All Films

I'll Go Again

1977 • 41 min • Canada

This documentary by director Paul Cowan is about four athletes and a team that competed in the 1976 Olympics. They had trained courageously to be among those who would mount the podium to receive a medal. None of them did, but was it worth the effort? I'll Go Again answers the question.

Gombrowicz: Incidents, Adventures

1977 • 52 min • Belgium

An actor pretends to be a writer. He sits in his office, reflects and puts words to paper, which are then performed by Jan Decorte. The text influences the situations shown and vice versa [Avila].

Cree Way

1977 • 26 min • Canada

This short documentary examines an innovative educational program developed by John and Gerti Murdoch to teach Cree children their language via Cree folklore, photographs, artifacts, and books that were written and printed in the community. Made as part of the NFB’s groundbreaking Challenge for Change series, Cree Way shows that local control of the education curriculum has a place in Indigenous communities.

Phases

1977 • 4 min • United States of America

A walking figure emerges from a changing, circular cycle; his inner self emerges and precipitats a series of violent struggles with himself, adapting various animal forms along the way. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.

I Sincerely Repent

1977 • 54 min • East Germany

Interviews with former generals of the South Vietnamese Army in the Quang Trung re-education camp, shortly after the end of the Vietnam War.

They Were Eleven

1977 • 45 min • Japan

An NHK adaptation of the famous manga by Moto Hagio.

Anastasie oh ma chérie

1977 • 34 min • Canada

Anastasia chooses to lock herself in an apartment and tame through rituals. She barricades herself, to protect herself from external violence and the destructive invasion of family life.

The Lundstroms Country Christmas

1977 • 54 min • United States of America

A very SPECIAL special!

Vamp

1977 • 11 min • Yugoslavia

A simple metaphor for life - a donkey toiling away at a mill.

It Moves? It Moves!

1977 • 9 min

Stone Age. The caveman goes out hunting. Escaping from a wild animal, he throws a stone axe at it. Then he drags the animal's body back to his cave, where he plays a wooden flute. While the man was walking, a ball falls from the sky, and he gets the idea to build a machine in his head. At first it was just a cart. Time flies quickly, and the man finds himself in the 20th century, where he transforms the cart into a car and tests it.

The Law of Life

1977 • 20 min

An adaptation of Jack London's short story covering the last 5 hours of the old and dying Inuit chief Koskoosh.

Toman a lesní panna

1977 • 8 min • Czechoslovakia

After breaking up with his girlfriend, Toman meets a mysterious woman riding a deer who lures him into the depths of the forest.

The Beatles at Shea Stadium

1977 • 50 min • United Kingdom, United States of America

The Beatles at Shea Stadium is a fifty-minute-long documentary of the Beatles' 1965 concert at Shea Stadium in New York, the highlight of the group's 1965 tour.

How to cure Boa?

1977 • 9 min • Soviet Union

The Boa got sick. So everybody wants to treat him. In fact, nobody understood him.

Where is Elephant Going?

1977 • 9 min • Soviet Union

Baby elephant goes somewhere. Everybody wants to know where he goes. It turned out, that he is just hanging around.

Mitzi... Zings Into Spring

1977 • 58 min

In this musical salute to Spring, Mitzi Gaynor is joined by country music star Roy Clark (Hee Haw), actor Wayne Rogers (MASH) and the US Olympic Gymnastics Team for a colorful tribute in song, dance and comedy sketches to the earth's season of renewal. Songs include "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing," "Isn't it Romantic," and "Yankee Doodle Dandy."

Max Beeza and the City in the Sky

1977 • 24 min • United Kingdom

A mysterious airship attacks the towering city in the sky and only comedian Max Beeza can save the day.

One Day Before Our Era

1977 • 6 min • Soviet Union

Montage of still photos with lighting effects.

Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas

1977 • 60 min • United States of America

Bing Crosby and his family spend Christmas at the estate of a distant relative in England.

Bass on Titles

1977 • 32 min • United States of America

Explores the visual art of Saul Bass and his contributions to film credits.

How Mushrooms Fought Against Peas

1977 • 18 min • Soviet Union

A satire on human nature projected on mushrooms and peas, based on a Russian fairy tale.

The Mermaid Frolics

1977 • 52 min • United Kingdom

In May 1977 a second Amnesty benefit was held to build on the success of the first show and with the intent of developing momentum for a regularly-scheduled benefit show.

Georgia O'Keeffe

1977 • 60 min

Georgia O'Keeffe appears on camera for the first time to talk candidly about her work and her life in this 1977 documentary.

Roadrunner

1977 • 52 min

A young West Indian has to interrupt his rich international life to sort out some passport trouble at home. His lifestyle is very different from the simple one of his family in North London, leading to considerable tension.