The Hellstrom Chronicle
A scientist explains how the savagery and efficiency of the insect world could result in their taking over the world.
Red, White and Blue
A documentary about the hearings of President Nixon’s Commission on Obscenity, featuring adult-film producer David F. Friedman (one of the producers of this film) testifying before Congress, and involved in…
Quick Billy
A psychedelic montage of home movie footage gives way to a silent western story in this film by Bay Area avant-garde filmmaker Bruce Baillie.
The Day We Landed on the Most Perfect Planet in the Universe
A documentary taking its cues from children’s imaginative flights of fancy.
Plumb-Loco
Aspects of the precision and drama of locomotive manufacture, composed to form a lively pattern in picture and sound.
Encounter on Urban Environment
This feature documentary takes a look at how the Halifax/Dartmouth community in Nova Scotia was stimulated by a week-long session held by a panel of specialists from different fields who…
Huey P. Newton: Prelude to Revolution
Hear the inside story of Huey Newton and the Black Panthers with this documentary that examines their efforts to promote the rights of African Americans as well as the organization’s…
7 Plus Seven
After a 7 year wait, director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born children from Seven Up! The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have occurred in…
Spiral Jetty
This film, made by the artist, Robert Smithson, with the assistance of Virgina Dwan, Dwan Gallery & Douglas Christmas, Director, Ace Gallery, (the aforementioned Dwan & Christmas also assisted Smithson…
Sexual Freedom in Denmark
Starting as a documentary on the sexually liberated culture of late-Sixties Denmark, Sexual Freedom in Denmark winds up incorporating major elements of the marriage manual form and even manages to…
Satanis: The Devil’s Mass
The film is a study of Anton Szandor LaVey, leader of a cult of devil worshipers in San Francisco. He and his Church of Satan are shown performing a black…
White Angel… Black Angel
Witness devilish rituals from around the globe. Satanism! Voodoo! Majicks Black and White! Shocking Truths, etc.!
Vietnam: The Quiet Mutiny
In this, the first of his 58 documentary films, John Pilger combines candid interviews and amazing frontline footage of Vietnam to portray a growing rift between the US military bureaucrats…
During and After the Air Raid
The precautions to be taken during and after an air-raid by the people, are shown in this film.
At Your Fingertips: Cylinders
Instructive short on using cylinders to construct all manner of fun objects.
The Nashville Sound
Interviews and performances with Nashville celebrities and hopefuls from the late 1960’s era of the Nashville music scene. Featured performers include Porter Waggoner, Tex Ritter, Dolly Parton, Roy Acuff, Lester…
Hiroshima: A Document of the Atomic Bombing
A documentary about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945.
Teleologic Telecast from Spaceship Earth: On Board with Buckminster Fuller
Mick Glasheen, an architect and pioneer of early cinema and experimental film, created work that was heavily influenced by media theorists. His video Teleologic Telecast from Spaceship Earth: On Board…
The Language of Persuasion
Short documentary about the ideology of publicity and mass medias.
Red Arrows
The British Royal Airforce’s Red Arrows show off their skills.
Silver City Revisited
A series of street views filmed in Munich throughout 1968.
In the Year of the Pig
Both sober and sobering, producer-director Emile de Antonio’s In the Year of the Pig is a powerful and, no doubt for many, controversial documentary about the Vietnam War.
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…