All Films

An insightful short of life in the BBC Newsroom. From delivery of footage to playout. Shows brief footage of The Beatles arriving at London Airport in March 1965.

Mechanical statues and other pieces by Bruce Lacey.

An avant-garde anti-war animation.

The Crown Jewels of Iran is a 1965 film commissioned and then banned by the Shah’s cultural ministry, featuring dazzling edits and camera movements and a charged narration assaulting economic disparities.

A young man receives a farewell letter from his girlfriend. He walks around the home depressed and after a phone call with the woman, he is again seized by despair.

Construction workers talk about their lives, hardships and joys during the times of constant moves from one construction site to the next.

The installation of a vending machine near a family's house causes some problems.

Amal, a young boy with an incurable disease is trapped inside the house by the local pandit-doctor’s orders. He spends the day chattering with passersby and villagers while daydreaming about those encounters later. When the chowkidar tells him the new building across the road from his house is a new Post Office belonging the Raja, Amal starts fantasising about visiting the King beyond the hills, and getting a letter or delivering the letters going all around, setting out from the confine of his house

Hitler's last offensive in 1944 in the Ardennes, with which he desperately tried to stop the allies thereof, to reach Antwerp.

Three nudist roommates can’t get the television set to work, so they call a repairman and toss on some baby doll nighties before he arrives. But the nighties come right off again as each vies for his attention. The man becomes so distracted that he gets electrocuted. Fortunately, the naked gals bring him back to life, much to his delight!

A family's life is transformed into an object of art.

A maid loses all her jobs because her son cries at night, and that bothers her bosses. The play portrays the wandering and desperation of the protagonist to get a job, which ends in her failed attempts due to the "Angelito".

Three attractive ladies try to get the attention of a man.

A 1965 British television special honouring the songwriting partnership of John Lennon and Paul McCartney. It was produced by Granada Television and aired on that network on 16 December 1965 before receiving a national broadcast the following evening. The programme mainly consisted of other artists miming to their recordings of the songs. The Beatles performed Day Tripper and We Can Work It Out, and Peter Sellers delivered a comedic interpretation of A Hard Day's Night, in the style of stage actor Laurence Olivier's portrayal of Richard III.

Paul struggles with the dilemma of wanting to take a surf trip to Hawaii despite having already committed to spending the summer at a Christian camp.

Jan and Penny are college roommates who disagree about what is appropriate dating behavior. Penny feels that Jan is a prude for not getting into the swing of the changing attitudes of the "second half of the 20th Century." Responding to the topic of petting, Jan says, "Why you make it sound as harmless as an extracurricular activity." One day Keith introduces himself to Jan in the library by helping her find a poem for their English literature class, and then asking her out to discuss it later. They hit it off immediately, and start enjoying sporting events, dancing, and studying together. Soon Jan is wearing Keith's frat pin. However, Keith's roommate Stan tells him that "Love has gotta include sex" and Penny is telling Jan the same thing. When Keith tips in this other direction one evening, Jan is hurt and will not go down this new path. Happiness lies along only one of the paths, and either Jan or Penny will soon find that their actions have brought regretful sorrow.

"Homage to the life and works of Kasimir Malevich" — S.D.H. Film 4 of 6 in the Cine-Songs Program.

Galois is practicing shooting in preparation for a duel the very next day. His last night.

An officialist film produced by Chile Films in late 1965, following the submission to Congress of the agrarian reform bill by President Eduardo Frei Montalva’s government.

A hilarious, grotesque and grave attack on the public ideal of the American housewife.

Animation short by Alina Maliszewska.

Devastation of a Welsh-speaking community: Capel Celyn village and farms of the Tryweryn Valley disappear beneath the waters of a reservoir so Liverpool’s thirst may be slaked.