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In a dance class, a group of ten year olds is led through a series of exercises which increases both in complexity and imaginative involvement. Dancing is presented as a physically beneficial and creative experience.

A documentary on the Romantic era of ballet narrated by Erik Bruhn and featuring performances by legendary ballerinas Alicia Alonso, Eva Evdokima, Carla Fracci, and Ghislaine Thesmar.

Report on the people of the Amazon rainforest who live off logging.

Tourist report on the department of Piura.

Two boys learn about the nature of light.

Super-8 short film by Claudio Perna.

Jenny is a teenage girl in a same-sex relationship, and JENNY lets her speak plainly about it. She talks about what the relationship means to her, how she sees the lesbian scene, and how others see her. There’s no sweeping drama or moral panic – just an honest portrait of one young person navigating identity, attraction and assumptions. Made in 1978, it’s one of the rare screen documents of queer youth from the era – clear-eyed, unsentimental and ahead of its time.

Documentary film about the construction of the second track of the Šamac-Sarajevo Railway in 1978.

A film commissioned by Hartlepool Borough Council Parks Department as part of their campaign for the Northumbria In Bloom and Royal Horticultural Society Britain In Bloom competitions. The film celebrates the private and public gardens, parks, and landscaped streets and promenades of West Hartlepool.

Short film about flax cultivation, the work of the Rivne Flax Mill, and Hero of Socialist Labor Milentina Stanislavivna Bondareva.

A film about the conditions of social struggle, when the capitalists, their henchmen and their state frantically try to maintain power, with workers' blood as the price. Italy 1969-1974.

A film made for tourists, highlighting the beauty, history and friendly nature of Leningrad and its surrounding areas.

“The Promised Land” is a video essay that intentionally captures the conditions of poverty in Panama City and questions the reasons for a progress that, despite its abundance, failed to reach the people. In the filmmaker's words: “Dedicated to that pain made flesh, called the People; to that martyr, made of scars and rags, with hands bound by the iniquity of all laws made in their name, and mouth sealed by the blasphemous stone of Force, placed upon it like the claw of a basalt sphinx…”

A documentary about the poems and poetic life of Heydar Yaghma, the brickmaker from Neyshabur

Focuses her camera on her own belly, Nil Yalter writes on it an excerpt from Erotic and Civilization to the accompaniment of belly-dancing music, drawing together the Oriental fantasies of men and the demand for bodily freedom of women.

Short documentary exploring daily life in Khorugh.

Short documentary exploring Khabarovsk and its people.

Short documentary about a city on the Terek River.

Quilting Women traces the process of traditional Appalachian quilting, from cutting out and piecing together the patterns to the quilting bee. Quilters comment on the origins of the generations-old patterns, the time and patience required, the satisfaction of accomplishment, the quilts as art, and the companionship offered by women working together over a quilting frame.

The attitude of young employees toward the older staff—the dairy workers.

An "Open letter to the directors of the Municipal Transport Company in Warsaw", an appeal for a more rational and passenger-oriented communication policy in the capital. From the film we learn that when asked about the causes of problems with Warsaw public transport, the authorities typically give the same answer: "objective difficulties" are to blame. The author of the documentary, the author of many films devoted to the faults and thoughtlessness of Warsaw officials, managed to identify 8 basic difficulties that make the use of public transport in the capital city in the early 1970s a nightmare. The degree of their "objectivity" can be decided by the viewer himself.

A short documentary on the development of sanatorium and resort tourism in Donbas.

After graduating from art school, Yuriy Zmorovych, who had just turned 23, was hired by the Museum of Folk Architecture and Life, better known as Pirogovo. Today, it is a huge open-air complex located on the outskirts of Kyiv — a valuable place if you are interested in rural huts, ancient churches, mills, and folk art. Zmorovych arrived there when there was absolutely nothing in Pirogovo. He was lucky with his job: he got to go on expeditions to villages, searching for ancient icons, paintings, and household items. And larger-scale items—primarily wooden churches. Workers would come for them, carefully dismantle the buildings piece by piece, transport them to Kyiv, and then restore the structures to their original form. Zmorovych managed to see another side to this process.

Short documentary about two children lost in a puppet theater.

It's possible to work without bosses, and workers have proven it in Belgium, notably at Balai Libéré, a cleaning company at the University of Louvain-la-Neuve, at Sablières de Wauthier-Braine, and at the Textiles d'Ere cooperative, a spinning mill that operated as a cooperative for nearly 30 years. The film focuses mainly on this third experience. The workers (90% of the staff are women), whose memories have been rekindled by a video shot at the time, recount the occupation of their factory. We then see them at work. Everyday scenes and interviews follow one another, revealing the changes that have taken place. Or that sometimes have not taken place.

The theory of progress and the utopian ideals of well-being are at odds with the reality faced by Latin Americans, who are immersed in poverty and violence.

A German Film Award winning short documentary.

A German Film Award winning short documentary on the activities on Ellis Island between 1900-1934.

Documentary that critically analyzes the communications system of the city of Madrid in the 1970s, from a socioeconomic and clearly political perspective, questioning the capitalist system and the city model imposed by it.

Visitors frolic on Priest Lake

Color UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. A short documentary featuring the Yellow Brotherhood, a revolutionary Asian-American group inspired by the Third World Liberation Front and the Black Panther Party. Offering services to Los Angeles Asian-American young people, the group believed strongly in self-determination. The documentary also features an Asian-American motorcycle gang and interviews with members about white supremacy and Internment Camps. Possibly filmed at Ats Sasaki shoot pool at Holiday Bowl, a Japanese American bowling alley. Made as an Ethno-Communications film production.

Follows artist Edward Betts as he seeks a new design motif among familiar monoliths of stone. Shows how he develops his sketches into a cohesive design.

A cinematic impression of a landscape, depicting a corner of Poland enclosed by the forks of the Biebrza and Narew rivers, which, as they merge, create wide wetlands and marshes. The landscape of this natural enclave retained its pristine character at the time Anna Górny's film was being made. The author portrays a world untouched by 20th-century civilization, experiencing its last days before the reclamation works were set to begin.

Documentary short about the construction of a subway tunnel in Berlin, using the cut-and-cover method.

Shows how a pioneer family prepared their food.

Wordless portrait of British transport, featuring cross-channel ferries, InterCity 125s, and cars.

Life in the Scottish town of Paisley.

The process of distilling whisky at a group of Scottish distilleries.