All Films

Christmas in Britain

1969 • 8 min • United Kingdom

Join the festive cheer all over the country in this short film showing how Christmases past were celebrated in London, the countryside and at home.

The Inextinguishable Fire

1969 • 22 min • Germany

An austere treatise on the military-industrial complex that produces napalm.

How a Cossack Sought Happiness

1969 • 10 min • Soviet Union

A Cossack wandered in search of a better life, and his lifelong dream was a fast and beautiful horse. He had to meet him on the way a fortune-teller and a swamp waterman, which traded a horseshoe to a bunch of red peppers with the Cossack; and he had to beat the devil in cards and eventually find peace of mind in the family life with a beautiful Ukrainian girl.

Danny and Nicky

1969 • 55 min • Canada

This feature documentary offers a comparison of the care of two boys with Down syndrome. Danny lives at home with his brothers and sisters and attends a special neighborhood school for children with disabilities. Nicky lives in a large institution for persons with intellectual disabilities. This film clarifies common misconceptions about intellectual disabilities, and presents an intimate portrait of the families, staff, and communities that come together to assist Danny and Nicky in learning, playing, and living a fulfilling life.

Mystery-Bouffe

1969 • 47 min

Based on Mayakovsky's twentieth-century morality play, in which workers receive the awards of the blessed, and monarchs and capitalist politicians are consigned to eternal damnation.

Mistrz tańca

1969 • 28 min • Poland

A mysterious man takes a writer back to the 19th century, where they meet Death.

Tomorrow Night in London

1969 • 5 min

Sporadically edited footage of London's streets and night life.

Generations Apart: A Question of Values

1969 • 50 min

A study of the generation gap, this program contains questions on the types of social change and societal restraints the participants would welcome or reject. In addition, participants were asked about their views of their parents' values as well as their own, and which political events had affected their life and values. Other questions covered abortion, sexual relations, civil disobedience, criticism of American society, drugs, career goals, the draft, and tactics to be used in social change.

Bartleby

1969 • 28 min • United States of America

Bartleby, an enigmatic man who calmly refuses to carry out his duties, is introduced in this period dramatization of Melville’s haunting story as a scrivener in a 1969 film production of Encyclopedia Britannica Educational Corporation.

The Abnormal Female

1969 • 60 min • United States of America

A psychiatrist encourages his female patients to tell him their sexual problems, each as each relates her particular case, we see it in flashback.

The Flow of Zen

1969 • 14 min

Alan Watts illustrates in this elegant meditation on Buddhism the nature of reality using the paradigm of flowing water. It is one of his best. "The waters before and the waters after, now and forever flowing, follow each other." Watts conveys the essence of Buddhism by focusing on how to develop greater flexibility and sensitivity to the beauty that surrounds us. His inspired narration, enhanced by beautiful photography and a musical score by Iasos, ensures that his message will last.

El gran amante

1969 • 6 min • Spain

A young woman, fan of a leading actor, sneaks into a film set and pretends to be the main actress.

Ich Nicht

1969 • 13 min • Germany

A staging of a young man's liberation from his bourgeois confinement using only music and sounds.

Multiple Man

1969 • 16 min • Canada

A many-faced view of humanity, of global man in all his forms and interests. Produced originally in 70 mm (with stereophonic sound) for showing at Man and His World, the Montréal fair that succeeded Expo 67, this film employs the multi-image technique. People of all places, origins, cultures, secular and religious, are here united and seen side by side, creating an impressive, inspiring and challenging portrait. The film's title appears in seven languages. Film without words.

33 ⅓ Revolutions per Monkee

1969 • 60 min • United States of America

33 1⁄3 Revolutions per Monkee is a television special starring the Monkees that aired on NBC on April 14, 1969. Produced by Jack Good, guests on the show included Jerry Lee Lewis, Fats Domino, Little Richard, the Clara Ward Singers, the Buddy Miles Express, Paul Arnold and the Moon Express, and We Three. Although they were billed as musical guests, Julie Driscoll and Brian Auger (alongside their then-backing band The Trinity) found themselves playing a prominent role; in fact, it can be argued that the special focused more on the guest stars (specifically, Auger and Driscoll) than the Monkees themselves. This special is notable as the Monkees' final performance as a quartet until 1986, as Peter Tork left the group at the end of the special's production. The title is a play on "​33 1⁄3 revolutions per minute."

The Stolen Crescent

1969 • 16 min • Soviet Union

Based on the fairy tale by L. Ashkenazi about little mischief makers who caught a moon in a pond and hid it in a cave.

Maze

1969 • 13 min • United Kingdom

Bob Bentley's Royal College of Art degree film, produced in 1969/70. It explores aspects of his life in a deliberately puzzling manner, influenced by French New Wave cinema.

The Fox, the Bear and the Motorcycle with a Side Car

1969 • 10 min • Soviet Union

Rainy Day

1969 • 16 min • Soviet Union

A little boy sees a thirsty camel in his picture book and imagines bringing him a rain cloud.

No

1969 • 26 min

How and why people refused military service in Sweden at the end of the 1960s. This is the reasoning of the Minister of Defense and the friends of non-violence and pacifists.

Chilly and the Looney Gooney

1969 • 6 min • United States of America

Chilly's friend, the Gooney bird, is pursued by the hunter Colonel Pot Shot.

Strange Bird

1969 • 7 min • Yugoslavia

Bordo's simple story of a bird who will do anything to hatch and nurture her own chick.

My Contribution

1969 • 34 min • Cuba

An illustration of the difficulties women encounter when they seek to achieve economic integration and equality with men in a country at the height of revolution.

Take Me

1969 • 30 min

Short experimental film focusing on body paint and the female form.