All Films

Women I Love

1976 • 23 min • United States of America

A series of cameo portraits of the filmmaker's friends and lovers intercut with a playful celebration of fruits and vegetables in nature.

Keramik

1976 • 50 min • Iceland

The End of the Road

1976 • 23 min • United Kingdom

The End of the Road (also known as Alaska: The End of the Road) is a 1976 British short documentary film directed by John Armstrong. The film is about British Petroleum's Alaska operations, including the construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

Jackelope

1976 • 60 min • United States of America

This documentary by independent filmmaker Ken Harrison provides a look into the contemporary Texas art world of the mid-‘70s. Shot in 1975, Jackelope is loosely divided into three segments, each focusing on three young artists: James Surls, George Green, and Bob Wade. The documentary captures each artist in the more casual moments of their lives, capturing their ideas about art, the artistic process, Texas, and other topics in the process.

El mensaje es facial

1976 • 20 min

Recovered Zulueta short.

Seeing Through Commercials

1976 • 14 min

Is it the outrageous claims? Or just the bad acting? This early media literacy film helps kids understand that that ads are trying to, well, sell them something. Kitschy good and super tasty, it's lipsmackin' fun!

Chile Lives

1976 • 2 min • East Germany

This short, animated piece of agitprop fiercely expresses the hopes of the Chilean people.

Godzilla: Last of the Creatures

1976 • 26 min • United Kingdom

One of Jeff Keen's diary films. Keen made many diary films with his daughter, wife and friends in the late 60s and 70s. These were edited in camera and used multiple exposures. They would then be projected in various combinations though usually as a four-screen.

Meriel the Ghost Girl

1976 • 60 min • United Kingdom

Livingston, a psychic investigator, is asked to attend a seance. Can it be that he has finally discovered a genuine supernatural phenomenon!?

And the Dogs Were Silent

1976 • 13 min • France

For 'Et les chiens se taisaient' Maldoror adapted a piece of theatre by the poet and politician Aimé Césaire (1913–2008), about a rebel who becomes profoundly aware of his otherness when condemned to death. His existential dialogue with his mother reverberates around the African sculptures on display at the Musée de l'Homme, a Parisian museum full of colonial plunder whose director was the Surrealist anthropologist Michel Leiris.

President Kim Il Sung Met Foreign Heads of State and Prominent Figures

1976 • 56 min • North Korea

The film tells the viewers that the President met with over 70,000 heads of party and state and prominent figures from 136 countries from March Juche 38 (1949) till the last moments of his life. It also records the facts that he made 54 official and unofficial visits to 87 countries for 685 days.

Tari the Bird

1976 • 9 min • Soviet Union

One day, the crocodile's scary teeth started to hurt. And no one could help him except for a little bird named Tari…

Los Canadienses

1976 • 57 min • Canada

This feature documentary profiles the brave Canadians who fought in the Spanish Civil War between 1936 and 1939. To save Spain's constitutionally elected government from the threat of a fascist dictatorship (which eventually prevailed), over 40,000 volunteers from around the world fought in Spain, and 1200 of those were the Canadians of the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion. More than half of them never returned. This respectful, emotional and historically rich film is committed to the memory of those who truly believed in the cause of the Spanish Republic.

Silent Night, Holy Night

1976 • 30 min • Australia

Tells the story of how the famous Christmas carol Silent Night was written.

The Face of Darkness

1976 • 56 min • United Kingdom

An MP arranges a bomb in a school playground as a pretext to bring back the death penalty.

Maso and Miso Go Boating

1976 • 55 min • France

The year 1975 is declared “year of the woman”. On this occasion Bernard Pivot invited Françoise Giroud on television, then Secretary of State for Women. Faced with statements, a group of women filmmakers parody the issues in a provocative way.

The Valley

1976 • 20 min • New Zealand

The story is mainly about a cyclops and the misadventures of a boy, that takes place in the valley to which the monster lives.

Paradise. An Imperialist Tragicomedy

1976 • 60 min • Germany

A multinational company owned by Mrs Judit Angst is facing financial difficulties: she decides to hire a group of young anarchists to fake her "kidnapping". After a couple of weeks spent in confinement she will be able to justify the downfall of her company before the people and at the same time to gain the status of the opponent to the destruction and chaos.

The Ear of Wheat

1976 • 6 min • Albania

An ear of wheat is taken by a bird.

Jagosh and Blacky

1976 • 54 min • Yugoslavia

Jagoš is a former immigrant worker, and the plot depicts his trial for hitting an acquaintance with a bottle in a pub. During the trial, Jagoš recounts his time as an immigrant worker in Germany and France and his friendship with an African immigrant.

Almos' a Man

1976 • 39 min • United States of America

Although Dave (LeVar Burton) and his family are poor sharecroppers in the Deep South in the 1930s, this 15-year-old's problem is shared by teenagers today: he stands with one foot in adulthood and the other in childhood. "Almos' A Man", yet still treated like a child, he struggles for an identity. There's one thing, one symbol of manhood, Dave thinks, that could guarantee him instant respect: a gun.

Seis Dias de Ouricuri

1976 • 41 min • Brazil

Early documentary by Eduardo Coutinho dealing with the water shortage in the city of Ouricuri in the seventies.

Fleetwood Mac on The Midnight Special - 2/27/76 - 4/9/76

1976 • 19 min • United States of America

A collection of the band's appearances on the show in 1976, Season 4, Episode 21 and 26. Consists of Over My Head, Rhiannon, Why, and World Turning. These songs also feature on the Tokyo 1977 Vinyl.

Beniamiszek

1976 • 60 min • Poland

Żagota lost his fortune, family and friends. His only hope is a horse which got stolen.