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A montage of around a thousand shots capturing moments of life.

A short documentary about the Iranian art of Tiling

In 1970, a group of Vietnam veterans set out on a long march. They want to confront the local population with the shocking injustices that have been going on in Vietnam for years.

Canadian reporter Patrick Watson interviews 72-year-old Albert Speer, Hitler's architect and later, his Minister of Armaments. Speer, the only high-ranking Nazi official to plead guilty at the Nuremberg trials, served 20 years in Spandau prison for war crimes. Includes a discussion of Speer's memoirs, Inside the Third Reich and rare footage of Adolf Hitler.

The fourth episode of Patrick Tam’s anthology series “Seven Women” (1976), which adapted from Swedish play “Miss Julie”

A film about teenagers- pentathlates and their coaches.

People talk about what they are feeling. Ranging from the literal to the emotional.

In 1973, fresh from his performance in Walkabout, a film that brought outback landscapes to urban audiences, Gulpilil returned the favour by paying a visit to Melbourne with camera in hand, shooting a wry fly-on-the-wall documentary that compares the sights and sounds of the city to those of his home in Arnhem Land.

An analysis of the comportement of the French Communist Party during the Algerian War

A history of the Pacific War comprising of American combat footage with Japanese wartime newsreels

George Foreman vs. Ron Lyle was a boxing match that took place on January 24, 1976 in Caesars Palace, Paradise, Nevada, U.S.

About the life and work of the famous Latvian poet Vilis Plūdonis.

This documentary is set against the scenic backdrop of Mount Errigal in County Donegal. The mountains of Donegal are depicted like fairytale characters, where the hero Mount Errigal competes with neighbouring villain Mount Muckish. A fantastical narrative explains that the landscape is ‘a battleground where the weapons are the elements themselves’. Dramatic footage of storms and lightning blends with a superb score by Irish composer Brian Boydell.

"The Great Magician" - Max Reinhardt (1873-1943) was an Austrian theater and film director, director, theater producer and theater founder. With his Jedermann production on August 22, 1920, he founded the Salzburg Festival.

A charming documentary on Brazilian sculptor Mario Cravo Jr. and his fountain project. What makes the documentary interesting beyond its topic is Oliveira's unusual approach; he tells the story of the sculpture project only through sometimes psychedelic pictures and music/noise without conventional narration.

Documentary on the extreme conditions of the Namib Desert in the southwest of Africa, and on the extraordinary creatures who thrive there. With temperatures at nearly double that of the warmest temperate climes, it seems nothing could survive. Yet life flourishes, miraculously.

Steamboat trip along the Purus River.

A large part of the town of Juchitepec, State of Mexico, has left its place of origin to seek its fortune in the city. The survivors suffer the sale of their best land for agriculture to a pantheon. Death is a constant in a place where there is barely enough food.

An unknown observer is seen traveling through a bleak corridor. At the end of the corridor they see a naked woman, whom they are unable to reach as their trip seems to become increasingly twisted and looped.

This film points out the risks of being a heroin addict. Explains that addicts cannot be identified solely with one particular socio-economic level and cannot always be detected by appearance. Addicts and ex-addicts describe the first and subsequent drugs they used.

Mendieta, Ana: Burial Pyramide, Yagul, Mexico.

During this critical decade in American life, artists built on the styles of the 1950s. An explosion of artistic energy produced Pop Art, Minimalism, color-field painting, and hard-edged abstraction. Sculptors and painters on both coasts explored new methods and new subject matter. American Art in the Sixties examines the key figures of that decade including Rauschenberg and Johns, two crucial transitional figures between Abstract Expressionism and the sensibilities of the new decade. The art of that time mirrors the optimism and the affluence, and the technology and the vulgarity of those boom years.

A black and white documentary which captures nighttime scenes in various European cities.

A film about a woman's role in the society.

Documentary film on the end of the Vietnam War, the fall of Saigon and the departure of American troops, as well as a tracing of 4000 years of Vietnamese culture.

Award-winning filmmaker Carroll Ballard’s cinematic science excursion into microcinematography and electronic music.

Henri Langlois, interviewed in the Cinema Museum at the Palais de Chaillot, talks about his vision of cinema's past, present and future, before a brief jaunt through the museum as it was in 1975.

The "Lyon Premier 8000-Gasherbrum II 8035m" expedition, organized and led by Jean-Pierre Frésafond in 1975, was sponsored by the Lyon section of the Club Alpin Français and by Louis Pradel, Mayor of Lyon. The film traces the departure from Lyon of Berliet heavy trucks loaded with equipment, daily life in Pakistan, preparation for the expedition and the approach march with the porters, daily life at the base camp and in the camps. altitude of the members of the expedition: L. Audoubert, Marc Batard, F. Bourbousson, A. Chariglione, J. Dupraz, J.J. Forrat, H. and JP. Frésafond, B. Macho, Doctor A. Raymond, Y. Seigneur, J. Soubis, F. Valençot, B. Villaret de Chauvignypuis. Finally On June 18, 1975, Yannick Seigneur and Marc Batard reached the summit by opening a route along the south ridge. Bernard Villaret de Chauvigny, who was killed during the second assault, was the first victim of the Gasherbrum.

Renowned Brazilian samba singer-songwriter Nelson Cavaquinho performing at TV Cultura in 1973.

Packed with rare interviews, press conference footage and live clips, this documentary provides a comprehensive look at heavy metal pioneers Led Zeppelin. Inspired by numerous musical genres, including blues, jazz and folk, the innovative band created a unique sound that continues to resonate today. The program includes a press conference featuring Robert Plant and Jimmy Page discussing the 1980 death of drummer John Bonham.

Short documentary.

An observation of grandparents in their daily lives.

Arnulfo Silva, a former abandoned child, retells his childhood difficulties living on the streets.

A multinational company owned by Mrs Judit Angst is facing financial difficulties: she decides to hire a group of young anarchists to fake her "kidnapping". After a couple of weeks spent in confinement she will be able to justify the downfall of her company before the people and at the same time to gain the status of the opponent to the destruction and chaos.

The story of the famous Latvian basketball team "TTT" from the lips of the team's long-time captain.

Dick Fontaine documents Norman Mailer’s 1969 bid for the Mayor’s office in New York City. Accompanied by his running mate, Jimmy Breslin, Mailer charismatically works the press and the public with a provocative platform that ultimately fails.

Racial tensions soared as the Spencers, a middle-class black family moved into Rosedale, a Queens white working-class neighborhood. In this 1976 documentary, Bill Moyers examines the fear, hatred and courage generated as the have-nots of our society battle for a tiny piece of the good life.

Documentary by Ebbo Demant.

A passenger train on its daily route, a winter landscape can be seen through the window. Passengers are deep in their own thoughts and some of them have a conversation. Hidden lyricism of the gray everyday life and the constant flow of life.

An edited version of the 1970 German documentary "Erinnerungen an die Zukunft" (Chariots of the Gods), this examines the theory that aliens have landed on Earth in ancient times and were responsible for many of mankind's oldest mysteries.

A journey through a nature reserve in the GDR: the island of Hiddensee—with a special focus on the landscape, flora, and fauna.

A short documentary produced for Canadian public television.

This film records a 12 day ritual performed by Mambudiri Brahmins in Kerala, southwest India, in April 1975. This event was possibly the last performance of the Agnicayana, a Vedic ritual of sacrifice dating back 3,000 years and probably the oldest surviving human ritual. Long considered extinct and never witnessed by outsiders, the ceremonies require the participation of seventeen priests, involve libations of Soma juice and oblations of other substances, all preceded by several months of preparation and rehearsals. They include the construction, from a thousand bricks, of a fire altar in the shape of a bird.

A tour of the landscape and wildlife of the Western Isles in Scotland.

This lyrical film opens with a quote from Irish mythology where Oisín describes Irish birdsong as ‘the sweetest in the world’ and urges us to ‘Stop and listen!’ What follows is a stunning, non-narrated depiction of Irish birds, animals and landscapes. Oisín was commissioned by the Department of Land of Ireland as a contribution to the European Conservation Year.

Educational film describing the exploits of American heroes such as Johnny Appleseed, Davy Crockett, Pecos Bill, and Casey Jones;

Animals of all kinds are filmed in different moments of habitat.

At work on his Elegies and Windows series, Motherwell examines his place in the Abstract Expressionist movement, which he calls the first original American movement in the "mainstream," and its practitioners "the last romantics." He distinguishes between his large paintings and his intimate papier collée. Motherwell recollects the state of American art in the 1940s and the impact of European emigré painters on the younger generation of emerging artists. He discusses the significance of collage, or papier collée, as an artist's medium and explains how he first became involved with this process. Motherwell offers his interpretations of earlier directions in art and his response to the object oriented painting that emerged in America in the 1960s. A unique document of one of the founding members of the New York School. He died in 1991.

In a remote mountainous village elderly people no longer deemed productive are stoned to death.

An exotic world of eroticism, witchcraft, masochism and strange secret places.

The riverbanks are dotted with food stalls and buzzing with the parasol-holding crowd. Everyone is here to watch the exciting dragon boat race. Voice-over narration in melodic Taiwanese describes pre-festival preparation, and the celebrations and rituals in various parts of Taiwan. Through carefully-crafted script and well-executed camerawork, this documentary gives a vibrant portrait of ordinary people’s lives in a festive atmosphere.

A young sociology student has an unintended pregnancy and is subjected to the terrible humiliation of an incompetent doctor. The girl falls ill from the poorly performed abortion and is taken by a friend to the General Hospital. Film that reports clandestine abortion in Mexico, with interviews with women who have had abortions in that hospital and shocking maternal death statistics from procedures carried out under unsafe conditions.

Behind the scenes look at 'Magnum Force'.

Frank Darrow of the Wenatchee Youth Circus, applies his makeup for a show

A documentary about Italian immigration in Brazil.