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- Interviews, TV clips and concert footage make up this comprehensive profile of The Who, Britain's premiere rock band.
- Richard Pryor's classic 1979 concert film has him discussing a wide range of topics, including race, the police and his favorite target -- himself.
- David Attenborough's groundbreaking study of the evolution of life on our planet.
- A secretly filmed account of sessions at Osho Rajneesh's ashram in Pune, India.
- The July 3rd, 1973 historic concert of the 'leper Messiah'. This was to be David Bowie's last concert with the Ziggy persona and the Spiders from Mars. A great medley of 'Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud'/'All The Young Dudes'/'Oh! You Pretty Things', a Lou Reed cover, and a Rolling Stones cover are but some of the highlights.
- Eisenstein shows us Mexico in this movie, its history and its culture. He believes, that Mexico can become a modern state.
- A documentary exploring the existence of UFOs and extra-terrestrial beings.
- A documentary that explores the legends, facts and folklore about the dreaded "Bermuda Triangle".
- Documentary covering Neil Young's October 22, 1978 concert performance at the Cow Palace.
- This documentary chronicles the ups and downs of a German family in the 1970s, but in an unorthodox manner. Footage from several years prior serves as a point of comparison to the family's current tumultuous state.
- Rock artist Frank Zappa hosts a concert in New York City. This movie contains tons of on-stage footage, off-stage footage, and animation.
- This examination of historical sources speculates on the accuracy of the biblical depiction of Jesus.
- One of several 1970s documentaries on the subject of unidentified flying objects (UFO), supporting the view that Earth is visited regularly by extra-terrestrial engines and aliens.
- Fårö Document 1979 is the ten-year followup to the first documentary Bergman made about his adopted home, Fårö, where he filmed many of his best works and lived until the end of his life.
- a peek into the life of motorcycle riders and racers of the era.The film covers speedway, desert racing, road racing, hill climb, grass track, drag racing, trials, sidecars, dirt track and motocross in the 1970s.
- "The Horror Show" was a history of horror movies hosted by Anthony Perkins, and featuring clips from scores of horror and sci-fi classics.
- This film investigates the factory worker's response to the insurrection, as well as Chile's socialist aspirations for the future. The camera captures the optimism in the industrial working class before Pinochet's US-backed coup d'état.
- In this documentary, the director follows the day-to-day activities of his mentally ill, middle-aged cousin Philly, over a three-year period.
- Isaac Stern's cultural tour of China is seen, with the master violinist performing and mentoring young Chinese musicians. He visits rehearsals of the Peking Opera, meeting with their musicians who use traditional Chinese instruments, and also visits a sports academy and other venues. The lingering effects of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), which opposed any western influences and oppressed those who introduced western approaches, are evident in the lack of skill development among many of the young musicians and the emphasis on technical skill rather than artistic interpretation.
- The Efrom Allen's Underground TV show from Sept. 29, 1978. Two weeks prior to Nancy Spungen death at the Chelsea Hotel, NYC.
- While the teacher is faced towards the blackboard, one of the students makes some funny noises. The teacher can't find the person who did that, so he decides to dismiss a group of students for one week or until one of them tells him who was the one that made the noises. In the first case after some days, one of the dismissed students tells teacher the truth. In the second case, no one tells teacher the truth and the period of punishment finishes. Kiarostami asks some of the most famous people in Iran about their views on these two cases.
- Depicts the daily life of gangs within the context of the South Bronx. Deals primarily with two African American and Puerto Rican gangs known as the "Savage Skulls" and the "Savage Nomads".
- A profile of Tasmanian-born combat cameraman Neil Davis, particularly his time in South Vietnam and Cambodia in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
- Personal diary-style documentary of German Gay rights activist Von Praunheim's sojourn in the U. S. Grace Jones is seen writhing her way through "I Need A Man" at a rally and is sharply criticized for doing so by a Lesbian feminist.
- Interviews with people involved with and leading the Madison, Wisconsin area resistance to the Vietnam war.
- Investigates a nation torn by naked corporate greed and the red-hot rift between the industrial masters and the rabble-rousing workers in the field and factory.
- About a couple of friends in Stockholms drug world.
- The show of Laboratory Theatre directed by Jerzy Grotowski was not only the final one, but also considered the artist's most radical theatrical work.
- Infamously macho author Norman Mailer shares a 1971 NYC panel with an audience of intellectual women and famous feminists receiving a lively critique revealing the sophisticated political, literary discourse of early Women's Lib movement.
- A musical journey through our solar system to the far reaches of the universe.
- Identical young twin girls in the USA have invented their own shared language. Scientists are wanting to study the language but social workers are trying to get the twins to leave their secret language world and enter the mainstream. This means forcing them to speak normal English and lose their secret language. The filmmaker's own questions about this process run across as text at the bottom of the screen, a first use of that technique in documentary.
- A documentary produced in 1979 to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Albert Einstein. Narrated and hosted by Peter Ustinov and written by Nigel Calder, the film takes place at the University of Texas' McDonald Observatory where a staff of renowned physicists take both Ustinov and the viewer through a hands-on experience of the exciting facets of Einstein's Theory of General Relativity.
- In 1979, under the presidency of the city mayor, the people of Pessac elect a virtuous and gracious maiden from amongst the residents, following a tradition that comes from times immemorial.
- A behind-the-scenes look at the nudist Miss Nude World Pageant.
- An examination of the prophecies and predictions of the 16th-century mystic Michel Nostradamus.
- -Images and sounds are spliced together in this journey to the heart of the political, economic and cultural oppression of the Quebec people. A reflection on neo-colonial exploitation and the cancer of alienation. To the very Canadian multi-culturalism of Trudeau and the métissage of the multinationals, celebrated by the high priests of the dominant ideology, is contrasted the idea of acculturation, even deculturation. A way of resisting as good as any other.
- Kitty, a Jewish survivor from the Holocaust, is taken back to Auschwitz, where she revives her imprisonment and life under the 3rd Reich
- During Prohibition, Kansas City was wide open, and jazz was its music. Late in the 1970s, musicians of the Pendergast era gather at the union hall to play, sing, and talk. Some were part of Walter Page's Blue Devils, joined Bennie Moten's band, and stayed with Count Basie's Orchestra. Basie is on hand, as are Big Joe Turner, Jay McShann, and some of his big band. Highlights include Turner's vocals, McShann's sly piano playing, a drum clinic from Jo Jones and Baby Lovett, Jimmy Forrest solos, and remembrances of Lester Young and of how Charlie Parker got his nickname. Throughout is the Kansas City sound: cool and relaxed, blues meeting swing, an afterbeat that calls for dancing.
- Drag Racing documentary. See the stars of Funny Car racing with their crews and hangarounds. An absolute must see if you are in to drag racing.
- About giving birth to a child. Gudrun Schyman, a controversial left wing politician, gives birth to her son Dan.
- The film takes a look at a professional gambler, who very successfully specialized on the German version of the slot machine.
- A history of the Northern Irish conflict from 1922 until the 1970s.
- This morbid, unusual, and critically acclaimed documentary was filmed in the most exotic locations all over the world. Of the Dead (Des Morts) deals with death, the soon dead, and the living they leave behind. Our senses are shown no mercy as we witness the brutal execution of a Phillippine Guerrilla. We are literally taken inside a cremation chamber while a human body melts and finally crumbles into nothingness. We witness-first hand- doctors trying to save a victim of multiple stab wounds, all close up, in graphic detail leaving nothing to the imagination. For those who think they have seen it all, Of the Dead, dares to be seen.
- Erich von Stroheim was an director of silent movies, as well as an actor in both silents and talkies. Uncompromising and rigid, he battled the studio system for control over his pictures' content, and his career had many ups and downs as a result. Through interviews, photos, and archival footage, The Man You Loved to Hate explores von Stroheim's career. The title refers to von Stroheim's frequent casting as a German villain in films of the early 1940s. Von Stroheim's last famous acting role was in Billy Wilder's Sunset Blvd.
- An intimate, hands on encounter with a maximum security juvenile correctional facility in Chino California.
- Footage captured between 1976 -1978 by Producer Roger Riddell provides a "Viewer Friendly for Families" collection of varied types of off-road competition throughout the U.S. and Baja California; with some trending Pop Culture music of its time, viewers will enjoy the gregarious narration, the vibrant momentum and will walk away at the end, thinking: "Those folks really had some good old fashioned fun!"