All Films

Interviews with My Lai Veterans

1971 • 22 min • United States of America

Interviews with five former American soldiers who were present at the March 16, 1968 attack on the village of My Lai during the Vietnam War; they discuss the orders that were issued leading up to the attack, their expectations of what they would find there, and the subsequent massacre of the inhabitants and destruction of the village, as well as possible motivations for the killings and rapes which took place. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2002.

Voice of La Raza

1971 • 54 min • United States of America

Produced by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, this film traces the ongoing struggle for equality by the Spanish-speaking residents of the United States. Through a fictitious scenario and real discussions with a range of individuals, including local business leaders, parents, and student activists, the film explores job discrimination and the resulting hardships within the Hispanic community. Many of the interviews are conducted by actor Anthony Quinn, who relates his own family's struggles as Mexican immigrants in East Los Angeles.

Project Florida

1971 • 20 min • United States of America

Marketing film for Walt Disney World showing the creation of the new theme park, with footage of WED designers at work, actual construction, scale models, the Preview Center, and Walt Disney discussing his hopes for the project from an earlier 1966 film.

The Museum of Modern Art Show

1971 • 10 min • United States of America

Vox pops conducted outside Yoko Ono's MOMA show in December 1971.

Cesar's Bark Canoe

1971 • 57 min • Canada

"This documentary depicts a canoe being built in the traditional manner. Cesar Newashish, a 67-year-old Attikamek of the Manawan Reserve North of Montréal, uses only birchbark, cedar splints, spruce roots, and gum. With a sure hand he works methodically to fashion a craft unsurpassed in function or beauty of design. Building a canoe solely from the materials that the forest provides may become a lost art, even among the Native Peoples whose traditional craft it is. The film is free of spoken commentary but text appears on the screen in Cree, French, and English." - Anthology Film Archives

Dekameron 40 czyli cudowne przytrafienie pewnego nieboszczyka

1971 • 27 min • Poland

Seven women gather to hear one of them tell a story of a strange incident that happened to a certain dead man.

The Table

1971 • 12 min

Pedestrians

1971 • 8 min • Soviet Union

This film is an humorous view on the conflict of pedestrians with all growing car traffic.

A Journey to Avebury

1971 • 10 min • United Kingdom

A silent short movie, is a literal journey that we can experience. We are being taken to Avebury and given the chance to admire it for 10 minutes. The shots are incredibly beautiful, as we see a huge stone or trees bathed in orange light of sunset.

Too Close for Comfort

1971 • 15 min • United Kingdom

An extended humorous public information film (lasting around fifteen minutes) narrated by Richard Wattis.

St. Vincent's Revue Film

1971 • 5 min

Lathouris performs in mime: barefoot, in white makeup and a top hat, he wanders around Sydney, humorously aggravating a group of nuns (most of whom are played by men), who chase him down and beat him. He then wakes up in hospital, where he receives treatment.

Winnie-the-Pooh Goes Visiting

1971 • 10 min • Soviet Union

The second of the Soviet Winnie-the-Pooh series. This one had Pooh and Piglet visiting Rabbit for a meal with honey.

Hur avlångt är egentligen detta land?

1971 • 39 min • Sweden

Writer Stig Claesson and director Lars Lennart Forsberg travel around Sweden during the summer to see if the country that people imagine it to be actually exists.

Tricia's Wedding

1971 • 33 min • United States of America

The world-famous Cockettes enact Tricia Nixon's wedding to Edward Cox on June 11, 1971. Hurtme O. Hurtme, television correspondent, covers the wedding and interviews celebrities in attendance such as Golda Meir, Indira Gandhi, Jacqueline Onassis, Queen Elizabeth, and Elizabeth Taylor. Coretta King sings. During the reception, Eartha Kitt puts LSD in the punch. All hell breaks loose.

Transsexuals

1971 • 25 min

In 1971, a group of students in New York City learning how to use the nascent technology of portable video interviewed Deborah Hartin for this documentary short. Having spent 20-plus years trying to conform to life in the body of a man, she followed her destiny all the way to Casablanca to receive the gender affirmation surgery that she had long yearned for and had attempted to self-administer in the past. Along with Esther Reilly (who was recently post-operative) and others in the transgender community, Hartin shares her story, revealing how the procedure had transformed her body, her life and her activism.

Big Beaver Splits the Scene

1971 • 52 min • United States of America

Millie and Suzie are two close female friends who live together in the same apartment complex. When the lovely ladies aren't engaging in torrid poolside lesbian liaisons, they are having sex with each other's husbands or gleefully participating in wild group orgies.

The Colour of White Snow

1971 • 43 min • Soviet Union

A love story of two townspeople: a girl, who is a subway controller, and a student of an art school.

Billy's Last Stand

1971 • 50 min

Billy is his own boss. But Darkly has plans for him ...

A Couple of Beauties

1971 • 29 min

A witness to a mob murder hides out in a nightclub dressed in drag.

Broken Fall (Organic)

1971 • 2 min

Bas Jan Ader hangs from the branch of a tall tree, until he loses his grip and falls into a river below.

Judson's Release

1971 • 15 min • United States of America

Dan O’Bannon stars in one of the first iterations of the classic "the babysitter and the man upstairs" urban legend that would go on to influence such films as "Black Christmas" (1974), "Halloween" (1978) and "When a Stranger Calls" (1979).

A Double Feature

1971 • 4 min

Two short stop-motion animated films. The first film, 'Life is Nice I Think', follows a mannequin as it moves around a building. The second film, '-Rex- King of the Animals', follows a toy monkey that interacts with various other animals.

The Selfish Giant

1971 • 26 min • Canada

A giant builds a wall to keep children out of his garden, but then winter sets in permanently. Children's classic story by Oscar Wilde.

Art, People, Feelings

1971 • 13 min

The relationship between human emotions and the art created is illustrated by a selection of artistic works which span all periods of history and a variety of subjects. Shows ways in which artists use many materials and methods to translate their personal feelings into visual forms: murals, landscapes, portraits, posters, billboards, abstract paintings, cartoons, pop art, sculpture and motion pictures.