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A short film which documents early lumber and textile manufacturing processes.

In a reception camp for ethnic Germans in Eisenach, the director gets to know the girl Doris S. who went to West Germany and came back. This film interview tells the story of her individual fate in a divided Germany.

In the film, we see subjects instructed to administer electric shocks of increasing severity to another person, and observe both obedient and defiant reactions. After the experiment, we witness subjects explain firsthand their actions. Obedience is as relevant today as it was at its publication. As we as a society witness suicide bombings, torture, and gang atrocities, we wonder just how far people will go. Fifty years later, this experiment still resonates as people ask themselves, “Would I pull that lethal switch?” This is the only authentic film footage of Milgram’s famous experiment and is essential to all foundational work in social psychology at the graduate, undergraduate, and high school level.

The Chira River, the carob groves, the monument to the Hero Miguel Grau Seminario—among other images of a progressive Piura—serve as a prologue to the founding of the University of Piura (UDEP), established at the initiative of Saint Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer, founder of Opus Dei. The opening ceremony of the Academic Year on April 7, 1969, was attended by its Rector, Engineer Ricardo Rey Polis, Dr. Agustín de la Puente Candamo, and the Archbishop of Piura, Monsignor Erasmo Hinojosa. Noticiero Perú, Lima, April 1969

A BAFTA award winning documentary looking at bilharzia - a disease that affects some 200 million people worldwide.

Short documentary about Yrrah, the ruthless illustrator who was always giggling. First of four in a series for the VPRO.

A short documentary film by Manuel Guimarães.

Looking at Kew Gardens and Syon Park either side of the River Thames.

A movie about travelling to Great Britain from Sweden by car and exploring that country

The arrival of a chemical plant in a fishermen haven brings along social transformations, interfering with the local traditions. A landmark of Cinema Novo, the result of a partnership between Mario Carneiro and Paulo Cesar Saraceni.

A German Film Award silver medal winning short documentary.

An insightful look at the rise in paperback output during the 1960's and the old art of bookbinding.

A film about the history of the Swedish labor movement from the 19th to the 20th century.

Short educational film about wounds.

"Here she comes…" At the 1968 Miss America pageant, demonstrators introduced a sheep as the appropriate winner. This entertaining short film shows how Women's Liberation activists used guerrilla theater to raise awareness of what Miss America really represents. The film was widely screened by the second wave women's movement and is a vivid document of the movement's activists in action.

Operation Bootstrap, a non-profit community-based organization, was founded in October 1965, just two months after the Watts rebellion, as a response to a neighborhood in distress. The 1968 documentary captures Bootstrap’s mission of economic development with scenes of women and men training for a range of employment opportunities including how to operate power sewing machines for work in the local garment factory, to the new technologies of the day, the IBM keypunch machines. Especially engaging are the scenes of “sensitivity sessions” hosted by the organization, where black and white Angelenos debate issues of race and racism in 1960s America. The film’s cinéma-vérité style allows for a certain closeness with its subject and allows for a precious time capsule glimpse into this vibrant and struggling community.

A documentary, produced for Swedish television in 1962, which marks the fiftieth anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. It examines both the film A NIGHT TO REMEMBER and Walter Lord’s book of the same name, and features firsthand accounts from three survivors of the tragedy.

Documentary film by Strobel and Tichawsky.

The social and economical state of the first years of Joaquín Balaguer's government.

1964, Autumn in Chicago. This was my 4th film, shot while waiting to go to prison for refusing to serve in the US military. Silent. B&W. I think it captures the sense of depression, of loneliness within the city. Looking back it seems almost archaic, Chicago as some kind of East Bloc country in Soviet times.

Short film documenting the San Francisco Youth for Service program.

Short student film. Plot unknown.

Story of four sufferers from polio.

A look at the educational centres where training in technical subjects is aiming to keep pace with the demands of this scientific age.

An insight into the art, architecture and culture of the Mycenaean and Minoan civilizations.

American Industrial Film. A Pontiac and a competitor are put to a 24-hour speed test on a racetrack to see which fares better.

Artistic glimpses of people on the move in Stockholm.

Picture story about Christmas and Christmas celebrations by Carsten E. Munch. With black-and-white atmospheric photos from the 1960s and the Christmas music of the time, we get a glimpse of Christmas celebrations at home and abroad, on land and at sea. The last part of the program gives us melancholic summer moods with poems by Herman Wildenvey, Arnulf Øverland, Jan-Magnus Bruheim and Inger Hagerup. Commentator is Ole Christian Lagesen.

A trip through the old Masthugget quarter.

The film depicts the daily routine of a wage laborer looking for work every day, who is at the lowest social level of the worker hierarchy. The commentary partly takes up the language of the dock workers and blends wonderfully with the black and white photographs. The two together result in a precisely constructed reportage about work and leisure in the port environment and its social conditions. Three moving film sequences interrupt the photo sequence and thematize the photographic form.

A documentary film of a large terrarium made out of wood and glass that Janiak built using handmade wood joints during the summer of 1959. The design was inspired by a visit to Frank Lloyd Wright’s home Taliesin in Spring Green, Wisconsin.

Filmed and sound recorded at the Human Be-In during the summer of love, 1967.

Image analysis in slow motion. Distortion and reversed reality perspective.

Humorous observations on the Italian Beat world featuring poet Gianni Milano, Majid Andrea Valcarenghi, and other Italian beatnik.

Documentary dialogue with young women in Algiers on their experience of independence shortly after their country's independence.

Short film directed by Hushang Shafti showing a study of the life of primitive nomad tribesmen, embodying traditional Persian customs and music.

The breath of Market Square in Brescia, with its human and social aspects.

Ethnographic reportage on the life of the Kurpie people, a population of Mazurian origin, living in the wilderness areas in the basin of the lower Narew River and its tributaries, a tough, talented people, skillful craftsmen and versatile artists. The documentary consists of their statements and reportage photos showing their working time.

The work of the British Red Cross at home and at its overseas branches in Hong Kong, Kenya and Uganda.

February 18, 1961, will be long remembered in the history of the Nagaland when the people of the area witnessed the birth of the Interim Body and Executive Council for Nagaland. The new set-up was formed amidst great rejoicing and this film records the memorable and colorful event in detail.

Exploring every concrete corner of Birmingham's original mega-mall, from planning and construction to the site's official opening, attended by Prince Philip.

The history of the construction of the Kurobe Dam in Japan.

Short film about children in japan.

This film reveals design proposals for the IBM pavilion at the 1964 New York World's Fair. It incorporates photography and animation to present the concepts, architecture, and overall look of the pavilion and to convey an impression of the exhibition's spirit and content.

The work of Yugoslavian sculptress Vida Jocić in memory of the dead in Auschwitz where she spent part of her youth.

Hosted by Herbert A Philbrick, celebrated double-agent for the FBI and author of "I Led 3 Lives," this film is an excellent record of one of Philbrick's lectures about the evils of Communism he would give across the country.

Television documentary about former SS-Sturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann which was released just before the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem.

A comprehensive view of the situation of different ethnic groups in Brazil. In the testimonies gathered in the streets and neighborhoods of various capitals, black, white, mulatto, Portuguese, Italian and Japanese express their opinion and describe personal experiences involving relationship, racism, miscegenation and cultural exchange.

Customs, traditions, ritual magic and superstition of peoples from Malaysian archipelago which borders two oceans. The movie also lingers on the contamination caused by the corrupting Western society. Nice exotic and harmless 60s mondo movie with some great visuals. Urban clumsiness is also widely documented: slums with pimps, whores, poverty.

In the late sixties, the American saxophone player and living jazz legend Ben Webster lived in Amsterdam for a year. Webster, who was born in Kansas City in 1909, was a unique personality in the world of jazz and blues. In the thirties, he played with all the great names. During his Amsterdam period, he stayed with an elderly landlady, Mrs Hardloper, with whom he appeared on a national talk show. In conversations with Van der Keuken, he muses on the past; on the fantastic experience of playing in the renowned Duke Ellington band; or on one of his best friends, who was so deft at eating with a knife and fork. Short, fragmented remarks, which Van der Keuken has edited in a loose, improvised editing style.

Filmed in 1968, "Little Pioneers" examines the gap between socialist rhetoric and social reality by focusing on children excluded from state protection. Through close, unembellished observation, Želimir Žilnik documents young people living in slum conditions and surviving through informal and illegal means, using the film’s ironic title to underscore the contrast between official ideology and everyday life.

"In Re-entry he successfully synthesizes the Yogic and the cosmological elements in his art for the first time by forcefully abstracting and playing down both of them..." P. Adams Sitney

Experimental 8mm film by Karpo Godina.