Documentary

Borowczyk’s portrait of the painter Bona Tibertelli de Pisis and her erotic fusions of men, women and molluscs.

Animals Are Beautiful People (aka Beautiful People) is a 1974 nature documentary about the wildlife in Southern Africa. It was filmed in the ...

Filmmaker Barbet Schroeder shows the Ugandan dictator meeting his Cabinet, reviewing his troops, explaining his ideology.

Released just a few years after her death, this forms a picture of who Janis was through interviews and performance clips.

Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio’s 50 year history.

Louis Malle presents his entertaining snapshot of the comings and goings on one street corner in Paris.

A study of the psychology of a champion ski-jumper, whose full-time occupation is carpentry.

Les Blank’s first feature-length documentary captures music and other events at Leon Russell’s Oklahoma recording studio during a ...

Filmmaker Martin Scorsese interviews his mother and father about their life in New York and family history back in Sicily.

An NFB crew filmed a group of three families, Cree hunters from Mistassini. Since times predating agriculture, this First Nations people have ...

Many times during his presidency, Lyndon B. Johnson said that ultimate victory in the Vietnam War depended upon the U.S. military winning the ...

Penthesilea, the first of six films made by Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen, traverses thousands of years to look at the image of the Amazonian ...

Documentary from David Bowie’s concert at the Hammersmith Odeon in London on 3 July 1973, when he performed as alter ego Ziggy Stardust for ...

This documentary was made three years after Jimi Hendrix’s untimely death. At the time it was an example of how a visual biography should ...

Roger Hammond’s silent portraits of film artists from the early 1970s were shot in and around David Larcher’s studio. Some Friends begins with a ...

Presents a unique and disturbing look at the rise of the Nazi party. The documentary, directed by Lutz Becker, attempts to remain as objective as ...

Quasi-documentary that looks at the sex industry in Europe.

Orson Welles’ final film documents the lives of infamous fakers Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving. De Hory, who later committed suicide to ...

Wattstax is the 1973 documentary film about the Afro-American Woodstock concert held in Los Angeles seven years after the Watts riots. Director ...

Krzysztof Kieslowski’s protagonist is Joseph Malesa, a former party activist, labor leader and mason. The document talks about his career ...

Guy Debord’s analysis of a consumer society.

An interview with the great studio director Howard Hawks

The film’s subject is a photograph of Jane Fonda visiting Hanoi during the Vietnam War. It asks what the position of the intellectual ...

Stylish film of the British progressive rock band Pink Floyd in 1971 performing a concert with no audience, in the ancient Roman Amphitheatre in ...

Part documentary, part expose, this film follows one-time child evangelist Marjoe Gortner on the “church tent” Revivalist circuit, ...

A documentary about a political troupe headed by actors Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland which traveled to towns near military bases in the US in ...

In November 1971, Salvador Allende and Fidel Castro chat to each other about revolution, imperialism, oligarchy, underdevelopment, cultural ...

A documentary about various singers, musicians, artists, astrologers, etc., who attended a “New Age” gathering in Maui, Hawaii.

This film turns on two basic axes: the inquiry into ways of cinematographic representation and a critical image of official Spain at the time of ...