Cinematic Era: 1970 Vintage

A story about two young singers who fell in love when they both auditioned in a singing contest.

A swarm of slaves in ancient Egypt moves massive boulders to erect a statue of Re, the god of the sun. Erecting impressive structures required knowledge and exact measurements. However, the statue's massive hand falls down and crushes the builders. The statue has been awe-inspiring for many centuries. Meditations on the religious nature of man.

A short documentary profiling male impersonator Hetty King, a star of the Edwardian music hall still performing in her 87th year. Accompanied by her sister and dresser Olive, she reminisces about her career, applies her makeup, and performs at the Royal Hippodrome, Eastbourne.

The Bongo Pest Control Agency gets a call for an ant problem, so the Aardvark intercedes to take care of the call himself.

Portraying the four seasons of the nature in the famous Danish garden Dyrehaven.

John Bailey carelessly ignite a fire in the forest but with his imagination and a little help from a new friend, he is able to put the blaze and win back the favours of the forest inhabitants.

Young woman joins to the party by the swimming pool.

Two young hitch-hikers on a spree of revenge.

Michael Palin guides us on suicide in this humorous public information film on motorway safety.

Shot without sound, this is little more than a series of soft-core vignettes strung together via narration. Not a highlight in the careers of NYC sexploitation filmmakers Michael and Roberta Findlay.

Glenn Gould tells the tale of a student's winter journey from Toronto to distant Winnipeg with images and music reflecting the majesty of the North. Based on Gould's radio documentary of the same name.

Albert is a neurotic photoreporter constantly hearing voices in his head reminding him some childhood thraumas; he has also nightmares about his Vietnam experience. Myra is a hippie girl: she seems happy and free, but her memory goes often to her mother who died in Auschwitz. With these premises a love story between them will surely become a drama...

Luigi and Bepina, the stars of TV show "Our Little Town", pay visit to Zagreb.

Slobodan Šijan captures his own self-portrait with a camera, and then "glues" it to shots of a cemetery with a double exposure.

“A montage of still and moving images, mixing and alternating black people and white people, fantasy and reality, a presidential suite and a mother’s kitchen: a sensitive, poetic evocation in the manner of the film-maker’s Remembrance. Brilliantly colored and nostalgic, it comprises a magical transformation of painterly collage and still photographic sensibility into filmic time and space.” - Charles Boultenhouse

The adventures of a little ship who has a lot of friends.

About an ordinary collective farm worker, the Moldovan George Kruchanu. He is no longer alive, but he is remembered in the village. From the sharp, vivid character sketches of his fellow villagers, a picture of a rural truth-seeker emerges — a unique and complex man with a sharp, untamed character and a big heart.

Selma works in a factory and looks after her bedfast mother. She is getting ready to marry Dogan the attorney, son of a rich family. Dogan's father is against the marriage, so he asks Despina the brothel keeper, to prepare a trap for Selma. Dogan believes in their plot and leaves Selma, he gets engaged to his cousin. Selma is pregnant, she starts singing in a bar. Haydar reveals her all the truth. Selma kills him as a self-defense as Haydar wants to molest her. Selma gets arrested, however Despina confesses the truth in the court and Selma, Dogan as well as their child get together.

Five young men are planning a crime of forcing a plane down to rob the passengers.

A highly qualified worker, exercising his trade as an artist, sees his family and professional life turned upside down by the installation of a robot machine in his workshop.

The film takes place in an Indian village at the end of the 19th century. Colonial reality, the arbitrariness of the authorities, the slaughter of peasants ...

This light comedy with grotesque elements tells the story of M, the young and beautiful model mother, who seeks happiness and a father for her precocious, but inventive daughter, Tündike.

A young girl sews her own wedding dress and gets married alone.

A film, first broadcast in 1970, that celebrates the life and work of author Virginia Woolf through the memories of her friends and relations.

The problems faced by a pensioner living on a low income in Finland in the late 1960s.

Marzuki has a relationship with Fatimah, but they do not get her parents’ approval because he is unemployed. He goes to the city to find a job, but then has an affair with Leila, an older woman. Because Leila causes his break-up with Fatimah, Marzuki turns to yet another older woman. But then he comes back to Leila’s arms. He gets a message from his mother that Fatimah is seriously ill. He goes back home and leaves Leila alone.

Television adaptation of Chekhov's story about the spoiled widow Madame Ranevskaya.

Bulgarian stop motion animation that follows the adventures of six penguins.

In a village on the edge of the Sahara, Rima, a 19-year-old orphan, dreams of learning, of discovering, of living free while the men of the salt mine go on strike. The authorities react by sending the army, Rima decides to help the strikers by trapping the soldiers. Co-produced with the Office des Actualités Algériens and shot in the region of Téhouda, 50 kilometers from Biskra, this Franco-Algerian film is fully part of the cinematographic heritage of both shores of the Mediterranean. Bertuccelli adopts the technique of cinema verite, with non-professional actors from the village itself, giving the film a striking documentary texture and a rare force of authenticity. Carried by the moving interpretation of Leila Shenna in the role of Rima, the actor Krikèche and lulled by the music of Taos Amrouche, the film questions female emancipation, social resistance and the relationship with the territory.

The action takes place in the pre-revolutionary years and in the first days after the October Revolution. The main character, a female student, becomes an ally of a Bolshevik, who later dies on the front lines of the Civil War.

Blue Movie was made for the international Dome Show where it was projected down onto the muslin surface of David Rimmer's geodesic dome. The audience lay on the floor looking up at it, the inside of each eye finishing the globe. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

The Aardvark shiveringly pursues the Ant after a snowfall has covered their habitat.

The determination of a rural doctor to discover the virus that carries the stubble disease.

The chekist Andrei Kedrin had documents in his hands indicating that the British were preparing an invasion of Soviet Turkestan. A small group of Chekists is sent to the Pamirs, led by Kudrin, to intercept an English caravan with weapons. Kedrin knows the area well, has lived in Khojent for several years, and is familiar with local customs.

Sudhindran Nair drives out his wife Sarala thinking that she is having an illicit affair. Months later he finds out that she is innocent and goes to bring her back.

From the euphoric first to the solemn sixth, the Brandenburg Concertos features some of Bach's finest and most popular orchestral music. Münchener Bach-Orchester ; Karl Richter, conductor and harpsichord. Recorded Apr. 1-10, 1970, Schloss Schleissheim No. 1 in F major, BWV 1046 -- No. 2 in F major, BWV 1047 -- No. 3 in G major, BWV 1048 -- No. 4 in G major, BWV 1049 -- No. 5 in D major, BWV 1050 -- No. 6 in B flat major, BWV 1051. Apr. 1-10, 1970. Orchestra: Münchener Bach-Orchester - Conductor: Karl Richter - Violin: Otto Büchner - Trumpet: Pierre Thibaud - Recorder: Hans-Martin Linde - Recorder: Günter Höller - Oboe: Manfred Clement - Flute: Paul Meisen - Viola: Herbert Blendinger - Viola: Ingo Sinnhoffer - Viola Da Gamba: Hans Dieter Kruse - Viola Da Gamba: Oswald Uhl - Cello: Peter Steiner - Double Bass: Franz Ortner

The story of Bálint Balassi, the poet and warrior. The scene is Hungary at the end of the 16th century. The soldiers stationed at the castles of Hungary's border defence-system spend their days with anti-Turkish raids, hunting and womanising.

An elderly lady has a trauma and simply must celebrate Christmas every day of the year, to the dismay of her family and relatives.

A poetic evocation of the history and character of Britian accompanied by spoken words based on the thoughts of many Britons, among them Sir Winston Churchill, John Keats, William Shakespeare, George Orwell and William Wordsworth.

Sakir, a humble dolmuş (minibus) driver, falls in love with a nightclub singer and embarks on a charming and adventurous journey into her world of high society. Along the way, he navigates comedic misadventures and romantic entanglements.

A woman is looking for a new man and settles for a bastard available for half the price.

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.

The film is based on the memoir 'In the name of the People' by Mitka Grybcheva, an activist in the anti-fascist resistance. The action takes place during the WWII and reveals the sharp clash between police power and resistance forces, headed by the Communist Party of Bulgaria. This is a time when, 'in the name of the people', the fighters are setting up underground combat groups, which punish with death their political opponents. The film's characters are specially trained for the purpose young people, members of one such combat group. Against the background of their risky task, in the execution of which they have to pay with their own lives, every facet of their characters stands out. Faced with death they reveal their intimate worlds, their unrealized youthful impulses that have been sacrificed in the name of commands, disparate from the Ten Christian Commandments.

Produced within the framework of the “Programmi Sperimentali” of Italian public television (structure of the RAI which allowed, in the 1970s, the production of films such as Lutte en Italie by the Dziga Vertov Group, Cancer by Glauber Rocha or Perché pagare per essere felici by Marco Ferreri), Cronaca di un gruppo tells the story of a group of young French revolutionaries who, between Paris and the Pyrenees region, are looking for ways to continue their political activities, through the theater experimental and counter-information, the day after May 68. Produced in collaboration with Gianni Toti, Didier Sandre and the Nanterre experimental theater group.