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Maidens(1978) is an autobiographical essay film, using personal archives, still and moving image, from both domestic and other sources, lyrical narration and emotive music to trace the filmmaking journey of one feminist (the filmmaker herself). Almost four years in the making, Maidens picked up local and international short film awards and became compulsory viewing in women and film courses around the country -- where it sparked much impassioned debate. It remains essential viewing for an enhanced understanding of the moment of awakened consciousness that characterised 1970s feminism.

In May-June 1971, Malmer and Romare accompanied a delegation of experts sent by the international committee to investigate US crimes in Indochina and then reported on their experiences in 'Att samla några bevis'. The visual material is partly unique: it concerns, among other things, the documentation of the US Air Force's conscious investment in so-called anti-personnel bombs and mines. The use of napalm and chemical warfare agents is also discussed in a few sections, where an old woman and two mothers, who were in sprayed areas during their pregnancies, talk about and show the damage to themselves and their deformed children.

A documentary film looking at the work of Shiko Munakata, a woodblock artist. His prints are based on Buddhist philosophy and are highly original and Oriental in style.

A documentary about "The Fools Festival" in the netherlands.

A representation of human behavior focused exclusively on our western world, made up of footage selected without any concern for place, time and ideology, that provides logical continuity to daily events with the intent of underlining the general contradictions of reality.

The film which was shelved for many years focuses on men and women visiting the shrine of Imam Reza, the eighth Shiite Imam, in the city of Mashhad in the North East of Iran.

Report on the geography and traditions of the department of Tumbes.

A biographical film about Ivan Tobilevych (Karpenko-Karyi)—a playwright, actor, and one of the leading figures of Ukrainian theatre.

"A voice from the past: a program about the explorer and politician Sven Hedin (1865-1952)" - based on his own statements and writings. Takes us through expeditions in Asia, Olympic Games in Stockholm and Berlin, two world wars, and a Swedish political conflict during the 1930s when the pro-Nazi Swedish party Sweden's National Federation aspired to power.

In 1976 there were only a few thousand tons of oil on the coast. In 1978, 230,000 ; It was too late to shed tears.

A documentary short that speaks on the hierarchical organization and the contents of an Afro-Brazilian nagô temple.

This short documentary follows Frank Ladouceur, a man who lives alone for months at a time, trapping muskrat in the vast, desolate wilderness of northern Alberta. He receives no visitors, and rarely voyages to his family home in Fort Chipewyan. What some may consider an unthinkably lonely, isolated existence is the calling of this fiercely independent Métis man. Remarkably determined and self-sufficient, Frank makes his home in the wild bush.

Short film by Josefina Jordán.

Unemployment in Sweden

In August 1979, during the military dictatorship in Brazil, a hunger strike that began at the Frei Caneca prison in Rio de Janeiro spread across the country, demanding the expansion of the Amnesty Law, which initially did not intend to include political prisoners who had committed homicides. To document this moment and strengthen the strike, the prisoners conceived and clandestinely produced the short film "Água, Açúcar e Sal".

Four teenagers exhibit good posture in standing, sitting, and walking positions, and demonstrate exercises for posture improvement.

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Peter Blackman, founder of Steel 'n' Skin, talks about this pan-African group, which takes African culture to British schools. The film follows the group during a ten day workshop in Liverpool.

16mm color documentary based on fieldwork William Ferris conducted with African American storytellers and bluesmen in the communities of Leland and Rose Hill, Mississippi. The stories include include folk and religious tales, jokes, toast telling sessions, and characters from African American oral tradition. The film also includes footage filmed at churches and juke joints.

As a training exercise for their apprentice camera operators, British Transport Films used surplus roll end length of film to record the daily lives of their neighbours from the roof of their building Melbury House.

In June 1973 the NATO Council of Ministers held a conference in Copenhagen. Therefore the theatre of action, SOLVOGNEN, sent out a group of picked troops to maintain order. The film is constructed as a pro-NATO film and we watch as the AMF protect ministers, clear left-wing demonstrations, do sight-seeing in Copenhagen, and we are shown scenes from a NATO-performance in the Grey Hall.

Is it the outrageous claims? Or just the bad acting? This early media literacy film helps kids understand that that ads are trying to, well, sell them something. Kitschy good and super tasty, it's lipsmackin' fun!

A documentary about the Apollo 17 mission to the Taurus-Littrow on the moon, the final lunar landing mission in the Apollo program, December 1972. Produced by A-V Corporation for NASA. The film was distributed both as an ephemeral film (shown to an audience via a 16mm film projector), and was also shown on TV (and was shown on both public and commercial stations per a search of vintage newspapers).

The short film is based on an investigation by Dino Buzzati. It tells the story of Melinda, a mountain girl turned into a witch by her environment and circumstances. In September 1965, Buzzati travelled to Abruzzo (near Teramo, at the foot of the Gran Sasso) on behalf of the newspaper Corriere della Sera, seeking stories for his investigative series titled "I misteri d'Italia" (The Mysteries of Italy). There, he gathered the story of Melinda, a real-life woman (who died in 1962 at the age of 93) regarded by the local community as the last true Abruzzese witch. Buzzati described Melinda not as an evil being, but as a woman victimized by fate and superstition. While Buzzati was fascinated by the magical and mysterious aspects of her tale, Lù Leone reinterpreted the same story in 1976 through a political and feminist lens.

Explains why bread costs so much. Two reporters investigate the 65¢ profit of a loaf of “Mother Miller” bread and learn the cruel reality of how profit is divided.

A project by Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) at Expo '70 in Osaka, Japan.

A film about German mercenary soldiers.

Silent film by Ken Jacobs featuring his son asleep at the table then being put to bed.

The film documents the consequences of the Turkish invasion of 1974, focusing on displaced refugees, population exchanges, and the role of foreign interests in Cyprus’s internal affairs.

This portrait of a guinea fowl is the first clear vision I've had of the hot-blooded dinosaurs still living among us. (SB)

The portrait of a woman who is driven to illness and despair by her circumstances.

Allied to a four-year Daily Mirror campaign by John Pilger that helped achieve compensation for many of the forgotten and mostly working class victims of the notorious drug prescribed to women during pregnancy. Broadcast in 1974, the theme of Thalidomide: The Ninety-Eight We Forgot was to become a Pilger hallmark: injustice.

Short educational film about Udo

All the goals of the 1970 world cup goals

Footage from and interviews with attendees of a public function in Griffith Park, Los Angeles sponsored by the Gay Liberation Front.

A steam locomotive that runs on a trip and the beautiful four seasons of Japan.

Rape has three victims discussing their emotional, physical and intellectual responses, then and now, highlighted and commented upon by a series of visual interpolations.

A short documentary on the charms of cross-country skiing. Beyond the formal beauty of the images, there floats a certain nostalgia for unknown landscapes. Something rare that pushes the neophyte to want to follow these free men, on the white paths, on exhilarating walks, taking the time to look at the landscape. Film without words.

Designed to make children aware of the unique functions human teeth perform and the importance of good dental safety habits.

A documentary about California punk.

1973 documentary on boxing from filmmaker Philip Donnellan, inspired by an original Radio Ballad of the same name by Charles Parker, Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger

Children of the fourth grade take you through a typical lunch period - from washing hands to putting garbage in the trash barrel.

Documentary film.

In 1975, DFFB students search for traces of the labor movement of the 1920s in Charlottenburg's Zillestrasse. Wallstraße was one of the poorest residential areas in Berlin at the time and a stronghold of the German Communist Party (KPD). In detailed interviews, former KPD members talk about their organizational and propaganda work in the "house protection squads" and the street battles with the National Socialists. The documentary film Street in Resistance revives a chapter of the workers' movement that has received little attention in the West and also recalls the novel Our Street by writer Jan Petersen, published in exile in 1936, about everyday life in Wallstrasse.

Michel Demopoulos directed only one film in his life: a documentary about the shooting of Theo Angelopoulos’ O Thiasos / The Travelling Players (1975).

The film is shot on a beach on the coast of Halland on a sunny summer's day and forms a tender satire of human behaviour. In particular, it is people's herd mentality that is exposed and the dependence on the car.

Sarah Maldoror uses Carnival as her approach to the history of colonization and black culture. Carnival is understood here as a festivity during which the limits are transgressed, the world is circumnavigated, and the dominator becomes the dominated, in addition to being an explosion of music and sensations, a great collective performance in which the characteristics of négritude-identity comes forth.

Alaska Wilderness Lake is a 1971 American documentary film produced by Alan Landsburg. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. The film is based on the book Red Salmon, Brown Bear by Theodore J. Walker.

The city of Huamachuco and the men who were born in that land, such as César Vallejo, Ciro Alegría, and Abelardo Gamarra, still bear their traces and dwellings.

A documentary following Yugoslav migrant workers on special trains to West Germany, documenting their journey and the bureaucratic realities of labor migration.

The Serbian province of Vojvodina is home to a multi-ethnic population of Serbs, Croats, Slovaks, Ukrainians, Romanians, and Roma. The different groups seem to coexist cheerfully and peacefully, full of respect for each other’s customs, songs and religions. But the filmmaker’s ironical gaze discovers cracks in a facade that has long been less harmonious than it seems…

Altai Kasim came to Germany as a guest worker and eventually brought his family with him. Today, they all have a job in Germany. Nevertheless, they are not happy. They miss their homeland.

Educational film that deals with proper conduct of army officers.

From the Ancient Cultures of Peru series.

The film is about an action a group of young people in Bergen initiated in 1972 with the goal of providing the city's youth with a place to be. The action ended with a confrontation with the police, when the young people sought out Mayor Ole Myrvoll to discuss the problems.