All Films

The Clash: Live in Munich, 3rd October 1977

1977 • 19 min

Included as a bonus feature on The Clash's film Rudeboy

The African Queen

1977 • 50 min • United States of America

After the events of The African Queen (1951), Charlie and Rose are recaptured by the Germans and forced to tug one of their big cannons that could bring the Nazis victory against the local Allied forces.

Simplemente Jenny

1977 • 32 min • Bolivia, Brazil

"Simplesmente Jenny" exposes the bad and vulnerable conditions that Bolivian girls and women are in. This film is the third film from the Trilogia da Mulher (the other two are "The emerging woman" (1974) and "Double day" (1975).

The Holiday of Disobedience

1977 • 47 min • Soviet Union

About that, how parents abandoned the disobedient children and returned only then, when they reformed.

The Johnny Cash Christmas Special 1977

1977 • 45 min

Johnny Cash's second Christmas special includes an all-star tribute to Elvis Presley, who died in August 1977, two months before this program was taped for CBS television. Fellow rockabilly pioneers Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis and Roy Orbison join Cash on "This Train is Bound For Glory" in memory of Presley, whose affinity for such sacred music was well-known. The 1977 special also includes holiday guest performances as Johnny takes the stage with Roy Clark for a spirited rendition of "Frosty The Snow Man" as well as the Statler Brothers with the yuletide classic "Blue Christmas."

A Doonesbury Special

1977 • 25 min • United States of America

Garry Trudeau's classic characters (Mike Doonesbury, Zonker, etc.) examine how their lifestyles, priorities, and concerns have changed since the end of their idealistic college days in the 1960s. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

The Easter Bunny Is Comin' to Town

1977 • 50 min • United States of America

The Mailman decides to stop another deluge of letters by answering questions about the Easter Bunny: Sunny, a baby rabbit found and adopted by Kidville (a town of only kids--even a kid mailman). And when Sunny goes delivering eggs to the nearby town (which he has to dye to fool Gadzooks, the mean bear on the mountain), he discovers that there are no kids in the town, and that the rightful (kid) ruler is being suppressed by his aunt. But the young king likes Sunny's dyed eggs and jelly beans. So Kidsville, with the help of an old train engine, makes a few plans (and a decoy chocolate rabbit) to distribute them.

Little Jumbo

1977 • 28 min • Japan

Adrift at sea a boy and his pet white elephant, Jumbo, wash up on an island that is between two other islands at war with one another in this musical fantasy film.

Bukovsky

1977 • 50 min • United Kingdom

Alan Clarke's documentary about Soviet writer and dissident Vladimir Bukovsky, who had left the Soviet Union in 1976 after years spent in their prisons and psychiatric wards. The film was completed in 1977 but never broadcast, subject only to private screenings. The documentary appears publicly for the first time as a special feature of the BFI's 'Dissent and Disruption: Alan Clarke at the BBC (1969-1989)' box set, alongside 50 minutes of outtakes.

A Place in Time

1977 • 34 min

A New York City street artist witnesses a crime and resolves to redeem his earlier inaction. A silent film in pantomime, this early work by director Charles Lane brings a unique deftness and grace to its social realist narrative. He would later revisit this theme in his next film Sidewalk Stories (1989).

The Last Petal

1977 • 27 min • Soviet Union

Zhenya is a young girl who find a old beautiful house in the city when she followed a dog that he stole her donuts. At the old house, a old woman lives. The old woman offers to Zhenya a magic flower. When Zhenya pull up a petal of the flower, she can make a wish. In this moment, Zhenya should decide correctly her wishes.

Library World

1977 • 16 min

In this informational short, seventies kids discover the untold wealth of knowledge waiting for them at their local library.

Lindsay Wagner: Another Side of Me

1977 • 60 min • United States of America

Television special in which Lindsay Wagner sings, re-enacts her wedding day, plays in a silent-comedy spoof, meets Paul Anka, swims a la Esther Williams and plays Guinevere to Michael Brandon's Lancelot.

Hackney Marshes – November 4th 1977

1977 • 15 min • United Kingdom

An improvisation recorded over the course of one day, starting at dawn and finishing after dusk. The film was edited in camera and shot from one camera position in the middle of one of the 112 football pitches that cover Hackney Marsh, a location chosen because of the similarities between the surrounding buildings and objects (identical blocks of flats, goalposts etc.). By cutting between precisely matched framings of similar objects, illusions of movement were produced, disrupting representational readings of the landscape. Unforeseen events occurring in the vicinity were also recorded, determining to some extent the subsequent filming. Through selection of shots and changes in cutting pace and speed of camera movement, the film fluctuates between record and abstraction.

The Absent-Minded Waiter

1977 • 7 min • United States of America

Bernie Cates requests the services of the most absent-minded waiter he's ever seen, who pours water before setting the glasses, endlessly repeats questions, brings wrong orders, and ruins everything- but the bill.

West Wind

1977 • 17 min

A woman searching for the truth behind the death of her lover visits Bazin, Godard, and Mekas.

Simple Gifts

1977 • 60 min • United States of America

A collection of animated Christmas shorts: An original Maurice Sendak piece about a boy with nothing to give for Christmas -- An excerpt from the early part of Virginia Woolf's "Orlando" set in a time of extreme cold in Tudor England -- A short based on the Toonerville Trolley -- A bittersweet excerpt from Moss Hart's autobiography "Act One" narrated by Jose Ferrer -- A reading from the Christmas day entry from the diary of 11-year-old Teddy Roosevelt -- A reading of a letter by Captain Edward James Hulse describing the surprising Christmas Truce of 1914 -- An animated version by R.O. Blechman of his own book "Tutto Esaurito" (No Vacancy) about the travels of Mary and Joseph.

The Paul Simon Special

1977 • 60 min • United States of America

Paul Simon just wants to perform his songs although an arrogant director keeps on interrupting him with crazy ideas.

The Monument

1977 • 32 min • Albania

An old gardener tends for the flowers during the war. Nazis ask him for flowers for their dead.

Juggler

1977 • 2 min

Music by Albert E. Miller. Computer-controlled ability to store one frame in the computer and combine this frame with the incoming frames permits freeze frames of a juggler as well as synthesized images. The paths of a jugglers handling of balls through the air can be examined in slow motion. Shown at The Kitchen on Mercer Street.

The Golden Dog

1977 • 48 min • United States of America

When two old prospectors find gold dust in the fur of their Airedale they dream of big riches. But soon greed threatens to tear them apart until a ghost reminds them the value of friendship.

The Richard Pryor Special?

1977 • 60 min • United States of America

Richard Pryor wanders around the NBC Studio, encountering various eccentrics. Meanwhile, the Reverend James L. White, the Ugandan dictator Idi Amin Dada and others are taping their own segments.

The Mouseketeers at Walt Disney World

1977 • 56 min

Follow the Disco Mice of the New Mickey Mouse Club as they visit America's favorite vacation spot, Walt Disney World!

Porno Exploration: Japanese Spring Tales

1977 • 54 min • Japan

Pink film from Toei.