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A scientist explains how the savagery and efficiency of the insect world could result in their taking over the world.

Canadian documentary film directed by Paul Cowan about the 1978 Commonwealth Games.

Through D'un roig encès: Miró and Mont-roig Joan Miro Explains the genesis of his work and the inspiration that came from spending long seasons, for 65 years, in Mont-roig (Baix Camp).

The comparative quality of workmanship in American car factories compared to foreign car manufacturers is examined.

A moving documentary about a poet not far from being a legend.

A witty and eye-opening tour through Borowczyk's own collection of vintage erotica. Originally intended as part of his 'Contes immoraux', it was released first as a separate short, and is therefore marks the turning-point between Borowczyk's career as a highly-regarded animator and surrealist filmmaker, and his subsequent career in the sexploitation field.

Narrated by Ricardo Montalbán, this documentary examines the history of Mexican murals and their artists. Among the works examined are those by José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros.

ABBA performs (all to playback): Arrival (only about 1.5 minutes of it) Waterloo (over footage of preparations for, and ABBA's arrival at the airport) SOS Nina Pretty Ballerina (over footage of them on the steps of the plane and arriving at their hotel) Dancing Queen My Love my Life When I Kissed The Teacher Knowing Me Knowing You Fernando Tiger Money Money Money Fernando Agnetha had travelled ahead with her father the day before and then met Benny, Frida and Björn off the plane. She had filmed "SOS" the day before and it was interspersed with a rather embarrassed looking Benny, Frida & Björn "singing" on the plane! There is a short interview on the plane with mainly Benny, Björn and Stig.

Sir Kenneth Clark discusses Egypt and the Nile Valley. Shows him traveling there and pointing out the ways in which Egypt flourished as an early civilization. Presents the art and architecture of that early time.

Portrays the life of Sykes, a proud, blind pensioner who lives in Chicago, capturing his life style in a positive statement.

Reflections on human’s relationship with horses throughout the ages and their depiction in art are shown in parallel to the draft horse competition.

This documentary film follows the exploits of Ron Kovic and the Vietnam Veterans against the War on an epic journey to the Republican Convention in Miami Florida, in 1972 to protest the USA involvement in the war and Richard Nixon's Presidency.

A film about the community in sports between mainly parents and children.

"I'm walking through my city...", sings a cheerful pop singer. She fervently praises the new metropolis of East Berlin. As an emphatically lively, often anthemically condensed revue, the film tells of the "growth and development of our new capital". Accompanied by cheerful music, the camera indulges in high-altitude views, shows squares whose fountains, benches and green spaces are designed to make you forget that you are in a big city, as well as visitors from all over the world in top hotels. An emphatically cheerful, yet meaningful insight into the brave new GDR world.

A film by Katja Raganelli

This short documentary focuses on protests surrounding a homophobic sign that hung behind the bar of Barney's Beanery in West Hollywood for many years.

Report in Quechua of the massive processional parade of Christian saints in which the people of Cusco conceal the traditional veneration of the mummies of the Incas of Tawantinsuyo.

“It seems funny to say it, but long before there was an ‘art world,’ there was art in the world.” So begins the artist and writer Russell Connor’s meditative tour of public art in New York City.

Short documentary about the creative process of the French illustrator and writer Philippe Druillet, best known for his comic book series Lone Sloane and co-founding Les Humanoïdes Associés and Métal Hurlant magazine.

This film is about the new teaching method that Mohammad Bahman Beigi has used to teach to All Nomadic Children.

This work was created to commemorate the reversion of Okinawa to Japan.

The Bavarian writer Annette Kolb fought for positive French-German relations, women's rights, and the independence of the arts, before fleeing Hitler’s Germany out of loyalty to her many Jewish friends.

Promotional short film about the making of the 1978 film The Wild Geese.

A film that witnesses the Acadian awakening and the unprecedented popular awareness that manifested itself in 1972 in northeastern New Brunswick.

A film shot in New York City in one day, on September 13, 1975, the 4th anniversary of the massacre at Attica prison. The narration presents a case that the brutal assault was cold-blooded and senseless, causing an avoidable tragedy. Handheld footage of the city provides a backdrop as Macdonald recounts the events of the rebellion, focusing in particular on Gov. Nelson Rockefeller’s refusal to negotiate and his role in escalating the conflict that resulted in 43 deaths. Both a screed against political power and a memorial to those who lost their lives, Still Attica Remains details some of the horrors of prison— unfortunately relevant today as it was in 1975.

A documentary on poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade.

The production of a film requires recording equipment and financial resources, if nothing else. Hellmuth Costard places these basic prerequisites at the centre of his film: using a Super 8 camera system he developed, he films himself as he tries to raise funding for his film project. This creates an unconventional experimental setup, which reveals how the economics, politics, technology, and aesthetics of filmmaking relate to each other – with the ‘great’ Godard being called up as a kind of chief witness.

A speculative look forward at the United States' next 200 years.

Approximately 3300 years ago, on a cuneiform tablet, the Hittite King Muvatalli begged the Storm God. However, a hundred years later, severe storms blew over Anatolia, and the "Land of Hatti" and what we call the "Land of the Hittite" today became a pile of stones and earth, from one end to the other. But this civilization still lives on the traces they left in Anatolia and will continue to live for centuries. The documentary "From Hattis to Hittites", produced by Suha Arın in 1974 with the support of the Turing and Automobile Association, as the first film in the "Traces of Anatolian Civilizations" series, is restored 45 years later from original negatives and magnetic sound tapes.

A portrait of Waleria Mirecka, a teacher and social activist, known and respected by all the inhabitants of Racławice. She was awarded the Mother of the Village order. The woman also found both private and professional fulfillment in Racławice.

Documentary film.

On a search for a couple for a love story with sex beyond the 70 Herbert Götzinger sent me to his colleagues sculptor Ludwig Chateau. During my surprise visit with the running camera, asking if he would be willing to do his part, he attacked me: "Is not that enough what they're doing at this moment?" –LM

Ironic short interviewing the creators and minds behind Muzak

A short documentary about the prison in Sieradz. The film presents the work of prison guards and records prisoners' statements about the course of their rehabilitation.

This first documentary about the pop group ABBA was made around the time of the release of their fourth album 'Arrival'. It contains unique archive footage filmed at the secret location where they made the record, concert footage, specially made promotional videos, photos from the group members' private collection and interviews in Swedish with each of them: Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad. Stig was also interviewed briefly and was shown playing and singing part of Tivedshambo on acoustic guitar.

Shot at a steel mill, Winter Solstice is full of outpourings of fire, of smoke, of sparks, of molten metal — all erupting against an otherwise black background in an activated pictorial space.

Interviews and images from the work and leisure time of guest workers in the Federal Republic are combined into a militant appeal for solidarity.

Oleksandra Derevskaya was a Ukrainian war nurse and foster mother who, together with her husband, adopted 65 children, of whom she raised 48 to adulthood. She worked as the director of an orphanage, and was posthumously awarded the title of "Mother-Heroine".

No one knows why for certain, but from 1968 to 1973 communist Albania enjoyed a brief liberalisation in the arts. Banned books and Beatles records changed hands. Albania’s Nobel-nominated novelist Ismail Kadare wrote two of his most famed masterpieces, Kështjella (The Castle) (1970) and Kronikë në gur (Chronicle in Stone) (1971) during this period. The rock'n'roll and jazz arrangements featured in this concert documentary were the pretext that brought about the end to the artistic thaw. Several performers seen in the festival were sent to prison or internal exile. The portly, smiling music conductor, Gasper Çurçia, was later accused of forging bus tickets and executed.

Report on bilateral relations between the two countries.

Documentary about Frances H. Flaherty, responsible for still photography in her husband Robert J. Flaherty's films.

The first part of this series by Norman McLaren deals only with tempo. It starts by showing the disc travelling in one move (1/24 of a second) from A to B, and progressively demonstrates slower and slower tempos.

Filmed during the commemoration of Einstein's centennial at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Studies, with former colleagues who provide insight and recollection. The panel includes Banesh Hoffman, Peter Bergman, Valentine Bargmann, and Ernst Straus. An understanding of Albert Einstein emerges, giving the audience a sense of the personal side of one of the 20th century's greatest thinkers.

The 1974 coup d'état set in motion a revolutionary process in which the radical transformation of the relationships that had previously existed within the family, in the workplace, and throughout society has never allowed for a return to the past.

Legend has it that the fish in the Sun Moon Lake was transformed from a white deer, and it’s why indigenous people started to eat fish. A large serpent living inside an ancient camphor tree was said to be the guardian of the lake. Also famous are the Buddhist relics of the monk Xuanzang enshrined in the eponymous Temple, and the over 400 peacocks kept in the local bird park... Here, intriguing folktales keep unfolding one after another.

In this first project of Kim Longinotto while she was a student at Englands National School of Television and Film she filmed the daily life in a girls boarding school situated in an old isolated castle in Buckinghamshire. Until she was 17, Longinotto lived in this boarding school, finaly she run away from there. In this dark and expressive black and white documentary, Longinotto exposes the repressive school from the students perspective. It seems to be a kind of miniature state with bizzare rules, idigestibel food and absurd punishments. The documentary begins with an graduation ceremony. The director blows her own trumpet, afterwards the film describes the daily routine of schoollife. The film ends up with the students leaving for holidays. As a result of this documentary, the boarding school was closed down one year after the release of the film.

A documentary about actor/director Dennis Hopper, showing him at his home and studio putting together his film "The Last Movie."

Young people discuss life problems such as moving into their first apartment, but also how to shape their own future.

This film presents the historical development of lighthouses in Canada, and shows the conversion from keeper-maintained lights to automated equipment.

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

The year is 1978. Hartmut Geerken, director of the Goethe-Institut in Kabul, is on a mission. “We cannot change society, but we can change the landscape,” he says—literally. A trickster, a Don Quixote, Geerken approaches cultural work with playful defiance, forging deep mutual respect with a land foreign to most Europeans. The film follows him pushing a grand piano on a handcart for an impromptu concert with Afghan and German musicians, visiting a village artist, and meeting a famed tabla player—illiterate, yet musically eloquent beyond words. What begins as a whimsical journey becomes a poignant love letter to a country on the brink of irrevocable change—lighthearted, yet laced with melancholy.

Artistic experimental documentary short that explores the universe of Brazilian artist Lygia Clark. Sensorial experiences, the perception of the body, forms and tactile sensations are mixed and reflect the human race as part of the cosmos, getting lost to find itself. Art, stripped of its virtuous image, as an action of the common human being, the expression of living things, runs from the mechanical repetition of movements and attitudes.

About mass forms of youth recreation. The object of the film was one of the evenings of rest in a working dormitory.