A short experimental documentary about tourism and travel from the director of Pictures of the Old World.

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…

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 insane government bureaucracy at a state pension window.

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…

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…

A visit into the home and studio of the artist-poet Leonard Baskin, describing the life and mind of the man.

1964 American documentary film about the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

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…

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”- 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…

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…

A collection of behind the scenes and home movies from the golden age of Hollywood.

Russ Meyer’s documentary about the underground vice world of Europe.

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…

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…

Some awesome footage of the Famous General 4-4-0 locomotive running in 1962.

Some awesome footage of the Famous General 4-4-0 locomotive running in 1962.

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…

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…

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.

In his experimental short film “Brutalität in Stein” (Brutality in Stone), Alexander Kluge demonstrates how Nazi architecture used dimensions of inhuman and super-human scale to bolster the regime’s politics of…

Part of BFI collection “The Queen on Tour.”

A triumph of film art, creating on the screen a vast, awe-inspiring picture of the universe as it would appear to a voyager through space, this film was among the…

A short documentary about a trailer weighing over 300 tons that carries material for the construction of a dam toward Tokyo.

Divided into four episodes Roberto Rosellini’s performs a ritual trip with India covering culture, beautiful architecture and also the State of India society, create an impression and a feeling of…

This Colin Low documentary from 1959 depicts Venice in all its splendor. In the tradition of Venetian painter Canaletto, the film captures the great Italian city’s elusive beauty and fabled…

A fabulous new adventure in exciting entertainment.

1950’s television documentary special that includes interviews with Hitler’s sister Paula Wolf and a fellow prisoner who was incarcerated with Hitler, actual footage shot by the Nazi’s and Eva Braun’s…

A young woman tries to make love to a park statue, but despite her passionate efforts, the monument remains cold and heartless. Don’t Believe in Monuments is an early short,…

This educational film is an introduction to the ergot fungus, including lifecycle, cultivation, medicinal uses, and toxic effects. The film also summarises methods for the chemical extraction of ergoline compounds.

The Flute and the Arrow (Swedish: En Djungelsaga) is a 1957 Swedish drama film directed by Arne Sucksdorff. It was entered into the 1958 Cannes Film Festival.

Near the region of Angkor Watt, a group of children capture a baby elephant and are just growing attached to it when it is sold to a travelling safari. Pursuing…

The life and loves of Music hall singer Vesta Tilley, who married into the nobility

Rendez-Vous a Melbourne is the official filmed record of the 1956 Olympic Games in Australia. At the time of its release, there was much controversy in the documentary-filmmaking world over…

This RKO-Pathe short film produced with the assistance of the United States Air Force is about the construction of the DEW Line, the Distant Early Warming System, a string of…

A journalist in Rotterdam has to show the city to an important foreign relation. He shows her the Rotterdam port.

A short film that captures the arrival of spring in the Kashmir valley.