All Films

Pressure and the Press: The Making of 'All the President's Men'

1976 • 10 min • United States of America

Hoffman, Redford, Bernstein, Woodward, Pakula and Bradlee. Creators and creatures involved in one way or another with 'All the President's Men', whether being the novel or the movie, appear in this documentary to talk about the challenge of both medias and how one was successfully transformed into another.

Aimé Césaire, Un homme une terre

1976 • 52 min • France

Alternating interview segments, shots of Martinique landscapes and scenes from Aimé Césaire's play La Tragédie du roi Christophe (1963), Sarah Maldoror portrays her friend as a politician, a poet, and a founder of the Négritude movement.

Mitzi... Roarin' in the 20s

1976 • 58 min

Mitzi Gaynor welcomes her guests Carl Reiner (Dick Van Dyke Show), Ken Berry (Mayberry R.F.D.) and Tony-winner Linda Hopkins to an hour, blending animation and live action, celebrating the era of flappers, speakeasies and great jazz. Songs include "Everything Old is New Again," "The One I Love (Belongs to Somebody Else)," "Runnin' Wild," and "The Charleston."

Bonga

1976 • 23 min • India

Kundan Shah's FTII Diploma Film - A 23-minute dialogue-less short about a gang of bank robbers.

Où est-ce qu'on se "Mai"?

1976 • 55 min

Documentary about feminist protests on the 1st of May of 1976

Trotsky is Dead

1976 • 30 min

'It's as if the revolution was here again. They are storming the Winter Palace on my own doorstep.' In Palmerston Road, Reading, there is a crisis ...

Scum Manifesto

1976 • 26 min • France

Delphine Seyrig reads passages from a Valerie Solanas’s SCUM manifesto.

Beasts: Special Offer

1976 • 53 min • United Kingdom

A misfit teenage checkout operator has an unrequited crush on her supermarket manager. At the same shop's cuddly cartoon mascot seems to have come alive and is causing havoc. Created as an episode of Nigel Kneale’s “Beasts” horror anthology miniseries.

A Collier's Friday Night

1976 • 60 min

A glimpse into the home life of a coal miner and his family. Frustrated with their lot in life, the family quarrel and squabble incessantly with one another in this adaptation of a DH Lawrence short story.

What Now, Catherine Curtis?

1976 • 52 min • United States of America

Following twenty-three years of marriage to a philandering husband, divorcee Catherine Curtis begins life anew as a single woman.

In the Region of Ice

1976 • 37 min • United States of America

In this American Film Institute-subsidized short subject, Fionnula Flanagan plays a sharp-tongued but compassionate nun, while Peter Lempert is cast as a sullen, emotionally disturbed boy. The title refers to the "thawing" process that occurs when the nun attempts to break through Lempert's wall of silence. Winner of the Oscar for "Best Short Film, Live Action". Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

Livingston - A Plan for Living

1976 • 21 min • United Kingdom

A look at the new Scottish town of Livingston and it what it has to offer a young family.

38 Parrots

1976 • 8 min • Soviet Union

Parrot, Monkey and Elephant are excited to understand how long their friend Boa is. They finally arrive to the result, though it is measured in quite a strange fashion.

Cygne I

1976 • 10 min • France

Stages a double persona on a music of Monteverdi (Ariadne’s lamento interpreted by Janet Baker).

Khoja Nasreddin

1976 • 9 min • Soviet Union

The story of how the witty Khoja Nasreddin taught the greedy rich a lesson.

Monsieur Hulot's Work

1976 • 49 min • United Kingdom

Interview with French director Jacques Tati, focusing on his on-screen persona, Monsieur Hulot. Produced for the British television series "Omnibus".

Gaumont-Palace

1976 • 10 min • France

From the deserted halls and corridors of the Gaumont-Palace cinema in Paris, memories of the great films that inhabited it before its demolition emerge like ghosts. The voice of Marguerite Duras, who reads texts from “Nathalie Granger” and “Woman of the Ganges”, adds a touch of nostalgia to this complex essay.

The Golden Donkey

1976 • 19 min • Soviet Union

Off on a Comet

1976 • 51 min • Australia

A Russian count and a French captain and his corporal survey the Algerian coast. Suddenly they are swept up in a mysterious storm. Afterwards, their world is unfamiliar, but they find a science professor who leads them into a new adventure.

Mary's Incredible Dream

1976 • 60 min • United States of America

An extended dream sequence presents a biblical allegory about the creation, downfall and rebirth of humanity, told through a series of surrealistic vignettes and musical numbers.

Sweeping Plains

1976 • 28 min • United Kingdom

A dinner party spirals out of control, as arguments flare and ideologies clash.

The Last Winter

1976 • 51 min • Albania

Germans come amid snow and winter. In the village only people remained are women, that fight until wounded partisans, sheltered in the village, will retreat deeper and snow will cover their tracks. Face to face with the Germans and their control of the village, women, led by mother Shano and mother Mara, depart to make a pile of wood, but actually bring bread and food to the partisans.

The Dame of Sark

1976 • 52 min • United Kingdom

1976 play. During the Nazi occupation of the Channel Islands, Dame Sybil Hathaway comes up against her invading masters.

No Way They Want to Slow Down

1976 • 28 min • Canada

Filmmaker Giles Walker takes an informal look at how our best skiers work and live. Filmed in 1976, this short movie follows the Canadian ski team on a tight schedule in Chile and Argentina. With 2 ½ tons of equipment, speeds of up to 140 km/h, gruelling workouts and a dramatic theft, it's safe to say that downhill racing is not for the faint of heart.