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Frédéric Rossif selected animal footage from 300,000 m of film, and structured his film in nine parts, from the creation of the world to the rediscovery of paradise on earth.

Documentary focusing on 25 year-old actress Jane Fonda as she and her director Andreas Voutsinas prepare a stage play called The Fun Couple for Broadway.

An analysis of the spirit and human qualities of Knud Rasmussen, who made a unique contribution to the exploration of the life and myths of the Polar Inughuit.

Commemorative celebrations of the independence of the Republic of Niger filmed in December 1961 and 1962.

Experimental documentary short film with a prologue by José Revueltas about the 1968 Mexico City Olympics

A documentary about the life of people in under-developed areas in Eastern Slovakia.

This fly on the wall-style documentary from 1961 won an Oscar for best documentary, and shows the changing patterns of human emotions during 24 hours in the life of Waterloo Station.

By combining actual footage with reenactments, this film offers both a documentary and fictional account of the life of Adolf Hitler, from his childhood in Vienna, through the rise of the Third Reich, to his final act of suicide in the waning days of WWII. The film also provides considerable, and often shocking, detail of the atrocities enacted by the Nazi regime under Hitler's command.

Maurice Pialat films the Latin Quarter of Paris in the early 1960s.

A basic sex education film designed for young engaged couples.

The film consists of four parts: Part 1 shows the founding of a new working group of the "Critical University" at the FU Berlin. Participants are students, workers, pupils, assistants and a university lecturer. The working group is founded to study the problems of educational advertising. Part 2 shows the campaign "Expropriate Springer"; the university administration of the FU Berlin refuses the rooms. The Springer Hearing takes place after all. Part 3 describes the Vietnam Congress, shows Dutschke's speech and a first approach to a counter-demonstration against the students. Part 4 answers Wolfgang Lefevre's questions about the next goals of the SDS.

Demonstrating the police's communications systems.

An independently produced documentary about growing up as a blind youth in 1960's Japan. It focuses on a group of elementary level students being taught by Mr. Kawai at the Zoshigaya Branch of Tokyo Educational University. Filmed over 12 years, the documentary tracks these student's lives up through their young adulthood. It follows the journey of one student in particular, Kiyoshi Hasegawa, a young boy who eventually learns a passion for music and wants to become a recording artist. Expanded from director Hideo Hamada's documentary short "But We Can Gaze!"

Candles, tears of crying women, memories: that is how the film In Thy Blood Live begins. David Perlov's camera travels over photographs, focuses on faces that are no more, as in a gesture of parting. The history of the Holocaust is revealed in this film in a condensed, intensive way: first the memorials for the victims throughout Israel, and only then the beginning of it all - the rise of the Nazi regime, the Ghetto with its hunger and death, but with its music and theatre too, the uprising, the death camps; and it ends with the trial of Adolf Eichmann, one of the chief architects of the genocide. The music of Oedoen Partos, blending Jewish, Israeli and European motives, helps portray in sounds that lost world which now belongs to memory alone

New York, USA, February 1964. Five grueling days in the life of George, John, Paul and Ringo, the Fab Four, The Beatles: the hysterical fan reception at JFK airport; several press conferences; in their rooms at the Plaza Hotel; in the backstage at the Ed Sullivan Show; hanging out with the legendary DJ Murray the K; and the frantic return home.

Japanese documentary from 1964 directed by Noriaki Tsuchimoto. The film focuses on the taxi drivers of Tokyo in the year before the Tokyo Olympics and the difficulties they face: construction obstructing traffic, poor working conditions, numerous accidents, and bad pay. It becomes a critique of a changing and modernizing urban Japan.

A featurette (most likely shot for American television) about the Spaghetti Western genre during the late 60's and how it had affected Italy at that particular point in time. Contains behind-the-scenes footage from the films "Il Grande Silenzio" "Vado, Vedo e Sparo" "Ammazza Tutti e Torna Solo" and "Corri, Uomo, Corri" and interviews with their directors and cast.

Police Power and Freedom of Assembly: The Gregory March, documents the protests on Thursday, August 29th at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Comedian/activist Dick Gregory is arrested as he attempts to lead a march to break the police cordon around the Chicago Loop. This film is incorporated into the Film Group’s feature “American Revolution II.”

Documentary about Jirí Trnka and how he works.

This short film from Arthur Lipsett is an abstract collage of snippets from discarded footage found by Lipsett in the editing room of the National Film Board (where he worked as an animator), combined with his own black and white 16mm footage shot on the streets of Montreal and New York City, among other locations. A commentary on a machine-dominated society, it is often cited as an influence on George Lucas's Star Wars and his conceptualization of "The Force."

An MGM short subject to promote their film "The Glass Bottom Boat".

A palimino cow pony, through a series of owners and adventures becomes a champion mount for one of the US equestrian team.

An investigation of the business side of the music industry which includes a live performance of the Rolling Stones in concert and interviews with pop stars.

Documentary on Winston's work as an artist

La Via del Petrolio is a three-part documentary Bernardo Bertolucci made for the Italian oil giant ENI that aired in 1967. The film was made following Bertolucci’s breakthrough second feature Before the Revolution, and the director has said that it’s a documentary made by a man who is desperate to direct another feature. The film was presented in three parts: "The Origins", "At Sea" and "In the Heart of Europe".

In 1961 Turin celebrated the centenary of the Italian unity with a large exposition which lasted from May till October of that year. One of the most popular exhibits was the 28 minute documentary ITALIA ´61 IN CIRCARAMA which was produced by the Walt Disney company and sponsored by the Italian automobile manufacturer Fiat. The spectacular views of this Cinerama tour of Italy (filmed with nine cameras) impressed more than two million visitors during the entire duration of that Turin Expo.

An early work by Bruce Baillie, originally a Canyon Cinemanews.

A subjective representation of an infant’s experience, from the womb to first steps

Documentary film about one of the last forest railways in Remetské Hámre, which transports workers and carries wood.

This documentary shows the birth of a 10,000-ton ship called "Phenian" (the deadweight tonnage of this cargo ship is 10,000 tons). The film is devoid of commentary, which emphasizes the importance of the forms and the almost mystical nature of the "birth" of the ship.

A short look at various seasonal activities offered in the Tyrol region of Austria.

A Day in TOKYO in 1968, Nostalgic bygone era. Planned by Japan National Tourism Organization. Produced by Koga Production. This film was produced to explain Tokyo for foreign tourists.

Explores concerns about uterine cancer and the value of the Pap Test in detecting this serious type of cancer.

Over two dozen top-name acts make this 'audio/visual rock thing' come to life in a rock and roll journey that moves all over, from Katmandu to London's Royal Albert Hall; an in-depth, backstage interview with The Rolling Stones' leader Mick Jagger, Plus Jimi Hendrix, Otis Redding, Joe Cocker and many others, along with other features including a Twiggy fashion show.

Sarcastic look at a 1962 Yugoslav beauty contest.

One of the great number of fire's causes is a human factor. The lack of caution of the immediate producers, as well as of the persons in charge for the whole security in the factory, can often be a cause for great fires.

The people of Ile-aux-Coudres talk of their fading tradition of constructing boats to ride the seas.

Documentary showing the daily routine of Sander’s seven year old son, Silvo.

Motorcycle race on a speedway track.

The film shows the process of restoration of a Slovak Gothic wood-carving artwork of The Last Supper from Spisska Sobota, made by Master Paul of Levoca.

A series of visual paradoxes between the names of the streets of Madrid and those of the shops located in them.

Bojana Marijan joined the film club crowd (including Zilnik and Makavejev, her future husband) at Novi Sad where Zilnik had already set up the legendary production company Neoplanta. Her political argument is obvious, but in Vesela Klasa, as Amos Vogel puts it, “Instead of complaints there are lyrics, music and wine.”

A documentary about the famous athlete and movie enthusiast who made Serbia's first sound film, Innocence Unprotected. The Nazi occupation of Belgrade prevented the film from gaining wider acclaim. Director Makavejev intersperses clips of the original film with interviews of surviving cast and crew members, as well as newsreel and archival footage.

Impressions from a plant of August Thyssen-Hütte. In this steel mill, only the fog is gray, not the job and not everyday life.

The story of Pelé, from his birth to his rise as one of the most prominent players in both Brazilian and worldwide soccer.

A documentary short about Egypt.

Focusing on the pressures people feel moving from the security and nurture of village life to the isolate chaos of big city life, Joshua: A Nigerian Portrait tells the story of Joshua Sobitan, a rent-collector living in Lagos.

Originally a BBC documentary, this film by Tony Palmer about the 1960's music scene was later released as a standalone DVD by the BFI

A man talks about his addiction to amphetamines and illustrates his struggle by his sudden inability to fix a radio.

A walk around the ancient town of Trogir. The walker goes deeper and deeper into the stone labyrinth, and encounters fear, death and pain.

A documentary about the construction work on the Bratstvo-Edinstvo highway, the shifts of the work brigades, the successes on the route, new acquaintances and the joy of the foremen after a successfully completed shift.

A photoshoot on the roofs and in the streets of Paris, under the astonished eyes of the inhabitants.

A newsreel of Jonas Mekas shooting his filmed version of The Brig on the set of the Living Theatre production.