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The film shows the catastrophic floods in Romania in 1970.

An experimental film to see how much information the eye can take in from continuous single frame images and from single frames of widely different type.

Documentary about the harsh conditions of henequen workers at the Citincabchén hacienda, Yucatán.

A short documentary film about an unnamed engineer who achieves a good property position through hard work, stubbornness and consistency in his actions. Scenes from the workplace and everyday family life are interspersed with monologues by the protagonist, in which he expresses his opinions on attitudes towards superiors, conflicts or the qualities of a good professional. He thus invites us to polemicize and reflect on the life of a careerist and the concept of success.

Summary:The Flemish painter Heironymus Bosch (1450-1515) remains one of the most puzzling and enigmatic artists of all time. In this film we see two of his major triptychs, The Haywain and The Garden of Earthly Delights, in detail which only adds to Bosch's mystery. The Flemish painter Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1515) remains one of the most puzzling and enigmatic artists of all time. In this film we see two of his triptychs, THE HAYWAIN and THE GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS in detail which only adds to Bosch’s mystery. (TREASURES FROM THE EL PRADO series).

"The most exciting thing going on in Europe, if not the world": welcome to Milton Keynes circa 1973.

Newsreel of Senegal’s 16th anniversary Independence celebrations. At the Demba-Diop stadium, tens of thousands of people watch the show inspired by President Senghor’s recent trip to North Korea. Also footage of military parade, sporting initiatives and closing ceremony at the Presidential Palace. News from the world: visit to the Elysée Palace by Ivorian President Félix Houphouët-Boigny to discuss the role of Europe, but also the interference of the Soviet Union and the United States in the development of the African continent. Meeting with French Prime Minister Jacques Chirac. French patent for an anti-meningitis vaccine to combat an epidemic in Brazil.

The once thriving industrial town of Haverhill, Massachusetts on the Merrimack River now resembles, in the words of one of the film's subjects, "a ghost town where you expect to see tumbleweeds come rolling down Main Street." This film examines a dying industrial town and its politicians' search for votes over such issues as municipal spending, rising taxes, the revitalization of depressed areas, and attracting new industry. The film's central event is the 1976 Mayoral election. Election scenes are intercut with comments from Haverhill residents, members of a local foundation, political scientist Frances Fox Piven, the president of the local union, and the shoe manufacturers themselves. The oral history which surrounds the election footage is a reservoir of information about Haverhill's present condition as well as its past.

The struggle of fishermen in Portugal after Salazar's tyranny.

Costume tests from Wakefield Poole's Bible! (1973)

A short film shot in Santa Monica, CA., which shows the creation of a 464-foot hero sandwich, the world's longest.

This television program follows an FBI agent provocateur, Robert Wall. Wall chronicles how he spied on people and institutions. He describes how he surveilled Stokeley Carmichae and tried to incite violence at a peace march.

A 1973 Granada documentary by Ray Gosling about Kirkby, a town in Lancashire.

This film focuses on I-OMANTE ritual that is to liberate the souls of the Gods from the furs and meat and send them back to the Land of the Gods. The Ainu believed that bears were Gods. The Gods come to the Land of the Ainu, which means “human beings”, with meat, furs and medicine (the gall bladders of the bears) as their gifts.

Documents Ku Klux Klan activities in California, Georgia, Chicago, and Ohio.

Filmed when the Henry Miller was 81, is a voyage of ideas about life, writing, sex, spirituality, nightmares, and New York that captures the warmth, vigor and high animal spirits of a singular American artist.

A report on the legendary race car driver Arnaldo Alvarado (1911-1998), and a selection of film archive footage of the tournaments in which he participated.

A surrealistic look at the future if man does not learn to control pollution.

A glimpse into the life of sculptor Don Seiler during the creation of a ten-ton concrete commission, in honor of Olympic swimmer Mark Spitz, for the International Swimming Hall of Fame in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, in the early 1970s.

Filmmaker Albert Kish revisits Montreal's St Lawrence Boulevard in the '70s. The street, also known as "The Main," is a little Europe with many languages, foods and small courtesies that make a stranger feel at home.

Documentary about Ucayali activities

Film dedicated to the American artist Andy Warhol.

Albania and neighboring Yugoslavia officially broke ties in 1948. But in 1971, the Hoxha regime was honored to welcome the ethnic Albanian actor Bekim Fehmiu (1936-2010), at the time an international star in Yugoslav theater and film. Before his trip to Albania, Fehmiu had appeared in the popular Italian television smash The Odyssey (1968) and the Cannes-winning I Even Met Happy Gypsies (1967). Dokufest will also feature a photo exhibit of recently-discovered still images taken during Bekim Fehmiu’s Albanian visit.

The various work posts within the complex Physics and Engineering laboratory, and some of their work results across the five continents, in tunnels, bridges, dams and hydroelectric plants.

The film centres around one still shot that documents the movements of a city, which is seen in a multi-layered reflection of passing street action.

Deutrudes Carlos da Rocha, a 24-year-old Brazilian, black, illiterate, is a car washer and lives in São Paulo. Through his testimony and also holding the camera, he brings us closer to his experience and vision of the world.

The first in a series of independent documentaries that Tsuchimoto made of the mercury poisoning incident in Minamata, Japan.

Produced for public television station WNET/Thirteen in New York, Nam June Paik: Edited for Television is a provocative portrait of the artist, his work and philosophies. This fascinating document features an interview of Paik by art critic Calvin Tompkins (who wrote a New Yorker profile of the artist in 1975) and ironic commentary by host Russell Connor. Taped in his Soho loft, with the multi-monitor piece Fish Flies on Sky suspended from the ceiling, Paik elliptically addresses his art and philosophies in the context of Dada, Fluxus, the Zen Koan, John Cage, Minimal art, information overload and technology.

A look into Africa that is rarely available to ethnographers or anthropologists. At its heart is the spirit of interaction. It observes, but with the wavering eye of home movie, rather than the fixed formality of a documentary.

1978 Spanish experimental short

This film presents the point of view of an Arab from Algeria who rebels against colonization. He analyzes the process of awareness, the transition to revolt, to armed insurrection. Algeria and the settlers are seen through this lens and not the way a Frenchman saw the country. He gives voice to the Arabs at a time when this word was not heard: sometimes it was not even produced, at least publicly. The testimonies are based on real propositions, most of them were made to the author during his stay in Algeria from 1948 to 1956, then in 1958 and 1959. The comments are borrowed from the texts of Arab theorists of the revolution Algerian. This film thus completely evacuates the point of view of those who are not insurgents; he does not give the opinion of the colonists. It is the direct expression of what was the revolt of a colonized person: it thus constitutes the very type of the historical document.

A BAFTA award winning documentary describing the various types of water-based fluids and neat cutting oils, their composition and qualities and explains how they perform their function.

This short film from the series "Folk Rituals" depicts a tradition practiced in the Żywiec region associated with exchanging New Year’s greetings. Children recite these greetings in verse as they go from house to house carrying a twig known as a "podłaźniczka." The film features original texts selected from the archives of the Museum in Żywiec.

Mosha Michael made an assured directorial debut with this seven-minute short, a relaxed, narration-free depiction of an Inuk seal hunt. Having participated in a 1974 Super 8 workshop in Frobisher Bay, Michael shot and edited the film himself. His voice can be heard on the appealing guitar-based soundtrack…. Natsik Hunting is believed to be Canada’s first Inuk-directed film. – NFB

Follows dub poet master Linton Kwesi Johnson out of the recording studio onto the Brixton streets.

This period compilation of documentaries shot with a Portapak camera from the early era of video experimentation offers an immediate view of the independent New York art scene (concerts and theater perfomances on the streets and in the clubs of downtown). It is a sort of summary of Steina and Woody Vasulka's first creative period, a period of fascination with the more bizarre aspects of "new American decadence". Thanks to the video camera and its revolutionary implications, the creators were able to penetrate into spheres where the documentarians of more classical media were neither allowed nor interested to enter, thereby helping to expand the ideas of documentary possibilities. Steina has remarked that she learned the craft of camerawork as documentarian thanks to these celebratory, countercultural scenes of the "sexual avant-garde"-- Participation also features a pulsing light show projection at the Fillmore East, and a scene from Off-Broadway drag theater.

As the first American television crew allowed into Cuba since the 1959 revolution, filmmakers Jon Alpert and Keiko Tsuno travel across the island documenting daily life under Fidel Castro. Through interviews with farmers, workers, and families, the film offers a rare ground-level portrait of Cuban society fifteen years after the revolution.

The film focuses on Black writer Carolina Maria de Jesus, who lived in a favela.

Lynda Benglis was a visiting artist at CalArts in 1973 when she encouraged then-student Susan Mogul to explore video as a medium. "Big Tip/Back Up/Shout Out" is a direct monologue to the camera about the economic impossibilities of being an artist, especially as a woman. “Her extroversion is so extreme that her story leaps from the vacuum around her, over the camera and off the screen entirely.” —Artforum, from a review after the premiere of this video at Anthology Film Archives in 1976, as part of a program curated by Shigeko Kubota.

Addresses the epidemic of venereal diseases (VD), specifically gonorrhea and syphilis, emphasizing the importance of awareness, prevention, and treatment. It dispels common myths about how these diseases are transmitted and highlights the serious consequences of untreated infections. The film urges individuals to seek medical help promptly if they suspect they have VD, as both diseases can be easily cured but can lead to severe health complications if left untreated. It also stresses that anyone can be affected, regardless of their background, and encourages open communication about sexual health.

A documentary about the achievements of Lithuanian athletes in 1970-1971 and the 1972 Olympic hopes.

200th anniversary of first climb on Triglav.

An innovative Soviet documentary film directed by Rafail Nakhmanovich. Most of the film was shot with a hidden camera, and the characters' lines were recorded live without staged scenes. The film tells the story of one of the most successful collective farm chairmen in Ukraine, Oleksandr Myaz, who introduced elements of market relations.

An RTÉ documentary on Irish involvement in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939.

Documentary about a village that's to be submerged by the building of a dam.

In this rarely seen concert held at the Festival Hall in Melbourne, Australia in 1972, the legendary Roy Orbison takes the stage backed by an entire orchestra in addition to his own band. With standing ovations after every masterpiece, this dynamic performance is filled with his classic hits, great ballads and powerful rockers. See one of the top rock'n'roll singers of all time at the top of his form in this historical must-see performance!

The Wild and the Brave is a 1974 documentary film directed by Eugene S. Jones. The film portrays the relationship between Iain Ross, the outgoing British Chief Warden of Kidepo Valley National Park and his Ugandan replacement Paul Ssali. It portrays the racial and cultural tensions and amity of the postcolonial handover from 1970 to 1972.

A film by Ion Grigorescu.

Life and lives in New York City, sights and sounds of its streets and its people, at the time of man's first landing on the Moon.

A sequel to My Girlfriend's Wedding. Pictures from Life’s Other Side focuses almost entirely on a later cross-country trip, this one also including Clarissa’s illegitimate, preadolescent son Joe and a couple of dogs, with Clarissa and Joe taking over the commentary and the whole family trading off various sound and camera duties.

A documentary film produced by the Central Newsreel and Documentary Film Studio of China in May 1971 in support of the just struggle of the Palestinian and Arab peoples against American imperialism and its Zionist running dog.

About the everyday life of border outposts in different regions of the country.