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Film on Trinidad and Tobago's culture and industry, and its transition from a British colony to an independent nation on the 31st of August 1962.

In this documentary, the director proves that movement is one of the most important manifestations of life. The film reveals what is imperceptible to the naked eye, starting with the movement of single cells or cells themselves, and ending with the movements of unicellular protozoa.

Images of the training camps of Al-Assifa, the military wing of the Fatah movement in Jordan. The Israeli army organized raids against the city of As-Salt, located northwest of Amman, on August 4, 1968. Members of the Palestinian brigade, interviewed in English and German, talk about their guerrilla actions, which sometimes involved soldiers of the Jordanian army.

The worlds of the painter Le Douanier Rousseau and the poet Arthur Rimbaud form a basis for exploration of their works.

Short film about the large fishing boats used in coastal Portuguese villages, rowed by 30 or 40 men and needing oxen to bring their nets out.

The film tells the story of Bill, a young boy who discovers a worn and damaged book about the American Revolution in a secondhand bookshop and buys it for 25 cents. Through his experience, the film explores the lifecycle of a book, from creation to wear and tear, and the importance of proper care and repair. Bill, with the help of his schoolmates and Miss Walker, the librarian, learns how to mend torn pages, remove stains, and protect the book with a new cover and dust jacket. The film emphasizes the collective effort required to create a book and educates on how to extend its life through careful handling and repair, conveying a message of respect and stewardship for books.

After a brief sequence of Nazi rallies (including shots from Triumph of the Will), German footage of the invasion of Poland, and Julien Bryan footage of the siege of Warsaw in September 1939, this film uses still photographs (some from Himmler's personal collection) and much of the 1942 German propaganda footage shot in the Warsaw Ghetto. It details the daily struggle to survive the Warsaw Ghetto, including scenes of poor sanitation, smuggling food from outside, beggars, Jewish Police and the ghetto prison, deportations, collaboration, and resistance. It uses film footage of flamethrowers and German artillery to represent the putting down of the Ghetto uprising under General Stroop.

A documentary short which presents the way and philosophy of life of a homosexual transvestite.

A look at the work of Glasgow's Medical Officer of Health.

Documentary about Cairo, Egypt.

Description of the daily lives of Eskimo hunter families spending the summer in Cape Hope, Eastern Greenland.

The socio-religious structure of the Bobo. Yele Danga is a religious term which means "initiation". The diverse religious cultural themes, initiation, possession, purification of the village, propitiatory sacrifices are examined among the Bobo, population of farmers and among the neighbouring population, the Bolon.

A film detailing advancements in computer/digital technology, featuring the 'Graphic 1' computer system at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

After winning independence in 1961 from the British, President Julius K. Nyerere set to instill ideas of self-development, self-governance and social justice in Tanzania. This short film describes the idea of African Socialism aka. "Ujamaa" as a response to the challenge of development in terms of the pressures under which newly emerging nations labor and emphasizes the strength of working together for the benefit of their nation.

A young man travels to multiple countries while trying to decide on a career.

Formed on the Lower East Side of New York to side step high prices, poor quality, and weight cheating of local supermarkets.

Sydney's population had just reached three million, and while its skyline was not as tall as it is today, it was already on its way to become a modern city. The film visits all of Sydney's most iconic locations, from its beautiful harbour to Circular Quay, Martin Place, Kings Cross and Bondi beach.

David’s first film, “Profile of a Peace Parade,” (1968) features interviews with antiwar New Yorkers at a large demonstration in Manhattan.

Ingeborg Tölke recaps her filmic biography, explains its elaborate technical conditions and talks about future core themes. She was presumably responsible for several short intermission films for Deutscher Fernsehfunk as well as a commissioned educational film. Until old age, she explored the possibilities of macro shots and time-lapse technology, which became her trademark.

A film about the building of People's Park, and its ultimate destruction, marking the end of an era.

A compilation of some of the earliest films of the automobile age, sourced from the collection of the Library of Congress.

A short, silent film depicting the beaches of Cannes, France; also the sight of the annual Cannes Film Festival. Focuses primarily on capturing families, couples, and other revelers swimming, sailing, etc. Festivaltown prominently features the sunny French Riviera, site of the annual Cannes Film Festival. Children and men and women of all ages go sailing, swimming, and take long walks on the boardwalk. Luxurious landmarks such as the InterContinental Carlton Cannes can be seen looming in the background throughout the film.

During the winter of 1969, the New York Transit Authority increased the public transportation fee fare from 20 cents to 30 cents--a 50% increase. Infuriated riders scrambled under turnstiles and through exit doors, refusing to pay the fare. In THE WRECK OF THE NEW YORK SUBWAYS riders and subway workers denounce the terrible conditions and constant fare increases. The film analyzes the vicious cycle of bonding the Transit Authority, which profits the banks at the expense of the taxpayers.

Lovely nighttime footage of the 1964 World's Fair in Queens, New York.

All About New York is a 1962 documentary directed by Paul Cohen and produced by Owen Murphy, chronicling the history and development of New York City.

While still a student at UCLA, Norman Yonemoto arrived in Berkeley with a 16mm camera and discovered People’s Park in turmoil. His compelling short has remarkable interviews with bystanders and an especially poignant moment when a young folksinger serenades the gathered National Guard.

A City of Chicago sponsored film commissioned by Lewis W. Hill for the Department of Urban Renewal. The film attempts to defend the city's redevelopment plan for residential and commercial urban renewal, and explains how relocation officers can assist those who have been recently displaced. As the narrator succinctly states, "we are tearing down what stands in the way of a better city. Some buildings must go simply because the occupy space needed for something else, but for the most part, it's the warn out areas of the city that are making way for the new." Recently displaced home owners are interviewed, expressing their distaste of the urban renewal process. The film explains how the city will help these displaced home owners, by use of a good relocation officer from the Department of Urban Renewal. (Chicago Film Archives)

Short documentary.

A collaborative film conceived as a ‘picture postcard,’ the moving images recorded by the camera mirroring the card’s picture side, the sound track evoking its written message. Life and Film is a lyrical look at some Chicago filmmakers on their way to the Michigan sand dunes.

A short, comedic documentary showing the contrast between The Twist and other dances that came before it. Not to be confused with Allan David's 1962 short "Twist Craze," both of which are made from footage from the same production.

The Right to Dissent: A Press Conference, records a pre-convention press conference of the National Committee to End in the War in Vietnam. David Dellinger and Rennie Davis recount their difficulties in dealing with the City of Chicago to plan their protests against the 1968 Democratic Convention.

This short cartoon film is for the Family Planning campaign, comparing a large family with a small happy family.

After a brief introduction on the unnerving daily life, through the usual night inspection in the most famous clubs in the world, the film presents to the public shows and attractions with which it is planned to escape from the rhythm of daily life.

Black Moderates and Black Militants documents an unrehearsed conversation between three members of the Chicago Chapter of the Black Panther Party, including future congressman Bobby Rush, and the principal of an African American high school. The two groups respectfully debate the varied strategies for ending racism.

Auto-poetical collage announcement of a filmmakers future motion picture works.

Documentary by Hans-Dieter Müller.

Educational film on the problem of litter.

Rare footage of Alberto Santos Dumont making his sucessful experiments in Paris.

An abstract film, with which Pansini attempted "Malevichean" reduction. It is a blank, an empty film reel with coloristic and toned global changes, nothing more.

A professional surfer and his rescued French friend venture to Hawaii after winning a plane ticket at a California surf contest. Spaghetti fights and half baked hijinx ensue.

The life and work of Félix Tournachon, aka Nadar, the famed French illustrator and photographer.

Prepared and shot with a group of young workers, schoolchildren, the unemployed, etc., in a neighborhood of Le Havre, On voit bien qu'c'est pas toi inaugurates a series of "collective" films, in a neighborhood of Le Havre, On voit bien qu'c'est pas toi inaugurates a series of "collective" films, inspired by the impetus of 1968, which helped to make our filmmaking activity (somewhat) better known. The young people chose the documentary form to show their lives as they wanted them to be seen, that is, on a daily basis, in their premises, at work, on the town, with their families, on wild camping trips... In this way, they drew up a precise and detailed self-portrait of a milieu hitherto almost totally absent from the screens.

ElectroRhythmes is a short videographic essay.

Black Five is filmed around Carnforth station in Lancashire, a location which had been the setting for the archetypal railway romance, David Lean’s Brief Encounter (1945) over 20 years earlier.

This film is a product not of the China of today, but of Red China's Cultural Revolutionary era: a period when the most radical and histrionic thinking strove to turn China's immense population into martyrs for Chairman Mao's ideals. This film, whose original title translates to "The Great Advancement of Mao Tse-Tung's Thinking," was captured by American intelligence in the mid 1960's (who provide the simultaneous translation on the soundtrack). It must have scared the hell out of them, for the film shows Chinese soldiers engaged in strenuous training for post-nuclear attack. The great lie of this film - from the Chinese leaders to their own people - is that the radioactive fallout from a nuclear blast will not kill them. In the film's most haunting scene, we see a Chinese cavalry charge in the Gobi desert into the aftermath of an above-ground nuclear explosion. Both rider and horse are wearing gas-masks! A harrowing look at the unbending will of fanaticism.

Two years after the Six Day War (1967), doctors at an Israeli hospital try to save the lives of an Arab terrorist and Israeli officer just brought in after a border clash.

The penalties of taking conscious risks are emphasized in three stories of casualties. A heavy load slips, a slippery floor, alighting from a moving tractor. Third in series.

The Air Force Thunderbirds present air shows for civilians in Southeast Asia as a gesture of U.S. goodwill.

An avant-garde exploration of a photographs of young circus performer.

A film addressing the issues related to car use and parking in Oslo’s city centre. // Oslofilm was a series of public information films about life in and around Oslo, produced between 1940 and 1980. Funded by the state, the films offer valuable insight into postwar Norwegian society. A wide range of Norwegian filmmakers contributed to the productions, resulting in a rich variety of styles and expressions. Several of the films also possess notable cinematic qualities, standing out as more than just informational material. The Oslofilms represent a unique and important chapter in Norwegian film history.

Official (as per the box) NASA Super 8 release of footage from the journey to, and landing on, the moon.

Travelogue showing the wonders of Copenhagen, Denmark.

This film depicts the Puerto Rico nuclear center operated for USAEC by the University of Puerto Rico and designed to aid Latin American nations in developing skills essential to nuclear energy activity.