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Happening by Narcisa Hirsch, where she gives free apples in the street while we hear passersby's comments.

Two and a half million passengers every day all over the country; thousands of trains, each to be cleaned at the end of its journey. This film shows in detail the various types of cleaning undertaken at stations, between journeys and at cleaning depots.

Shows how the spectroscope, radio and optical telescopes are used to provide information about the origin of comets, meteors and planetoids. Special effects show the meteor shower of 1833, the approach of Halley's comet and the movements of planetoids.

A Face of War is a 1968 documentary about the Vietnam War, by Eugene S. Jones. The New York Times called it "one of the great Vietnam documentaries." Roger Ebert called it a "heart-wrenching masterpiece".

MANOJHARA portrays – in their own words – the experiences of the residents of Paraguay’s Santa Isabel leper colony. They narrate images of life in the colony with statements about moving from the periphery of the colony, where the healthier patients stay, to the center, where the dying patients are, as well as anticipation of a celebration and not wanting to feel ill and outcast.

The work of a team of men who tackle a special British Road Services job in the treacherous terrain of the Scottish Highlands.

An impassioned plea for the release of a young man sentenced to die in an Illinois prison.

The phenomenon of male prostitution in Rome in the late 1960s.

A picture of life in the Tasmanian town of Launceston in the mid 1960s.

Introduction to DNA by Frank Baxter and Bell Labs.

Shockumentary about torture and cruelty and exotic practices from around the world.

FIlm directed by famous actress Mochizuki Yuko as part of the protest movement that was going on against the closure of several coal mines in Kyushu, in this case Chikubo coal mine.

Glorious colour footage of the famous Lambeth college.

A short documentary about the importance of vacations in Switzerland.

The conflict between the running of an efficient bus service and the increasing motor car traffic in Britain's towns. Describes the traffic problem and some of the measures taken to help overcome it from the point of view of different members of the community; the ways in which the planning of new towns and the rebuilding of town centres can take into account the needs of all road users, and the particular contribution the bus can make as the best user of road space per passenger carried.

1960s Egyptian documentary showing scenes of local life along the banks of the River Nile, with narration by Salah Jahin

This short featuring "Mr. Bungle", a puppet, instructs children on how to best behave in a lunchroom situation.

Sport documentary

A documentary commemorating the 100th anniversary of the assimilation of Hokkaido

Fluxfilm No. 35 by Geoffrey Hendricks

In 1966, Luciano Emmer was commissioned by Twentieth Century Fox to shoot a promotional film for a movie about Michelangelo starring Charlton Heston. When the deal with the Americans fell through, Emmer retrieved the footage and edited it into a documentary about Michelangelo the man, exploring the anxieties and fears revealed in his writings. The sound of the chisel on marble blends with that of a heartbeat. The skewed perspectives on Michelangelo’s sculpture reinforce this idea of the difficulty and effort from which the...

A Sport Is Born is a 1960 documentary short directed by Richard Winik. It discusses the development of the sport of parachuting at the airport in Orange, Mass. Includes views of the pupils who are being instructed, pointing out the fundamentals of parachuting, and shows jumps being made by students, instructors, and outstanding jumpers. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

An amusing portrait of the English at work and at play in the industrial north of the country. Photographs by Henri Cartier Bresson. Broadcasted only once, in the cultural program Tempo, in 1963, on the ITV/ABC channel. The photographs filmed in the title box are cropped and augmented with tenderly ironic commentary on the English, inspired by Cartier-Bresson's notes for this commission.

Speed has always played a particularly important role in railroads. New, ever better technologies have been developed throughout history. Engineers have come up with many ideas to make trains faster. This short film recalls the most striking record-breaking journeys in Germany and abroad.

A trip with a camera to East Africa. The aim is to discover its history, culture, religion and modern achievements. The ideological frame was the alliance of the Eastern bloc with African socialism.

Paintings and graphic works of Slovenian artist Spacal. An attempt to break into the humanitarianism, synthesis and rhythm of his arts.

An excellent 1969 documentary, S. Raitburt’s The Kuleshov Effect, made about a year before Lev Kuleshov died, and interviewing him at length, both about his filmmaking and his far lengthier career as a teacher (including some fascinating remarks about Bertolt Brecht’s Galileo). Also interviewed is the father of Russian Formalism, Viktor Shklovsky, who worked with Kuleshov as a screenwriter on a Jack London adaptation, By the Law, in 1926.

A behind-the-scenes documentary about director Michelangelo Antonioni as he's shooting his segment of The Three Faces, a vehicle for Soraya, the former empress of Persia. Featuring interviews with Monica Vitti, Tonino Guerra and more.

A look into an examination of the education system in Great Britain and the Commonwealth.

A 22 minute Warholian two-screen silent film featuring Syd Barrett along with other friends of Kevin Whitney.

Handen (Hands) is an experimental documentary film by Dutch photographer and filmmaker Ed van der Elsken. the film is a moving and poetic observation of how hands play an integral part in human life, from birth to death.

A day in the life of women from the "Nawojka" Dormitory at the Cracow Jagiellonian University. In the 15th century, the patroness of the dormitory tried to study at the university disguised as a man. Today, more than 700 female students studying humanities or science live here.

Mists of Time is a poetic, visual portrait of the mythology surrounding Ireland’s megalithic tombs and standing stones. The monumental dolmen and passage graves of Ireland, once burial grounds from the Late Stone Age, are depicted alongside tales of the pagan Halloween festival, Samhain. Dramatic cinematography depicting sunsets and tombs at the Burren, Country Clare, and Newgrange, County Meath (Ireland’s best-known passage grave) is underscored by the music of Brian Boydell.

Dive into the glamorous world of the fashion model from all angles, see them at work and some of them at play. Includes a look at the model school, model agent and different types of models.

A look at the popularity of donkeys.

A discussion about the effects of welfare on Fogo Island residents.

Report on the nature of "Black Power," and how it can be effectively used. Interviews with Martin Luther King, SNCC head Stokely Carmichael, Floyd McKissick of CORE, and Charles Evers. Reporter is Sander Vanocur.

Travelogue showing the places and people of Scotland.

This documentary focuses on the contest for the continental interior. It examines the American advantages and the problems plaguing Canada internally. It also looks at the Oregon and Maine boundaries, American anti-monarchism, and a potential sign of a transcontinental nation to come. Part 4 of the series Struggle for a Border: Canada's Relations with the United States.

A visit to a school without fixed rules, where students study as they wish, and are their own masters. A co-educational English boarding school, Summerhill was founded by Alexander Neill a half-century ago.

A feature-length documentary film written, directed, and filmed by Akira Ide, a former broadcast writer, covering the truth about discontinuity in the world.

"What's Happening?", an irreverent portrait of America of the 60s seen through the experiences of artists of the Beat Generation and Pop Art. The America of the Vietnam war, ploughed by contradictions and explosive social tensions but potentially saturated with expectations for the future. With: Andy Warhol, Allen Ginsberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, Gregory Corso, Fred Mogubgub, Marie Benois and Leon Kraushar.

Britain operates the most experienced diesel and electric railway in tne world. A century and a half ago she invented the steam engine and introduced a new system of transport; and in only nine years British Rail and the British locomotive industry designed, built and tested enough diesel and electric locomotives to replace fifteen thousand steam engines. The transition from steam to new forms of motive power, and its effects on rallwaymen and passengers, is the subject of this film. Produced in association with the Central Office of Information, the British Locomotive Allied Manufacturers' Association and the British Electrical Manufacturers' Association.

Like the previous film Luna produced by Klushantsev, the film Mars was created at the intersection of educational science films and science-fiction. It consists of seven pieces, which tell (based on scientific understanding of the 1960s) of the physical conditions on planet Mars, the possibility of life on Mars and what forms it might take, of Martian canals and "seas" of the Red Planet. In addition, the film includes the director's fantasy hypothetical forms of life on mars, and of the exploration and colonization of Mars in the near future.

A detailed report on the National Trust and what it is doing to save Britain's national heritage.

Fine Arts Education

Documentary from British Transport Films

A second screen test featuring Nico and a Hershey bar — the last being ST245. Camera exercises back and forth, from side to side, swinging, stuttering, crawling while Nico enjoys a Hershey bar. She laughs.

A look at what Scotland offers to tourists.

A look into the life of Brett, a boy born without arms due to thalidomide exposure.

The Fall of Icarus proposes the magnification by the camera of a concrete material, the simple sand placed on a flat screen illuminated from behind, to reveal the changes of form and the movements of the matter once in contact with the elements: water, fire, earth and air. Particular care has been taken in the correspondence between sound and image: the compositions of the image (colors, knots of density, movements) surprisingly find their equivalence on the sound level in the music of Mireille CHAMASS.

Although Rahsaan Roland Kirk and John Cage never actually meet in this film (Cage's enigmatic questions about sound are intercut with some of Kirk's more ambitious experiments with it) these two very different musical iconoclasts share a similar vision of the boundless possibilities of music.

Nico, filmed with an unmoving camera, reads a magazine. She scratches her head, flips her hair, looks glumly at the camera, and then rolls the magazine into a tube and peers through it.