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On June 19, 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the so-called atomic spies of the 1950s, were executed at Sing Sing Prison. Their death only fostered the belief of many Americans that the Rosenbergs were innocent, victims of the anti-Communist paranoia of the 50s, rather than spies who had stolen atomic secrets for the Russians. In this landmark documentary, Alvin Goldstein looks at the facts and procedures of the Rosenberg case, as well as the climate of the times, interviewing jurors, FBI agents, lawyers for both sides, and the two sons of the Rosenbergs. Using documentary and newsreel footage, Goldstein creates a moving human drama.

The movie that wowed audiences at Expo 70. The film combined scenic images including aerial cinematography with rousing classical music such as Sibelius' Karelia Suite. Using then ground-breaking technology, the film required three separate but synchronised 35mm film projectors which projected their images onto an extra-wide screen. In 2004/2005 Archives New Zealand commissioned a restoration at post production facility, Park Road Post. Hugh Macdonald, the original director, was involved in the restoration and Kit Rollings, the original sound mixer assisted with the updated soundtrack. The remastered film was released for sale on DVD in 2014.

An environmental documentary about threatened Argentine species.

Oriana Fallaci, the Italian journalist who is noted for her provocative interviews, interviews the leader of the Islamic Revolution, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, on Sept 12, 1979. For 10 days Oriana Fallaci waited in the holy city of Qum for her interview with the 79 year old Ayatollah, who is the de facto ruler of Iran. On Sept. 12, she was led into the Faizeyah religious school, where Khomeini holds his audiences. She was accompanied by two Iranians Nyho and Iran prime minster Banisadr who had helped set up the interview and who served as translators. Oriana Fallaci, barefoot, enveloped in a chador, the head to toe veil of the Moslem woman, was seated on a carpet, when the Ayatollah entered, and the recorded interview could begin.

A documentary about the open sexuality retreat called "Sandstone" in California.

A bleak portrait of the average patient who spends the night sobering up.

A documentary film showing Dalmatian men playing their famous hand game „šije-šete“.

A documentary short that presents evidence for a global flood, using geological research and historical evidence to support the Biblical account in Genesis. Intended for Christian audiences, the film argues the Bible's trustworthiness by addressing scientific and cultural evidence for the flood and concludes with an evangelistic message.

They leave their home country with the intention of working in Germany for a year or two, hoping that this time will be enough to bring them the prosperity they long for. Then they realize that the time was not enough and they set a new deadline. This is how most ‘guest workers’ begin to experience the rupture of a life whose planning overwhelms them. One of them: Mehmet Turan.

A group of school kids on a ski trip start hearing startling news from the radio.

El Mojado focuses on an undocumented worker from rural Chihuahua whom Lyon came to regard as “a genius.” Every spring Lyon would meet him near the border and smuggle him past the border patrol into the United States. Eddie introduced Lyon to the whole unbelievable world of “illegal aliens.”

After receiving an anonymous phone call, the cops pick up a young woman who is wandering around alone in the desert. She tells them that she was given a lift by a stranger, who abandoned her there. Or are there more sides to one story? Part of a series of scare movies called Under the Law, distributed by Disney in the 1970s.

It's Willie Nelson celebrating the 4th of July

The final major battle of the Second World War in Europe.

The origins of Brazilian popular music and the types of scales used, as well as the various currents that emerged and formed different schools. The great composers.

Documentary exploring such phenomena as astral projection, telekinesis, telepathy, voices from beyond the grave, ghosts/spirits, etc.

Documentary about a school for blind children.

Scenes of a village wedding and the hard lives of farmers in a remote mountainous region of Poland.

Short educational film about the breeding of domestic pigs.

The two-part film by Hartmut Bitomsky is an "essay film with a plot." It revolves around the transportation of books that are meant to go from Munich to Cologne. It's about reading the right texts, deciphering secret messages, the violence that emanates from books and sometimes doesn't return. At the same time, it's about cinematic storytelling; suspense arises where it doesn't belong and gets resolved when no one expects it. (Subtitle of Part 1: "Wandering Plot," Part 2: "At the Inferno of Silence")

This color documentary reports on young Chilean pioneers in the capital of the GDR. We experience the development of their pioneer newspaper from the first ideas to the printed new edition. Pictures by the Chilean painter César Olhagaray depict the struggle for freedom and the hopes of the Chileans, accompanied by excerpts from Pablo Neruda's "The Great Song" (Canto General).

It is hoped that films such as this one, may one day be made available to ALL those who are about to embark upon marriage, or those already married and struggling under the unfair burdens of inadequate sexual understanding.

A film portrait of Jose Mojica Marins.

Documentary about the earthquake that devastated the Yungai area on May 31, 1970, which killed more than 40,000 Peruvians.

Part of BFI collection "Running a Railway."

Merging the subjective and the objective, the autobiographical and the anthropological, The Laughing Alligator is a highly personal observation of an indigenous South American culture. Recorded while he and his family were living among the Yanomami of Venezuela, this compelling work distills Downey's search for his own cultural identity and heritage through the encounter between the Western family and the so-called "primitive" tribe. Challenging the anthropological view of the Yanomami as violent cannibals, Downey focuses on the tribe's myths, rituals and ceremonies, documenting funerary rites in which tribal members eat the pulverized ashes of their dead to insure their immortality. Subverting conventional modes of ethnographic documentary, Downey participates as an active presence, "shooting" with his video camera as a means of creating an interactive dialogue between artist and subject and addressing his own "yearning for a purer existence."

Profile of a Chinese immigrant to Canada narrated by her son.

Short documentary.

Artistic documentary that combines images of human beings and nature to achieve a highly significant aesthetic result. Irrational deforestation in Itaúnas (northern Espírito Santo, Brazil) makes the village vulnerable to sand blown by the intense winds. In 1968, the region becomes uninhabitable, producing a living example of ecological disaster.

In 1970, the return of Ophuls to the United States from his adolescence, then mired in Vietnam: direct testimonies on the evolution of mentalities, between racism and generosity, reactionaries and hippies.

This film reveals through flashbacks how a 13-year-old boy and his family attempt to deal with the child's fatal affliction with leukemia. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

Made in the urban area of ​​the Valley of Mexico, this documentary presents a collage of images about the overpopulation, pollution and excessive growth of the big city. The accelerated and pulsating rhythm that passes and vanishes in the constant coming and going of vehicles and people.

The filmmaking debut by Oleksandr Koval, which was filmed as a graduation work at the "Ukrkinokhronika" studio on the invitation of its director Viktor Shkurin. Story about the crew of Afanasiy Nikitin rescue ship in the Black Sea near Odesa. The film conveys the true poetics of the sea, the love for which arose in the filmmaker during his numerous internships at various studios in the USSR, including the ones located in Magadan.

Documentary on famous Brazilian actresses, female directors and the role of women in Brazilian film history.

Three mythical African princesses tell how Olorum, lord of the Universe, has created the Earth, according to the Nagô tradition.

In the 70s, Barsham Faire on August Bank Holiday became a tradition for many to celebrate things 'medieval' and raise funds for local arts events. It put Barsham on the map.

Arena documentary investigating the history and influence of iconic song 'My Way'

Caudillo is a documentary film by Spanish film director Basilio Martín Patino. It follows the military and political career of Francisco Franco and the most important moments of the Spanish Civil War. It uses footage from both sides of the war, music from the period and voice-over testimonies of various people.

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

A short documentary about Rakovski street in Sofia.

A documentary based on scientific investigations of the Shroud of Turin. Noted medical examiners, theologians, physicists and historians use modern science to trace the probable history of the cloth.

A feminist film produced in close co-operation between women who - through situations chosen by themselves for the film - partly step out of their anonymous rôle-playing and partly disclose identities that are survivors of all the oppressive tendencies of a normative society. A film about yearning. Women will live on and survive all bloodsheds and they know that with security the culminations will level out. (DFI)

An Italian documentary that questions the age old tradition of sex being a sin and being Catholic in Italy, and how the two go hand in hand. From the mid 1970s, it's a forgotten, but very accurate portrait of Italy at the time, capturing the most sensitive problems faced by Catholic women like prenuptial intercourse, open weddings, and homosexuality. Interlaced with real comments from priests, psychologists, sexologists and social workers, the film tells the story of the difficult path Italians had to walk to achieve sexual freedom.

Somebody Waiting is a 1971 American short documentary film that examines hospitalized children with severe cerebral dysfunction who are among the most physically, emotionally and mentally handicapped in society and are totally dependent on hospital staff. It shows how these "hopeless cases" can be helped by environmental stimulation and therapeutic handling and how their response to improved care improves the morale of the staff so that all concerned benefit. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

Documents the 1974 Giro d'Italia, from the Pope's blessing of the riders to the record-tying finish.

Bridgeview, British Columbia is less than 30 kilometres from downtown Vancouver. The residents were promised a sewer system in 1953, but more than 20 years later the sewer system has yet to be built.

The film touches on the problems of adolescence among the Polish youth.

Confessions of a surgeon — this is how readers and critics appreciated N. Amosov's book "Thoughts and Heart". Now he has become the hero of the film himself. How he lives, works, thinks, communicates with colleagues, patients, students…

Documentary about the Black Panther movement.

This is a small, intense film based on Schoenberg’s opus of the same name with the subtitle “danger, fear, catastrophe”. It deals with emerging fascism and the persecution of Jews, as well as with their historical continuities.