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Short documentary on the ordinary life of the Russians.

Rows of red brick terraced houses, streets filled with children playing, hide lives of hardship in this programme focussing on the poverty and housing conditions in Belfast - often underreported due to the Troubles. Typically for This Week, the programme addresses social problems instead of superficial prejudices, and the result is a heartbreaking portrait of people struggling to survive.

Released a year before Roe v. Wade, this short film by Amalie Rothschild lays out the dire realities of illegal abortion, interviewing women from a variety of backgrounds who made the choice to terminate a pregnancy.

Documentary about youth movement in a New York City high school in 1968 during a teachers strike..

This documentary shows Elaine Dart's success in dealing with cerebral palsy. Through perseverance and patience, she learns to use her feet to accomplish such intricate tasks as threading a needle, stringing beads, and knitting.

“Prizren - the City of Resources and Beauty” is a documentary directed by Zvonimir Saksida and produced by Zastava Film in 1972, which presents the history, traditions and beauties of Prizren with the aim of promoting the touristic potential of the city. Discovered in the Lumbardhi Cinema archive, it was screened for the first time during the exhibition “At Once Vague and Unavoidable: Modernities 1945-1989” produced as part of the partnership between Lumbardhi Foundation and Oral History Initiative within the project “Prizren Urban Memoryscapes” supported by Franco-German Cultural Fund, the French Embassy, the German Embassy, Municipality of Prizren and Sharrcem. The restoration and digitization of “Prizren - the City of Resources and Beauty” was made possible by the partner of the project, the French National Audiovisual Institute - INA and the French Embassy.

About the mining strike at LKAB in Norrbotten 1969/70. Snapshots, moods, meetings, strikes, corporate staff and the local community.

Scenes of a woman, here- taking great pride in caring for her hair, there- taking great care of the land.

In this documentary nature short, we are introduced to the animal inhabitants of a mountain valley, as seen through the eyes of a baby moose, named Moose Baby.

1978 Angolan documentary.

Footage of a crane responded to with images of worn residential spaces in Wellington's Thorndon.

A portrait of Anthony Bruegger, a young stock car racer. He is the filmmaker’s nephew and also appears in some of her other films. The film’s title refers to time in film, which can be measured in lengths of film material (100ft, 300ft, etc), and which Anne Rees-Mogg compares and contrasts here to lived time.

A Newsreel documentary that accuses the DuPont Corporation of enforcing racism and martial law in Wilmington, Delaware in the late 1960s.

The legendary director/producer Warren Miller hits the slopes of Squaw, Whistler, and Japan with skiers like Jim McConkey, Roger Staub, Pepi Stiegler in one of his earliest surviving ski movies.

A series of men narrate their BDSM fantasies while giving each other tattoos.

A ground-breaking feature-length fly-on-the-wall chronicle of Southend Band The Kursaal Flyers, as they tried to break in to the big time, this film is a stark depiction of three days on the road in Scotland and the north-east.

Short documentary about the traditions, lives and culture of the Qadiri tariqa of Iran's Kurdistan

Relatives of the Texan fiddler Archie "Prince" Albert Hunt tell stories of his life and untimely death.

Footage of American bombing of Vietnam.

Australian motorcycle dirt bike extreme sports motocross racing documentary featuring real life off-road motorcycle racers.

A documentary film about the (then) 76 year old American folk songwriter Malvina Reynolds. Through the film, viewers follow Malvina as she composes, records an album, performs in concert, rehearses with young musicians and manages her record and publishing companies. We get to see Malvina's attitudes towards aging and dying, her thoughts about romance and her ideas about social change.

Documentary

For African-American soldiers in Vietnam, the contradiction of being expected to defend liberties not granted at home is evident.

Swedish documentary recorded in America's well-known black ghetto of Manhattan in New York City in the summer of 1973 focusing mostly on the losers of society: the winos, prostitutes, drug addicts, chronically unemployed.

A documentary on Chairman Mao and the Chinese communist revolution by Single Spark Films.

Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Decisive Moment is an 18-minute film produced in 1973 by Scholastic Magazines, Inc. and the International Center of Photography. It features a selection of Cartier-Bresson’s iconic photographs, along with rare commentary by the photographer himself.

Shot surreptitiously by a crew operating without visas (then necessary for travel to Okinawa), this provocative film traces the legacy of Japanese colonialism, documenting Taiwanese laborers in Okinawa and then moving southward to Tayal village in Taiwan, where the anti-Japanese uprising known as the Musha Incident took place.

Gary Young's "Wheels On Fire" is one of the classic motor sports documentaries of all time. Mostly filmed in Liverpool, Sydney, in 1973, the documentary appeals to both "rev heads" and the wider audience, who want to relive the Australian history of the drag strip.

Van der Keuken juxtaposes images of Dutch children learning to read against those of the coup d'état in Chile.

Documentary about German leftist terrorists.

Documentary about the political and social reality of Uruguay during the period of 1968-1970. This short is incomplete and composed of a series of fragments. The complete film was taken by the military dictatorship in Uruguay (1973-1985) and is now lost.

Educational film about the Frankfurt airport.

Hypnotic short film about the mundaneness of truck driving.

A short documentary looking at the highlights of the second Sunbury Festival in 1973. Includes black and white footage of Mississippi, Billy Thorpe, Johnny O'Keefe and other Australian acts.

About small and large events in a city at war.

A brief look into a classroom in Warsaw, featuring mentally disabled students.

16mm film, optical color. Uses the camera with deliberate technique to record Japan's leading punk band In a style that imbeds the music in a filmic texture.

Documentary about Trøndelag Teater in Norway. The film shows clips from the performances, and during production of the plays.

A study of British forests, and the benefits that responsible management of their resources can bring in terms of ensuring constant renewal.

This instructional film reveals the decisive role that water has played and is still playing in the emergence and survival of life on earth.

A short film about the work of the employees of the East German customs administration

This episode of the BBC television documentary series Man Alive documents the daily activities of Engine Co. 82 / Ladder 31 ("the busiest firehouse in the world") in the South Bronx in New York City in the 1972.

Derek Armstrong’s 1975 Shell Film Unit instructional series on aerodynamics, explaining the relationship between lift and weight as the foundational forces that keep an aircraft flying. (Note: This is an update of the 1947 film series of the same name.)

After early silent black-and-white short films, this is the author's first more experimental film. She shot it during the summer film school in Koper in 1968. It is already sound and colorful and also shows various expressive procedures and also greater knowledge of editing. At that time, she and her colleague Tone Rački were in charge of film education at the Pionirski dom in Ljubljana, where they had a camera and 8mm films, and it was also possible to edit them.

A look at the design and production of various products.

Short documentary about the IPN

Student unrest in a university outside Paris sparks a huge civil revolt and general strike against Gaullist authoritarianism in France during the months of May and June, 1968.

Created in 1976 by Mort Jordan, a student at Temple University, “Time and Dreams” is a unique and personal elegiac approach to the civil rights movement. The filmmaker has described “Time and Dreams” as a personal journey back to his Alabama home, where he contrasts two societies: the nostalgia some residents have for past values versus the deferred dreams of those who are well past waiting for their time to fully participate in the promise of their own dreams. Through vignettes and personal testimonies, the film portrays Greene County, Alabama, as its people move toward understanding and cooperation in a time of social change.

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.

Libyan documentary.

Scar Tissue by Su Friedrich is a filmic version of a white canvas or a silent music piece.The fact that Friedrich never really shows the whole body, but rather plays off of body parts could be read as a desire to show less of the people on the screen, so that the viewer's reading can be generalized. If the "characters" existed as people, the images would inevitably read to be telling a story about these people. The legs and torsos do not signify people; it is the experience of these body parts and the rhythm with which they are portrayed that constitute the work.

Portrait of architect Aldo van Eyck (1918-1999). Van Eyck is the son of poet and journalist Pieter Nicolaas van Eyck. He talks about his childhood in London, his studies in architecture at the technical college in the Netherlands, and his philosophy regarding architecture and visual arts, in which the pursuit of harmony is paramount.

The everyday sights and sounds of the city of Cork.