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Situated in the hilly regions of North Eastern India, the Mizo district was for many years a part of the state of Assam. Having a distinct culture, heritage and language it became a Union Territory on January 21, 1972. Divided into three districts, Mizoram's capital city is Aizwal. This film describes the agricultural wealth of Mizoram, various measures taken by the Government of India to uplift people's standard of living. The hilly territory has a rich tradition of weaving.

Iwona goes to a small town, where she sets up a youth recitation club at the Cultural Center.

Focusing on the Civil Rights Movement and a 1970 protest in New York, For Personal Reasons was inspired by the Black Panthers and Malcolm X. An innovative mix of fact and fiction—a kind of critical fabulation—it juxtaposes militant speech with avant-garde jazz. The film won an Honorable Mention at the Grenoble Film Festival in 1973.

A BAFTA award nominated reworking of a 1957 documentary using models and animation to explain the need to mix air and petrol in the correct proportions to create an efficient fuel for an engine.

In the spring of 1970, thousand of protesters descended on New Haven to demonstrate against the trial of Black Panther members for the murder of suspected FBI informant Alex Rackley. Led by radical luminaries Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, and Tom Hayden, the demonstrators converged on the New Haven Green to vent their anger and shut Yale down. Yale President Kingman Brewster commissioned a small group of Yale students to document the demonstrations, resulting in the 22-minute black-and-white film MAYDAY.

A BAFTA award nominated documentary illustrating the many and varied uses of pigments in the home, industry etc.

A documentary about a feminist run abortion clinic. Counselling is shown to be an important part of the procedure, which is carried out using local anaesthetic and the vacuum aspiration method. We follow one woman through the termination of her pregnancy, and other women tell why they chose to have an abortion.

Time is frozen, warped and reconfigured over the course of a Sunday drive.

This film covers the history of the Duchy of Warsaw. It begins in 1806, when Napoleon Bonaparte's army enters the Polish lands under Prussian rule. Ends with a Galician company in 1809. An important element of the film is the battle with the Austrians at Raszyn, which is important for Poles.

A description of two nude bodies.

Portrays the earth's three personalities: cold and silent in space, tranquil and benign on the surface, and suddenly violent and devastating in natural and man-made disasters. Stresses the importance of personal and community preparation to minimize loss of life and property during disasters.

Collage video of Haiti, using experimental film techniques, field recording, and relevant texts.

In this small town “epic,” the people of Whitesburg, KY speak directly to the camera about unemployment, student unrest, and the Vietnam War. The down-home candor of the exchanges presents a revolutionary alternative to the voice-over narration then common in commercial productions. Stripped to the basics, the documentary has an energy and immediacy only possible in a film made by the participants themselves.

In the 1960s after Albania's break with the Soviet Union, the country became an unlikely satellite of communist China (Newsweek referred to the alliance as ‘Mediterranean Maoists’). Enver Hoxha called the bond between the two countries the ‘coming together of the 702 million’, China being the 700 million, Albania representing the two. In exchange for its chrome exports and introducing the 1971 resolution that got China into the United Nations, Albania received sustaining economic and military support. This short documentary focuses on the Chinese table tennis team’s friendship visit, which soon began to sour after US president Richard Nixon visited Beijing.

Science fiction story often read as an allegory for the disappearance of children under the Uruguayan dictatorship.

In “Leaves,” Jim Jennings moves the tree from the periphery of urban life to the center. It’s leaves form a green “curtain” through which we view the activities of the City’s denizens.

A picture of life at Le Court, the flagship Cheshire Home near Petersfield, Hants. Describing itself as a “Musical Documentary about the dreams, hopes, fears and difficulties of disabled people”, Maybe Today was made by disabled filmmaker Brian Line (resident of Le Court Cheshire Home) with the support of local arts student Monica Mazure and members of the Le Court Film Unit, who were all residents of Le Court. It shows how residents raised funds to build an extension enabling everyone to have a private room. With its combination of folksong and a homespun (almost home movie) shooting style, it’s a curious but intriguing film.

Cats of all colors and sizes are explored in this documentary about the feline lifestyle and how they vie for affection and attention from humans.

This BBC/MGM-TV co-produced documentary on the life and career of Judy Garland includes interviews with Liza Minnelli, Charles Walters and Mickey Rooney.

Fisher organized and performed in Emigré, a two-part happening at the Cat’s Paw Palace (September 28, 1974) and offsite at Aquatic Park in San Francisco (September 29). In reaction to the political upheaval of Watergate and the economic precarity of living here as an artist, Emigré was announced as an open call to artists and friends to “emigrate” from the Bay Area. The first evening’s event, “Leavin’ Blues,” described as “dance/theatre/music/restaurant theatre,” prepared performers for the following day with a celebration of the natural migration of living things and natural phenomena. Approximately twenty participants arrived at Aquatic Park with baskets, bundles, cages, and old suitcases. The quarter-mile walk from the western to the eastern end of the park proceeded with everyone taking one step every thirty seconds. The Super-8 film condensed four hours of walking into three minutes reflecting the distorted sense of time and relationship between the ’emigrants’ and passers-by.

Explains the important points of good grooming. Covers cleanliness, health habits, hair styling, cosmetics, and tailoring.

In this short film the author, in her own specific way, documents the moment of connecting the two parts of the Krk bridge.

A short film about a cat drinking milk set to the song "Popcorn" by Gershon Kingsley.

A short film about tigers in a zoo.

A film produced for the 1970 Society of Archivists' Conference, and featuring the craft of making marble paper, by the Cambridgeshire firm, Douglas Cockerell & Son.

As every other small nation, the Slovenians are proud of what they are. Of course, they love, too. Presenting how this is done in their country under the Alps.

Shot before the term “urban legend” was used, Tales of the Supernatural analyzes the ways in which horror stories ( or “ghost legends” ) are transmitted, the functions of such stories for the members of a group of American teenagers being filmed, and the relationship between transmission and function in the telling of the tales.

A film made for the staff of the (then) British Rail featuring mainly Sir Peter Parker explaining to staff how, as the new Chairman, he intended to take the industry forward.

Short documentary on the ordinary life of the Russians.

Silent home movie shot by Diane and Karol Berolzheimer depicting Chicago's Maxwell street market in the autumn or winter of '78, currently held in collection at the Chicago Film Archives.

Documentary about the harassment of striking garment factory workers in the city of Nakon Pathom, Thailand.

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.

"I was 17, cynical and commenting on my 'youth'. The scenes were set-up but ultimately improvised. The party scene was real and documented with a couple of cameras. It is reasonably accurate to the situation." –RM

Bendkowski tests in this film the expressive potential of the cinematic medium. The work is based on an attempt, characteristic for this artist, to balance an incredibly colorful, spectacular visual layer with a faithfulness to a rigorous, rationally constructed structure of the work. -1,2,3... Avant-Gardes. Film/Art between Experiment and Archive, ed. Ł. Ronduda, F. Zeyfang, Warsaw 2007.

Corvo Island is the smallest island in the Archipelago of the Azores, in the Atlantic Ocean. Its area is 17 square km and its population 390. These images and sounds were recorded there in 1977 between the 16th and the 29th of August. To its inhabitants we would like to express our thanks in the making of this film.

A disaffected youth leaves home. With a friend, he explores a demolished house.

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.

Jan Dibbets begins with an image of the sky, then moves the camera down and films a field in undulating movements. The horizon swings diagonally and the field fills the image. With his camera movements and unusual cropping of the image, Dibbets here moulds the flat landscape into mountains.

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

A pseudo-documentarian essay observing the proliferation of "fast food" and "junk food" everywhere in contemporary middle-America.

"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 1978 film by Fenwick Productions features a tour of Gardiner's Island by Robert David Lion Gardiner, the 16th Lord of the Manor. Its conversion from 16mm film was made possible by the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation.

Surveys growing interest, especially among young people, in the occult, black and white magic, mysticism, and witchcraft. Interviews writer Colin Wilson, and shows a self-proclaimed New York Witch, a professor who claims that occultists are frauds and another who taught a course on witchcraft; also includes a high priestess of the New Jersey First Church of Satan.

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.

A service is ordered by the Junta in praise of the Junta. The Cardinal, forced to utter Benedictions, resorts to words for all those who suffer and pray, that they may be freed and consoled. The profaners have to content themselves with psalm 18: “They cried unto the Lord, but he answered them not.”

1978 Angolan documentary

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

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

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

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.

This is a documentary on Iasos that was created in 1979 in California.