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Documentary-manifest in defense of the inclusion of the Brazilian short film in the national cinema circuit, accompanying each foreign feature film as a market reserve

A look at NASCAR Grand National stock car racing circa 1976-7. The stars include Richard Petty, David Pearson, Cale Yarborough, Bobby Allison, and Buddy Baker, and includes upstart female racer Janet Guthrie. The sport in the mid-1970s was undergoing a surge of national popularity after Petty and Pearson crashed fighting for the win within sight of the checkered flag of the 1976 Daytona 500, telecast live on ABC Sports, and the surging interest triggered renewed media interest in the sport.

Propaganda film from the Argentine radical political organization 'Montoneros', analyzing the 20th-century history of its country and explaining the present tactical decisions of the organization.

The horrifying story of what went on inside General Pinochet's secret prisons.

Filmmakers Tom Palazzolo, Jeff Kreines, and Bernie Caputo attend the annual Chicago Senior Citizens Picnic hosted by the Democratic Party. Shot in the style of direct cinema, they spend the afternoon in a Chicago park following the seniors as they have a musical revue, hula dance, listen to speeches, play organized games and generally seem to have an all around fabulous time.

The film covers the oppression of Jews under the Nazis and features rare historical footage of concentration camps. The title is derived from a comment by a witness at Adolf Eichmann's trial. According to his testimony, he was whipped 80 times by the Nazis, but was not believed by Israelis after the war; this final doubt of his own people was the "81st blow". The 81st Blow is the first film in the Israeli Holocaust Trilogy by Bergman, Ehrlich and Gouri. It was followed by The Last Sea (1980) and Flames in the Ashes (1985).

The film is a study of the differences and similarities between human and animal behaviour. The first part of the movie focuses on the behaviour of various animal species. The second half is about humans. In the original Dutch version writer Anton Koolhaas, who also wrote the script, provided the voice-over.

An indictment of the protagonists in the Cypriot civil war.

Karayuki-san, the Making of a Prostitute is a 1975 Japanese film by director Shohei Imamura. It is a documentary on one of the Japanese "karayuki-san," who were women that were taken from their homes in Japan and used as prostitutes in the post-war period. Many of these women were told that they were doing this to support their families because of the extreme poverty that the war left much of Japan to live in. Imamura focuses on a particular such woman who was sent to Malaysia and never returned to Japan. Joan Mellen, in The Waves at Genji's Door, called this film, "Perhaps the most brilliant and feeling of Imamura's fine documentaries."

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of the classic western about the lives of two of America's most famous outlaws. Director George Roy Hill narrates this film, talking about some of the experience, both good and bad, of bringing the film to life.

The documentary Sin Telón celebrates the national artistic values of Teatro La Candelaria, recognized both nationally and internationally as one of the leading Latin American experimental theater groups. The film highlights the extensive career of Santiago García while also portraying the everyday life and unique working methods of this dedicated ensemble of artists from Teatro La Candelaria.

A political film about the policy of the anabaptists of Münster (1534) and the 'enemies of constitution' in West Germany (1976).

A documentary crew lives with the schizophrenic residents of a group home based upon radical psychiatrist R. D. Laing's controversial approach to healing through compassion and freedom.

The summer of the Jubilee in 1977 was mentally dominated by another national anthem - "God Save the Queen" by The Sex Pistols. That same summer was also the summer of punk. Janet Street Porter Reviews The Year Of Punk, Featuring Early Classic Footage Of The Sex Pistols, The Clash, Siouxsie And Others.

Documentary about a country singer from Colorado who voluntarily moved to the GDR in 1972. The camera accompanies him during the rehearsal & recording of a concert, as well as the handing over of his fee to representatives of the provisional government of South Vietnam. The entertainer sings "We Shall Overcome" in front of the Brandenburg Gate, "Mississippi Line" on Mont Klamott and signs autographs on Alexanderplatz.

Director João Batista de Andrade was filming a documentary about migrants coming from Northeast Brazil to São Paulo in search of a better living. His intention was to give voice to these underprivileged and homeless people. While preparing to interview a man who lived under a bridge, a passer-by interfered, starting an argument about the role of people from other states in the development of São Paulo and the rural problem in the Northeast.

A BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at the history of the motor car in the 1920s. Part of the six-part "History of the Motor Car Series"

Documentary about Vietnam after the liberation of Saigon.

German-made "study" of sexual rapport and rituals in Denmark from prolific exploitation producer Erwin C. Dietrich.

The daily life of Tallinn's professional firefighters. Firefighters waiting for a call at the depot, the dispatcher transmitting the call and the men working on the fire, including professional firefighter Mati Nuude.

A documentary on nudist camps, focusing on those in California, and on the Miss Nude World Pageant held every summer at the Four Seasons Park in Freelton, Ontario.

A nature documentary, the film depicts the wildlife of Africa and efforts to protect it through the creation and maintenance of game reserves.

Canadian wildlife specialists work to preserve and nurture the creatures that remain in our wilderness areas - species such as the whooping crane, prairie falcons, bighorn sheep, bison, polar bears, and grizzlies.

About the election campaign of the first female member of the US Congress.

A report on the life and work of the painter Teodoro Núñez Ureta (1912-1988). The artist is seen creating a watercolor in the Arequipa countryside and in a Lima market.

A documentary about the 1972 Winter Olympic Games in Sapporo, Japan.

The Shakers are America's oldest and most successful experiment in communal living. A century ago, nearly 6,000 Shaker brothers and sisters lived together in nineteen communities scattered from Maine to Kentucky. This film (narrated by the filmmaker, Tom Davenport) traces the growth, decline, and continuing survival of this remarkable and influential religious sect through the memories and rich song traditions of Shakers themselves. It includes performances by the late Eldress Marguerite Frost of Canterbury, New Hampshire, and the late Sister R. Mildred Barker, a leading singer and spiritual leader of the Shaker community still active at Sabbathday Lake, Maine when the film was made.

Documentary about Butlins

After the waning of the protests in Sanrizuka, Ogawa Pro started questioning the future of the collective and looking for other subjects to film. Following the method developed in the previous films, the filmmakers moved to the slum of Kotobuchi in the port city of Yokohama, where more than 6000 people were struggling to get by without any means of survival, exposed to industrial accidents and diseases. The result is one of the most moving films produced by the collective, a series of beautifully filmed portraits, voicing the silenced stories and songs of a group of people living in this community. Credit: ICA London

Pickup's Tricks is a beat documentary of Hibiscus and the Cockettes, who were pioneers of San Francisco’s underground queer theater in the early '70s. It is a multifarious blend of sexual anarchy; a raucous and unscripted mix of liberation and elation as rough and spirited as the lifestyle that created it. The film profiles Hibiscus, founding member of the Cockettes, the psychedelic drag queens that performed midnight musicals at the Palace Theater in San Francisco. The film includes a rare screen appearance of Allen Ginsberg, clean-shaven and costumed in "acute drag" as a Yiddishe Mama with a painted-on third eye. (pickupstricks.com)

An inside look at China working towards the goal of becoming a superpower by the year 2000 via education as the key to modernization. Filmed in Peking, on a rural commune in central China, and in the industrial northeast region, Jack Reynolds interviews Vice Premier Fang Yi and the president of Peking University, as well as students, workers, and peasants.

A candid look at the sex trade, supposedly by means of hidden cameras and microphones, Prostitution Pornography U.S.A. is a voyeur’s delight.

Short film against the oppression of women. At first, differences in education are presented and then how the relationship between women and men looks like in the professional world.

Short documentary about an archetypal library concept for kids in Clamart.

Luc-André Godbout, better known as Ti-Dré, is a forty-three-year-old orphan who cleanses furnaces and consciences. Here he is presented, life-size, in a film impregnated with this extraordinary character.

The Atlantic Training Ship Regatta starts in Plymouth, Great Britain, sails along Tenerife, passes Bermuda to reach the finish line in New Port near New York. Master mariners, commanders of "Dar Młodzieży" talk about the event.

Poetic short film by Gunvor Nelson about her reunion with former school friends in Kristinehamn. The film was not released after its production.

A look at the city of Edinburgh, Scotland with a particular focus on its famous castle.

Fluxus artist and composer Takehisa Kosugi assembled a crew of young musicians and hit the road in a VW bus from Rotterdam to the Taj Mahal, playing a series of shows along the way in which the band used traditional instruments run through a series of electronic effects to create long sheets of drone both pulsing and timeless. Filmed by Takehisa Kosugi's mentor Matsu Ohno (perhaps best known in the States for his sound effects/score work on the television series Astro-Boy), the film moves at the same pace as the music itself, a pastoral road movie following a band far more likely to play temples than clubs.

Short documentary film offering a rare portrait on legendary Brazilian actor Grande Otelo, recorded at his own family home.

Matrix II explores the properties of images and sounds in the medium of video. Geometric shapes travel across a ‘matrix’ (grid) of cathode ray tube (CRT) screens. CRT televisions, which use manipulated electron beams to display images on a fluorescent screen, remained in widespread use until the early 2000s. The Vasulkas sought to test the limits of each monitor, creating a fluid motion resembling the behaviour of electronic signals. Matrix II is an early example of video art, which first developed in the late 1960s and 1970s as artists came into contact with new consumer technologies for capturing moving images.

Long thought to be the first film ever made by an Indigenous filmmaker, Black Fire examines the situation of First Nations people in the early 1970s through politically charged discussions, comical vox pops, and interviews with luminaries of the time such as Pastor Doug Nicholls and Aboriginal Tent Embassy co-founder Bertie Williams.

Every year, on June 13, for the past thirty-two years, the villagers have gathered to remember one of their neighbors who left his home on that day in 1939 and never returned. His nearest and dearest did not receive information about his death.

Professor Valentin Zorin, political observer of the USSR State Television and Radio Broadcasting, talks about Joseph McCarthy, an American politician, a senator from Wisconsin, who held an extremely anti-communist position, who advocated an intensification of the Cold War with the USSR. The name of McCarthy is associated with a reactionary trend in the political life of the United States of the early 1950s, dubbed "McCarthyism" and consisted in the persecution of people only suspected of sympathizing with communism and not committing any crimes.

Short documentary directed by Berta Saldaña —who directed State newsreels for three different and opposing governments: Velasco Alvarado, Morales Bermúdez and Belaunde Terry— for the Empresa de Servicio de Informaciones (ESI) about the United Nations-funded Proyecto Experimental de Vivienda (PREVI) and the self-managed grasroots settlement of Villa El Salvador.

A fascinating and touching portrait of isolation in big cities, Roger the Dodger features an extended interview with a man who was arrested by the police for loitering near a train station. The man shares his discontent with the local government, and American politics at large. An avowed Marxist, he thinks that carrying a picture of Fidel Castro when arrested probably did not endear him to the police. He discusses his thoughts on loneliness, specifically the ways in which big cities such as Chicago and New York contribute to feelings of isolation, particularly for those who do not enjoy popular pastimes such as sports and rock music.

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

Driving through New York City in his Sexmobile, Dr. Harrison Rogers of the Bureau of Sexological Investigation, searches out luminary figures in the world of sex.

Intercuts scenes from Jack London's To build a fire with modern urban and rural winter scenes to point out the dangers of winter storms and low temperatures. Designed to stimulate discussion on civil preparedness for winter storms.

A journey through a field of corn.

Documentary about the work of firefighters and their fight against fire.

The film tells about builders laying rural roads.

A look at the cities of Tiradentes and Serro, sharing moments from their histories. A positive perspective on the colonial settlement and exploitation that mark both territories.

Following the archival horror of the liberation of Nazi concentration camps, this poignant documentary chronicles a study trip organized by the Belgian Auschwitz-Birkenau Association. The film follows 120 young university students and 10 Holocaust survivors as they journey back to Auschwitz and Birkenau. Standing on the historic grounds, the youth confront the devastating past. Through deeply personal dialogues, survivors and students openly debate ethics, institutional racism, and the dangers of dictatorship.