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First transmitted in 1966, Man Alive speaks to couples who, for various reasons, have decided not to take the traditional route towards marriage. Some have been married before but are unable to obtain the divorces they need, while others just see marriage as an outdated concept. What are the effects of this on their children, and how does wider society view couples who are 'living in sin'?

Lost film. "I have absolutely no memory of what happens in the film." ―Alberto Grifi

One of the most important structural films of the period, Rohfilm demonstrates a radical anti-representational approach, destroying the figurative image and bringing attention back to the ‘raw’ photographic material, particularly its physical form. Resisting a stable reference point, the film is a multi-layered onslaught of blurred impressions, shifting surfaces and grating sounds that activates a form of sensuous viewing. In the making of the film, the Heins employed just about every technique of defamiliarization, including direct intervention on the surface of the film strip, rephotography, remediation, and different kinds of mechanical interruption and destruction. It is a striking example of a truly handmade approach. (Kim Knowles)

A look at the popularity of donkeys.

Film by Frank Vogel.

A television documentary directed by Marcel Ophüls examining the Munich Conference of September 28, 1938, when European leaders met to avert the outbreak of war. Through archival documents and interviews, the film reconstructs the political atmosphere surrounding negotiations between Britain and France on one side and Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy on the other, situating the agreement within the broader context of European appeasement in the face of fascism.

A dramatic, solemn and refined work, "Per Firenze" spread throughout the world the cry for help that was rising in those hours from the city of Dante and Brunelleschi, giving rise to one of the greatest phenomena of solidarity that has gone down in history under the name of the "mud angels."

A look at the medical and social services available for both hospital and home births.

After saving a girl from being raped, a man is targeted by her lesbian friend by way of a fight promoter who convinces him he could be a boxer — with disastrous results.

Italian drama written and directed by Brunello Rondi.

A look at the machines used for teaching, the educational box of tricks which is being used in many different ways.

A short film about a woman's unhappiness after a failed love affair.

A look at how the British Army developed its own Air Corps.

Contemporary life in Plymouth in the 1960s – plus some history.

A Super 8 home movie by Marco Melani.

The unexpected adventures of children on a school cruise to Portugal and North Africa. In Tangier, Steve, whose hobby is detecting, suspects that a parcel carried by another boy is contraband. Steve and his pals get into trouble trying to get hold of the parcel, but, in the process they uncover and foil the plans of a passenger to smuggle a stolen painting back to England.

A tour of the renowned Lake District; a visual delight that captures the tranquillity and drama of this quite outstanding scenery.

French television program discussing Jean Renoir's 1932 film "Boudu Saved from Drowning".

Guantánamo shows the history of the town, subjected to the influence of the neighboring American naval base, and its transformation after the triumph of the revolution.

70 is definitely the new 20 in this heart-warming 1960s documentary portrait of the Darby and Joan Club for elderly Cockneys.

Film shot one frame at a time, of three faces, including a brother and sister, which merge to become one, followed by a short sequence of minimalist gesture.

A girl is staying at a spooky hotel, where she is menaced by a hunchback, but a soldier saves her.

Sexual behaviors of young people are discussed and presented.

Short film on the castles in Castilla (Spain)

Made in 1968, within the framework of the activities of the Cinemazero collective, Il balla balla could be regarded as Benvenuti’s own The Big Shave (1967, Martin Scorsese). Influenced by the manners of underground cinema, it provides a timeless indictment of the political and economical exploitation of youths.

In Montesano, Salento, during the festivities held in August in honour of Saint Donatus, patron saint of epileptics and the mentally ill, the power of collective suggestion causes strange phenomena and rituals to occur. Luigi Di Gianni, master of anthropological documentary, films the worshippers with Dionysian force as they writhe and scream as if in a pagan rite, showing how the content of the Catholic liturgy succumbs to the primitive passion of popular religiosity.

The Six-Sided Triangle is a 1963 short film directed by Christopher Miles, starring his younger sister Sarah Miles, Nicol Williamson, and Bill Meilen. It is about a husband who comes home and finds his wife with her lover - told from the perspectives of six different countries (the US, England, Japan, Sweden, Italy and France). The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

Documentary film about Brazil around the year 1960 and how it is shaped by industrial and social upheavals. The film portrays people and landscapes, modern cities as well as the art and culture of the fifth largest country in the world, which encompasses numerous nations and cultures. The focus is on the structural changes, particularly in the capital Brasilia, which was rebuilt and inaugurated in 1960. From the perspective of a European observer, a picture of the country gradually emerges from a wide variety of impressions.

A look at the role women play in the British Police Force.

A colourful miscellany of footage from both sides of the Pennines.

Allegory of men's use of fire to kill, when it was given by Prometheus to help them.

While I was at Cambridge University my girlfriend became pregnant. The lack of sex education in the 1960’s meant that I failed to make the connection between sex and babies. Taking cues 'nouvelle vague' cinema this film juxtaposes adolescent sexual fantasies with the reality of procreation.

In wartime Berlin, a factory foreman, Otto Quangel and his wife, Anna learn that their only son, Paul, has been killed in action in France. In their grief, the couple decide to take action against the Nazi regime. They create their own form of resistance, writing postcards urging people to resist Hitler and the Nazis and quietly distributing the postcards around Berlin. Various people enter the picture, showing the fear and distrust of the times. People, such as the actor Harteisen, find the cards and race to turn them in, lest they be found with them and come under suspicion. The police and the Gestapo are baffled for over a year, but finally find the source of the cards. The Volksgerichtshof sentences the Quangels to death.

Whizz converts an old boiler into a spaceship. However a scrap metal dealer has already bought it and hauls it away by crane with the Gang inside. Naturally enough they believe they are in outer space, and Dumbo takes a space walk.

Sped up footage of musicians fighting on a stretch of mudflats.

A group of children fleeing Napoleon's armies attempt to protect a mountain escape route from being discovered by a pursuing French platoon.