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In 1973 Alister Barry joined the crew of a protest boat (The Fri) to Mururoa Atoll, where the French Government were testing nuclear weapons. Barry records the assembly of the crew, the long journey from Northland, and their reception in the test zone; when The Fri was boarded and impounded by French military he had to hide his camera in a barrel of oranges.
A documentary about a rodeo family in Nebraska.
A documentary made by the feminist film collective to witness the moments of struggle, reflection and debate of the feminist movement during the 70's. The film highlights the issues and agenda of the feminist movement such as sexual liberation, abortion. , violence and work, alternating with images of the demonstrations of 1972 and 1973.
The Stuntmen is a one-hour documentary for Australian TV written and directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith. It was through this movie that Trenchard-Smith met Grant Page, who he put under a five-year contract and featured in a number of movies. The film also acted as a "calling card" which enabled the director to get finance for The Man from Hong Kong (1975).
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.
Recording the preparations and selection process for the best employee of the year in one of Warsaw's companies through a vote.
A documentary focusing on Doris Chase's creative process. A pioneering filmmaker of expanded cinema and early computer technology.
The daily life of two families from Nezahualcóyotl.
An RTÉ documentary on Irish involvement in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939.
Pilgrims from the Northeast have the habit of buying images of characters in whom they identify exemplary behavior. By carving wood to shape these figures, the imaginary artists, artisans who make images of typical characters from the traditional Northeast, perpetuate a tradition that has changed over time. The ways of the traditional artist adapt to the demands of the tourism market and the dissociation between their conscience and the real meaning of the work to which they dedicate themselves.
The poignant focal point for this film is a cherry tree that is over 1400 years old. Beginning with the tree, the director then explores the families and environment around the tree. The editing and music contribute to the sense of a haunting past contained within the solid structure of an ancient natural wonder.
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.
Visit to the zoo “Parque de Las Leyendas” where the voice-over of the veterinarian in charge of the park gives explanations of the care and attention of the animals.
Ulvi Indrikson trains her daughters Kaire and Kaja and supports them at the competitions. Training in the gym and swimming competitions. Support by the audience, the participants' intense fight for the first place.
The Washington DC conference in 1975 was organized by Jan Peterson, Nancy Seifer and Barbara Mikulski to bring women's concerns and perspectives to discussions on urban policy and civil rights. One hundred and fifty women from the National Congress of Neighborhood Women meet, share their stories and describe the work they have been doing in their neighborhoods.
The world of Alagoas poet Jorge de Lima, author of unforgettable verses, is in O Grande Circo Místico, from 1977, directed by João Carlos Horta.
Work in a supermarket of the Paris region, in particular that of the cashiers, revealing the mechanisms of trade and class relationships.
On January 4, 1971, an extensive dialogue takes place between the president of Chile Salvador Allende and the French intellectual Regis Debray, a discussion about the Chilean process towards the installation of a socialist government. Filmed by a team from Chilefilms, a state-owned company dedicated to the production of audiovisual works, it is a unique testimony to Allende's thinking in the first year of his government.
The story of a miner who decides to change his life by migrating to the countryside with his wife and children.
Interviews with Kjell who is a cancer patient, children who smoke and various celebrities on their views and experiences on smoking.
In winter at Yellowstone National Park, the boiling water of the geysers meets 40-below-zero to create a seam of frozen ice crystals.
At twenty-six, Noel Starblanket was one of the youngest Indigenous chiefs in North America--twice elected chief of the Starblanket Reserve, and also elected vice-president of all-Saskatchewan Indigenous organization. His great-grandfather's advice was to "learn the wit and cunning of the White man." That he did. Here he is seen in action, a chief with a briefcase, working with government officials for grants, running for public office, talking down his opposition, and solving the domestic problems of his reserve.
Traces the events leading up to the suicide of an Adelaide mother of five children.
Short experimental film.
Bas Jan Ader hangs from the branch of a tall tree, until he loses his grip and falls into a river below.
Documentary on baseball player Shigeo Nagashima
In «The battle of Morgarten» we see how Morgarten – a symbol of freedom – is celebrated and interpreted today. First part of a trilogy on Swiss traditions.
"This film is an attempt in focusing. I visited Kurt Kren in Vienna. (Kurt Kren is considered to be the father of the European underground film.) Kurt Showed me lots of documents, papers and letters, all about the fights he had with many restaurant owners in Vienna. But the film I made is not about these fights; I tried to focus on the eye of the hurricane, the eye of Kurt Kren. Is this Kurt Kren or isn't it?" (HHK)
A story about Gdańsk Shipyard and its workers after so called Grudzień 1970 (1970 protests). After those events Edward Gierek replaced Władysław Gomułka as party first secretary and promised redical change in style and methods of ruling. Kieślowski shows the skepticism of workers and their attitude to party members. He also pictures conflicts inside the party (PZPR) and usual work in shipyard. The political criticism of this movie made it a target of censorship – it was suspended and cut against the will of director.
Documentary about stuntman Rémy Julienne.
The film explores the significant contributions of Sufi poet, philosopher, musician, and courtier Amir Khusro to the Indian sub-continent's art and culture.
Red Guards were a student movement supported by Mao Zedong in 1966-67 during the Cultural Revolution. A group of students at Qinghua University who issued 2 big-character posters in May-June 1966 called themselves Red Guards. The students criticised the university administration of elitism and bourgeois tendencies. In August 1966 Mao Zedong expressed support for the Red Guards. This gave the student movement political legitimacy and it spread outside Beijing. The Red Guards started to attack the Four Olds and marched across China to eradicate old ideas, old cultures, old customs and old habits. Ultimately the struggle between different Red Guard factions led to a chaotic civil-war-like situation. During 1967-68 the Peoples Liberation Army got the movement under control and restored social order. Beginning late 1968 members of the Red Guard movement were sent to the countryside to undergo re-education. We met and filmed them in August 1971.
While new, monster housings are being erected, people grow a small farm in their vicinity. Soon the bulldozers come and ransack it.
Documentary about economic development in Cuba, particularly the effort to boost output of sugar cane. This film is made from a compilation of newsreel footage from the Cuban film institute and from Santiago Alvarez's film Despegue a las 18.00 (Departure 18:00).
Guzmán’s final installment shifts from covering the actions of Allende’s opponents to those who battled to revive & promote their toppled leader’s vision for a new Chile.
Digitally restored by Pentimenti Productions in 2016, this long lost documentary short profiles painter Hassel Smith in his studio. Part of "4 Films by Suzanne Simpson," a whimsical quartet of archival films that captures artists flourishing amidst the 1970s Bay Area art scene, when Funk art was thriving.
Directed by Sam Pillsbury, this 1974 film observes Ralph Hotere — one of New Zealand’s greatest artists — at a moment when excitement is gathering about his work. Lauded as a “classic” by Ian Wedde, the documentary is framed around the execution of a watershed piece: a large mural Hotere was commissioned to paint for Hamilton’s Founders Theatre. Interviews with friends and associates — poets Hone Tuwhare and Bill Manhire, art critics, officials and dealers — are intercut with fascinating shots of Hotere working (including making art by photocopying or 'xerography').
A documentary portrait of the everyday life of teenagers in Mecklenburg.
Welcome to Expo '70 in Osaka Japan, with 70 plus countries showing what they are made of. This National Film Unit documentary combines an overview of the expo, with a closer look at the New Zealand presence.
A "revolutionary theater" troupe from North Vietnam performs in Amsterdam.
A look at the raftsmen of Ceará and their craft - entangled by the fishing tradition and the bravery to face the sea, its perils and its mysteries.
Documentary addressing the composer Cartola and the transformations that took place in Morro Carioca and in Samba during his life. Founder of the Escola de Samba Estação Primeira de Mangueira, Cartola has his life and his music marked by his community and his School, far from the city His school, created as a playful and expressive center for the mangueirense, has now become a point of tourist attraction. This made work possible for the inhabitants of the hill, but it transformed the spirit of samba and its aesthetics.
Michael Powell makes a moving return trip to the remote island of Foula, forty years after he shot his first major feature there - 'The Edge of the World (1937)'.
The fourth year of the Sigui ceremonies, celebrated every sixty years by the Dogons of the Bandiagara cliffs, Mali, takes place in the village of Amani.
With his film "Il quadrato. Definizione di spazio", Tonino De Bernardi represents an exception in the Italian underground scene: the author retired to private life and continued an experimental production, in a reduced format and in a private cinema context, even after the end of the experience of the Cooperativa del cinema indipendente.
The Voronezh Nuclear Power Plant reactor; Novgorod’s archaeological excavations. Archaeologist Boris Rybakov on importance of historical science. Lenin’s Materialism & Empirio-Criticism. The first university dept of natural compound chemistry in the Soviet Union, located in Tashkent, Uzbek SSR. Agriculturalist Pavel Lukyanenko develops winter wheat varieties at Krasnodar Research Institute of Agriculture. French physicist Hubert Curien on USSR–France collaboration in nuclear physics. Foreign members of the USSR Academy of Sciences: Albert Einstein, Max Planck, Niels Bohr; theoretical physicist Igor Tamm on nuclear transformations in planetary & meteoritic matter, study of the Moon in relation to the Earth’s evolution. Dedicated to the 250th anniversary of the founding of the Academy of Sciences. Archival film, photographs, manuscripts, books, interviews from Academy members, explore its role in the development of science, economics, and its prominent figures throughout its history…
Soviet Union's routine explained through the life of common people.
"Cuba va!" is a 1971 color documentary directed by Felix Greene that records social, economic, and cultural life in Cuba more than a decade after the 1959 revolution. Filmed over an extended period, the documentary presents scenes of education, agriculture, industry, healthcare, and the arts, alongside historical footage used for comparison, and includes appearances by Fidel Castro and contemporary Cuban musicians and performers.
This film is a reworked version of Olle Hellbom's 1959 film with the same title.
Romanian Experimental Cinema
Now We Live on Clifton follows 10 year old Pam Taylor and her 12 year old brother Scott around their multiracial West Lincoln Park neighborhood. The kids worry that they'll be forced out of the neighborhood they grew up in by the gentrification following the expansion of DePaul University.
Nimrod Workman won a National Heritage Award for his original songs, but in the film that shares his name, he often breaks into impromptu performances of traditional ballads, dances, and delivers monologues that are just as superlative. Born in 1895, Workman provided for a family of thirteen by working in the coal mines of West Virginia, and he reminisces about his experience with union organizing in the 1920s and 30s with anecdotes that match many of the experiences of miners of later years, too. To Fit My Own Category is an extended visit at his home as Workman and his family prepare meals, build an addition to the house, dig for yellow root, swap jokes with the neighbors, and enjoy each other’s company.
In the homeland of the Soviet poet A. Prokofiev, in the village of Kobona near Leningrad, there is a literary evening dedicated to the famous countryman.