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Documentary presenting the different stages of General de Gaulle's trip to Quebec in 1967, accompanied by extracts from his speeches.

A BAFTA award nominated documentary about how the young science of radio astronomy is able to discover facts about the universe far beyond the range of optical telescopes. The film shows the early and recent highly specialised radio telescopes in Australia, Canada, Puerto Rico, U.S.A. and Britain, and indicates problems of the structure and control of their steerable paraboloid aerials.

This pop movie about Warhol includes appearances by Henry Geldzahler, Edie Sedgwick and The Velvet Underground.

Film study of Slovak folk sculpture, composed in ballad form.

A 1967 CBS television documentary in which Morley Safer presents, without commentary, interviews with U.S. airmen returning from a bombing mission in Vietnam, allowing their descriptions of killing to stand on their own.

Documentary film about Brazil around the year 1960 and how it is shaped by industrial and social upheavals. The film portrays people and landscapes, modern cities as well as the art and culture of the fifth largest country in the world, which encompasses numerous nations and cultures. The focus is on the structural changes, particularly in the capital Brasilia, which was rebuilt and inaugurated in 1960. From the perspective of a European observer, a picture of the country gradually emerges from a wide variety of impressions.

From Beirut to the Lebanese mountain range overlooking the Mediterranean, there is a rich and lush land where nature presents itself in all its beauty.

A short documentary about the world championship match between Olli Mäki and Davey Moore

The film shows the bronze door of Bernward of Hildesheim in its individual fields. The door shows Old and New Testament stages of the events of salvation: from the creation of man to the fratricide of Abel; from the angel's proclamation to Mary to the presentation of Jesus in the temple, the capture of Jesus to the encounter of the risen Christ with Mary Magdalene. Careful camera work - supported by careful lighting - succeeds in doing justice to the monumental size of the work.

On Easter 1968 an assassination attempt on Rudi Dutschke was carried out. Shortly afterwards street battles resulted throughout West Germany. Farocki's short film Drei Schüsse auf Rudi is presumably lost.

Film about the town of Penge featuring local personalities, housing, shopping, traffic and the Penge formation dancers.

Students protest during the Chiefs of State conference at Punta del Este. Counterpoint between presidents, students and repressive policemen.

In January 1968, 10,000 women led a peaceful, march on Washington in protest against the Vietnam War. This film documents the march and raises questions about the forms of protest engaged by women and the role of women in the anti-war. Jeannette Rankin Brigade was the fisrt Newsreel film proposed, shot and edited by women.

1960's short educational film on ten pin bowling.

Documentary about a small village near Le Mans, commented by the village school-teacher.

The history of the Berlin Wall, why it was built, and how it affects Berliners.

See how Sally Jenkins and her driver, Thomas, run Hertfordshire's mobile library service with military precision.

Les Blank's poetic documentation of 1967's Los Angeles Easter Sunday Love-In. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2002.

Interpretation of Chile in pictures, text and music, with special references to the 1960 earthquake.

Traveling the length and breadth of the country, S. Sukhdev constructs, a panoramic, non-narrated study of Indian life in the late 1960s. Shot across villages, deserts, countryside, and cities, the film observes daily labor, leisure, and movement without commentary, allowing humor, contradiction, and social texture to emerge organically. The result is a sensory encounter with India poised between inherited tradition and accelerating modernity.

Sweden's transformation into an industrial country.

Politically passionate and one of the first working class reporters at the BBC, Jack Ashley wanted to show the suffering caused by high unemployment in Hartlepool. With no work, no prospects, and little money, Ashley asked how the unemployed reacted to their situation in an increasingly affluent society.

Film about the position of women in modern society. Everyone theoretically agrees on the equality between women and men, but how does it exist in practice - within the four walls of the home as well as in the workplace?

Following the form of a tetrahedron, the film consists of four regular segments, each covering one topic. It gained a cult status among Split kino-amateurs of older generations.

Documentary on patients of the Instituto Psicopedagógico (Psycho-Pedagogical Institute) of Puerto Rico.

Fishing, farming and life in the great outdoors in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

A look at the livestock traffic passing through Heathrow Airport which are cared for by the RSPCA.

Director Samir Auf provides through his film a depiction of Egypt based on the paintings by David Roberts, through which he reviews the history of Egypt during the nineteenth century.

Life of pre-war Warsaw on a Sunday of the summer of 1938. Strollers everywhere. Children playing in parks, ferries going to the forests of Mlocin. We see Ujazdowskie, Jerozolimskie, Marszalkowska, Plac Trzech Krzyzy and the Wisla Parostatków marina.

A documentary about the restoration of Saint George's altar in Spišská Sobota.

The life of Saint Anthony is intertwined with the seventh centenary of the discovery of his relics.

A short movie about a summer adventures of a boy and his dog illustrated with a lot of documentary scenes about a life of a children in Lithuania during sixties.

Naples between religion and superstition: pagan and Christian rituals intertwine in the Neapolitan city, with a particular cult for lottery numbers.

Pacifist plea sponsored by a Quaker group. To a voice-over commentary describing the arms race, Language of Faces presents a montage of human faces and activities that culminates in a silent vigil at the Pentagon.

Underlines the importance of waterways as mans of modern transport. Details the way in which the network of waterways covers britain.

A film by Anna Herskó

Promotional film for the former Dutch post and telecom company PTT. The occasion was the complete automation of the Dutch telephone network on 22 May 1962. Warffum in the province of Friesland was the last village to be connected. The film follows a number of people in various parts of the country as they make phone calls. The wife of a pastry chef in Maastricht reports a malfunction; an accountant in Amsterdam calls his girlfriend to say he’s absconded with the cash; and an engineer at the delta hydraulic works receives a call telling him that he’s now a father. The PTT’s engineer, working at the central switchboard in Utrecht, links all these scenes together. The film gives a great impression of the prim-and-proper Netherlands of the 1950s and early ’60s, with its sweet, bouncy ’50s style and the appropriate voice-over commentary.

A BBC Documentary by Anthony de Lotbiniere

A refugee family comes to terms with living in the UK and adjusting to a new language and culture.

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Through animation, maps of the same scale and projection are combined to show relationships between natural features of the earth, human use, and social and political features. Projects different kinds of animated maps of the same scale and explains how the maps are used in gaining an understanding of the relationships between the social, political, and natural features of the earth.

Educational film shown to members of the US military to acquaint them with the Vietcong.

A German Film Award silver medal winning short feature on the ancient Roman city on the Mosel.

A 1965 segment from a French television program "Seize millions de jeunes" which takes a look at the mod movement in the United Kingdom, and includes performances by the Who at the Marquee Club in London’s West End, as well as an interview with Pete Townshend.

Documentary filmed during the 1965 International Jazz Festival in Bologna, featuring appearances by musicians such as Gato Barbieri, Don Cherry, and Mal Waldron.

Peter Jennings tells us about the hip new sport that all the ladies love - snowmobiling!

Cameraman Yonesaku Kobayashi (1905-2005) is a pioneer of scientific films of Japan. He and producer Sozo Okada made many scientific educational films, and in 60's - 70's, many avant-garde composers composed music for these films.

The London Motor Club members, with their families, took their cars by Motorail for a contest with the Torbay club, and the camera was there to record a victory for the home team.

Constructed from the private photo album of a Gestapo officer, this short documentary juxtaposes his everyday snapshots with the captions he himself wrote. Through these images and notes, the film reveals the chilling banality of Nazi perpetrators’ lives while exposing the brutality they oversaw.

Discusses developments made in information retrieval over the past decades, using the example of a fictional company, Alamer International, to show the progress IBM has made and how its machines can be used to facilitate business operations.

A portrait of Dutch playwright Herman Heijermans (1864-1924), released in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of his birth. The documentary combines interviews, theatre excerpts, and archival footage.

Documentary about mountain wildlife.

A look at the popularity of music, both classical and electronic, in the mid-sixties.

The meeting of two young people on the streets at night.