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Elie Wiesel, a survivor from Sighet, a town from which a thousand Jews were deported to the ovens of Auschwitz, returns, unknown and unseen, a silent witness to the town where he was born and grew up.

Documentary about pottery from Barcelos.

During a prolonged garbage collector's strike in New York City, a group of youths from the Lower East Side of Manhattan decide to use the situation to make a political statement. They collect garbage from the streets of their community and deposit piles of it on the grounds of Lincoln Center, "The Establishment's" cultural showcase.

In two half-hour parts, The Living Machine explores the progress made in electronics technology and looks forward to an exciting world-to-be. Produced in 1962, the first part demonstrates the capacities of a computer's "artificial intelligence," far exceeding that of any one human brain. The second part shows experiments in electronically duplicating some sensory perceptions.

1965 TV special shot documentary style in the mountains of North Carolina. It follows Old Man Bascom Lunsford as he casts the talent for his Asheville Mountain Music Festival (also the first such event). "Bluegrass Roots" presents a who's who of the most extraordinary singers, players and dancers the Bluegrass Mountains had to offer. Songs Include: Groundhog, Johnson Boys, East Virginia Blues, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Blue Ridge Mountain Blues, and Heavenly Light is Shinning On Me.

The first edition of this film about human reproduction was the first to be shown in U.S. public schools in 1947. Intended for seventh grade students, the first edition of Human Growth was seen by millions of schoolchildren in twenty countries, and won numerous awards. This revised and updated second edition was released in 1962.

This voyage, manned by astronauts Frank Borman, James A. Lovell, and William A. Anders, was man's first to another celestial body, and included an orbit around the Moon on Christmas Day, 1968. Also featured on this episode are air-to-ground tapes of the astronauts' descriptions of the mission, as well as onboard photography of the Earth, Moon and intravehicular activity.

Documentary about Japan's road to democracy

Inquiry among the workers of Ilfo, steelworks in Odolo (Brescia) into various themes: home, family, money, politics.

A state-produced short by veteran documentary filmmaker Saad Nadim introducing the traditional culture of Nubia while highlighting the benefits of the High Dam, which will soon force the Nubian people into migration.

A look into all of the different things that need to be tested in Britain.

With another Minnesotan campaigning for the office of Vice President, it is fascinating to look back at the issues VP candidate Hubert H. Humphrey was raising during the 1968 campaign. In newspapers at the time, the film was advertised as "The Mind Changer." It was telecast 300 times nationwide in the closing three weeks of the political race.

This film recounts how the Ocean Eagle Liberian tanker broke in half in the harbor of San Juan, Puerto Rico, creating a hazard to navigation and spilling oil onto the beaches. Footage depicts the salvage methods used to remove the two halves of the tanker and the oil from the harbor.

A cautionary tale for teenage drivers. Based on the true story of David Hall’s 1955 automobile accident, this grisly documentary reconstructs Hall’s many months of treatment and rehabilitation and is narrated by the victim himself.

A group of children build a model community. They learn the importance of planning and solving problems together, and of sharing ideas and work.

Scott, a high school dropout, has no diploma, no job, no future and finally no girl. He is faced with the decision of continuing his education or continuing a life without hope or meaning.

From the Organizing for Power: The Alinsky Approach series, this short documentary shows a group of concerned citizens from Dayton, Ohio, meeting and consulting Saul Alinsky on the means of creating an effective organization.

A film by Christopher Chapman, known for his lyrical films of countryside and wilderness. He turns his colour camera on the growing city and there finds cheering proof that despite concrete and bulldozer, the persistent seed prevails. The film is without commentary and the camera work is a constant delight, for Chapman has the gift of catching life smiling wherever he may look. Film without words.

On the dry ground of the caatinga and on the rocky slopes of the sertão, the goat survives. Organic parts of the country landscape, linked to the economy of certain regions, provide milk, meat and skin for export.

"A collection of footage from my friends or by my friends and me. It is amazing the number of events recorded by various means around London. Sowesto contains the opening of Region Gallery, The First Canadian Happening, Barbara Ann Scott in St. Marys, Nihilist events, etc." — Greg Curnoe

Film study of Slovak folk sculpture, composed in ballad form.

Among Alexander Calder's creations were miniature spring-loaded circus figures, made of wire. In this short film, Calder (1989-1976) talks about and demonstrates these toy-like creations. We see them spin, hop, roll, and leap. It's pure whimsy, wit, and glee.

Documentary showing Isaak Itkind, a Kazakh sculptor, still working at the age of 95.

Âmes et rythmes is a Moroccan film directed by Abdelaziz Ramdani, released in 1962.

The portrait of a young bakery worker in Swabia. A vague desire for something else lurks between her sentences and the images of her everyday life.

The film shows birds and mammals of Spitzbergen: The snow bunting, Phalaropus fulicarius, Stercorarius parasiticus, the red throated loon, the arctic gull, the puffin, the black guillemot, the loon and the common guillemot are photographed at the hatching place. In addition reindeer, arctic foxes and musk oxen are shown. The voices of seven kinds of animals are heard.

Sailing ships on an open sea make an attractive sight, all the more to be valued because of their rarity. This film shows one of the Portuguese schooners that fished the Grand Banks off Newfoundland. From the moment the townsfolk turn out for the blessing of the ship and crew, to the time when the ship turns homeward with the season's catch--leaving one crewman in a Newfoundland grave--this film holds the viewer's attention on an ancient calling that will soon disappear.

The director recounts his disastrous expedition to Antarctica.

The film is an exposure test, with a poorly focused image of Edie Sedgwick getting darker and darker at regular intervals.

A sponsored film from DuPont that provides a history of printing and the printing press. Its focus is primarily the changes that modern technologies have introduced into the process.

Magic Circle represented, for Lee-Nova, a return to a paradigmatic ordering which is dominated by the “transcendental signifier” evoked in the work of Jack Wise.

A 1967 English language documentary directed by Clarke Mackey. It follows a lonely, discouraged teenager as he takes the bus downtown on a Saturday. The film won a Young Filmmakers Award at the NFB, and was broadcast on the CBC. Today, this movie provides a rare snapshot of Toronto in the mid-1960s: Bloor and Yonge, Yorkville, Queen’s Park, Honest Ed’s, etc.

The actors are the directors wife and young son, both naked, the wife pregnant. For five minutes, they play and giggle with a little stuffed bear.

A look behind the scenes at Westminster Abbey and all the things that are nor usually seen by the public.

An account of the ten-yearly census in the UK - the first record in colour of the entire operation.

A look at the work of the Scottish artists John Maxwell, Joan Eardley and Robin Philipson.

A film biography of Maria Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie.

Written and directed by the filmmaker Jesús Almendros, 'Miradas' recreates the geographical, social and cultural environment of Vicente Ameztoy at a very early stage of his artistic career. It was filmed in San Sebastian and in the painter's family home in Villabona (Gipuzkoa), with the collaboration of several of his friends, including the painter Juan Luis Goenaga.

Short educational film

Surveys the history of cinematography and microphotography with many examples of the strides that have been taken in these fields. The history of the scientific study of motion through the cine-camera. High-speed, and time-lapse cinematography allied with X-ray and the microscope have made possible the study of movements and subjects which the normal eye cannot see. Experiments from 1890 to 1940, when it was possible to slow down the flight of a bullet so that one is seen tapping a piece of glass and passing through before the glass is shattered. Cinematography from space rockets. The use of colour photography in the schlieren technique. (from the ACMI website)

Short about an old lady, the painter Emma Stern, 85, who began devoting herself to art when she was in her seventies. The film won the Lion de Saint-Marc in Venice.

Against a backdrop of the Manhattan skyline, Judson Dance Theater company member Freddy Herko and author and cultural critic Jill Johnston dance together on Wynn Chamberlain’s rooftop.

Pixinguinha, one of the pioneers of Brazilian music, composer of some incredibly sophisticated melodies, talks about his music and life.

It covers the activities of Malcolm X University in Durham, North Carolina (which operated for only three years), but above all devotes an entire segment to the Black athlete, focusing on an episode at the University of Wyoming, where 14 football players were suspended after attempting a protest against the rival team’s religious and racial views, the Brigham Young University. The 1960s black student movement at Duke University evolved into a separate institution to study and engage with the history and culture of the African diaspora. This film was produced for the National Educational Television (WNET) Black Journal.

Documentary short film on the city of Évora, Portugal. Usually regarded as the first film of the Portuguese New Wave.

To Live Again is a 1963 short documentary film produced by Mel London. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

A group of outdoorsmen demonstrate duck hunting as a preliminary to traveling the various hunting and fishing centers of the world. They begin their journey with a trip to the Rocky Mountains to hunt elk and mountain lions and to fish in the freshwater lakes. They travel to Lac la Ronge in Saskatchewan and to Anchorage and the Katmai Peninsula in Alaska to fish for trout, salmon, and grayling and hunt moose and bear. In the Arctic, the hunters go with a group of Eskimos for their biggest catch, the polar bear. The hunters travel south by plane, to the Fishing Club of Panama to fish for marlin, tuna, shark, and dolphin in the Gulf of Panama. In South Africa and the Zambesi River basin, they often hunt with only a camera. Accompanied by native beaters, they hunt elephants, antelope, buffalo, crocodiles, and hippopotami. As conservationists they capture some almost extinct white rhinoceros and take them to a game preserve for protection.

The building of a hydro electric station in Scotland.

This slow-motion film is a glass snow globe with dancers who topple and bounce off the sides of the frame. Re-purposed at a later retrospective, projected on the side of a white cup.

The Look at Life cameras go abroad to see how Britain's goods and trade are being sold to other countries.

A contemplation on the role of human hands in the life of man and society.

This is the third part of a three-part documentary about People's Republic of China, filmed in 1967 by Swedish filmmaker Bo Gaertze, and released by a number of companies (this is a German version released by the FWU).