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The story of the Vietminh siege at Dien Bien Phu in 1954, and France's last great battle in Vietnam.

1976: a university hospital in Brussels. Old women gather in a common room. Sick? Perhaps. Lonely, above all. The film is also the perspective of a North African woman on other women, nurses and patients. The medical staff discuss their working conditions, and the filmmaker questions, challenges and bears witness to what she sees in this ‘death ward’. Another illness. Unclassified. A very malignant tumour. A tumour that proliferates in a society ‘proud’ of its social security system but which creates a ghetto of the unproductive, the ‘left behind’, the elderly who hurt themselves by contemplating their loneliness in a hospital ward.

A documentary about a pioneer of Icelandic film making, Óskar Gíslason, with excerpts from some of his most famous work.

A report on judo fighting, from warming up and stretching, to exercises of specific grips and "small fights" between participants, provided with commentary from the trainer.

The novohispanic equestrian statue of Charles IV of Spain is relocated in Mexico city.

Documentary on the First District of Mexico City, covering daily life in Tepito, La Merced, and Colonia Morelos.

A portrait of Tamara Dmitrievna Chistyakova, an outstanding seamstress who worked in the Leningrad association Pervomaiskaya Zarya and who was awarded the State Prize of the USSR in 1976. This is a story about the fate of a Leningrad girl who survived the Nazi siege of the city but lost her parents during the war. Brought up in a childen’s home, she acquired her profession at a vocational college and became renowned in the Soviet Union as the initiator of a competition for mastering complementary skills in the sewing industry.

Virikuta is an astonishing documentary where we will have the opportunity to accompany a group of Huichol Indians in their annual pilgrimage to Virukuta hunting ritual peyote cactus that ingestion causes hallucinogenic effects. Before our eyes see a millennial pilgrimage, will accompany men, women and children in a community in its journey. The Huichol are a traditional people, who have a mature relationship with the natural elements that lead to ecstasy. This is a touching ritual, one of the live testimony deeper meaning in indigenous Mexican tradition

A 1970 documentary produced by Bristol Laboratories about the administration of ketamine, and potentially the first video footage of ketamine being administered.

Theoretical film essay dealing with the main ideologies of mainstream commercial cinema.

A documentary film showing works exhibited at the national student art exhibition in the Tallinn Art Hall. The film features folk music arrangements by Veljo Tormis and Edgar Arro.

Short film about the life cycle of a moon jellyfish

Documentary about Denmarks first six months as a member of the EU

Short film by Fernando Lopes, decisive figure of the Portuguese New Wave.

The clients of a Dayton, Ohio drug withdrawal clinic, many of whom are workers in the area factories, are the subject of this socially conscious documentary

A short documentary following Stanoje Ćebić, an unemployed Yugoslav metalworker and self-proclaimed Marxist, as he moves through Belgrade and its outskirts articulating his views on labor, socialism, and everyday survival. Directed by Jovan Jovanović and Miodrag Milošević, the film combines observation and direct address to present a satirical yet pointed portrait of working-class disillusionment in socialist Yugoslavia.

"Visionary post-war modernist Tyeb Mehta channels the nightmares of the nation in Koodal, at once the artist’s self-described “autobiography” and a profound meditation on collage, crowd control, cinematic subjectivity and the violence buried within every glorious act of foundation." -- Sarkari Shorts

"The festivities in honour of Sao Pedro,August 8th and 9th 1975. A complement to Gente da Praia da Vieira, isolated from the whole film material, because of its specificities and thematic unity." (José de Matos-Cruz)

This short documentary tells the story of the first Jewish settlers to Winnipeg, people who fled European persecution at the turn of the century and founded a new community in a Canadian city.

How we destroy the site of Lake Trémelin in Iffendic, in the name of tourism of course. The lake becomes the prey of promoters for a "marina"! A nature museum will be built there.

The film examines the death of the anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli, who fell from the fourth floor of the police headquarters in Milan December 15, 1969, after being stopped following the Piazza Fontana bombing.

Joe Frazier vs. George Foreman, billed as The Sunshine Showdown, was a professional boxing match in Kingston, Jamaica contested on January 22, 1973, for the WBA, WBC and The Ring heavyweight championships.

Fulton made the film during his brief time at Harvard, where he had been invited to teach by Robert Gardner, his friend and collaborator (Fulton would later serve as a cinematographer on Gardner’s 1981 documentary Deep Hearts, among others). Reality’s Invisible could be described as a portrait of the Carpenter Center, yet it is a portrait of an extremely idiosyncratic and distinctive sort. Fulton moves us through the concrete space of the Center’s Le Corbusier-designed building—the only structure by the architect in North America—but, more centrally, presents us footage of students making and discussing their work alongside figures like Gardner, theorist Rudolf Arnheim, artist Stan Vanderbeek, filmmaker Stan Brakhage, and graphic designer Toshi Katayama.

A BAFTA award nominated documentary about the new label 'hazchem' and how it works.

Biographical program on Camilo Pessanha, a poet associated with the movement of symbolism in the Portuguese language, led by Danilo Barreiros, writer and researcher, highlighting his stay in Macao and the influence that Chinese culture and art had on his work.

A televised special commemorating 100 episodes of Kamen Rider.

This documentary observes the daily rhythms of a Vietnamese village, from morning routines to the close of day. Filmed before its destruction, the village is presented as a continuous way of life that had endured for generations before being consumed by the Vietnam War.

Shot in Florence, the film draws on Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks and Paul Valéry’s essay on da Vinci’s creative process to explore parallels between Renaissance space and the moving image. Beavers employs rapid pans and tilts along the city’s facades, interspersed with glimpses of his own face, linking camera movement to the filmmaker’s investigative gaze. The work marks a turning point in his practice, foregrounding presence and perception as central to his method. (Note: The film was re-edited and re-released in 1999.)

Documentary on the construction of the Croatian A1 motorway

The film shows celebration of Day of the Republic., held in the village of Novigrad Podravski (Croatia) in 1972. The performers were pupils of the elementary school, members of the local amateur theater, and one soldier.

A biographical program about Almeida Garrett, poet and playwright, from a historical perspective, highlighting his involvement with liberalism, political career and his role as the driving force of the theater in Portugal.

The great Catalonian cellist tells of his life and work, and of his long exile between the year of the Franco takeover (1939) and the the death of that Fascist dictator (1976).

A community-based documentary following four local arts projects in the London Borough of Hackney.

In the midst of economic prosperity, when Venezuela welcomed millions of migrants, this documentary narrates different realities of the country.

Documentary about fetish clothing scene in 70s Britain.

Raimon’s concert at Real Madrid’s sports hall on 5 February 1976.

A Nigerian traditionalist who draws his inspiration from bird warbling to compose music to accompany his verse chronicles.

Composed of short films within the framework of a bedroom story, which, among other things, pleads for partner swapping as therapy against "contact difficulties in industrial society. Communards of the 1970s and the chairman of the then existing Sex Party, the former theology student Joachim Driessen, appear as key witnesses of the "new society.

Around 1 billion apples are harvested every year in Havelland, one of the largest fruit-growing regions in the GDR. In order to obtain this quantity in good quality, a large number of preparatory and maintenance operations are required. There are also reports on apprenticeships and practical work in the "Havelobst Central Youth Object". Impressions of the 100th Blossom Festival in Werder as well as myths and legends complete the apple theme.

Improvements in housing in the city of Glasgow, Scotland.

A BAFTA award nominated film dramatising how one firm and its employees faced the inevitable changes caused by automation and made the best of the situation.

A particular method applied in Yugoslavia in group therapy for alcoholics served as basis for this film.

The heroine of Kazimierz Karabasz's film is Maria Kolano, a first-year student at the Warsaw Agricultural University, who returns to her hometown of Żabno during the summer vacations to help her parents with their fieldwork. The documentary filmmaker equips Maria with a camera.

Music by Klaus Schulze.

Short film about Berlin

Documents the arrival of progress with the construction of the Belém-Brasília highway, to improve the living conditions of the people in the cities in the interior of the country. It also presents interviews with people from the region, who express their opinion about the benefits brought by the highway.

Psychedelic surfer documentary. Also see http://encyclopediaofsurfing.com/entries/drugs-and-surfing

The Great Valley in Africa - a crack of more than 6,500 kilometers in the earth's crust - is the result of the continental fracture that began about 20 million years ago. Volcanic eruptions, like the spectacular eruption of Hawaii's Kilauea volcano in Genesis, are the result of powerful tectonic processes that continually reshape the earth's surface. “From the first moment a supernova explodes in a burst of light and sound, Genesis audiences won't just have a front row seat to watch the creation of the world. The public will be immersed in the creation itself and will be fully aware that the creation is still going on” – Richmond, News-Leader. "Genesis attests that if the public is offered what it wants, it will break down its doors" -Minneapolis Star.

A film about Einar Guðmundsson, the poet (Einar Guðmundsson, litlaskáld)

A concert film about the Pavlovsk Palace near Leningrad. Music from the 18th and 19th centuries is featured. Ballet dancers from Leningrad theaters participated in the filming.

A portrait of those individuals who sought radical solutions to social problems in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s. Cutting back and forth between six major story lines and more than fifty characters. Exploring the lifestyles and attitudes of the American left during the period following the Vietnam War.

A Cristian educational film that tells the story of a former drug addict, Mark Lindley, and his recovery through finding God.

Documentary movie about the spread and the fight against the variola vera virus (smallpox) in Yugoslavia in 1972.

Writer and pedagogue Fernand Deligny influenced a number of artists and French intellectuals. His work on autism influenced Deleuze and Guattari's theory of the rhizome. Francois Truffaut turned to his ideas to complete Les 400 Coups. Throughout the film Deligny plays with the possibilities of the camera to live and think closer to the human subject, offering with Le Moindre Geste a unique film to the world, one of most fascinating in French cinema. Situated [visually] between mountain western and integral neorealism, the film tells the story of two teenagers, escaped prisoners of an asylum, running away through the Cevennes.