All Films

There's No Place...

1977 • 30 min

Val and Tony set up home in a disused railway goods-yard. It is more than just a squat and draws them closer together than they have ever been.

Soldier's Home

1977 • 42 min • United States of America

Harold Krebs went off to fight in World War I, "the war to end all wars." But when he comes home, Harold finds that he doesn't fit in any more. He needs peace and quiet to figure out what has happened to him and who he has become, but his mother pressures him to rejoin society.

Below the Lion Rock: Ode To Un Chau Chai

1977 • 24 min

In the 1970s, the boat people of Un Chau Chai in Tai Po lived in wooden huts in extremely cramped and horrible conditions. "Ode To Un Chau Chai" tells the story of boatman Dai-Shing, a gambling addict whose wife works her fingers to the bone to support their large family and whose father helps out by selling dried seaweed.

Gene

1977 • 16 min • Canada

A young man overwhelmed by humdrum mechanized life chooses something different.

Mandala

1977 • 7 min

Gumby creator Art Clokey takes viewers on a psychedelic journey through a strange, homemade world. Mandala is an extraordinary film, made in 1974-77, in which transformations of colored abstract shapes in a mystical dreamscape of clay animation transition out to the real world and back, suggesting a revolution in thinking, and an evolution of feeling.

Elvis in Concert

1977 • 50 min

Elvis In Concert is a posthumous 1977 TV special starring Elvis Presley. It was Elvis' third and final TV special, following Elvis (aka The '68 Comeback Special) and Aloha From Hawaii. It was filmed during Presley's final tour in the cities of Omaha, Nebraska, on June 19, 1977, and Rapid City, South Dakota, on June 21, 1977. It was shown on CBS on October 3, 1977, two months after Presley died. It is one of the few videos of Elvis which remain unlikely to ever be released for home viewing and is only available in bootleg form.

Parlons cinema avec Eric Rohmer

1977 • 51 min • Canada

An interview with French film director Eric Rohmer.

The Woman with Two Heads

1977 • 15 min • Japan

As a family goes on with their day, the shadows on their walls lead a completely different life.

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Live at Rockpalast

1977 • 44 min • Germany

Frontman/guitarist Tom Petty, guitarist Mike Campbell, bassist Ron Blair, keyboardist Benmont Tench and drummer Stan Lynch opened their taping at WDR Studio-L in Cologne with the rarity “Surrender.” A cover of Chuck Berry’s “Jaguar and Thunderbird” was performed next, followed by “American Girl.” Other well-known originals filling out the setlist include “Listen To Her Heart” and “Breakdown.” The taping concluded with back-to-back covers of Bobby Troup’s “Route 66” and The Isley Brothers’ “Shout.”

The Clash: Live in Munich, 3rd October 1977

1977 • 19 min

Included as a bonus feature on The Clash's film Rudeboy

The African Queen

1977 • 50 min • United States of America

After the events of The African Queen (1951), Charlie and Rose are recaptured by the Germans and forced to tug one of their big cannons that could bring the Nazis victory against the local Allied forces.

Simplemente Jenny

1977 • 32 min • Bolivia, Brazil

"Simplesmente Jenny" exposes the bad and vulnerable conditions that Bolivian girls and women are in. This film is the third film from the Trilogia da Mulher (the other two are "The emerging woman" (1974) and "Double day" (1975).

The Holiday of Disobedience

1977 • 47 min • Soviet Union

About that, how parents abandoned the disobedient children and returned only then, when they reformed.

The Johnny Cash Christmas Special 1977

1977 • 45 min

Johnny Cash's second Christmas special includes an all-star tribute to Elvis Presley, who died in August 1977, two months before this program was taped for CBS television. Fellow rockabilly pioneers Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis and Roy Orbison join Cash on "This Train is Bound For Glory" in memory of Presley, whose affinity for such sacred music was well-known. The 1977 special also includes holiday guest performances as Johnny takes the stage with Roy Clark for a spirited rendition of "Frosty The Snow Man" as well as the Statler Brothers with the yuletide classic "Blue Christmas."

A Doonesbury Special

1977 • 25 min • United States of America

Garry Trudeau's classic characters (Mike Doonesbury, Zonker, etc.) examine how their lifestyles, priorities, and concerns have changed since the end of their idealistic college days in the 1960s. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

The Easter Bunny Is Comin' to Town

1977 • 50 min • United States of America

The Mailman decides to stop another deluge of letters by answering questions about the Easter Bunny: Sunny, a baby rabbit found and adopted by Kidville (a town of only kids--even a kid mailman). And when Sunny goes delivering eggs to the nearby town (which he has to dye to fool Gadzooks, the mean bear on the mountain), he discovers that there are no kids in the town, and that the rightful (kid) ruler is being suppressed by his aunt. But the young king likes Sunny's dyed eggs and jelly beans. So Kidsville, with the help of an old train engine, makes a few plans (and a decoy chocolate rabbit) to distribute them.

Little Jumbo

1977 • 28 min • Japan

Adrift at sea a boy and his pet white elephant, Jumbo, wash up on an island that is between two other islands at war with one another in this musical fantasy film.

Bukovsky

1977 • 50 min • United Kingdom

Alan Clarke's documentary about Soviet writer and dissident Vladimir Bukovsky, who had left the Soviet Union in 1976 after years spent in their prisons and psychiatric wards. The film was completed in 1977 but never broadcast, subject only to private screenings. The documentary appears publicly for the first time as a special feature of the BFI's 'Dissent and Disruption: Alan Clarke at the BBC (1969-1989)' box set, alongside 50 minutes of outtakes.

A Place in Time

1977 • 34 min

A New York City street artist witnesses a crime and resolves to redeem his earlier inaction. A silent film in pantomime, this early work by director Charles Lane brings a unique deftness and grace to its social realist narrative. He would later revisit this theme in his next film Sidewalk Stories (1989).

The Last Petal

1977 • 27 min • Soviet Union

Zhenya is a young girl who find a old beautiful house in the city when she followed a dog that he stole her donuts. At the old house, a old woman lives. The old woman offers to Zhenya a magic flower. When Zhenya pull up a petal of the flower, she can make a wish. In this moment, Zhenya should decide correctly her wishes.

Library World

1977 • 16 min

In this informational short, seventies kids discover the untold wealth of knowledge waiting for them at their local library.

Lindsay Wagner: Another Side of Me

1977 • 60 min • United States of America

Television special in which Lindsay Wagner sings, re-enacts her wedding day, plays in a silent-comedy spoof, meets Paul Anka, swims a la Esther Williams and plays Guinevere to Michael Brandon's Lancelot.

Hackney Marshes – November 4th 1977

1977 • 15 min • United Kingdom

An improvisation recorded over the course of one day, starting at dawn and finishing after dusk. The film was edited in camera and shot from one camera position in the middle of one of the 112 football pitches that cover Hackney Marsh, a location chosen because of the similarities between the surrounding buildings and objects (identical blocks of flats, goalposts etc.). By cutting between precisely matched framings of similar objects, illusions of movement were produced, disrupting representational readings of the landscape. Unforeseen events occurring in the vicinity were also recorded, determining to some extent the subsequent filming. Through selection of shots and changes in cutting pace and speed of camera movement, the film fluctuates between record and abstraction.

The Absent-Minded Waiter

1977 • 7 min • United States of America

Bernie Cates requests the services of the most absent-minded waiter he's ever seen, who pours water before setting the glasses, endlessly repeats questions, brings wrong orders, and ruins everything- but the bill.