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A little boy celebrates his frog catch.

About the behavior of a three-year-old child in the family - for 20 days, the film crew observed the process of learning about the world around the baby. The film was shot with a hidden camera.

On country roads at Morison Bush between Greytown and Martinborough, there once lived a woman with an affinity for animals who some local children had come to know as the town witch.

Extract of rushes from the unfinished documentary project written and produced by Henri Langlois on Marc Chagall.

Lengthy interviews, exclusive to this movie, with Juan Peron, describing his military career and the reforms he instituted as leader of the Argentine government.

A candid portrait of the women working at the Lőrinc spinning mill. As with so many of Mészáros’ shorts, this work has foundations in autobiography, and she would later return to this particular world in one of her fiction features.

In buildings where foreign workers lived in Germany, there were strict rules of conduct, defined by the house rules and supervised by the building superintendents. Many rights regarding the freedom of movement, communication and behavior were abused. Interviews with the tenants and with the "orderlies" which point out absurd situations and clashes caused by these restrictions.

A mutant prank improvised by Arnaldo Baptista, Sérgio Dias, and Rita Lee. Os Mutantes on a unique day in the streets of São Paulo.

From the fall of 1975 to the summer of 1976, Bob Dylan took a happy gaggle of musicians out on a two-leg tour dubbed the Rolling Thunder Review. Live at Fort Collins, Colorado

Documentary by Ebbo Demant.

Stacy Keach narrates this documentary that chronicles the abbreviated life and career of iconic brooding bad boy James Dean, from his obscure early days working in television to his rise to stardom in films such as Rebel Without a Cause. Clips from Dean's movies are intermingled with candid interviews with the star's friends and Hollywood colleagues, including Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, Sammy Davis Jr. and Dennis Hopper.

An account of the combats and popular participation in the struggle for the country’s liberation, from the exploits of General Augusto César Sandino (1895-1934) through to the Sandinista National Liberation Front’s entry into Managua on 19 July 1979.

Emile de Antonio's film decimates Richard Nixon and exposes him as a paranoid, power mad lunatic... de Antonio compiles (via video and film) what amounts to the "best of" one of the worst political figures of the 20th century. Nixon was a shameless self-promoter while trying desperately to convince everyone that he wasn't. Through Alger Hiss and the "Checkers" speech to the character assassination of Helen Gahagan Douglas (among others), there are few stones left unturned.

During his preparation for his film on Casanova Fellini asks a number of renowned actors to give him their view on the character of Casanova.

When 20 students decided in the fall of 1976 to leave Gamlebyen county college and create their own alternative county college in Skjeberg, they initiated one of the most interesting school experiments that has ever seen the light of day in Norway. Within a short time, the students themselves established Kvastebyen alternative county college where there was no curriculum, but where all activities, both academic and practical, were part of the program.

Musical documentary shot in Estonia.

A film of the popular composer Raimonds Pauls - with music, songs and open conversation about popularity, light and serious music

A Latin palindrome is the title of Guy Debord's last film, in which he, as narrator, explains that he will make neither concessions to the tastes of his viewers nor to the dominant ideas of his day. After extensively insulting the audience that goes to the cinema to forget its heteronomous life, the film becomes autobiographical, using images from the world of spectacle: advertising brochures, clips from feature films (Les enfants du paradis), comics, aerial footage of Paris, tracking shots through Venice, photographs of friends – all commented on by Debord, with an at times melancholy undertone: "This Paris no longer exists." His assessment is that one of the great pleasures of his life has been the sensation of the passage of time, and as a witness to the disintegration of social order, he has loved his epoch.

A documentary film consisting of various clips of Josip Broz Tito.

We follow a caregiver who takes care of the elderly and infirm.

Ants Jõgi (1892-1983) is a dignified gentleman whose main profession in life has been acting. He also has a spirit of an artist and an artisan. The 85-year-old man is lonely and has to go to a retirement home. Director Leida Laius' documentary tells a story about the life and work of the old actor as well as contemplates on the true values of life, old man's connections to the present and the past. The thoughts of the wise old man are enchanting with their simplicity and warmth.

In the mid-1970s, Gary Weis made some short films of Mead talking to his cat in the kitchen of his Ludlow Street apartment on Manhattan's Lower East Side called Taylor Mead's Cat.

A more experimental aproach to labor protection films. In the line of Săucan's style, the soundtrack is as important as the image, the threatening music, full of shrillness, composed by Ion Dumitrescu potentiating the visual construction that mixes - in a montage reminiscent of the Soviet avant-garde school of the 1920s - all kinds of shooting techniques and frame combinations.

A documentary about hookers, housewives, and other mothers.

A documentary about the histoy and linguistic ties of the Finno-Ugric, and Samoyedic peoples. Speakers of the Kamassian, Nenets, Khanty, Komi, Mari, and Karelian languages were filmed in their everyday settings in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The footage was shot in Altai Krai, the Nenets Okrug, Khantia-Mansia, Uzbekistan, the Komi Republic, Mari el, Karelia, and Estonia. The first documentary in Lennart Meri's "Encyclopaedia Cinematographica Gentium Fenno - Ugricarum (1970 - 1997)" series.

The lyrical portrait of Szydłów, formerly a town and now a village in the region of Kielce, was yet another step on the filmmaker’s way in search for his own artistic focus and style.

Documentary recording of one day of children's play in the yard of a Warsaw housing estate.

The world's greatest one-string fiddle player reminisces. The film is dedicated to the memory of Albert Sandler.

Introduces the world of painter René Magritte through an assemblage of the painter's images. Includes statements by Magritte about his intentions and anecdotes from his friends Mesens and Scutenaire.

Narrated by François Billetdoux, this documentary about Georges Mathieu features the artist in Paris painting along to a live improvised soundtrack by Vangelis.

Filmmaker Jean Chabot looks at the use of nuclear energy in Quebec. Do we need this expensive and dangerous energy?

Part of a series of promotional films commissioned by Romania's National Tourism Office in the early 1970s with the aim of reconnecting diasporic communities with the country they left behind. In this case, the film is addressed to Jews who emigrated in the context of the Second World War or were sold by the Romanian state to the State of Israel starting in the 50s and settled in Israel and the USA - therefore, a target group made up of seniors, probably retired , possibly prosperous, eager to revisit the places of youth and willing to forget, temporarily, the traumas associated with them.

Documentary about the West Coast Black Panthers, the deadly crackdown by the FBI and police forces.

One of the first Brazilian movies to conjecture about contraculture and its reflexes on the behaviour of a generation. A tribute to the late poet and friend Orlando Parolini.

This somewhat bizarre film about Emergency Medical Technicians or EMTs was produced and distributed by Film Commutators in Hollywood, California. The film dates to a time when ambulance crews were being replaced by paramedics / EMTs, who had sufficient training to make medical decisions and give on-scene care. The film makes a strong argument to decision makers in favor of upgrading from mere ambulance drivers to EMTs.

Scientific documentary film exposing the cencorship laws in the BRD as an instrument used for propaganda. Its the third part of the "Bundesdeutsche Filmpolitik" Trilogie.

A local theatre company prepares for a production of Ivar Aasen's Ervingen.

Documentary film dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Nicholas Roerich's birth.

It explores the problem of the shortage caused in Chile during the Unidad Popular. It shows the actions of a minister, a bourgeois housewife and a grassroots group of the JAP (Juntas de Abastecimiento y Precios) promoted by the government to alleviate this crisis.

This documentary portrait is the first to celebrate the only American member of the French Impressionist school and the first American woman to become a famous painter. 'Mary Cassatt Impressionist From Philadelphia' is not only a biography of the artist’s life and work; the film sees both in the context of the status of the woman painter in Victorian America in the second half of the 19th century.

A short film designed to introduce the youth of America to the joys of Amateur Radio.

A collection of testimonies from Brazilian indigenous people about the interests of FUNAI (National Foundation for Indigenous Peoples), multinational corporations, and large landowners behind the disastrous policy of indigenous emancipation in Brazil. Narrated by Fernanda Montenegro.

Feature episode of a TV show about Portuguese fascism in the 40s.

In this film Bert Haanstra shows how important the formation of national parks is for the protection of nature.

The film is about Yuri Zavadsky, his work as the chief director of the Moscow Theater. The Moscow City Council and the last performance of the master - "Petersburg Dreams" (based on Dostoevsky's novel "Crime and Punishment").

On the meaning of religious enclosure in the 17th and 18th centuries in the Santa Catalina convent in the city of Arequipa.

Feature-film director Michel Audiard tackles what he believes to be the mistakenly heroic status given to Charles De Gaulle. In this documentary film, he uses humor, among other things, to demythologize him.

Images and sounds are spliced together in this journey to the heart of the political, economic and cultural oppression of the Quebec people. A reflection on neo-colonial exploitation and the cancer of alienation. To the very Canadian multiculturalism of Trudeau and the métissage of the multinationals, celebrated by the high priests of the dominant ideology, is contrasted the idea of acculturation, even deculturation. A way of resisting as good as any other.

1974 documentary about symphony conductor Antonia Brico, including her struggle against gender bias in her profession.

Made in 1976, TVTV's close-up look at Hollywood's annual awards ritual mixes irreverent documentary with deadpan comedy. TVTV's cameras go behind the scenes to follow major Hollywood figures (including Steven Spielberg, Michael Douglas, Lee Grant, Jack Nicholson, and many others), capturing them in candid moments—inside their limousines, dressing for the ceremony, backstage at the awards.

An interview with the Hungarian poet, János Pilinszky.

Documentary about the dancer Rudolf Nureyev.

This color documentary tells the story of the "Mamais." In 1960, a group of workers at the Bitterfeld chemical plant set themselves the task of becoming the first "socialist brigade" in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) to act in accordance with the slogan "Work, learn, and live socialist."

A portrait of the past and present of the city of Dunfermline, Scotland's ancient capital.

How the art in the Detroit Institute of Art connects to life's experiences and the neighborhood.