1978 Movies

Four Republican exiles of different political tendencies recall their stay after the spanish Civil War in the French refugee camps, especially in Arge...

This short vignette features coal mines in New Waterford and Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, along with traditional Cape Breton folk songs sung by Men of the...

Part 3 of the Wittstock series also shows the surroundings of the textile factory. Older gentlemen in a pub reveal that two factories produced fabrics...

Compilation of four short films by Digby Rumsey: For All the Immigrants in England, Windows, Nature and Time and The Moonlight Comb. Also includes new...

An impoverished rural family man discovers a fallen meteorite and finds his fortunes changed.

Goddess Durga takes birth in the form of a human in Bhikhu's house. One day, Parashar, her devotee, arrives to liberate her. Thus, begins an altercati...

Toul Québec au monde sua jobbe stages the takeover of a factory by the workers. A 1978 film interpreted by non-professionals, it is one of the few exa...

Describes life on the Aboriginal reserve of Palm Island in Queensland. Old men from Dyirbal language group tell stories of the massacres and poisoning...

The film is about young village man and about forming his character.

Documentary about the sisters Lene and Berta who live in a village in Thuringia.

Georges Méliès (1861-1938),cinema pioneer. A first-person narration traces Méliès' early interests in drawing and magic shows. He builds a studio and...

Documentary about the Wadden Sea in which Van der Keuken looks at this ribbon in the landscape through the eyes of a city-dweller. A film about the re...

Deep in Mexico two brothers sit in a plaza discussing a broken fuel pump. In a few days they will leave for work. With their father and some friends t...

The juxtaposition of carefully selected classic television spots reveals how commercials exploit our hopes, fears, and fantasies.

PASS/FAIL is a fictional drama about the struggle of a Black filmmaker to raise funds for a socially relevant documentary. The film provides a portrai...

Documentary short made for Swedish public television (SVT) about the past and current situation for Native Americans in the US. The film was produced...

A documentary about the making of Jean Cocteau's 1946 film "Beauty and the Beast". Originally made for the South Carolina Educational Television serie...