Cinematic Era: 1970 Vintage

Documentary focusing on socialism and East German industry and labour, including a script of Lenin's most famous writings and speeches.

During the Battle of Stalingrad, five German soldiers and officers are taken prisoner of war by the Soviets. In an interview, they talk about the fear of retribution, the question of guilt and the gradual shattering of an enemy image. The process of their rethinking is also due to their encounter with the "National Committee Free Germany". Pilot officer Charisius got into conversation with the Soviet writer Fedin in the camp. Decades later, Charisius remembers it. Pictures of the destroyed Stalingrad and scenes of the men in their present-day environment complement the conversation.

An animation submitted for an Academy Award nomination.

10 seconds long anti-heroin PSA that contains a jumpscare.

Inés receives notice of a spot to be filled urgently at a company. She leaves immediately, but the subway breaks down and she has to continue her journey on foot through the dark tunnel. Without realizing it, she enters into an adventure of extraordinary proportions.

This film is a portrait film of Vladimir Ashkenazy directed by Christopher Nupen. It includes sequences with Itzhak Perlman, Daniel Barenboim, Edo de Waart and the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. There is music by Beethoven, Chopin, César Franck and Stravinsky. It is also a closely observed account of one of the most demanding and rewarding of all professions. In 1972, after seeing it, Ingmar Bergman said it was the best documentary he had seen about a living musician.

This playful mix of documentary and fiction provides a vibrant record of the Second University Arts Festival held at the University of Melbourne in May 1969, while also providing a fascinating time capsule of late 1960s Bohemian Carlton.

With Nargis Banu, Padma Chavan, Jaishankar Danve, Majnalkar.

An elder brother who adores his beloved younger sister makes numerous sacrifices for her and struggles a lot in his life to make sure she does well in her.

Movie starring Jayshree Gadkar, Nayantara, Arun Sarnaik and directed by Raja Thakur.

In February 1969 activists and students gather on the Underground Square between East and West exit of Shinjuku Station. They declare the place a greek 'agora', a place where people connect and debate about politics. When they collide with anti-protesters the police closes the gathering place down.

In his so-called one-minute films, he raises the most important questions of today's human life in a caricature-like manner, but with deep humanity.

He and she meet by chance on the Parisian metro. They are, were, or will be – or not – together in this world without time but with infinite space of metropoems.

Young women share their experiences after the experiment

Thai horror film.

A ballet abstraction shaped as a combination of cartoon and trick film, where the dancers move behind, in front of and between the animated. The eternal pair experiences dangers and joys and finally disappears as it arose. (DFI)

Another short educational film about equations.

A left and a right arm come together in the center of the image, and both start writing, in Italian, the date on a wall: "oggi è venerdì ventisette marzo millenovecentosettanta" (today is Friday the nineteenth of March nineteen seventy). The left is the mirror image of the right.

The automatic gestures of life in a strangely empty industrial suburb.Machina is a 16 mm experimental film.

"I was just walking down the street (Mercer and West 3rd in New York, New York) when I saw this guy throwing films out the window. Lots of excellent footage I tell you! The part with the dying babies is un-effin-believable!" -LT

The director films a woman being tortured.

A girl is taking pictures on the notes of "1970" by The Stooges, but it’s only in the end that we’re allowed to see the subject of her photos.

Profile of the controversial 'economic overlord' of northern England.

"The Myth of the Heavenly Road Pilgrimage," is about a young man and woman, was filmed on location at Mt. Mihara on Izu Oshima. The music was composed by members of the "Taj Mahal Traveling Troupe. In 1971, he travelled to India, where there were almost no Japanese travellers at that time, and travelled through India and Nepal.

El pinoy matador: Directed by Cesar Gallardo. With Dolphy, Pilar Pilapil, Panchito, Javier Arriaga.

Sparse chapters from a mysterious, lonely life are witnessed from a passing train.

Sandra takes her research on human sexuality to a different level when she decides to experience different kinds of sex - two threesomes - with two guys, and then - with two girls. Guess which one she liked the most!

NAKED SEXES pits four topless women and three g-string wearing muscle men literally giggling at each other for 8 minutes. There's no sexual interaction between the opposite sexes just a weird face-off of laughing bursts as the men flex everything from their butt cheeks to their pecs.

"The idea of a composite work, a puzzle and the ideal solution for clear minded lovers of parallel worlds that complement each other." (Robert Benayoun)

Experimental short by Gianfranco Brebbia.

Video by Dennis Oppenheim

This searing documentary from 1970 still resonates powerfully today. The film described how large banks discriminated against poor customers and spotlighted the connection between the banking industry and Washington. The doc also featured a hidden-camera scene in a loan office where a weeping woman’s house was seized over a handful of dollars.

More futuristic short than industrial process film, its shimmering steelscapes are cut between close ups of machinery and set to a cool, otherworldly, soundtrack from the cutting edge of modernism - with no dull commentary to spoil the vibe. Strangely absorbing and refreshingly abstract, it's an enticing vision of British modernity in concrete, glass and steel.

DREAMS OF G takes us into the surrealist dreamscapes and awakening visions of G. An experimental short film shot in New York and made with support from The Film-Makers' Coop.

This "gun" is loaded all right. And it ain’t shooting blanks.

The first of Robert Polidori's completed moving-image works – which was presented at the Jewish Museum in a Film-Makers’ Cinematheque program on May 27, 1970 – was 18 Traffic Light Changes/Durations (1970), a film that shows the clear influence of Michael Snow, as well as an affinity with the contemporaneous work of Ernie Gehr and other structuralist filmmakers.

A boy called the Pygmy escapes to the park after failures at school. There he meets two hooligans who persuade him to break into his car.

A passenger train on its daily route, a winter landscape can be seen through the window. Passengers are deep in their own thoughts and some of them have a conversation. Hidden lyricism of the gray everyday life and the constant flow of life.

Akkara Paha is a 1970 film Sri Lankan drama film directed by Dr. Lester James Peries, with the screen play dialogue and script by Dr. Tissa Abeysekara. The film stars Milton Jayawardena as Sena, a young man from a rural society who travels to the city to pursue a higher education.

Shows several jobs on the assembly line of Detroit's automobile factories; includes workers' comments on their feelings about the work.

A BAFTA award nominated animation showing what biophysics and biochemistry now perceive as the facts of life concerning evolution and the genetically determining factor of the DNA molecules.

(1970) color; 3 min.

The image of the Mongolian countryside, the struggle for freedom, and the changes in the minds of the people of the new social relations are reflected in the form of an epic. The main characters of the film are the well-known characters such as Erdene, his wife Dolgor, the rich Itgum, and Timur, a good glass man called "silicon", and the complex events of their lives. appears.

Tokelau is a New Zealand territory, spanning three small South Pacific atolls. In the 1960s the New Zealand Government expressed concern about overpopulation, and instigated the Tokelau Islands Resettlement Scheme. This National Film Unit documentary surveys Tokelau society and culture from a New Zealand perspective, and follows the journey of a group of Tokelauans who chose to migrate to Aotearoa (where they adapt to telephones and horses near Te Puke). It was one of three NFU documentaries directed by Derek Wright on Pacific Island subjects.

The Burning Ear shows the international scope of Sandoz's film production which wasn't limited to Europe but also included various forms of international coproduction, cooperation or – as in the case of The Burning Ear – projects created outside of Europe. Thus, the opportunity to make a film for Sandoz was given to Edd Dundas, American underground filmmaker, who created a psychological study of a young man whom a voice of a divine apparition or a demon drives to committing the radical act of assassination. The film was shot in Japan and fuses Japanese symbols with a universal portrayal of the harrowed inner world of the main protagonist. Dundas relates the complex subject matter mostly using atmospheric photography and strong sound design.

"Speech about cleanliness" according to its author. Two characters cramped in bathroom. Glamour trash. While Anne talks about her cats, and her mother, making up, Hans Christian tells while blowing into bathroom sink a scene film Boudu sauvé des eaux during which Boudu (Michel Simon) who has the mania to spit on the floor lenght of time in bookseller shop who saved the life of Boudu, is reprimanded by this one ; Hans Christian is recreating to his girl friend the dialogue between two characters' Jean Renoir film.

Yoga is a philosophy, ethics, and gymnastics for body and soul. The teachings of Indian yogis are becoming popular among scientists in many countries. The film explores the impact of yoga exercises on various human organs, which help to reveal the body's hidden reserves.

This classic BP archive film follows Malcolm Davis, a professional Motocross rider, as he travels to across Europe during the season and it's a great insight into the routine of a racer with long hours of travelling between rounds, machine prep, driver introductions and interviews and the main event to keep a rider busy!

On 26 Aug 1970, 10,000 women marched down New York's Fifth Avenue to mark the 50th anniversary of the passage of the 19th amendment granting women the right to vote. Shot before and during the march, Videofreex interview women sitting in cars alongside the route, protestors, counter protestors, and passersby.

Animation of Marcel B.'s signature

Lowell Bodger, 16mm, silent, black & white, date unknown.

"An ecology film which links together the issues of the survival of our environment with the issues of corporate irresponsibility and the devastating effects of the war, both in S. E. Asia and at home. In Vietnam we are destroying the countryside with our defoliation program. At home we dump wastes from the production of herbicides into the communities of blacks and the poor who live in the neighborhoods adjacent to the chemical companies that produce 2-4-5 T and 2-4 D components." –Barry Commoner

Describes proper selection of clothes, table manners, ordering in a restaurant, introductions, dating etiquette, and etiquette at a formal reception.

Animation about Merlin inventing a toothbrush and toothpaste to stop the decay affecting King Arthur's knights due to their consumption of sweet food.