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Introduction to the oil industry of India in the post-colonial period.

A brief presentation of the Swedish film policy, the Swedish Film Institute and the Film House in Stockholm. The recording of "Niklas och Figuren" (1971) is featured.

Named for the atomic bomb built in New Mexico and dropped on Hiroshima, this is Lyon’s portrait of late-70s New Mexico – a look beneath the Sunbelt.

Documentary about three outstanding internationally recognized and awarded young professionals: sculptor Levon Tockmadjian, violinist Rouben Aharonian, Chess International Grand Master Rafael Vahanian. The film discovers some aspects of creative process.

German writer Uwe Johnson lived for several years in the 1960s on Manhattan’s Upper Westside where he got to know his neighborhood very well, observing the goings-on in the streets, cafeterias, and parks. In 1968 German Television agreed to co-produce a film for broadcast featuring interviews with various neighborhood characters.

UCLA student ("Project One") documentary about Allison Mills, a young African American woman who was a successful teenage actress in the 1960s and 70s. Unhappy with the roles available to women of color, by the mid-70s Ms. Mills turns songwriting to fulfill her creative drives and is offered a contract to record an album at A&M Records.

Describes life on the Aboriginal reserve of Palm Island in Queensland. Old men from Dyirbal language group tell stories of the massacres and poisoning of their people when they first came in contact with the white settlers.

Her name was Maria Auxiliadora Lara Barcellos, but she was called Dora. She was 31 years old, born and raised in Brazil. On June 1, 1976, she took her own life by throwing herself in front of a subway train in West Berlin.

A documentary on Mariama, a teenage girl in Banjul, Ghana.

Documentary about the Football World Cup held in Argentina in 1978, focusing on the competition and behind the scenes of the most important soccer competition in the world. Two versions of the 1978 official film exist, the first "Copa 78 - O Poder do Futebol" was made by Brazilian directors Maurício Sherman and Victor di Mello in 1979 but was later withdrawn by FIFA because of its controversial content. The film includes an interview with Rodolfo Galimberti, one of the leaders of the Montoneros guerrilla group and also made accusations that the Argentinian competition organisation committee had deliberately hindered Brazilian chances of success by tampering with the pitch at Mar del Plata.

Zulueta short

Investigates the various myths, stories, and theories that describe and attempt to explain the mysterious occurrences in the Bermuda Triangle.

A documentary that presents home movies and several excerpts of known films of famous actress Leila Diniz. Friends of the late actress, tragic killed on a plane crash in 1972, discuss about her life, her work and her legacy in Brazilian culture.

A Roma silversmith talks about her experiences.

Released just a few years after her death, this forms a picture of who Janis was through interviews and performance clips.

The film tells about Lviv: the old part of the city, new streets, educational institutions and parks of Lviv, museums of the city, an overview of the main enterprises (the Electron factory, the bus factory, the brewery, the Progress factory, and the Svitloch factory).

MUNDIAL 78 is a humorous depiction of the controversial 1978 football World Cup that took place during the Argentinian dictatorship

This short film tells a story in the form of a poem that calls for equality for children who lack opportunities. It was created by Surapong Pinijkhar, who submitted it to the Bangkok Bank Documentary Film Festival in 1977. Despite exceeding the standards of traditional Thai documentary films, the judges were too afraid to give it the top prize, but they also couldn't deny its brilliance, so they awarded it a special prize. This documentary film is a creative masterpiece of the nation. This film has been registered as part of the National Film Heritage, first edition, in the year 2011 (B.E. 2554).

"Narita: The Peasants of the Second Fortress" (1971) chronicles a decisive phase in the struggle against the construction of the Narita International Airport, as farmers in Sanrizuka adopted new defensive tactics, including the construction of fortified towers and underground shelters. As police forces moved to dismantle these structures, confrontations intensified. The film combines scenes of direct conflict with extended conversations between Ogawa and the farmers, documenting both the physical resistance and the sustained community organizing that defined this stage of the protest.

The struggle by the inhabitants of Raleigh County, West Virginia, to preserve their land from the ravages of strip mining, and their efforts to pass state legislation to this end.

This series comprised six lectures on music, which cumulatively took the title of a work by Charles Ives, The Unanswered Question. Bernstein drew analogies to other disciplines, such as poetry, aesthetics, and especially linguistics, hoping to make these lectures accessible to an audience with limited or no musical experience, while maintaining an intelligent level of discourse: Lecture 5 picks up at the early twentieth century with an oncoming crisis in Western Music. As these lectures have traced the gradual increase and oversaturation of ambiguity, Bernstein now designates a point in history that took ambiguity too far.

Based on a photo taken during the first days of the occupation of Czechoslovakia in August 1968. The photo shows a woman being lynched not knowing who she is or why that happened.

This short animated film is about Wop May, one of Canada's leading bush pilots in the 1920s.

Marcel Broodthaers’ film and book, both titled A Voyage on the North Sea which were distributed together as part and parcel of the same publishing plot. The ostensibly related subject of both book and film consists mutually of 19th and 20th century nautical images including: 1. photographic reproductions and details of an amateur’s 19th century painting of a fleet of fishing ships and 2. photographs of a contemporary sailboat.

Eugene Debs & the American Movement is an educational video that documents fifty years of long-suppressed history. Using extensively researched photographs, drawings and newsreel footage, it tells a story of the bloody strikes and brutal government reaction to the American workers' attempts to organize. This film is movingly narrated in Deb's own words, read from his speeches and writings, by his friend and comrade, Shubert Sebree.

Reflecting the struggle of the Basque environmental movement of the time against the construction of the Lemoiz nuclear power plant, the documentary directed by Imanol Uribe won the Silver Mikeldi of the XIX Bilbao International Documentary and Short Film Festival.

Documentary about the early British films by director Alfred Hitchcock.

Third part of a French TV series about town-planning in which Éric Rohmer and Jean-Paul Pigeat look into the l'Arlequin neighbourhood of Grenoble-Échirolles and the new town of Évry.

The back of Acconci's head is seen in tight close-up. He hums to himself, first lyrically, then aggressively, violently. Suddenly he wheels around to face the camera, his face filling the screen in extreme close-up, squinting at the viewer and speaking breathlessly. When finished, he turns and continues to hum, repeating this cycle again and again.

The planning and implementation of the first flight to the moon, narrated by Orson Welles.

In 1940, the Kilgore College Rangerettes became the first dancing drill team in the nation. They have been performing at half-time shows during college football games ever since.

Rolf Jacobsen talks about poetry and reads his own poems.

Featuring well known sports presenter Jimmy Hill, ‘Think Bike’ encourages motorists to take extra care to look out for motorcyclists when pulling out from junctions. Using the slogan ‘think once, think twice, think bike’, the film features a graphic depiction of an accident to shock the audience. A very similar tactic is still in use today in the recently launched ‘Think – take longer to look for bikes’ campaign which also shows a motorcyclist crashing into the side of a car. A Department for Transport report from 2006 concluded that the most common cause of motorcycle crashes is a ‘right of way’ violation…the majority of these incidents occur at T-junctions and it is usually the motorist – rather than the biker – who is at fault.’ ‘In around 65% of these ‘right of way’ incidents, a driver somehow fails to see a motorcyclist who should be in clear view.’

A tour of the Scottish new town of East Kilbride.

Bo Widerberg talks with actress Vanessa Redgrave about giving birth without painkillers and the Vietnam War.

In the 20's an enthusiast radio amateur, Fyodor Lbov, experiments one of the first short-waves radio in the city of Gorky.

More than half of India's imports today come from the United States, and American banks and companies are gaining an ever-tighter grip on the Indian economy. How do these companies work? Who benefits from their investments? How are the Indian workers who build their giant buildings doing? A film about how American companies are establishing themselves in India.

Documentary by Jesús Enrique Guédez.

This feature-length documentary examines the reality of New York City in the 1970s, a place that had become a symbol of urban disaster. The 2 projects profiled attempt to tackle the problem of America’s biggest city: in a dilapidated part of the Bronx, a co-operative citizens’ movement tries to rejuvenate urban life; and WNET-TV uses its programming as an open forum for the public debate on urban issues.

The destruction of part of the rue de Saint-Malo district in Rennes as part of the program to reduce unsanitary housing. Extract from the author's text: "... So, good people, the rue de Saint-Malo is dead, at the end of this crazy 20th century..."

A documentary on the powerful, emotional, and political currents of the late 60's as seen through the eyes of folksinger Joan Baez and her then husband David Harris, a student organizer and leader of the draft resistance movement.

This work was started in 1967 as a documentation of Nakajima’s life. The footage was edited into a single piece for the first time in 1974, in time to show the work to the curator Barbara London, who was visiting Japan. Generations of his family were lost and gained that year, with Nakajima's mother passing away, and then his child was born. The piece is an installation with two monitors; the left presents his mother and himself, and the right, his child and himself. Nakajima continues to work on the sequels of "My Life" with his grandchild.

Writer Henry Miller, the colossus of Big Sur, at work, living in, revising old haunts in Brooklyn and Paris. He generously reveals how he saw his era, his peers and himself. He recalls his painful youth and his struggle to survive as a writer. He talks about art, dreams, and the allure of Paris. He reads passages from his works and enjoys himself with friends. What emerges is Miller’s charm, his gentleness and his lust for life.

An examination of the protest movement that rose up in the early 1970s in response to events in Northern Ireland.

A short documentary about the making of David Lean's 1962 film LAWRENCE OF ARABIA. Some behind the scenes footage comes from the 1963 promotional featurette with a similar title but includes new footage, a new narration and adds an audio interview with the film's star Peter O'Toole.

A César award winning documentary about a high school in Beijing where a student throws a ball in the direction of the teacher who had just asked them to stop playing. The class then meets to discuss this problem.

This documentary film examines the meanings of the abuse of barbiturates and amphetamines. Filmed in Haight-Ashbury, this film seeks to define the nature of the drugs and widely varying patterns and degrees of abuse. A broad spectrum of people are included in the film - blacks, whites, Chicanos; adults and young people; poor and affluent.

A 14-minute color short set in Naples that deals with religious festivals, local traditions/identity, poverty, and religious feeling. It was screened in December 1976 during the retrospective Kinomata.

Portrait of a child of migrant workers who sees boxing as his only chance of a successful life.

A new system devised by Canadians whereby the dryout process in fuel bundles for a nuclear reactor can be completely checked, thereby preventing uneconomical burnup. Produced by the NFB for Atomic Energy of Canada.

This short film is told in the first person by Rose, a Métis woman from northern Alberta who has left a difficult life in the city to rediscover her roots by returning to her Woodland Cree community. Rose reveals the racism, isolation and health issues she faced when trying to make a life for herself outside her home community, and how she is able to help others now that she has reconnected to her culture. The film is part of a 1970s series of eleven films title Working Mothers by producer/director Kathleen Shannon, exposing inequality for women in accessing education, childcare, and equal pay. These films led to the creation of Studio D at the National Film Board, the world’s first feminist production studio.

This training film is meant for professionals who work with the mentally impaired, and is meant to teach them how to help their patients deal with sexual issues.

Based on the material of the village of Vylegzhata, the film tells about the psychological difficulties that a person faces when leaving the land where he lived a long life.