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Experimental 8mm film by Karpo Godina.

Describes the technology behind digital computing.

The time of collective farms, state farms, and... agro-towns. The idea of two-storey rural development was first implemented in the architectural workshop of Giproselmash. And then it was put into practice in the Vladimir region. Architect Georgy Zaborsky explains how agro-towns built in Lithuania, Belarus, and the Moscow region differ from each other, and how the national characteristics of the regions and agricultural production conditions affect rural architecture. Residents of the village are discussing a new development project in the Polenovo state farm in the Tula region.

A look into the sport of rowing.

This documentary takes us from the 1850s to 1863. We see several historical episodes from this period interwoven in a unique fashion. The film reveals the complex relationship between Great Britain, Canada, the North and the South—before, during, and after the American Civil War. Part 6 of the series Struggle for a Border: Canada's Relations with the United States.

This film delves into the life cycles of various insects, highlighting their survival and adaptive strategies through the seasons. It showcases insects like dragonflies and preying mantises in their summer activities of feeding and reproducing, and then shifts focus to their unique winter survival tactics. The film particularly emphasizes the praying mantis's method of laying eggs in a protective case to ensure species continuity. Other species' adaptations are explored, such as aphids laying eggs on tree bark and swallowtail caterpillars forming chrysalises. It also touches on different hibernation methods and the renewal of life cycles in spring, with a new generation of insects emerging to continue the cycle of life. The documentary underscores the diverse and fascinating ways insects adapt to their environments throughout the year.

This footage is all that remains of the programme that was first transmitted in 1960. Sgt George Brown demonstrates training exercises in a wooded area is known as the 'trainasium'. The aim is for the recruits to overcome a series of physical obstacles which encourage movements of daring and agility. They are also set team challenges aimed at encouraging initiative.

The self-taught nature filmmaker Ingeborg Tölke uses quotes from literary encounters with the flora and fauna of the moor in a gentle approach to this landscape. With great empathy, she uncovers the often all-too-hastily overlooked beauties and cruelties of the place, using time-lapse and macro techniques. Her debut work, which was also amazing in terms of film craft, won several awards.

This film documents the work of the Royal Ballet of Cambodia. The first part features the company performing a dance on the legendary origins of Angkor; the second part covers a visit to the School of the Royal Ballet of Cambodia at the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh. Scenes show dance instruction of both boys and girls, a dress rehearsal, costume design, and mask-making. The third part contains footage of the school's graduation ceremonies, including a presentation of novices to Queen Sisowath Kossmak Nearirath, patron of the school, and solo dance by Princess Norodom Buppha Devi.

Filmed at the heart of the events, composed of interviews and exclusive archives, this film sheds light on this social revolution. It denounces police brutality at the forefront of the action. Beginning with General de Gaulle's famous speech, composed of interviews and powerful testimonies from opposing camps (world figures, barricade activists, artists, and students), the film transports us to the heart of the action.

Documentary about the Saltair resort near Salt Lake City, Utah, where the cult film "Carnival of Souls" was filmed in 1962.

An experimental piece of film-making by Margaret Tait, featuring three children at play in a burn and garden, splashing and having fun playing with water.

On 19 March 1966, a photo exhibition about the police intervention during the wedding of Beatrix and Claus opened in Amsterdam. After the opening, filmmaker Louis van Gasteren filmed how, in the distance, policemen began beating up a young man, seemingly without any provocation. This footage was shown that same evening on television. Van Gasteren interviewed the victim, a 22-year-old student, who declared that he was walking in that direction because his ‘bicycle was there’. That became the title of this short film, in which Van Gasteren used slow motion to analyse the objectionable actions taken by the police.

Made to celebrate the centenary of the Galleria, the film traces its history from Giuseppe Mengoni's design, with its architectural and lighting wonders (gas flames), to its destruction during the war and its reconstruction in the post-war period. Olmi focuses mainly on the Galleria at the time the film was made, the crowds that inhabit it, the passers-by, the loiterers, the groups of anonymous gesticulating figures, the customers of bars and clubs, the nighttime crowd that appears there at dusk, the garbage collectors, the workers and immigrants looking for work who cross it at dawn.

With the news of Winston Churchill's death bringing the nation to a standstill, BBC Television presents an obituary to a beloved war hero and a much-respected statesman. Archive footage, stills and contributions from old friends and colleagues fill in the details to the colourful history spanning 90 years.

Produced by the U.S. Air Force, this vintage doc shows how advanced engineering keeps Americans safe from accidental detonations of nuclear weapons.

A film about the development of Icelandic jewellery from the times of the settlers (9th century) until 1968, also featuring the working methods of some well-known Icelandic jewelers of the sixties.

Here is what happened in a Toronto classroom when teachers occupied the children's desks and children became the teachers. The film grew out of another, Mrs. Ryan's Drama Class, where young children found their way into creative drama. There is food for thought in this impromptu reversal of roles.

A documentary abstraction recorded at night in Los Angeles backed by the music of Stockhausen. It is a preliminary effort to organise camera and audio images through a cybernetic editing model and a digital computer. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

Ethnographic documentary about customs and ceremonies connected with death in a Bulgarian village.

A documentary on making cameras and photographic equipment, which turns into a philosophical visual essay on the art and nature of photography as it unfolds.

In a single room, Peter Weiss has captured the environment of two drug addicts, without ever showing their faces in the film.

The film reports on the return of Soviet units from Czechoslovakia (CSSR) to their stationing areas in the GDR. It depicts the reception by the population of the GDR.

A documentary study of a series of works by Welsh painter, Ceri Richards, inspired by the 1910 piano prelude, La Cathédrale Engloutie, by French impressionist composer Claude Debussy (1862-1918)

An impressionistic and dissonant portrayal of short film making by a short film maker. The views expressed in the film are sometimes bitter, often humorous, at times satirical, but seldom complimentary.

Documentary short by Alexander Kluge about the role of teachers in history.

A short historical vignette constructed from an eighteenth-century three-panel watercolor genre painting, using its crowded, witty details to evoke a scene from Korea’s past.

The groundbreaking Australian documentary on lesbians, presented by Anne Deveson, first broadcast in February 1966. Amongst those interviewed are Dawn O'Donnell (off camera at the beginning of the documentary) and psychiatrist Dr Neil McConaghy (the Australian 'expert' in aversion therapy). Some women are interviewed in shadow or close-up to disguise their identity. Women speak about being discriminated when applying for jobs against because of their sexuality. Dr Neil McConarghy is interviewed about his shock therapy work to change sexual orientation. Surprisingly Dr McConarghy says that homosexuality might be of benefit to society as creative traits or traits of non-conformity might give society as a whole the ability to survive.

Short film about balloon rides

Designed to encourage citizen activism, this film centers on a one-man crusade to combat community indifference to urban blight. Ruing the litter, vermin and substandard housing conditions prevalent in his New York City neighborhood at 24th Street and Second Avenue, David started to pick up trash from city streets and went from building to building documenting health violations. Gaining support from the Department of Sanitation, he then enlisted the aid of tenants and their children and helped form the Improvement Association of the East Twenties. Through the organization's efforts, the streets were cleaned, buildings were given a fresh coat of paint and abandoned cars removed. To celebrate the neighborhood's revitalization, tenants, clergy and city officials, including Congressman John V. Lindsay, participated in a tree planting ceremony.

A documentary with erotic clips that shows a series of numbers taken from variety shows or made in the studio.

Documentary filmmaker Jan Vrijman pieces together four portraits of exceptional — and eccentric — Dutchmen, offering a vision of the Netherlands in the 1960s like you’ve never seen before. The result is both endearing, moving, astonishing and hilarious.

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

The importance of cashews in daily life in the northeast.

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.

Short Yugoslav film.

Documentary portrait of a 13-year-old aspiring filmmaker.

An exhibition made by Julio Le Parc at the Di Tella Institute in 1967.

Life in Australia: Hobart shows scenes illustrating daily life, industry, recreation and the tourist features of Hobart, Tasmania.

The film discusses the various uses of land for producing food, clothing, and shelter. It explains how different types of land are cultivated for growing crops, raising livestock, and sourcing raw materials for clothing like cotton, wool, and leather. The film also covers the extraction of resources for building materials, such as lumber, clay, stone, and iron ore. Additionally, it touches on the production of plastics and synthetic materials from minerals. The film emphasizes the importance of making wise decisions in land use, balancing agricultural, industrial, and recreational needs, and the necessity of conserving land for its natural beauty and environmental value.

Explains techniques used by Communists to gain control over young people. Hosted by then- Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy.

A documentary on the KKK

A documentary chronicling a concert tour of Japan by the rock group the Ventures.

While a calm, controlled narrator reads a treatise on the proper use and care of paints and brushes, the correct way to clean old canvasses, and how to employ a variety of artistic techniques, a female model enters an all-white studio, removes her clothes, and allows her entire body to be painted by a male artist. When the job is done, the artist suddenly appears painted in the same manner as his model and the two climb into bed with sheets painted like the couple. Precise editing and cinematography sharpen a creative and delightful experience

Where does the beauty of the Russian land begin? Is it with a spring that gushes from a hill, or with a golden field stretching to the horizon, or perhaps with a birch grove filled with the song of nightingales? These are the thoughts of the poet and writer Vladimir Soloukhin as he dines in a peasant's house, gathers mushrooms in a forest clearing, and admires the beauty of the ancient Rostov Kremlin. The sound of bells echoes throughout the area: "Russia, Motherland, and people are words of the same root..."

A look at modern bridge building in Britain.

A cartoon about the history and benefits of taking vitamins.

How to listen, not just hear.

A German Film Award winning short documentary on the ancient walled city of Shibam in modern day Yemen.

This 1960s instructional film released by Castle Films for the home market, demonstrates various camera tricks performed by “Wee Gee,” or “Weegee,” the pseudonym of Arthur Fellig, a famed photographer and cinematographer who worked in Manhattan and New York City’s Lower East Side.

A visit to the prisons of Britain to see the different types of work done by the prisoners.

The film uses the technique of collage on found footage, combining images from graphic media of the time with a speech by General Juan Carlos Onganía, the then president of Argentina. While Onganía's voice extols the virtues of the self-proclaimed Argentine Revolution, the images contrast with scenes of repression and poverty.

From Beirut to the Lebanese mountain range overlooking the Mediterranean, there is a rich and lush land where nature presents itself in all its beauty.

This documentary includes an interview with Byars during his stay in Antwerp in 1969 in which the artist reflects on the objectives of some of his performances and the means employed in them. It also includes recordings of various performances like "Two in a Hat", "75 in a Hat", and "The Pink Silk Airplane".