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An account of the situation of Algerian women in the 60s.

A montage, using documentary material filmed during the war, shows the beginnings of an air attack and Londoners entering shelters. From the silent deserted streets, the film moves underground into the world of Henry Moore's shelter drawings. People sit along subway platforms, looking after their children, settling down for the night, sleeping in bunks and on the floor. Above ground London burns. Henry Moore used the eye of a sculptor in portraying the stolidity and enduring patience of a besieged people. This film brings together a unique series of drawings which are some of the most remarkable achievements of an artist during wartime. Eliminating all narration, it explores, on several metaphoric levels, the very nature of human consciousness and creativity.

Compilation film, tracing the political career of Dr. Hans Globke, allegedly a former Nazi, now Secretary of State in West Germany.

A deconstruction of Dog Star Man that takes the four rolls and shows them first combined, then each combination of three rolls, then each combination of two rolls, then each individual roll. The plot is of a man who goes up a mountain with a dog to chop down a tree but has some unspecified transcendental experience while he is there.

animals and their relationship to alcohol

Documentary about the controversial marriage of King Willem I and Countess Henriette d'Oultremont. Willem I became engaged to the Belgian Roman Catholic Countess Henriette after the death of his first wife, Wilhelmina of Prussia. This did not go down well with either the government or the people. Articles from the Algemeen Handelsblad illustrate this beautifully.

Humit, the kibbutz Dachshund dog, travels to Tel Aviv to see the animals in the zoo. She sees the animals in small cages, unlike the kibbutz monkey, who roams freely and plays with the children, or the pair of porcupines that the children feed with milk from a bowl, and the deer that was adopted and became the friend of the kibbutz’s lamb. There are also turtles, cats, chamalions, and a giant peacock moth in Humit’s kibbutz “zoo,” all of them free to go wherever they like, except for the golden hamster. Bedouins arrived with their herds in the area next to the kibbutz, and the kibbutz children went to watch a camel calf being born.

Produced for the NFB by Crawley Films Ltd. for the Canadian Department of Industry Trade and Commerce. This film provides a showcase for products manufactured in Canada, from aircraft designed for special duties, to pre-cast bathrooms that can be installed in one simple operation. There is heavy-duty machinery developed for the special needs of Canadian industry. There are women's fashions of universal appeal. All bear the 'Made in Canada' label and can be viewed in this film in colour and at close range.

It shows workers of the fridge factory “Obod” in Cetinje.

The processing of hops

A focus on the issue of dumped cars, how the problem is being addressed and a look at the dumping of other unwanted articles.

A look at a typical day in a policeman's life, which uncovers more than expected from the role.

The film's contents are as follows: Merry-go-round coal trains - between collieries and power stations; Motorail; stations - Birmingham New St., Durham, Sunderland, Kirkcaldy; hovercraft - Isle of Wight service; Cartic car-carrying wagon; testing of wagon bodies - Derby laboratories; Southern House; Glasgow suburban services; Guildford signal box; Freightliners, company trains; hostesses - Seaspeed and at Gatwick Airport station.

The short documentary Bronbeek bijvoorbeeld sketches a portrait of KNIL (Royal Netherlands East Indies Army) veterans living out their last days in the Bronbeek home for retired servicemen in Arnhem. Here, the old soldiers live surrounded by memories of days gone by. Flags, uniforms, photos: all reminders of a world that no longer exists. The home is also a museum, its residents a part of the past on display.

Pseudo-ethnological documents about two villages which, without roads and electricity, "stopped existing".

Calentoso, is a young boy that must transport mules across the mountains. He will be challenged to discover the deep secrets that the summit entails. This film is based on the legend of the ghost of the Ruiz Snow Mountain in the Region of Cumanday in Colombia.

A documentary film showing the behind-the-scenes creation of Jerzy Kawalerowicz's "Pharaoh."

Filmed in Nevada's barren Black Rock Desert in July 1969, "Hard Core" opens with an establishing shot of an expansive blue sky immediately evoking the American West, which sets the scene for De Maria's innovative and experimental film. The work intercuts two differing cinematic approaches: one that explores the observational potential of the medium through wide-angle, 360-degree shots that pan over the changing desert landscape, and the other that appropriates familiar visual tropes taken from the Hollywood Western movie genre—such as pistols, Levi's jeans, boot spurs, and leather chaps—and implements them in a performance. The soundtrack is an edited compilation of two of De Maria's "drum compositions," "Cricket Music" (1964) and "Ocean Music" (1968), which creates a sense of anticipation for the viewer. In the last minute of the film, a series of unexpected events unfolds in rapid succession, producing a dramatic climax.

An ultra-grim Highway Safety Films title, thanks to narration that’s even more dour than usual and a chilling musical score by Hungarian composer Zoltan Rozsnyai. This is not the TV series, "Emergency!" These are real people who are hurt. You not only get a glimpse of the gory results of accidents; you see emergency care before the paramedics came into vogue (1969). Miami rolled out the first paramedics that year while Los Angeles County (basis of "Emergency!), along with Portland, began providing street medicine.

Join distracted onlookers at a protest “be-in” at Camden’s Roundhouse –alongside portraits of Lenin and a giant inflatable phallus.

Two years after making his film BLIND KIND, Van der Keuken contacted the blind boy that had impressed him most at the time.

A documentary film about the writer Antanas Vienuolis.

Formerly named HMS Ceylon (C-30), it was a British light cruiser that had served in World War II and the Korean War. As part of the Peruvian Navy, it participated in international exercises and relief operations for the populations affected by the 1970 Ancash earthquake. The ship was decommissioned on September 20, 1982, with the name Pontón Perú (UAI-113). Months earlier, the name "Coronel Bolognesi" had been assigned to a Friesland-class destroyer acquired from the Netherlands.

This film portrays the changes that are taking place in Mexico, including the growth of a middle class society which is developing as a result of education and industrial progress. It includes views which show Mexico as an old country with new ideas, striving to provide a better life for its people, pointing out the Indian village and primitive open-air markets within a few minutes' drive of a city with beautiful parks, fine theaters, and office buildings.

Follows a hiker through Skye, visiting Dunvegan Castle and climbing the Cuillins.

An early exploration of intimacy and perception, the film portrays the body’s beauty and sexuality as animated by the soul. Through dissolving and vanishing images, Beavers creates a sensuous interplay of touch, memory, and after-image, leaving an imprint on both eye and mind.

Shot around the 1968 Arts Vietnam protest—where artists gathered to oppose Australia’s role in the war—this experimental collage film splices festival footage with news imagery, photographs, commercials, and televised material to expose how Vietnam was “experienced” through media and to implicate the viewer in that mediation.

Educational documentary by Robiros Manthoulis, Fotis Mestheneou and Iraklis Papadakis, shot under the archaeological guidance of Yiannis Miliadis, Director of the Acropolis Museum, who is also the narrator. It is a wonderfully consistent mapping of the Acropolis space, in the objects, the spaces, the iconography, the connection with history and tradition. From the opening moments and the presentation of the complexity and specificity of the location of the Acropolis, and through the presentation of every impressive detail, but also of a wider artistic context, the film takes us on a journey through time connecting the centuries of glory of Athenian history with today, with the monument framed not only as the shining relic of an old civilization, but also in its current location, above a large, modern city.

The story of John Barber, a Black man arrested for carrying a spear.

An insufferable journey by 'The Pain Train' shows how seconds lost by staff, for one slight reason or another, can quickly add up; causing a train to be seriously late even on a relatively short journey.

A combination of tips on leisure activities, nude photographs and landscape shots.

A trip by ferry through the Hebrides, Scotland.

Set in upper Irpinia, the documentary examines the practice of exorcism in what was the poorest region of Italy.

It tells a story about Bosnian ex-fighter who lost his whole family in the WW2.

The film recounts the life of the prisoners and the problems their families encounter in their struggle to survive. Here again filmmaker Kamran Shirdel employs the cinema verité style. The interviews with the prisoners, social workers and teachers serve as commentaries for "constructed" documentary images.

Film about friendship between a boy and a horse. The boy and his horse love and trust each other and spend their time together running in the fields. But the boy's father decides to sell the horse because he can no longer financially justify keeping it. His son's tears won't make him change his mind. The horse is sold. After returning from school, the boy starts searching for the horse: he looks in the barn, in the yard, in the fields, even at a market. But it is all in vain. Finally, the boy finds the horse at a railway station, already inside a train wagon. A tractor driver meets the boy who is lonely and sad and shows understanding for his pain. A new friendship is born.

A look at the world of the Chinese who have made Britain their home.

Short by Mihovil Pansini.

Portrays the growth of French industry and agriculture since World War II. Depicts farms of Normandy, fisheries of boulogne, steel mills of Nancy and the commerce and culture of Paris.

Demonstration of a glandless pump manufactured in Glasgow, Scotland.

As the Cold War bristles with menace in the 60s, the youth at Kielder Workman’s Club celebrate free time with an American dance called the ‘Twist’. But it’s the Faustian pact with industry this brilliant travelogue focuses on first as it maps the path of the River Tyne. The sounds of heavy machinery and graft pitch us into Newcastle’s shipyards and collieries, whilst drugs spin off a machine called Bliss in Winthrop Laboratories’ production-slick war against pain.

This exceptional film covers the goals of picture book programs, general planning, specific criteria for selection of good books suitable for varying age levels, methods of preparing for the session, and the techniques of group control. All aspects of the subject from broad theory to precise details about technique are covered in this filmed record of story book sessions in day care centre and libraries in the New York region.

Documentary directed by Philippe Genty, based on footage shot in various countries during his Alexander Expedition, carried out as part of UNESCO’s Major Project Orient–Occident. The film presents a variety of puppet styles, including Indonesian shadow puppets, puppets from northern India, masked theatre from Eastern Europe, rod puppets from Bucharest, experimental puppets from Poland, and Japanese bunraku. It also features puppets from Singapore, Laos, Malaysia, and the Bread and Puppet Theatre from Harlem. The film additionally includes short excerpts from the early Muppets by Bill Baird and Jim Henson.

A short documentary about the Iranian painter, calligrapher, and sculptor Hossein Zenderoudi.

A look at the rose, which has been England's national emblem for more than 400 years and an increasingly popular flower within millions of gardens. We also get to see the industrial manufacture of Rosehip syrup.

A thoughtful look at the increasing popularity of the countryside and the visitors who spoil it, with a reminder on the need for co-operation in the conservation of the countryside.

Short film by Jesús Enrique Guédez.