All Films

Oratorio for Prague

1968 • 29 min • United States of America

Filmmaker Jan Nemec and his crew risked their lives to create this historic documentary account of the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. The award-winning work is the only filmed record of the invasion. Oratorio for Prague began as a study of the liberalization of Czechoslovakia and then continued when the Russian forces moved in. The gripping footage was broadcast by television, providing the first report of the event. In addition to the news footage, the film features never-before-viewed scenes taken prior to the invasion that crushed Prague's anti-Communist movement.

Exprmntl 1967

1968 • 21 min

A film directed by Jud Yalkut

Querido Abraham

1968 • 24 min

A girl falls in love with Abraham Lincoln.

Color

1968 • 5 min • United States of America

Designed to create a heightened awareness of color in our environment. Avoids theoretical analysis, emphasizing instead the sensuous and emotional appeal of color and its power to influence vision and feeling. Features an avant-garde auto harp soundtrack by Werner Bracher.

Neverwhere

1968 • 15 min • United States of America

A meek office worker finds himself flung into a fantasy world as a naked muscleman. An early version of the Den character, known from the comic magazine Heavy Metal and the movie by the same name.

Shaggy Dog

1968 • 51 min • United Kingdom

A no-nonsense businessman, Mr. Wilkie, is interviewed for a position with a top-of-the-line hotel chain corporation. During the interview, Wilkie attempts to complete a shaggy-dog story. His frustrations lead to a total breakdown. He suddenly snaps and pulls a gun on the interviewers.

On the Eve of Publication

1968 • 57 min • United Kingdom

TV play by David Mercer. First in a trilogy concerning Marxist novelist Robert Kelvin. The occasion is a dinner party, Kelvin is concerned with a summation of his life, addressed in his head to his lover, Emma.

Cześć kapitanie

1968 • 55 min • Poland

A spy barely makes it out of a police ambush and goes on the run, taking a young woman with him along the way.

Put-Put, Pink

1968 • 6 min • United States of America

The Pink Panther turns his hand to building a motorcycle, but mayhem ensues whenever he goes for a drive.

Paseo por los letreros de Madrid

1968 • 28 min • Spain

A travelogue through the diverse neighborhoods of Madrid, its picturesque streets and its history; and an approach, with a sense of humor, to the lighted signs and advertising slogans of the shops: an unusual portrait of the city and its people.

Watch Out, Pike!

1968 • 19 min • Soviet Union

About how the pike settled next to the beaver dam and lay in wait for the beaver cubs. In response, the beavers built an underwater vehicle to drive away the pike and its assistant crayfish, but adult beavers also had to be called in for help.

Chiefs

1968 • 20 min • United States of America

Filmed at the October 1968 meeting in Hawaii of several hundred police chiefs of the International Association of Chiefs of Police as they watch demonstrations of gruesome anti-riot weapons, sing patriotic songs, and defend their policies in front of the camera. Although filmed with the permission of the chiefs, the view is unsympathetic, sometimes funny, and more often frightening.

Picnic with Weismann

1968 • 11 min • Austria, Germany

Various objects are having a sunny outing together in the nature.

About "The White Bus"

1968 • 58 min

Follows the creation of Lindsay Anderson's The White Bus (1968), from pre-production to the shoot and in post.

The Magnificent Six and ½: Ghosts and Ghoulies

1968 • 20 min • United Kingdom

Whizz and Peewee would like to join the club, but first they must spend an hour in a haunted house.

Sky Blue Pink

1968 • 6 min • United States of America

The Pink Panther decides to construct and fly a kite

Akropolis

1968 • 59 min • Poland

A performance based on Stanisław Wyspiański’s dramatic epic poem, first presented at Teatr Laboratorium, Wrocław, Poland, October 10, 1962. Filmed in 1968.

Gammelion

1968 • 55 min • United States of America

Gammelion 1968, filmed at Il Castello Roccasinibalda in Rieti, Italy, is a major work in Markopoulos’s oeuvre, marking the transition into his late period and anticipating his epic final film, Eniaios 1947–91. Shot with only two rolls of film, the work extends seven minutes of footage to almost one hour of viewing time using hundreds of fades in and out. - Tate Modern

A Bolandeira

1968 • 10 min • Brazil

In the hinterland of Paraíba, the small wooden mills powered by animal traction, called “bolandeiras”, are doomed to disappear.

If There Weren't Any Blacks You'd Have to Invent Them

1968 • 55 min • United Kingdom

Set in a cemetery, the film tells the story of a young man whom a blind man wrongly imagines to be black, and explores the nature of human prejudice.

The Wings of Lee Sang

1968 • 59 min

Meatdaze

1968 • 8 min • United Kingdom

Made to represent an entire cinema programme, Meatdaze consists of six sections that include cartoons, supporting and main features.

D-Day Revisited

1968 • 51 min • United States of America

Darryl F. Zanuck revisits the places where 'The Longest Day' had filmed, with excepts from the movie and he tells the story of D-Day.

Valentin Kataev's Humoresque

1968 • 40 min • Soviet Union

Based on the stories of V. Kataev "The Diary of a Bitter Drunkard", "Fur Coat" and "Pearl".