All Films

Prosopographia

1976 • 5 min • Austria

Prosopographia, 1976. 16mm film, color, sound; 5 minutes (unfinished).

America on Parade

1976 • 33 min • United States of America

Television special for the American Bicentennial starring Red Skelton, featuring the America on Parade pageant at Disneyland.

Pyramid Lake Is Dying

1976 • 26 min

The second of John Pilger’s three 1976 documentaries made in the United States. In Pyramid Lake Is Dying, he reports on the demise in the culture of native Americans and the stealing of their resources. Pyramid Lake, in Nevada, home to the Paiute peoples and once described as “one of the few remaining unspoiled natural wonders in the American West”, is drying up and its fisheries and wildlife disappearing due to changes to the local ecology made by white settlers. In addition to their natural resources, the Paiute peoples' culture and lifestyle are also under threat.

Back to the Land

1976 • 56 min • Canada

Feature-length documentary as part of Pierre Perrault's Abitibian Cycle. The filmmaker questions the past and present of Abitibi and draws up, face to face, the promises of colonization in the 1930s and the great disappointment caused by the closing of the land in the 1970s. There are witnesses to the heroic era, including the cultivator Hauris Lalancette, as well as extracts from films by Father Maurice Proulx (1934-1940).

Universe

1976 • 27 min • United States of America

Oscar nominated documentary short from 1976

Coluche : C'est pour rire

1976 • 50 min • France

Funny, unifier, subversive, Coluche was much more than a comedian. This show recorded at the Elysée Montmartre in 1976 brings together the greatest sketches of the comedian with a big heart: the cop, the poem, the cancer or the hitchhiker will make you laugh! A show that has remained in the annals thanks to the famous scene where Coluche tried to play "Le temps des cerises" on the violin... with boxing gloves!

1-100

1976 • 4 min

A short film by Peter Greenaway.

Bob Dylan: Rolling Thunder Revue, Clearwater 1976

1976 • 54 min

Live performance originally intended to be a TV special

Stress Scars & Pleasure Wrinkles

1976 • 18 min • United States of America

Filmmaker Barbara Hammer recounts how she got her scars as well as her "pleasure wrinkles."

Crossroads

1976 • 36 min • United States of America

The 1945 atomic-bomb explosion at Bikini Atoll becomes a thing of terrible beauty and haunting visual poetry when shown in extreme slow motion, shown from 27 different angles, and accompanied by avant-garde Western classical music composed for electric organ by Terry Riley. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Pacific Film Archive in 1995.

Goole by Numbers

1976 • 40 min

A numerical journey through the quaint village of Goole.

Rembrandt, Etc., and Jane

1976 • 18 min • United States of America

The following films were all made in 1976. I do not wish to describe them. —SB "Two portrait sketches and two nondescript."

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1976 • 17 min • Soviet Union

Mountain Music

1976 • 9 min • United States of America

Mountain Music illustrates what happens when technology gets too advanced too soon. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

Grandfather Aipo's Tale

1976 • 16 min • Soviet Union

Based on a fairy tale by Yu. Afanasyev based on the legend of the peoples of the North.

Well Thank You, Thursday

1976 • 49 min

Miss Shepherd of the registry office is getting a new desk, but things don't go entirely as expected.

The Beach Boys: It's OK

1976 • 50 min • United States of America

A live performance from the Beach Boys, featuring their best known songs, including 'Help Me Rhonda' and 'Good Vibrations'.

Black Sabbath: Live in Fresno

1976 • 32 min

Partial set edit of the Technical ecstasy Tour mostly 1 camera angle

Old Man March Is Dead

1976 • 28 min

In rural New Zealand an alcoholic ex-soldier is desperate to obtain more liquor. His family try to keep liquor away from him.

The Lie Chair

1976 • 27 min • Canada

A couple gets marooned in an isolated household. The owner and her helper live under the guise that deceased loved ones still live. This gets projected on the unrelated couple who start to become affected themselves.

Himitsu Sentai Gorenger: The Bomb Hurricane!

1976 • 20 min • Japan

The Gorenger head for Matsuyama to prevent the Black Cross from firing a missile to destroy Japan. Himitsu Sentai Gorenger: The Bomb Hurricane is a theatrical film based on the Himitsu Sentai Gorenger television series. It was originally shown on July 22, 1976 (between Episodes 56 and 57 of the TV series) as part of the Toei Manga Matsuri film festival. It was the only Gorenger film that was a completely original work and not a theatrical version of a TV episode.

Casey at the Bat

1976 • 7 min

A baseball team from the fictional town of "Mudville" (the home team) is losing by two runs in its last inning. Both the team and its fans, a crowd of 5,000, believe that they can win if Casey, Mudville's star player, gets to bat.

Anta mujer

1976 • 23 min • Spain

Somewhere in time, a woman at the seaside listens to a voice that tells her that she will reach sanctity and she will receive a secret if she accomplishes Five Portents.

Bloody Land

1976 • 57 min • Albania

Film set in three different times. In the beginning, Miti is killed while defending his land. Then, the film focuses on his son Gjergji who fights against the Italian forces. In the end, the land is redistributed by the agrarian reform.