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In a small, US costal town with many Spanish speakers, a motorcycle gang arrives on holiday. Also in town to try to reconnect with his pregnant girlfriend, Karen, is businessman Paul Collier. Paul and a leader of the cyclists, J.J., knew each other years before, so when the gang comes upon the couple and, led by the menacing Bunny, beats up Paul and begins a sexual assault of Karen, J.J. tries to intervene: he suggests they hold cycle-riding contests, with the winner claiming Karen (he promises, sotto voce, to set her free if he wins). After the contests commence, Paul crawls away to look for help. He meets with a shrug from a cowardly sheriff's deputy; where can he turn?

UCLA Student Thesis Film. It is a film about two boys' fascination with flight, told in experimental triptych form.

A paranoid filmmaker is tortured by his taste for the titular Italian soup

Les Blank's first feature-length documentary captures music and other events at Leon Russell's Oklahoma recording studio during a three-year period (1972-1974).

The shipwrecked Blue Racer spots an island and also spots two mischievous leprechauns giving the fast blue snake hard time.

Procol Harum, best known for their world-wide smash hit of 1967, A Whiter Shade of Pale, are the stars of a 55-minute special program. In 1967 a new pop group emerged with the hit song, A Whiter Shade of Pale. They were The Procol Harum. We meet the members of the group and see them perform their hit along with other numbers, including Captain Clack, Whisky Train, and Your Overcoat Is Too Long. The group's leader, Gary Brooker, comments throughout. Shown on the ABC and in the UK on BBC. Tracklist : A Whiter Shade Of Pale Good Captain Clack Whiskey Train Homburg Piggy Pig Pig In Held Twas In I Pilgrims Progress Dead Man's Dream Nothing That I Didn't Know

A disturbed man wants his girlfriend's love and his wife's money, and will stop at nothing to get them, even murder.

Starring the world’s most beautiful woman! If audiences of the film SOMEONE LIKE YOU think that the heroine is the most beautiful woman they have ever seen it will hardly be surprising … Anneline Kriel was voted Miss World in in 1974. Based on the story by Roald Dahl, this film is packed with suspense, and the drama of a love triangle with an unusual twist. “Someone Like you” is a dramatic and tender love story, it’s a 'people' film, an eternal triangle story involving two girls, one rich and one from the poorer part of town who fall in love with the same man. The conflicts of their lives, and loves will keep you spellbound, till the closing moment. A film that starts off in the glory of a simple love affair, and ends in the tensions of a High Court case. “Someone Like You” is a love story with an unusual twist. The agony of the poor and the thrill of the rich … experience the drama when these two worlds meet.

The life and times of the flamboyant showman who built his legendary Follies around beautiful women -- as told by the women in his life.

ABBA performs (all to playback): Arrival (only about 1.5 minutes of it) Waterloo (over footage of preparations for, and ABBA's arrival at the airport) SOS Nina Pretty Ballerina (over footage of them on the steps of the plane and arriving at their hotel) Dancing Queen My Love my Life When I Kissed The Teacher Knowing Me Knowing You Fernando Tiger Money Money Money Fernando Agnetha had travelled ahead with her father the day before and then met Benny, Frida and Björn off the plane. She had filmed "SOS" the day before and it was interspersed with a rather embarrassed looking Benny, Frida & Björn "singing" on the plane! There is a short interview on the plane with mainly Benny, Björn and Stig.

During the trip back to Lithuania, Jonas Mekas made Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania, Adolfas Mekas made Going Home, while Pola Chapelle, Adolfas’ wife, made this Journey to Lithuania, which both Jonas and Adolfas said was the best of these three films.

The kitchen sink is clogged, and Bessie insists that Charlie call a plumber to fix it. However, Charlie refuses to...

The soundtrack begins with the artist stating the conditions: “An artist may construct a work and/or a work may be fabricated and/or a work need not be built. I elected five possibilities for videotape.” These possibilities are the actions executed in Beached. They are shot in five sequences and consist of throwing, pulling, lifting, dragging, and using leverage.

Gang of robbers use dune buggies for their big heist.

In 1916, a group of prisoners plot their escape from the notorious fortress located in French Guiana.

Hector Heathcote invents things, only to have his neighbor steal his ideas. After a few funny routines, Hector steals the neighbor's idea, causing the neighbor some problems.

A coven of witches gather in Vermont in a feminist collective’s transporting short that shakes off patriarchal scrutiny during the women’s ceremony, where they’re free to remake reality before our eyes. TRANSFORMATIONS creates an intoxicating alchemy from the witches’ interactions with nature: an attempt, as Hirschfeld remembers, to “use the act of filmmaking to heighten experience.”

The Little Prince questions the universe in this story of innocence and wonder.

John Whitney's pioneering work of computer animation, Arabesque, from 1975. This flowing, abstract short film is a wonder to behold, a work of art. Like many other computer graphics pioneers, this film suggests roots in psychedelics and spiritual quests as much as engineering and mathematics. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2007.

Roller derby is the bond between individuals of every strain; the film-makers capture both on-track footage and elucidating moments before and after bouts.

Mixing narrative and documentary, the film retells a 16 year old girl's experience of a date rape.

Film director Hitchcock discusses his life and career in long talks with Pia Lindstrom (newscaster and daughter of Hitchcock star Ingrid Berman) and with film historian William Everson. Excerpts from several films illustrate these interviews. Discussion topics include: what is fear?, method acting vs. film acting, the difference between the usual "Who Done It" mystery and what he considers to be real suspense. His choice of leading ladies and why (Bergman, Baxter, Kelly, Marie Saint, Leigh, etc.).

Based on Joni Eareckson's autobiography. She becomes paralyzed after breaking her neck in a swimming accident at age 17. Trying to cope with her new life, she learns to paint using her mouth.

A documentary about Star Trek: The Original Series and its fanbase narrated by Bob Wilkins, featuring interviews with cast members and important early fans.

Two undercover cops find their avocation -- a musical act -- helpful in tapping informants on the Las Vegas Strip regarding the alleged kidnapping of a top entertainer in this pilot for a series that never materialized.

Young New York City activists, led by street singer Freemont Zappata and his girl friend, Marian, hijack broadcasting equipment that enables them to interrupt network television. Delivering their own message on the air, the group promotes peace and ecological awareness while decrying war and consumerism. After one group member divulges their location to authorities, federal agents arrest Freemont, send him to trial and convict him. The group subsequently frees Freemont from a detention center, then continues their broadcasts, while Freemont rides his horse alone along a bridle path.

Clouds roll by in a static haze.

A pilot episode intended to be produced for TV screening, this is the third film in the 'Other Realms' series. The 'Other Realms' episodes are tales of strange happenings where the bizarre becomes commonplace, melding atmospheric soundtracks, a mix of live-action and stop-motion animation, and sophisticated editing techniques. Filmmaker and animator Jon Coley was just 17 years of age when he directed, edited, animated, and starred in this production.

Casting her devious filth hex on pig farmers, house painters, and football-playing children, The Dirt Witch delights in making everyone as unclean as herself, until one day a young girl takes pity on her and instructs the soiled sorceress in the ways of hygiene. Produced by the Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corporation as part of their “Joy of Growing” series of educational shorts for elementary grade children.

Rattfink helps the Indians defeat the fort guarded by Roland, but the Indians goof up. Roland managed to get rid of their leader, Rattfink and signed the peace treaty. The Indians invite Roland for peace pipe, and one of the Indians accidentally filled the pipe with gun powder.

A man who has lost his beloved pet dog enlists the help of a young drifter in finding the animal. This leads to a series of misadventures, including a confrontation with a hulking dog-pound worker and a stint providing the entertainment at a millionaire's party.

Approaching middle-age and stuck in an unfulfilled marriage, a suburban British housewife allows herself a sexual fling with a brash young hunk she meets on a commuter train.

A family of vampires takes over an estate known as Carfax Abbey. As inbreeding decays the family line, new blood is needed to keep the family going, so they set out to find new sources.

A story of adventure, as three young campers struggle for survival. A story of discovery, as they face truths about their Christian faith. A story of inspiration as they learn how God sees them.

Wildman Steve plays a bum who agrees to allow an experimental drug to be administered to him. What he doesn't realize is that the doctor who's doing the experiment is a criminal, trying to create an unstoppable thief that's immune to bullets. Steve gains all the powers that Superman has, and after getting his revenge against all those who harassed him on the street, discovers the truth about the doctor's plans for him.

A story about Skid Row in Los Angeles that examines the lives of the men who live and die on 5th Street.

A tribute concert honoring the life of legendary folksinger Phil Ochs recorded at the Madison Square Garden's Felt Forum in 1976.

Pechudo is a magnificent jet-black stallion who epitomizes the adjective, "freedom." Running wild in Mexico, Pechudo and his running mates are constantly being sought out and captured by ranchers. Time and again, however, Pechudo would elude capture, then return and seek out his fellow mustangs and free them, and the adventure would repeat itself.

Greek short based on a poem by Giorgos Seferis.

Scenes Seen with Allen Jones explores the motive of the artist's famed graphic works,, paintings and sculptures. The erotic overtones of Jones's work are both controversial and exciting, drawing the public's attention towards a new sector of the avant-garde. Jones is introduced in his London studio, where he is developing an idea for a new painting as he meticulously studies his model. During his days as a top member of the Pop Art movement in Britain, Jones evolved a singular genre of imagery: totemic forms of torso-less legs, sheathed in vinyl, which have become his artistic "signature."

Jim Henson and Rowlf the Dog explain the art and history of puppetry, and let the viewer in on some of the secrets in performing his own act, the Muppets.

Elderly novelist asks disliked guest to be literary editor.

An extraterrestrial virus breaches the Earth's atmosphere, creating a giant bug-eyed monster which a team of physicists must destroy at any cost.

In this documentary, the wilds of Baja California, Mexico, Oregon, British Columbia and Alaska are shown as big gamer hunter Arthur R. Dubs tracks horned sheep and a polar bear in the North American wilderness, along the way seeing wild stallions, frolicking bear cubs, herds of elk and mule deer.

A young bachelor using a dating service picks a woman whose information card read "Anything goes." When he takes her out and finds out that she didn't live up to her description, he sues her for breach of contract.

Tired of being poor, Rattfink marries a widow for her money. But the situation may be more than he can handle, when he has to put up with her bossiness and the non-stop chatter of her gargantuan son.

A TV reporter whose career was ruined by his drinking gets another chance when he is hired by a TV news program.

Pilot for a proposed television anthology series with stories about love, either dramatic or comedic. In this pilot, there were three different segments: in the first, a computer falls in love with its programmer; in the second, a World War II vet falls in love with a murderer; in the third, a woman falls in love with a penniless painter.

A private investigator is confronted by the police AND the mob about the killing of a former private-eye associate.

A scientist who is very well known for his very exaggerated inventions among the villagers created a plane one day and brings along his very pregnant wife to follow along. It was pretty much bad timing when his wife gave birth to a child and adding more to their unfortunate state the plane malfunctioned and landed in the woods. The child surprisingly survived who was in the end being brought up by goats.

Shot over the course of an entire year, the film is a 50-minute structural journey centered on the Twin Peaks hills in San Francisco. Wong mounted a 16mm camera inside his van and repeatedly drove the "infinity loop" road that winds around the peaks at a steady 15 miles per hour.

The film's soundtrack is an original musical composition produced with synthetic sound - through photographing unusual geometric shapes and running them through an optical sound head. The images are an artistic rendering of this soundtrack.

Filming Othello is a 1978 documentary film directed by and starring Orson Welles about the making of his award-winning 1952 production Othello. The film, which was produced for West German television, was the last completed feature film directed by Welles.

A very small girl, after several misadventures with forest creatures, finds the love of a flower prince.

Battalion Commander of the Third Wiltshire Light Infantry is Colonel Keyser. On recent evidence, he is either a psychopathic personality or something very close to it. He could turn out to be the best battalion commander in the division. As the Allies prepare for invasion in 1944, will his reputed psychopathic personality be a good or bad thing, when leading his men into D-Day?

Princeton: A Search for Answers is a 1973 American short documentary film, directed by Julian Krainin and DeWitt Sage, and produced for the Princeton University Undergraduate Admissions Office as a recruiting film. In 1974, it won the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) at the 46th Academy Awards.

This promotional short film for "Soylent Green" (1973) begins by showing clips of films that depicted what the future might be like beyond Earth. The narrator then discusses the origin of the idea depicted in "Soylent Green." Director Richard Fleischer and star Charlton Heston discuss how an upcoming crowd scene will be filmed. Then we see what happens when the crowd riots because there is not enough food available to be distributed to everyone. "Soylent Green" was Edward G. Robinson's 101st (and, as it turned out, his last) feature film. During a break in filming, the cast and crew hold a ceremony celebrating the first film of his "second hundred," and Robinson makes appreciative remarks to the crowd. Studio head Jack L. Warner and friend George Burns are among those in attendance.

Humorous adventures and dangerous escapades of young Mike Adams and his mischievous friends. Together, they learn when character counts. This delightful, Tom Sawyer-like story presents the adventures of Mike Adams and his mischievous friends. Their efforts to keep the neighborhood tomboy out of their secret “boys only” club lead to a series of humurous and harrowing escapades. Heartwarming entertainment that will bring back memories for parents as they watch it with their children, HAPPINESS IS…illustrates that faith, truthfulness and honesty are possible in today’s world.

Charlie's doctor claims that Charlie is nervous, and suggests that he gets a pet fish to calm him down.

After the owner of a failing drive-in restaurant sells his establishment, two waitresses and a French chef try to turn it around.