All Films

The Numbers Start with the River

1971 • 15 min • United States of America

The Numbers Start with the River is a 1971 American short documentary film about small-town life in Iowa. Produced by Donald Wrye for the United States Information Agency, it was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

Book Him!

1971 • 11 min

One of the social guidance / scare films made by prolific filmmaker Sid Davis, “Book Him!” was produced in the 1960s. It shows various youth / delinquents and the crimes they commit, and centers on the story of a white, teenage boy who is arrested.

Devil's Hour

1971 • 18 min • Brazil

An ex-guerrilla fighter wants to leave and forget the past, but is blackmailed by an old friend, who threatens to turn him in. Pursued by the police, he is eventually arrested.

The Making of 'Husbands'

1971 • 47 min

A documentary behind the scenes of John Cassavetes' 'Husbands' (1970).

Nos

1971 • 27 min • Poland

An ambitious civil servant's career dreams are shattered when his nose falls off. All the worse, the nose starts living its own life and achieves the success its former owner wanted.

Next to Me

1971 • 5 min

Using fragmented personal imagery, "Next to Me" renders Cartier-Bresson's theory of the "decisive moment" fully in cinematic terms. The film is an expressionistic exercise in editing, which explores the nature of time and memory, film and still photography, against the urban landscape of New York.

With Permission

1971 • 16 min

The story of a child who, instead of going to school, mischievously and curiously finds another way to go to class...

Några minuter i Lars Noréns liv

1971 • 10 min

Lars Norén (1944-2021) made his debut as a poet in the 1960s and has since written around 30 books of poetry and prose and around 60 plays for theatre, television and radio. "A few minutes in Lars Norén's life" is a short film about the writer and playwright, made by Rainer Hartleb in 1971. Hear Lars Norén himself talk about his works and his artistry.

Bill Cosby on Prejudice

1971 • 23 min • United States of America

A man denigrates every conceivable group, including “niggers”, whites, women, children and the elderly.

The Pledge of Allegiance

1971 • 7 min • United States of America

Teaches about the American pledge of allegiance.

Atonement

1971 • 51 min • Canada

Canadian wildlife specialists work to preserve and nurture the creatures that remain in our wilderness areas - species such as the whooping crane, prairie falcons, bighorn sheep, bison, polar bears, and grizzlies.

Slavica Exception

1971 • 10 min • Yugoslavia

A portrait of a professional striper who chose this occupation for its financial benefits.

Granny Gets the Point

1971 • 25 min • United Kingdom

A short information film produced to get Britain ready for decimalisation.

Physics at Half Past Nine

1971 • 18 min • Soviet Union

A physicist, a director of popular-science films, and a sports fan talk about the structure of the atom between periods of a hockey game they watch on TV.

Por los senderos del libertador

1971 • 60 min

Life and work of the Argentine hero José de San Martín, especially during the time he lived in Europe.

Rhythmic Ball Skills for Perceptual-Motor Development

1971 • 11 min • United States of America

kids n' balls

Film with Three Dancers

1971 • 20 min • United States of America

In this spin-off from his original plan for Relativity (1966), Emshwiller continued with his desire to penetrate “space in a kind of flying camera, a dream of flying, a kind of sensual, sexual imagery where you were constantly going into an unknown space.” A trio of dancers (Carolyn Carlson, Emery Hermans, Bob Beswick) appear "first in leotards, then in bluejeans, then naked, as they “pass through rituals of movement.”

Aktorka

1971 • 26 min • Poland

A failed actress wants to go back to her husband, who has fallen into alcoholism.

West Side Stories

1971 • 43 min

Two impressions of New York - a city of dreams or nightmares. The Outsider: Jonathan Miller 'If you enter New York in the first place in a show business context every time you return you have to justify your existence in show business terms. If you haven't got something to sell you become almost transparent...' The Insider: Patti Smith, poet, singer, actress. 'People come to New York to see the stars, but there ain't no stars in the sky. I lived in the city and I haven't seen a constellation since.'

A l'intention de Mademoiselle Issoufou à Bilma

1971 • 42 min • France

A look into Africa that is rarely available to ethnographers or anthropologists. At its heart is the spirit of interaction. It observes, but with the wavering eye of home movie, rather than the fixed formality of a documentary.

The Valerie Solanas Incident

1971 • 5 min • United States of America

In 1970 Valerie Solanas was released from a mental institution, two 
years after shooting Andy Warhol. Still unstable, she moved into the 
Chelsea Hotel where she penned a death threat to Michel Auder and his
wife Viva. Using a soundtrack by Wagner, Auder surveys the handwritten
 evidence of Solanas's threat, before reciting its threatening prose
 melodramatically.

Richard Pryor: Live and Smokin'

1971 • 48 min • United States of America

Richard Pryor: Live & Smokin' is the first stand-up act of Richard Pryor to be filmed out of the four that were released in total. This film was filmed in 1971 but not released until 1985, on VHS. This was the first stand-up act that Pryor did before he hit the mainstream audience. With only 48 minutes of footage, it is the shortest of Pryor's stand-up routines.

The Old Fashioned Picture Book

1971 • 9 min

Co-directed by Warner Bros. and Hanna-Barbera veteran Tony Benedict and Donovan himself, this live-action/animated short film was released in 1971 to promote Donovan's self-produced children's album "HMS Donovan". Comprised of a live-action seaside picnic framing device and three of the album's songs animated in the style of Scottish artist John 'Patrick' Byrne.

Joe and Petunia: Country Code

1971 • 1 min • United Kingdom

While on a country walk, Joe and Petunia stop for a rest and discuss their walk, with Joe throwing rocks from a wall nearby: They have left tracks all through a corn field, have released some cows through a gate Joe opened, marked "Private" and their dog is now chasing sheep in the field behind them. Just then, one of the stones Joe throws shatters a bottle, much to his delight. They then see a farmer with a purple face (which they attribute to "all that country air") and think he is doing a country dance as he jumps up and down in fury. Petunia remarks that he doesn't look friendly (to which Joe says "Can't be anything we've done"), and they leave. The farmer looks out at the trail of damage they have left, and sighs "When folk go out to the country, why oh why can't they follow The Country Code?