profiles painter Roy De Forest, who commonly painted quirky and comical fantasy lands filled with bright colors and creatures, most commonly dogs. Part of "4 Films by Suzanne Simpson," a whimsical quartet of archival films that captures artists flourishing amidst the 1970s Bay Area art scene, when Funk art was thriving.

High up north, in the Stralsund People’s Dockyard, Gitta Nickel encounters a youth brigade whose members speak frankly: “I’m 27 now. Judging from my own example I can say: it’s been nothing but work, really nothing. I can really say that about me, stark and stiff.” Stralsund as the focal point of socialist conditions of value creation: A ship may be completed every two weeks, but housing, let alone leisure facilities aren’t. The diagnosis: The quality-of-life to performance ratio is less than ideal. The brigade’s team spirit, though, is still strong, even if, as some think, there are some shortcomings on the “ideological side”.

After the fall of France, Hitler occupied the whole of the Western European coastline and his forces were massed across the channel, facing the southern coast of Britain only twenty miles across the sea. This WWII documentary examines the epic defense of Great Britain led by less than a thousand young pilots of the Royal Air Force in the summer of 1940.

From LUX: "Welsby adopts a system of camera movements to chart the movement of tides, waves and sky".

Claustrophobic portrait of a docile rural wife's daily routine.

The conquest of England by the Normans is retold using the Bayeux Tapestry.

Critical report on a conference of American businessmen gathered in Nice in a large hotel. Under the cover of religious and altruistic feelings, these Mormon businessmen manipulate the French public to increase their capital by making them sell detergent "by word of mouth."

The film explores the significant contributions of Sufi poet, philosopher, musician, and courtier Amir Khusro to the Indian sub-continent's art and culture.

A comedy film starring Nida Blanca, Chiquito, Nova Villa, and Rod Navarro

In this film a five-year-old named Debe refuses to let his mother Di!ai go gathering without him. Di!ai appeals to her daughter N!ai to entertain the child but Debe resists. In the end Di!ai leaves with Debe on her back. This is a companion film to The Wasp Nest which shows Di!ai, Debe, and other women and children on the subsequent gathering expedition.

In their efforts to better their children’s education, the residents of this small West Virginia community found themselves face to face with an unfeeling, bureaucratic political structure. "Struggle of Coon Branch Mountain" documents their fight for a better road and decent schools, an effort that includes organizing the community, setting up their own school, and finally a march on the governor’s office. The film ends with a partial victory and determination to continue the struggle, and will be of interest to community organizers, as well as students of education, public policy, and rural issues.

Documentary movie about the Yugoslav air force and air defense.

Documentary about Guinea-Bissau, African soccer, and the colonial emancipation movement.

An analysis of the phenomenon of accelerated urbanization in Brazil, and more particularly in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo.

A technical documentary on the development of improved railway brake materials to increase performance and durability.

It was a sporting feat, a national feat, but also and above all a technical feat: on October 15, 1978, three French mountaineers, for the first time, reached the summit of Everest: Pierre Mazeaud, Nicolas Jaeger, Jean Afanassieff, accompanied by Kurt Diemberger, Austrian mountaineer and cameraman. A performance broadcast live on the radio thanks to the France inter teams and filmed for television by TF1. Christian Brincourt, a great French reporter, tells us about this expedition and questions the members of the expedition on their motivations. With Pierre Mazeaud (expedition leader), Jean-François Mazeaud (doctor), Claude Deck, Raymond Despiau, Nicolas Jaeger, Walter Cecchinel, Jean Afanassieff, Kurt Diemberger.

The film “Documentary Experience N ° 3 - Juan L. Ortiz” (Endless Weathering) constitutes an investigative work on one of the greatest Argentine poets.

Isamu Noguchi talks about his career in this documentary featuring Ezra Pound.

Based on the events leading to the Spanish-America War of 1898. It reflects on the expansionist policies of the United States since its inception. A historical chronology that shows the consequences for Puerto Rico of the imperialist war against Spain: colonization and relentless attempts to annex it to the States.

Tough life of a donkey who serves his owners until they discard him as unusable for drudgery.

The silence capturing all the surroundings of Mt. Buko. Documentary directed by Minoru Shinojima 1979, 8mm.

A brief introduction to two revolutionary leaders, both born on May 19th.

A retrospective of television programming, hosted by Charles Kuralt.

A profile of the costumbrista painter Pancho Fierro (1808-1879), and his vision of 19th-century Lima.

Documentary about italian western movies.

The reconstruction of Yungay seven years after the terrible earthquake that destroyed the city.

Four thousand letters were received by Sergey Vladimirovich Obraztsov after his television appearance, during which he asked the viewers to write to him about who has which animals and why they love them. Various letters—amazing and funny, cheerful and lyrical, and truly tragic—were sent by both adults and children. Kindness and cruelty are not innate to a person; they are shaped throughout a child's development. A person's attitude towards animals, nature, and everything around them should become part of their personal values, and children need to be raised with love for all living things so that they grow up to be kind people…

Revised version of the 1962 film The ABC Of Babysitting. Covers safety rules to be observed while babysitting, using the situation of a babysitter's employment and experiences.

Documentary about a school teacher who becomes the director of the establishment.

Examines patterns that occur across nature and religious buildings. Sacred geometry proposes that mathematical principles exist in nature, ascribing them with symbolic meaning, and this film illustrates these ideas in sequences soundtracked by folk and progressive rock musicians Mike and Sally Oldfield. From the close study of flower patterns to the examination of church and temple architecture, this film reflects on the interplay between humans and the natural environment.

Treasured moment with a legend in the craft of music. Gregor Piatigorsky, an extraordinarily dramatic cellist.

The film is about Moses Coady, who was called many things in his lifetime, but who proved to be the most effective social reformer Canada has known. He went into the villages, organized the people into study groups, helped them set up credit unions and co-operatives, and freed them from the semi-feudal conditions they lived in. Today, people from all over the world come to study his methods at the Coady International Institute in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. (NFB)

This ultimate talking-head documentary provides the lowdown on making it in showbiz: the casting couch, how to play the game, how to change you name.

The well-worn trope of the “intrepid white explorer attempts to explain the ways of African tribes” is subverted in a masterful fashion by Horace Ové in The Black Safari. We follow Yemi Ajibade, Merdel Jordine, Bloke Modisane, Horace Ové, and Douglas Botting as they go on an expedition across the Liverpool-Leeds canal in search of the English community and the strange cultures that they currently involve themselves in, all while attempting to find the centre of England. The imagery of the Queen of Spades, the boat that the explorers travel on, complete with the sound of African drums going through these towns in middle England feels provocative, especially as baffled locals look on in astonishment. The little seen The Black Safari makes for compelling viewing; it is a biting satire that never fails to raise a smile.

Sponsored film produced for Crescent Cardboard Company showcasing the superiority of "line kote" cardboard versus "hot press" cardboard in the design and production of graphic art.