1970 Movies

In 1970, the Yale student film collective May 1st Media made two 16mm works supporting the Black Panther Party’s New Haven chapter to help spread the...

Essay film from Czech director Vojtech Jasný on his home country.

In this film from the late 1960's Ron Scott collaborated with avant-garde musician Byrne Newhart in Fort Worth, Texas to produce a melange of light an...

Vijay Chauhan (Sanjeev Kumar),an honest security officer, finds his life shattered when he is framed for a train robbery involving a massive shipment...

A boy imagines himself riding the rails

After his trust is abused, a young peasant decides to learn to read and write to be better able to defend his interests. He advises his brothers in th...

1970 Czech experimental short by Petr Skala

A short film made to the music of Béla Bartók's famous ballet, Der wunderbare Mandarin (The Wonderful Mandarin).

“I now knew that I'd found a style to interpret an emotional event filmicly. The unabating atrocities of the Vietnam War, the growing protest movement...

Released in 1970, this lesser-known work is a powerful cinematic essay that speaks out against religious fundamentalism and the violence of communalis...

"The wolves" are the commanders of a regiment of revolutionary troops committed to defending France's borders during the Reign of Terror. One of the c...

Outlines the physiological causes of acne, offering a number of health care suggestions for its treatment and control.

A study of a girl eating an orange.

Florence "Florrie" Fisher was a motivational speaker in the 1960s and 1970s who traveled to high schools in the United States, speaking about her past...

Among the Yoruba of Western Nigeria and Dahomey the Gelede cult honours the earth spirits, the ancestors and especially the Great Mother. The festival...

A naked man disappears into the light.

Short by Marcel Broodthaers.

The film discusses the issue of revenge in Upper Egypt.