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A documentary film about Finnish poet.

On behalf of the Arvin Corporation, Buster Keaton demonstrates the importance of using Maremont auto parts for potential repairs while running a petrol station.

Avant-garde short by Lawrence Jordan.

Footage from a day visit to Be'er-Sheva market, where the tourists meet the Bedouin who offer their goods at the market and try riding a camel.

Memories of a long-ago summer, London 1968; morning tea and departures.

Explains, through the story of a family that become naturalized American citizens, the meaning of the American flag, how it has changed through the years, how it is displayed and how one shows respect for it.

The film was produced following the defeat of the Egyptian army in the 1967 war. It is seen by some critics to be the first Egyptian experimental documentary.

A veiled Indian lady talks to the camera (silent). Her story is told in images.

Describes the highway "Bratstvo i Jedinstvo" between Zagreb and Belgrade, which was known as one of the deadliest highways in Europe because of how neglected it was

A sports documentary about association football that follows a week in the life of West Bromwich Albion football club.

Contrasts ancient and modern methods of irrigation along the Nile. Discusses the benefits of the dam at Aswan. Shows how the Nile brings fertility to Egypt and serves as a vital artery of transportation.

Neptune, an automatic and electronically equipped track fault recorder; Tinsley marshalling yard; freight trains - cement, limestone, cars; Reading station and signal box; the laying of long welded rails; Toton diesel maintainance depot; new electrification multiple unit rolling stock for service from Euston, locomotive cab training simulator, Willesden control room; Cross-Channel - launching the SS Dover... are topics featured in this film.

A documentary on a conversation between one drug-induced individual with another sober partner.

The future is something that concerns everyone. What is in store for us? On the basis of prophecies that have come true, the credibility of the Bible is examined with regard to predictions that are yet to come.

A documentary on the KKK

In the late 1960s the University of California at Berkeley began buying up and destroying a nearby area populated by hippies, the poor, and other members of the "counter culture". In retaliation, the community laid claim to a barren block being used as a parking lot to create a People's Park. The National Guard was called in to occupy Berkeley and a young man was killed. This film documents the infamous struggle resulting in the destruction of the park.

The flora and fauna of the Scottish highlands, including footage of ospreys, and stags in Argyle.

Portrait of novelist Alberto Moravia filmed in Rome.

Election campaign for the parliamentary elections for the Bundestag in 1965 in the town of Neu-Ulm, Germany.

About the meeting in August 1962 in Moscow between Soviet cosmonauts A. Nikolaev and P. Popovich.

This impressionistic, late 1960s survey traces Auckland from volcanic origins to a population of half a million people. Produced by the National Film Unit, it finds a city of "design and disorder" growing steadily but secure in its own skin as its populace basks in the summer sun. A wry, at times bemused, Hugh Macdonald script and an often frenetic, jazzy soundtrack accompany time honoured Queen City images: beaches and yachting, parks and bustling city streets, and an unpredictable climate given to humidity and sudden downpours. Awards: 1970 Edinburgh Film Festival - Certificate of Merit 1968 Pacific Asia Travel Association Conference (Taiwan) - Third Prize 1967 Venice Film Festival - Lion of St Mark Plaque 1967 Tourfilm Festival (Czechoslovakia) - Tourism Film Prize

A group of outdoorsmen demonstrate duck hunting as a preliminary to traveling the various hunting and fishing centers of the world. They begin their journey with a trip to the Rocky Mountains to hunt elk and mountain lions and to fish in the freshwater lakes. They travel to Lac la Ronge in Saskatchewan and to Anchorage and the Katmai Peninsula in Alaska to fish for trout, salmon, and grayling and hunt moose and bear. In the Arctic, the hunters go with a group of Eskimos for their biggest catch, the polar bear. The hunters travel south by plane, to the Fishing Club of Panama to fish for marlin, tuna, shark, and dolphin in the Gulf of Panama. In South Africa and the Zambesi River basin, they often hunt with only a camera. Accompanied by native beaters, they hunt elephants, antelope, buffalo, crocodiles, and hippopotami. As conservationists they capture some almost extinct white rhinoceros and take them to a game preserve for protection.

Origin and historical profile of present-day Vittorio Veneto (an Italian municipality in the province of Treviso, in the Veneto region), resulting from the merger of two different and rival municipalities: Ceneda and Serravalle.

Luna appears in one of Warhol’s famous screen tests. Contrary to Warhol’s preferred stasis, she acknowledges the camera with a series of smiles, winks, and suggestive facial expressions.

GDR anti-Vietnam propaganda film with footage of East Germans donating blood to be sent to the Viet Cong soldiers.

Car racing, speed, the spectators’ fascination, the signs of an era made of machines and competition. But “victory” is not the real meaning of it.

A short film about a french tourist that discovers a side of the city of Athens that is not described in the tourist guides. Best short film for the 3rd Thessaloniki Film Festival. Directed by Kollatos Dimitris, 1962, 11'.

The Newsweek critic, Jack Kroll, interviews Albert and David Maysles about their new film, Salesman (1968).

The German coal-mine Graf Bismarck is shut down.

A 15 year old kid finds part of a document during a seaside holiday and gets intriged by it. He is determined to find the complete document.

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.

Follows the life of Hull folk group The Watersons, which is made up of brothers and sisters Michael Waterson, Norma Waterson, Elaine Waterson (more commonly known as Lal Waterson), and their cousin John Harrison, as they spend a large amount of their time on the road in their van travelling between one folk club and the next.

An honest account from kids who enjoy a local coffee house. Church groups, social organizations, and just average teens used the coffee house as a means to get kids off the streets and into a place of mutual ideals and moral ethics.

A look at the day-to-day running of the historic Tower of London and coping with up to 16,000 visitors each day. A stunning display of the Crown Jewels.

The film deals with the infamous "Kommando 52", which was active in the 1960s civil war in the Congo and was recruited mainly from West German men. Among them is the former Wehrmacht officer Siegfried Müller. Based on personal accounts and original material - backed by tape recordings of interviewed mercenaries and photos of murdered Africans - it creates a hard hitting historical document.

In 1968, Noren finished Huge Pupils, a gorgeous, sensuous, sexually outrageous visual study of his daily life, and part I of an ongoing series he would come to call The Adventures of the Exquisite Corpse.

An educational film about how (not) to behave in traffic. A dramatic overtaking maneuver that ends very badly. ***** Oslofilm was a series of public information films about life in and around Oslo, produced between 1940 and 1980. Funded by the state, the films offer valuable insight into postwar Norwegian society. A wide range of Norwegian filmmakers contributed to the productions, resulting in a rich variety of styles and expressions. Several of the films also possess notable cinematic qualities, standing out as more than just informational material. The Oslofilms represent a unique and important chapter in Norwegian film history.

Haneda employed various cinematic and scientific technic to explore the world of cabbage butterfly, and the result was a completely new type of educational film.

XXV edition of the Peruvian Paso Horse competition, organized by the National Association of Breeders and Owners of Peruvian Paso Horses (ANCPCPP).

This film, shot by filmmakers from NASA, the U.S. Space Agency, chronicles the events leading up to human spaceflight. It shows the training of pilots, the technical description of inhabited capsule launches, and their guidance its from the ground and from inside the cabin itself. The strictly technical documentary shows the preparation of an actual launch to put a Mercury capsule into orbit. We meet Shepard and Glenn here, and of the latter we see the triple orbital flight with long sequences from inside the cabin studying the cosmonaut's reactions.

The film opens with an image of a refugee dying beside a wall. The place is Berlin in 1962. Various shots of the wall and its defences follow. The film shows people attempting to cross to West Berlin after the wall was built. We are given a history of Germany’s treatment after the war and the differences between life in East and West Berlin.

Friendships, games, boredom, first emotions: the playground.

Documentary short film that shows the manufacturing process of Cuban cigars.

This quirky little short by Gilles Carle was filmed on the pierced rock that stands near Quebec’s Gaspé peninsula. It is perhaps the most photographed natural phenomenon on Canada’s East Coast. Shot in the 1960s, the film has a very psychedelic feel to it, with animation, special effects, and a trio of women to guide us through.

The importance of cashews in daily life in the northeast.

Unmanned Spacecraft (HQ-38) is a short NASA documentary film that gives viewers a look at the various unmanned spacecraft used in space flight missions during the late 1950s and planned for the early 1960s, including Explorer 6, Explorer 7, Vanguard 3, Pioneer 5, Ranger program, Surveyor program, and Mariner program.

This short documentary includes three vignettes about life off the coast of Newfoundland. In Island of Birds, we visit Green Island, a sea bird sanctuary where puffins frolic. In Caplin Harvest, little silvery fish called caplin spawn by washing ashore along the waves, making an easy catch for fishermen. In Outports on the Move, off-shore houses are pried loose from their foundation and floated to the Newfoundland mainland, where schools, hospitals, stores and services are available to the community.

"The Ghost of Wittgenstein", "I'd Rather be Half Right Than Vice President" alongside "Lost in Cudilhy" form that experimental trifecta of experimental or just plain mental art movies known as "The Charlotteruse with the Medal of the Wobbling Bubble in its Palm Trilogy". Restored in 2017 comprise an essential 16MM restoration project by producer / director Ira Schneider, who is the undisputed master of the experimental doc genre as well as being the unsung founder of video art. They are to be re-released at the Prada Fondazione in Milan and Paris Independent Film Festival 2017. Restoration producer is Claudine Biswas-MacKenzie MA.

Promotional film on the use, application, and benefits of photography and film produced for the Eastman Kodak Company.

This short film was an experiment in using video recordings and closed circuit television to stimulate social action in a poor Montreal neighbourhood. A citizen's committee filmed people's concerns and then played back the tapes for the community. Upon recognizing their common problems, people began to talk about joint solutions. It proved an important and effective method of promoting social change.

Report No. 8 in a series of 13 topical films, produced since the far reaching plan for the modernisation and re-equipment of British Railways in 1955 started to take effect, to log the many developments - new services, equipment, techniques - wherever these have been introduced. They provide a unique pictorial record of the progress of British Railways.