Film 25 (1927)

A confrontation of two worlds-- Two rooms, one of which is full of light and colors, the other a monotonous gray.

A young boy gets caught stealing a sheep and is shaved of all his hair and branded with a mark on his forehead so that everyone will know that he is a thief and not to be trusted. Dumped in the desert, the thief covers his marking with a headscarf and goes to the nearest village where he is taken in by a trusting family in return for his work. However, has be actually changed or is he still the same thief at heart?

Few films wield the awesome spiritual power of Jazz Dance, on which Leacock was one of two cameramen charting the slow, smoldering build of a Manhattan dance club from idle space to explosive, carnal bacchanal. Employing handheld cameras, limited light and sheer proximity, the film achieved an intimacy never before witnessed in a documentary.

Christian holy sites in Jerusalem and Galilee, Israel.

Impressionistic study of the fate of a stray dog, trying to avoid the results of human indifference and cruelty.

Baptist convention, funeral home, and assorted locations in Denver, CO; Tulsa, OK; Muskogee, OK; and unidentified locations.

Rottenberg’s newest film, Cheese (2007), conflates farm-girl imagery with the fairy tale “Rapunzel” into a story loosely based on the Sutherland Sisters, renowned for their extremely long hair. Floating through a pastoral yet mazelike setting of raw wooden debris cobbled together into a benign shantytown, six longhaired women in flowing white nightgowns “milk” their locks and the goats they live with to generate cheese. Shots of animals crowded in pens and the sisters’ bunk bed– cluttered room visually compare the women to their ruminant allies. As nurturing caretakers, these women represent maternal aspects of Mother Nature. Here Rottenberg investigates feminine magic, the ability to “grow things out of the body” as she says, as the ultimate, wondrous physical mystery.

Residences, churches, funeral march, school children in Muskogee, OK; Taft, OK; and Okmulgee, OK.

Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings

Well-known locations in New York City. Clergy and others in Chicago; Muskogee, OK; and Bristow, OK.

“The Forgotten Faces (1961), a film reconstruction of the Hungarian revolution of 1956, won Watkins another amateur Oscar, and to this day, the film is praised in England as "one of the most memorable amateur films ever made".

An animated short story by Ersain Abdrahmanov about the Sky-Lark.

The first NFL Films feature, it established the trend of dramatizing the game itself and not the outcome.

Les Blank's poetic documentation of 1967's Los Angeles Easter Sunday Love-In.

Rather than telling his parents, who have another girl picked out for him, Bob brings home his new wife disguised as his friend "Steve."

The film is a documentary portraying a struggle as man tries to subdue nature. To prevent flooding and for purposes of land reclamation, the people of the Netherlands struggle and succeed in building a breaker, thereby eliminating the wild inland body of water once known as the Zuider Zee (now called Ijsselmeer).

Early Balkan footage.

1950 - a young couple find out whether they are "ready for marriage".

Documentary about a miner's strike in Borinage.