Are You Ready for Marriage? (1950)

Documentary about the potentially dangerous and unpredictable drug LSD. Various experts discuss how LSD is made and the hazards involved in using it while avid users explain why they enjoy taking it.

Short documentary film in the newsreel series 'The March of Time'.

A continuous zoom traverses the space of a breakfast table, serving as a grand metaphor for indigestion.

An educational film which documents the menstruation process and feelings in young girls.

The quick tempo of life in polluted cities makes patients out of people. Neurosis is an everyday occurrence.

No information available regarding the film's director. Just under 10 minutes of over an hour's footage survive.

A short film featuring the voices of those affected when the M11 Link Road in East London was built, accompanied by scenes and sounds of demolition.

Flashback on the problems, adjustments and transformations occurring in the first year of a couple's married life. Pretty surprising film coming from Coronet about the "honeymoon is over" drama that newlyweds face. The marriage between Dotty and Pete is pretty traditional--Dotty quits her job to be a homemaker once they are married--but some more modernistic ideas come out, such as the idea that the two newlyweds decide together how the money that Pete earns will be spent, and the small mentions of sex. (!!) The "educational collaborator" listed at the beginning, Lemo Rockwood, was a professor at Cornell University, and her marriage course advocated sexual frankness and pre-marital experimentation, so it's easy to see her stamp on this film.

A short film about the relationship between an Aboriginal daughter and her white mother. The daughter, now the sole carer of her dying mother, dreams of far away places, the haunted look in her eyes loaded with a sense of what could have been. Famous Aboriginal singer, Jimmy Little, sings 'Royal Telephone', evoking the presence of Christianity and its role in the assimilation of Aboriginal people. The final scene sees the daughter lying in a foetal position next to her mother, crying. Assimilation, then, can be understood as a pain experienced by both the Aboriginal daughter as well as the white mother.

This short documentary records the celebration and ritual surrounding a snowshoe competition in Sherbrooke in the late 1950s. The film marked the beginning of a new approach to reality in documentary and prefigures the trademark style of the NFB's newly formed French Unit. Today, Les raquetteurs is considered a precursor to the birth of direct cinema.

A short film which retells the story of Jesus Christ's death and resurrection.

Her looks… a cross between the girl next door and a shop-girl Venus, which made her an instant hit. Her copulatory talents and fantastic physical form merely added to the legend.

A sex education film produced for children in US schools.

It's 1950 and a young woman asks her mother what love is.

A short drama which seeks to explore some of the problems in inter-faith relationships.

The striking landscapes of rural Sardinia provide the backdrop to this lyrical look at the hardscrabble lives of the region’s shepherds in winter.

Home movie of the day in the life of the Kelly Family of Lebanon, Kentucky.

[A] cautionary tale about past-their-prime thespians caught up in a typically Kucharian vortex of madness. - Anthology Film Archives

Short documentary about 50 years of history of Czechoslovakia, with archive images.

An educational film from 1953 to encourage parents talk to their children about adolescence.