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A Space to Grow is a 1968 American short documentary film produced by Thomas P. Kelly Jr.. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short. Upward Bound programs from Chicago are featured. Henry Fonda is the narrator.
A look at Heathrow Airport, with a focus on new airport developments in London, including Gatwick and Stansted.
Exploring the world of student's rags in Manchester, Hull, Sheffield, and Leeds.
Directed by Mike O’Connor, and written by his brother, Joycean scholar Ulick O’Connor, this documentary portrays the Dublin in which Joyce lived and worked before his departure for Europe in 1904. Narrated by Micheál MacLiammóir, Joyce’s writing is woven through the scenes as significant locations from his life are revealed: the house in Brighton Square where he was born; Clongowes Wood College where he was educated; Sandymount Strand where he often wandered; derelict tenements once housing the brothels he frequented; and the Martello Tower where he visited with Oliver St John Gogarty.
A look at the huge new liners being built, the life of cargo carrying ships and the exciting future of air freight.
This film documentary uses the 1967 Six-Day War and its immediate aftermath as its basis. The material primarily presents Israeli sources and perspectives.
The story of the 1960 US Presidential election
The discovery of a human torso thrown into a waterway, leads the viewer to observe the work of modern criminology and the task of special agents to track and record the psychopath's mentality through the elucidation of techniques present in the reality of the police investigation.
1962 Japanese documentary
The documentary, produced by the General Student Committee of Freie Universität Berlin, documents the brutal police crackdowns on anti-Shah demonstrators, preserves evidence, interviews eyewitnesses, and confronts thugs with film and photographic evidence. Thomas Giefer and Hans-Rüdiger Minow interpret the police assaults as “the first attempts to implement the state of emergency against an extra-parliamentary opposition seeking to prevent it.” The film aims to create a counter-public sphere and calls on viewers to stop the anti-democratic forces and resist.
Life and use of a newspaper, from its preparation and distribution until it becomes a paper boat as a toy for a child. It won the silver bear in the Festival of Berlin.
Presents a dramatization of the extended field trip made by Mark Catesby in colonial Virginia and the ultimate publication of his two-volume illustrated natural history of the birds, animals, plants, reptiles and fish he observed and sketched in the new world.
A BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at music in Britain including soul, folk, pop, rock opera and brass bands.
The life of tuna fishermen and their families during the fishing season on Pumpkin Island in Tavira (Algarve). The documentary depicts their fishing methods and their return home after fishing. This was the last activity of "frame" or "almadraba" tuna fishery, before the camp was destroyed by the sea in the winter of the following year, in 1962.
TV-documentary about communication
A look at Hitler's 'Eagle's Nest' in the Bavarian Alps; a construction which survived World War II, that has now become a popular tourist attraction.
A documentary tracing the evolution of the marijuana "scare films", movies that were made from the early teens to the late '60s to warn adults and teenagers of the "evils" of marijuana use.
Adolescence is a 1966 French short documentary film directed by Marin Karmitz, about the teenage students of a famed ballet teacher. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.
A year in balance, between international events and glimpses of daily life, through the voices of young people from different backgrounds.
Short black-and-white documentary film showing the forging of an anchor.
Documentary record of the matches played in the IV Women's Basketball World Championship, as well as the opening and closing ceremonies of the tournament.
A historical account of the postal service through the centuries, from early communication to the late 1960s.
This film shows the dangers of driving commercial trucks professionally as part of driver’s education. It displays various truck drivers; some cautious and others fatally dangerous.
Montage documentary, built on footage taken during an expedition with the participation of writer Enrique Zorrilla, photographer Roberto Montandón and Leopoldo Castedo. Synthesis of a journey of one hundred thousand kilometers between Mexico and Tierra del Fuego around the heritage of the native peoples of Latin America.
About the events from the beginning of 1963, when the sudden outburst of earth blocked the course of the Visočica River in the southeast of Serbia and flooded the village of Zavoj.
"Jotes" is a company from Łódź that manufactures machines. The documentary shows the individual technological stages of its production.
An instructional video of the postal services intended for postal receptionists who provide services to the public (produced by the Israeli Film Service). The film explains how to perform their duties (assistance to customers in sending letters, payments, stamp services, etc) in an orderly, accurate, and courteous manner.
Caryl Chessman, labeled in the press as "The Red Light Bandit," initially pleaded guilty to multiple counts of robbery, kidnapping, and rape in 1948, confessions he later recanted claiming police coercion.
A tour of the small kibbutz Gadot, whose location, on the banks of the pastoral Jordan River, demands its residents be alert at all times to bombings by the Syrian army. However, the life of the kibbutz is not harmed – the children play, the youth of the kibbutz dance, and the work in the orchards and the farm does not stop.
A year in the life of Edinburgh Zoo.
Ironic interpretation of positive and negative sides of daily trips of city people into the nature.
A BAFTA award nominated documentary investigating how bad behaviour affects colleagues and the public and the correct way to act towards others.
The poignant songs of church-goers, miners, and farmers of Hazard in eastern Kentucky express the joys and sorrows of life among the rural poor. John Cohen of the old-time string band the New Lost City Ramblers evocatively illustrates how music and religion help Appalachians maintain their dignity and traditions in the face of change and hardship. Featuring the noted banjo picker Roscoe Holcomb.
This film presents a series of extemporaneous interviews with teenagers and young adults who have taken narcotics for "kicks," "association," or "curiosity." Residents of the California Rehabilitation Center relate how they were introduced to narcotics, why they wished they had not used drugs or narcotics, and what the future holds for them. Film is shot in Hollywood, Calif.
The approach of the paintings by Paul Delvaux is offered in the form of a discussion between the artist and a psychiatrist who asked about the content of his work. The document gives plenty of room for his paintings that illustrate the themes: the poetic climate, the loneliness of the characters, the naked woman, skeletons ...
The film proves that the apparently ideally and extremely purposefully coordinated relationships between flowers and the insects that pollinate them are nothing other than the result of a very long period of natural selection and mutual adaptation. Phenomena that contradict the preservation of the species must die off. The example of the bee and the red clover illustrates that contradictory relationships can be cultivated artificially.
Directed by Hajir Dariush.
A 1964 documentary portrait of Cohen in his pre-musician days as a poet and stand-up comedian.
A look into hairstyles, as well as wigs.
Taking a look at British comprehensive schools a decade after their inception.
Glimpses into the lives of three artists: Erhabor Amokpae of Lagos; Cid de Sosa Pinto of Sao Paulo; and Gord Smith of Montréal. Each artist provides his own commentary on how he lives, works, thinks and feels.
Experts prove that safety on a motorcycle stems from control of the machines. The Royal Corp Signals demonstrate this.
Monte Carlo: C'est La Rose is a 1968 American television special hosted by Princess Grace Kelly guiding the public through a tour of Monte Carlo. She encounters other celebrities such as Françoise Hardy, Terry-Thomas, Gilbert Bécaud, David Winters and his troupe the David Winters Dancers, who all perform musical numbers. We also meet her husband Rainier III, Prince of Monaco.
The building of a goélette, the wooden coastal freighter of the St. Lawrence River. Although ships of steel may replace these sturdy wooden vessels, the Jean Richard, shown in construction in this film, is still one ship built with all the old pride in craftsmanship.
A day in the life of a brigade of volunteer workers from the cities in the harvest of sugarcane, reflecting the ideological debate around the moral qualities of work in a revolutionary society.
The acclaimed poet is examined in this film completed just prior to his death at age 88, with his speaking engagements at Amherst and Sarah Lawrence Colleges intercut with studies of his work, as well as with scenes of his life in rural Vermont and personal reminiscences about his career. He is also seen receiving an award from President Kennedy and touring an aircraft carrier. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with UCLA Film & Television Archive in 2006.
A look at what is being done to make cars and roads safer and to prevent accidents on the roads of Britain.
A semi-documentary impression of the historic interiors of the Remu Synagogue in Krakow and the surrounding cemetery.
The American documentary makers - The Maysles Brothers, were given exclusive access to almost every minute of The Beatles first American visit. The first 3 days of film footage shot in New York was rushed over to Granada Television in London who quickly edited the footage for a TV special called "Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! The Beatles in New York" which was broadcast on February 12, 1964 at 10:25pm. The majority of the footage in this UK special featured their arrival at JFK Airport; Arriving at their hotel room; Fans outside the Plaza Hotel; footage from inside their hotel room with Murray The K; Murray The K interviewing them on the phone from WINS radio station; Walking through Central Park for a photo session; Limo ride to CBC TV Studios; Ringo & Murray The K dancing at the Peppermint Lounge.
British travelogue showing all the attractions available at Disneyland in 1968
A series of Resnais-like tracking shots are interspersed with candid interviews with “freshers” by Maudson and co-writer Robin Laurie.
A visit in the painting studio of Teofil Ociepka, a Silesian naive painter. The raw landscape of Silesia contrasts with the colorful, fantastic world of his imagination.
On the cusp of adulthood and in search of work qualifications and a better life, Franciszek Wróbel - a baker from a small village on the Czech border of south-western Poland - emigrates to industrial Silesia to join the Voluntary Labour Corps. There he is chosen from all of the applicants to write a diary of his experiences and daily life. Between his vocational courses and training, he struggles to make friends, pass his exams, and maintain relationships with girls.
A heavy drug addict in his junkie quarter at Österlånggatan, Stockholm.
Documentary about the mafia.