Cinematic Era: 1968 Vintage

Mat works at a turtle slaughterhouse and discovers a tiny book of magical spells that he believes will transform his life. He quits the job and begins a journey of exploring the world of magic with the book. All his plans go awry when a group of pirates forcibly recruits him as a cook and he is made to take part in robbing a village and kidnapping the village chief and his daughter, Mariam. Mat escapes with Mariam and teams up with a band of colourful villagers to rescue the village chief from the pirates’ hideout.

How the graduate student Gudrun Ensslin became a radical and violent woman. After the department store fire in Frankfurt, November 1968, in which Gudrun Ensslin and Andreas Baader was involved the violence and their actions escalated. Soon they were joined by Ulrike Meinhof, Together the three created the urban guerrilla of West Germany, the Baader-Meinhof Gang a.k.a. die RAF - die Rote Armee Fraktion. An episode out of Panorama, NDR.

This film introduces the Fogo Island/Newfoundland Project series which is an experiment in how film can be a catalyst for social change by serving as a direct means of communication. It gives some basic facts about Fogo Island, Newfoundland, and explains why it was chosen for the film project.

The festivities of Mior Sebatang comes to a halt when a group of cruel bandits led by the powerful Megat Hitam, robs and wipes out the village in a massacre. They take the village head’s daughter, Melor as hostage. The royal palace receives news of the tragedy and Prince Kelana defiantly leaves the palace with his aide to rescue his kidnapped fiancée. Hoping to protect her son, the queen devises a secret plan enlisting the help of her confidante Murai, who possesses mystical powers, to pursue and destroy the bandits ahead of Kelana. With the support of fellow warrior Kancil (played by Mat Sentol), Murai infiltrates the bandits’ hideout. Meanwhile, in his journey to gather firepower, Kelana and his aide discovers the world of other skilled pugilists and vigilantes.

At the very end of the WW2, two Croatian Home Guard soldiers run home in German uniforms. They managed to save their lives and spent most of their time stealing chickens and eggs for their superior officer. Their uncertain journey ends with the last task: to escort the arrested partisan agent.

The story of the television film takes place in the picturesque scenery of the Slovak mountains, amidst beautiful nature. It is a balladic story about the relationship of two young people, about human dreams, desires, and passions.

A man pretends to be married to his ex-wife for the sake of his mother’s sanity. But when he finds love with his secretary, and later a 17-year-old, he ends up lost in confusion.

"Povratak na rodno drvo" is a Yugoslav short film from 1968. It was directed by Vlatko Gilić and the screenplay was written by Matija Bećković.

A carpenter is asked by his boss to serve as a guide for the new secretary, a young woman just arrived in Montreal from France. Both of their lives change as he shows her around the city.

Filmed in 1968, "Little Pioneers" examines the gap between socialist rhetoric and social reality by focusing on children excluded from state protection. Through close, unembellished observation, Želimir Žilnik documents young people living in slum conditions and surviving through informal and illegal means, using the film’s ironic title to underscore the contrast between official ideology and everyday life.

Chilly and Maxie escape from the zoo and are hitchhiking on the highway.

A film about the former village of Crasna Putnei, located near Vicovu de Sus, Suceava County. The figuration was made by the villagers from Crasna, with the beautiful traditional Romanian costumes from Bucovina.

The goddess Tep Sodachan falls in love with the peasant Vesna. Their love is threatened by a landlord and later, the king of the sky.

Satirical pictures dedicated to excessive passion for extravagant fashion.

Roy Andersson's short movies focus on working class and youth daily life, capturing and portraying a small slice of his characters' day.

Whizz and Peewee would like to join the club, but first they must spend an hour in a haunted house.

A day in the life of the Manchester Evening News.

All the small islands, even those measuring just a few square meters, that make up the Grado lagoon (province of Gorizia) are inhabited by fishermen. There is one hut per island, rarely two. Fishing is carried out using the ebb and flow of the tide, which exposes and floods vast areas of muddy shallows.

A New York theatrical agent pimps out the actresses he represents, with tragic results.

Presents Gordon Parks' photo-essay "A Harlem Family", framed by a filmed segment featuring Parks and the Fontanelle family and narrated by Parks.

A gangster pastiche. The movie was named after the Dodge Dart model -68, used in the hot car chases.

Short documentary showing the making of the Don't Rain On My Parade sequence from the film Funny Girl

Written and performed in 1968, Night and Fog is, in Kiš’s words, “a set of lyrical variations on the theme of time and memory”. After 20 years, Andreas Sam returns to a Hungarian village where he spent the war years. Each of the three characters-Andy, Mrs & Mr.Rigo – sees the past in their own way.

A look at Britain's promising railway preservation scene, featuring a trip with the locomotive Flying Scotsman on one of its last mainline runs.

An investigator looks into the illegal activities of the alleged psychiatrist Dr. Silo.

A boy with supernatural powers is recruited to help Prince Norman in fighting against space invaders from the Planet Guerdan.

Based on Nikolai Gogol's novel.

A subject struggles to break free from a cord restraint

Filmed at the October 1968 meeting in Hawaii of several hundred police chiefs of the International Association of Chiefs of Police as they watch demonstrations of gruesome anti-riot weapons, sing patriotic songs, and defend their policies in front of the camera. Although filmed with the permission of the chiefs, the view is unsympathetic, sometimes funny, and more often frightening.

Tsuchimoto made this travelogue film in 1967, documenting a five-month journey from the port city of Nakhodka on the coast of the Sea of Japan, to Moscow on the 50th anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Beautifully shot in colour, Tsuchimoto moves the camera from celebrations and official parades to the expressions of ordinary daily life, portraying the experiences of young people in Siberia. This commissioned film was televised, but this theatrical version was never released, and it is rarely shown.

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Episode of Series “Earth science series”. Provides a series of investigations which will lead to an understanding of the behaviour of rock. Shows how a rapid rate of deformation in rock produces fracturing while a slow rate produces flow. Suitable for middle and upper secondary levels.

Vali losts her sister and the journey begins.

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

On the trail of the partisan to the liberator from the first days of the liberation of Yugoslavia to the meeting with the generation of '68.

Riot control refers to the measures used by police, military, or other security forces to control, disperse, and arrest civilians who are involved in a riot, demonstration, or protest.

Visual commentary on the way in which the prophetic poems of William Blake are reflected in modern London and the political upheavals of 1968.

This documentary is a zany portrait of the Grey Cup fever that hits the city of Ottawa, Ontario, during Grey Cup week. The film is also about the football game, where the Hamilton Tiger Cats faced the Saskatchewan Roughriders, and it is about Ti-Cats fans and their famous "Oskee Wee Wee", the magical chant with which they exhort their team to victory.

The story is about a guy that enlists in the army and brings a friend - the frog "Krek". This is not liked by the sergeant, who does everything in his power to get rid of it...

Renowned writer Xi Xi served as editor for the ninth issue of Theater Quarterly. Having an elder brother who worked at a television news station, she had access to a large amount of discarded tape. Piecing these images and sounds of celebrities and even the Pope together, this collage work serves as a reworked document of the era.

In Razor Blades, Paul SHARITS consciously challenges our eyes, ears and minds to withstand a barrage of high powered and often contradictory stimuli. In a careful juxtaposition and fusion of these elements on different parts of our being, usually occurring simultaneously, we feel at times hypnotised and re-educated by some potent and mysterious force.

The human eye, the human form, the human face: these are the three central images of this avant-garde collage and kaleidoscope of shifting and fractured images, changing colors, and pulsing rhythms. Near the end, a tree appears briefly, and birds fly - first white, then red and blue. Celtic knots morph from one to another. The images become Rorschach tests although the mood, driven by the rapid changing images and the soundtrack, remains frantic.

One night, the phone rings at the home of the Takiguchi family. The daughter Reiko hands the receiver to her father, who then instantly goes up in flames and is burned to death! Subsequently, another incident of apparently spontaneous human combustion occurs right before Reiko’s eyes. Made for "Operation: Mystery".

Pinku from 1968.

A mother and her daughter both have a relationship with the same man.

This observational documentary about carnation pickers at one of Split plantations does not have a single line of dialoguel not a single commentary or any kind of intervention in life apart from exclusion of colour belonging to it after the first introductory close-ups of the flower itself.

The Tiffany Group was formed to raise money for Guide Dogs for the Blind Association of NSW, holding dog shows, drag shows, balls, and other events. Initially these events supported wider community groups, but in later years provided increasing support to the LGBTIQ+ community (or gay and lesbian community as it was termed in the 1980s), in particular HIV/AIDS support. In this clip we see a Tiffany Dog Show from 1968, held in a suburban park, it included a number of events, but was mostly an opportunity for socialising.

Lightning struck the hut of a Fulani shepherd near a village of settled fishermen, Ganghel, in Niger. A yenendi, a purification ceremony to obtain "water from the sky but not fire from the sky", is organized, with Sorko priests, ritual musicians and dancers, and the faithful from Niamey. The musicians call on Dongo, god of storms, and his brother Kirey, god of lightning. To the rhythm of the orchestra, a man goes into a trance, becoming Dongo's horse and at the same time the riding genie. Then a woman is possessed by Kirey. When the riding gods have mastered their horses, the gods visit the men. Dongo purifies the lightning-struck land and the oldest fisherman prepares the purification vessel, addressing Dongo.