The Beatles on the Rooftop
The Beatles, along with keyboardist Billy Preston, gave their last live performance on January 30th, 1969, on the roof of the Apple building, at 3 Savile Row, London, concert that…
My Name Is Oona
Experimental film with Gunvor Nelson’s daughter Oona.
Highways of Agony
An ultra-grim Highway Safety Films title, thanks to narration that’s even more dour than usual and a chilling musical score by Hungarian composer Zoltan Rozsnyai. This is not the TV…
The 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
Watch the Blackhorse squadron move their massive vehicles from the road into the trees.
Black Panthers
This riveting documentary, “Black Panthers – Huey!”, directed by French filmmaker Agnès Varda transports you to the pivotal Free Huey rally held on February 17th, 1968, at Oakland Auditorium in…
Oratorio for Prague
Filmmaker Jan Nemec and his crew risked their lives to create this historic documentary account of the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. The award-winning work is the only filmed record…
The Hour of the Furnaces
An impassioned three-part documentary of the liberation struggle waged throughout Latin America, using Argentina as a historical example of the imperialist exploitation of the continent. Part I: Neo-Colonialism and Violence…
The Other Side of Bonnie and Clyde
Quasi-documentay on Bonnie and Clyde… Larry Buchanan style!
Last Words
Early short by Werner Herzog shot while being on location in Greece shooting “Lebenszeichen”.
Psych-Burn
“’Psych-Burn’ was what musicians call a ‘contract-breaker’. ABC had given us some coin to make a few short films for a TV Pilot. “Love-In Tonite” was to be a psychedelic…
Parents
A parish youth group in a lower middle-class Chicago neighborhood discusses parental authority, what growing up means and the difficulties of communicating with their parents.
Arabian Coffee
‘Coffea arábiga’ was sponsored as a propaganda documentary to show how to sow coffee around Havana. In fact, Guillén Landrián made a film critical of Castro, exhibited but banned as…
The Anderson Platoon
A documentary feature by Pierre Schoendoerffer about the Vietnam War.
Desert People
Two Aboriginal families live like their ancestors have for centuries in this anthropological documentary. The gathering of food is the main focus as women harvest grass seeds to make a…
The Perfect Human
An elegant and humorous film—in the guise of a serious anthropological treatise—spotlights “The Perfect Human,” a model of the modern Dane created by our wishful thinking.
Railroad Man
The story of the railroad man in his role in keeping the trains moving on the rails.
The London Nobody Knows
Based on Geoffrey Fletcher’s book, this captivating documentary exposes the real London of the swinging sixties. Turning its back on familiar sights, the film explores the hidden details of a…
Old Shatterhand Came to See Us
A short experimental documentary about tourism and travel from the director of Pictures of the Old World.
Elf Jahre alt
This episode paints the picture of a fifth grade class in Golzow. What would the children and their teachers film, if they were a director? Both are excited and share…
Memento
A film about Jewish cemeteries in East Berlin, based on a screenplay by Günter Kunert, with text by Rabbi Martin Riesenburger. There are shots of gravestones and inscriptions – deported,…
The Office
The insane government bureaucracy at a state pension window.
A Modern Coed
Eric Rohmer directs this short documentary that narrates the presence of women in French universities as of the time of its release — 1966. During the film’s short run, the…
Giuseppi Logan
Some of the problems facing Giuseppi are juxtaposed with his music, Satan’s Dance. The pictures depict the opposite view which is fortuitously any sunny day in the park with his…
Leonora Carrington o el sortilegio irónico
Images of Leonard Baskin
A visit into the home and studio of the artist-poet Leonard Baskin, describing the life and mind of the man.
Four Days In November
1964 American documentary film about the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Seven Up!
A group of British children aged 7 from widely ranging backgrounds are interviewed about a range of subjects. Director Michael Apted plans to re-interview them at 7 year interviews to…
Audition/Talent Competition
Two closely related episodes. Youths make problems for two local orchestras about to compete nationally, and in a talent competition a young girl gets stage fright, while another lies to…
Mondo Inferno
“Mondo Inferno”- This shockumentary takes us on visits to a restaurant that serves up delicious dog meat dishes, mud-wrestling clubs, a chastity belt store. We get to see bizarre funeral…
Ten Seconds that Shook the World
This film is a factual and chronological account of the events preceding the atomic bombing of Hiroshima during World War II and the significant effect of the atomic bomb on…
Hollywood Without Make-Up
A collection of behind the scenes and home movies from the golden age of Hollywood.
Europe in the Raw
Russ Meyer’s documentary about the underground vice world of Europe.
The Human Dutch
Bert Haanstra paints a portrait of The Netherlands and the Dutch, in his own unparalleled manner. Partly with the aid of a hidden camera he observes people in the most…
Cheer Up, Virginijus!
The film about the city of Naujoji Akmenė is regarded as one of the first Lithuanian attempts to liberate itself from the stereotypes of the Soviet documentary. Even though the…
Return of the General
Some awesome footage of the Famous General 4-4-0 locomotive running in 1962.
Return of the General
Some awesome footage of the Famous General 4-4-0 locomotive running in 1962.
Research Project X-15
The X-15 was the last in a line of manned rocket-powered research airplanes built during the 1950s to explore ever-faster and higher flight regimes. Nineteen years before Space Shuttle, the…
Life of Adolf Hitler
Carefully chronicling in great detail the early years of Hitler’s political life until his fall as the leader of Germany, this archive-footage documentary offers a sharply critical insight into the…
The Human Pyramid
Jean Rouch gives a group of black and white teenagers a “what if” question: what if they socialised with each other? The teenagers then improvise their own characters and situations.